International Journal of Controversial Discussions Issue Volume #4 Issue #1
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 Click Here to Read: The International Journal of Controversial Discussions Volume #4 Issue #1.  The theme of the issue is Memoir and Psychoanalysis with a target paper by Merle Heidi Molofky, MFA, NCPsyA and edited by M. Sagman Kayatekin, M.D. There is also Review of Donnelley M. (2023). Treatment Resistance in Therapy: A Patient’s Perspective. Ireviewed be J. Christopher Fowler and a Response to Dr. Fowler by Marshall Donnelley This journal is supported by a generous grant from the American Psychoanalytic Foundation.
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ZEN BUDDHISM & PSYCHOANALYSIS:  A REALIZATIONAL PERSPECTIVE with MITPP
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ZEN BUDDHISM & PSYCHOANALYSIS:  A REALIZATIONAL PERSPECTIVE: PRESENTER: SEISO PAUL C. COOPER, Ph.D., LP

The British psychoanalyst, Wilfred Bion (1897-1979) and the Soto Zen Buddhist master, Eihei Dogen (1200-1253), were both highly creative and brilliant thinkers who exerted a radical impact on their respective disciplines. Their ideas continue to contribute to the contemporary cross-fertilization between Buddhism and psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Despite the highly Continue reading ZEN BUDDHISM & PSYCHOANALYSIS:  A REALIZATIONAL PERSPECTIVE with MITPP

‘He would have been the center of everything’: the art exhibition imagining if Emmett Till lived.
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Click Here to Read:  ‘He would have been the center of everything’: the art exhibition imagining if Emmett Till lived. Dedicated to the boy whose  lynching partially ignited the US civil rights movement, the new exhibition celebrates Black creativity and invites audiences to reckon with racism in America by Briana Ellis-Gibbs on The Guardian website on September 13, 2026.

Emmett Till in 1954 Image: Mamie Till Bradley.  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Tracking the Crisis: Red Sea Change
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Click Here to Read: Tracking the Crisis: Red Sea Change: Trump in crisis as Houthi forces seize Yemen’s Red Sea coast, crude tops $100 a barrel and diesel tops $6, and the Fed hikes rates for the first time since 2023  on the Nation Magazine Substack on Sepember 21, 2026.

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Human brain is two separate organs, Stanford Medicine-led research finds
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Click Here to Read:  Human brain is two separate organs, Stanford Medicine-led research finds. A new study led by Stanford Medicine found the brain is two separate organs adjacent to one another. The finding could aid research into devastating neurological diseases By Krista Conger on the Stanford Medicine website on September 18, 2026.

Human Brain by J.M. Bourgery, 1831-1854. image: Erald Mecani,  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

From Brian Rot to AI Fitness
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Click Here to Read: From Brian Rot to AI Fitness  including the articles Travel Planning: A Step on One’s AI-Fitness Journey by Todd Essig, PhD: Brain  Rotting: Captured by Screens by Valerie Frankfeldt, PhD and Psychotherapy’s Swimsuit Problem Heather deCastro LCSW, and Todd Essig, PhD in the CAI Currents Substack from The American Psychoanalyst on September 22, 2026.

 

 

 

How a Creative Mind Lives In Nature
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Click Here to Read:  How a Creative Mind Lives In Nature: Working in the wilderness could not satiate my intellectual impulses. But for the protagonist of “Hothouse Bloom,” the binary between mental and physical labor is what calls her by  Dan Sinykin in the Nation Magazine on September 5, 2026.

A shepherd and his flock in a landscape. Attributed to Johann Heinrich Roos (1631–1685) Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.