Stefano Bolognini, who is president of the International Psychoanalytical Association explores the usefulness of the cat-flap as a psychoanalytic metaphor in his book ‘Secret Passages : The Theory and Technique of Interpsychic Relations’ (2011 – Routledge). The book is reviewed by Professor Cordelia Schmidt Hellerau in an essay entitled ‘SECRET PASSAGES:SOPHISTICATING THE CAT-FLAP’ (in: Psychoanalytic […]
Month: May 2016
The M-through-Z of Social Dilemmas (podcast 65)
Social situations sprout all kinds of awkwardness. You can classify some of those awkwardnesses under the letters M through Z, as we do in this week’s Improbable Research podcast. SUBSCRIBE on Play.it, iTunes, or Spotify to get a new episode every week, free. This week, Marc Abrahams — with dramatic readings by Robin Abrahams tells about: Emily Post and her etiquette — Etiquette, by Emily Post, 1922. […]
Norwegian live-reading of immensely long consumer terms-and-conditions
The Norwegian Consumer Rights Council is doing a live reading of popular end-user license agreements for apps and services. As we post this blog item about it, the readers are approaching the fifteen (15) hour mark in their long journey through time. Click on the image below to go to their site and endure the spectacle: (Thanks […]
The Parachuting Rag-Doll Experiment
Falling from a great height with a parachute is likely to result in lesser injury than falling from a great height without a parachute, suggests a newly published German medical study. The study is: “Does usage of a parachute in contrast to free fall prevent major trauma?: a prospective randomised-controlled trial in rag dolls,” Patrick […]