For your psychiatric listening pleasure or disturbance, the Chad Mitchell Trio performs “The Ballad of Sigmund Freud”: Here’s a picture of Sigmund Freud, equipped with a cigar and a beard: BONUS (possibly related): The group performs the song “O, You can’t Chop Your Mother Up in Massachusetts”, at the Lizzie Borden Museum (in Massachusetts):
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Strudels and their Relation to The Unconscious
A joint research team from the US National Institute of Mental Health and North Carolina based Cielo Institute have discovered what they call ‘Strudels’ in magnetoencephalography symmetric sensor difference (MEG-ssd) brain-scans. 17 experimental subjects were brain-scanned in an ‘eyes-closed’ and ‘task-free’ state. In other words they were permitted to relax and think about anything they […]
Dirty blackboards, psychologically
Blackboard research, then and now: “The Blackboard as an Analytic Accessory,” G.V. Hamilton, Psychoanalytical Review, vol. 20, 1933, pp. 388-400. The author explains: ” My acceptance of Freud’s theory of mind came slowly. I now know that over a period of nearly two decades I was unconsciously resisting its implications and that facts which seemed […]
What psychiatrists say your gut says
Some psychoanalysts can find meaning in the most ordinary-seeming bits of your life. Some discern it even in your intestinal rumblings. There’s a technical name for those digestive sounds: borborygmi. Several published studies tell how to interpret people’s gut feelings – how to translate those borborygmi into common everyday words. In 1984, Prof Dr med […]