International Journal of Controversial Discussions Issue Volume #3 Issue # 2

By Tamar SchwartzApril 6, 2016December 19, 2025 Psychoanalysis

Click Here to Read: The International Journal of Controversial Discussions Volume #3 Issue #2. The theme of the issue is Primary Femininity: Discussions on a Central Identity, with a target paper by Arlene Kramer Richards, Ed.D and edited by M. Sagman Kayatekin, M.D. There is also a paper entitled Psychoanalytic History—Sketches The Power of Exclusion (An Ode to Sheldon Bach and Sándor Ferenczi) by Carolyn Ellman with commentary by Ph.D. with a response by Giselle Galdi. This journal is supported by a generous grant from the American Psychoanalytic Foundation.

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Joseph Addison (May 1, 1672 – June 17, 1719)

By Tamar SchwartzMay 6, 2026May 6, 2026 Poetry Monday, Politics

Click Here to Read: Joseph Addison (May 1, 1672 – June 17, 1719) Elegance of reason in public life by Robert Goodman on his Spoken Word Postry Substack on May 6, 2026.

Joseph Addison (1672-1719) Image: PD-old-100. Public Domain via WIkimedia Commons.

For Freud’s 170th Birthday

By Tamar SchwartzMay 6, 2026May 6, 2026 Arts, Books, Psychoanalysis

Click Here to Purchase: The Unknown Freud: Five Plays and Five Essays by Robert L. Lippman.

Click Here to To Read: Freud In Rome: It Takes A Little Courage: A Play in Two Acts with Epilogue By Robert L. Lippman, excerpted from The Unknown Freud: Five Plays and Five Essays by Robert L. Lippman published by IPBooks.

What Depression Feels Like

By Tamar SchwartzMay 6, 2026May 6, 2026 Psychoanalysis

Click Here to Read: What Depression Feels Like: From the Depressed Person’s Viewpoint (Not the Clinician’s) (Vol. 6; Issue 18) by Alan Michael Karbelnig, PhD on his Journeys Into the Unconscious mind website on May 6, 2026.

Image: Sander van der Wel from Netherlands. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

A New Early-Ninth-Century Manuscript of Cædmon’s Hymn

By Tamar SchwartzMay 5, 2026May 5, 2026 Poetry Monday

.Click Here to Read: A New Early-Ninth-Century Manuscript of Cædmon’s Hymn: Rome, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Vitt. Em. 1452, 122v. by Elisabetta Magnanti and Mark Faulkner. Published online by Cambridge University Press: April, 29, 2026.

Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale Roma. Image: Patafisik Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

Watch Bruce the parrot defeat his rivals with only half a beak

By Tamar SchwartzMay 2, 2026May 2, 2026 Science

Click Here to Read: Watch Bruce the parrot defeat his rivals with only half a beak: While the kea parrot’s beak would normally be considered essential for survival, Bruce has innovated other ways of commanding respect By Jack Tamisiea on the National Geographic website on April 20, 2026.

We Need A New Civil Rights Movement

By Tamar SchwartzMay 1, 2026May 2, 2026 Politics

Click Here to Read: We Need A New Civil Rights Movement by Elliot Kirschner on his Through the Fog Substack on April 30, 2026.

Civil rights march on Washington, D.C. schools Image: Leffler, Warren K., photographer. August 28th, 1963. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

A New Kirkus Review of Stories of Holocaust

By Tamar SchwartzApril 30, 2026April 30, 2026 Books, Film, History, Literature

Click Here to Read: A New Kirkus Review of Stories of Holocaust: Art for Healing and Renewal, Volume 1: On Stage and in Concert edited by Karen Berman, PhD and Gail Humphries, PhD

Click Here to Purchase: Stories of Holocaust: Art for Healing and Renewal, Volume 1: On Stage and in Concert edited by Karen Berman, PhD and Gail Humphries, PhD from IPBooks.net

Click Here to Purchase: Stories of Holocaust: Art for Healing and Renewal, Volume 2: On Screen and in the Gallery edited by Karen Berman, PhD and Gail Humphries PhD