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<DIV>From an email conversation with David Smith:</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>David: In the <EM>realpolitik</EM> of academe, at least in the USA, to be associated with psychoanalysis in any way is often the kiss of death. The name 'Freud' still has the power to arouse irrational hatered. </FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
<DIV>hb: I know and I've shunned Freud and psychoanalysis along with everyone else. But we've hit a turning point. Several years ago, someone with money set up a group that merges psychoanalysis with neurobiology in New York. He managed to lure in two very important figures--Jaak Panksepp and Walter Freeman. He apparently did it by paying their expenses to come to NY for one meeting per month.</DIV>
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<DIV>Four of the group members, Jaak, Walter, Ziad Nahas, a neural-imaging and trascranial magnetic stimulation expert, and David Pincus, a psychotherapist with the sort of barrier-leaping interest you and I share, took advantage of these trips to come out to the Bloom Brownstone one by one and meet with me.</DIV>
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<DIV>Then, roughly a year ago, The Scientific American gave its blessing to the new merger of psychoanalysis and neurobiology by writing a reappraisal of Freud. The reappraisal said that neurobiology has done what Freud wanted to do when he still aimed at a career in the neurobiology of his day. Freud had seen things in the mind that neurobiologists were now confirming.</DIV>
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<DIV>You are much more involved in the academic community than I am. But, as I said before, I think that psychoanalysis is making a comeback. And so is Siggy Freud. Howard</DIV></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT lang=0 face=Arial size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10">----------<BR>Howard Bloom<BR>Author of The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition Into the Forces of History and Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind From The Big Bang to the 21st Century<BR>Visiting Scholar-Graduate Psychology Department, New York University; Core Faculty Member, The Graduate Institute<BR>www.howardbloom.net<BR>www.bigbangtango.net<BR>Founder: International Paleopsychology Project; founding board member: Epic of Evolution Society; founding board member, The Darwin Project; founder: The Big Bang Tango Media Lab; member: New York Academy of Sciences, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Psychological Society, Academy of Political Science, Human Behavior and Evolution Society, International Society for Human Ethology; advisory board member: Youthactivism.org; executive editor -- New Paradigm book series.<BR>For information on The International Paleopsychology Project, see: www.paleopsych.org<BR>for two chapters from <BR>The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition Into the Forces of History, see www.howardbloom.net/lucifer<BR>For information on Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century, see www.howardbloom.net<BR></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>