Psychotherapybar Raising the bar for Psychology In India JANUARY 2022 Column The Art of Disagreement “Everybody gave parties. And there was a lot of drinking. Some visiting literary celebrity would show up, Partisan Review would make a party or I would make a party. Everybody came. And it was a really passionate intellectual life. It’s hard to imagine today, but people actually came to blows over literary disagreements,” said Norman Podhoretz in this 2017 interview with John Leland for the New York Times. Read More My Picks www.dana.org This website is 100% free. It will provide you with solid information on the brain including brain basics, the latest news on neuro developments, and cutting-edge research on emerging ideas in brain science in their FREE e- magazine called cerebrum. They have a section on notable brain science findings, neuroethics (my favourite section), another section called “Briefly noted” which has brilliant infographics by the numbers, links to brain related articles and a bookshelf with new and trending brain science related book reviews. There is a section on... Read More path.dartmouth.edu A piece of news caught my attention last year. Jay Buckey,, Jr an American NASA astronaut and surgeon who also holds a degree in electrical engineering and who was in a 16 day Spacelab flight having done 381 hours in space, launched an online self-help toolkit based on his experience of being isolated with a ... Read More I live in fear (Ikimono no kiroku) A film by Akira Kurosawa 1955 | 103 minutes | Black and White | Japanese with English sub-titles One must remember that the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki had happened 10 years earlier in 1945 and had killed over two and half lakh civilians. In his autobiography, Kurusowa writes how as a young child in Tokyo he witnessed the Kanto earthquake that killed over a lakh people. He and his brother Heigo witnessed gruesome and macabre scenes. Whereas young Kurusowa wanted to look away... Read More Book Review This exhaustive 600 page memoir is written most eloquently but should come with a trigger warning. It was one of my top 10 reads of the decade and comes closely after Kay Jamison (An Unquiet Mind). The fact that Dr.Solomon has lived a privileged life as the son of a pharmaceutical mogul, has “made it” in his career as an author who writes for the New York Times, New Yorker, NPR... Read More Buy Book In the news If social media is making you anxious, break up with it Read More Mondays at 2pm, tune in to 94.3FM for interesting conversations that I have on "Afternoons with Annie" with the gracious Annie AKM. Quote of the month from: 1799, Thomas Campbell, The Pleasures of Hope 1900, Arthur Gillespie, Absence Makes the Heart Grow Founder 1910, O.Henry, The World and the Door Psychotherapybar Copyright (C) 2022 Radhika S Bapat. All rights reserved You are receiving this email because you subscribed to it on www.radhikabapat.com. My snail mailing address is: Radhika S Bapat PO box 491, Callicoon, New York 12723 Note : The newsletter might be cut short by your email program. View it in full. If you'd like to modify your subscription you can change your email address or unsubscribe If a friend forwarded you this newsletter and you'd like to subscribe, you can do it here. It's free.