On December 10th filmmaker Deborah Kampmeier visited Professor Nava Silton’s psychology senior seminar, where students were shown a screening of her award-winning film Hounddog.  Hounddog tells the story of a troubled young girl in the south who finds comfort in the music of Elvis Presley, and stars Dakota Fanning, David Morse, Robin Wright and Piper Laurie. Though psychologically troubling to watch at times, students enjoyed the screening and the engaging dialogue that followed through a QA with Kampmeier. Deborah Kampmeir’s first >>>

Reframing print Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks Maimonides called his ideal type of human being – the sage – a rofe nefashot, a “healer of souls.” Today we call such a person a psychotherapist, a word coined relatively recently from the Greek word psyche, meaning “soul,” and therapeia, “healing.” It is astonishing how many of the pioneering soul-healers in modern times have been Jewish. Almost all the early psychoanalysts were, among them Sigmund Freud, Alfred Adler, Otto Rank and Melanie Klein. So overwhelming >>>