Via email: International Psychoanalysis.
Specially for Caledonian, who was disappointed that I didn't explicitly state the unscientific nature of Sigmund Freud's theories in my post about the psychology of Alfred Hitchcock.
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It's no Puzzle Fantastica #1, but it's what I have at the moment.
There is some brand new research on those New Caledonian Crows that seem to be able to do all sorts of things we thought only smart Humans could do (like making tools, understanding physics, that sort of thing).
Dr. Alex Taylor from The University of Auckland has demonstrated that New Caledonian crows have the ability to perform causal reasoning, which is the ability to infer that something you cannot see may be the cause of something.
What do you think of recent attempts to marry (or vindicate) psychonalysis with neuroscience? I don't have personal acquaintance with the stuff, but friends of mine are infatuated with it. I'm thinking of people like Allan Schore and Peter Fonagy.
I'd never heard of either of these guys, so I can't really comment. But, despite my scepticism about Freud and psychoanalysis, I think their work is worth looking into. Anything that aims to make pscyhiatry more scientific MUST be good.