International Psychoanalysis

Barbara Kafka, Microwave Gourmet, New York: William Morrow, 1998.

Barbara Kafka, Vegetable Love, New York: Artisan, 2005. 

Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, New York: Picador, 2001.  

Russsell Shorto The Island at the Center of the World    2008 Vintage.

Oliver Sachs  Musicophilia:  Tales of Music and the Brain 2007 Knopf.

Daniel J Levitin  This is Your Brain on Music:  The Science of Human Obsession  2007 Penguin.

Jhumpa Lahari  Unaccostomed Earth  2008 Knopf.

Jennifer Lee  The Fortune Cookie Chronicles:  Adventures in the World of Chinese Food 2008 Twelve.

David Adelman  A Shattered Peace  Versailles 1919 and the Price We Pay 2008, Wiley.

 Haruki Murakami  Kafka on the Shore 2005 Knopf.

 Haruki Murakami  After Dark 2007 Vintage.

Anne Dillard The Maytrees   2007, Harper.

Francine Prose Reading Like A Writer 2006,   Harper.

A. D. Nuttall Shakespeare the Thinker  2007, Yale.

 
  
   
 
Click Here to Read:  The World Inside Our Heads: ‘Human’ by Michael Gazzaniga from the New York Sun on July 16, 2008. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Recommended Summer Reading:

Sidney J. Blatt, Polarites of Experiences: Relatedness and Self-definition in Personality Development, Psychopathology and the Therapeutic Process, Washington, DC: APA Press, 2008.  

Alma Halbert Bond, Margaret Mahler: Biography of a Psychoanalyst, Jefferson, NC: McFarland Publishing, 2008.

Sandra Buechler, Making A Difference in Patient’s Lives: Emotional Experience in the Therapeutic Setting.  New York: Routledge, 2008.

Andrea Celenza, Sexual Boundary Violations: Therpeutic Supervisory and Academic Contexts, Lanthan, NJ: Jason Aronson, 2007.

Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, New York: Picador, 2001. 

Irwin Hirsch, Coasting in the Countertransference: Conclits of Self Interest Between Analyst and Patient, Mahwah, NJ: The Analytic Press, 2008.

Barbara Kafka, Microwave Gourmet, New York: William Morrow, 1998. 

Barbara Kafka, Vegetable Love, New York: Artisan, 2005.  

Robert Langs, Beyond Yahweh and Jesus: Bringing Death’s Wisdom to Faith, Spirituality, and Psychoanalysis, Latham, MD: Jason Aronson, 2008.  

Robert Langs, Love and Death in Psychotherapy, London and New York: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2006. 

Joseph D. Lichtenberg, Sensuality and Sexuality Across the Divide of Shame, New York: Routledge.  

Leo Rangell , My Life in Theory, New York: Other Press, 2004.
 
Joseph Schachter, ed. Transforming Lives. Psychoanalyst and Patient View the  Power of Psychoanalytic Treatment, Rowman and  Littlefield, 2005. 

Herbert Schlesinger, Promises, Oaths and Vows: On the Psychology of Promising, New York: The Analytic Press, 2008.

Brent Willock, Comparative-Integrative Psychoanalysis: A Relational Perspective for the Discipline’s Second Century, Mahway, NJ, The Analytic Press, 2008.

Jerome Winer and James William Anderson, Spirituality and Religion: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Mental Health Resources, 2007.

 
 
Click Here to Read: Freud’s failure to recall the name of Luca Signorelli By Robert L. Lippman, Ph.D.  This paper has not been published previously.
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Trying to Fathom the Human Condition, Letter by Alan Eisnitz to the New York Times on July 17th, 2008.

To the Editor:

David Brooks writes how scientists view human behavior, motivation and feelings as influenced by genetics, brain mechanisms and interactions over time with a complex environment and the people in it. This is precisely the area in which psychoanalysis works.

Psychoanalysis today aims to understand and eliminate negative forces in a person’s “transference” — the emotions and predispositions, both conscious and unconscious, from that person’s present and past experiences as they come to life as motivational forces in the present, and in particular in the treatment and toward others in the patient’s life.

I believe that much could be learned if shifts in the transference could, if possible, be studied as they occur, by methods of brain study now available, and as they develop, and their findings correlated with the psychoanalytic findings. (more…)

The following books have been reviewed on this website and are recommended summer reading: 

 Illuminations by Eva Hoffman
 Click Here For the Review  

 The Center Cannot Hold by Elyn R. Saks
Click Here for the Review 

The Struggle Against Mourning by Ilany Kogan
Click Here for the Review

 Revolution in Mind by George Makari
Click Here for the Review

 Haunted by Parents by Leonard Shengold
Click Here for the Review

 Bettelheim: Living and Dying by David James Fisher
Click Here for Excepts from this Book

The Brain That Changes Itself by Norman Doidge, M.D.
Click Here for Jane S. Hall’s Review
Click Here for Abigail Zuger’s Review

The Death of Sigmund Freud by Mark Edmundson
Click Here for the Review

Bloomsbury/Freud: The Letters of James and Alix Strachey 1924-1925 edited by Perry Meisel and Walter Kendrick
Click Here for the Review

Review of Freud’s Requiem: Mourning, memory, and the invisible history of a summer walk By Matthew von Unwerth
Click Here for the Review

 The Road to Unity by Leo Rangel
Click Here for the Review by Jeffrey Golland
Click Here for the Review by Arthur Lynch
Click Here for the Review by Arnold D. Richards

From Both Sides of the Couch: Reflections of a Psychoanalyst, Daughter, Tennis Player, and Other Selves by Fern W. Cohen
Click Here for the Review

 Broken Sons/Broken Fathers: A Pschoanalyst Remembers by Gerald J. Gargiulo.
Click Here for an Excerpt from this Book

Feder, Stuart. Charles Ives: My Father’s Song. New Haven: Yale Univ Press. 1992.

Feder, Stuart. Gustav Mahler: A Life in Crisis. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 2004.
Click Here to Read:  Martin Nass’s Review of this Book.
Click Here to Read: Alexander Stein’s Review of this Book

 The late Max Weinreich was cofounder of the YIVO Institute in Vilna and one of the world’s most important scholars of the Yiddish language. He completed History of the Yiddish Language, his magnum opus, shortly before his death.  Max Weinreich used psychoanalytic precepts to study the psychology of Eastern European  adolescents, and translated four of Freud’s works into Yiddish.
 
 
 
Click Here to Read: Wikipedia Article on Max Weinreich  
 
 
  
 
  
 
Max Weinreich 

 Hitler’s Professors: The Part of Scholarship in Germany’s Crimes Against the Jewish People by  Max Weinreich. Reprint with new introduction by Sir Martin Gilbert 1999 / Yale University Press / $20.00

This classic book examines the role of leading scholars, philosophers,  historians, and scientists—in Hitler’s rise to power and eventual war of extermination against the Jews. Written in 1946 by one of the greatest scholars of European Jewish history and culture, it is now reissued with a new introduction by the prominent historian Martin Gilbert.

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Click Here to Read: Freud’s Jewish Identity by Arnold Richards which will be translated into Portuguese and appear in a Brazilian Jewish publication. 
 
 
 
 

 
  
 
 
Click Here To Read: Bloomsbury/Freud:  The Letters of James and Alix Strachey 1924-1925 edited by Perry Meisel and Walter Kendrick, reviewed on the website Mantex on July 13th, 2008.
 
 
 

 
 
 
Click Here To View: Ideas Festival: David Brooks on Human Behavior from FORA TV.
 
 
 

Click Here to Read: Freudians having bad dreams about the end of the couch by Jasper Copping from the Telegraph.co.uk website.

Click Here To Read: Psychotherapy In UK Should Be Subject To Rigorous Regulation Just Like Drug Treatments, Say Academics from the Science Daily, January 15th, 2008. 

 
 
 
 Click Here to Read: Freud’s Hypothesis that the Jews Killed Moses by Robert Lippman. 

This paper was previously published as Lippmam, Robert (2001, Summer). Freud’s Hypothesis that the Jews Killed Moses  Midstream,  47 (5),  19-21 and appears here with requisite rights and permissions.
 
  
 

Click Here To Read: Psychiatric Group Faces Scrutiny Over Drug Industry Ties by Benedict Carey and Gardiner Harris in the New York Times, July 12, 2008, 

Click Here to Read: Initial Severity and Antidepressant Benefits: A Meta-Analysis of Data Submitted to the Food and Drug Administration  

Click here To Read: Beyond Medication, Toward Rehabilitation: The Role of the Psychiatrist By Martin Willick

  
 
Click Here to Read: Sigmund Freud and the Holocaust from Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team.  Includes information on the fate of Freud’s sisters.  
  
 
Sigmund Freud’s Sisters

The following letter was probably written by Bertram Lewin, then President of the New York Psychoanalytic Society (the signature is illegible), to Ernest Jones, President of the IPA in 1937.

New York Psychoanalytic Society

June 17, 1937

Dr. Ernest Jones, President
International Psychoanalytic Association
81 Harley Street
London W. 1
England

Dear Mr. President,

At the meeting of June 1, 1937, the New York Psychoanalytic Society voted its unanimous objection to paragraphs 3 and 4 of the Proceedings of the International Training Commission (Zeitschrift, 1937, pages 193-194) and to chapter IV – in the 2nd version, chapter III – of the Proceedings of the International Psychoanalytic Association.  (Journal, 1937, page 100; Zeitschrift, 1937, page 188). (more…)

Click Here To Read: The Political Consequences of Child Abuse by Alice Miller in African Press International, July 10th, 2008.

Click Here to Read: Alice Miller in Wikipedia. 

Click Here to Read: San Francisco Center for  Psychoanalysis Announces the Final Event of Our 2008 Season: Al Young: Poetry and Psychoanalysis

To the Editor, 
                      Your article on psychiatry and the rich (July 7th, 2008: Age of Riches/ Therapists to the Elite) is deeply offensive to every person, rich and poor alike. It demeans the daring of poor people who seek help and rich people who seek help. It even demeans the daring of psychoanalysis as it reaches out to help human minds, rich and poor, to recover the self esteem neurosis ran off with. In my experience as a psychoanalyst the human mind transcends poverty and wealth. The conflicts of the poor are the conflicts of the rich, depth psychology , which began transplacental without a cent to its name on its complex journey toward the grave, being what it is. Any psychiatrist who does not know this basic existential truth should hang up his shingle!  One expects more from journalism than this caricature of the human mind and all its complexities. This article is a perverse literary achievement that manages to demean doctors and patients, wealthy citizens and poor citizens in one fell satirical swoop. Shame on you New York Times!
                                            Sincerely,
 
                                        Eugene J. Mahon MD

Click Here to Read: Splits in Psychoanalytic Communities (and in Tampa Bay)  by Arnold Z. Schneider from Contemporary Psychoanalytic Musings, Blog of the Tampa Bay Institute for Psychoanalytic Studies, on Wednesday July 9th, 2008.

Poetry Monday: Jeff Friedman

Jeff Friedman 

POETRY MONDAY
July 7, 2008

If you don’t already know the poetry of Jeff Friedman, you will find his work a delightful discovery.  He is the author of four collections of poems, the most recent of which, Black Threads, was published by Carnegie Mellon University Press in 2007.  His poems and translations have appeared in many literary journals and magazines, including American Poetry Review, Ontario Review and The New Republic.  A contributing editor to Natural Bridge, he is a core faculty member in the M..F.A program in Poetry Writing at New England College. (more…)