Archive for the 'Books' Category

The Death Instinct by Jed Rubenfeld

Thursday, September 2nd, 2010








Click Here to Read: The Death Instinct by Jed Rubenfeld reviewed by Toni Whitmont on the Booktopia Blog on September 2, 2010.

Reverse Psychology: On Ernst Weiss

Thursday, September 2nd, 2010










Click Here to Read:  Reverse Psychology: On Ernst Weiss by Elias Altman in The Nation on September 1, 2010.

Growing Up Jung: Coming of Age as the Son of Two Shrinks

Friday, August 27th, 2010










Click Here to Read: Review of Growing Up Jung: Coming of Age as the Son of Two Shrinks by Micah Toub, Reviewed By Carolyn See in the Washington Post on August 27, 2010.

Depression and Globalization: The Politics of Mental Health in the 21st Century

Wednesday, August 25th, 2010




Click Here to Read: Depression and Globalization: The Politics of Mental Health in the 21st Century by Carl Walker, Reviewed by Samuel Lézé on the Metapsychology Reviews Website.

The evolving relationship between psychoanalysis and Jewish thought

Thursday, July 29th, 2010








Click Here to Read: The evolving relationship between psychoanalysis and Jewish thought By Carlo Strenger Ha’aretz.com website on July 28, 2010.

Psychoanalysis at the Margins by Paul E. Stepansky

Wednesday, July 28th, 2010






Click Here to Read:  Psychoanalysis at the Margins by Paul E. Stepansky, Reviewed by Rudy Oldeschulte on the Metapsychology Reviews website on Jul 27th 2010.

End of the World: Novelists Gary Shteyngart and Joshua Cohen discuss their dark visions of the future

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010






Click Here to Listen To:  End of the World: Novelists Gary Shteyngart and Joshua Cohen discuss their dark visions of the future in an interview by Alana Newhouse on the Tablet website on July 27, 2010.

Opened safe-deposit boxes reveal unseen Kafka manuscripts

Tuesday, July 20th, 2010








Click Here To Read:  Opened safe-deposit boxes reveal unseen Kafka manuscripts Among the many manuscripts is one of a well-known short story by the Jewish writer, in the author’s own hand writing By Ofer Aderet on Ha’aretz website on Wednesday July 21, 2010.

Awakening the Dreamer: Clinical Journeys

Friday, July 16th, 2010










Click Here to Read: Review of Awakening the Dreamer: Clinical Journeys By Philip M. Bromberg on the Psychoanalysis Arena website.

The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child: Volume 63

Monday, July 12th, 2010









Click Here to Read: Review of The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child: Volume 63 by Robert A. King Samuel Abrams, A. Scott Dowling, Paul M. Brinich (Editors) on the Metapsychology Reviews website.

Uprooted Minds: Surviving the Politics of Terror in the Americas

Sunday, July 11th, 2010










Click Here to Read: Uprooted Minds: Surviving the Politics of Terror in the Americas By Nancy Caro Hollander on the Psychoanalysis Arena website.

The Invisible Gorilla

Wednesday, July 7th, 2010










Click Here to Read and View:  The Invisible Gorilla by Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons on the Invisible Gorilla website.

The Psychology of Bliss

Wednesday, July 7th, 2010

Click Here to Read: The Psychology of Bliss By Robin Marantz Henig in the New York Times on June 17, 2010.

Click Here to Read: How Pleasure Works: Can Science Capture the Complexity of Human Pleasures? From: Peter D. Kramer To: Paul Bloom on the Slate website on June 14, 2010.

Impossible Training: A Relational View of Psychoanalytic Education

Wednesday, July 7th, 2010










Click Here to Read: Impossible Training: A Relational View of Psychoanalytic Education by Emanuel Berman on the Psychology Problems Advice info website on June 23, 2010.

Violence Expert Visits Her Dark Past

Wednesday, July 7th, 2010






Click Here to Read: Books of The Times: Violence Expert Visits Her Dark Past By Dwight Garner in the New York Times on June 25, 2010.
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Review of Radical Hope by Jonathan Lear

Wednesday, July 7th, 2010






Click Here to Read:  Review of Radical Hope by Jonathan Lear, reviewed by Sebastian Junger in Time Magazine on July 22, 2010.   The review is the final review on the right.

Stuart Brent: 1912-2010

Monday, June 28th, 2010

Click Here to Read: Stuart Brent: 1912-2010 Longtime influential bookseller was self-appointed guardian of local literature By Ron Grossman, in the Chicago Tribune on June 27, 2010.

The Rabbiner in Wilhelm Stekel’s Autobiography

Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010

Click Here to Read: The Rabbiner in Wilhelm Stekel’s Autobiography by Benjamin Atlas on the Benatlas.com website on June 20. 2010. 

Wilhelm Stekel with his students in 1924. From left to right, upper row: Dr. W. Schlesinser (Yugoslavia), Dr. W. Falk (Italy), Dr. E. Karpelis (Vienna). Dr. M. Puretz (Vienna), Dr. H. Wiedtfeld (Germany) , Dr. L. Sukman (Austria), Dr. E. A. Gutheil (Vienna, the translator of the autobiography), Dr. W. Scukman (Germany). Lower row: Dr. E. Kaplan (Lithuania), Mrs. Stekel, Dr. W. Stekel, Mrs. H. Stoltenhoff, Dr. H. Stoltenhoff: (Germany). (page 228 of the autobiography)

Click Here to Read: Dr. Wilhelm Stekel on the Psychoanalysis of a Rabbi (Rashab?) by Benjamin Atlas on the Benatlas.com website on June 25, 2010.

Click Here to Read: The Psychiatrist and The Lubavitcher Rebbe  By Yosef Y. Jacobson on the Algemeiner.com website.

Stephen Weissman’s Chaplin: A Life in Russian

Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010








Click Here to Read: A review of Stephen Weissman’s Chaplin: A Life in Russian on the Onzu.ru website.

Origins by Jon Mills

Friday, June 18th, 2010

The question of what constitutes psychic reality has been of interest to philosophers and psychologists for as long as humans have thought about the mind. In Origins, Jon Mills presents a provocative challenge to contemporary theories of the difference between the mind and body in neuroscience. By re-examining our understanding of the unconscious, he explains the birth of the psyche and provides a detailed account of the ways in which subjectivity is formed.

In the first comprehensive work to articulate a psychoanalytic metaphysics based on process thought, the author uses dialectical logic to show how the nature and structure of mental life is constituted. Arguing that ego development is produced not only by consciousness but also evolves from unconscious genesis, he makes the controversial claim that an unconscious semiotics serves as the template for language and all meaning structures. A thought-provoking account of idealism, Origins confronts the limitations of materialism and empiricism while salvaging the roles of agency and freedom that have been neglected by the biological sciences.

Jon Mills is a philosopher, psychologist, psychoanalyst, and author of numerous books, including The Unconscious Abyss: Hegel’s Anticipation of Psychoanalysis

Click Here to Read:  Table of Contents and Introduction to Jon Mill’s book Origins.