Archive for the 'Books' Category

An Anatomy of Addiction: Sigmund Freud, William Halsted, and the Miracle Drug Cocaine

Monday, February 6th, 2012






Click Here to Read: Review of: An Anatomy of Addiction: Sigmund Freud, William Halsted, and the Miracle Drug Cocaine by Howard Markel, Reviewed by Elizabeth on the Elizabeth Books’s blog on January 30, 2012.

WR: The Wanderings of a Lost Soul

Monday, February 6th, 2012








Click Here to Read; WR: The Wanderings of a Lost Soul by David Rosen, review of  Christopher Turner”s Adventures in the Orgasmatron: How the Sexual Revolution Came to America on the The Brooklyn Rial website.

Waiting for Sunrise by William Boyd

Sunday, February 5th, 2012






Click Here to Read: Waiting for Sunrise by William Boyd, reviewed by Jane Shilling  on the London Evening Standard website on February 2, 2012.

Psychologist explains financial market madness

Wednesday, February 1st, 2012

Click Here to Read: Psychologist explains financial market madness on the Health Canal Website on Feburary 1, 2012.

Susan Long

The Jewish World of Sigmund Freud

Thursday, January 26th, 2012








Click Here to Read: The Jewish Worldof Sigmund Freud:  Essays on Cultural Roots and the Problem of Religious Identity, edited by Arnold D. Richards, available for download as PDF or text document from the Scribd website.

An Irishman’s Diary

Wednesday, January 25th, 2012




Click Here to Read: An Irishman’s Diary on the Irish Times.com website on January 25, 2012.

Introduction to the Problem by Arnold Goldberg

Tuesday, January 24th, 2012

 

Click Here to Read: Introduction to the Problem, Chapter 1 from the book: The Analysis of Failure: An Investigation of Failed Cases in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy by Arnold Goldberg, published by Routledge Press in 2011.

Adler on Paula Deen’s Diabetes: Food, Comfort, and Balance

Sunday, January 22nd, 2012






Click Here to Read:  Todd Essig’s Article which reposts:  Tamar Adler on Paula Deen’s Diabetes: Food, Comfort, and Balance on Forbes Magazine website on  January 20,2012.

George F. Kennan’s Cold War

Saturday, January 21st, 2012







Click Here to Read:  George F. Kennan’s Cold War by Louis Menard in the New Yorker on November 14, 2011.

Annie Leibovitz: Pilgrimage

Saturday, January 21st, 2012

Click Here to Read: Art Preview: “Annie Leibovitz: Pilgrimage” A new exhibition at the American Art Museum shows the legendary photographer pursuing a more personal project By Sophie Gilbert on the After Hours blog on the Washingtonian blogs.

Tent City University – Occupy London

Saturday, January 21st, 2012

Click Here to Read: Tent City University – one of the most remarkable aspects of Occupy London, The facilities are basic, but the guest lecturers are impressive and the students are engaged and ferociously well informed by Peter Walker in guardian.co.uk on January 19, 2012.

Open Scientific Journals

Tuesday, January 17th, 2012

Click Here To Read:  Cracking Open the Scientific Process by Thomas Lin in the New York Times on January 16, 2011.

For science, open-access online journals are jostling the  profit-making paper journals. This continues the argument that publicly funded research belongs to the people, not the publishers.

Click Here to Read:  Berkeley Prof. Demands Open Access to the People on this website.

Scientists argue that online publication fosters a more open form of peer review, rather than the  slower-moving, more restricted nineteenth century paper journals.  Further, online permits greater access to both (more…)

Girl Trouble

Saturday, January 14th, 2012






Click Here to Read: Girl Trouble:  What Caitlin Flanagan’s new book Girl Land gets wrong about girls. By Katie Roiphe on the Slate website on January 11, 2012

Treatment Resistance and Patient Authority: The Austen Riggs Reader, Reviewed by Ira Steinman

Tuesday, January 10th, 2012

 






Click Here to Read: Treatment Resistance and Patient Authority: The Austen Riggs Reader, Reviewed by Ira Steinman, M.D. San Francisco, Calif. Am J Psychiatry 2012;169:100-101.

Review of Change in Psychoanalysis by Chris Jaenicke

Monday, January 9th, 2012






Click Here to Read:  Review of Change in Psychoanalysis: An Analyst’s Reflections on the Therapeutic Relationship Change in Psychoanalysis:  by Chris Jaenicke, Reviewed by Shelley Galasso Bonanno from the Journal of Psychoanalytic Psychology on the on the Division 39 of the APA website.

The Mentally Ill in America

Friday, December 30th, 2011






Click Here to Read:  PDF version on the Book The Mentally Ill in America by Albert Deutch.  New York: Columbia University Press, 1946 on the This Book is Drenched website.

Act Three. Christmas Freud

Wednesday, December 28th, 2011

Click Here to Listen To:Act Three. Christmas Freud by David Rakoffn playing Freud in the windows of Barney’s department store. (15 minutes) Song: “Christmas Freud Caroling”, The Formerly Known As Family foon This American Life on WBEZ on NPR Radio.

David Rakoff

 

Oy vey! Yiddish making a comeback at colleges

Wednesday, December 21st, 2011

Click Here to Read: Oy vey! Yiddish making a comeback at colleges By Dorie Turner in Contra Costa Times on December 21, 2011.

Click Here to Read: Serving up a blast from a Yiddish-writing past on other posts on Sholem Aleichem on this Website.

Click Here to Read: Researchers Start Job of Sorting Out Yiddish Writer’s Papers on this Website.

An Analysis Of Freud’s Jewish Identity, Review of The Jewish World of Sigmund Freud, edited by Arnold Richards

Monday, December 19th, 2011

Click Here to Read: An Analysis Of Freud’s Jewish Identity, Review of The Jewish World of Sigmund Freud, edited by Arnold Richards, Reveewed by Evelyn T. Hartman,

This Articel originally appeared as:  Hartman, E. (2011).  Review of The Jewish World of Sigmund Freud, ed. Arnold Richards, Contemporary Psychoanalysis  47:4.  and appears here with all requisite rights and permissions.  

 

Jamieson Webster’s The Life and Death of Psychoanalysis

Saturday, December 17th, 2011

Click Here to Read:  Jamieson Webster, “The Life and Death of Psychoanalysis: On Unconscious Desire and its Sublimation” Karnac Books, 2011, Reviewed  
by Tracy D. Morgan on the New Books in Psychoanalysis website on  December 16, 2011.

Jamieson Website