International Psychoanalysis

Click Here To Read: Review of Dialogues on Difference: Studies of Diversity in the Therapeutic Relationship by J. Christopher Muran, reviewed by Anca Gheaus, Ph.D. from Metapsychology online reviews, July 22nd 2008, Volume 12, Issue 30.

Click Here To Read: A History of Abuse in the War on Terror by Jennifer Schuessler, a review of The Dark Side by Jane Meyer, from the New York Times on July 22nd, 2008.

Chick Here To Read: Madness and Shame, article by Bob Herbert in the New York Times on July 22, 2008. 

Click Here to Read: A short summary of Alma Bond’s biography of Margaret Mahler that Alma Bond read at her booksigning of the Mahler book. 

State of Confusion: Political Manipulation and the Assault on the American Mind by Bryant Welch St. Martin’s Press June 2008,  304 pp.
 
Review from the Psycho History Website:
Synopsis

Finally, the answer to the many questions that have been preying on the minds of millions of Americans has arrived. Why are Americans so vulnerable to divisive political tactics? Why did Americans get dragged into such an unwise war in Iraq? Why do fundamentalist religious groups, Fox News, and right-wing radio still play such influential roles in America’s political landscape? Read the rest of this entry »

Lichtenberg, Joseph.   The Talking Cure:  A Descriptive Guide to Psychoanalysis.  Hillsdale NJ:  Analytic Press, distributed by L. Erlbaum, 1985.  152 p.
Comments: “Joseph Lichtenberg’s “the Talking Cure” is a well written book for the layman about psa.” “I would highly recommend The Talking Cure by Joseph Lichtenberg” Read the rest of this entry »

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

 Haruki Murakami  Kafka on the Shore 2005 Knopf.

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.  

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.

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
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The Struggle Against Mourning by Ilany Kogan
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 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
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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
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Review of Freud’s Requiem: Mourning, memory, and the invisible history of a summer walk By Matthew von Unwerth
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 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: 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 Read: “The First Impulse Was to Write about Music,” a review of the novel Illuminations by Eva Hoffman, reviewed by Michael J. Riesz, in The Independent Book Section on Friday, June 17th, 2008.

From the Music Editor, Julie Jafee Nagel: Career choice begins in early childhood for the musician, who, unlike other highly trained professionals   (e.g., doctors, lawyers) can decide on an occupation at an older age.   This fact has profound implications for mental and social development as the people who wind up at music schools and conservatories start lessons typically in childhood, spend numerous hours alone practicing, and are influenced profoundly during their growing years by parent and teacher attitudes and relationships.  One’s ego develops alongside with one’s talent and object relationships.  By adolescence and young adult years, there is a tremendous ego investment in oneself as a musician, not to mention the dollars spent on lessons and  instruments. Further, the early age at which a young person finds he or she can not only find pleasure in competence at an instrument but also speak nonverbally  through a musical instrument has profound implications for psycho-social development.  The success or derailment of an eventual career for one with talent and for one for whom music has become an integral part of the self has profound  intrapsychic,  interpersonal, and social implications .  Read the rest of this entry »

I recently completed a book that should be required reading for those in our field. I have never read a book that so eloquently portrays the trials and tribulations of someone fighting a lifelong battle with a psychiatric illness. Elyn R. Saks’s The Center Cannot Hold (2007). If one searches for a clear understanding of what a patient struggles with and how the mental health system can help and hinder this process this book is it. She admits us to the inner working of her mind, the development of her disorder and her courageous struggle to maintain herself. In the end she is victorious.She is a professor of Law and an adjunct professor of psychiatry at the University of California. We are also privy to her treatment in psychiatric hospitals and her twists and turns as a sychiatric/psychoanalytic patient. I found it fits with great coherence my experiences working in psychiatric hospitals and providing psychoanalytically oriented treatment. We also get an inside peek of the machinations that take place in our psychoanalytic institutes. This is my Fourth of July present to you -our reader of the International Blog. Enjoy.

I would enjoy hearing any comments you might have of your travel through this glorious and heart-wretching book.

Sheldon M. Goodman

Click Here to Read: Freud’s “Disturbance of Memory on the Acropolis” Revisited by Robert L. Lippman
 
This article has been previously published as Lippman, Robert  (2008).  Freud’s “Disturbance of Memory on the Acropolis” Revisited.  The Psychoanalytic Review 95(3) 489-99 and appears here with the requisite rights and permissions and with the permission of the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis.

Click Here To Read: Leon Anisfeld’s review of Leonard Shengold’s book Haunted by Parents. 

 
 
 
Click Here to Read: Analysing Adolf: Nazism through the Lens of Freudian Psychoanalysis by Daniel Pick from the Times Literary Supplement,  which appeared on May 21st, 2008 and which is a review of “The Death of Sigmund Freud” by Mark Edmundson. 
  
 
 
 
 

  
 
Click Here to Read: “Freud, The Greatest Modern Writer” by Harold Bloom which appeared in the New York Times Health Section on Friday, June 6, 2008.  First published March 23rd, 1986.
 
  
 
 
 
 

The Struggle Against Mourning by Ilany Kogan, Reviewed by Sheldon Goodman

“You shouldn’t turn away from treatment . Love consists in this that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.”
 (Rilke, 1904, p.27).
“(A)nd I’m resolved my most inmost being shall share in what’s the lot of all mankind that I shall understand their heights and depths, shall fill my heart with all their joy and grieves” (Goethe,p.46,1808) cited in SAM, p.64 Read the rest of this entry »

Click Here to Read: Beyond the Ego and Id by Charles Brenner

 
 
 
Click Here to Read: The Mind as Conflict and Compromise Formation by Charles Brenner’
 
 
  
 
 
 

Click Here to Read: Henderson’s Equation by Jerome Lowenstein reviewed by Alma Bond.