A New Kirkus Review of Stories of Holocaust

By Tamar SchwartzApril 30, 2026April 30, 2026 Books, Film, History, Literature

Click Here to Read: A New Kirkus Review of Stories of Holocaust: Art for Healing and Renewal, Volume 1: On Stage and in Concert edited by Karen Berman, PhD and Gail Humphries, PhD

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What’s in a Name? Excerpt from Arnold Richards’s forthcoming memoir: Growing Up

By Tamar SchwartzApril 27, 2026April 27, 2026 Books, Literature, Psychoanalysis

ClicK Here to Read: What’s in a Name? Excerpt from Arnold D. Richards’s forthcoming memoir Growing Up.

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From Oppression to Freedom Back to Oppression

By Tamar SchwartzApril 5, 2026April 5, 2026 Books, Psychoanalysis

Click Here to Read: From Oppression to Freedom Back to Oppression by Elliot Jurist and Julia Jurist on their Mental(izing) Health Substack on April 3, 2026.

Review of The Power of Connection By Jane Hall by Andi P. Eliza-Christie in the JAPA

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 23, 2026March 23, 2026 Books, Psychoanalysis

Click Here to Read: Review of The Power of Connection By Jane Hall by Andi P. Eliza-Christie in the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association.

Psychoanalytic thought, including some of its bedrock ideas is changing along with the its technique. Oedipus is no longer the star. Sex no longer takes center stage. The Power of Connection by Jane Hall, author of Deepening The Treatment will be of interest to those who provide depth therapy.

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BOOK CLUB: Laura Beers on George Orwell’s lessons for our times

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 21, 2026March 21, 2026 Books, Politics

Click Here to Listen To: BOOK CLUB: Laura Beers on George Orwell’s lessons for our times: The Orwell scholar talks about the lasting impact of “1984,” free speech and true speech, and what the author’s political journey tells us about today’s crises Leigh Haber and Laura Beers on the The Ink website on March 20, 2026.

James Joyce (February 2, 1882 – January 13, 1941)

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 18, 2026March 18, 2026 Books, Literature

Click Here to Read: James Joyce (February 2, 1882 – January 13, 1941): Language forged into the music of consciousness by Robert Goodman on his Spoken Word Poetry substack on March 18, 2026.

James Joyce by Alex Ehrenzweig, 1915, cropped Image: Alex Ehrenzweig Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

New From IPBooks: The End of Freud? by Edward Nersessian

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 6, 2026March 6, 2026 Books, Psychoanalysis

Click Here to Purchase: The End of Freud? by Edward Nersessian from IPBooks.

“A brilliant, easy-to-read, and provocative book by Ed Nersessian, a prominent psychoanalyst, psychiatrist, and superb clinician, points to the elephant in the room and challenges key aspects of psychoanalytic theory and clinical practice. His arguments are compelling and hit the core of the problem: What is correct or should be revised about Freud’s contributions after about a century of psychoanalytic clinical work? This is a must-read for everyone.” —CRISTINA ALBERINI, PhD, LP, Julius Silver, Roslyn S. Silver & Enid Silver Winslow Professor, Center for Neural Science

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