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Review of the Way It Ends by Ted Jacobs in Scarsdale Inquirer
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Ted Jacobs’s new novel, The Way it Ends, grips the reader from its opening pages. Jacobs’s protagonist Dr. Strickman, a psychoanalyst turned amateur gumshoe, sets off to uncover how his brother died–murder or suicide? A subplot of Israeli Palestinian conflict masterfully adds depth and tension to this engaging, dark and, yet, humorous tale.
—KERRY MALAWISTA, PHD author of the novel, Meet the Moon.

“A great read that touches the heart. As moving as it is intriguing.”
—ANDREW POTOK, author of Ordinary Daylight

THEODORE J. JACOBS, MD is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Emeritus, at The Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Training and Supervising Analyst at The New York Psychoanalytic Institute and The Institute for Psychoanalytic Education where he is also a child supervising analyst.

Dr. Jacobs attended Yale University (BA) with a major in English, and The University of Chicago School of Medicine, MD, 1957. He took his training in psychoanalysis (adult and child) at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute and his psychiatric residency at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He is the author of Communication in the Analytic Situation and The Possible Profession: The Analytic Process of Change, 70 papers, his first novel The Year of Durocher, and also republished The Use of the Self: Countertransference and Communication in the Analytic Situation with IPBooks. He is on the editorial board of several analytic journals.

Review of Tales of the Unconscious by Christopher Gibson reviewed by Maurice Whelan
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About Tales of the Unconscious:
Tales from the Unconscious is a collection of stories from the anarchic world of the unconscious. It is for anyone interested in the inner life, as described by psychoanalysis, especially if you are approaching the ideas for the first time. The stories attempt to illustrate the vicissitudes of our inner lives and the unconscious by which we live..There are three short books in one:

Expectations, short stories about love—unrequited, failed, impossible, and cruel. In Provocations, the theme is the provocative arousal of emotions in another person. And Audacities is a collection about the audacity of suicide that affects many lives. I try to show how cruelty, unkindness, and envy creep into all aspects of life. After a suicide, nothing is resolved.

Christopher Gibson is a psychoanalyst, a child analyst, a training analyst of the Swedish Psychoanalytical Association, and a member of the International Psychoanalytical Association. He practices and teaches in Gothenburg, Sweden.

Review of The Distance from Home by Daniel Jacobs   and Memory’s Eyes by Cordelia Schmidt-Hellerau by Barbara Stimmel in The Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association 
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Click Here to Read: A Review of The Distance from Home by Daniel Jacobs  by Barbara Stimmel  and Memory’s Eyes by Cordelia Schmidt-Hellerau  in The Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association Volume 71 issue 1. pp. 141-149.
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The Weekly Reader from the Yiddish Book Center
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When was the last time you sat down and read an entire book of poetry? For many of us, I’m guessing, poetry just isn’t part of the regular reading diet. (I know it’s true for me.) National Poetry Month, celebrated every April since 1996, is a good reminder that there’s plenty of great poetry out there, and reading it is bound to be rewarding. But Yiddish poetry is far less frequently translated than Yiddish prose, even though the amount of Yiddish poetry that’s been written and published is vast. So, in honor of National Poetry Month—and because reading poetry is always a good idea—we’re going to highlight some of the more poetic items in our collection. Pull up your comfiest chair, relax, and enjoy!

Approaching the Asymptote

 

Although it doesn’t happen quite as often as we’d like, Yiddish poetry does receive recognition from the wider literary world. In its summer 2019 issue, the literary journal Asymptote devoted an entire section to Yiddish poetry, including translations of work by Yankev Glatshteyn, Itzik Manger, Debra Vogel, and Yermiyahu Ahron Taub, among others. On this episode of The Shmooze podcast, Alexander Dickow and Asymptote editor in chief Lee Yew Leong talk about editing that special edition.
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The Developing Child and the Adult Patient: Selected Papers of Manuel Furer edited by Herbert Wyman from IPBooks.net
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From Herbert Wyman’s Editor’s Introduction

“There is an aspect of psychoanalytic thinking…that should now be made explicit: The era of the domination of American ego psychology, which found its culmination in the ideas of Heinz Hartmann, is over”(1999)

With these words Dr Manuel Furer marked the transition of psychoanalysis from the field into which he entered as a candidate in the 1950’s to the field in which he had emerged as an important leader throughout the subsequent half century.
The  transition is ongoing and has not been easy. The first two sections of this volume depict Furer’s efforts realistically to integrate this transition, to separate out  new ideas from old, to criticize some new theories and to support others, all the while striving to preserve what he held to be the fundamental clinical techniques of psychoanalysis.

The first part of this volume  “Psychoanalytic Technique in the World of Pluralism”  contains papers devoted to the discussion of various theoreticians and their influence toward the progression or retrogression of the field. The second part of this volume  “Psychoanalytic Training”  extends this discussion into the field of education, and conveys Furer’s dedication as a teacher, supervisor, and administrator.
Readers may well recognize Manuel Furer more  readily from the third part of this volume “Psychoanalysis and the Developing Child” Here will be found his most important contributions toward the study of the emotional disorders of early childhood, and also his work on Separation/Individuation with Margaret Mahler.   As was well known to every child who met him, and every adult  who worked with him, Manny Furer had special gifts of warmth and empathy. His signature concept of “emotional refueling” conveys these gifts.

The introductions to the  Freud lectures and to the Furer Symposium offer  biographical portraits  of one of our generation’s most multitalented psychoanalysts.

Herbert M Wyman MD

August 2021

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