Click Here to Purchase: The Science of Psychoanalysis: The Realization of Freud’s Promise: Festschrift in Honor of Howard Shevrin eBook on Amazon.com.
From the Editor, Robert Hunt Berry:
“This very rewarding enterprise of Howard Shevrin has provided unique and comprehensive paradigms that give many psychoanalytic constructs a special empirical accessibility and richness . . .
Whereas the Shevrin enterprise mostly has focused upon psychoanalytic research legacies, there also have been contributions in areas that are clinical, theoretical, scholarly, and literary . . .
The headwinds against psychoanalysis are strong, and especially in realms of academic research. Continue reading New eBook for Shevrin Festschift Available on Kindle
Book Review, THE SUBVERSIVE EDGE OF PSYCHOANALYSIS London and New York: Routledge/History of Psychoanalysis series, 2025, pp. 236. From “Sihot—Dialogue: Israel Journal of Psychotherapy”
By Ofra Eshel, Ph.D.
Dr.Eshel is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Israel Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. She is the author of The Emergence of Analytic Oneness: Into the Heart of Psychoanalysis (Routledge, 2019).
Dr. David James Fisher is a core faculty member at the New Center for Psychoanalysis, a. Training and Supervising Analyst at the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis both in Los Angles, and a practicing psychoanalyst in private practice in Los Angeles. He works in the tradition of British Object Relations psychoanalysis and has taught psychoanalysis for 45 years. Fisher is a prominent and senior researcher in the history of psychoanalysis. His Continue reading Review of the Subversive Edge of Psychoanalysis by David James Fisher
Click Here to preorder: A new fiction book from IPBooks: Getting Past Z by G.F. Gravenson.
A Memoir of Things to Come . . .
We are several years into the future. Jerome Myer is turning 90. He is a retired advertising executive and lives in Montclair, New Jersey. Two recent deaths have troubled him. First, his daughter-in-law died of Covid in 2020. Then his wife of over 50 years died of pancreatic cancer three years later. He is alone, save a devoted aide, Caroline. Despite these setbacks, he is determined to live out the rest of his life on his terms in an old colonial-type house at the end of an isolated cul-de-sac. He has both a grandson and a granddaughter from his one remaining offspring, a son, who is a math teacher. (A daughter died from a bike/car accident when she was 10.)The good news is that his granddaughter has met a very successful wealthy lawyer. They are planning to get married in the summer of 2028—in the large back yard of the Montclair estate. The lawyer not-so-subtly wants the property for himself and his new wife, who it turns out, is pregnant with his child. The problem in all of this is Jerry’s grandson. Because of some on-line mistakes he made in California, he now legally carries a pistol. Jerry, his granddaughter and her husband-to-be want no weapons, concealed or otherwise, at their wedding. A very recent mass murder at a wedding in Madison, Wisconsin is the reason why.
Getting Past Z is the growing divide the Z generation is going through over issues like guns, mental health, growing wealth disparity, AI—as well as extreme politics. Spoiler alert: The grandson manages to bring his pistol onto the premises and the narrator of the book, Jerry, is hit in the knee just prior to the start of the wedding. And so, as part of his recovery, Jerry begins a memoir. He starts in 2024 and takes us through the years leading up to the wedding in the summer of 2028 and even somewhat beyond. The reader is exposed to a sensitive mind, a clever writer and an explosive era which is already proving to be among the most traumatic in our history.
G.F. Gravenson is the author of The Sweetmeat Saga (1971, Dutton) which was celebrated with a 50th Anniversary Edition in 2022 (Tough Poets Press). He currently resides in Mexico with an ever-growing population of cats and ex-pats.
Click Here to Read: The Alienation Effect by Owen Hatherley review – meet the brutalists: The remarkable story of how British culture was transformed by émigré architects, filmmakers and writers on the Gaurdian website on April 30, 2025.
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Click Here For: Love: From Motion to Feeling: A Memoir by Jack Wiener, LP, CMDT
In his fourth book, Love: From Motion to Feeling, Jack Wiener writes a moving account of his lifelong quest to retrieve lost love, from early childhood to age 91. Through the lenses of psychoanalysis, a life in the performing arts, and his work teaching dance and movement to students of all ages, he tracks his growing self-awareness from early childhood, amid disappointments, failed romances, and afrightening bout of long Covid…ultimately reaching a place of deep wisdom, acceptance, and joy. Continue reading New and Recent Books from IPBooks.net
Click Here to Read: Where the Precious Things Are: Maurice Sendak’s Art Collection to Be Auctioned: From erotic drawings to Mickey Mouse on a motorcycle, works in the author’s home nurtured his creativity. They’ll star at Christie’s June sales By Arthur Lubow in The New York Times on April 16, 2025.
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