Click Here to Order: People Don’t Drown in Living Rooms by Orna Reuven and Yair Eldan from IPBooks.net
Ella, a psychologist living in Tel Aviv, receives a surprising email from her former patient, Itamar. Itamar’s email marks the beginning of a tumultuous correspondence that traverses the distance from Tel Aviv to New York and explores the boundaries of their relationship. When Itamar reveals he is hiding from authorities and asks Ella for money, the seemingly guarded and level-headed psychologist travels to New York to meet him. As the plot unravels and emotional turmoil sets in, the defined boundaries between psychologist and patient are challenged as both try to bridge the gulf between them, in an attempt to find a common ground of sane understanding.
Written in the form of a modern epistolary novel, the email correspondence between Ella and Itamar, People Don’t Drown in Living Rooms spins the tale of a psychologist and patient caught in an impossible situation, raising the everlasting question about the essence of psychotherapy.
This fictional correspondence was written in two voices; Dr. Yair Eldan, a lecturer on law, wrote the voice of Itamar, and Dr. Orna Reuven, a psychoanalyst and psychology lecturer, wrote the voice of Ella.
“An incredibly profound and emotional reading experience!”
— Dr. Galit Atlas, psychoanalyst, faculty NYU, an essayist and author
“An engrossing, addictive novel of letters, the reading of which is in itself a roller coaster of identifications, and which manages at the same time to touch deeply on the essence of the analytical relationship and to exceed all its rules and boundaries.”
— Prof. Dana Amir, a clinical psychologist, supervising and training analyst, poetess and literature researcher
“This book teaches us more about the intensity of the love-hate dynamics that exist between patient and analyst than any journal article on the subject.”
— Danielle Knafo, professor, psychoanalyst, author
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From a psychoanalytic perspective, here is what I think the article “Freud Save America” gets right and wrong. On a clinical level, there is a real threat to free association if political correctness blocks the ability of people to say what is on their mind without censoring. On the other hand, analysis can provide the space and time for people to reflect on their internal struggle between their own thoughts and what they think is now acceptable. However, analysis only works if people say everything without self-censoring.
As I have written in my book (Mis)Understanding Freud, there is a threat posed to analysis by a certain Left-wing idea that one can only be analyzed by someone who belongs to the same identity group. This misguided application of identity polit Continue reading A Response to Psychoanalysis and the Left: Comment by Bob Samuels
Click Here to Listen to: A Life in Yiddish Translation. Curt Leviant, professor, novelist, and translator, speaks with The Shmooze about his life translating the work of Sholem Aleichem and Chaim Grade, and he shares some stories about his encounters with Nobel laureates. MAY 16, 2023 EPISODE 352 28 MIN GUEST: CURT LEVIANTHOST: LISA NEWMAN.
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Click Here to Read: Review of the Way it Ends in the Scarsdale Inquirer.
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.
