Click Here to Read: Review of ‘The Psychoanalyst’s Aversion to Proof’ by Austin Ratner, Reviewed by Grady Harp in the San Francisco Review of Books on February 7, 2019.
Click Here to Read: New book puts Freud and psychoanalysis back on the couch: Medical doctor turned Sammy Rohr prizewinning author Austin Ratner analyzes why Freud’s school of psychology isn’t doing as well as it used to By Cathryn J. Prince in the Times of Israel on February 7, 2019.
Click Here to Read about and Purchase: The Psychoanalyst’s Aversion to the Task of Proof by Austin Ratner on IPBooks.net
Click Here to Read: A Pandemic of Fake Psychiatric Patients By Jacob Appel on the Real Clear Science website on March 8, 2019.
A mentally ill patient in a strait-jacket attached to the wall and a strange barrel shaped contraption around his legs. Photograph after a wood engraving by E. Tritschler, 1908. Wellcome Collection gallery (2018-03-22). Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
Click Here to Purchase: Rehearsal by Irene Willis from IPBooks.net
Click Here to Purchase: Climate of Opinion: Sigmund Freud in Poetry edited and with an introduction by Irene Willis from IPBooks.net
Writers Read will start up again on March 26th, 5:30 as usual at the usual Lee Library. Irene Willis will read from her new book then:
Irene Willis is the author of five collections of poetry: They Tell Me You Danced (University Press of Florida, 1995); At the Fortune Café, winner of the Violet Reed Haas Prize and National Book Award nominee (Snake Nation Press, 2005 ; Those Flames (Bay Oak, 2009); Reminder (Word Poetry, 2014), and Rehearsal (IPBooks, 2018). She is also the editor of an anthology, Climate of Opinion: Sigmund Freud in Poetry ( IPBooks, 2017). Three times nominated for Pushcart Prizes, her poems have appeared in many journals and anthologies. She has also co-authored several textbooks and children’s books. A longtime educator who has “retired” three times, she has taught at a number of secondary schools and colleges, most recently at Westfield State University and American International College in Massachusetts. Awards for her poetry include a Distinguished Artist fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts; a residency fellowship from the Millay Colony for the Arts, and grants from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the Berkshire/Taconic Foundation. She is Poetry Editor of the online publication, International Psychoanalysis, where she has a monthly column, “Poetry Monday.”
