INTERNATIONALPSYCHOANALYSIS.NET will have a table in the book room at the Chicago Congress
We have arranged for book signings by five IPA members
Thursday at 10:30am MICHAEL GOOD
Thursday at 2: HOWARD SHEVRIN, JANE HALL
Friday at 10:30 ANNA ORNSTEIN, ARNOLD GOLDBERG
Michael Good’s The Seduction Theory in Its Second Century: Trauma, Fantasy, and Reality Today: Not many books can be stamped ‘significant’ from their inception, but this one can. It has a measure of historic significance by reason of drawing together contributions from the major psychoanalytic groups operating in the United States. Moreover, it achieves a high level of conceptual and clinical significance in the scope of its subject matter and the competence of the respective contributors..– W. W. Meissner, S.J., M.D.
Jane Hall’s Roadblocks on the Journey of Psychotherapy: Once a journey for self understanding has begun, there is inevitably a struggle against real change. Inner roadblocks on both sides of the couch impede the journey of psychoanalytic psychotherapy, and these roadblocks are what the book is about. The pressure to repeat the past in the present, including the attachments to pain and the difficulty of letting go of abusive relations (both internal and external) are enemies of growth and change. These roadblocks (resistances) and the forms they take are explored and illustrated in this book. Jane Hall will also be signing her other excellent book, Deepening the Treatment.
Howard Shevrin’s The Dream Interpreters: The action in this novel takes place in a large psychiatric institution in east Tennessee during the 1960s. The politics surrounding the search
for a new director weave in and out of the seven psychoanalyses that comprise the main action,
and convey an accurate picture of what it is like to undergo psychoanalysis.
Arnold Goldberg’s Moral Stealth: How “Correct Behavior” Insinuates Itself into Psychotherapeutic Practice. A psychiatrist writes a letter to a journal explaining his decision to
marry a former patient. Another psychiatrist confides that most of his friends are ex-patients.
Both practitioners felt they had to defend their behavior, but psychoanalyst Arnold Goldberg
couldn’t pinpoint the reason why. What was wrong about the analysts’ actions? In Moral Stealth,
Goldberg explores and explains that problem of “correct behavior.” He demonstrates that the
inflated and official expectations that are part of an analyst’s training—that therapists be universally curious, hopeful, kind, and purposeful, for example—are often of less help than
simple empathy amid the ambiguous morality of actual patient interactions. Being a good
therapist and being a good person, he argues, are not necessarily the same. Drawing on case
studies from his own practice and from the experiences of others, as well as on philosophers such
as John Dewey, Slavoj Žižek, and Jürgen Habermas, Goldberg breaks new
ground and leads the way for therapists to understand the relationship between private
morality and clinical practice.
Anna Ornstein’s Through My Mother’s Eyes. Anna Ornstein is a Holocaust survivor. After emigrating to the U.S., she seldom spoke of the experiences she suffered while a young
girl. Twenty-five years ago, at the family Seder gathering, her family asked for a story from her
past. In an evocative, understated passage, she shared a bit of the tragedy she saw through the
eyes of a child. Every year she has added to this tradition by sharing another chapter of the
tragedies she witnessed and the small moments of grace in her survival. Through her family’s
support, Ornstein gained enough strength to share her experiences in My Mother’s Eyes, in hopes
of keeping the nightmare from ever happening again.
IF YOU WILL NOT BE IN CHICAGO YOU CAN ORDER FROM PSYPSA@AOL.COM AND WE WILL SEND YOU A SIGNED COPY IN THE MAIL
The B’Tipul Season 1 and Season 2 will also be available for viewing
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/2009/07/21/season-2-episode-4-of-betipul/
and sale as well Sylvia Brody’s new book Beginning to grow: Five Studies
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/2009/07/05/new-from-international-psychoanalytic-books/