Click Here to Read: Review of “Where Three Roads Meet” by Salley Vickers: Freud meets Tiresias, the ancient Greek soothsayer By Alan Cheuse on the Website of the Chicago Tribune on October 25, 2008.

Click Here to Read: Feel the fear: Audacious as ever, Alastair Campbell joins Roth, Nabokov and Iris Murdoch in writing a novel about a psychiatrist. So what does the spin master, who himself once suffered a breakdown, contribute to this literary tradition, asks psychotherapist Adam Phillips in The Guardian website on October 25th 2008.

 
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An in-depth psychological study  of the formative childhood experiences of the comedian’s  early years, Chaplin: A Life traces the  evolution of a former Cockney slum urchin from an invulnerable child into an invincible screen character. 

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“A fresh entry in the evergreen field of works devoted to Charlie Chaplin. If ever an artist’s life lent itself to psychoanalysis, it’s Chaplin’s. . . . Weissman lends dimension to the classics . . . and demonstrates Chaplin’s ability to transform family heartbreak into film comedies. . . . With lean, energetic prose, Weissman brings this colorful theatrical period to life. . . . He o ffers vivid sketches . . .and carefully follows the confluence of several artists that lead to the creation of the Chaplin’s iconic Little Tramp. Throughout the book,the author caps exhaustive sourcing with an overlay of insightful observations about Chaplin’s creative process. Find space on the crowded Chaplin shelf for this perceptive, literate take on the great screen clown.”
–Kirkus Reviews Continue reading Chaplin: A Life

George Makari has written a moving and definitive history on the passions and complexities of the Psychoanalytic movement – “Revolution in Mind.”  In this scientific meeting, Dr. Makari will take us on a European journey beginning in the late nineteenth century and ending at 1945.  In his presentation, he reviews many of the character who helped forge the young science.  This includes the early contributions and conflicts with Bleuler, Jung and Adler, who eventually split off from the field, but also Ferenczi, Klein, Horney and others who struggled to improve the field.  This presentation goes beyond the partisan myths and polemics offering a history that not only clarifies what was scientifically evident at the time, what Psychoanalysis added to this, and what was lost when the world became engulfed in the cataclysmic Second World War.  Continue reading Revolution in Mind: Presentation by the Author, George Makari