Click Here to Read: This Day in Jewish History 1990: An Imperfect Psychoanalyst Commits Suicide: Psychoanalyst Bruno Bettelheim won acclaim for his work with children, and his posthumously discrediting was only partly deserved by David B. Green on The Haaretz website on March 13, 2016.

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Readers of Quantum Psychoanalysis will find fresh perspectives on the therapeutic processes that define contemporary clinical treatment. As readers engage with Gargiulo’s use of metaphors from quantum physics they will discover potentialities for new metapsychological insights, moving psychoanalytic theory closer to 21st century science. (from the Foreword)
— Bonnie Litowitz, Ph.D. Editor,
The Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

Gerald J. Gargiulo dares to go where no other psychoanalyst has gone before. In this collection of essays, he introduces a new world, namely, the interface between quantum physics and the unconscious. Offering a highly Continue reading New from IPBooks: Quantum Psychoanlysis by Gerald Gargiulo

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Below the Line in Beijing is a provocative exploration of love, psychoanalysis, dissociative mental states and male sexuality. Without apparent cause, the novel’s protagonist, a 61 year-old attorney and former track star, awakens next to his wife in his Baltimore home unable to speak.  He questions whether his sudden muteness is due to loss of sexual desire for his wife, but this isn’t new. For several years, he’s been undergoing a second psychoanalysis to understand his physical indifference to her as well as powerful fantasies about hooking-up with young women.  These fantasies have intensified following the appearance of Jim, his alter ego. Continue reading Available Now! Below the Line in Beijing by Richard Seldin from IPBooks.net

New Joint Imprints  IPBooks

I. IPBooks — Contemporary Freud Society

Psychoanalysis: Critical Conversations: Selected Papers of Arnold D. Richards.
Volume 1,  in print.  Volume 2, 3,  & 4 in preparation.
Selected Papers of Helen Gediman, with Introduction by Fred Pine.  In preparation.

II.  IPTAR — IPBooks

Chimeras and Other Writings:  Selected Papers of Sheldon Bach.   In preparation.
Selected Papers of Arnold Wilson.   In preparation.

III.  NYPSI — IPBooks

Selected Papers of Milton Horowitz with Introduction by Phil Hirschenfeld.  In preparation.

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The Interwoven Lives of Sigmund, Anna, and W. Ernest Freud:  Three Generations of Psychoanalysis by Daniel Benveniste.  In print.
Anna Freud in the Hampstead Clinics: Letters Anna Freud to Humberto Nágera, edited by Daniel Benveniste.  In print.
The Holt Rappaport Correspondence, edited by Arthur Lynch.  In  preparation.

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