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The Children of the Chateau de la Hille, by Sebastian Steiger Reviewed by Nathan Szajnberg, MD
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The Children of the Chateau de la Hille, by Sebastian Steiger. English translation 2017, Lexographic Press Review by Nathan Szajnberg, MD

Why should attention be paid?

Under threat of death, one hundred children were hidden at a remote chateau in Vichy France, its front gate painted with the Red Cross of Switzerland on a white background. This Cross did not protect them from the French collaborating Milice, nor the SS.

One hundred faces you can see in the appendix; many of their voices you can hear in the text and the guiding voice of Steiger who came from Switzerland to educate, give first aid and above all try to keep them alive. Continue reading The Children of the Chateau de la Hille, by Sebastian Steiger Reviewed by Nathan Szajnberg, MD

 ‘Freud: The Making of an Illusion,’
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Click Here to Read:   ‘Freud: The Making of an Illusion,’ by Frederick Crews Reviewed By Carl Rollyson in the San Francisco Chronicle on August 25, 2017>

Click Here to Read:   How we feel about Freud: Susie Orbach and Frederick Crews debate his legacy: Crews, an academic, thinks psychoanalysis is an unscientific jumble of ideas, while psychoanalyst Orbach would prefer not to throw the baby out with the patriarchal bias by Dr Frederick Crews and Susie Orbach on the Guardina website on August 20, 2017.

Click Here to Read:  Freud the fraud: a new book reviewed by Jerry Coyne on the Why Evolution is True website.

Click Here to Read: He’s Back: Freddy Crews Claws Freud by George Makari, M.D. on his Revolution in Mind blog on the Psychology Today blogs on October 12, 2011. Continue reading  ‘Freud: The Making of an Illusion,’

On Crew’s Freud: The Making on An Illusion: Letter by Nathan Szajnberg
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Dear Editor:

One of Frederick Crews’ earliest books (1963) was “The Pooh Perplex.” But, on Pooh, a professor of English literature can’t build much of an academic career. Then, he infected himself with “Freudianism” (not psychoanalysis nor Freud).  With no documented training nor expertise in the field, he has built his notoriety. This might be like a professor of English literature building a career on critiquing quantum mechanics or neuroscience  — oh, but readers would expect that person to have had some training in those fields.

Nevertheless, this English professor who professes to be an expert in Freud or psychoanalysis now writes a 746 page book critiquing Freud.

His book might better be described as a work of fiction: at best entertaining, but we wouldn’t expect fiction to be true.  Fiction is illusion, which is what Crews has written.

Then again, Crews’ Pooh book was a series of parodies of others. And now, he has parodied himself.
N. Szajnberg MD

Ego Psychology to Contemporary Conflict Theory: A Historical Overview by Arnold D. Richards and Arthur Lynch
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Click Here to Read:  Chapter 16 of Psychoanalysis: Critical Perspectives Selected Papers of Arnold D. Richards, Volume I. This paper was originally published as: From Ego Psychology to Contemporary Conflict Theory: A Historical Overview by Richards, A.D. & Lynch, A.A. (1998).  In The Modern Freudians: Contemporary Psychoanalytic Technique by C. Ellman; S. Grand.Silvan & S. Ellman (eds.) Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson.

Click Here to Purchase: Psychoanalysis: Critical Perspectives Selected Papers of Arnold D. Richards, Volume I.