Click Here to Read: 81-year-old Explores Youth in Debut Novel, Review of The Year of Durocher by Theodore Jacobs, reviewed by Todd Sliss in The in the Scarsdale Inquirer.
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Jimmy Fisher, a cultural historian and psychoanalyst based in L.A reviews Kirsner’s book, titled “Unfree Associations” and subtitled “Inside Psychoanalytic Institutes. ” He writes as an insider from L.A. He offers two unique, timely, intriguing pieces. You can read only one on Ip.net. The other you won’t read here because the journal’s publisher insisted that the author, Fisher, pay $186 in order for Fisher to have his article — the article he wrote, the fruits of his thinking and labor — available to readers of Ip.net. Instead, we will give a PEP link to Fisher’s elegant, thoughtful review, which teaches us something about the acrimonious and destructive battles within Apsa today. We can publish Fisher’s interview of Continue reading A Power Structure Analysis of Four Psychoanalytic Institutes by David James Fisher, Ph.D
Emerrging Metropolis: New York Jews in the Age of Immigration, 1840-1920 (NYU Press, 2012) is the second volume of City of Promises: A History of the Jews of New York, a three-volume series that is, surprisingly enough, the first ever comprehensive history of New York Jews. The series, overseen by scholar Deborah Dash Moore, tells the story of the largest Jewish community in Jewish history. Read more…
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Biography Book Review: The Letters of Sigmund Freud and Otto Rank
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Psychotherapy Lives Intersecting by Louis Breger
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Freud’s Sister By Nicholas Meyer
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Bento’s Sketchbook—John Berger’s “Way of Seeing” Spinoza By Kamilla Vaski
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Click Here to Read: Life Lessons from… Bergson, Byron, Freud, Hobbes, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche – review. A series of books from Alain de Botton’s School of Life project uses the ideas of six great thinkers as a gateway to self-improvement. It’s filleted philosophy, but does it work? by Peter Conrad on The Observer website on August 31, 2013.
Brief review in Oxford Journal of New Books by Dr. Graeme Pedlingham, University of Sussex This follows a section where he reviewed books that dealt with previous analysts,–Bion for example
2. New Explorations in Psychoanalysis: Different Directions Whilst I have made here a distinction between two strands of work published this year based upon their object of discussion, in this section focusing upon works that explore new directions within psychoanalytic discourses, its dissociation from the preceding section is very far from a decisive one. This is evidenced by the firstbook that I turn to, being Steven J. Ellman’s When Theories Touch: A Historical and Theoretical Integration of Psychoanalytic Thought (Karnac Books). This is an extremely ambitious, substantial work, impressive in its Continue reading Review of Steven J. Ellman’s When Theories Touch