Click Here to Read:  Psychoanalysis and Sociology by Erich Fromm on the Scrib’d website.

Erich Fromm

Book Review:  Reading Anna Freud, Nick Midgley. Karnac, 2013. (Part of the New Library of Psychoanalysis ‘Teaching…’ series)

Nathan Szajnberg, MD, Managing Editor

Clarity, pragmatism, systematic dedication to children and even humility are words we apply to Anna Freud.  Elizabeth Young-Bruehl, who died last year, wrote a magisterial biography of Ms. Freud; Robert Coles, a more personal account. Now comes Midgley’s contribution, something that goes beyond an annotated bibliography, but a book that, like Ms. Freud, is crisp, clear and well-organized.  Little flash, much substance.

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Meet the Author and Editor Norman Straker MD of`Facing Cancer and the Fear of Death: A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Treatments

Have you ever contemplated the possibility of facing cancer and death? Probably everyone over thirty has occasionally, and as we age, these thoughts are more common. Despite these routine occurrences, death is rarely a subject of public or private discourse. Psychoanalysts, psychiatrists and therapists, rarely explore  “death anxiety” in their therapies. Doctors, also need help facing death, so they can more routinely inform each person of the best options at the end of life rather than avoid the topic and continue to prescribe futile treatments. Continue reading Facing Cancer and the Fear of Death by Norman Straker

Click Here to Read: The Tsunami Killed Her Family. She Tells of What Came  Next. ‘Wave,’ by Sonali Deraniyagala By Dwight Garner on March 5, 2013

Book Review: The Power of Witnessing: Reflections, Reverberations, and Traces of the Holocaust. Trauma, Psychoanalysis and the Living Mind. (2012) Ed’s Nancy R. Goodman and Marilyn B. Meyers. Routledge.
The editors of this book caution the reader, when one editor (M.M.) writes that while she was working on this book, she suffered nightmares. She and her coeditor discuss their associations to these nightmares and consider this “good psychic work.” Reader be warned: some of the stories are nightmarish. And this book embraces much — accounts by Holocaust survivors, child survivors, or their relatives; artistic accounts of the Holocaust and other subsequent terrible traumas such as 9/11. As if this were not enough, the book is subtitled and hence addressed to a psychoanalytic audience. Continue reading Review of the Power of Witnessing, Reviewed By Nathan Szajnberg

Click Here to Read: Introduction to:  Shrink: A Cultural History of Psychoanalysis in America by Lawrence R. Samuel.

Click Here to Read:  Table of Contents of  Shrink: A Cultural History of Psychoanalysis in America by Lawrence R. Samuel.

A Brief Description of Shrink:

“Psychology has stepped down from the university chair into the marketplace” was how the New York Times put it in 1926. Another commentator in 1929 was more biting. Psychoanalysis, he said, had over a generation, “converted the human scene into a neurotic.” Freud first used the Continue reading Shrink: A Cultural History of Psychoanalysis in America

Click Here to Read: Review of A Basic Theory of Neuropsychoanalysis by W. M. Bernstein reviewed by Roger Hunt on the Metapsychology Reviews website.