IPBooks Titles Considered for 2016 Gradiva Awards

The eight books below have been submitted for the 2016 Gravida Awards:

A Brief Introduction to Sigmund Freud’s Psychoanalysis And His Enduring Legacy by Sander Abend

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Chimeras and Other Writings: Selected Papers of Sheldon Bach

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On The Pleasures of Owning Persons: The Hidden Face of American Slavery by Volney Gay

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Psychoanalysis Unveiling the Past—Discovering the New Selected Papers of John S. Kafka

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The Unknown Freud:  Five Plays and Five Essays by Robert Lippman

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Freedom to Choose:  Two Systems of Self-Regulation by Jack and Kerry Novick.

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The Way We Are: The Role of States of Mind in Our Identities, Personality, and Potential for Change by Frank W. Putnam

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Moving Pictures: Films Through a Psychoanalytic Lens by Herbert Stein

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. ..  and the winner of the 2014 Gradiva Award is available on IPBooks.net: Encounters with Loneliness: Only the Lonely has won the 2014 Gradiva Award for Anthologies!

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Coming soon from IPBooks.net: Psychoanalysis: Perspectives on a Thought Collective: Selected Papers of Arnold D Richards, reviewed by David James Fisher

These lively and thought provoking papers by Arnold Richards highlight a number of themes which will be relevant to the student of psychoanalysis, whether clinician, academic, or member of the educated lay public.  Richards wears his learning lightly, educating without being pedantic, and spicing up his prose by engaging in a number of significant polemics, particularly against the psychoanalytic establishment.   He is adept at illuminating how the concepts of Bildung and Fleck’s ideas about thought collectives and styles frame the history of psychoanalysis and provide a context for  an inquiry into its scientific sociology of knowledge.  Reading his papers on Freud and Brill and the historical and cultural role of Jewishness, including ambivalence about Jewish identity, is to encounter texts rich in clinical insight and historical understanding.  There are penetrating studies into the fascinating and Continue reading Coming soon from IPBooks.net: Psychoanalysis: Perspectives on a Thought Collective: Selected Papers of Arnold D Richards, reviewed by David James Fisher