Click Here to Read: Laughing in the Face of Evil: On the Shortlist for the Sami Rohr Prize, Joseph Skibell Uses Writing and Farce in the Face of the Holocaust By Laura Hodes in the Jewish Daily Forward on May 18, 2011.
Joseph Skibell
Category: Books
Cultural Theory and Psychoanalytic Tradition by David James Fisher Reviewed by Nathan Szajnberg
Book Review: David James Fisher, 2009 “Cultural Theory and Psychoanalytic Tradition.” Written by Nathan Szajnberg, MD; NYPSI and Columbia University. Wallerstein Research Fellow in Psychoanalysis. Training Analyst, Israel Psychoanalytic Society
Too rarely, a work, like some comet, soars into our psychoanalytic ken. This work, this comet, has collected the dust, debris, remnants of psychoanalytic history, then sweeps into our vision with news about our origins, Continue reading Cultural Theory and Psychoanalytic Tradition by David James Fisher Reviewed by Nathan Szajnberg
Erik H. Erikson: An Outsider At the Center of Things
Click Here to Read: Erik H. Erikson: An Outsider At the Center of Things, a review by Daniel Benvensite of the book: Identity’s Architect: A biography of Erik H. Erikson by Lawrence J. Friedman.
This article originally appeared as: Benveniste, D. (2000) Book Review of ‘Identity’s Architect: A Biography of Erik Erikson by Lawrence J. Friedman. The Psychoanalytic Review Vol. 87, No. 6. and appears here with all requisite rights and permissions.
Erik Erikson
Brooklyn writer Siri Hustvedt explores single life and psychosis in ‘The Summer Without Men’
Guided Activity Workbooks for Child Disaster Victims
Click Here to Read: Guided Activity Workbooks: helping children and teenagers cope and thrive after a natural or man made disaster on the Children’s Psychological Health Center Inc. Reflective Therapywebsite.
Two members of the American Psychoanalytic Association worked on this downloadable mental health resource. It is part of an internationally used
series of event-focused guided activity workbook. Over sixty thousand children and their thousands of caregivers have used our nonprofit agency’s workbooks. Facing disasters in earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, fire storms and wars can be a tremendous mental Continue reading Guided Activity Workbooks for Child Disaster Victims
3 Book Reviews
BOOK AND MEDIA REVIEWS
CHILDREN AND VIOLENCE: THEWORLD OF THE DEFENSELESS
By Einar A. Helander
334 pp, $90
London, UK, Palgrave MacMillan, 2008
ISBN-13: 978-0-2305-7394-9
THIS PITHY BOOK EXAMINES THE ISSUES OF TRAUMA AND POVERTY in the lives of children through an international lens. Having worked for 30 years in 94 countries on 5 continents, Einar Helander brings a wealth of direct experience with children, family homes, schools, child-focused institutions, and Health and Social Welfare ministries from around the world. He asserts that 5 to 10 million children (primarily girls younger than 5 years) “die annually because of intentional neglect or outright murder” (p xviii). Continue reading 3 Book Reviews
Sabina Spielrein: Forgotten Pioneer of Psychoanalysis
Click Here to Read: Sabina Spielrein: Forgotten Pioneer of Psychoanalysis by Coline Covington and Barbara Wharton, Reviewed By Harold B. Davis, PhD, ABPP, Winter 2006, pp. 53-56.
Meet the Author at the SF APsaA Meeting: Nancy Sherman
Meet-The-Author: Nancy Sherman, Ph.D. “The Untold War: Inside the Hearts, Minds, and Souls of our Soldiers Friday June 1oth from 2 pm to 5 pm.
Introducer: Prudence Gourguechon, M.D. (Chicago, IL)
Author: Nancy Sherman, Ph.D. (Kensington, MD)
The Untold War
Respondent: Jonathan Lear, Ph.D. (Chicago, IL)) Continue reading Meet the Author at the SF APsaA Meeting: Nancy Sherman
Psychoanalysis in a New Light by Gunnar Karlsson
Click Here to Read: Review of Psychoanalysis in a New Light by Gunnar Karlsson, reviewed by Diana Soeiro on the Metapsychology Reviews Website.
