Click Here To Read: Hanif Kureishi on writing, psychoanalysis and relationships from the website the Bookshow.com on September 3rd, 2008.
Category: Books
A Review of Margaret Mahler: A Biography of the Psychoanalyst by Alma Bond
Click Here To Read: The Vicissitudes of Personal Experience and the Consequences for Psychological Theory: A Study of Margaret Mahler, M.D., American Child Psychoanalyst, A Review of Margaret Mahler: A Biography of the Psychoanalyst by Alma Bond.
This review was previously published as: Jacobs , Marilyn S. (December 3rd, 2008). The Vicissitudes of Personal Experience and the Consequences for Psychological Theory: A Study of Margaret Mahler, M.D., American Child Psychoanalyst, A Review of Margaret Mahler: A Biography of the Psychoanalyst by Alma Bond. PsycCRITIQUES 53(49) and appears here with all requisites rights and conditions.
Philoctetes Roundtable: Freud, Psychoanalysis, and the Philippson Bible
Click Here To Read and View: Freud, Psychoanalysis, and the Philippson Bible Roundtable. Participants: Mary Bergstein, Abigail Gillman, Diane O’Donoghue (moderator), Bennett Simon, Andrew Stein Raftery, a Philoctetes Event at the New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute on December 15th, 2008.
Click Here To Hear and View: The Freud’s Jewish World Conference, in which both Mary Bergstein and Abigail Gillman participated.
A Review by Joe Gartner of American Therapy by Jonathan Engel
Letter to the Editor about Jonathan Engel’s American Therapy by Henry J. Friedman
Upublished Letter to the Editor of the New York Times by Henry J. Friedman
To the Editor:
As a practicing psychiatrist who utilizes psychoanalysis, psychotherapy and psychopharmacology in an effort to relieve the emotional suffering of my patients I feel a distinct need to respond to Scott Stossel’s review of Jonathan Engel’s book, “American Therapy: The Rise of Psychotherapy in the United States”. Stossel chooses to attack psychotherapy in general and psychoanalysis specifically despite the fact that Engel’s book, as described by the reviewer, is respectful of treatment and repeatedly cites psychotherapy research that supports the effectiveness of psychotherapy for a large percentage of patients. I can only wonder what motivates this reviewer to make unfounded statements, such as, “If it were to be conclusively demonstrated that therapy doesn’t work, therapists would be put out of business; that’s effectively what’s already happened to Freudian psychoanalysts.”. While it may be common parlance in uneducated circles to announce the death of Freudian psychoanalysis I would expect a more informed perspective in a review published in the Sunday Times Book Review. Stossel’s claims are entirely unfounded and appear to emerge from some hostility he feels about psychoanalysts and psychotherapists earning a living from the work that they perform with a wide variety of patients who are, indeed, helped to live with less anxiety and despair as a result of understanding the influence of their developmental and current life environments. Continue reading Letter to the Editor about Jonathan Engel’s American Therapy by Henry J. Friedman
‘Chaplin: A Life’: A psychiatrist puts Charlie Chaplin on the couch
Click Here to Read: Chaplin lifted weary world’s spirits a review by Martin Sieff of the book Chaplin: A Life by Stephen Weissman in the Washington Times on December 21st, 2008.
Click Here To Read: “‘Chaplin: A Life’: A psychiatrist puts Charlie Chaplin on the couch” a review By Richard Schickel of the book Chaplin: A Life by Stephn Weissman in the Los Angeles Times on December 19, 2008.
Click Here to Read: Review of Chaplin: A Life by Stephen M. Weissman from the Beliefnet website November 9, 2008 on this website.
Click Here To Read: For advance reviews and to learn more about this book from this website.
