Click Here To Read: The Many Lives of Carla: Interview by Peter O’Brien on the Irish Times Website on November 28th, 2008.
From this article: “Bruni has spent years in psychoanalysis, and writes down her dreams every morning. Analysis teaches one “absolute responsibility for all feelings,” she says …”
Review of Evening Sessions with Dr. Priestly by Cathy Lobel (2007) Two Lights Press. Reviewed by Arlene Kramer Richards
www.EveningSessions.com Cathylobel@rcn.com
This small self published “testament to psychoanalysis” presents a narrative of the development of one woman’s psychoanalytic understanding of herself interlarded with a series of selections from religious texts on themes similar to those in the analytic narrative. Presenting biblical quotes on the left hand pages and analytic reveries on the right makes for something like a book of poetry in a bilingual edition. Except that the translations go in the opposite direction. The analytic episodes must have come before the translations into biblical terms in the author’s experience.
What happened in the analysis allowed the author to feel more authentically herself and to take good care of her inept and disabled mother. It also let her feel loved and loving. small changes in one sense, but huge changes in another. In that way it was like many other successful analyses, with specific symptom relief paired with a general change in attitude towards oneself and one’s place in the world. Continue reading Review of Evening Sessions with Dr. Priestly by Cathy Lobel
Click Here To Read: Review of The Seduction Theory in its Second Century: Trauma, Fantasy, and Reality Today by Michael I. Good, reviewed by Jean-Paul Pegeron.
This article has been previously published as Jean-Paul Pegeron (2008) Review of: The Seduction Theory in its Second Century: Trauma, Fantasy, and Reality Today. Edited by Michael I. Good. Madison, CT: International Universities Press, 2006. 318. Psychoanalytic Quarterly. 77(4): 1271-1276 and appears here with all requisite rights and permissions.
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