Click Here to Read: Review of “Where Three Roads Meet” by Salley Vickers: Freud meets Tiresias, the ancient Greek soothsayer By Alan Cheuse on the Website of the Chicago Tribune on October 25, 2008.

Click Here to Read: Feel the fear: Audacious as ever, Alastair Campbell joins Roth, Nabokov and Iris Murdoch in writing a novel about a psychiatrist. So what does the spin master, who himself once suffered a breakdown, contribute to this literary tradition, asks psychotherapist Adam Phillips in The Guardian website on October 25th 2008.

 
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An in-depth psychological study  of the formative childhood experiences of the comedian’s  early years, Chaplin: A Life traces the  evolution of a former Cockney slum urchin from an invulnerable child into an invincible screen character. 

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“A fresh entry in the evergreen field of works devoted to Charlie Chaplin. If ever an artist’s life lent itself to psychoanalysis, it’s Chaplin’s. . . . Weissman lends dimension to the classics . . . and demonstrates Chaplin’s ability to transform family heartbreak into film comedies. . . . With lean, energetic prose, Weissman brings this colorful theatrical period to life. . . . He o ffers vivid sketches . . .and carefully follows the confluence of several artists that lead to the creation of the Chaplin’s iconic Little Tramp. Throughout the book,the author caps exhaustive sourcing with an overlay of insightful observations about Chaplin’s creative process. Find space on the crowded Chaplin shelf for this perceptive, literate take on the great screen clown.”
–Kirkus Reviews Continue reading Chaplin: A Life

George Makari has written a moving and definitive history on the passions and complexities of the Psychoanalytic movement – “Revolution in Mind.”  In this scientific meeting, Dr. Makari will take us on a European journey beginning in the late nineteenth century and ending at 1945.  In his presentation, he reviews many of the character who helped forge the young science.  This includes the early contributions and conflicts with Bleuler, Jung and Adler, who eventually split off from the field, but also Ferenczi, Klein, Horney and others who struggled to improve the field.  This presentation goes beyond the partisan myths and polemics offering a history that not only clarifies what was scientifically evident at the time, what Psychoanalysis added to this, and what was lost when the world became engulfed in the cataclysmic Second World War.  Continue reading Revolution in Mind: Presentation by the Author, George Makari

Click here to Read: Human Foibles and Psychoanalytic Technique: Freud, Ferenczi and Gizella Palos by Benjamin Kilborne. 

The article originally appeared as Kilborne, Benjamin  (2008)  Human Foibles and Psychoanalytic Technique: Freud, Ferenczi and Gizella Palos. The American Journal of Psychoanalysis. 68: pp.1–23 and appears here with all requisite rights and permissions.

Sandor Ferenczi

Click here to Read: The Glories of Yiddish By Harold Bloom, a review of the book, History of the Yiddish Language by Max Weinreich, edited by Paul Glasser, translated from the Yiddish by Shlomo Noble with the assistance of Joshua A. Fishman YIVO Institute for Jewish Research/Yale University Press, two volumes, 988 pp., $300.00. reviewed in The New York Review of Books Volume 55, Number 17 · November 6, 2008.

While this book would have been a perfect fit for the internationpsychoanalaysis Blog recommendation for summer reading, it just passed by me last week. It is one in a series of books on Giants of Science. The other two being Da Vinci and Isaac Newton. It must be mentioned that the level it is written at is somewhat elementary but this is both a blessing and a curse. One could have easily thrown it in their beach bag and set off for a quick afternoon read. The author aims to inform the young reader who is interested in Freud but I could easily imagine that its charming , though basic presentation is not material for a candidate in Continue reading Sigmund Freud by Kathleen Krull/Illustrasted by Boris Kulikov, Reviewed by Sheldon M. Goodman

Click Here to Read About: Broken Sons/Broken Fathers: A Pschoanalyst Remembers, a book by Gerald J. Gargiulo.

Click Here To Read: A Review of Broken Sons/Broken Fathers: A Pschoanalyst Remembers  by Gerald J. Gargiulo.  Reviewed by Richard Raubolt.

Click Here to Read: Gerald J. Gargiulo’s “End Thoughts” from the book Broken Sons/Broken Fathers: A Pschoanalyst Remembers.

Click Here To Read: Claude Levi-Strauss and Genesis 37– Exodus 20 by Alan W. Miller.  The was previously published as Miller, Alan W. Claude Levi-Strauss and Genesis 37 Exodus 20 in SHIV’IM: Essays in Honor of Ira Eisenstein (1977)  edited by Ronald A. Brauner.  Philadelphia, PA: Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, p. 21-32 and appears here with all requisite rights and permissions.