Psychoanalysis after Freud: A Response to Frederick Crews and Other Critics by Glen O. Gabbard, Sheldon M. Goodman, and Arnold D. Richards

Click here to Read: Psychoanalysis after Freud: A Response to Frederick Crews and Other Critics by Glen O. Gabbard, Sheldon M. Goodman, and Arnold D. Richards, which was previously published as Glen O. Gabbard, Sheldon M. Goodman, and Arnold D. Richards (Summer 1995). Psychoanalysis after Freud: A Response to Frederick Crews and Other Critics. Psychoanalytic Books, 6(2), 155-173, and appears with the authors’ permission.  

Review of State of Confusion: Political Manipulation and the Assault on the American Mind by Bryant Welch

welch.jpgState of Confusion: Political Manipulation and the Assault on the American Mind by Bryant Welch St. Martin’s Press June 2008,  304 pp.
 
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Synopsis

Finally, the answer to the many questions that have been preying on the minds of millions of Americans has arrived. Why are Americans so vulnerable to divisive political tactics? Why did Americans get dragged into such an unwise war in Iraq? Why do fundamentalist religious groups, Fox News, and right-wing radio still play such influential roles in America’s political landscape? Continue reading Review of State of Confusion: Political Manipulation and the Assault on the American Mind by Bryant Welch

Richard Lightbody: Your Cousin’s Reading List

Lichtenberg, Joseph.   The Talking Cure:  A Descriptive Guide to Psychoanalysis.  Hillsdale NJ:  Analytic Press, distributed by L. Erlbaum, 1985.  152 p.
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Editor’s Choice for Summer Reading from Arnold Richards

Barbara Kafka, Microwave Gourmet, New York: William Morrow, 1998.

Barbara Kafka, Vegetable Love, New York: Artisan, 2005. 

Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, New York: Picador, 2001.  

Russsell Shorto The Island at the Center of the World    2008 Vintage.

Oliver Sachs  Musicophilia:  Tales of Music and the Brain 2007 Knopf.

Daniel J Levitin  This is Your Brain on Music:  The Science of Human Obsession  2007 Penguin.

Jhumpa Lahari  Unaccostomed Earth  2008 Knopf.

Jennifer Lee  The Fortune Cookie Chronicles:  Adventures in the World of Chinese Food 2008 Twelve.

David Adelman  A Shattered Peace  Versailles 1919 and the Price We Pay 2008, Wiley.

 Haruki Murakami  Kafka on the Shore 2005 Knopf.

 Haruki Murakami  After Dark 2007 Vintage.

Anne Dillard The Maytrees   2007, Harper.

Francine Prose Reading Like A Writer 2006,   Harper.

A. D. Nuttall Shakespeare the Thinker  2007, Yale.

More Summer Reading

Recommended Summer Reading:

Sidney J. Blatt, Polarites of Experiences: Relatedness and Self-definition in Personality Development, Psychopathology and the Therapeutic Process, Washington, DC: APA Press, 2008.  

Alma Halbert Bond, Margaret Mahler: Biography of a Psychoanalyst, Jefferson, NC: McFarland Publishing, 2008.

Sandra Buechler, Making A Difference in Patient’s Lives: Emotional Experience in the Therapeutic Setting.  New York: Routledge, 2008.

Andrea Celenza, Sexual Boundary Violations: Therpeutic Supervisory and Academic Contexts, Lanthan, NJ: Jason Aronson, 2007.

Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, New York: Picador, 2001. 

Irwin Hirsch, Coasting in the Countertransference: Conclits of Self Interest Between Analyst and Patient, Mahwah, NJ: The Analytic Press, 2008.

Barbara Kafka, Microwave Gourmet, New York: William Morrow, 1998. 

Barbara Kafka, Vegetable Love, New York: Artisan, 2005.  

Robert Langs, Beyond Yahweh and Jesus: Bringing Death’s Wisdom to Faith, Spirituality, and Psychoanalysis, Latham, MD: Jason Aronson, 2008.  

Robert Langs, Love and Death in Psychotherapy, London and New York: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2006. 

Joseph D. Lichtenberg, Sensuality and Sexuality Across the Divide of Shame, New York: Routledge.  

Leo Rangell , My Life in Theory, New York: Other Press, 2004.
 
Joseph Schachter, ed. Transforming Lives. Psychoanalyst and Patient View the  Power of Psychoanalytic Treatment, Rowman and  Littlefield, 2005. 

Herbert Schlesinger, Promises, Oaths and Vows: On the Psychology of Promising, New York: The Analytic Press, 2008.

Brent Willock, Comparative-Integrative Psychoanalysis: A Relational Perspective for the Discipline’s Second Century, Mahway, NJ, The Analytic Press, 2008.

Jerome Winer and James William Anderson, Spirituality and Religion: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Mental Health Resources, 2007.

Summer Reading List

The following books have been reviewed on this website and are recommended summer reading: 

 Illuminations by Eva Hoffman
 
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 The Center Cannot Hold by Elyn R. Saks
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The Struggle Against Mourning by Ilany Kogan
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 Revolution in Mind by George Makari
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 Haunted by Parents by Leonard Shengold
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 Bettelheim: Living and Dying by David James Fisher
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The Brain That Changes Itself by Norman Doidge, M.D.
Click Here for Jane S. Hall’s Review
Click Here for Abigail Zuger’s Review

The Death of Sigmund Freud by Mark Edmundson
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Bloomsbury/Freud: The Letters of James and Alix Strachey 1924-1925 edited by Perry Meisel and Walter Kendrick
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Review of Freud’s Requiem: Mourning, memory, and the invisible history of a summer walk By Matthew von Unwerth
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 The Road to Unity by Leo Rangel
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From Both Sides of the Couch: Reflections of a Psychoanalyst, Daughter, Tennis Player, and Other Selves by Fern W. Cohen
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 Broken Sons/Broken Fathers: A Pschoanalyst Remembers by Gerald J. Gargiulo.
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Feder, Stuart. Charles Ives: My Father’s Song. New Haven: Yale Univ Press. 1992.

Feder, Stuart. Gustav Mahler: A Life in Crisis. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 2004.
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