Click Here to Read: The Mind as Conflict and Compromise Formation by Charles Brenner’
 
 
  
 
 
 

Click Here to Read: Henderson’s Equation by Jerome Lowenstein reviewed by Alma Bond.

  Click Here To Read: Introduction to Bettelheim: Living and Dying by David James Fisher

Click Here to Read:  The Suicide of a Survivor: Some Intimate Perceptions of Bettleheim’s Suicide” Chapter Eight of Bettelheim: Living and Dying by David James Fisher 

David James Fisher, Bettelheim: Living and Dying (Rodopi: Amsterdam and New York, 2008), 190 pages, Contemporary Psychoanalytic Studies.

 Bruno Bettelheim  

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Click Here to Read: Review of Revolution in Mind by George Makari by Lisa Apiggnanesi The Financial Times on March 29th, 2008.

Click Here to Read: Review of Revolution in Mind by George Makari entitled “Battleground of the Psyche” by Natasha Mitchell in The Australian on March 29th, 2008.

Click Here to Read:  An Interview with George Makari.

Click Here to Read: The pseudonymous author of Shakespeare’s works by Richard Waugaman in the Princeton Alumni Weekly.

Click Here to Read: Lost in Translation, article on Simone de Beauvior and the English translation of the Second Sex by Sarah Glazer.

Click Here to Read:  All in the Mind by Lisa Appignanesi on the Guardian Website. 

 The closing paragraph of Lisa Appignanesi’s book review essay may get you interested in her thoughtful musings on psychoanalysis’ position in the world of letters.
    “Perhaps the decision of Hanif Kureishi and Salley Vickers to place an analyst at the centre of their new novels reflects a change in psychoanalysis itself. Under attack from drug therapies and versions of the talking cure which offer quick fixes, the analyst has become less dangerous to the writer. As Ian McEwan noted in On Chesil Beach, for at least three decades we have inhabited a psychoanalytic climate in which it is “customary to regard oneself in everyday terms as an enigma, as an exercise in narrative history, or as a problem to be solved”. It is time for the vying over the terrain of the imagination and the psyche between artist and analyst to cease. Both, after all, as Kureishi writes of Jamal, are “readers of minds and signs”. They work with the “underneath or understory: fantasies, wishes, lies, dreams, nightmares – the world beneath the world, the true stories beneath the false”.”
     A nice piece of journalism . . . perhaps worthy of recognition? Her book on Freud’s Women, co-authored with John Forrester, is also worth a look. She has a new book that is about to appear under the provocative title of “Mad, Bad and Sad: Women and the Mind Doctors.”
 
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Click Here To Read: A Review of Biology of Freedom Neural Plasticity, Experience, and the Unconscious by François Ansermet and Pierre Magistretti, reviewed by Mark Dietrich Tschaepe in Metapsychology Online.