Click Here To Read: Norman Holland: “We Understand Our Perception of Literature”
An interview with Professor Norman Holland by Ismail Salami, Press TV, on Sun, 10 Feb 2008.
Category: Books
Little Hans: A Centennial Review and Reconsideration by Harold Blum
Click Here to Read: Little Hans: A Centennial Review and Reconsideration by Harold Blum
This article has been previously published – Little Hans: A Centennial Review and Reconsideration by Harold Blum (2007, Summer) Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, Vol. 55, No. 3, 749-765.
Abstract of this paper:
Freud’s “Analysis of a Phobia in a Five-year-old Boy” (1909) has stimulated interminable “reanalysis.” The case of Little Hans, an unprecedented experimental child analytic treatment, is reexamined in the light of newer theory and newly derestricted documents. The understanding of the complex overdetermination of Hans’s phobia was not possible in the heroic age of psychoanalysis. Current analytic thought, as well as distance de-idealization vis-à-vis the pioneering past, has potentiated a reformation of the case. The severe disturbance of his mother had an adverse impact on Little Hans and his family. Her abuse of Hans’s infant sister has been overlooked by generations of analysts. Trauma, child abuse, parental strife, and the preoedipal mother-child relationship emerge as important issues that intensified Hans’s pathogenic oedipal conflicts and trauma. With limited, yet remarkable help from his father and Freud, Little Hans nevertheless had the ego strength and resilience to resolve his phobia, resume progressive development, and forge a successful creative career.
Sleeping and Dreaming edited by Helga Raulff, Michael Dorrmann, James Peto and Ken Arnold
Interview with George Makari, author of: Revolution in Mind: The Creation of Psychoanalysis
Click Here To Read: Interview entitled: “Figuring Out Freud: George Makari” with George Makari, author of Revolution in Mind: The Creation of Psychoanalysis. The interviewer is Tim Follos.
George Makari is director of Cornell’s Institute for the History of Psychiatry, associate professor of psychiatry at Weill Medical College, adjunct associate professor at Rockefeller University, and a faculty member of Columbia University’s Psychoanalytic Center. His writings on the history of psychoanalysis have won numerous awards. He lives in New York City.
The New Black: Mourning, Melancholia and Depression by Darian Leader and Shoot the Damn Dog: A Memoir of Depression, by Sally Brampton. Reviewed by Hillary Mantel in The Guardian.
Click Here for Reviews of The New Black: Mourning, Melancholia and Depression, by Darian Leader and Shoot the Damn Dog: A Memoir of Depression, by Sally Brampton. Reviewed by Hillary Mantel in The Guardian.
Comments on the Reviews by Paul Brinich:
Writing about mourning, melancholia, and depression, Darian Leader writes that
“quick-fix remedies work in the same way as a missile strike works on aterrorist base. In the short term it looks successful, but it does nothing to alter the terrorist mindset. When loss and misery enter our lives, we are impatient to condense a process that, by nature or through talking therapies, can only be worked out over years. We want a name for our condition, and we want a timetable. Even mourning has become target-driven; we are supposed to move through loss in key stages, like schoolchildren, and to lag behind is to demonstrate a pathology.”
The Guardian’s reviewer, Hilary Mantel, gives good marks to Leader’s “The new black: Mourning, melancholia, and depression” while panning Sally Brampton’s “Shoot the damn dog: A memoir of depression.”
Reviews of George Makari’s Book “Revolution in Mind: The Creation of Psychoanalysis”
Click Here to Read A Review of George Makari’s Book: Revolution in Mind: The Creation of Psychoanalysis by Brklyn Stories. Click Here to Read: “Mind over Mother: Mental Health Takes Freudian Trip,” New York Post Review by Terry Golway of George Makari’s book, Revolution in Mind: The Creation of Psychoanalysis.
Click Here to Read: “Freud and Us” review by Theodore Dalrymple of Revolution in Mind: The Creation of Psychoanalysis by George Makari in the New York Sun.
Click Here to Read: George Prochnik’s Review of George Makari’s Revolution in Mind: The Creation of Psychoanalysis in the New York Times.
Click Here to Read: Review entitled “The Law of Unintended Consequences” of George Makari’s Revolution in Mind: The Creation of Psychoanalysis by Jane O’Grady on The Guardian website.
Note From Arnold Richards:
These reviews are of George Makari’s new book. It goes on sale January 22. It is a scholarly tour de force.
Click Here to Order: George Makari, Revolution in Mind: The Creation of Psychoanalysis from Amazon.com
Click Here Order: George Makari, Revolution in Mind: The Creation of Psychoanalysis from Harper Collins.
George Makari is director of Cornell’s Institute for the History of Psychiatry, associate professor of psychiatry at Weill Medical College, adjunct associate professor at Rockefeller University, and a faculty member of Columbia University’s Psychoanalytic Center. His writings on the history of psychoanalysis have won numerous awards. He lives in New York City.
Review of “From Both Sides of the Couch: Reflections of a Psychoanalyst, Daughter, Tennis Player, and Other Selves” By Fern W. Cohen
Click Here to Read: From Both Sides of the Couch: Reflections of a Psychoanalyst, Daughter, Tennis Player, and Other Selves by Fern W. Cohen, reviewed by Chap Attwell
This article has been previously published Attwell, C. (2007) Review of From Both Sides of the Couch: Reflections of a Psychoanalyst, Daughter, Tennis Player, and Other Selves by Fern W. Cohen. The Candidate Journal. Vol 2 (1) 1-4 and appears here with the requisite rights and permissions.
Review of “The Center Cannot Hold My Journey Through Madness” by Elyn R. Saks
Revolution in Mind: The Creation of Psychoanalysis by George Makari
Click Here to Read: “Mind over Mother: Mental Health Takes Freudian Trip,” New York Post Review by Terry Golway of George Makari’s book, Revolution in Mind: The Creation of Psychoanalysis.
Click Here to Read: “Freud and Us” review by Theodore Dalrymple of Revolution in Mind: The Creation of Psychoanalysis by George Makari in the New York Sun.
Click Here to Read: George Prochnik’s Review of George Makari’s Revolution in Mind: The Creation of Psychoanalysis in the New York Times.
Note From Arnold Richards:
These reviews are of George Makari’s new book. It goes on sale January 22. It is a scholarly tour de force.
Click Here to Order: George Makari, Revolution in Mind: The Creation of Psychoanalysis from Amazon.com
Click Here Order: George Makari, Revolution in Mind: The Creation of Psychoanalysis from Harper Collins.
George Makari is director of Cornell’s Institute for the History of Psychiatry, associate professor of psychiatry at Weill Medical College, adjunct associate professor at Rockefeller University, and a faculty member of Columbia University’s Psychoanalytic Center. His writings on the history of psychoanalysis have won numerous awards. He lives in New York City.
