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1990: An Imperfect Psychoanalyst Commits Suicide
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Bruno_Bettelheim

Click Here to Read: This Day in Jewish History 1990: An Imperfect Psychoanalyst Commits Suicide: Psychoanalyst Bruno Bettelheim won acclaim for his work with children, and his posthumously discrediting was only partly deserved by David B. Green on The Haaretz website on March 13, 2016.

Click Here to Read: After death, what’s learned: Fisher on Bettelheim (and Ekstein), review of Bettelheim: Living and Dying by David James Fisher, Reviewed by Nathan Szajnberg on this website.

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New from IPBooks: Quantum Psychoanlysis by Gerald Gargiulo
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New From from IPBooks: Quantum Psychoanalysis: Essays on Physics, Mind, and and Analysis Today by Gerald J. Gargiulo.

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Readers of Quantum Psychoanalysis will find fresh perspectives on the therapeutic processes that define contemporary clinical treatment. As readers engage with Gargiulo’s use of metaphors from quantum physics they will discover potentialities for new metapsychological insights, moving psychoanalytic theory closer to 21st century science. (from the Foreword)
— Bonnie Litowitz, Ph.D. Editor,
The Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

Gerald J. Gargiulo dares to go where no other psychoanalyst has gone before. In this collection of essays, he introduces a new world, namely, the interface between quantum physics and the unconscious. Offering a highly Continue reading New from IPBooks: Quantum Psychoanlysis by Gerald Gargiulo

Two book reviews of interest
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“Freudian whip: Latest bio offers unflattering look at lauded psychoanalyst” by John Cruickshank. Chicago Sun-Times, January 21, 2007. [A review of FREUD: INVENTOR OF THE MODERN MIND by Peter D. Kramer, HarperCollins, 224 pages, $21.95.]

“Freud’s Will to Power” by Ronald W. Dworkin. The New York Sun, November 29, 2006. [A review of FREUD: INVENTOR OF THE MODERN MIND by Peter D. Kramer, HarperCollins, 213 pages, $21.95.]

Available Now! Below the Line in Beijing by Richard Seldin from IPBooks.net
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Below the Line in Beijing is a provocative exploration of love, psychoanalysis, dissociative mental states and male sexuality. Without apparent cause, the novel’s protagonist, a 61 year-old attorney and former track star, awakens next to his wife in his Baltimore home unable to speak.  He questions whether his sudden muteness is due to loss of sexual desire for his wife, but this isn’t new. For several years, he’s been undergoing a second psychoanalysis to understand his physical indifference to her as well as powerful fantasies about hooking-up with young women.  These fantasies have intensified following the appearance of Jim, his alter ego. Continue reading Available Now! Below the Line in Beijing by Richard Seldin from IPBooks.net

Freud Envy?
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John Cruickshank’s review of Peter Kramer’s biography of Freud (Chicago Sun-Times, January 21, 2007) for me strikes the right balance of critical and questioning appraisals of Freud’s life and work. It is in sharp contrast to a review by Ronald Dwarkin in the New York Sun on November 29, 2006 – a front Arts page review no less with the title Freud’s Will To Power and a picture of Freud and colleagues with Stanley Hall at Clark University on the cover of the newspaper. The NY Sun review seemed to me a tendentious review of a tendentious book (I confess I have not read the volume) and it was hard for me to separate the views of the reviewer from the views of the reviewed. I was moved to right the following letter (which was not published).

To the editor:

It would appear from Dworkin’s review of Freud: The Inventor of the Modern Mind Peter Kramer’s tendentious biography of Freud that Peter Kramer is way off base starting from his citation of the dirty hands story (he messed up a chair as a child, but promised his mother than when he grew up to be a great man he’d buy her another) as evidence of a fierce ambition and a will to power. Kramer is offering a Freudian interpretation of Freud’s psychology by finding its roots in the ambivalence conflicts of his childhood including Oedipal wishes which Dworkin dismisses as gross generalizations based on “a few questionable patient experiences.” Freud moved from clinical observation to clinical generalization to clinical theory to broad and speculative constructs called metapsychology. He referred to the latter as the scaffolding which could be discarded without disturbing the house.

Freud was a scientist and a humanist. Some of his notions about the way the mind works have been found to be consistent with current findings in neuroscience, and his psychology serves as the foundation for most psychotherapies. He was a great writer — in 1930 he received the Goethe Prize for creativity from the city of Frankfurt, and like many great novelists he was a keen observer of human nature. In my view Freud’s most enduring contribution is his contention that words can change the way we think and feel and relate to each other and words can change brain chemistry. He is even more relevant in this age of psychopharmacology and manual diagnosis than he was in his time.

Arnold Richards

Also posted on The Sun’s website are a few Letters to the Editor from Ben Swetland, Brian Buchbinder, Fred Sander, and Norman Rosenblood.

There is also a interview with Peter Kramer in the California Litarary Review

What do you think?

New and Noteworthy from IPBooks
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New Joint Imprints  IPBooks

I. IPBooks — Contemporary Freud Society

Psychoanalysis: Critical Conversations: Selected Papers of Arnold D. Richards.
Volume 1,  in print.  Volume 2, 3,  & 4 in preparation.
Selected Papers of Helen Gediman, with Introduction by Fred Pine.  In preparation.

II.  IPTAR — IPBooks

Chimeras and Other Writings:  Selected Papers of Sheldon Bach.   In preparation.
Selected Papers of Arnold Wilson.   In preparation.

III.  NYPSI — IPBooks

Selected Papers of Milton Horowitz with Introduction by Phil Hirschenfeld.  In preparation.

IV.    AIP — IPBooks

The Interwoven Lives of Sigmund, Anna, and W. Ernest Freud:  Three Generations of Psychoanalysis by Daniel Benveniste.  In print.
Anna Freud in the Hampstead Clinics: Letters Anna Freud to Humberto Nágera, edited by Daniel Benveniste.  In print.
The Holt Rappaport Correspondence, edited by Arthur Lynch.  In  preparation.

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