Launch of New COWAP Books at the IPA Boston Congress

By Tamar SchwartzMay 15, 2015 Announcements, Books

HOLD THIS DATE: IPA Conference: Boston, Saturday 25 July from 12.45-13.45
And Join Us for a Toast

LAUNCH of New COWAP ( Committee on Women and Psychoanalysis ) Books including:

HOMOSEXUALITIES: Psychogenesis, Polymorphism, and Countertransference
Elda Abrevaya and Frances Thomson-Salo (editors)

MYTHS OF MIGHTY WOMEN: Their Application in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
Arlene Kramer Richards and Lucille Spira (editors)

MEDEA: Myth and Unconscious Fantasy
Esa Roos (editor)

Speakers: Frances Thomson-Salo, Elda Abrevaya and Esa Roos and others

Below the Line in Beijing by Richard Seldin

By Tamar SchwartzMay 15, 2015 Books

Click Here to Read: Below the Line in Beijing by Richard Seldin on IPBook.net

In an exciting new novel, soon to be released by IPBooks, Richard Seldin takes the reader on an inwardly intense, psychoanalytically-charged, and outwardly globe-spanning journey.

In this strikingly imaginative and unique exploration of love, psychoanalysis, and male sexuality, the protagonist must struggle with a deteriorating marriage, the loss of his ability to speak English, a philandering doppelganger, and disorienting fantasies about hooking-up with young women.

Without apparent cause, the novel’s protagonist, a 61-year-old attorney and former track star, awakens at home in Baltimore next to his wife, suddenly unable to speak. He questions whether this sudden Continue reading Below the Line in Beijing by Richard Seldin

Science and Writing: Living in the Real World by Joram Piatigorsky

By Tamar SchwartzMay 12, 2015 Books

Click Here to Read: Science and Writing: Living in the Real World by Joram Piatigorsky on his blog on May 11, 2015.

Why I Never Wrote About My Patients

By Tamar SchwartzMay 12, 2015 Books, Editorials

Click Here to Read: Why I Never Wrote About My Patients By Lisa Gornick in The New York Times on May 12, 2015.

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks

By Tamar SchwartzMay 11, 2015 Books

Click Here to Read: The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks on the Freud Quotes blog.

The Killing of Osama bin Laden

By Tamar SchwartzMay 11, 2015 Books

Click Here to Read: The Killing of Osama bin Laden by Seymour M. Hersh on the London Review of Books website in Volume 37, No 10 May 21, 2015.

Bellow After Death

By Tamar SchwartzMay 11, 2015 Books

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by Gary Shteyngart in the New York Review of Books on May 10, 2015.

The Scientific Assassination of a Sexual Revolutionary: How America Interrupted Wilhelm Reich’s Orgasmic Utopia

By Tamar SchwartzMay 11, 2015 Books, Papers

Click Here to Read: The Scientific Assassination of a Sexual Revolutionary: How America Interrupted Wilhelm Reich’s Orgasmic Utopia By Jason Louv on the Motherboard Website.

Click Here to Read: Psychoanalysis in Vienna and Berlin By Lore Reich Rubin on this website.

Click Here to Read: Wilhem Reich and Anna Freud on this website.

Click here to Read: Marxism and Psychoanalysis – Notes on Wilhelm Reich’s Life and Works by Alessandro D’Aloia on the In Defence of Marxism website eon October 15, 2004.

Click Here to Read: Father of the sexual revolution on this Website.

Click Here to Read: Unsexed Reich by Nathan Szajnberg on this website.

Psychoanalysis and the Bloomsbury Group

By Tamar SchwartzMay 9, 2015 Books

ClicK Here to Read: Psychoanalysis and the Bloomsbury Group by Douglass W. Orr, M.D., Edited by Wayne K. Chapman on the Clemson.edu website.

Click Here to Read: From the correspondence Lacan Joyce by Oscar Zentner on the Acheronta.org website.

Robert Jay Lifton: Psychologists Who Aided Torture Should Be Charged

By Tamar SchwartzMay 8, 2015 Audio/Video, Books

Click Here to Read and Listen To: Robert Jay Lifton, Author of “The Nazi Doctors”: Psychologists Who Aided Torture Should Be Charged Interview by Amy Goodman on the Democracy Now Radio Show on May 7, 2015.