Click Here to Read: Interview with Dr. Leo Rangell, for Dr. Bond’s book, Margaret Mahler, a Biography of the Psychoanalyst. Interviewer: Dr. Alma H. Bond.
Category: Oral History
My Father Does Not Live In America by Nathan Szajnberg
My Father Does Not Live In America (March 2005)
My father does not live in America, never did. In 1951, my father arrived in Rochester, NY, home to Kodak, home to Xerox, where he stayed to this very day. He goes nowhere without my mother. Restaurants, dinner parties, not unless they go together, with my mother. Movies, certainly not without her. Concerts, for sure not. aseball games, never, even with her. To shul, he drives alone. Continue reading My Father Does Not Live In America by Nathan Szajnberg
The Polyvocal Psyche: A Dialogue with Dr. Nathan Adler
Click Here to Read: The Polyvocal Psyche: A Dialogue with Dr. Nathan Adler by Daniel Benveniste.
This article originally appeared as: Benveniste, D. (1994) The Polyvocal Psyche: A Dialogue with Dr. Nathan Adler. The Northern California Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology Newsletter, Spring 1994 and appears here with all requisite rights and permissions.
A Bridge Between Psychoanalytic Worlds: A Dialogue with Rudolf Ekstein by Daniel Benveniste
Click Here to Read: A Bridge Between Psychoanalytic Worlds: A Dialogue with Rudolf Ekstein by Daniel Benveniste.
This Article originally appeared as Benveniste, D. (1998) A Bridge Between Psychoanalytic Worlds: A Dialogue with Rudolf Ekstein. The Psychoanalytic Review. 85(5). Republished in the Carter-Jenkins Center Website (2006) and appears here with all requisite rights and permissions.
Rudolf Ekstein
Click Here to Read: Moments in the Life of a Latin American Analyst: An Interview with R. Horacio Etchegoyen interviewed by Daniel Benveniste on this website.
Click Here to Read: The Early History of Psychoanalysis in San Francisco by Daniel Benveniste on this website
Historic Debate (Part III, rebutals): Leo Rangell and Andre Green at 1975 IPA Meeting
Introduction by Leo Rangell: At the IPA Congress in London in 1975, a debate took place in the opening plenary session between Andre Green and me on “Changes in Psychoanalytic Theory and Practice”. I argued for a continuing, cumulative single theory, while Green felt hat new and sicker patients required significant changes in theory. About a quarter century later, Martin Bergmann referred to this debate as a landmark in the history of psychoanalysis, placing it in a series with earlier debates, on Ferenczi’s active technique, Wilhelm Reich’s character analysis, and the Controversial Discussions between the proponents of Melanie Klein and Anna Freud. “In the debate itself,” Bergmann writes, “Rangell and Anna Freud [who was the discussant ofthe two papers] carried the day,” but continues, “the era they represented had already passed.” Although winning “hands down” on content, the analytic center, “so eloquently defended by Rangell and Anna Freud, could not turn back the tide of change that André Green had represented.”
Looking back at this intercontinental discussion, it might well be that this conclusion initiated the general attitude of pluralism over unity that followed as this debate was followed by an explosion of psychoanalytic theory from a fairly uniform system to a cluster of competing theories. The original tapes of this historic exchange have been preserved and can here be listened to again. From a current perspective, it might be asked: “What might have been the course of theory had the one who won actually won.”
NOTE: In the recordings linked below, Andre Green’s presentation is interpreted in the voice of a female interpreter.
This portion of the debate took place immediately following the remarks by Anna Freud as posted last time, and in fact picks up on the heels of the lengthy applaiuse which followed her talk.
Click Below to Listen to: Introduction and Leo Rangell, Rebutal, Part 1
Click Below to Listen to: Leo Rangell, Rebutal, Part 2
Click Below to Listen to: Andre Green, Rebutal, Part 1
Click Below to Listen to: Andre Green, Rebutal, Part 2
Private Drama: Alice Miller
Click Here to Read: Private Drama: Alice Miller was an authority on childhood trauma, but she stayed mum about her own by Daphne Merkin in the Tablet on May 4, 2010.
Click Here to Read: Alice Miller, author who blamed Hitler’s father, dies at 87 on this website.
Click Here to Read: An interview given by Alice Miller to Katharina Micada on this website.
Click Here to Read: The Political Consequences of Child Abuse by Alice Miller in African Press International on this website.
