Winston Churchill: Character Shapes History
Coming Soon from IPBooks: Winston Churchill: Character Shapes History by Donald Coleman.
Classsic Psychoanalytic Talks from the Chicago Institute
for Psychoanalysis
Being Offered for the First Time:
An Historical Series on Audio CD . . .
Classsic Psychoanalytic Talks
Heinz Kohut:
1. Remarks about the Formation of the Self, Part I (1975)
2. Remarks about the Formation of the Self, Part II (1975)
3. Thoughts on Narcissism, Part I (1972)
4. Thoughts on Narcissism, Part II (1972)
5. Anna Freud:
The Ideal Institute
6. Charles Brenner:
Transference and Countertransference (1981)
$25 per CD ($2.50 Shipping and Handling per CD)
$125 for all six ($5 Shipping and Handling per complete set)
6. Complete Set of 6 CDs:
Benveniste, Daniel – The Interwoven Lives of Sigmund, Anna and W. Ernest Freud: Three Generations of Psychoanalysis
Benveniste, Daniel - The Interwoven Lives of Sigmund, Anna and W. Ernest Freud: Three Generations of Psychoanalysis, scheduled to be published in 2010.
Daniel Benveniste, Ph.D. is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist originally from San Francisco, California. His primary psychoanalytic influence was his independent training under Dr. Nathan Adler (a student of Siegfried Bernfeld). Dr. Benveniste’s main interests are the use of metaphor as interpretation, the relationship between libido development and cultural evolution (a theme related to Totem and Taboo) and in psychoanalytic history. In 1999 he moved to Caracas, Venezuela where he practices, teaches and writes.
Ulm Conference on June 4-6, 2009:
Psychoanalytic Process Research Strategies III
The third Ulm conference, “Psychoanalytic Process Research Strategies III,” which was held on June 4, 5, and 6, 2009, was devoted to the evaluation of long-term psychoanalytic/psychodynamic therapies in the times of evidence-based medicine. Long-term treatments are hard to study in the frame of RCTs; patients and therapists are too often not motivated to accept the tight frames of such studies. So how to generate evidence of “what works for whom“ has been a crucial matter in many countries. Does it make sense to maintain the distinction of efficacy and effectiveness for long-term treatments as well? Is it possible to perform a randomized-controlled trial comparing high and low frequency psychoanalytic treatment. Such questions formed the core of the conference and the experiences of European researcher have provided the state of the art on these issues.
The complete set of 7 DVDs of the conference: $59.95 and $15 shipping and handling.
For a detailed description of each disc, click here: (more…)
Brody, Sylvia – Beginning to Grow: Five Studies
Beginning to Grow: Five Studies describes work with five children from infancy to maturity at age 18. The children’s growth is traced with regard in terms of conflict and ego strength.. Children’s drawings are used to illustrate their lines of development by focusing on the drives towards voyeurism and exhibitionism.
$27.50 + shipping/handling.
Shevrin, Howard – The Dream Interpreters: A Psychoanalytic Novel in Verse
Before there was In Treatment, or even Be’Tipul, there was The Dream Interpreters. Howard Shevrin tells an intimate tale through the prism of seven psychoanalyses.
Shevrin says that he has written a novel with psychoanalysis itself as the protagonist, a novel in which the inner pulse of analytic work reveals itself . . . Written in free verse, it reads easily, at times like prose, at times like a well explicated play. This is an enlightening book for all mental health professionals as well as any reader interested in psychological motivation.
Price: $27.96 Publisher: International Universities Press, 2003. ISBN: 0-82361425-5
Szajnberg, Nathan – Unspoken (Words Said After Death)
Unspoken (Words Said After Death) by Nathan Szajnberg scheduled for publication in 2009.
Wilson, Arnold Ph.D. – Expanding the Boundaries of Psychoanalysis
Expanding the Boundaries of Psychoanalysis: Critical Observation, Multiple Perspectives, and Clinical Processes is scheduled for release in 2009.
Bergmann, Martin S. and Bergmann, Michael – What Silent Love Hath Writ
Originally What Silent Love Hath Writ: Martin S. Bergmann and Michael Bergmann
Price: $15 with $5 shipping and handling media mail and $7 regular mail. To be published as an IP Books book later this year.
This book was originally published by Gotschna Ventures Press Pub. Date: March 2008 and is 440 pp.
In this study of Shakespeare’s Sonnets the authors, a psychoanalyst and a director, examine what the speaker (the “I” of the poems) reveals about himself to his readers. By reading many sonnets together the authors build up a picture of this character, one Shakespeare’s most interesting and unusual creations. The reader emerges with a thorough grasp of the major themes of Shakespeare’s sonnets.
The sonnets can be read together as if they are all spoken by one person and afford us a chance to get to know him by understanding what he writes and what he means in his various moods. Shakespeare’s sonnets, anxious in their homosexuality and angry in their heterosexuality comprise a most unusual body of love poems. Awesomely skillful and limitlessly beautiful, they a pleasure to get to know while also being deeply disturbing.
Review from a Reader on SpeedyText.com:
Quite aside from the tacit pleasure of reading Shakespeare’s sonnets, many of which were unknown to me, I found this a well researched and illuminating study on several levels. The authors give us a statistical way of looking at the collected sonnets popularity, a good dose of other shakespeare scholars opinions as compared to their own, a historical placement of the ideas and language of both the sonnets and their more persistent interpretations, and tie it altogether in their unique discussion of the sonnets psychoanalytic implications (mostly freudian based.) The work is both systematic and creative in its approach, and although the reader sometimes has to stumble through some awkward writing and excess repetition and re-explication there are many gems of thought in here to inspire scholars, students, and lovers alike. Worth the read.
Bios of the authors:
Martin S. Bergmann, was clinical professor of psychologist of the New York University post-doctoral program, where he taught the course on the history of psychoanalysis. He was a trainer and supervisor of psychoanalysts at the New York Freudian Society; a member of the International Psychoanalytic Association; recipient of the Sigourny Honorary for Outstanding Contributions to Psychoanalysis (1997); and the recipient of the Distinguished Psychoanalytic Educator Award by the International Federation for Psychoanalytic Education (1998).
Michael Bergmann graduated with a B.A. in Latin from Columbia University in 1975 and studied film concurrently at N.Y.U. Undergraduate Film School and then at the N.Y.U. Graduate School of Film and Television.
In this study of Shakespeare’s Sonnets the authors, a psychoanalyst and a director, examine what the speaker (the “I” of the poems) reveals about himself to his readers. By reading many sonnets together the authors build up a picture of this character, one of Shakespeare’s most interesting and unusual creations. The reader emerges with a thorough grasp of the major themes of Shakespeare’s sonnets.
$15 + shipping/handling.
(Coming soon . . . watch this space for availability)
Be’Tipul (In Treatment), Seasons 1 & 2
The Israeli smash TV Series Be’TIPUL is the original source and basis of the American HBO series In Treatment. Available through a special arrangement with the Israeli writer-producer, these DVD boxed sets feature English subtitles.
Many who have seen both versions have agreed that the acting and quality of the original, starring Assi Dayan, far surpass its American counterpart.
Season 1 (the complete first season)
Nine Discs, 9 weeks: 5 half-hour episodes per disc
(available only in PAL “European” format*)
Season 1 is currently on backorder, awaiting shipment from Israel.
Season 2 (Complete second season + Bonus Material)
Nine Discs include 7 weeks of 5 half-hour episodes discs 1-7, PLUS A bonus disc of deleted scenes, and & A special 40-minute music CD featuring 15 separate tracks from the score by Avi Beleli (available only in NTSC American format*).
Season 2 is currently on backorder, awaiting shipment from Israel.
*Both video formats will play on computers, and on most recent American DVD players. Inexpensive PAL-capable DVD players are available commercially online and in stores; free computer video software can be searched for & downloaded online as needed. English subtitles play automatically on Season 1 discs but are selected from the opening-screen menu for Season 2 DVDs.