International Psychoanalytic Books

CITY WITHIN A CITY
        by Basia Temkin-Berman

  “I would like to describe this state within a state, or rather city within a city, this most underground of all underground communities, whose members met with each other, worked and talked in the midst of a population which didn’t suspect anything; where every street, every coffee shop, every tram stop called to mind dozens of unique adventures. Every name was false, every word that was uttered carried a double meaning, and every telephone conversation was more encrypted than the secret diplomatic documents of embassies.”

 This diary was written in Polish when Basia (Batya), and her husband Dr. Adolf-Abraham Berman, lived on the Aryan side of Warsaw—the part designated by the Nazis for Polish Christians only—and led a secret network helping thousands of Jews to hide and survive.

Cosponsored by the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research.

Dedicated to the memory of Leon Kupferstein, MD, a prominent psychoanalyst who passed away five years ago.

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From the introduction by Israel Guttman:
“After a break which lasted several years I have begun writing again” — Thus opens the diary of Basia Berman. It ends with the following words:  ”I cannot write anymore, the candle is going out. Once again sounds of the front come from the direction of the Vistula.”
                                                                                                                           —Basia Berman

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 Coming Soon!  The Collected Papers of Arlene Kramer Richards

Psychoanalytic Theory, Technique

As co-translator with Nick Ray and John Fletcher and as co-publisher with Arnie Richards, I am proud that Laplanche’s ‘Freud and the Sexual’ is now available on line at ucsintranslation.com. (If there are any problems with the site, let me know.)

*Freud and the Sexual* is the translation of Laplanche*s most recent volume * *Sexual: La sexualite elargie au sens freudien* * his work from 2000 to 2006.

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Greed was central to the recent American financial debacle. The debacle destroyed many trillions of dollars of wealth across the globe and vastly diminished the status of the United States as a  model for economic life. Yet our understanding of greed and how it operates has remained primitive. Greed is, however, a desire; a desire for wealth and the trappings of wealth.  Now, psychoanalysis has come to the rescue. Desires are what psycho-analysis is all about. In this fascinating collection of papers, we get insights and explanations not only of the phenomenon but of many of those at the heart of the debacle who appear to have been driven by greed.

Marvin Zonis, Professor Emeritus, Booth School of Business, The University of Chicago, Co-author of Risk Rules: How Local Politics Threaten the Global Economy

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Case Studies, Psychoanalytic Theory

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Created in Our Own Images.com — Both the book and the website (www.createdinourownimages.com), revives W.S. Gilbert’s play Pygmalion and Galatea (1876), one of many adaptations of  Ovid’s  1st-century A.D. myth.  In this version Pygmalion has made  numerous copies of his wife, Cynisca. One of them, Galatea, comes to life and falls in love with her creator.
                                                      
Homo replicans
The play thus evokes cloning at the start of the 21st century, the roles of men and women in 19th-century Victorian England and the discovery of  psychoanalysis in the 20th. Pygmalion, Cynisca and Galatea find themselves in an oedipal entanglement that must be resolved by the play’s end. The myth also evokes the eternal quest to create art.

Fred Sander has invited a number of writers for this interdisciplinary  examination of this multi-leveled play. History, literature, the visual arts, sciences, psychology, and ethics are all discussed. It is a liberal arts education between two covers.

About this book Norman Holland wrote:

This is an ingenious book. The authors have brought back to life W.S.   Gilbert’s forgotten comedy of 1876, Pygmalion and Galatea, to bring out the way human cloning mimics the arts. Pygmalion  clones his wife with farcical results. This drama tells of copying and is copying, for indeed all art  is some kind of representation. But what happens to our biology in the age of cloning? Will we someday compose our offspring as artists compose their work? Will we order up geniuses,  marathoners, or movie stars? What will my clone mean to me psychologically? The different writers in this book look at art and cloning from both scientific and aesthetic points of view with exciting results that any reader will find fascinating.

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1) Jackie O: On the Couch (2011)
2) Margaret Mahler, a Biography of the Psychoanalyst (2008)
3) Old Age is a Terminal Illness (2006)
4) Camille Claudel, a Novel (2005)
5) Tales of Psychology: Short Stories to Make You Wise (2002)
6) Children’s book, The Tree That Could Fly. (2002)
7) Who Killed Virginia Woolf? a Psychobiography (2000)
8 ) I Married Dr. Jekyll and Woke Up Mrs. Hyde (2000)
9) The Autobiography of Maria Callas, a Novel, (1998)
10) On Becoming a Grandparent (1994)
11) Is There Life After Analysis? (1993)
12) America’s First Woman Warrior: The Story of Deborah Sampson with Lucy Freeman (1992)
13) Dream Portrait with Arlene K. Richards and Daisy Franco (1992)
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Now Available from IPBooks!  
Price: $27.95
Reluctant Warriors explores the lives of elite Israeli citizen-soldiers in action.  They speak of their inner lives, how they became such a select group of fighters, what it is like to face an enemy, including the ambivalence, hesitance, as well as certitude about protecting their families, most of whom live within kilometers of the battlefield that is Israel.  All these men chose to leave active military service, but continued as officers in the reserves. The author, a psychoanalyst, interviewed these soldiers over the years of the Second Intifada and Lebanese War. Each one had some family member or friend killed.  They speak and want to be heard.  The real action for these men is their inner reactions: fears and hopes and memories that will not rest.


A searing account of the pre-army lives and army experiences of . . . mostly kibbutz-raised Israeli soldiers, recounted with a tender love and a disciplined discernment that brings the reader to a distinctive combination of passionate identifications and objective understandings of the unique transformations from adolescence into a matured adulthood that marks the Israeli . . . experience.

– Robert S. Wallerstein, M.D.
Emeritus Professor, UCSF and former Chair of Psychiatry, UCSF.
Former President of the International Psychoanalytic Association.

Case Studies

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Arlene Kramer Richards writes poetry when confronted with the most difficult aspects of life, for example, about the Holocaust, the tortures conducted in the stadium of Santiago, Chile, and about her mother’s death. She helps us reach areas of our humanity we were, perhaps, afraid to fully acknowledge and feel – Nancy Goodman.

Price: $15.95

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Coming soon from IPBooks! Minding the Social Brain: A Real World Text for Social Neuroscience by Jay Harris.

 The impulse to tell one’s story doesn’t die easily; it is baked into the brain’s cake by evolution. But storytellers we rely on for prioritizing our collective survival policies may be fortune-tellers who hold our social globe in itchy palms. Commercial media tell stories for gain, and then poll us on the same questions of political, social, and economic policy. Using social neuroscience findings, this book aims for more reliable perspectives on the world we share. Minding the Social Brain shows origins of social institutions in brain structure. The text tells its story in two ways: scientifically explaining how the brain transforms its process into socialized mind; and why we mind (obey) social power. Thus, it explores why we reflect on experience and narrate our story to others as fact and myth.     (more…)

Case Studies

MARGARET MAHLER: A BIOGRAPHY OF THE PSYCHOANALYST
By Dr. Alma Halbert Bond
McFarland Publishers ISBN: 978-0-7864-3355-1

Forced to flee anti–Semitism, Margaret Mahler and her husband Paul came to the United States in 1938. Here Mahler performed her most significant research and developed concepts such as her ground-breaking theory of separation-individuation. This volume depicts Mahler’s life and work, her psychoanalytic contributions and ambivalent relationships with her colleagues.

Available at www.Mcfarlandpub.com, Amazon.com, BN.com,  http://alma_bond.tripod.com or in any bookstore. $45

Case Studies

The Jewish World of Sigmund Freud, edited by Arnold Richards, is now available here. The Jewish World of Sigmund Freud is published by McFarland Press.

Though Freud is one of the towering figures of the twentieth century, too little attention has been paid to the influence of his Jewish identity upon his life and work, particularly the impact of growing up a Jew in turn-of-the-century Vienna. The 16 essays in this volume explore the particular imbeddedness of Freud and his followers in the cultural matrix of Jewish Central and Eastern Europe. Topics covered include general, sociological, historical, and cultural issues and then turn to the personal: Freud’s education, his Jewish identity, and his thoughts about Judaism. Though a secular and ambivalent Jew, Freud’s emphasis on intellectualism and morality reveal the deep and abiding influence of European Jewish tradition upon his work.

Arnold D. Richards is a practicing psychoanalyst, the former chairman of the Board of the YIVO Institute of Jewish Research, and the former editor of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association.

Psychoanalytic Theory

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)

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$125 for all six ($5 Shipping and Handling per complete set)

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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. 

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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.

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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

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Unspoken (Words Said After Death) by Nathan Szajnberg scheduled for publication in 2009.

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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.

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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 is on backorder and available currently. Please contact Psypsa@aol.com if you wish to order Season 1.

Season 1 (the complete first season)
9 Discs, 9 weeks: 5 half-hour episodes per disc (available only in PAL “European” format*).

 
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*).

*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.

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