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.

Click Here to Order: Freud and the Sexual by Jean Laplanche

Clear and direct, often witty, this volume is a pleasure to read and
represents the culmination of his work. It includes his most famous recent work such as *Drive and Instinct*, *Gender, Sex and the *Sexual**, *Sexuality and Attachment*, and *Sexual Crime*. Although these important contributions are widely known not only in French but also in German, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese, they are virtually unknown in the Anglophone universe even among those who admire Laplanche.

The Table of Contents

1. Drive and Instinct: distinctions, oppositions, supports and
intertwinings
2. Sexuality and Attachment in Metapsychology
3. Dream and Communication: should chapter VII be rewritten?
4. Countercurrent
5. Starting from the Fundamental Anthropological Situation
6. Failures of Translation
7. Displacement and Condensation in Freud
8. Sexual Crime
9. Three Meanings of the Term *Unconscious* in the Framework of the
General Theory of Seduction
10. For Psychoanalysis at the University
11. Intervention in a Debate
12. Levels of Proof
13. The Three Essays and the Theory of Seduction
14. Freud and Philosophy
15. In Debate with Freud
16. Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy
17. Incest and Infantile Sexuality
18. Castration and Oedipus as Codes and Narrative Schemas

Jonathan House, M.D.

Cosponsored by the YIVO Institute for Jewish Researched.

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

From the introduction by Israel Guttman to City Within a City By Basia Berman:

“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

The 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.

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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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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.

Jackie O: On the Couch (2011)

Not just another biography, Jackie O: On the Couch highlights, for the first time, Jackie’s life from her own perspective, as imagined by author Dr. Alma Bond, a psychoanalyst and long-time student of Jackie lore.

Jackie O: On the Couch is a unique exploration of the life, loves, and thoughts of a great historical figure. Jackie Kennedy Onassis deeply prized her privacy and, as a result, she was both revered and mysterious. In this book, much of the mystery is shed as Jackie finally emerges as a fully fleshed-out, three-dimensional person―a true human being, with enormous strengths and shortcomings, who all of us can now understand and appreciate, perhaps for the first time

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Margaret Mahler, a Biography of the Psychoanalyst (2008). Soft cover $45.00
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.

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Old Age is a Terminal Illness,” (2006). $15 for Soft Cover
Dr. Alma Bond provides insight into one of the greatest challenges of life: conquering the fear of death. Using her own experiences with the deaths of loved ones, Dr. Bond constructed a “Death Journal” in a style similar to Sigmund Freud’s “Interpretation of Dreams” in order to overcome her fear of death. As a published author, Dr. Bond’s goal is to pass her experiences on to all those who need to conquer the same fear in order to live the rest of their lives to the fullest.

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Camille Claudel, a Novel, (2005). Soft cover $15
Camille Claudel, an old lady confined to the Asylum for the Insane in Montdevergues, France, reviews her life. She says, “I hope my memoir will illustrate the heights of passion Rodin and I reached, and unravel the mystery of why they were transformed into vinegar and ashes.” The tragedy is not only hers, she adds, but that of many female artists who found it impossible to achieve the success of men artists of lesser ability. The book illuminates her childhood and the rise of her career in the setting of her ecstatic life with Rodin. Their ten years of bliss are followed by the disintegration of her love for him, and its evolution into hatred and psychosis. The last third of the book describes the horrors of Claudel’s life in the asylum, ending with the highly original manner in which she comes to terms psychologically with Rodin and the other important figures in her life.

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Tales of Psychology: Short Stories to Make You Wise (2002). Hard cover $26.95

Tales of Psychology consists of nineteen short stories selected for their insight into human nature and their merit as fine works of literature. Each story is followed by a discussion of the psychological principles revealed. Reading this book will be a unique opportunity for lay readers and professional psychologists and writers alike to deepen their knowledge of human psychology. The book is recommended for students of human nature enrolled in psychological programs as well as the self-taught. Tales of Psychology demonstrates that artists can learn the psychological understructure of their characters from the insight of an experienced psychologist. Similarly, the stories establish that lay people can absorb the teachings of these master writers in a captivating, painless manner. It is entirely possible that in some cases, reading a particular story can change the life of a reader, reveal the depths of his or her own psyche or that of a loved one, demonstrate what is pathological and requires medical assistance, or reassure the individual of what is normal behavior. No one who reads these stories in depth will ever be the same again. Readers will have a better understanding of human motivation and behavior. Readers who absorb the contents of this book will have a better understanding of character motivation and behavior. As a result, they will be able to understand individuals better and to adapt more easily to people in their lives. In many cases they will understand themselves better, and, as a result, be able to lead less conflicted lives. The conclusions reached in the stories bear out the findings of insightful psychology in a manner interesting to all.

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Children's book, "The Tree That Could Fly (2002). Soft cover $15.00
"The Tree That Could Fly" is a charming fairy tale of the old school, elegantly illustrated with paintings of classical style. The book has captivated the author's children, grandchildren, and young friends for many generations.
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Who Killed Virginia Woolf? a Psychobiography, (2000). Hard and soft covers $21.95 $16.95

Who Killed Virginia Woolf? reads like a theatrical plot with all the potential assailants clearly etched in the reader’s mind…. Virginia Woolf..avoided psychoanalysis. Alma Bond did it for her. The in depth psychoanalytic understanding of self destruction adds a new dimension to the professional’s therapeutic armamentarium of manic-depressive disorders. This outstanding book belongs on our therapy bookshelf. – from Scientific American

Alma Bond’s intriguing and cogent new book..employs psychoanalytic methods to examine the sources of Woolf’s genius as well as the pathology that led to her breakdowns and suicide. Treating Woolf’s prolific novels, letter, and diaries as the stream-of-consciousness disclosures of a psychoanalytic patient, Bond traces her childhood development, the formation of her manic-depressive traits, and the dynamics of her most significant relationships.These methods uncover many hidden causes for Woolf’s death and yield fascinating insights into her chaotic and brilliant personality
From The New Yorker.

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I Married Dr. Jekyll and Woke Up Mrs. Hyde, Soft cover (2000). $22.95
Why is one marriage out of two today doomed to end in divorce? My interviews with 71 divorced women searched for answers. Did they love their husbands when they married? Did they believe at the time that it was ’till death do us part’? Were there other lovers in the lives of the couple at the time of the divorce? Is there any connection between an unhappy childhood and a failed marriage? Do women tend to lose their identities in marriage?To my surprise, I saw the majority of interviews take on a similar shape, which revealed who the women were and how the divorces fit into the pattern of their lives.In my years of practice as a psychoanalyst, I saw how badly people need others with whom to identify. With this collection, divorcees can see their own fears, despair, grief, hopes, and aspirations reflected in the lives of women passing through similar experiences. I hope the fact that all the subjects came away from their divorces with greater strength, insight, and self-esteem will serve as an inspiration to all survivors of loss and pain. As Queen Isabella said in Henry V, “Happily, a woman’s voice may do some good.”

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The Autobiography of Maria Callas, a Novel, (1998). Hard cover $27.95.Soft cover $17.95

Alma Halbert Bond is a retired Freudian psychoanalyst whose love of opera and the fabled soprano Maria Callas led her to write this partly fictionalized psycho-autobiography, in the form of a novel. This is an ambitious psychological look at Callas’s life, and Bond’s claim to authority is in the analytical end, not the historian’s craft, but she has done her homework.
Some intense Callas fans have taken Bond fiercely to task for even daring to write a book dealing with their goddess’s motivations and feelings. No one can know what goes on in the mind of another, and this sort of psychological analysis–which does not benefit from any first-hand consultation with its subject–can only be educated guesswork at best. Still, many of Bond’s educated guesses make sense and help to fill in the puzzle that was Maria Callas. If the first-person narrative sometimes fails to work as planned, Bond’s love of her subject shines through, and fans of the great diva should give this book a try. –Sarah Bryan Miller

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On Becoming a Grandparent, (1994). Hard cover $19.95
From Publishers Weekly
The birth of a child can affect its family “as a baleful disease,” asserts Freudian psychoanalyst Bond ( Who Killed Virginia Woolf ), a mother and a grandmother. Here she writes in a diary format to confide last night’s dreams and today’s worries–that she will “lose” her daughter after the baby’s birth; that she fears competition from the child’s other, richer grandparents. Having closely followed (and described) the growth of her daughter Janet’s embryo, and fantasized about her first grandchild-to-be, Bond then realizes she’ll have to “mourn” before she will be able to love the real child, and dolefully reflects that the child–Rachel Alana–”brings her that much closer to death.” It’s refreshing to listen in on such candidly inparted mixed feelings.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Is There Life After Analysis? (1993). Soft cover $3.97
From Library Journal
Drawing upon her 40 years’ experience as both analyst and analysand, Bond attempts to answer questions like: When will therapy be finished? How is the relationship between individual and therapist terminated? What happens after therapy? She looks closely at the bonds that develop between therapist and client, how both participants can recognize that the therapeutic relationship should terminate, and how the analysand adapts to life after therapy. Also discussed are the reasons why some find it necessary to return to therapy. A final section illustrates how many analysands have learned to live without therapy. Anyone considering psychotherapy, those currently in treatment, and former patients will find this book of interest. For large psychology collections. – Jodith Janes, Cleveland Clinic Fdn.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc

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America’s First Woman Warrior: The Story of Deborah Sampson (with Lucy Freeman)
(1992)
Hard cover $25.59
From Publishers Weekly
In 1782 a 22-year-old Massachusetts farm girl disguised to avoid repetition, “distinguished herself” follows/good fix.gs as a 17-year-old boy if she’s a girl at 22, then a she’s a boy at 17 distinguished herself for bravery as a ranger and general’s aide-de-camp for the next 18 months in the Continental Army. In their well-researched, novelistic biography, Freeman ( Fight Against Fear ) and psychoanalyst Bond ( Who Killed Virginia Woolf? ) recreate dialogue and describe their heroine’s emotions as they theorize about her mixed patriotic and psychological motivations, discussing also recurring nightmares. Despite constant fear of discovery, Deborah Sampson, known as Robert Shurtliff, was an excellent soldier can you rephrase? the sexist language of marksman is particular awkward here; “was an excellent soldier”? and successfully adjusted to the war’s primitive conditions, training and battles. The discovery of her ruse by a doctor treating her for fever near war’s end brought praise from the military and the first congressional award of a war pension to a woman. Sampson later married and gave lectures about her experiences. Her story provides valuable insights into Revolutionary War history. Illustrations not seen by PW.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Dream Portrait (with Arlene K. Richards and Daisy Franco) Hard Cover $26.95
(1992).
‘From The New Yorker:
This intriguing book presents 19 sequential dreams of one of the author’s clients. These dreams are interpreted and analyzed in terms of improved ego functioning, superego modification, movement in transference, and improved object relations. The authors postulate that readiness for termination begins in dream three, and they illuminate features of subsequent dreams that validate this conclusion. …the volume is focused directly on the client, his dreams, the analysis of the dreams, and the indicators of pretermination they contain.

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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.

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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.

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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.         

            Our exchanges incrementally add to the historical saga of social construction. Each brain’s social world develops to encompass both the inherited legacy of survival threats and the ongoing challenges of losing loved ones. Trauma imposed by others induces loss of self. Even seemingly halcyon lives present passages in maturation that makes survival all too stressful.  Narrating our life experience to one another adds personal myth to the social myths of our ‘real world’. With this perspective, Minding the Social Brain aims to clarify and reframe the interaction between social values and the conduct of psychotherapy. In their communication, therapist and patient both have to contend with an identity mélange that provides the setting for contemporary social life.

Reconciling a Freudian frame with social neuroscience findings, I challenge the prevailing belief that the frame is mere metaphor, not a model of the brain’s structure.  Like early Homo sapiens peering into the sky for survival clues, we need a root metaphor and reliable perspective to understand our relation to the cosmos. Social neuroscientists have opened luminous portals into our brain’s social structure that reveal constellations–distributed networks that bring self and other into focus in their indwelling social domain. Matching brain networks with psychological functions, researchers seek a world view that reconciles our social brains’ evolution with the contemporary social world.

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

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.

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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 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.

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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 Videos from the Ulm Conference:  Psychoanalytic Process Research Strategies III—June 4–6, 2009 (Complete Sets)

DVD 1: Welcome addess from the host Prof. H. Kaechele also reading the welcome  address from the German Medical Association; from the president of  German Society for Psychotherapy, Psychoanalysis, Psychosomatics and  Depth-Psychology Dr. K. Muench. G. Roth (Bremen): Do we need biological measures for evaluating long-term treatments. A. Buchheim (Innsbruck), S. Taubner (Kassel), D. Wiswede (Ulm) & H. Kaechele (Ulm): Neural correlates of attachment patterns in depressed patients: First findings of the HANSE-Neuro-Psychoanalysis Study. J. Lehtonen (Helsinki): Molecular findings on serotonin transporter levels in relation to one-year psychodynamic psychotherapy of drug-naive patients with depression using the SPET brain imaging method.

DVD 2: Welcome address from Prof. R. Richter (president of the German Chamber for Psychological Psychotherapists) and from G. Schlessinger-Kipp (vice-president of the German Psychoanalytic Association). P. Fonagy (London): Mentalisation as common factor in the pschotherapeutic process. F. Leichsenring (Giessen) &
S. Rabung (Hamburg): The effectiveness of long-term psychodynamic psychotherapy.

DVD 3:  T. Grande, W.Keller, Th. Jakobsen & G. Rudolf (Heidelberg-Berlin): Precnditions and effects of structural change in the Heidelberg-Berlin study of psychoanalytic long-term psychotherapy. R. Sandell (Stockholm): An individual difference perspective on treatment outcome.

DVD 4:  P. Luyten (Louvain): Different folks need different strokes: An interpersonal-psychodynamic approach to the treatment of patients with personality disorders.
B. Strauss (Jena):Do interpersonal and attachment characteristics tell us something about desirable treatment length?

DVD 5:  Th. Jakobsen (Basel): What happens when the symptoms don’t change?
C. Berghout (Amsterdam): A study of the effects of long-term psychoanalytic
 psychotherapy/psychoanalysis.

DVD 6:  M. Leuzinger-Bohleber and colleagues (Frankfurt): Psychoanalytic and cognitive-behavioral treatments: First data on the LARC depression study. I. Harpaz-Rotem (New Haven): Pathway to therapeutc change: change in self-representation in long-term pschodynamic treatment of adolescents and young adults.

DVD 7:  R. Krause (Saarbruecken): The German system for the evaluation of public payment of psychotherapeutic treatments. R. Richter (Berlin): Psycho-politics- comments from the president of the German Chamber of Psychological Psychotherapists H. Kaechele (Ulm): Recommendations for future psychoanalytic treatment research.

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Freud reminded us that theory was good but did not prevent reality from happening.  Sylvia Brody once more advances analytic understanding by maintaining relentless discipline in studying lives as they actually unfold.  This new rich and readable account of several lives studied across decades exposes and explores essential aspects of mental functioning now too often neglected.–‑Warren S. Poland, M.D.

With clarity, and drawing on observational evidence, Brody brings mother‑infant interaction and its impact on subsequent development to the center stage of psychoanalytic theory.–‑Peter Blos, Jr., M.D.

This is a book not to be missed by anyone who works with children.  It provides an incisive history of infancy research and a longitudinal study of development from birth to age 18.–‑Arlene Kramer Richards, Ed.D.

Almost all of the action is confined to the consulting room. Almost all of the characters interact directly with only one other, patient or analyst, in a succession of psychoanalytic hours. The backdrop is a Tennessee psychiatric institution in the 1960s. A new research director is being sought, which sets off a power struggle, revealing the participants’ inner anguish and complex motivations. Shevrin believes that, like ancient Greek theater, psychoanalytic work intensifies human drama and reveals the essences of human character and experience, the inner pulse, the rising and falling tides of psychoanalysis.

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 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 are a pleasure to get to know while also being deeply disturbing.

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.—review from a Reader on SpeedyText.com

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.

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)
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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