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.

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

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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)
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.