Mark Epstein, “The Trauma of Everyday Life” (Penguin Press, 2013)
Being human, much of our energy goes into resisting the basic mess of life, but messy it is nonetheless. The trick (as psychoanalysts know) is to embrace it all anyway. “Trauma is an indivisible part ...
13 Okt 201453min
Thomas Kohut, “A German Generation: An Experiential History of the Twentieth Century” (Yale UP, 2012),
Germans belonging to the generation born at the turn of the twentieth century endured staggering losses, many of which became difficult to mourn or even acknowledge: their parents in World War I, fina...
6 Okt 20141h 6min
John Fletcher, “Freud and the Scene of Trauma” (Fordham UP, 2013)
Putting Freud’s books — not the man but the writings — on the couch, listening closely for the breaks, the retractions, the internal conflicts, the sudden about-faces. John Fletcher, professor of Engl...
29 Sep 20141h 10min
Mari Ruti, “The Call of Character: Living a Life Worth Living” (Columbia UP, 2013)
Exploring everything from the impact of her own psychoanalysis on her mode and mien to the effect of consumer culture on the psyche, the delightful Mari Ruti keeps the ball rolling. We pondered with ...
21 Sep 201454min
Elizabeth Lunbeck, “The Americanization of Narcissism” (Harvard UP, 2014)
Elizabeth Lunbeck has made a major contribution to the historical study of psychoanalysis with the publication of The Americanization of Narcissism (Harvard University Press, 2014). Exploring the conc...
21 Aug 201452min
Claudia Luiz, “Where’s My Sanity? Stories That Help” (CreateSpace, 2013)
Join us for a maximum dopamine experience as Dr. Claudia Luiz discusses the making of her book Where’s My Sanity? Stories That Help, an everyman’s tour de force that’s poised to create a seismic shift...
2 Aug 201451min
Adam Phillips, “Becoming Freud: The Making of a Psychoanalyst” (Yale UP, 2014)
For those who are savvy about all things psychoanalytic, be they analysts, analysands, or fellow travelers, the existence, presence, work, writing, and imprimatur of Adam Phillips is given long, as op...
28 Juli 201454min
Sharon K. Farber, “Hunger for Ecstasy: Trauma, the Brain, and the Influence of the Sixties” (Aronson, 2013)
It may seem silly to ask why we seek ecstasy. We seek it, of course, because it’s ECSTASY. We are evolved to want it. It’s our brain’s way of saying “Do this again and as often as possible.” But there...
20 Maj 20141h
