Jennifer Kunst, “Wisdom From the Couch: Knowing and Growing Yourself from the Inside Out” (Central Recovery Press, 2014)
What happens when a Kleinian psychoanalyst wants to write an intelligent self-help book for the general reader? First, she recognizes that one must have an online platform from which to launch, so she...
13 Dec 201452min
Bruce Fink, “Against Understanding. Volume 1: Commentary and Critique in a Lacanian Key” (Routledge, 2014)
What can possibly be wrong with the process of understanding in psychoanalytic treatment? Everything, according to Bruce Fink. In Against Understanding. Volume 1: Commentary and Critique in a Lacanian...
17 Nov 20141h 2min
Sophia Richman, “Mended By the Muse: Creative Transformations of Trauma” (Routledge, 2014)
In a wide ranging and courageous interview that touched on the creative process, personal history, memoir and self-disclosure, the psychoanalyst and writer Sophia Richman explored the connections betw...
21 Okt 201452min
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
