New Books in the CPC Library - Fall 2016

Alvarez , Ann. The Thinking Heart: Three Levels Of Psychoanalytic Therapy With Disturbed Children. Routledge, 2012. RJ504.A48 2012Publisher’s Description:The Thinking Heart is a natural sequel to Live Company, Anne Alvarez' highly influential and now classic book about working with severely disturbed and damaged children. Building on 50 years experience as a child and adolescent psychotherapist, Alvarez uses detailed and vivid clinical examples of different interactions between therapist and client, and explores the reasons why one type of therapeutic understanding can work rather than another. She also addresses what happens when the therapist gets it wrong.Aron, Lewis. A psychotherapy for the people: toward a progressive psychoanalysis. Routledge, 2013. RC501.2.A76 2013"Can psychoanalysis achieve the universality to which it lays claim? Only by giving it up, goes the dialectical argument of A Psychotherapy for the People: Toward a Progressive Psychoanalysis. Aron and Starr return psychoanalysis to its proper place on the cultural edge. They unveil the binaries – and behind them the hierarchies - that both power and weaken psychoanalysis. This anti-authoritarian book gives us good reason to hope that, by embracing its native complexity, psychoanalysis can realize its capacity to help, illuminate, and heal. Toward a heterodox psychoanalysis!" - Muriel Dimen Ph.D.Damour, Lisa. Untangled: guiding teenage girls through the seven transitions into adulthood. HQ798.D26 2016The author, a CPC member, is director of Laurel School’s Center for Research on Girls. The seven transitions are based on the work of Anna Freud.Gentile, Jill. Feminine Law: Freud, Free Speech, and the Voice of Desire. Karnac Books, 2016. BF175.4 P65 2016‘Creatively bringing together the Founding Fathers and the father of psychoanalysis, Jill Gentile begins with the foundational ideas of free speech in democracy and free association on the couch, opening up a fascinating unexplored space that illuminates the magic of language and the paradoxes, limits, and complexities at the heart of desire. This is an erudite, bravura performance that makes good on a long deferred hope that psychoanalysis can bring deeper understanding to our political confusions.'-- George Makari, MD, author of Soul Machine: The Invention of the Modern Mind and Revolution in Mind:Gherovici, Patricia. Please Select Your Gender: From the Invention of Hysteria to the Democratizing of Transgenderism. HQ77.9.G43 2010From the Publisher’s Description:Utilizing rich clinical vignettes and elements of Lacanian theory, Patricia Gherovici demonstrates how the transgender discourse has both reoriented psychoanalytic practice and reframed debates about gender in American society at large. She traverses historical, theoretical, and clinical grounds to explore what has been termed the "democratizing of gender.”Lesaux, Nonie K. Leading Edge of Early Childhood Education: Linking Science to Policy for a New Generation. Harvard Education Press, 2016. LB1139.25 .L433 2016This book advocates for improving the quality of early childhood education and brings together relevant insights from emerging research to provide guidance for this critical, fledgling field. Reflecting the growing recognition that early childhood experiences have a powerful effect on children’s later academic achievement and long-term life outcomes, this book promises to be a valuable resource for those charged with enacting the next level of work in this critical area.Schechter, Kate. Illusions of a Future: Psychoanalysis and the Biopolitics of Desire. Duke University Press 2014. BF173.S3279 2014“Schechter’s brilliant study combines ethnography and intellectual history to explore how psychoanalysis is practiced today…. Schechter poignantly illustrates arguments about precarity pioneered by scholars such as Judith Butler and Lauren Berlant.  This book is required reading for humanists, social scientists, social workers, and therapists…..” (D. Stuber Choice)Schwartz, Casey. In The Mind Fields: Exploring the New Science of Neuropsychoanalysis New York: Pantheon Books RC341.S336 2015Publisher’s Description:Casey Schwartz spent one year immersed in psychoanalytic theory at the Anna Freud Centre, and the next year studying the brain among Yale’s cutting-edge neuroscientists. She came away with a clear picture of the distance between the two fields: while neuroscience is lacking in attention to lived experience, psychoanalysis is often too ephemeral and subjective. Armed with this awareness, Schwartz set out to study the main pioneers in the emerging and controversial field of neuropsychoanalysis. With passion and humor, she makes a trenchant argument for a hybrid scientific culture that will allow the two approaches to thrive together.Tutter, Adele. The Muse: Psychoanalytic Explorations of Creative Inspiration. Routledge, 2017. NX180.P7 M87 2017Publisher’s Description: Psychoanalysts have long been fascinated with creative artists, but have paid far less attention to the men and women who motivate, stimulate, and captivate them. The Muse counters this trend with nine original contributions from distinguished psychoanalysts, art historians, and literary scholars―one for each of the nine muses of classical mythology―that explore the muses of disparate artists, from Nicholas Poussin to Alison Bechdel.    The following titles were acquired from donations. Gherovici, Patricia and Manya Steinkoler, eds. Lacan on Madness: Madness, Yes You Can’t. Routledge, 2015. BF109.L28 L3176 2015.Publisher’s Description:Patricia Gherovici and Manya Steinkoler suggest new ways of working with phenomena often considered impermeable to clinical intervention or discarded as meaningless. This book offers a fresh view on a wide variety of manifestations and presentations of madness, featuring clinical case studies, new theoretical developments in psychosis, and critical appraisal of artistic expressions of insanity.Gherovici, Patricia. The Puerto Rican Syndrome. Other Press, NY, 2003. RC451.5.P84 G48 2003Winner of the Gradiva Award in historical, cultural, and literary analysis.Publishers Description:“In this lucid and sophisticated new work, Patricia Gherovici thoroughly examines the so-called Puerto Rican Syndrome in the contemporary world, its social and cultural implications for the growing Hispanic population in the U.S. and, therefore for the U.S. as a whole. As a mental illness that is, allegedly, uniquely Puerto Rican, this syndrome links nationality and culture to a psychiatric disease whose reappearance recall the spectacular hysteria that led to the discovery of the unconscious and the birth of psychoanalysis, Gherovici beautifully and systematically uses the combined insights of Freud and Lacan to examine the current state of psychoanalysis and the Hispanic community in America. Blending these insights with history, current events, and her own case material, Gherovici provides a startling, fresh look at the Puerto Rican Syndrome as a social and cultural phenomenon. She sheds new light on the future of American society and argues that psychoanalysis in not only possible, but much needed, in the ghetto.”Marton, Elizabeth. Ich hiess Sabina Spielrein My name was Sabina Spielrein. DVD, 90 min. Chicago, Facets Video, 2006, c2002. Media BF173.M37 2006Based on a find of letters and diaries that revealed a love affair between Carl Jung and his patient, Sabina Spielrein. In German with English subtitles.Sarnat, Joan E. Supervision essentials for psychodynamic psychotherapies. American Psychological Association, 2016. RC502.S27 2016This book was donated by our member Shari Nacson, who is mentioned in the acknowledgements.