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∩╗┐ wish the title were not about a woman being some man''s wife, daughter, or even, as this is, granddaughter - but it was a different time, and this is how we all saw ourselves. At any rate, the child we see in these poems, trundling along in her grandfather''s laundry cart, is a charmer, and so are the poems that follow her through her growing up. As for the poems, they are strongly in the tradition of what is called "working-class" poetry, usually showing the strength that comes from that early experience and the resilience that enables one to move on through socio-economic hierarchy to a solidly middle or upper middle-class life. It was easier then than it is now.Re-reading the poems, many favorite lines leap out at me again, as if from memory itself. In "Retired" on p. 3, the speaker says to an old man, "all your senses retired before you did. "Post Office" (p.7), "I walk my loneliness, my excuse for a dog ..." This whole short poem one of my most loved in the book. On p.8 we meet Bag Lady, who "birdwings her fingers/over the bags/under her eyes." Wonderful image. The whole poem Sauna on p. 16 gives us a scene that will be familiar to all who have shared such an experience, but the stanza that ends with "how to wait until the rings under her eyes are slipped out onto the finger of death" is brilliant, as are the lines in Dying (p.18): "I made you the man who pulls brilliant tomorrows/ from the leaves ..." And finally, in Tell Me (p. 20): "Got any Halloween-headed kids around?/ I''m ready for a fright."

Loving, beautifully written work. The author helps us understand how she, a child of the Sixties, became the woman she is today. And in a series of luminous and evocative portraits she shows us how patients suffering from a broad range of maladies can be helped to gain insight into themselves and thus lead happier and more fulfilling lives.-Constance Rosenblum, author of Boulevard of Dre ams: Heady Times: Heartbreak, and HopeAlong the Grand Concourse in the Bronx When neither residence on an idyllic Greek island nor all-consuming romance can cure the restlessness of an empty self, Kolsky finds her way to the journey within, and she takes us along for the ride. This undaunted accounting from analysand to analyst is a testament to the enduring power of psychoanalysis to heal, and to the essential humanity we bring to the endeavor, whether on or off the couch.-Ashley Warner, MSW, LCSW, BCD-P, author, The Year After: A Memoir "In this jewel of a narrative of self-discovery, Beverly Kolsky takes us on a probing journey exploring the sweep of the psychoanalytic process in transforming her own life as well as her patients'. Those trying to decide whether psychoanalysis is for them will gain an appreciation ofits power, while those who have benefited from it will be inspired anew. The book is beautifully layered with evocative images of people, places, and moments in time in New York, London, and Greece and the nodal e vents in Kolsky's arc in be coming the pe rson she w as meant to be. -Edward Ross, LCSW, BCD, N .Y. Institute for Psychoanalytic Self Psychology, Faculty and Training Analyst, Lighthouse Guild Inte rnational, Director of Behavioral HealthIn this intimate memoir, Beverly Kolsky takes us through an intriguing journey. The ghosts of her past, her losses and adventures, are unlocked through her own psychoanalysis. Empathic attunement to her patients guides her work as a psychoanalyst. We are enriched by the insights of this sensitive narrative. -Penny Rosen, MSW, LCSW, BCD-P, Past President AAPCSW, Board Member NPAP, NYIPSP,AAPCSWOn And Off The Couch is a beautifully written love letter to psychoanalysis and its power to transform a life. Kolsky gives us an insider's look into her own journey of becoming free and independent as a woman, and as a psychoanalyst. This compelling memoir reveals the author's devotion to her patients, the lucky beneficiaries of her own self exploration. We are fortunate that she found her voice, one worth listening to. -Lisa Sokoloff, MSW, LCSW, PsyA, Supervisor and Instructor IPS Pure Gold! Kolsky offers a profound universal remedy that highlights the vital force of psychoanalysis and brilliantly opens the gateway to the intricate world of inner reality. In today's complex world, On and Off the Couch: Memoir of a Psychoanalyst demonstrates the value of introspection in order to establish the equilibrium necessary to keep one afloat on the river of life. -Nuzhat Nada, Instructor, Human Development/Psychology On and Off the Couch illuminates the complex process of psychoanalysis, its goals, challenges, and benefits, as the author tells of her personal experience on both sides of the process. Using clear and easily understandable language, Kolsky also clarifies the differences between other forms of psychotherapy and counselling. Readers who have been practitioners of psychotherapy, those who have experienced therapy, as well as those who are students in the field of mental health, will find this an interesting, informative and engaging book. -Ginny B. Schwartz, Ph.D., Former Director of Counselling Services, St. Lawrence University

"Raymond Lawrence's remarkable book unearths for us the heretofore unexplored relationship between Anton Boisen, the founder of the pastoral psychotherapy movement, and Harry Stack Sullivan, the founder of modern interpersonal theory. Lawrence shares with us their improbable relationship, their considerable influence had on their professions, and why they have been forgotten. More than just a history, Raymond Lawrence's writing enlivens these men and shares critical insights they had about the human conditions. I loved the blending of the secular worlds of Freud and Sullivan with Boisen's religious and spiritual approach, an all-too-uncommon failing in modern psychodynamic theory."-Dr. F. Barton Evans III, author of Harry Stack Sullivan: Interpersonal Theory and Psychotherapy."This book is firmly grounded in both the practical and the spiritual necessities for recovery and growth. I highly recommend it."-Joanne Greenberg, author of I Never Promised You a Rose Garden"Dr. Raymond Lawrence meticulously depicts the way in which the lives of Dr. Harry Stack Sullivan and Rev. Anton T. Boisen converged as they both deemed psychotherapy as essential in the "cure of souls" in their respective vocations of medicine and religion."-Kimberley A. Turner, Ph.D., M.Div.Harry Stack Sullivan radically upended psychotherapy, not in any way derogatory to its creator, Sigmund Freud, but simply by making what Freud created even more radically humanistic... And the quarter-century collegial relationship between Sullivan and Anton Boisen meant that great numbers of religious leaders would have open access to both Freud and Sullivan by way of Boisen's Clinical Pastoral Training regimens."-Raymond J. Lawrence

Graeme Taylor has written the first full-length psychological study of the Dutch-American abstract painter Willem de Kooning. His particular focus is on the renowned Woman paintings of the early 1950's, among the most emotionally powerful images of the female figure of the 20th century. Utilizing recently available biographical details of the artist's childhood and adolescence, Dr. Taylor brings to bear his deep understanding of the most germane psychoanalytic theories of early infantile trauma, attachment theory, and the repetition compulsion to arrive at a sympathetic comprehension of de Kooning's relationship with his mother, his wife, his daughter, and the succession of lovers he maintained for the duration of his life. Dr. Taylor has a gift for conveying the essence of some highly sophisticated psychoanalytic perspectives, from Freud to Bowlby to Bollas and others, in a marvelously clear style, highlighting their relevance to understanding the unconscious determinants of de Kooning's obsession with the figure of the Woman, as well as the dynamics of his creative process in the making of these iconic images. It is a wonderful achievement and a worthy contribution, both to the literature of modern art and to the psychoanalytic study of the creative personality.-Steven Poser, Ph.D., Psychoanalyst, author, and award-winning painter, New YorkWillem de Kooning's Women: A Psychoanalytic Exploration reaches far beyond the title and takes the reader on a most fascinating journey from the depths of psychoanalytic theory to the aesthetic reality of the artist's mind. The author presents us with a comprehensive analysis of de Kooning's motivations behind his controversial "Woman paintings," utilizing several major psychoanalytic theories and concepts, as well as drawing on the neuroscientific contributions of the role of unconscious artistic creation based on the stored emotions and experiences of a lifetime. This book is a gift and Dr. Taylor's writing will appeal to those versed in critical art theory and/or psychoanalysis as well as anyone who simply garners enjoyment from the visual arts.-Ronald Turco, M.D., Past President, American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry; Past President, American Society of Psychoanalytic Physicians; author of The Architecture of Creativity-Profiles Behind the Mask

Dr. Ernest Kafka (1932-2021), a graduate of Harvard College and Washington University Medical School, was a renowned psychoanalyst. His life both in and outside psychiatry was committed to the close observation of people and the consideration of things both said and unsaid. Dr. Kafka maintained a private practice focusing on adults and adolescents in New York City beginning in 1967. He was also highly respected as a teacher and academic, serving as a Supervisor, Training Analyst and past-President of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute beginning in 1981 and as an Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Cornell University Medical College from 1987 to 2002. With a strong interest in finance, Dr. Kafka served as a Board Member for 32 Dreyfus portfolios and a Trustee of the Dreyfus BASIC U.S. Government Money Market Fund. He was also a talented musician, a professional art photographer and an art collector.Ernest Kafka had a unique talent, well-illustrated in this collection of his papers. He could uphold the classic tenets of psychoanalysis while at the same time looking at them from new and previously undetected angles. Approaching subjects of much interest but rarely studied, his writings helped broaden the reader's perspective by tackling complex subjects in ways that enhance one's curiosity. This creativity can be seen in almost everything in this collection, which therefore makes it not only interesting reading, but also educative, even for those of us who are well-versed in psychoanalytic theory and practice. Kafka's own lifelong search for new discoveries-whether ideas, places, music or even food-had always been accompanied by keeping solidly grounded in well-established principles while never-the-less avoiding the easy roads.-Edward Nersessian, Psychoanalyst, professor of psychiatry at Medical College of the Cornell University, co-founder of the Philoctetes Center, and the founder and current director of the Helix Center for Interdisciplinary Studies.Ernest Kafka was born in Vienna in 1932. His family were members of the Austrian Jewish community. They emigrated to New York through Paris in 1938. A gifted student, he went to public schools, Harvard College, Washington University Medical School and the New York Psychoanalytic institute, where he remained as a Training and Supervising Analyst and senior faculty member until his death in 2021.He had a remarkably wide range of interests and knowledge-science, history, humanities, literature, music, fine arts, and of course psychoanalysis. Ernie enjoyed life people, ideas; he took pleasure fine food, wine, travel and particularly in understanding of the lives of others-his friends, colleagues, students and patients. Ernie was very much a psychoanalyst, but also more than that, aware of the importance of issues at the boundaries of the traditional psychoanalytic focus: the way the brain works, culture and society. He dedicated this collection of papers to Heinz Hartmann, and like Hartmann recognized that the analyst must not only be interested in the analysand's subjective world but also in the external reality within which that world exists. Tragically, we will no longer have the joy of personal dialogue with Ernie. This volume is the best possible substitute, and an important contribution to the psychoanalytic library.-Robert Michels, M.D. Walsh McDermott University Professor of Medicine and Psychiatry Cornell University, Former Joint Editor-in-Chief. The International Journal of Psychoanalysis Chair, Board of Directors The Psychoanalytic Quarterly.

The ADOLESCENT CASEBOOK takes us on a journey from puberty to adulthood, with 58 child therapists and psychoanalysts from around the world contributing clinical case vignettes and commentaries. Edited by Jack Novick and Kerry Kelly Novick, who have contributed an introduction, editorial reflections on each chapter, and a summary collation of the findings of the book, this volume demonstrates that many colleagues everywhere are effectively and creatively working with adolescents and emerging adults. It delivers a state-of-the-art understanding of how the phase of adolescence is conceptualized, who is being treated how, and what techniques are effective in helping young people traverse an admittedly challenging terrain to achieve adulthood. This is not only a unique compendium, valuable to clinicians in terms of technique and theory - it also offers fascinating and accessible material for teaching at all levels of clinical experience. Readers from different disciplines will find it engaging and useful.

Mosesson's second book, Fibrinogen Memoirs 2: The Rise and Fall of the Fibrin Crosslinking Controversy, concerns a longstanding controversy over the structural basis for the elasticity of cross-linked fibrin clots.

Lore Reich Rubin, MD, has written a fascinating case history of a little girl, the daughter of psychoanalytic luminaries, who grew up to become a psychoanalyst herself. If that weren''t enough, the little girl described is also the author of this case history. If you read it as a book about her well-known parents, Annie Reich and Wilhelm Reich, you''ll not be disappointed, but in truth this is a book about another Reich, their daughter Lore. Memories of a Chaotic World: Growing up as the Daughter of Annie Reich and Wilhelm Reich is an extraordinary accomplishment, a psychoanalytically sophisticated self-analysis. We learn of Reich Rubin''s love for her mother, her fascination with her father, and her disappointments with both. The ambivalence is held and elaborated in all directions. Reich Rubin demonstrates how theoretical issues, clinical technique, and institutional power dynamics are sometimes more clearly revealed in the ∩¼ürst-person narratives of psychoanalytic history than in the o∩¼âcial or party-line books and journal articles dedicated to these topics. Living a thoroughly psychoanalytic life, she has contextualized theory and technique in personal, social, political, and economic contexts. She navigates the exciting years in Vienna, the rise of Nazism, the emigrations, the hardships, the changing directions of psychoanalysis, and the changing trends in European and North American left-wing politics. Emigration is a planned psychological trauma, and Reich Rubin captures the developmental turmoil of a pubescent girl on the run from Hitler and the coming war who then arrives in a new land with a changing body, a new language to learn and a mother from the old country who is trying to adapt. She then launches a career in psychoanalysis, studying with the ├⌐migr├⌐ analysts in New York City who were not only giants in the ∩¼üeld but also family friends since her childhood. This is an extraordinary book. It is autobiography. It is analysis. It is history.