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ABORIGINAL POPULATIONS IN THE MIND
Columbia University Press 2003; US$ 34.99What part does racial difference play in psychoanalysis? What can be learned when considering this question from a postcolonial perspective? In this subtle and commanding analysis, Celia Brickman explores how the colonialist racial discourse of late-nineteenth-century anthropology found its way into Freud´s work, where it came to play a covert but... more...
Adventures in the Orgasmatron
Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2011; US$ 7.99One of The Economist ?s 2011 Books of the Year A Boston Globe Best Nonfiction Book of 2011 Well before the 1960s, a sexual revolution was under way in America, led by expatriated European thinkers who saw a vast country ripe for liberation. In Adventures in the Orgasmatron , Christopher Turner tells the revolution?s story?an illuminating,... more...
Adventures in the Orgasmatron: Wilhelm Reich and the Invention of Sex
HarperCollins Publishers 2011; Not AvailableThe story of the sexual revolution that brought Freud?s couch to the explosion of the 60s, and the left-field pioneer Wilhelm Reich who made it all happen. more...
After Freud Left
University of Chicago Press 2012; US$ 30.00From August 29 to September 21, 1909, Sigmund Freud visited the United States, where he gave five lectures at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. This volume brings together a stunning gallery of leading historians of psychoanalysis and of American culture to consider the broad history of psychoanalysis in America and to reflect on what... more...
The Age of Insight
Random House Publishing Group 2012; US$ 40.00A brilliant book by Nobel Prize winner Eric R. Kandel, The Age of Insight takes us to Vienna 1900, where leaders in science, medicine, and art began a revolution that changed forever how we think about the human mind?our conscious and unconscious thoughts and emotions?and how mind and brain relate to art. At the turn of the century, Vienna was... more...
The Age of Melancholy: Major Depression and Its Social Origins
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 44.95Depression has become the most frequently diagnosed chronic mental illness, and is a disability encountered almost daily by mental health professionals of all trades. "Major Depression" is a medical disease, which some would argue has reached epidemic proportions in contemporary society, and it affects our bodies and brains just like any other disease.... more...
American Psychiatry After World War II (1944-1994)
American Psychiatric Publishing 2008; US$ 101.00This volume summarizes the significant events and processes of the half-century following World War II. Most of this history is written by clinicians who were central figures in it. more...
American Therapy
Penguin Group US 2008; US$ 16.00From Freud to Zoloft, the first comprehensive history of American psychotherapy Although fifty percent of Americans will undergo some form of psychotherapy in their lifetimes, patients rarely know the origins of the field. Yet the story of psychotherapy in America brims with colorful characters, intriguing experimental treatments, and intense... more...
Amputated Souls
Andrews UK 2012; US$ 11.99Amputated Souls explores the subject of psychiatry and psychiatric practices and the assault upon human rights and human freedom constituted by these practices, tracing the history of lobotomy, ECT and antipsychotic drugs, and their use, from 1935 to the present day. more...
An Anatomy of Thought
Oxford University Press, USA 2003; US$ 18.99Drawing on a dazzling array of disciplines--physiology, neurology, psychology, anthropology, linguistics, and philosophy--Ian Glynn explains virtually every aspect of the workings of the brain, unlocking the mysteries of the mind. Glynn writes with exceptional clarity as he illuminates the mechanics of nerve messages; the functioning of sensory receptors;... more...









