Books written by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

  • A Dark Science: Women, Sexuality and Psychiatry in the Nineteenth Century

    Shock Treatment Is Not Good for Your Brain. San Francisco: Glide, 1976. Friedman, M. “Ueber Nervositat und Psychosen im ... Hartman, Mary S. Victorian Murderesses. New York: Schocken, 1977. Hegar, Alfred. Die Castration der Frauen: Vom ...

  • The Complete Letters of Sigmund Freud to Wilhelm Fliess, 1887-1904

    Including 133 documents never before made public and 138 previously published only in part, this volume collects the complete correspondence of Freud to his closest friend during the period that saw the birth of psychoanalysis

  • The Face on Your Plate: The Truth about Food

    ... Karen , 77,98 Dawkins , Marian Stamp , 67 DDT , 129 Dead Meat ( Coe ) , 86 dead zones , 37 , 114 , 207n death , 27 , 70 , 78–79 denial of ... 14 , 79 cholesterol from , 171 , 175 , 194 Don't Drink Your Milk ( Oski ) , 193 , INDEX 277.

  • The Intimate Ape

    Then there is my book editor, Michaela Hamilton. Michaela has a sensitivity to animals and saw something in this book and this story that others didn't. She made publishing the book a reality. I can't say too much about what that means.

  • Beasts: What Animals Can Teach Us About the Origins of Good and Evil

    In Beasts, Masson brings to life the richness of the animal world and strips away our misconceptions of the creatures we fear, offering a powerful and compelling look at our uniquely human propensity toward aggression.

  • Beasts: What Animals Can Teach Us About the Origins of Good and Evil

    Blood Rites: Origins and History of the Passions of War. New York: Henry Holt, 1997. Eibl-Eibesfeldt, Irenaus, and Frank Kemp Salter, eds. Indoctrinability, Ideology, and Warfare: Evolutionary Perspectives. New York: Berghahn Books, ...

  • The Face on Your Plate: The Truth About Food

    Why Vegan: The Ethics of Eating and the Need for Change. ... The Bloodless Revolution: A Cultural History of Vegetarianism from 1600 to Modern Times. New York: W. W. Norton, 2006. Rice, Pamela. 101 Reasons Why I'm a Vegetarian.

  • The Nine Emotional Lives of Cats: A Journey Into the Feline Heart

    My feelings (not to mention my ankles) were hurt, and I was getting angry with Yossie. I began asking people who knew about cats what to do. Everybody agreed the solution was simple: Yossie needed a companion. They were right.

  • Against Therapy: Emotional Tyranny and the Myth of Psychological Healing

    See, for example, “On Radical Therapy,” by Jeanette Hermes, in Going Crazy: The Radical Therapy of R. D. Laing and Others, ed. by Hendrik M. ... From “Radical Psychiatry for Women,” in Psychotherapy for Women: Treatment Toward Equality, ...

  • Dogs Never Lie about Love: Reflections on the Emotional World of Dogs

    Reveals the remarkable depth of canine emotional complexity, explaining how dogs' sense of smell shapes their perception of reality and how they express such emotions as gratitude, loneliness, and love.

  • La vita emotiva dei gatti. Un viaggio nel cuore del felino

    si tratta di un paese del tutto innocuo . In assenza di predatori , anche gli uccelli sono più amichevoli che in qualsiasi altro luogo ; i piccioni con la coda a ventaglio ci si avvicinano in picchiata e a volte ci seguono per un paio ...

  • Slipping into Paradise: Why I Live in New Zealand

    In the tradition of Under the Tuscan Sun and A Year in Provence, here is Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson’s ode to his personal paradise–his adopted home, New Zealand.

  • When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals

    The popularity of When Elephants Weep has swept the nation, as author Jeffrey Masson appeared on Dateline NBC, Good Morning America, and was profiled in People for his ground-breaking and fascinating study.

  • The Pig Who Sang to the Moon: The Emotional World of Farm Animals

    Weaving history, literature, anecdotes, scientific studies, and Masson’s own vivid experiences observing pigs, cows, sheep, goats, and chickens over the course of five years, this important book at last gives voice, meaning, and dignity ...

  • Final Analysis: The Making and Unmaking of a Psychoanalyst

    A sensation when it first appeared, Final Analysis is even more provocative and engrossing today. Written with passion and humor, this is the book that revealed a revered profession for what it was-and launched Masson on his true career.

  • The Nine Emotional Lives of Cats: A Journey Into the Feline Heart

    Drawing from literature, history, animal behavioral research, and the wonderful true stories of cat experts and cat lovers around the world, Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson vividly explores the delights and mysteries of the feline heart.

  • Lost Companions: Reflections on the Death of Pets

    Lost Companions is full of moving, thought-provoking and poignant stories about dogs, cats, horses, birds, wombats and other animals that beautifully illustrate the strong bond humans form with them.

  • My Father's Guru

    " -San Francisco Chronicle "Told with a mixture of humor and compassion. . . . Throughout this confessional book a grown man tells of an unusual, even weird childhood and the blind submission that consumed his family's life.

  • The Assault on Truth

    In this landmark book, drawing on his unique access to formerly sealed and hidden papers, Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson dares to uncover the truth about this critical turning point in Freud's career and its enduring impact on the theory and ...

  • When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals

    The popularity of When Elephants Weep has swept the nation, as author Jeffrey Masson appeared on Dateline NBC, Good Morning America, and was profiled in People for his ground-breaking and fascinating study.