Books from Ipbooks

  • Surrogate: How a Woman Named Sandra Made Me a Mother
    By Karen L. Fund, Chloe B. Fisher

    In this book, I describe that change and I offer a proposal for a different and better psychiatry-one that returns psychiatry to its roots and is more helpful to patients and more fulfilling for psychiatrists.

  • Patients, Patience, and the Talking Cure: A Week in the Mind of a Psychotherapist
    By Mary Davis

    In this book, you have a "fly-on-the-wall" chance to learn the answers to these questions, as psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Mary Davis, MD, takes you through a week in her professional life.

  • Encounters with Loneliness: Only the Lonely
    By Arlene Kramer Richards, Arthur A. Lynch, Lucille Spira

    The four sections of the book: Loneliness, Creativity and Artists; Clinical Dimensions of Loneliness; Loneli-ness/Solitude in the Psychoanalytic Training Process; Loneliness and Life Events testify to the encompassing scope of this ...

  • By Reason of Insanity: A Glimpse Into the Lives and Minds of the Criminally Insane
    By Richard R. Sternberg

    This is an excellent book, a solid, well-written and very smart work. I couldn't put it down. It is superb. Dr. Sternberg is an excellent story-teller and a serious scholar, thinker and writer.

  • Exploring the Landscape of the Mind: An Introduction to Psychodynamic Therapy
    By Janet Lee Bachant

    In the words of students who have captured the essence succinctly: "It goes deeper." "It goes to the heart." The primary function of this book is to help the reader begin a voyage of discovery.

  • Don't take up Jive
    By Max Jive

    Awards for the most cringeworthy accounts of people having sex. Long pole is substituted for penis etc. You can look them up yourself, so I feel no urge to pen more about it. The film 'Blue is the warmest colour' has a lengthy intense ...

  • Libido, Culture, and Consciousness: Revisiting Freud's Totem and Taboo
    By Daniel S. Benveniste

    A modern look at Sigmund Freud's Totem and Taboo.

  • A Pot From Shards
    By Joan Wexler

    And how do we shape and create ourselves from our missing parents? A Pot from Shards, a memoir, explores absence, imagination, movement, dance, language, psychoanalysis, love, death and the creation of a life.

  • Sex, Society and Relationships: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
    By Charlotte Schwartz

    Charlotte Schwartz, MSS, LCSW, is a member of the American Psychoanalytic Association, the International Psychoanalytical Association, the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis, formerly Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at ...

  • One Life Heals Another: Beginnings, Maturity, Outcomes of a Vocation: Beginnings,
    By Franco Borgogno

    To listen to the stories he tells in his inimitable personal voice is to know that one has found what he himself calls Ferenczi-a 'fundamental companion' on one's own psychoanalytic journey.

  • Ghosts of the Unremembered Past
    By Tom Wooldridge

    Ghosts of the Unremembered Past is a suspenseful story of a young boy growing up in a family shaped by intrusion, loss, and tragedy and of that same boy, as a young adult, seeking help from a gifted psychoanalyst.

  • Whose Baby Is It, Anyway?: Inside the Indian Heart
    By Kalpana Asok

    This book of essays takes an informal and, I hope, gentle look into South Asian homes, hearts, and homeland in an attempt to help mental health practitioners have a more complete understanding of their Indian clients.

  • Fifty Million Futures: A Proposal for a Radically New Public School System
    By Terence W. Rogers

    They propose changing some specific part of the system as the key to transforming it. This book is entirely different. It proposes a completely new model of how a modern public school should be designed and function.

  • Everyday Flowers
    By Kalpana Asok

    . . ." The gentle voice returns in this lovely debut collection, ending with a lullaby, "Tenderly," in hummed syllables: "Umhmm, --Irene Willis hmmm hmm hmm . . . ." Read it with delight and continued discovery.

  • Saving Beauty: A Memoir of Love, Healing and Multiple Sclerosis
    By Harvey A. Kaplan

    Saving Beauty is a deeply personal narrative of a marriage transformed by the emergence of a serious illness. Dr. Kaplan shares the story of loving a woman with multiple sclerosis.

  • Bone Shop of the Heart: Poems of Memory and Desire
    By Eugene Mahon

    Each poem in this collection forms a spiral staircase of carefully balanced lines that lead us to the balcony of surprise.A seamless blend of keen observation, mild-mannered irony, and garden fresh metaphors, Mahon's unassuming craft ...

  • Encounters with Loneliness: Only the Lonely
    By Arlene Kramer Richards, Arthur A. Lynch, Lucille Spira

    The four sections of the book: Loneliness, Creativity and Artists; Clinical Dimensions of Loneliness; Loneli-ness/Solitude in the Psychoanalytic Training Process; Loneliness and Life Events testify to the encompassing scope of this ...