7:45pm
reception,
8:15pm discussion, 9:30pm book signing
Mary Bergstein
Professor
in the History of Art and Visual Culture, Rhode Island School of
Design. Author of The Sculpture of Nanni di Banco and many other books
on art, photography, and culture.
Mirrors of Memory: Freud,
Photography, and the History of Art
Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press,
2010
About the Book:
Photographs
shaped the view of the world in turn-of-the-century Central Europe,
bringing images of everything from natural and cultural history to
masterpieces of Greek sculpture into homes and offices. Sigmund Freud's
library—no exception to this trend—was filled with
individual photographs and images in books. According to Mary
Bergstein, these photographs also profoundly shaped Freud's thinking in
ways that were no less important because they may have been involuntary
and unconscious. In Mirrors of Memory, lavishly illustrated with
reproductions of the photos from Freud's voluminous collection, she
argues that studying the man and his photographs uncovers a key to the
origins of psychoanalysis.
Monday, October
25, 2010
7:45pm
reception,
8:15pm discussion, 9:30pm book signing
Tomas Böhm
Psychoanalyst,
psychiatrist, and writer visiting from Stockholm, Sweden, Tomas
Böhm is the author of popular psychology books and novels and a
regular contributor to the monthly columns on relationship issues in
M-magasin, Stockholm. He has published many books in Swedish,
Scandinavian languages, and German about the love relationship,
xenophobia and fundamentalism. Among novels his 'The Vienna Jazz Trio"
will be first published in English in 2010.
The Vienna Jazz Trio: A
Novel
Charlottesville, Va: Pitchstone
Publishing, 2010
About the Book:
A
lively and entertaining novel about jazz, psychoanalysis, and the
Jewish experience, the Vienna Jazz Trio is framed by an interview with
an aging Nathan Mentzel, who relates his life as a piano player and
satirist. His story begins in cosmopolitan Vienna in the 1920s, where
he and two friends formed a jazz ensemble amid the ideological debates
and growing anti-Semitism of the era, continues through the suffering
and devastation of the Holocaust, and ends with a thrilling operation
against two Nazis living in a La Jolla luxury villa. At times
melancholy and always moving, the Vienna Jazz Trio speaks to the
indomitable spirit of youth and the dignity of man
Tuesday,
November 16, 2010
7:45pm
reception,
8:15pm discussion, 9:30pm book signing
Daniel N. Stern
Prominent
psychiatrist and psychoanalytic theorist, specializing in infant
development, Daniel N. Stern is an honorary professor in Psychology,
University of Geneva, adjunct professor in the Department of
Psychiatry, Cornell University Medical School - New York Hospital, and
lecturer at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training
and Research. Author of the classic The interpersonal world
of the infant
Forms of
Vitality: Exploring Dynamic Experience in Psychology and the Arts
Oxford University Press, 2010
About the Book:
Vitality
takes on many dynamic forms and permeates daily life, psychology,
psychotherapy and the arts, yet what is vitality? We know that it is a
manifestation of life, of being alive. We are very alert to its feel in
ourselves and its expression in others. Life shows itself in so many
different forms of vitality. But just how can we study this phenomenon?
Till now, this has been a topic considered impervious to any kind of
scientific study, but according to the Stern, it is possible to trace
vitality to real physical and mental operations-- including movement,
time, perception of force - as well as spatial aspects of the movement
and its underlying intention. Within this fascinating book he shows how
an understanding of vitality can help the psychotherapeutic process
(including a look at the developmental origins of forms of vitality)
and looks at how these theories of vitality might fit with our current
knowledge of the workings of the brain.
Truly a tour de force from a brilliant clinician and scientist, Forms
of Vitality is a profound and absorbing book - one that will be
essential reading for psychologists, psychotherapists, and those in the
creative arts.
Attention to the
Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute
members: if you would like to present your recently published book at
one of
our Meet the Author events,
please contact Olga Umansky at the library.
