The Compulsion to Create: Women Writers and Their Demon Lovers is a fascinating and informative psychological survey of women and the literature they create, especially as reflected by the lives and work of such luminaries as Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Emily Dickinson, Anais Nin, Sylvia Plath, and Edith Sitwell. The reader is treated to such issues as compulsion versus reparation, developmental mourning and creative-process reparation, creative women and the "internal father," and the "demon-lover" theme as literary myth and psychodynamic complex. A highly recommended addition to women's studies, literary studies, and psychological studies supplemental reading lists, "The Compulsion to Create" is original, revealing, insightful, challenging, at times iconoclastic, and always entertaining.

The Compulsion to Create: Women Writers and Their Demon Lovers

Literature & Fiction

Kavaler-Adler, Susan

History & Criticism

Ori Academic Press

Through the life stories of women such as Camille Claudel, Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, Anne Sexton, Suzanne Farrell and others, and through clinical case studies, Susan Kavaler-Adler offers penetrating insights into the nature of the creative process. Kavaler-Adler contrasts unsuccessful psychological treatments with object-relations therapy that is able to resolve the pathological narcissism of creative addiction and allow the emergence of healthy modes of self-expression. This book will be of interest to anyone interested in the creative process and its psychological and psychoanalytic underpinnings.

The Creative Mystique: From Red Shoe Frenzy to Love and Creativity

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

School-age children are drawn to mysteries - what can be more mysterious than a dream? The importance of this topic for children rests in the tough questions raised by frightening dreams. For example, where do such scary images come from? Will those things really happen? Why do I dream anyway? Inviting readers to explore these issues encourages them to confront and diminish anxiety. Observing connections between events, feelings, decisions and wishes exercises problem-solving skills, affirms the value of internal experience, encourages communication and discourages avoidance and withdrawal.

About Dreams

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Saldarini, Suzanne T.

Psychology & Counseling

This volume presents a series of original theories formulated over Dr. Henry Kellerman's more than 50 year career first as psychologist, then as psychoanalyst. These are theories reflecting phenomena both in the natural as well as social sciences. They are foundational theories, several of which were published in scientific and clinical journals, as well as in books. The seven theories formulated and presented here are: 1) The entire nightmare domain as it relates to dreaming and to the various facets of emotion and personality; a formulation able to account for all possible nightmare contents with respect to only a few named basic nightmare categories. 2) The transformation of the apparent circular shape of the micro-group (the therapy group) into its actual physical (hidden) shape. This assumes that an ideal group composition based upon an arrangement of ideal or basic diagnostic forces (and basic emotions). 3) Primary emotion-correlates to DNA constituents. 4) The psychoanalysis of symptoms: revealing a four-step symptom-code that within a systematic talking procedure demonstrates how any symptom within a distinct class of emotional/psychological symptoms, can be understood and unraveled - cured. 5) Parkinson's disease: implications of the prosody of speech-specifically, the role of 'vocal resonance,' with a focus on vibration, in the appearance and treatment of initial Parkinsonian symptoms. 6) The discovery of God: A psycho/evolutionary perspective in which God is seen as discovered by virtue of a hard-wired genetic program defined not as a God-wired genetics, but rather as a hard-wired need for security, balance, peace of mind, the expectation of fairness, and a sense of empowerment. 7) Revealing the code to understand unconscious communication (its algorithm) and identifying the specific primary themes that govern each person's unconscious thematic objective.

A Consilience of Natural and Social Sciences - a Memoir of Original Contributions

PhD Henry Kellerman

Mental Health

This volume presents a series of original theories formulated over Dr. Henry Kellerman's more than 50 year career first as psychologist, then as psychoanalyst. These are theories reflecting phenomena both in the natural as well as social sciences. They are foundational theories, several of which were published in scientific and clinical journals, as well as in books. The seven theories formulated and presented here are: 1) The entire nightmare domain as it relates to dreaming and to the various facets of emotion and personality; a formulation able to account for all possible nightmare contents with respect to only a few named basic nightmare categories. 2) The transformation of the apparent circular shape of the micro-group (the therapy group) into its actual physical (hidden) shape. This assumes that an ideal group composition based upon an arrangement of ideal or basic diagnostic forces (and basic emotions). 3) Primary emotion-correlates to DNA constituents: a DNA double helical model for primary emotions that corresponds to the physical DNA model; that is, proposing which primary emotions may be inherent in which DNA constituents. 4) The psychoanalysis of symptoms: revealing a four-step symptom-code that within a systematic talking procedure demonstrates how any symptom within a distinct class of emotional/psychological symptoms, can be understood and unraveled − cured. 5) Parkinson's disease: implications of the prosody of speech−specifically, the role of 'vocal resonance,' with a focus on vibration, in the appearance and treatment of initial Parkinsonian symptoms. 6) The discovery of God: A psycho/evolutionary perspective in which God is seen as discovered by virtue of a hard-wired genetic program defined not as a God-wired genetics, but rather as a hard-wired need for security, balance, peace of mind, the expectation of fairness, and a sense of empowerment. 7) Revealing the code to understand unconscious communication (its algorithm) and identifying the specific primary themes that govern each person's unconscious thematic objective. The underlying primary theme will tell us what the person wants (or wishes) no matter what the conscious message (content) seems to be. Thus, the algorithm contains an infrastructural composition based upon: wishes as the most derivative agent of the pleasure principle; these wishes underpinned by the epigenetic primary emotion system etched in the bases of DNA; and, all of it bundled in the form of a schema.

A Consilience of Natural and Social Sciences - A Memoir of Original Contributions

Politics & Social Sciences

Kellerman PhD, Henry

Philosophy

Over one hundred years ago, Freud showed us that dreams are over-determined. Events from the previous day, on-going projects and interests, conversations, childhood memories and feelings attached to all of these come together to form our night-time dramas. The same could be said about any invention, including this short story for young children. Harry's Dream began with a real night-mare, was shaped by conversations, by interests and by Harry's memories. Finally, it was determined by the commitment at ORI Academic Press to connect psychoanalytic concepts to ordinary experience. Harry's Dream is Suzanne Saldarini's second book for children published by the ORI Academic Press. Her first book, About Dreams, was nominated for a prestigious 2013 Gradiva® Award from the National Association for Advancement of Psychoanalysis. Both books are included in Psychoanalytic Thought for Youth series. Harry's Dream is brief, vivid and, hopefully, meaningful to anyone who cares for pre-school children.

Harry's Dream

Children's Books

Growing Up & Facts of Life

In a tenderly wrought memoir set in Canada in the 1950s and Ô60s, the author describes family experiences that transcend time and place: a father's manic-depressive disease, domestic violence, religious intolerance, and racism.cism.

The Root Is Bitter, The Root Is Sweet: In the Shadow of Madness, A Memoir

Brandon, Dolores

Parenting & Relationships

Howard Covitz, in this wonderfully scholarly book, turns his incisive and original readings of old texts, both Freudian and Biblical, into a refreshingly new understanding of the Oedipus Complex that was ahead of its time when first published in 1998, but is extremely timely today. Covitz argues that the Oedipus complex is not primarily about the internalization of a parental/societal superego to resolve a conflict over the child's forbidden sexual desire and his or her fear of being punished for it; the traditional interpretation. Rather, it is much more importantly about the birth of genuine morality out of a conflict between - on the one hand - the child's narcissistic demand to have his or her own way, imposing his or her own needs and desires on the parents without recognition or regard for their wishes or for anyone else's, and - on the other hand - the child's love for the parents and his or her growing awareness of and concern for their feelings, wishes, and needs, seeing them (and other people, generally) as separate individuals who, like the child, are inherently deserving of respect. Understood in this way, the Oedipal conflict is clearly universal, and it is pervasively apparent in the world today, where it remains largely unresolved in most of us, adults, most of the time.

Oedipal Paradigms in Collision: An Emendation of a Piece of Freudian Canon

Covitz, Howard H

The Physics of the Psyche is the work of late Dr. William L. Johnson that introduces the reader to the Triadic Drive Theory (TDT), which explains how the forces of the universe create our mentality. It begins from a different reality – about the nature of human beings – than has been commonly held by psychology and psychoanalysis. TDT’s initial proposition is that the constant forces of physics throughout the universe, and in the operations of subatomic particles in the atoms of our brain cells, produce the energy of our two most basic life-determining psychic drives, construdo and destrudo.
Construdo is the drive that helps us to combine and connect thoughts, ideas, emotions, concepts, attitudes, and beliefs, as well as to connect with other cultures, societies, families, and people. The second drive, destrudo, determines why, when, and how such unions are broken apart, damaged, or overthrown. It is proposed that these two drives and their derivatives determine more human behaviors than Freud’s libido drive and its derivatives.
Triadic Drive Theory asserts that the forces of physics that govern and hold the universe together constitute the true universal reality for humans, as well as for all other species. Thus Dr. Johnson proposes an axiom: the universe and the humans are governed by the same principles of physics. So, the focus of this theoretical and psychoanalytic endeavor is about how these forces of physics produce our cognitive or mental drives.
In this book, Dr. Johnson offers application of TDT to clinical practice, including Freud's “dream work,” psychopathology diagnosis, object relations, and work with couples, while adding the physical dimensions of time and space.

Cosmologic Triadic Drive Theory: The Physics of the Psyche (Consilience)

Johnson, William L.

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The Compulsion to Create: Women Writers and Their Demon Lovers

The Creative Mystique: From Red Shoe Frenzy to Love and Creativity

About Dreams

About Dreams

A Consilience of Natural and Social Sciences - a Memoir of Original Contributions

A Consilience of Natural and Social Sciences - A Memoir of Original Contributions

Harry's Dream

The Root Is Bitter, The Root Is Sweet: In the Shadow of Madness, A Memoir

Oedipal Paradigms in Collision: An Emendation of a Piece of Freudian Canon

Cosmologic Triadic Drive Theory: The Physics of the Psyche (Consilience)