Psychotherapy
Don’t reduce Louise Bourgeois’s art to an Oedipus complex
An exhibit on Louise Bourgeois’s art and psychoanalytical writings is opening at the Jewish Museum. But does Freud expand or limit her art?
Arthur Janov, The Jewish Creator Of Primal Scream Therapy
Arthur Janov, who died on Sunday October 1 aged 93, was the creator of the now largely-ignored psychotherapeutic system, Primal Scream Therapy. A dramatic psychic system, it captured the imagination of John Lennon in the 1970s and Tears for Fears in the 1980s.
Channeling Freud To Prevent the Next Barry Freundel
Rabbi Barry Freundel probably never sat down in a non-judgmental atmosphere to talk about the sexual dimension of his work. One shrink says all rabbis should do that.
Is There an E.L. Doctorow in the House?
Throughout his career, E.l. Doctorow has written some of the best fiction critic Nan Goldberg has read. But his latest novel, ‘Andrew’s Brain,’ seems outdated and irrelevant.