Bennett Simon

Adam B Seligman

Michael J Puett

Robert P Weller

This book argues for the continuing tension across historical contexts between movements emphasizing ritual and movements emphasizing sincerity. Our contemporary age has, at great risk, downplayed the importance of ritual. Drawing on examples from Chinese, Greek, Jewish, and contemporary culture, the book presents an innovative interdisciplinary account of how ritual works.

An Essay on the Limits of Sincerity

Ritual and its Consequences

The Classical Roots of Modern Psychiatry

Mind and Madness in Ancient Greece

Elizabeth Lunbeck

This fascinating book, which presents an early psychoanalyst’s session-by-session notes on a case of hysteria caused by severe sexual trauma and incest, offers a vivid portrait of psychoanalytic practice in the second decade of the twentieth century. Accompanying these notes are insightful commentaries by Elizabeth Lunbeck and Bennett Simon that situate the case historically and throw light on the many difficulties that both analyst and patient encountered in the treatment. The book will be of great interest to students of the history of psychoanalysis and other psychological therapies, to those interested in the history of women and gender, and to clinicians struggling with the treatment of severely traumatized patients today.

Case Notes from an American Psychoanalysis, 1912

Family Romance, Family Secrets

One of the most important characteristics of tragic drama--as of psychoanalysis-- is the focus on the family. Dr. Bennett Simon here provides a psychoanalytic reading of Aeschylus' Oresteia, Euripedes' Medea, Shakespeare's King Lear and Macbeth, O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night, and Beckett's Endgame, six plays from ancient to modern times which involve a particular form of intrafamily warfare: the killing of children or of the possibility of children.

Psychoanalytic Studies from Aeschylus to Beckett

Tragic Drama and the Family

Un estudio profundo y exhaustivo desarrollado a partir de los textos de Homero, los grandes trágicos griegos, la obra de Platón y el corpus hipocrático sobre la concepción antigua de la personalidad, su constitución y sus perturbaciones.

Bennett Simon

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