Ruiz, Ruiz, M., Ruiz-Ruiz, F., and Fernandez-Baca, P. "A study of Strindberg’s Psychopathobiography, Authbiography and Psychopathology, I: Adolescence and Youth (The Servant’s Son)." [Spanish]. Psiquis: Revista de Psiquiatrista, Psicologia Medica y Psicosomatica 20.2 (March-April 1999): 12-20.

Focusing on passages from "The Servant's Son" (1886), considers biographical and psychopathological information about Strindberg's adolescence and youth.

Charet, Francis, X. "Understanding Jung: Recent Biographies and Scholarship." Journal of Analytical Psychology 45.2 (April 2000): 195-216.

Tries to explain the myth of Jung's life enshrined within his highly suspect autobiography, Memories, Dreams, Reflections.

Billig, Michael. "Freud’s Different Versions of Forgetting ‘Signorelli’: Rhetoric and Repression." International Journal of Psycho-Analysis 81.3 (June 2000): 483-498.

Analyzes Freud's three written explanations for his forgetting of the name "Signorelli," and traces this failure of memory--and such failures are always motivated, according to Freud--to ambivalent feelings towards Freud's father, his sense of Jewishness, and his relations with his sister-in-law.

Woody, Robert Henley II. "The Musician’s Personality." Creativity Research Journal 12.4 (1999): 241-250.

Reviews research into the question of whether or not certain personality characteristics seem to be unique to musicians, and finds little "unassailable empirical support" for such an idea.

Hartke, Raul. "The Primal Scene and Picasso’s Guernica." International Journal of Psycho-Analysis 81.1 (February 2000): 121-139.

Examines a group of works by Picasso dating from the late 1930s in light of Picasso's life history and of primal scene fantasies.

Kuehnlein, Irene. "Psychotherapy as a Process of Transformation: Analysis of Posttherapeutic Autobiographic Narrations." Psychotherapy Research 9.3 (1999): 274-288.

Results indicate that new experiences from psychotherapy are integrated and assimilated into previous person-schemas.

Shamdasani, Sonu. "Misunderstanding Jung: The Afterlife of Legends." Journal of Analytical Psychology 45.3 (July 2000): 459-472.

Comments on the article by Charet (annotated above), and contends that it is grossly tendentious and error-ridden.

Jacobsen, Kurt. "Blaming Bettelheim." Psychoanalytic Review 87.3 (June 2000): 385-415.

Samokhvalov, Dmitri. "Childhood and Adult Behavior of Belarussian Peasants in the Nineteenth Century." Journal of Psychohistory 27.1 (Summer 1999): 18-24.

Psychohistorical essay which seeks to explain the morose, doleful, and suspicious behavior of adult Belarussian peasants during their childhoods.

Dervin, Dan. "Eli Sagan’s Psychoanalytic Anthropology and its Interfaces with Psychology." Journal of Psychohistory 28.1 (Summer 2000): 72-88.

Reviews Sagan's works focusing on cannibalism, violence within ancient Greece, and the psychodynamics of cultural evolution.

Sheehan, Garry. "An Early Settler in Sickness and in Health." Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry 33.6 (December 1999): 926-934.

Article focuses on the state of mind of an early Australian settler and episodes of psychosis, in particular. Inferences about underlying personality are drawn.

Emery, Paul. "Trauma in Psychohistory." Journal of Psychohistory 26.3 (Winter 1999): 724-729.

Assesses recent developments in two domains of psychoanalytic knowledge: trauma studies and psychohistory.

Barbier, Jean Michel; Serra, Gerard; Loas, Gwenole; Breathnach, C.S. "Constance Pascal: Pioneer of French Psychiatry." History of Psychiatry 10.40 (December 1999): 425-437.

Explores the life and work of Pascal, the first female French psychiatrist. Suggests that Pascal produced work of exceptional quality and originality, yet somehow managed to remain virtually unknown, even in feminist circles.

Bos, Jaap. "Shared Life Narratives in the Work of Lou Andreas-Salome." International Journal of Psycho-Analysis 81.3 (June 2000): 471-481.

Focuses on "shared life narratives"--a specific genre of life-writing--in the works of Andreas-Salome.

Vygodskaia, G.L; Lifanova, T.M. "Lev Semonovich Vygotsky: I." Journal of Russian & East European Psychology 37.2 (March-April 1999): 90 P.

Reviews life and work of Vygotsky in the context of post-Revolutionary Soviet psychology. Includes recollections from friends, colleagues, students, and the author.

Volpato, Chiara; Contarello, Alberta. "Towards a Social Psychology of Extreme Situations: Primo Levi’s If This Is a Man and Social Identity Theory." European Journal of Social Psychology 29 (2-3) (March-May 1999): 239-258.

Aamong other things, aims to explore and describe interpersonal and intergroup behavior in extreme situations from the victim's perspective.

Schneiderman, Leo. "Willa Cather: Transitional Objects and Creativity." Imagination, Cognition & Personality 19.2 (1999-2000): 131-147.

Using novels and short stories, looks at the role of benevolent father-figures as alter egos to fictional heriones in the work of Willa Cather. These alter-ego also are traced to real men who figured prominently in Cather's early life.

Sabriskie, Beverly. "Orpheus and Eurydice: A Creative Agony." Journal of Analytical Psychology 45.3 (July 2000): 427-447.

Examines how this particular myth continues to reverberate in a variety of ways, and function as a sort of motive in the lives of people.

Rotenberg, Carl T. "Gwendolen Harleth Hatred: A Literary Portrait." Psychoanalytic Inquiry 20.3 (2000): 481-494.

Investigates the emotion of hatred in the novel "Daniel Deronda." Attempts to trace connections between Eliot's densely lucid fictional portrayals and certain psychoanalytic concepts invented later.

Melgar, Maria C.; Rackovsky de Salvarezza, Raquel; et. al. "The Mirror in Art." Revista de Psicoanalisis 56.3 (July-September 1999): 501-522.

Looks at the roles of love and death in artistic creation by investigating the effects of mother-loss on English painter Burne-Jones (1833-1898). Includes study of several paintings.

Schapiro, Barbara. "Transitional States and Psychic Change: Thoughts on reading D.H. Lawrence." Contemporary Psychoanalysis 35.1 (January 1999): 44-54.

Posits fantasized elements--dreams of prenatal harmony and fulfillment--behind the barn scene in Laurence's "The Rainbow."

Moser-Ha, Heikyoeng. "The Pre-Oedipal Father-Son Relationship in Korean Mythis and in the Patient Today." International Journal of Psycho-Analysis 80.1 (February 1999) 143-152.

Oedipus Complex in Korean society explored by analysis of Korean myths and folktale, and with reference to a patient. Highlights the difficulty of applying Western concepts to Korean culture.

Molnar, Michael. "John Stuart Mill Translated by Sigmund Freud." Psychoanalysis & History 1.2 (1999): 195-205.

Guarton, Gladys Branly. "Transgression and Reconciliation: A psychoanalytic Reading of Masud Khan’s Last Book." Contemporary Psychoanalysis 35.2 (April 1999): 301-310.

Says that Khan's last book may have represented an atonement for transgressions against his original Muslim faith and a personal confession.

Ogden, Thomas H. "Borges and the Art of Mourning." Psychoanalytic Dialogues 10.1 (January-February 2000): 65-88.

Looks at two of Borges' prose poems, both written after he suffered enormous personal losses. Proposes that successful mourning includes a demand to create.

Cowden, Jonathan A. "Self-effacing and Self-defeating Leadership." Political Psychology 20.4 (December 1999): 845-874.

Argues that, as a child, Adlai Stevenson experiences shame, anxiety, and ambivalence in consequence of attempted initiative and autonomy, both Eriksonian concepts. Also discusses Stevenson's identity crisis.

Zlotnick-Woldenberg, Carrie. "An Object-relational Reading of Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar named Desire." Issues in Psychoanalytic Psychology 21.1-2 (1999): 77-84.

Trains attention mostly on Blanche and her pathological attachment to internal objects and her use of splitting and projection as primary defense mechanisms. Refers in so doing to Melanie Klein's schizoid position.

Berman, Emanuel. "The Scarlet Letter, Revised; or, Vicissitudes of the Utopian Fantasy of "a New Sexual Person": Commentary on Papers on President Clinton’s Impeachment."

Psychoanalytic Dialogues 10.2 (2000): 319-326.

Comments on a set of articles that applied psychoanalytic ideas to the impeachment controversy.

Bernstein, Jeanne Wolff. "Making a Memorial Place: The Photography of Shimon Attie." Psychoanalytic Dialogues 10.3 (May-June 2000): 347-370.

Asks how Attie's work might create a memorial in which the past is not only remembered, but actively mourned.

Yuan, Yuan. "The Subject of Reading and the Colonial Unconscious: Countertransference in J.M. Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians." American Journal of Psychoanalysis 60.1 (March 2000): 71-84.

Primal scenes are adduced in Coetzee's book.

Anthi, Per R. "Roald Amundsen: A Study in Rivalry, Masochism and Paranoia." International Journal of Psycho-Analysis 80.5 (October 1999): 995-1010.

Explores Freud's response to an inquiry concerning the psychology of polar explorers in which he was asked to comment on some strange visualizations that had haunted Amundsen.

Albrecht, Thomas. "Apotropaic Reading: Freud’s "Medusa’s Head." Literature & Psychology 45.4 (1999): 1-30.

Speculates on how Freud's essay interprets its objective, the Medusa's head, and how it invokes a larger body of Freud's work.

Starks, Lisa S. "Like a Lover’s Pinch, Which Hurts and is Desired": The Narrative of Male Masochism and Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra." Literature & Psychology 45.4 (1999): 58-73.

Looks specifically at Cleopatra and male masochism.

Rangell, Leo. "A Psyhoanalytic View of the Impeachment Process: The Psychoanalysis of Hypocrisy." Psychoanalytic Dialogues 10.2 (2000): 309-313.

Explores the subtle psychopathology of the impeachment affair, with special attention paid to the trait of hypocrisy, a form of compromise of integrity projected onto others.

Bloland, Sue Erison. "Bill Clinton and John F. Kennedy: The Dark Side of Charisma." Psychoanalytic Dialogues 10.2 (2000): 285-289.

Compares Kennedy and Clinton, finding both to be compulsive womanizers who risked their political careers in the pursuit of sex. Asks if these Presidents can be considered "sexual addicts." Speculates that pursuit of sex may represent attempted genuine interpersonal connection.

Rudnytsky, Peter L. "Does the Professor Talk to God?" Countertransference and Jewish Identity in the Case of Little Hans." Psychoanalysis & History 1.2 (1999): 175-194.

Contends that Freud's effacing of Hans' Jewish identity is a kind of effacing of his own Jewishness.

Ten Berge, Jos. "Breakdown or Breakthrough? A History of European Research into Drugs and Creativity." Journal of Creative Behavior 33.4 (Fall 1999): 257-276.

Proposes that the intentional use of drugs like LSD by artists can be seen as an attempt at disinhibition as a step towards artistic breakthrough.

Chipman, Abram. "Janacek and Sibelius: The Antithetical Fates of Creativity in Late Adulthood." Psychoanalytic Review 87.3 (June 2000): 429-454.

Exposes readers to the life trajectories of two composers, including portrayals of their respective character styles and significant object relations.

van der Kolk, Bessel A. "Trauma, Neuroscience, and the Etiology of Hysteria: An Explanation of the Relevance of Breuer and Freud’s 1893 Article in Light of Modern Science." Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis 28.2 (Summer 2000): 237-262.

Argues that as early as 1893, Freud and Breuer formulated remarkable insights supported by current neuroscientific studies of trauma.

Berman, Emanuel; Frankel, Jay. "Sex, Lies, and Audiotape: Psychoanalysts Reflect on President Clinton’s Impeachment." Psychoanalytic Dialogues 10.2 (2000): 267-270.

Asks the question: Are psychoanalysts uniquely capable of contributing to the understanding of social and political topics?

Chasseguet-Smirgel, Janine. "The Clinton Impeachment: A View From France." Psychoanalytic Dialogues 10.2 (2000): 281-284.

Traces the impeachment controversy to leftover American guilt (over Hiroshima, Vietnam, and other sources of national shame).

Frankel, Jay. "Who to be or not to be? Commentary on Papers on President Clinton’s Impeachment." Psychoanalytic Dialogues (2000): 327-334.

Comments on a set of papers devoted to the topic of Clinton and his impeachment.

Berman, Emanuel. "The Scarlet Letter, Revised; or, Vicissitudes of the Utopian Fantasy of "a New Sexual Person": Commentary on Papers on President Clinton’s Impeachment." Psychoanalytic Dialogues 10.2 (2000): 319-326.

Sugars, Cynthia. "Sylvia Path as Fantasy Space; or, the Return of the Living Dead." Literature & Psychology 45.3 (1999): 1-28.

Suggests that we read accounts of Plath's life as fantasy texts, with Plath functioning as an "Other" or a "fantasy space" for the reader.

Krims, Marvin. "A Psychoanalytic Exploration of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 129." Psychoanalytic Review 86.3 (June 1999): 367-382.

Looks at the disturbing effects of the lustful drive on the "dark lady" and the "young man."

Schimmel, Paul. "'It is Myself that I Remake’: W.B. Yeats’s Self Construction in Life and Poetry." British Journal of Psychotherapy 17.1 (2000): 71-84.

Explores Yeats' poetry while speculating about the possible origins of his artistic creativity and his self-conscious attempt to re-make himself.

Benzzaquen, Adriana Silvia. "Kamala of Midnapore and Arnold Gesell’s Wolf Child and Human Child: Reconciling the Extraordinary and the Normal." History of Psychology 4.1 (2001): 59-78.

Examines the case of the "wolf girl" of Midnatore, analyzing the controversy regarding the case's authenticity and the meaning of the evidence in Gesell's 1941 "psychological biography" of Kamala, the wolf child.

Horley, James. "After "The Baltimore Affair": James Mark Baldwin’s Life and Work, 1908-1934." History of Psychology 4.1 (2001): 24-33.

Baldwin was one of the earliest practitioners of the "new psychology" at the turn of the 20^th century. This essay looks at his later life and work in Europe following his arrest at a "colored" bordello and subsequent forced resignation from Johns Hopkins.

Wedding, Danny. "Cognitive Distortions in the Poetry of Anne Sexton." Suicide & Life-Threatening Behavior 30.2 (Summer 2000): 140-144.

Some cognitive theorists stress the role of irrational beliefs in the production of depressed mood (while other research finds depressed subjects to be more rational than normal subjects, not less). This paper uses Sexton's poetry to illustrate a set of tradement thought distortions.

Geha, Richard Jr. "Richard Crashaw (1613?-1650?): The Ego’s Soft Fall." American Imago 23.2 (1996): 158-168.

Reviews what little is known about this metaphysical poet's life and poetry. Homes in on the influence of his Puritan father and the absence of his mother.

Nicol, Brian. "Normality and other Kinds of Madness: Zizek and the Traumatic Core of the Subject." Psychoanalytic Studies 2.1 (2000): 7-19.

Argues that madness is key to understanding the style and the substance of Zizek's feverish work.

Coen, Stanley. "What Will Become of Epiphanies? A Psychoanalytic Reading of Fames Joyce’s "The Dead."" Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies 2.2 (2000): 119-128.

Plays two different readings of "The Dead" against each other in order to examine certain textual tensions between sameness and change.

Shaw, Jon. "Thomas Wolfe: Study of a Wanderer." Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies 2.2 (2000): 147-163.

Contends that Wolfe was unable to mourn, and that his writings attempt to recapture a lost world. Themes explored include a search for the father and a preoccupation with transience and death.

Werman, David. "The Passing of Creativity: Two Histories: James Ensor and Arthur Rimbaud." Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies 2.1 (2000): 65-86.

Explores creative burn out and its relation to revenge-motivated art.

Jones, Ruddel; Frary, Robert; Cunningham, Phillippe; Weddle, J. David; Kaiser, Lisa. "The Psychological Effects of Hurricane Andrew on Ethnic Minority and Caucasian Children and Adolescents: A Case Study." Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology Foundation 7.1 (2001): 103-108.

Used self-report instruments to examine the predictive utility of hypothesized mediators of children's reactions to disaster.

Tylim, Issac. "Desire is a Bed of Roses." Psychoanalytic Psychology 18.1 (2001): 165-170.

Argues that the film "American Beauty" depicts the rebellion of the dethroned American male against antiseptic, aspiritual life.

Ogden, Thomas. "A Picture of Mourning: Commentary on Paper by Jeanne Wolff Bernstein." Psychoanalytic Dialogues 10.3 (May-June 2000): 371-375.

Comments on article (annotated above) concerning the photography of S. Attie.

Wolfenstein, E. Victor. "On the Road not Taken: "Revolt and Revenge" in W.E.B. Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk." Journal for the Psychoanalysis of Culture & Society 5.1 (Spring 2000): 121-132.

After a brief review of DuBois's life, this article explores his apparently Oedipal-rooted ambivalence about the struggle for black liberation.

Martin, Jay. "Joyce’s Argument with Himself/or, Reading Joyce’s Inside Narrative." Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies 2.2 (2000): 129-137.

Sees Joyce himself in Gabriel Conroy, the main character from "The Dead."

Garcia, Emanuel. "Gustav Mahler’s Choice: A Note on Adolescence, Genius, and Psychosomatics." Psychoanalytic Study of the Child 55 (2000): 87-110.

Analyses Mahler's encounter with Freud and the effects it had on his sexual potency and his artistic capabilities.

Abbot, Judy. "Blinking out and Having the Touch: Two Fifth-grade Boys Talk about Flow Experiences in Writing." Written Communication 17.1 (January 2000): 53-92.

Looks at two fifth-graders' motives for writing by examining how they expressed "flow" experiences.

Mahon, Eugene. "Parapraxes in the Plays of William Shakespeare." Psychoanalytic Study of the Child 55 (2000): 335-370.

Asks, "Can the seemingly trivial or irrelevant--a handful of mistakes in 38 plays--shed any light on the extraordinary mind" of Shakespeare?

Heaton, John. "On R.D. Laing: Style, Sorcery, Alienation." Psychoanalytic Review 87.4

(2000): 511-526.

Explores Laing's interest in transgression--its nature and limits.

Sandler, Pamela; Alpert, Judith. "Violence and Group Dynamics in the High School: The Columbine School Shootings." Journal for the Psychoanalysis of Culture & Society 5.2 (2000): 246-255.

Applies the concepts of projective identification and splitting, among others, to the school shootings at Columbine.

McFarland, Robert. "A Psychohistory of Pearl Harbor and the Atomic Bomb." Journal of Psychohistory 28.2 (2000): 191-202.

Tries to explain some of the events surrounding Pearl Harbor based on the traumatic childhoods of those involved, even though limited information is available concerning those childhoods.

Devescovi, Pier Claudio. "At the Origins of Jungian Thought: Culture and Method, Elements of a Separation." Psychoanalysis & History (September 2000): 277-286.

Argues that Jung had already developed many of his most significant idea at the time of his first meeting with Freud.

Wang, Ban. "Memory, Narcissism, and Sublimation: Reading Lou Andreas-Salome’s Freud Journal." American Imago 57.2 (2000): 215-234.

Traces Andreas-Salome's thoughts on a number of subjects--from the nature of memory to narcissistic love--through a close reading of her journal.

McAdams, Dan, Josselson, Ruthellen, and Amia Lieblich. Turns in the Road: Narrative Studies of Lives in Transition. Washington, D.C: American Psychological Association Press, 2001.

First volume of a series devoted to narrative approaches to the study of mind. Focuses in this first installment on narrated turning points and life transitions. Includes the following chapters:

Dan P. McAdams and Philip J. Bowman. "Narrating Life's Turning Points Redemption and Contamination."

Janet Landman. "The Crime, Punishment, and Ethical Transformation of Two Radicals: Or, How Katherine Power Improves upon Dostoyevsky."

William Todd Schultz. "De Profundis: Prison as Turning Point in Oscar Wilde's Life Story."

J. Scott Roberts and George C. Rosenwald. "Ever Upward and No Turning Back: Social Mobility and Identity Formation Among First-Generation College Students."

Richard L. Ochberg and William Comeau. "Moving Up and the Problem of Explaining an "Unreasonable" Ambition."

Marcy Plunkett. "Serendipity and Agency in Narratives of Transition: Young Adult Women and Their Careers."

Varpu Löyttyniemi. "The Set-Back of a Doctor's Career."

Amy M. Young, Abigail J. Stewart, and Kathi Miner-Rubino. "Women's Understandings of their own Divorces: A Developmental Perspective."

Michael M. Pratt, Mary Louise Arnold, and Kathleen Mackey. "Adolescents' Representations of the Parent Voice in Stories of Personal Turning Points."

Jefferson A. Singer. "In and Out of the Amber Cloud: A Life Story Analysis of a Heroin Addict."

Michele Crossley. "Sense of Place and its Import for Life Transitions: The Case of HIV Positive Individuals."

Berry, Ruth. Jung: A Beginner’s Guide. London, England: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd., 2000.

A book that explores Jung's background, the times he lived in, and the development of Jungian analysis.

Bishop, Paul (Editor). Jung in Contexts: A Reader. New York, NY: Routledge, 2000.

Collects some of the most important essays on Jung written over the past two decades. Inlcludes the following chapters:

Haule, John R. "From Somnambulism to the Archetypes: The French Roots of Jung’s Split with Freud." 242-264.

Examines the role of Jung's French heritage in his rejection of Freud's psychoanalysis.

Noll, Richard. "Jung the Leontocephalus." 51-91.

Details Jung's fascinating and bizarre "descent into the unconscious" during which, among other things, he claims to meet the figures of Elijah and Salome, becomes encircled and squeezed by a black snake, and assumes the posture of a crucified Christ. This personal experience which some have regarded as psychotic breakdown directly led to Jung's invention of an archetypal, "objective" psyche.

Goldstein, Ralph and Harborne, Barbara. "Picasso’s Minotaur Series Reconsidered in the light of Animus and Anima." Images, Meanings and Connections" Essays in Memory of Susan R. Bach. Einsiedeln, Switzerland: Daimon Verlag, 1999. 83-103.

Uses Jung's concepts of the anima and animus--a pair of archetypes assumed to form part of the collective unconscious--to shed light on a series of Picasso's etchings.

Kimble, Gregory A. and Wertheimer, Michael. "Portraits of Pioneers in Psychology, Vol. IV. Washington, DC, US American Psychological Association, 2000. 403.

Focuses on 21 of the "giants" in the history of psychology who worked during the 19^th and 20^th centuries.

Gedo, Mary M. "The Self-Portrait as Covert Message: The Van Gogh-Gauguin Exchange." The Annual of Psychoanalysis, Vol. XXVI-XXVII. Hillsdale, NJ, US: The Analytic Press, Inc, 1999. 383.

In 1888 van Gogh and Gaugin shared self portraits, each depicting a fictive persona--van Gogh as a character worshipping the Buddha, and Gaugin as the criminal hero of Victor Hugo's Les Miserables. This essays proposes that the tragic outomce of the artists' friendship might have been predicted from the nature of the self-portraits exchanged.

Schwaber, Paul. "The Enigmatic Jewishness of Leopold Bloom." Psychoanalysis and Culture at the Millennium, New Haven, CT, USA: Yale University Press, 1999. 149-192.

A psychoanalytic intepretation of Joyce's Ulysses, focusing on Bloom's Jewish identity, its breakdown in adulthood, and its possible transformation.

Suarez-Orozco, Marcelo M. "A Pschoanalytic Study of Argentine Soccer." Psychoanlysis and Culture at the Millennium, New Haven, CT, USA" Yale University Press, 1999. 64-95.

Freud, Sigmund; Bullitt, William C. "Woodrow Wilson: A Psychological Study." American Presidents Series, New Brunswick, NJ, USA: Transaction Publishers. 1999, xxii.

Winer, Jerome A. "Unconscious Fantasy in Jane Eyre and Ulysses: Comment on Almond and Schwaber." Psychoanalysis and Culture at the Millennium, New Haven, CT, USA: Yale University Press, 1999. 193-215.

Argues that Jane Eyre and Ulysses have in common the enormous fear of genital sex.

Saito, Ayako. "Hitchcock’s Tilogy: A Logic of Mise en Scene." Endless Night: Cinema and Psychoanalysis, Parallel Histories, Berkeley, CA, USA: University of California Press, 200-248.

Samules, Andrew. "The Good-Enough Leader." The Vision Thing: Myth, Politics and Psyche in the World, New York, NY, US: Routledge, 2000. 34-49.

Aims to stimulate an "image-based" depth-psychological (i.e., psychodynamic) approach to the nature of leadership. Introduces the concept of "good-enoughness" whereby the person does his/her best to meet the omnipotent fantasies of an other.

Masse, Michell A. "He’s More than I am": Narcissism and Gender in Wuthering Heights." SUNY Series in Feminist Criticism and Theory, Albany, NY, US: State University of New York Press, 2000. 135-153.

Takes the character of Catherine Earnshaw as a prototype of a female narcissist attempting to achieve masculine aims.

Schapiro, Barbara. "Sadomasochism as Intersubjective Breakdown in D.H. Lawrence’s 'The Woman Who Rode Away.'" SUNY Series in Psychoanalysis and Culture, Albany, NY, US: State University of New York Press, 2000. 123-133.

A Winnicottian analysis of the Lawrence story exploring Lawrence's defensive splitting and capacious, flexible imagination.

Eldredge, Patricia reid. "Marlene, Maggie Thatcher, and the Emperor of Morocco: The Psychic Structure of Caryl Churchill’s 'Top Girls.'" SUNY Series in Feminist Criticism and Theory, Albany, NY, US: State University of New York Press, 2000. 71-84.

Uses Horney's theory to analyze themes of dependency and dominance.

Meissner, W.W. "Love and Sexuality in the Life and Art of Vincent van Gogh." The Annual of Psychoanalysis, Vol. XXVI-XXVII, Hillsdale, NJ, US: The Analytic Press, Inc., 1999. 269-294.

Asks how libidinal components of van Gogh's world may have affected his art and personality. Also discusses the artist's love relationships with four women.

Fromm, Erich; Osterle, Heinz D (Trans); Anderson, Kevin (Trans). "On the Psychology of the Criminal and the Punitive Society." Erich Fromm and Critical Criminology: Beyond the Punitive Society, Champaign, IL, US: University of Illinois Press, 2000. 129-156.

Discusses topics such as: the fallacious distinction between the neurotic and healthy criminal; the psychological underpinnings of crime; and the the future of psychoanalysis and criminal justice.

Rudnytsky, Peter L. "'Mother, Do You Have a Wiwimaker, Too?': Freud’s Representation of Female Sexuality in the Case of Little Hans." Psychoanalyses/feminisms. SUNY Series in Feminist Criticism and Theory, and SUNY Series in Psychoanalysis and Culture, Albany NY, US: State University of New York Press, 2000. 39-53.

Looks at Freud's representation of female sexuality in his famous account of the phobia of a five year-old boy.

Elise, Dianne. "Tomboys and Cowgirls: The Girl’s Disidentification from the Mother." Sissies and Tomboys: Gender Nonconformity and Homosexual Childhood, New York, NY, USA, New York University Press, 1999. 140-152.

Explores how various theorists might account for the tomboy phenomenon, and argues that each of the models included focuses on the girl's "disidentification" from the mother.

Frosh, Stephen. "Freud’s Dreams, Dora’s Dreams." Sigmund Freud’s The Interpretation of Dreams: New Interdisciplinary Essays. Texts in Culture, Manchester, England UK: Manchester University Press, 1999. 181-205.

Stresses that Freud's articulation of dream analysis of fraught with ambivalence and unconscious desire.

Hoare, Carol H. "Morality, Ethics, Spirituality, and Prejudice in the Writings of Erik H. Erikson." Spirituality, Ethics, and Relationship in Adulthood: Clinical and Theoretical Explorations, Madison, CT, US: Psychosocial Press/International Universities Press, Inc., 2000. 31-56.

Examines influences on Erikson's thinking as well as the historical backdrop for his ideas. Includes discussion of the role his wife played in his own spiritual and ethical development.

Homans, Peter (Editor). Symbolic Loss: The Ambiguity of Mourning and Memory at Century's End. Charlottesville, VA: The University Press of Virginia, 2000.

Includes the following chapters:

Homans, Peter. "Loss and mourning in the life and thought of Max Weber: Toward a theory of symbolic loss." 225-238.

Seeks to show that Weber's illness was a response to a double loss, and that his breakdown was a form of mourning.

Stern, Julia. "Live burial and its discontents: Mourning becomes melancholia in Harriet Jacobs's 'Incidents.'" 62-82.

A study of the inability to mourn in a slave girl.

Hutton, Patrick. "Of death and destiny: The Aries-Vovelle debate about the history of mourning." 147-170.

Compares the place of death, loss, and mourning in the lives of Aries and Vovelle, both of whom wrote on the debate about memory in French historical scholarship.

Breitwieser, Mitchell. "Fitzgerald, Kerouac, and the puzzle of inherited mourning." 43-61.

Discusses how both authors struggled to articulate the belief that mourning lay at the heart of consciousness.

Lavabre, Marie-Claire. "Stalin's double death: Memory and mourning amon French Communist Party activists." 213-224.

Focuses on the inability to mourn within the French Communist Party at the time of Stalin's death. Also looks at the two kinds of loss Freud hypothesized: loss of a loved person and loss of an ideal.

Conover, Robin St. John. "Growing up in a Glass House" An Investigation of Charlotte Bronte’s Individuation through her Juvenilia." Dissertation Abstracts International 60.6-A (December 1999): 2036.

Views Bronte's narratives as a psychic map, and explores how they anticipate, in large part, Jung's system of individuation, among other things.

Bales, Helen Angelyn. "The Meaning of Solitude in the Lives of Creative Writers." Dissertation Abstracts International 60.7-B (February 2000): 3551.

Aims to describe the meaning of solitude in the loves of creative writers based on interviews with writers. Discovers four major themes: creating the space, opening up/letting go, encountering creative energy, and bringing into being. Method is phenomenological/hermeneutic in nature.

Harte, Joyce Celeste. "And Dances with the Daffodils: The English Education of an African-Caribbean Teacher Re-visioning the Word, the World, and the Self." Dissertation Abstracts International 59.9-A (March 1999): 3324.

Reponds to an autobiography focusing on identity construction.

Allen, Victoria S. "Listening to Your Life: Psychology and Judeo-Christian Spirituality in the Novels of Frederick Buechner." Dissertation Abstracts International 60.4-A (October 1999): 1127.

Looks at this American writer for what his works reveal about the relationship between psychology and spirituality.

Sayyed, Yasmin Ayisha. "Visual and Poetic Images: An African-centered Educational Study on Art and Healing Among Women Artists of African Ancestry." Dissertation Abstracts International 60.4-A (October 1999):1015.

Examines the role of art in the lives of six women. Depicts the women as not only artists, but life-healers and community treasures.

Crissman, Dorothy Estelle. "Writing Life." Dissertation Abstracts International 59.10-A (May 1999): 3806.

A qualitative inquiry into how writing affects who the writer becomes based on sample of nine professional and nonprofessional writers representing a diversity of age, sex, race, and education levels.

Keys, David Patrick. "Confronting the Drug Control Establishment: Alfred Lindesmith as Public Intellectual." Dissertation Abstracts International 59.8-A (February 1999): 3217.

Intellectual biography of Lindesmith exploring how he integrated a humanist perspective into his work on addiction and narcotics policy.

Rosell, Luis Benjamin. "A Case Study of a Heterosexual Pedophile." Dissertation Abstracts International 59.9-B (March 1999): 5151.

Reviews theories. Also includes a case study of a man who sexually offended two sisters, and discusses the results of his psychological testing.

Hock, Beverly Vaughn. "The Labyrinth of a Story: Narrative as Creative Construction: a Participatory Study." Dissertation Abstracts International 60.6-A (December 1999): 2015.

Examines the effect of a "defining story" on the lives of a group of 35 author's of children's literature, each of whom responded to a questionnaire developed by the author.

Cole, Robert Pierre. "A Reality Running Like a Subterranean River Under the Surface: The Place of the Jungian Concept of Individuation in the Non-Deptford Writings of Robertson Davies." Dissertation Abstracts International 59.7-A (January 1999): 2515.

Seeks to examine the place of Jungian theory within Davies' corpus. Focuses most on the concept of individuation--the process of fusing opposites into an inclusive self structure.

Bell, Ronals John. "My Selves Dissolving: An Exploration of the Narcissistic Personality in the Work of Two American Poets, Weldon Kees and Sylvia Plath." Dissertation Abstracts International 60.8-A (December 1999), 1573.

Uses object-relations theories to explore mid-twentieth century confessional writing as typified by Kees and Plath. Sees both writers as "narcissistic personalities."

Kautz, Elizabeth Dolan. "The Geography of Melancholy: Depression and Healing in the Works of British Women Writers, 1785--1845." Dissertation Abstracts International 60.8-A (2000), 2940.

Argues that Romantic women writers like Wollstonecraft, Austen, and Shelley defied the category of masculine melancholic genuis by representing their depression in masculine terms rather than in terms suggested by the feminized discourse of hysteria.

Cahill, Susan Mary. "Shakespeare’s Multiple Intelligences: Howard Gardner’s Theory of Multiple Intelligences as Reflected in Shakespeare’s Plays." Dissertation Abstracts International 60.8-A (2999), 2936.

Explores how Shakespeare naturally incorporates into his dramatic art the multiple intelligences hypothesized by Howard Gardner in his book Frames of Mind.

Hanson, Michael. "Irony, Conflict and Creativity: A Case Study of the Creative Development of George Shaw as an Ironist During WWW." Dissertation Abstracts International 60.6-B (January 1999), 2985.

Uses systems approach to examine the role of irony in Shaw's thought about WW I.

Tran, Shannon. "Anne Sexton: A Biographical Study of the Relationship Between Adult Development and Mental Illness." Dissertation Abstracts International 59.11-B (June 1999), 6080.

Makes use of Daniel Levinson's theory of adult development to reveal patterns in Sexton's life. Suggests that the crisis leading to her suicide may have been averted had those who treated Sexton focused more on her life and life cycle and less on the putatively biological and/or addictive elements of her difficulties.

Mekler, Lamar Adam. "Solitude, Alienation and Exile: Mary Shelley in Context." Dissertation Abstracts International 60.3-A (September 1999), 0753.

Focuses on the use Shelley makes of solitude in her writings.