E. James Lieberman

Recent Reviews in PsycCritiques (American Psychological Association).
Values and Psychiatric Diagnosis
By Sadler, John Z.
Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2005. 556 pp. $56.50.

"Labels for People: Science and Philosophy"
By Lieberman, E. James
In PsycCRITIQUES. 2005 Vol 50 (15)
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Clinical Dilemmas in Psychotherapy: A Transtheoretical Approach to Psychotherapy Integration
By Scaturo, Douglas J.
Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, 2005. 255 pp. $59.95.

"Beyond Monotheorism"
By Lieberman, E. James
In PsycCRITIQUES. 2005 Vol 50 (23)
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A Historical Dictionary of Psychiatry
By Shorter, Edward
New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. 338 pp. $49.95.

"History With Pleasure"
By Lieberman, E. James
In PsycCRITIQUES. 2005 Vol 50 (39)
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Freud
By Lear, Jonathan
New York: Routledge, 2005. 278 pp. $88.00, hardcover; $22.95, paperback.

"Philosophizing Freud"
By Lieberman, E. James
PsycCRITIQUES. 2006 Vol 51 (2)
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The Ethics of Identity
By Appiah, Kwame Anthony
In Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005. 376 pp. $29.95.

"Our Wills Are Gardeners"
By Lieberman, E. James
In PsycCRITIQUES. 2006 Vol 51 (19)
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Oxford textbook of philosophy of psychiatry
By Fulford, K. W. M. (Ed); Thornton, Tim (Ed); Graham, George (Ed)
In New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. 872 pp. + CD-ROM. $110.00, paperback.

"The courtship of philosophy and psychiatry"
By Lieberman, E. James
In PsycCRITIQUES. 2007 Vol 52 (32)
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The Rise and Fall of Soul and Self: An Intellectual History of Personal Identity
By Martin, Raymond; Barresi, John
New York: Columbia University Press, 2006. 383 pp. $29.50.

"Soul Searching With a Will"
By Lieberman, E. James
In PsycCRITIQUES. 2007 Vol 52 (33)
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Self: Ancient and Modern Insights About Individuality, Life, and Death
By Sorabji, Richard
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. 400 pp. $35.00.

"Self-Searching"
By Lieberman, E. James
PsycCRITIQUES. 2007 Vol 52 (33)
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Alone Together: How Marriage in America Is Changing
by Paul R. Amato, Alan Booth, David R. Johnson, and Stacy J. Rogers
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007. 332 pp. ISBN 978-0-6740-2281-2. $45.00

"Separate but Equal at Home"
By Lieberman, E. James
PsycCRITIQUES. 2007 Vol 52 (52)

Acts of Will: The Life and Work of Otto Rank
Once Freud’s closest associate, Otto Rank pulled away from the psychoanalytic movement, breaking new ground in psychotherapy while his former colleagues tried to bury him. His ideas are now mainstream in mental health, his contributions praised by Ernest Becker, Irvin Yalom, Anthony Storr, Anais Nin, Henry Miller, Paul Goodman.

“Rank’s ideas were so profound, so ineffable, so far ahead of his time.”
Notable book, The New Republic.

Major reviews in The New York Times and TLS (London).
French edition 1991, German 1997.

Like It Is: A Teen Sex Guide
One million teen women become pregnant each year, 80 percent unintentionally; half choose abortion. One quarter of sexually active teens contract an infection. School courses skirt controversial topics such as contraception, abortion, masturbation; many push abstinence-only philosophy. This book, a father-daughter effort, is frank, respectful, accurate, affirmative.

Psychology and the Soul by Otto Rank, co-translated and introduced by EJL
Originally published in German, 1930, incompletely translated in 1950, greatly influenced Ernest Becker and others; newly translated in 1998, paperback 2003.

“Often illuminating, sometimes profound, always personal. There is a knowable and affecting mind behind nearly every sentence…splendid translation.”