Issues in Psychoanalysis and Psychology: Annotated Collected Papers is a collection of 34 papers, reprints of papers originally published in journals or read at conferences, 1978-2002. The topics include philosophy (epistemology, ontology, Aristotelian praxis) of psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, general and cultural psychology. In four parts: 1) Frameworks 2) Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy 3) Society and Culture 4) General; with a newly-written preface, introductions to the parts, and introductory chapter comments.
Louis Berger is a native of Prague. His rich professional career spans the fields of electrical engineering (B.S., Princeton), music (M.M., University of Texas), physics (M.S., Trinity University), and clinical psychology (Ph.D., University of Tennessee). He was a cellist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and returned to technical work as a Senior Research Scientist at Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, Texas, initiating and conducting research in a broad variety of subject areas ranging from electromagnetic fields to speech perception in noisy environments. Ultimately he followed a long-standing, intense interest in psychoanalytically oriented therapy, returning to graduate school and completing training in psychology. After a post-doctoral fellowship at the Texas Research Institute of Mental Sciences in the Houston Medical Center he began a long career as a therapist, academician, and consultant that includes an appointment as Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Louisville School of Medicine. He was in private practice until he returned to Southwest Research Institute in 1990 to serve in the newly established position of Staff Psychologist. Currently he resides in rural Central Georgia.
His most recent books make up the trilogy Humanity's Madness: Consequences of Becoming Literate (2011 -- a Kindle Book); Language and the Ineffable: A Developmental Perspective and Its Applications (Lexington Books, 2011); and Averting Global Extinction: Our Irrational Society as Therapy Patient (Jason Aronson, 2009). Earlier publications include The Unboundaried Self (2005), Psychotherapy as Praxis (2002), Substance Abuse as Symptom (1991), Psychoanalytic Theory and Clinical Relevance (1985), Introductory Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences (1981), and over 50 professional papers and book reviews, most of which are republished in Issues in Psychoanalysis and Psychology: Annotated Collected Papers (2002).
