"The Full Story by No Means All Told": Harry Stack Sullivan at Sheppard-Pratt, 1922-1930.

Harry Stack Sullivan (1892-1949) is well known for his interpersonal theory of mental illness, but little is known about how he actually worked as a clinician with patients. This article examines a pivotal time in Sullivan's career at Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital in Baltimore from 1922 to 1930. Using clinical records as well as published writings, the article focuses on 2 crucial issues that are not fully addressed either in Sullivan's published writings or in past studies of him: first, his treatment as a gay psychiatrist of patients who he believed had homosexual orientations; second, the intellectual and institutional paradigm in psychiatry that influenced his practice. Finally, this article addresses the circumstances surrounding Sullivan's departure from Sheppard-Pratt, suggesting psychiatry's limited confrontation with the social stigmatization of homosexuality. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Review of Heinz Kohut: The making of a psychoanalyst.

Reviews the book, Heinz Kohut: The making of a psychoanalyst by Charles B. Strozier (see record 2001-00786-000). Strozier engages in a roller-coaster approach to the telling of Kohut's life. Just when you are feeling sorry for him because of what he had to endure, you are yanked back into idealizing him again. This book is mostly quite readable but bogs down when Strozier attempts to educate the reader about Kohut's theories. As the only record we have of Kohut's life, Strozier's book is invaluable and will be of interest to anyone concerned with psychoanalysis. But I hope that somewhere down the line there will be another biography that is not so intent on de-idealizing him and will provide a more integrated and insightful tale of this very complicated and compelling man. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Review of Fury on earth: A biography of Wilhelm Reich.

Argues that Fury on Earth is the finest book on Reich's work and his life. It is a professional piece of scholarship that may well, until the Reich Archives are finally opened, remain definitive on the subject. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Review of Helene Deutsch: A psychoanalyst's life.

Reviews the book, Helene Deutsch: A psychoanalyst's life by Paul Roazen (see record 1992-97543-000). In this biography of over 391 pages, Paul Roazen describes the life of Helene Deutsch, seen by many historians of psychology as one of Freud's best-known and favourite students and a major contributor to psychoanalysis in her own right. Each of the three sections in the book concentrates on a major episode and station in her life: Poland, Vienna, and finally Massachusetts. Roazen carefully describes Helene's family background, her circle of friends, her romance with Felix Deutsch, and of course her relationship with Freud. The book reads much like a shortened psychoanalysis of Helene Deutsch herself. A good biography should not only describe an individual's contribution to a profession, but also this contribution should become understandable as an outgrowth of the cultural heritage, the Zeitgeist, and the unique life history of the individual. Roazen has clearly succeeded in doing that. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Harry Levinson.

Recognizes Harry Levinson for his contributions to knowledge in professional practice, which derive from his unique skill in taking psychological theory and knowledge and showing how it applies to the everyday functioning of organizations. He embarked on a lifetime career of helping people to better understand the functioning of people in organizations and to use that understanding to help themselves and their organizations function both more effectively and more humanely. A citation is presented for Levinson, along with a biography and selected bibliography of his works. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Harry F. Harlow: American Psychological Foundation Gold Medal Award.

Recognizes receipt of the American Psychological Foundation Gold Medal Award. Harry F. Harlow is this year's recipient of the Gold Medal Award. The accompanying article notes that Dr. Harlow has built a distinguished scientific career upon the study of basic psychological phenomena that are simultaneously of great scientific interest and great social importance. It is fair to say that, while he has been concerned with learning and behavior changes accompanying maturation from infancy to adulthood, and while he has shown some interest in therapeutic communities, a larger share of his attention has been given to affective behavior--especially to the affective relations between parents and offspring and to the pathologies of these relations. The American Psychological Association Foundation presents its Gold Medal Award to a senior American psychologist in recognition of a distinguished and long-continued record of scientific and scholarly accomplishment. With the Medal goes a cash award of $1,000. Past recipients of the Gold Medal Award are Robert Sessions Woodworth, Edwin R. Guthrie, Edwin G. Boring, John F. Dashiell, Walter R. Miles, Gordon W. Allport, Heinrich Kliiver, Karl M. Dallenbach, Floyd H. Allport, Henry A. Murray, Sidney L. Pressey, B. F. Skinner, and Gardner Murphy. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Review of Three men: An experiment in the biography of emotion.

Reviews the book, Three men: An experiment in the biography of emotion by Jean Evans (1954). The unusual quality of Evans' writing lies in the happy blend she has achieved of the good qualities of both artist and scientist. The first two "portraits" in this book are of men at least a significant portion of whose lives was lived under conditions of real poverty. In the case of the third man, however, this was not the case. "Martin Beardson's" father was a prosperous business man, his mother an "upper class" woman of "genteel tradition." "Except for brief periods, and then only in recent years, Martin has never known deprivation in terms of food, clothing, and comfortable shelter. By realistic standards he also enjoyed many luxuries . . . . Yet Martin has always had a sense of poverty no less poignant than if he had been a slum child, and a sense of grievance no less biting than if he had lived all his life on the periphery of want" (p. 195). This is a book that will be read with pleasure and pondered with profit by many scientists and professionals in clinical, social, and dynamic psychology, in sociology, psychotherapy, social work, and a number of other related fields. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Review of My Life in Theory.

Reviews the book, My Life in Theory by Leo Rangell (see record 2004-12815-000). Leo Rangell has been a central figure in the theoretical, clinical, and organizational aspects of psychoanalysis for over 6 decades. He is the only native-born American to become Honorary President of the International Psychoanalytic Association, where he twice was elected President. He also served 2 terms as President of the American Psychoanalytic Association. One might therefore view him and this intellectual autobiography as the voice of the ultimate "insider." To do so would, however, miss the independence and humanness of the author. Actually, this "autobiography" consists of several parallel strains. It is indeed a history of Rangell's lifetime journey and love affair with psychoanalysis; it is a critique of the direction that psychoanalysis has taken, and subsequently a call for a total composite theory, and finally, it is an attempt to set the record straight. Rangell states: "My goal has always been, and it is in this book, to present a view of a unitary psychoanalytic theory as this has cumulatively grown and progressed over the century" (p.50). (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Obituary: Harry Kelson (1898-1977).

If neonates can see colors, Harry Helson could see them for the first time on November 9, 1898, in Chelsea, Massachusetts, and he could have seen them for the last time on October 13, 1977, in Berkeley, California. Colors constituted perhaps his dominant interest in his professional life. Harry's academic career was characterized by a relatively rapid rise in rank. Perhaps because of a personal trait of restlessness, but more assuredly because his services were in great demand, he made an unusual number of changes of academic affiliations. Of Harry's personal characteristics, the most apparent ones were his activeness, his wit, and his enthusiasm, the last not only for ideas but also in his personal relations. He was not a joiner, but he was warm and outgoing and was often the life of the party. Intellectually, he was strongest in the area of seeing implications and also in the area of evaluating them. These dispositions showed in his quickness to see problems and their significance and to generate hypotheses, all marks of a creative scientist. He was also a keen observer and judge of people and their actions, traits in the area of social intelligence. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Review of Lay Analysis: Life Inside the Controversy.

Review of book: Robert S. Wallerstein. Lay Analysis: Life Inside the Controversy. Hillsdale, NJ: Analytic Press, 1998, 511 pp. Reviewed by Nathan G. Hale. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Executive dilemmas: Coaching and the professional perspectives of Harry Levinson.

This paper is a revision and extension of a paper presented at the 2006 American Psychological Association Convention as a result of the senior author's receipt of the Harry and Miriam Levinson Award in 2005. Coauthored with Harry Levinson, it presents a complex case vignette, describes 9 core concepts either introduced or emphasized by him during his career, and then applies these concepts to the case study. The article provides a brief overview of the significant contributions to the field of consulting psychology made by Harry Levinson during his career and how they can be applied in executive coaching engagements. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Award for distinguished contributions to the international advancement of psychology: Harry C. Triandis.

Harry C. Triandis has been instrumental in establishing cross-cultural psychology as a distinct discipline within psychology. His accomplishments in this international component of the field have included major theoretical and methodological innovations as well as educational and leadership contributions. The six-volume Handbook of Cross-Cultural Psychology, published in 1980 under his general editorship, is widely considered an important milestone in the development of the discipline and is a testament to his stature in the field and to his unique abilities to integrate divergent perspectives from around the world. In more recent years Harry Triandis has focused on the study of cultural syndromes like individualism and collectivism. This article discusses Harry C. Triandis's life and his dedication to the field of psychology. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Review of Employment psychology: The interview.

Reviews the book "Employment psychology: The interview" by Roger M. Bellows and M. Frances Estep (see record 1955-01632-000). This text was "written for professional interviewers and for students of applied psychology who desire to become acquainted with the uses and limitations of the interview in selection of personnel." At the outset, the authors list requirements of self-training aimed at helping the interviewer to become more proficient. The emphasis then throughout the text is that the selection interview using the so-called talking methods alone lacks validity and utility. More objective selection material must be used in conjunction with the interview if selection is the goal. The reviewer would have liked to see discussed such related topics as occupational information and attitudes, age differences in job values, and pertinent information from the counseling field pertaining to the degree of leads various interviewers use. The presentation would have been more stimulating and complete, but it is well worth reading regardless. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Review of Psychology: The adaptive mind.

Reviews the book, Psychology: The adaptive mind by James S. Nairne, Martin S. Smith, and D. Stephen Lindsay (2001). This book contains references to Canadian researchers past and present and to Canadian websites, pictures of Canadian researchers, references to Canadian incidents (the Swissair flight crash off the coast of Nova Scotia opens the text), citations to the Canadian Psychological Association as well as to Canadian funding agencies (e.g., SSHRC, NSERC), and mentions of Canadian institutions. The reviewer was impressed by the fact that the authors accomplish their Canadian task without compromising any of the classic topics and studies in the field. The authors' writing style is accessible and easy to follow. The 16 chapters are well organized and thorough. The examples are relevant and of interest to undergraduate students. This text, while not addressing the issue directly, does note that women have been overlooked in historical treatments of psychology and makes a point of including the influence of women pioneers in psychology. A second concerns the overreliance on undergraduate students as research participants representing the adult population. The reviewer find this text to rank among the best when considering Introductory Psychology textbooks. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Obituary: Harry Frederick Harlow (1905-1981).

Obituary for Harry Frederick Harlow (1905-1981). Harlow's research career, spanning a full half century, was notable for its single-minded adherence to the search for understanding of a single species, for the imaginative methods he devised for the study of both cognition and motivation, and for the crucially important findings these methods provided. His careful empirical development of the facts of behavioral development led to prepositional generalizations that have contributed notably to an understanding of human as well as monkey motivational development. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Review of Martin Buber: The hidden dialogue.

Reviews the book, Martin Buber: The hidden dialogue by Dan Avnon (1998). In this exciting and instructive volume, the author carefully examines the main themes and thrusts of Martin Buber's radical philosophy of dialogue. In recent years it has become increasingly clear that Buber's vision of the basic nature of human existence is not only profound in its intellectual scope and sophistication, but also deeply disturbing in its moral and ethical implications. This fine book, however, seeks to redress this unfortunate shortcoming in the literature—and, all things considered, does a more than adequate job of it. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Review of Understanding transference: The CCRT method.

Reviews the book, Understanding transference: The CCRT method by Lester Luborsky and Paul Crits-Cristoph (1990). Understanding transference: The CCRT method presents a detailed overview of the research of Lester Luborsky, Paul Crits-Christoph, and their colleagues at the Penn Center for Psychotherapy Treatment and Research. Luborsky is one of the pioneers of psychoanalytic process research over the past 30 years. Since the late Seventies, he has elaborated the concept of the core conflictual relationship theme (CCRT). In this important book, the authors describe the evolution of the concept, present research in a number of areas using the CCRT, and give clinical applications of the CCRT. Reflecting the title, the authors are also interested in comparing the CCRT with Freud's writing on transference. Another aspect of the group's work is an interest in the concept of narrative, both as a unit of study and as a theoretical issue. In this review, Rosbrow tries to explain their concepts, elaborate key findings which are striking and clinically significant, and discuss theoretical issues--both those raised explicitly by the authors and also those stimulated by reading this book. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Review of Growing old: The ultimate freedom.

Reviews the book, Growing old: The ultimate freedom by Maxwell Jones (see record 1989-97554-000). Jones has written a small thoughtful book on the problems and possibilities of being old. Growing old, in Jones's view, gives one the freedom to do things that have been sacrificed to the necessities of one's career. Jones knows that one must enjoy a certain standard of living to have the luxury to use old age to search for the meaning of life; many have to occupy their years--the late as well as the early ones--with daily survival. He is also frank about the psychological problems associated with growing old. Jones advocates finding or creating a social network of people with whom one can share deep fears and intellectual passions. Throughout the five chapters of his brief book, Jones emphasizes the need for a supportive network as one confronts the increasing isolation of old age. The significance of this book lies not in the particular preoccupations of Max Jones's own old age, but in his observations that age grants us the freedom to chart the tantalizing wilderness we left aside while we spent our working lives on more immediate problems. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)