Product Description: What can psychoanalysis contribute to an understanding of the etiology, treatment, and prevention of substance abuse? Here, Louis Berger contests both the orthodox view of substance abuse as a "disease" explicable within the medical model, and the fashionable dissenting view that substance abuse is a habit controllable through the "willpower" fostered by superficial treatment approaches...read more

Product Description: Humanity’s Madness: Consequences of Becoming Literate is the last in a trilogy that includes Averting Global Extinction (Jason Aronson, 2009) and Language and the Ineffable (Lexington Books, 2011). This accessible but highly unconventional book extends and integrates decades of the author’s published and unpublished precursor work on language and sociocultural pathology...read more

Product Description: One's conception of language is central in fields such as linguistics, but less obviously so in fields studying matters other than language. In Language and the Ineffable Louis S. Berger demonstrates the flaws of the received view of language and the difficulties they raise in multiple disciplines...read more

Product Description: 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...read more

Product Description: Continuing his earlier unconventional critiques and proposals concerning the misapplication of science to psychotherapy, the author presents a radical approach based on psychoanalysis and Aristotle's unorthodox and virtually unknown conception of praxis...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Book by Berger, Louis S.