Josh Maserow, Author at Public Seminar

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How Stories Knock on the Inside of My Head

An interview with Alice Barber

June 21, 2019 • by Josh Maserow and Alice Barber

--- Public Seminar [PS]: Thank you for this wonderful, literary meditation on your therapeutic work. I was immediately struck by the gentleness and vulnerability of the voice and language you found to write about such delicate subject matter – childhood abuse, trauma, neglect, loss and environmental alienation. Can you remark on ...

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An interview with Michael J Feldman

On Ghosts in Contemporary Psychoanalysis

June 5, 2019 • by Michael J. Feldman and Josh Maserow

Ghosts in the Consulting Room: Echoes of Trauma in Psychoanalysis dives into the overwhelming and often unprocessed feelings related to mourning. The book uses clinical examples of people living in a state of marginality or ongoing melancholia. Bringing together a collection of clinical and theoretical papers, Ghosts in the Consulting ...

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Psychotherapy, Emotions, Communication and The Search For Truth

An interview with Elliot Jurist

May 13, 2019 • by Elliot Jurist and Josh Maserow

In memory of Lew Aron, psychoanalyst, scholar, teacher and friend. Mentalization -- the effort to make sense of our own and others' actions, behavior, and internal states -- is something we all do. And it is a capacity that all psychotherapies aim to improve: the better we are at mentalizing, the more ...

Psychotherapy, Emotions, Communication and The Search For Truth

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What To Do About Racial Supremacy in Behavior Genetics?

An interview with Aaron Panofsky

March 12, 2019 • by Aaron Panofsky and Josh Maserow

Behavior genetics has always been a breeding ground for controversies. From the “criminal chromosome” to the “gay gene,” claims about the influence of genes like these have led to often vitriolic national debates about race, class, and inequality. In Misbehaving Science, Aaron Panofsky traces the field of behavior genetics back to its ...

What To Do About Racial Supremacy in Behavior Genetics?

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What We Must Learn from the History of French Feminism

An interview with Lisa Greenwald

March 7, 2019 • by Lisa Greenwald and Josh Maserow

Daughters of 1968: Redefining French Feminism and the Women’s Liberation Movement , by Lisa Greenwald, is the story of French feminism between 1944 and 1981, when feminism played a central political role in the history of France. The key women during this epoch were often leftists committed to a materialist critique ...

What We Must Learn from the History of French Feminism

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Treating Borderline Personality Disorder in El Barrio

An Interview with Daniel Gaztambide

March 6, 2019 • by Daniel Gaztambide and Josh Maserow

Psychoanalysis in the Barrios: Race, Class, and the Unconscious demonstrates that psychoanalytic principles can be applied successfully in disenfranchised Latino populations, refuting the misguided idea that psychoanalysis is an expensive luxury only for the wealthy. As opposed to most Latin American countries, where psychoanalysis is seen as a practice tied to ...

Treating Borderline Personality Disorder in El Barrio

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A New Way to Heal Borderline Bodies

An interview with Clara Mucci

February 12, 2019 • by Clara Mucci and Josh Maserow

Borderline Bodies: Affect Regulation Therapy for Personality Disorders, a new book by Clara Mucci connects interpersonal neurobiology, attachment theory, and psychoanalytic theory with cognitive and neuroscientific work on implicit memory, trauma theory, and dissociation to propose an integrated method for treating severe borderline and narcissistic disorders, with the prime aim of ...

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When Psychoanalysis Needs to Adapt to the Patient

An Interview with Robert Grossmark

November 19, 2018 • by Robert Grossmark and Josh Maserow

Psychoanalysts increasingly find themselves working with patients who seem to defy verbal and dialogic engagement. Such patients are challenging for a psychoanalytic approach that assumes that the patient relates in the verbal realm and is capable of reflective functioning. Both the classical stance of neutrality and abstinence and a contemporary ...

When Psychoanalysis Needs to Adapt to the Patient

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We Are All Fast Food Workers Now

An interview with Annelise Orleck

October 17, 2018 • by Annelise Orleck and Josh Maserow

In We Are All Fast-Food Workers Now, Annelise Orleck traces a new labor movement sparked and sustained by low-wage workers from across the globe. Orleck illuminates globalization as seen through the eyes of worker-activists: small farmers, fast-food servers, retail workers, hotel housekeepers, home-healthcare aides, airport workers, and adjunct professors who are fighting ...

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An Interview with Mari Ruti

Penis Envy and Other Bad Feelings

September 27, 2018 • by Mari Ruti and Josh Maserow

In Penis Envy and Other Bad Feelings: The Emotional Cost of Everyday Life Mari Ruti interweaves theoretical insight, cultural critique, feminist politics, and personal experience to lift the lid on the prevalence of bad feelings in contemporary everyday life. Emanating from a playful engagement with Freud’s idea of penis envy, Ruti’s autotheoretical ...

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Between the Language of the Universe and the Universe of Language

An Interview with Val Vinokur

November 28, 2017 • by Josh Maserow

–Franz Rosenzweig On December 1st, the New School hosts a “Day of Translation: the Art of Losing and Finding” in Wollman Hall, beginning at noon with the launch of Ahmad Al-Ashqar’s book Advances in Embroidery: Poems, with Translations from at Mahmoud Darwish (Poets & Traitors Press); a 1:15pm Translators’ Reading and ...