Lifetime Reading List

Dr. Mamberg’s

Lifetime Reading List

Updated 5/11/07

The following are classic works in psychology and related fields which you might want to consider reading. Since no one can Know all there is to know about psychology (or any discipline), my mentor, Bernie Kaplan, suggested keeping an ongoing, lifetime reading list. Feel free to check back here periodically for updates: I’m still entering publishing info for many works. I encourage you to start your own Reading List, tailored to your particular interests.

Psychology – General Theory

Burke, K. (1969).A grammar of motives.Berkley: U of California Press.

Burke, K. (1969).A rhetoric of motives.Berkley: U of California Press.

Jung, C. G. (1957) The undiscovered self. MA: Little, Brown & Co.

Kaplan, B. (1960). Lectures on developmental psychology, Lecture #5. Given at WorcesterStateHospital.

Kaplan, B. (1983). A trio of trials. In R. Lerner (Ed.) Developmental psychology: historical and philosophical perspectives.Hillside, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 185-227.

Kaplan, B. (1985). Notes pertaining to an exposition of a Wernerian approach. Proseminar in developmental psychology, ClarkUniversity.

Kaplan, B. (1986). Carousing with Cassirer: Commentary and reflections on Ernst Cassierer’s An Essay on Man. Hand-out for G-D and Historical Background classes, ClarkUniversity.

Kaplan, B. (1990?). Basking in Burke: Essays in explication. Handout for G-D class.

Kaplan, B. (1991). Further reflections on Werner’s Comparative Psychology of Mental Development. Hand-out from Summer I, Wernerian Weltanschauung, ClarkUniversity.

Kaplan, B., & Crockett, W. H. (1966?). Developmental analysis of modes of resolution. Chapter 65 in ?? (Ed.) Theories of cognitive consistency, 661-669.

Napier, R. W. & Gershenfeld, M. K. (2004). Groups: Theory and Experience, 7th edition,,
NY: Houghton Mifflin / Lahaska Press

Skinner, B. F. (1962).Walden Two. Macmillan.

Werner, H. (1937). Process and achievement: a basic problem of education and developmental psychology.Harvard Educational Review, 7, 353-368.

Werner, H. (1967).Comparative Psychology of Mental Development, rev. ed. Science Editions.

Werner, H. & Kaplan, B. (1963).Symbol formation: An organismic-developmental approach to the psychology of language.Hillsdale, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Psychology – Psychoanalysis

Benjamin, J. (1988).The bonds of love: psychoanalysis, feminism, and the problem of domination. NY: Random House.

Freud, S. (1917). Mourning and Melancholia.Standard Edition, v 14, 152-170.

Freud, S. (1920/1963)Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis, Standard Edition, translated by J. Strachey. NY: W. W. Norton & Co.

Freud, S. (1909)Five Lectures on Psycho-Analysis [the Clark lectures] translated by J. Strachey. NY: W. W. Norton & Co.

Freud, S. (1959)Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego, translated by J. Strachey. NY: W. W. Norton & Co.

Langs, R. (1973). Psychoanalytic concepts of psychopathology and psychotherapy, chapter 8 in The technique of psychoanalytic psychotherapy, v.1. NY: Jason Aronson, Inc.

Psychology – Humanism & Existentialism

Frankl, V. E. (1939). Man’s search for meaning. MA: Beacon Press.

Rogers, C. R. (1947). Some observations on the organization of personality.American Psychologist, 2, 358-368.

Vandenberg, B. (1991). Is Epistemology enough?: An existential consideration of development. American Psychologist, 46(12), 1278-1286.

Psychology – Clinical

Axline, V. M. (1964).Dibs in search of self. NY: Ballantine.

Block, Joel D. (2003).Naked Intimacy: How to increase true openness in your relationship. Pop Psych Literary (copyright holder) McGraw-Hill Publishers, NY.

Brandt, A. M. (1978). Racism and research: the case of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study.HastingsCenter Report 8(6), reprinted in Stombler, et al, p50-57.

Bullough, V. L. (1998).Alfred Kinsey and the Kinsey Report: Historical Overview and Lasting Contributions. Journal of Sex Research, 35 (2), 127-131.

Burr, V. (2003). Ambiguity and Sexuality in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: A Sartrean Analysis.Sexualities, 6 (3-4), 343-360.

Frank, J. D. & Frank, J. B. (1991). Persuasion and healing: A comparative study of psychotherapy, 3rd. ed. Baltimore, M.D.: John Hopkins.

Hendrix, H. (2001). Getting the love you want: A guide for couples. Owl Books.

Herman, Judith (1997). Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence--from Domestic Abuse to Political Terror. NY: Basic Books; Reprint edition.

Kaplan, B. (1962/Rev. 1981). Radical metaphor, aesthetic and the origin of language. Review of Existential Psychology and Psychiatry.

Kaplan, B. (1966). The study of language in psychiatry: The comparative developmental approach and its application to symbolization and language in psychopathology. In S. Arieti (Ed.) American handbook of psychiatry, vol. 3.New York: Basic Books.

Kaplan, B (1990).A war of words? A war of Worlds? The struggle over the definition of ‘schizophrenia.’ Paper presented at ClarkUniversity conference (July, 1990).

Kaysen, S. (1993).Girl, interrupted. NY: Vintage Books.

Kessler, S. J., (1990).The medical construction of gender: Case management of intersexed infants., Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 16 (1), 3-26.

Lerner, H. (1990) The dance of intimacy. Harper.

Lerner, H. (2005) The dance of anger. Harper.

Mamberg, M. H. (1996). Multiple Personality Disorder narratives: Psychologists’ assumptions of a unifying “self”. In J. Knuf’s (Ed.), Unity and Diversity: Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Narrative (280-294), Studies on Language and Narrative Series, vol. 4.Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky.

Michael, R. T., Gagnon, J. H. Laumann, E. O. and Kolata, G. (1995) Sex in America: A definitive survey.

Miller, A. (1983). The drama of the gifted child. NY: Penguin Books.

Miller, A. (1984). Thou shalt not be aware. NY: Penguin Books.

Miracle, A., Miracle, T. and Baumeister, R. F. (2003).Human Sexuality: Meeting your basic needs.

Muehlenhard C. & Kimes, L. A. (1999). The social construction of violence: the case of sexual and domestic violence, Personality and Social Psychology Review, 3 (3) 234-245.

Neimeyer, R. A. & Mahoney, M. J. (Eds.) (1995/2000).Constructivism in psychotherapy. Washington, D. C.: American Psychological Association.

Neimeyer, R. A. & Raskin, J. (Eds.) (2000).Constructions of disorder: Meaning-making frameworks in psychotherapy. Washington, D. C.: American Psychological Association.

Rogers, Annie G. (1996). A Shining Affliction : A Story of Harm and Healing in Psychotherapy. NY: Penguin (Non-Classics); Reprint edition.

Sacks, O. (1970).The man who mistook his wife for a hat. NY: Harper & Row.

Strong, B., DeVault, C., Sayad, B. W. and Yarber, W. L. (2005).Human sexuality: Diversity in contemporary America, 6th Edition. NY: McGraw-Hill Co., Inc.

Szasz, T. (1974).The myth of mental illness: Foundations of a theory of personal conduct, rev. ed. NY: Perennial / Harper Collins.

Szasz, T. (1978).The myth of psychotherapy.SyracuseU. Press.

Watts, A. (1961).Psychotherapy East and West. NY: Vintage Books [Random House].

Wise, T.N. (1985). Fetishism—Etiology and Treatment: A Review from Multiple Perspectives. Comprehensive Psychiatry, 26(3), pp. 249-257.

Yalom, I. (1991). Love’s Executioner.Penguin.

Yalom, I. (1995).The theory and practice of group psychotherapy.NY: Basic.

Death/Dying

Harvey, J. (Ed.) (1998). Perspectives on loss: A sourcebook. Philadelphia: Brunner

Glicksman, A., Van Haitsma, K., Mamberg, M. H., Gagnon, M., &. Brom, D. (2003). Caring for Holocaust Survivors: Re-thinking the Paradigms.Journal of Jewish Communal Service, 78(4), 148-153.

Mazel.Malkinson, R., Rubin, S. & Witztum, E. (Eds.) (2000).Traumatic and nontraumatic loss and bereavement.Madison, CT: International Universities Press.

Nadeu, J. (1997).Families making sense of death.Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Neimeyer, R. A. (Ed.) (1994).Death anxiety handbook.Philadelphia: Taylor & Francis.

Neimeyer, R. A. (Ed.) (2001).Meaning reconstruction and the experience of loss. Washington, D. C.: American Psychological Association.

Rosenblatt, P. (2000).Parent grief.Philadelphia: Brunner Routledge.

Mindfulness / stress reduction

Dass, R. (1978).Journey of Awakening: A meditator’s guidebook. NY: Bantam Books.

Dass, R. (2001).Still Here: Embracing Aging, Changing, and Dying. NY: Riverhead Books.

Gunaratana, B. H. (2002).Mindfulness in Plain English.Wisdom.

Hesse, H. (1992). Siddhartha. NY: Continuum.

Kabat-Zinn, J., Chapman, A., & Salmon, P. (1997). Relationship of cognitive and somatic components of anxiety to patient preference for different relaxation techniques. Mind/Body Medicine, 2 (3), 101-109.

Kabat-Zinn, Jon (2005). Coming to our senses: Healing ourselves and the world through mindfulness. Hyperion; Reprint edition (January 18, 2006)

Suzuki, D. T. (1964).An introduction to Zen Buddhism. NY: Grove Press.

Fromm, E. (1941). Escape from freedom. NY: Avon Books.

Useful Journals

Contemporary Psychoanalysis

Psychoanalytic Dialogues