Recent Publications (2006-2018)
Silverman, M.A. (2006). Review of Misunderstanding Freud (2004), by Arnold Goldberg. Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 75:591-602.
Silverman, M.A. (2006). Review of The Birth of the Mind: how a Tiny Number of Genes Creates the Complexities of Human Thought (2004), by Gary Marcus. Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 75: 898-907.
Silverman, M.A. (2006). Review of The Gaddini-Winnicott Correspondence, 1964 to 1970: Psychoanalysis and History (2003), edited by Andrea Sabbadini. Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 75:1220-1226.
Silverman, M. A. (2007). The psychoanalyst as a new old object, an old new object and a brand new object: reflections on Loewald’s ideas about the role of internalization in life and in psychoanalytic treatment. Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 76:1153-1169.
Silverman, M. A. (2008). Review of Working with Parents Makes Therapy Work (2005), by Kelly Kerry Novick and Jack Novick. Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 77: 357-364.
Silverman, M. A. (2008). Review of Walking Heads: The Secret Fantasy of Being an Exception (2005), by Antonie Ladan. Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 77: 634-639.
Silverman, M. A. (2008). Review of Edward Bibring Photographs the Psychoanalysts of His Time 1932-1938 (2005), edited by Sanford Gifford, Daniel Jacobs, and Vivien Goldman. Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 77: 1305-1307.
Silverman, M. A. (2009). Review of Escape from Selfhood: Breaking Boundaries and Craving for Oneness (2007), by Ilany Kogan. Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 78: 287-293.
Silverman, M. A. (2010). Review of Endings: On Termination in Psychoanalysis (2008), by Fausto Ferraro and Alessandro Garella. Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 79: 835-844.
Silverman, M. A. (2010). Psychoanalysis and the treatment of psychosis. Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 79: 795-817.
Silverman, M. A. (2010). Madeleine and Willy Baranger on the Analytic Field. Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 79: 1141-1143.
Silverman, M. A. (2011). The significance of early mother-child interaction for understanding the art of psychoanalysis and for the psychoanalytic understanding of art. Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 80: 171-186.
Silverman, M. A. (2011). Review of One Hundred Years of Psychoanalysis: A Timeline 1900-2000 (2000), by Elisabeth Young-Bruehl and Christine Dunbar. Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 80: 210-214.
Silverman, M. A. (2011). Capturing and comprehending Bion’s ideas about the analyst’s container function: the need for containing states of mind. Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 80: 475-491.
Silverman, M. A. (2011). Review of Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain (2007), by Oliver Sacks. Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 80: 743-751.
Silverman, M. A. (2011). Review of Music in the Head (2009), by Leo Rangell. Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 80: 743-751.
Silverman, M. A. (2012). On myths and myth-making: psychoanalytic theorizing about mother-daughter relationships and the female “Oedipus complex.” Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 81: 727-750.
Silverman, M. A. (2012). Review of Wearing My Tutu to Analysis and Other Stories (2011), edited by Kerry L. Malawista, Anne J. Adelman, and Catherine L. Anderson. Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 81: 783-789.
Silverman, M. A. (2012). A quantum mechanical introduction of two reviews of Lear on irony. Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 81: 955-958.
Silverman, M. A. (2012). Review of Woman’s Uncanscious Use of her Body: A Psychoanalytic Perspective (2010 [1993]), by Dinora Pines. Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 81: 999-1007.
Roelke, D., Goldschmidt, H., & Silverman, M. A. (2013). Sentio ergo cogito: Damasio on the role of emotion in the evolution of the brain. Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 82: 193-202.
Silverman, M. A. (2013). Review of Technique in Child and Adolescent Analysis (2011), edited by Michael Gunter. Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 82: 528-535.
Silverman, M. A. (2013). Review of Created in Our Own Images.com. Pygmalian and Galatea (1896), by W. S. Gilbert. Introduction to the Art, Ethics, and Science of Cloning, edited by Fred M. Sander. Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 82: 1037-1042.
Publications and Presentations by Martin A. Silverman in 2014 and 2015
Silverman, M. A. (2014). Review of The Power of Witnessing: Reflections, Reverberations, and Traces of the Holocaust, edited by Nancy R. Goodman and Marilyn B. Meyers (2012), and of City Within a City, by Basia Temkin-Berman (2012). Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 83:187-194.
Silverman, M. A. (2014). Review of Never Again: Echoes of the Holocaust as Understood Through Film (2013), by Sylvia Levine Ginsparg, PhD. Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 83: 495-503.
Silverman, M. A. (2014). When Theory Meets Practice: The Value and Limitations of
the Concept of Projective Identification. Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 83: 691-717.
Ferrell, D. R., & Silverman, M. A. (2014). A Dangerous Movie? Hollywood Does Psychoanalysis. J. Religion & Health, 53 (6): 1841-1856.
Silverman, M. A. (2015). Review of Diagnosing the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (2014), by Rachel Cooper. Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 84:239-247.
Silverman, M. A. (2015). The Third Reich in the Third Person: Exhuming the Horrors of the Holocaust. Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 84:479-492.
Silverman, M. A. (2015). Review of Animal Killer: Transmission of War Trauma from One Generation to the Next (2014), by Vamik Volkan, Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 84:510-517.
Silverman, M.A. (2016) "The Sorrows of Young Werther and Goethe's Understanding of Melancholia," in Psychoanal. Q., 85:199-209.
"One Brain, Two Minds: An Essay on Primordial and Advanced Mental Activity," Psychoan. Q., 85:759-777, 2016.
(2016). Review of The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in Our Times. By Barbara Taylor. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2015, 295 pp. Psychoanal. Q., 85:990-996.
2016). Review of When the Sun Bursts: The Enigma of Schizophrenia. By Christopher Bollas. New Haven, CT/London: Yale University Press, 2015, 226 pp. Psychoanal. Q., 85:996-1008.
(2017). Review of My Mother’s Eyes: Holocaust Memories of a Young Girl. By Anna Ornstein and Stewart Goldman. OH: Emmis Books, 2004. Psychoan. Q., 86:190-198.
(2017). Psychoanalytic Field Theory: Good for All Analysts. In: Advances in Psychoanalytic Field Theory. Concept and Future Development. Edited by S. Montana Katz, Roosevelt Cassorla, and Giuseppe Civitarese. London & New York: Routledge, pp. 67-90.
(2017). On the Birth and Development of Psychoanalytic Field Theory—Part 1. Psychoanal. Q., 86:699-729.
(2017). On the Birth and Development of Psychoanalytic Field Theory—Part 2. Psychoanal. Q., 86: 919-932.
(2018). Death as the Ultimate Castration. Psychoanal. Inquiry 38: in press.
as a Distinguished Visiting Scholar by the Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute and brainSociety, September 5-7, 2014. He presented his paper, “Spontaneity and Restraint in Child Analytic Work: The Analysis of a Four-and-a-Half Year Old Boy Who Had Dropped Out of the World,” at an open meeting of the Society. He conducted a teaching session for child analytic candidates, one of whom presented a case for discussion. Then he presented a paper, “Reality is Real,” at an Institute Faculty Seminar.
Dr. Silverman presented “Screen Memories, the Dream Screen, and Communication” at the New York Psychoanalytic Society on February 2, 2015.
Dr. Silverman was the prepared discussant of a paper on “Psychoanalytic Field Theory—An Introduction” by Montana Katz, Ph.D., at the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis on March 8, 2015.
Dr. Silverman was the prepared discussant of a paper on “Gender Dysphoria in a Three-and-a-Half Year Old Boy” by Nathaniel Donson, MD, at the New Jersey Psychoanalytic Society on March 12, 2015.
Dr. Silverman presented his paper, “Spontaneity and Restraint in Child Analysis: The Analysis of a Four-and-a-Half Year Old Boy Who Dropped Out of the World” at the International Psycho-Analytical Association Congress in Boston on July 25, 2015.
Dr. Silverman presented his paper "Divorce Is Not Good for Children and Other Living Things," to the Mahler Symposium in Philadelphia, April 16, 2016.
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