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
Worcester State Hospital.
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, Clark University.
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,
Clark University.
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, Clark University.
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.
Hastings Center 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 Clark University 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. Syracuse U. 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