These are essays and critiques on psychological and therapeutic issues. Hopefully they can be read by anyone.

BERNARD APFELBAUM, Ph.D.
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On The Capacity to Feel Unempathic; with a note on forgiveness work.
A Murder Mystery
The Case of Tony Soprano & Dr. Melfi
 One Sided Intimacy: The Couple Sex Therapy of David Schnarch
How to be an Instant Ego Analyst
Dan Wile on Becoming a Spokesperson

 Basic
Vignettes (Ego Analysis for Smarties)
On Entitlement to Feelings
The Shame-Blame Reflex
What Creates Negative Self-Talk

Key Idea
The Focus of Ego Analysis

Psychoanalysis
Interpretive Neutrality
Analyzing, not Psychoanalyzing
A Key to Where the Bodies are Buried in Psychoanalysis. .

A Look at Other Therapies
Ego Analysis, A Formal Introduction
Ego Analysis as a Deeper Cognitive Therapy
Ego Analysis vs. Id Analysis in a Brief Therapy Case
Ego Analysis vs. Self Psychology
The Two Analyses of Mr. Z, Plus Two

Some Theoretical Issues
How Id Analysis is Still With Us
Depth Interpretations Vs. Ego Interpretations
Conceptual Bio
Debate Between Kohut and Kernberg
A Skeleton Key to Drive Theory vs.Object Relations Theories

Applying This View
Feeling Entitled to Your  Experience. An Illustration
Patients as Informants About the Human Condition
On Secondary Journal Dysfunction
"No One Can Make You Have a Feeling"

On Sex
Professional Sex Films & Videos vs. Sexual Reality
On Performance-Anxiety Anxiety
If He's So Turned On, Why Aren't I?
Sexual Reality and How We Dismiss it
Unsolved Mysteries of Sexual Response
On Being Misquoted by Salon.com


 

 

Bibliography
Ego Analysis,  Psychoanalysis
General psychotherapy 
Sex therapy 
Reviews

Links  
bio note
Dan Wile's Site
"A Confusion of Tongues," review of  Hamilton's "The Analyst's Preconscious" 
Panel: Hostility in Couple Relationships (tape)
Counterbypassing (tape)
Note on Alice Miller, New York Times Book Review

"Retarded  Ejaculation, A Much Misunderstood Syndrome," in Princ. & Pract. Sex Ther.. Guilford Press

"A Case of Desire Disparity," in Case Studies in Sex Therapy. Guilford Press  
"What the Sex Therapies Tell us About Sex." in New Directions in  Sex Ther. Brunner-Routledge Books   See review
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comments, questions
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