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Writing & Film

Dr. Joseph H. Berke's writings, films and other publications in areas of psychotherapy, the 60's counter culture as well as Judaism and Chabad. 

"The Jewish Mystical Tradition & Psychoanalysis"

Academy of Jerusalem, psychoanalysis-and-therapy.com October 1997

Dr. Joseph H. Berke

"Yankel"

In Between the Lines: Explorations of Jewish Mysticism, Identy, and Self Transformation,Vol. 1, No. 2, June 1998

Dr. Joseph H. Berke with Gedaliah Fleer

"The Psychological Understanding of Muslim Terrorism"

psychoanalysis-and-therapy.com, 2006

Dr. Joseph H. Berke with Stanley Schneider

"The Fickle Fix: Report on a Report on Drug Addiction"

The Radical Therapist, Vol. 1, No. 2, 1970.

Dr. Joseph H. Berke

"Continuing Kingsley Hall"

The New York Review of Books, 3 June 1971

Dr. Joseph H. Berke

"ECT: The Slaughterhouse Discovery"

General Practitioner, April 1972

Dr. Joseph H. Berke

"The Arbours: A Place of Quiet"

Quadrille, fall 1973, republished in Self & Society, Oct. 1973

Dr. Joseph H. Berke

"On the Multigenerational Study of the Family of the Schizophrenic"

Arbours Network, No. 8, 1975, also French and Spanish editions.

Dr. Joseph H. Berke with Leon Redler

"The Case of Susan and Peter: The Psychotherapeutic Treatment of an Acute Psychotic Episode at the Arbours Crisis Centre"

Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy, Vol. 12, No. 2, 1981, also Spanish edition

Dr. Joseph H. Berke

"Envy Loveth Not: A Study of the Origin, Influence and Confluence of Envy and Narcissism"

British Journal of Psychotherapy, Vol. 1, No. 3, Winter 1985

Dr. Joseph H. Berke

"Shame and Envy"

British Journal of Psychotherapy, Vol. 2, No. 4, 1986

Dr. Joseph H. Berke

"Penis Greed"

British Journal of Psychotherapy, Vol. 5, No. 3, Winter 1989

Dr. Joseph H. Berke

"The Conjoint Therapy of Severely Disturbed Individuals within a Therapeutic Milieu"

International Journal of Therapeutic Communities, Vol. 10, No. 4, Winter 1990

Dr. Joseph H. Berke

"R. D. Laing"

British Journal of Psychotherapy, Vol. 7, No. 2, Winter 1990

Dr. Joseph H. Berke

"Arriving, settling-in, settling-down, leaving and following-up: Stages of stay at the Arbours Centre"

British Journal of Medical Psychology, Vol. 60, Spring 1987

Dr. Joseph H. Berke

"Psychosis and Malice"

The Psychoanalytic Review,Vol.78, No 1, Spring 1991

Dr. Joseph H. Berke

"Antithetical Meanings of the 'Breast"

The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 75, Part 3, June 1994

Dr. Joseph H. Berke with Stanley Schneider

"The Good and the Bad Therapist"

Medical Psychotherapy, Vol. 10, Issues 2-3, Fall 1994

Dr. Joseph H. Berke

"Psychotic Interventions at the Arbours Crisis Centre"

British Journal of Psychotherapy, Vol. 10, No 3, Spring 1994

Dr. Joseph H. Berke

"Breast, Robbery or the Devil?"

The Jewish Bible Quarterly, Vol. XXIII, No. 2 (90), April-June 1995

Dr. Joseph H. Berke with Stanley Schneider

"When Little Men Become Big"

History Today Vol. 45, No. 4, April 1995

Dr. Joseph H. Berke

"The Wellsprings of Fascism: Individual Malice, Group Hatreds and the Emergence of National Narcissism"

Free Associations, Vol. 6, Part 3 (Number 39), 1996

Dr. Joseph H. Berke

"Psychoanalysis & Kabbalah"

The Psychoanalytic Review, Vol. 83, No.6, December 1996. Romanian translation: Omen: Revista de Psihanaliza, No 8, 2001

Dr. Joseph H. Berke

"Medication as Panacea"

Group Analysis, 30:3, 1997

Dr. Joseph H. Berke with Stanley Schneider

"Womb Envy"

Journal of Melanie Klein and Object Relations, Vol. 15, No, 3, September 1997

Dr. Joseph H. Berke

"Reality, Words and Universes"

Michlol, Vol. 19, pp 79-85, 1999/5760 (Hebrew)

Dr. Joseph H. Berke with Stanley Schneider

"Chassidus & Psychoanalysis"

Concord, Vol.29, No.2, December 2000

Dr. Joseph H. Berke

"Arbours Crisis Centre: 25th Anniversary, Introduction to the Celebration"

British Journal of Psychotherapy, Vol. 17, No. 2, Winter 2000

Dr. Joseph H. Berke

"The Rebbe RaShAB and Sigmund Freud"

Concord, Vol. 29, No.1, October 2000

Dr. Joseph H. Berke

"Sigmund Freud and the Lubavitcher Rebbe"

The Psychoanalytic Review, Vol. 87, No. 1 Feb 2000

Dr. Joseph H. Berke with Stanley Schneider

"A Tale of Two Orphans: The Limits of Categorisation"

Mental Health, Religion & Culture, Vol. 4 No 1, Spring 2001. Spanish Translation: Clinica y Analysis Grupal, Vol. 23, 2001. Republished: Concord, Vol. 30, December 2001

Dr. Joseph H. Berke with Stanley Schneider

"Trick or Treat: the Divided Self of R.D. Laing"

Janus Head, Pittsburgh, PA, Vol. 4, No. 1, 2001.

Dr. Joseph H. Berke

"When Does a Beginning Begin, and When Can an Ending End?"

Journal of the Crisis Centre, No.12, 2002

Dr. Joseph H. Berke

"The Arbours 30+ Years"

ISPS Newsletter, No.2, January 2002

Dr. Joseph H. Berke

"The Right to be at Risk"

Free Associations, Vol. 10, Part Four, No. 56, 2003

Dr. Joseph H. Berke

"Repairing Worlds. An Exploration of the Psychoanalytical and Kabbalistic Concepts of Reparation and Tikkun."

Psychoanalytic Review, Vol. 90, No. 5, 2003.

Dr. Joseph H. Berke with Stanley Schneider

"Whose in Charge Here? Projective Processes of course!"

Therapeutic Communities, Vol. 24, No. 4, 2003

Dr. Joseph H. Berke

"On the Paintings of Mary Barnes"

The Joint Newsletter, No. 10, Spring 2004

Dr. Joseph H. Berke

"Crisis at the Arbours Crisis Centre"

Therapeutic Communities, Vol 25, No. 1, 2004, The Joint Newsletter, No. 10, Spring 2004. Also published in The Joint Newsletter, No. 10, Spring 2004

Dr. Joseph H. Berke with P. Williams, K. Navaratnem, L. Elliot & S. Whittle

"Discovering Oneself: Kabbalah & Psychoanalysis"

Midstream, Volume 51, No. 6, Nov/Dec 2005

Dr. Joseph H. Berke with Stanley Schneider

"The Self and the Soul"

Mental Health, Religion and Culture, Vol 9, No. 2, 2006

Dr. Joseph H. Berke with Stanley Schneider

"The Creative Use of Countertransference"

British Journal of Psychotherapy, Vol 22, No. 3, 2006

Dr. Joseph H. Berke with Kannan Navaretnem, Tamar Schonfield

"Nothingness and Narcissism"

Mental Health, Religion and Culture, Vol. 10, No. 4, 2007

Dr. Joseph H. Berke with Stanley Schneider

"The Oceanic Feeling, Mysticism and Kaballah - Freud's Historical Roots"

Psychoanalytic Review, Vol 95, No.1, 2008

Dr. Joseph H. Berke with Stanley Schneider

"Camel Through the Eye of a Needle"

International Journal of Psychoanalysis, Vol 90, 2009

Dr. Joseph H. Berke with Stanley Schneider

"Some Considerations about the Therapeutic Potential of Regression"

Psychosis, Volume 2, No3, October 2010

Dr. Joseph H. Berke

"Freud's Meeting with Rabbi Alexandre Safran"

Psychoanalysis and History, 2009, Vol. 12, No. 1, 2010

Dr. Joseph H. Berke with Stanley Schneider

"Answering a Question with a Question: Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Jewish Thought"

Shofar, 2011

Dr. Joseph H. Berke with Stanley Schneider

"Freud's Atonement"

Mental Health, Religion and Culture, Vol 13, 2011.

Dr. Joseph H. Berke with Stanley Schneider

"On Sulking"

June 2012

Dr. Joseph H. Berke

"Joseph Berke, M.D." (For the reunion of the Class of 1964)

AECM Magazine

Dr. Joseph H. Berke

"Why a mystical etrog will make its comeback at the weekend"

The Jewish Chronicle, 7 February 2020, p.33.

Simon Rocker

"Arboreal delights" The Highgate Haggadah for Tu Bishvat

The Jerusalem Report, 10 February 2020, pp. 44-45

Mordechai Beck

Dr. Berke published some of his works under Teva Publications, named after his Golden Retriever, Teva, who he described as a beloved companion and co-therapist.   

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