Dr. Joseph H. Berke

SOCIETIES

Royal Society of Medicine
Association of Arbours Psychotherapist & Psychodiagnosticians
Psychotherapy centre American board of Medical Psychotherapists & Psychodiagnosticians
United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy

PROFESSIONAL PUBLICATIONS; BOOKS: (Selection)

Mary Barnes: Two Accounts of a Journey Through Madness (with Mary Barnes)
American editions: Harcourt, Brace & Jovanovitch, New York, 1971.
British editions: Penguin Books 1973
Pelican Books, 1982 (Revised, expanded edition)
Free Association Books, 1990 (2nd Revised edition)
Other Editions: Finnish, Danish, Dutch, French, Norwegian, Swedish, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, and Italian

The Cannabis Experience: An Interpretive Study of the Effects of Marijuana and Hashish (with Carvin C. Hernton)
Peter Owen Ltd, London 1974.
Quartet Books, 1976

I Haven't Had To Go Mad Here.
Pelican Books, London, 1979.
Spanish edition, 1980

The Tyranny of Malice: Exploring the Dark side of Character and Culture.
Summit Books, New York, 1988
Simon & Schuster (UK), London, 1989.

Sanctuary: The Arbours Experiance of Alternative Community Care (C0-Editor and Contributor)
Process Press, London, 1995.

Even Paranoids Have Enemies: New Perespectives on Paranoia and Persecution (Co-Editor and Contributor)
Routledge, london and New York, 1998.

IN PROGRESS

Phychoanalysis and Kabbalah (with Stanley Schneider) Commissioned by Jason Aronson Inc., New York, 1998.

Nine Faces of Truth (with Gedaliah Fleer)

The PsychoSocial Treatment of Phychosis (Co-Editor and Contributor)

Cutting, Slicing and Burning: A Study of Self-Mutilation (Co-Editor and Contributor)

OTHER MEDIA:

Stage Play:
Mary Barnes (adapted by David Edgar)
Latest performances: Mermaid Theatre, London and Odyssey Theatre, Los Angeles, 1995.
Radio Mary Barnes (adapted by David Edgar) BBC Radio 4 June 95 June 95.
Mary Barnes (available for adaptation)

BOOK CHAPTERS (Selection)

"Anti-Psychiatry - An Interview"
R. D. Laing & Anti-Phychiatry, edited by Robert Boyers and Robert Orrill, Perennial Library, Harper & Row, New York, 1971 (also republished in other anthologies in the United Stated and Europe)

"ECT: The Slaughterhouse Discovery"
L'altra pazzla: Mappa antologica de la psiqulatria alternativa, edited by Laura Forti, Foltrinelli Editore, Milan, 1975.

"An Alternative Sanctuary: The Arbours Crisis Centre"

"An Alternative Sanctuary: The Arbours Crisis Centre" Therapeutic Communities: Healing Strategies for Human Relations. edited by Uri Rueveni, Ross Speck and Joan Speck, Human Sciences Press, New York, 1982.

"Shame and Envy," The Many Faces of Shame, edited by Donald Nathanson, Guildford Publications, New York, 1987

. "Phychotic Interventions at the Arbours Crisis Centre"
Psychosis: Understanding and Treatment, edited by Jane Ellwood, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, London, 1995.

"Anti-Psychiatry: The Ethical and Practical Alternatives to Traditional Treatment"
Psychiatric Nursing: The Ethical strife, edited by P. J. Barker and Ben Davidson, Edward Arnold Ltd, London, 1995.

"Malice and Fascism"
Hate thy neighbour: The dividind lines of race and culture, edited by Susan Greenberg, Camden Press, London. 1998.

"Confusions in the Therapeutic Community" Group phychotherapy of the Phychoses, edited by Victor Schermer and Malcolm Pines, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, London.

ARTICLES AND PAPERS (Selection)

On the Multigenerational Study of the Family of the Schizophrenic" (with Leon Redler),Arbours Network, No. 8, 1975, also French and Spanish editions.

"The Case of Susan and Peter: The Psychotherapeutic Treatment of an Acute Phychotic Episode at the Arbours Crisis Centre", Journal of Contemporary Phycotherapy, Vol. 12, No. 2, 1981, also Spanish edition.

"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.

"Shame and Envy", British Journal of Psychotherapy, Vol. 2, No. 4, 1986.

"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.

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

"R. D. Laing," British Journal of Psychotherapy, Vol. 7, No. 2, Winter 1990.

"The Conjoint Therapy of Severely Disturbed Individuals within a Tharapeutic Milieu," International Journal of Therapeutic Communities, Vol. 10, No. 4, Winter 1990.

"Psychosis and Malice", The Phychoanalytic Review,Vol.78, No 1, Spring 1991

"Phychotic Interventions at the Arbours Crisis Center," British Journal of Phychotherapy, Vol. 10, No 3, Spring 1994

"The good and the Bad Therapist," The Medical Phycotherapist, Vol. 10, Issues 2-3, Fall 1994.

"Antithetical Meanings of the 'Breast'," (with Stanley Schneider), The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 75, Part 3, June 1994.

"When Little Men Become Big", History Today Vol. 45, No. 4, April 1995.

"Breast, Robbery or the Devil?" (with Stanley Schneider) The Jewish Bible Quarterly, Vol. XXIII, No. 2 (90), April-June 1995.

"Phychoanalysis & Kabbalah", The Phychoanalytic Review, Vol. 83, No.6, December 1996.

The Wellsprings of Fascism: Individual Malice, Group Hatreds and the Emergence of National Narcissism," Free Associations, Vol. 6, Part 3 (Number 39), 1996.

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

INTERNET PUBLICATIONS

"The Jewish Mystical & Phychoanalysis"ACADEMY OF JERUSALEM October 1997.

"Yankel" (with Gedaliah Fleer) In Between the Lines: Explorations of Jewish Mysticism, Identy, and Self Transformation, Vol. 1, No. 2, June 1998. email: [email protected]

INTERVIEWS

Many as in:

R. D. Laing & Anti-Phychiatry, edited by Robert Boyers and Tobert Orrill, Personal Library, Harper & Row, New York, 1971

Attraverso Lo Specchio: Un Viaggio Nella Comunita Terapeutiche Inglesi, edited by Marcello Macario, "Intervista a Joseph Berke - Arbours Association," Centro Studi "Psichitria e Territorio", Forte dei Marmi (Lucca), 1990.

The Arbours Magazine, Autumn 1991.

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