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Writing & Film

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

"ECT: The Slaughterhouse Discovery"

Dr. Joseph H. Berke

General Practitioner, April 1972

"The Self and the Soul"

Dr. Joseph H. Berke with Stanley Schneider

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

"Womb Envy"

Dr. Joseph H. Berke

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

"Psychotic Interventions at the Arbours Crisis Centre"

Dr. Joseph H. Berke

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

"When Little Men Become Big"

Dr. Joseph H. Berke

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

"Continuing Kingsley Hall"

Dr. Joseph H. Berke

The New York Review of Books, 3 June 1971

"Psychoanalysis & Kabbalah"

Dr. Joseph H. Berke

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

"Nothingness and Narcissism"

Dr. Joseph H. Berke with Stanley Schneider

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

"Antithetical Meanings of the 'Breast"

Dr. Joseph H. Berke with Stanley Schneider

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

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

Dr. Joseph H. Berke

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

"Chassidus & Psychoanalysis"

Dr. Joseph H. Berke

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

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

Dr. Joseph H. Berke

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

"Shame and Envy"

Dr. Joseph H. Berke

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

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

Dr. Joseph H. Berke

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

"Crisis at the Arbours Crisis Centre"

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

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

"On the Paintings of Mary Barnes"

Dr. Joseph H. Berke

The Joint Newsletter, No. 10, Spring 2004

"Discovering Oneself: Kabbalah & Psychoanalysis"

Dr. Joseph H. Berke with Stanley Schneider

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

"Yankel"

Dr. Joseph H. Berke with Gedaliah Fleer

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

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

Dr. Joseph H. Berke with Stanley Schneider

Psychoanalytic Review, Vol 95, No.1, 2008

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

Dr. Joseph H. Berke

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

"Freud's Atonement"

Dr. Joseph H. Berke with Stanley Schneider

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

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

Dr. Joseph H. Berke with Stanley Schneider

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

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

Dr. Joseph H. Berke

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

"Reality, Words and Universes"

Dr. Joseph H. Berke with Stanley Schneider

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

"Psychosis and Malice"

Dr. Joseph H. Berke

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

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

Simon Rocker

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

"Sigmund Freud and the Lubavitcher Rebbe"

Dr. Joseph H. Berke with Stanley Schneider

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

"Arboreal delights" The Highgate Haggadah for Tu Bishvat

Mordechai Beck

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

"The Good and the Bad Therapist"

Dr. Joseph H. Berke

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

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

Dr. Joseph H. Berke

AECM Magazine

"The Arbours 30+ Years"

Dr. Joseph H. Berke

ISPS Newsletter, No.2, January 2002

"The Jewish Mystical Tradition & Psychoanalysis"

Dr. Joseph H. Berke

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

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

Dr. Joseph H. Berke

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

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

Dr. Joseph H. Berke with Stanley Schneider

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

"On Sulking"

Dr. Joseph H. Berke

June 2012

"Some Considerations about the Therapeutic Potential of Regression"

Dr. Joseph H. Berke

Psychosis, Volume 2, No3, October 2010

"The Creative Use of Countertransference"

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

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

"The Rebbe RaShAB and Sigmund Freud"

Dr. Joseph H. Berke

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

"Breast, Robbery or the Devil?"

Dr. Joseph H. Berke with Stanley Schneider

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

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

Dr. Joseph H. Berke

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

"The Right to be at Risk"

Dr. Joseph H. Berke

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

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

Dr. Joseph H. Berke

Journal of the Crisis Centre, No.12, 2002

"The Psychological Understanding of Muslim Terrorism"

Dr. Joseph H. Berke with Stanley Schneider

psychoanalysis-and-therapy.com, 2006

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

Dr. Joseph H. Berke

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

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

Dr. Joseph H. Berke

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

"Freud's Meeting with Rabbi Alexandre Safran"

Dr. Joseph H. Berke with Stanley Schneider

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

"R. D. Laing"

Dr. Joseph H. Berke

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

"Penis Greed"

Dr. Joseph H. Berke

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

"Medication as Panacea"

Dr. Joseph H. Berke with Stanley Schneider

Group Analysis, 30:3, 1997

"Camel Through the Eye of a Needle"

Dr. Joseph H. Berke with Stanley Schneider

International Journal of Psychoanalysis, Vol 90, 2009

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