Michael Robbins
Michael Robbins is a psychoanalyst, member of the American and International Psychoanalytic Societies, former professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, and author of 5 previous books and more than 40 articles in refereed journals.
The Primordial Mind in Health and Illness: A Cross-Cultural Perspective
The universal quest to create cosmologies -- to comprehend the relationship between mind and world - is inevitably limited by the social, cultural and historical perspective of the observer, in this... (more)
Consciousness, Language, and Self: Psychoanalytic, Linguistic, and Anthropological Explorations of the Dual Nature of Mind
Consciousness, Language, and Self proposes that the human self is innately bilingual. Conscious mind includes two qualitatively distinct mental processes, each of which uses the same formal elements... (more)
Psychoanalysis Meets Psychosis: Attachment, Separation, and the Undifferentiated Unintegrated Mind
Psychoanalysis Meets Psychosis proposes a major revision of the psychoanalytic theory of the most severe mental illnesses including schizophrenia. Freud believed that psychosis is the consequence of... (more)
The Human Difference: Evolution, Civilization - and Destruction
From a multidisciplinary perspective grounded in psychoanalysis, this book explores the manifestations of mind that distinguish humans from other species, culture, civilization, and... (more)