Frederick C. Crews
Frederick Crews's most recent book is Follies of the Wise: Dissenting Essays. (December 2007)
From the Review
February 14, 2008: The Truth About Prozac: An Exchange
December 6, 2007: Talking Back to Prozac
The Loss of Sadness: How Psychiatry Transformed Normal Sorrow into Depressive Disorder by Allan V. Horwitz and Jerome C. Wakefield
Shyness: How Normal Behavior Became a Sickness by Christopher Lane
Let Them Eat Prozac: The Unhealthy Relationship Between the Pharmaceutical Industry and Depression by David Healy
December 1, 2005: Melville the Great
Melville: His World and Work by Andrew Delbanco
April 7, 2005: 'Kafka Up Close': An Exchange
February 10, 2005: Kafka Up Close
Franz Kafka: The Necessity of Form by Stanley Corngold
Lambent Traces: Franz Kafka by Stanley Corngold
Kafka: Gender, Class, and Race in the Letters and Fictions by Elizabeth Boa
Franz Kafka: The Jewish Patient by Sander L. Gilman
K. by Roberto Calasso, translated from the Italian by Geoffrey Brock
November 4, 2004: 'Out, Damned Blot' (letter)
July 15, 2004: Out, Damned Blot!
What's Wrong with the Rorschach?: Science Confronts the Controversial Inkblot Test by James M. Wood, M. Teresa Nezworski, Scott O. Lilienfeld, and Howard N. Garb
March 11, 2004: The Trauma Trap
Remembering Trauma by Richard J. McNally
Memory, Trauma Treatment, and the Law by Daniel Brown, Alan W. Scheflin, and D. Corydon Hammond
March 28, 2002: Zen & the Art of Success
Shoes Outside the Door: Desire, Devotion, and Excess at San Francisco Zen Center by Michael Downing
November 29, 2001: 'Saving Us from Darwin': An Exchange
October 18, 2001: Saving Us from Darwin, Part II
The Faith of Biology and the Biology of Faith: Order, Meaning, and Free Will in Modern Medical Science by Robert Pollack
God After Darwin: A Theology of Evolution by John F. Haught
Can a Darwinian Be a Christian? The Relationship Between Science and Religion by Michael Ruse
Rocks of Ages: Science and Religion in the Fullness of Life by Stephen Jay Gould
October 18, 2001: An Urgent Matter (letter)
October 18, 2001: Saving Us from Darwin, Part II
Finding Darwin's God: A Scientist's Search for Common Ground Between God and Evolution by Kenneth R. Miller
October 4, 2001: Saving Us from Darwin
The Wedge of Truth: Splitting the Foundations of Naturalism by Phillip E. Johnson
Icons of Evolution: Science or Myth? Why Much of What We Teach About Evolution Is Wrong by Jonathan Wells
Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution by Michael J. Behe
Mere Creation: Science, Faith and Intelligent Design edited by William A. Dembski
Finding Darwin's God: A Scientist's Search for Common Ground Between God and Evolution by Kenneth R. Miller
Tower of Babel: The Evidence Against the New Creationism by Robert T. Pennock
Intelligent Design: The Bridge Between Science and Theology by William A. Dembski
October 8, 1998: 'When Words Collide': An Exchange
June 25, 1998: The Mindsnatchers
The Threat by David M. Jacobs
Confirmation: The Hard Evidence of Aliens Among Us by Whitley Strieber
Aliens in America: Conspiracy Cultures from Outerspace to Cyberspace by Jodi Dean
November 14, 1996: Blavatsky Lite (letter)
October 3, 1996: The Consolation of Theosophy II
The Occult Roots of Nazism: Secret Aryan Cults and Their Influence on Nazi Ideology; The Ariosophists of Austria and Germany, 1890-1935 by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke
The Jung Cult: Origins of a Charismatic Movement by Richard Noll
Remembering Anna O.: A Century of Mystification by Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen, translated by Kirby Olson, in collaboration with Xavier Callahan
Madame Blavatsky's Baboon: A History of the Mystics, Mediums, and Misfits Who Brought Spiritualism to America by Peter Washington
September 19, 1996: The Consolation of Theosophy
Madame Blavatsky's Baboon: A History of the Mystics, Mediums, and Misfits Who Brought Spiritualism to America by Peter Washington
April 20, 1995: Freud & His Defenders (letter)
March 23, 1995: Freud and Memory: An Exchange
March 2, 1995: Sexual & Other Abuse (letter)
February 16, 1995: Thanks for the Memories (letter)
January 12, 1995: 'Victims of Memory': An Exchange
December 22, 1994: Down with Memory Lane (letter)
December 1, 1994: The Revenge of the Repressed: Part II
The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse (3rd edition) by Ellen Bass, by Laura Davis
The Myth of Repressed Memory: False Memories and Allegations of Sexual Abuse by Elizabeth Loftus, by Katherine Ketcham
Making Monsters: False Memories, Psychotherapy, and Sexual Hysteria by Richard Ofshe, by Ethan Watters
Victims of Memory: Incest Accusations and Shattered Lives by Mark Pendergrast
November 17, 1994: The Revenge of the Repressed
Unchained Memories: True Stories of Traumatic Memories, Lost and Found by Lenore Terr
The Myth of Repressed Memory: False Memories and Allegations of Sexual Abuse by Elizabeth Loftus and Katherine Ketcham
Remembering Satan by Lawrence Wright
The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse (3rd edition) by Ellen Bass and Laura Davis
Victims of Memory: Incest Accusations and Shattered Lives by Mark Pendergrast
Making Monsters: False Memories, Psychotherapy, and Sexual Hysteria by Richard Ofshe and Ethan Watters
April 21, 1994: The 'Unknown Freud': Yet Another Exchange
February 3, 1994: The Unknown Freud: An Exchange
December 16, 1993: Footnote to Freud (letter)
November 18, 1993: The Unknown Freud
Freud's Russia: National Identity in the Evolution of Psychoanalysis by James L. Rice
Father Knows Best: The Use and Abuse of Power in Freud's Case of 'Dora' by Robin Tolmach Lakoff, by James C. Coyne
Seductive Mirage: An Exploration of the Work of Sigmund Freud by Allen Esterson
A Most Dangerous Method: The Story of Jung, Freud, and Sabina Spielrein by John Kerr
September 24, 1992: The New Americanists
October 24, 1991: Faulkner's Strange Fate (letter)
March 7, 1991: The Strange Fate of William Faulkner
The Portable Faulkner edited by Malcolm Cowley
Creating Faulkner's Reputation: The Politics of Modern Literary Criticism by Lawrence H. Schwartz
William Faulkner: The Yoknapatawpha Country by Cleanth Brooks
On the Prejudices, Predilections, and Firm Beliefs of William Faulkner by Cleanth Brooks
Faulkner's Country Matters: Folklore and Fable in Yoknapatawpha by Daniel Hoffman
Doubling and Incest/Repetition and Revenge: A Speculative Reading of Faulkner by John T. Irwin
Faulkner's Marginal Couple: Invisible, Outlaw, and Unspeakable Communities by John N. Duvall
Reading Faulkner by Wesley Morris, by Barbara AlversonWtwith Morris
Faulkner and Modernism: Rereading and Rewriting by Richard C. Moreland
The Ink of Melancholy: Faulkner's Novels from 'The Sound and the Fury' to 'Light in August' by André Bleikasten
April 26, 1990: The Power of Flannery O'Connor
Collected Works by Flannery O'Connor, edited by Sally Fitzgerald
The Art and Vision of Flannery O'Connor by Robert H. Brinkmeyer Jr.
The Comedy of Redemption: Christian Faith and Comic Vision in Four American Novelists by Ralph C. Wood
Flannery O'Connor: The Imagination of Extremity by Frederick Asals
September 28, 1989: An Exchange on Mark Twain
July 20, 1989: The Parting of the Twains
Dark Twins: Imposture and Identity in Mark Twain's America by Susan Gillman
Mark Twain and Science: Adventures of a Mind by Sherwood Cummings
January 19, 1989: Loading the Canon (letter)
October 27, 1988: Whose American Renaissance?
American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman by F.O. Matthiessen
The American Renaissance Reconsidered: Selected Papers from the English Institute, 1982-83 edited by Walter Benn Michaels, edited by Donald E. Pease
The Unusable Past: Theory and the Study of American Literature by Russell J. Reising
Ideology and Classic American Literature edited by Sacvan Bercovitch, edited by Myra Jehlen
Visionary Compacts: American Renaissance Writings in Cultural Context by Donald E. Pease
Sensational Designs: The Cultural Work of American Fiction, 1790-1860 by Jane Tompkins
Beneath the American Renaissance: The Subversive Imagination in the Age of Emerson and Melville by David S. Reynolds
Hard Facts: Setting and Form in the American Novel by Philip Fisher
October 22, 1987: 'Pressure Under Grace': An Exchange
August 13, 1987: Pressure Under Grace
Hemingway by Kenneth S. Lynn
February 12, 1987: Updike's Version (letter)
January 29, 1987: Hi-Tech (letter)
December 4, 1986: Mr. Updike's Planet
Roger's Version by John Updike
May 29, 1986: In The Big House of Theory
The Return of Grand Theory in the Human Sciences edited by Quentin Skinner
March 1, 1984: Conrad by Daylight
Joseph Conrad: A Chronicle by Zdzislaw Najder, translated by Halina Carroll-Najder
February 8, 1979: Partisans (letter)
November 23, 1978: The Partisan
Essays on Literature and Politics 1932-1972 by Philip Rahv, edited by Arabel J. Porter, by Andrew J. Dvosin, with a memoir by Mary McCarthy
March 3, 1977: Stuttering Giant
Genius and Lust: A Journey Through the Major Writings of Henry Miller by Norman Mailer
February 5, 1976: High Tide (letter)
October 16, 1975: American Prophet
Life History and the Historical Moment by Erik H. Erikson
November 16, 1972: Uplift
The Breast by Philip Roth
March 12, 1970: Anaesthetic Criticism: II
February 26, 1970: Anaesthetic Criticism: I
June 5, 1969: Complaint (letter)
April 24, 1969: The Radical Students
The Conflict of Generations: The Character and Significance of Student Movements by Lewis S. Feuer
Overlive: Power, Poverty, and the University by William M. Birenbaum
University in Turmoil: The Politics of Change by Immanuel Wallerstein
December 19, 1968: Reforming the MLA (letter)
March 28, 1968: Vietnam Commencements (letter)
October 6, 1966: Gladstone's Prostitutes (letter)
August 18, 1966: The Secret Life
The other Victorians: A study of Sexuality and Pornography in Mid-Nineteenth-Century England by Steven Marcus
June 23, 1966: Literature on the Couch
The Quest for Love by David Holbrook
Psychoanalysis and Shakespeare by Norman N. Holland
December 23, 1965: Wilson and the Academy (letter)
November 25, 1965: Lessons of the Master
The Bit Between My Teeth A Literary Chronicle of 1950-1965 by Edmund Wilson
December 3, 1964: Comedy and Beyond
The Key to My Heart: A Comedy in Three Parts by V.S. Pritchett
Stations by Burt Blechman
November 5, 1964: Private Lives, Public Lives
Unfinished Funeral by Niccolo Tucci
Cabot Wright Begins by James Purdy
Bad Characters by Jean Stafford
Corridors of Power by C.P. Snow
October 22, 1964: Domestic Manners
Drive, He Said by Jeremy Larner
Teeth, Dying And Other Matters by Richard G. Stern
The Brigadier and the Golf Widow by John Cheever
From New York Review Books
 | The Memory Wars "A dazzling book. Crews brilliantly marshals the damning new scholarship on Freud the man and on analytic theory." —Carol Tavris |
 | The Memory Wars (paperback) In these essays, Crews elaborates upon his belief that "the relatively patent and vulgar pseudoscience of recovered memory rests in appreciable measure on the respectable and entrenched pseudoscience of psychoanalysis." |
Books by Frederick C. Crews
The Pooh Perplex (2003)
The Critics Bear It Away: American Fiction and the Academy (1992)
The Sins of the Fathers: Hawthorne's Psychological Themes (1989)
Skeptical Engagements (1986)
The Random House Handbook (1977)
Out of My System: Psychoanalysis, Ideology, and Critical Method (1975)