Frederick C. Crews is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Follies of the Wise: Dissenting Essays.
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The Freud Question: An Exchange
December 8, 2011
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Freud & Cocaine: An Exchange
November 10, 2011
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Physician, Heal Thyself: Part II
October 13, 2011
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Physician, Heal Thyself: Part I
September 29, 2011
Genius on the Edge: The Bizarre Double Life of Dr. William Stewart Halsted
by Gerald Imber
An Anatomy of Addiction: Sigmund Freud, William Halsted, and the Miracle Drug Cocaine
by Howard Markel
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The Truth About Prozac: An Exchange
February 14, 2008
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Talking Back to Prozac
December 6, 2007
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
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Melville the Great
December 1, 2005
Melville: His World and Work
by Andrew Delbanco
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‘Kafka Up Close’: An Exchange
April 7, 2005
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Kafka Up Close
February 10, 2005
Franz Kafka: The Necessity of Form
by Stanley Corngold
Lambent Traces: Franz Kafka
by Stanley Corngold
Franz Kafka: The Jewish Patient
by Sander L. Gilman
Kafka: Gender, Class, and Race in the Letters and Fictions
by Elizabeth Boa
K.
by Roberto Calasso, translated from the Italian by Geoffrey Brock
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‘Out, Damned Blot’
November 4, 2004
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Out, Damned Blot!
July 15, 2004
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
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The Trauma Trap
March 11, 2004
Remembering Trauma
by Richard J. McNally
Memory, Trauma Treatment, and the Law
by Daniel Brown, Alan W. Scheflin, and D. Corydon Hammond
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Zen & the Art of Success
March 28, 2002
Shoes Outside the Door: Desire, Devotion, and Excess at San Francisco Zen Center
by Michael Downing
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‘Saving Us from Darwin’: An Exchange
November 29, 2001
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Saving Us from Darwin, Part II
October 18, 2001
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
Finding Darwin’s God: A Scientist’s Search for Common Ground Between God and Evolution
by Kenneth R. Miller
Rocks of Ages: Science and Religion in the Fullness of Life
by Stephen Jay Gould
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An Urgent Matter
October 18, 2001
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Saving Us from Darwin
October 4, 2001
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
Intelligent Design: The Bridge Between Science and Theology
by William A. Dembski
Tower of Babel: The Evidence Against the New Creationism
by Robert T. Pennock
Finding Darwin’s God: A Scientist’s Search for Common Ground Between God and Evolution
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‘When Words Collide’: An Exchange
October 8, 1998
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The Mindsnatchers
June 25, 1998
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
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Blavatsky Lite
November 14, 1996
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The Consolation of Theosophy II
October 3, 1996
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
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The Consolation of Theosophy
September 19, 1996
Madame Blavatsky’s Baboon: A History of the Mystics, Mediums, and Misfits Who Brought Spiritualism to America
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Freud & His Defenders
April 20, 1995
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Freud and Memory: An Exchange
March 23, 1995
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Sexual & Other Abuse
March 2, 1995
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Thanks for the Memories
February 16, 1995
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‘Victims of Memory’: An Exchange
January 12, 1995
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Down with Memory Lane
December 22, 1994
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The Revenge of the Repressed: Part II
December 1, 1994
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
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The Revenge of the Repressed
November 17, 1994
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
Making Monsters: False Memories, Psychotherapy, and Sexual Hysteria
by Richard Ofshe and Ethan Watters
Victims of Memory: Incest Accusations and Shattered Lives
by Mark Pendergrast
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The ‘Unknown Freud’: Yet Another Exchange
April 21, 1994
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The Unknown Freud: An Exchange
February 3, 1994
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Footnote to Freud
December 16, 1993
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The Unknown Freud
November 18, 1993
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
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The New Americanists
September 24, 1992
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Faulkner’s Strange Fate
October 24, 1991
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The Strange Fate of William Faulkner
March 7, 1991
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
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The Power of Flannery O’Connor
April 26, 1990
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
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An Exchange on Mark Twain
September 28, 1989
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The Parting of the Twains
July 20, 1989
Dark Twins: Imposture and Identity in Mark Twain’s America
by Susan Gillman
Mark Twain and Science: Adventures of a Mind by Sherwood Cummings
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Loading the Canon
January 19, 1989
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Whose American Renaissance?
October 27, 1988
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
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‘Pressure Under Grace’: An Exchange
October 22, 1987
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Pressure Under Grace
August 13, 1987
Hemingway by Kenneth S. Lynn
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Updike’s Version
February 12, 1987
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Hi-Tech
January 29, 1987
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Mr. Updike’s Planet
December 4, 1986
Roger’s Version by John Updike
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In The Big House of Theory
May 29, 1986
The Return of Grand Theory in the Human Sciences edited by Quentin Skinner
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Conrad by Daylight
March 1, 1984
Joseph Conrad: A Chronicle by Zdzislaw Najder, translated by Halina Carroll-Najder
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Partisans
February 8, 1979
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The Partisan
November 23, 1978
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
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Stuttering Giant
March 3, 1977
Genius and Lust: A Journey Through the Major Writings of Henry Miller by Norman Mailer
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High Tide
February 5, 1976
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American Prophet
October 16, 1975
Life History and the Historical Moment by Erik H. Erikson
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Uplift
November 16, 1972
The Breast by Philip Roth
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Anaesthetic Criticism: II
March 12, 1970
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Anaesthetic Criticism: I
February 26, 1970
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Complaint
June 5, 1969
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The Radical Students
April 24, 1969
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
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Reforming the MLA
December 19, 1968
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Vietnam Commencements
March 28, 1968
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Gladstone’s Prostitutes
October 6, 1966
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The Secret Life
August 18, 1966
The other Victorians: A study of Sexuality and Pornography in Mid-Nineteenth-Century England by Steven Marcus
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Literature on the Couch
June 23, 1966
The Quest for Love by David Holbrook
Psychoanalysis and Shakespeare by Norman N. Holland
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Wilson and the Academy
December 23, 1965
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Lessons of the Master
November 25, 1965
The Bit Between My Teeth A Literary Chronicle of 1950-1965
by Edmund Wilson
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Comedy and Beyond
December 3, 1964
The Key to My Heart: A Comedy in Three Parts by V.S. Pritchett
Stations
by Burt Blechman
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Private Lives, Public Lives
November 5, 1964
Unfinished Funeral by Niccolo Tucci
Cabot Wright Begins by James Purdy
Bad Characters by Jean Stafford
Corridors of Power by C.P. Snow
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Domestic Manners
October 22, 1964
Drive, He Said by Jeremy Larner
Teeth, Dying And Other Matters by Richard G. Stern
The Brigadier and the Golf Widow by John Cheever