Joseph Berke
Joseph H. Berke, M.D., is an individual and family psychotherapist.
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[edit] Early years
He studied at Columbia College of Columbia University and graduated from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York.[1] He moved to London in 1965 where Berke worked with R. D. Laing in the 1960s when the Philadelphia Association was set up, and was resident at Kingsley Hall, where he helped Mary Barnes, a nurse who had been diagnosed with schizophrenia to emerge from madness.[2] Barnes later became a famous artist, writer and mystic. A stage play based on the book that Berke and Barnes wrote together (Mary Barnes: Two Accounts of a Journey Through Madness) was adapted as a stage play by David Edgar. Berke collaborated on a number of projects with R. D. Laing including the Dialectics of Liberation international conference in London,15-30 July 1967, where Berke was the principal organizer.
[edit] Books
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist for Individuals and Families. Co-Founder of the Arbours Association in London in 1970. Co-Founder and Director of the Arbours Crisis Centre, London, and a lecturer and teacher, Berke is the author of many articles and books on psychological, social, political and religious themes, including:
- Mary Barnes:Two Accounts of a Journey through Madness (with Mary Barnes)
- The Cannabis Experience: An Interpretative Study of the Effects of marijuana and Hashish (with Calvin Hernton) (1974), London: Peter Owen
- I Haven't Had To Go Mad Here
- The Tyranny of Malice: Exploring the Dark Side of Character and Culture
- Sanctuary: The Arbours Experience of Alternative Community Care (co-editor)
- Even Paranoids Have Enemies: New Perspectives on Paranoia and Persecution (co-editor).
His recent books include: 'Beyond Madness: PsychoSocial Interventions in Psychosis (co-editor); 'Malice Through the Looking Glass': and 'Centers of Power: The Convergence of Psychoanalysis and Kabbalah' (with Stanley Schneider).
He has recently completed: 'Why I Hate You and You Hate Me: A Study of Envy, Greed, Jealousy and Narcissism.'
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[edit] External links
- Joseph Berke's website
- Trick or Treat:The Divided Self of R D Laing in Janus Head
- Janus Head
- Arbours Crisis Centre
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