Paul Marcus

Paul Marcus

Paul Marcus, PhD, is a supervising and training analyst at the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis. He is the author of Being for The Other: Emmanuel Levinas, Ethical Living and Psychoanalysis; Autonomy in the Extreme Situation: Bruno Bettelheim, the Nazi Concentration Camps, and the Mass Society and Ancient Religious Wisdom, Spirituality and Psychoanalysis, among other books. Dr Marcus is married with two children and lives in Great Neck, New York.

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Creating Heaven on Earth: The Psychology of Experiencing Immortality in Everyday Life

Creating Heaven on Earth: The Psychology of Experiencing Immortality in Everyday Life

by Paul Marcus

  • Paperback £16.99

The art of living the “good life” requires skilful attunement to the lovely presences in everyday life.

Lodged in a psychoanalytic sensibility, and drawing from ancient and modern religious and... (more)

Psychoanalysis and Wisdom: Encountering 'Ethics of the Fathers'

Psychoanalysis and Wisdom: Encountering 'Ethics of the Fathers'

by Paul Marcus

  • Paperback £29.99

Psychoanalysis and Wisdom applies psychoanalytic insights to one of the great examples of wisdom literature, the Ethics of the Fathers, an ethical tractate of the Talmud.

Paul Marcus quotes key... (more)

The Psychoanalysis of Career Choice, Job Performance, and Satisfaction: How to Flourish in the Workplace

The Psychoanalysis of Career Choice, Job Performance, and Satisfaction: How to Flourish in the Workplace

by Paul Marcus

  • Paperback £33.29 (RRP : £36.99 save £3.70)

Freud said that love and work are the central therapeutic goals of psychoanalysis; the twin pillars for a sound mind and for living the good life. While psychoanalysis has masterfully contributed to... (more)

Psychoanalytic Versions of the Human Condition: Philosophies of Life and Their Impact on Practice

Psychoanalytic Versions of the Human Condition: Philosophies of Life and Their Impact on Practice

Edited by Paul Marcus, Alan Rosenberg

  • Paperback £25.99

What is psychoanalysis? Whereas there was once a time when proponents of "mainstream psychoanalysis" could point to the preeminence of Freud's drive theory and the version of the human condition... (more)

Blacks and Jews on the Couch: Psychoanalytic Reflections on Black-Jewish Conflict

Blacks and Jews on the Couch: Psychoanalytic Reflections on Black-Jewish Conflict

Edited by Alan Helmreich, Paul Marcus

  • Hardback £74.00

The Black-Jewish conflict in the US, without effective strategies for intervention, can only be expected to worsen. This volume suggests a psychoanalytic approach to addressing and resolving the... (more)

Autonomy in the Extreme Situation: Bruno Bettelheim, the Nazi Concentration Camps and the Mass Society

Autonomy in the Extreme Situation: Bruno Bettelheim, the Nazi Concentration Camps and the Mass Society

by Paul Marcus

  • Hardback £74.00

This work presents an attempt to elucidate and develop Bettelheim's controversial insights on the behaviour of concentration camp inmates. A discussion of the significance of Bettelheim's findings... (more)

In Search of the Good Life: Emmanuel Levinas, Psychoanalysis, and the Art of Living

In Search of the Good Life: Emmanuel Levinas, Psychoanalysis, and the Art of Living

by Paul Marcus

  • Paperback £32.99

Emmanuel Levinas (1906-1995), French phenomenological philosopher and Talmudic commentator, is regarded as perhaps the greatest ethical philosopher of our time. While Levinas enjoys prominence in the... (more)

In Search of the Spiritual: Gabriel Marcel, Psychoanalysis and the Sacred

In Search of the Spiritual: Gabriel Marcel, Psychoanalysis and the Sacred

by Paul Marcus

  • Paperback £35.99

Gabriel Marcel (1889-1973), the first French existentialist and phenomenologist, was a world-class Catholic philosopher, an accomplished playwright, drama critic and musician. He wrote brilliantly... (more)

How to Laugh Your Way Through Life: A Psychoanalyst's Advice

How to Laugh Your Way Through Life: A Psychoanalyst's Advice

by Paul Marcus

  • Paperback £28.99

While living in anti-Semitic Vienna, Freud wrote in a letter to Ernest Jones, "What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books."... (more)

Healing Their Wounds: Psychotherapy with Holocaust Survivors and Their Families

Healing Their Wounds: Psychotherapy with Holocaust Survivors and Their Families

Edited by Paul Marcus, Alan Rosenberg

  • Hardback £66.00

This is a comprehensive anthology on the psychological treatment of Holocaust survivors and their families. It covers the full range of current theoretical and therapeutic approaches. It is a major... (more)

The Psychoanalysis of Overcoming Suffering: Flourishing Despite Pain

The Psychoanalysis of Overcoming Suffering: Flourishing Despite Pain

by Paul Marcus

  • Paperback £34.99

The Psychoanalysis of Overcoming Suffering: Flourishing Despite Pain offers a guide to understanding and working with a range of everyday causes of suffering from a psychoanalytic perspective. The... (more)

Psychoanalysis, Classic Social Psychology and Moral Living: Let the Conversation Begin

Psychoanalysis, Classic Social Psychology and Moral Living: Let the Conversation Begin

by Paul Marcus

  • Paperback £29.99

In Psychoanalysis, Classic Social Psychology and Moral Living: Let the Conversation Begin, Paul Marcus uniquely draws on psychoanalysis and social psychology to examine what affects the ethical... (more)

Psychoanalysis as a Spiritual Discipline: In Dialogue with Martin Buber and Gabriel Marcel

Psychoanalysis as a Spiritual Discipline: In Dialogue with Martin Buber and Gabriel Marcel

by Paul Marcus

  • Paperback £36.99

The great existential psychiatrist Ludwig Binswanger famously pointed out to Freud that therapeutic failure could "only be understood as the result of something which could be called a deficiency of... (more)

Psychoanalysis and Toileting: Minding One’s Business

Psychoanalysis and Toileting: Minding One’s Business

by Paul Marcus

  • Paperback £29.99

Psychoanalysis and Toileting is an accessible book that delineates and interprets the psychological meanings of defecating and urinating in everyday life.

Paul Marcus’ work gives the clinician... (more)

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