AndrI Gide once said that Feodor Dostoevsky -lost himself in the characters of his books, and, for this reason, it is in them that he can be found again.- In Dostoevsky: The Author as Psychoanalyst, Louis Breger approaches Dostoevsky psychoanalytically, not as a -patient- to be analyzed, but as a fellow psychoanalyst, someone whose life and fiction are intertwined in the process of literary self-exploration.

Raskolnikov's dream of the suffering horse in Crime and Punishment has become one of the best known in all literature, its rich imagery expressing meaning on...

My greatly-loved wife Barbara died in February 2014 after a siege of ovarian cancer. She was a unique soul, and I wanted to present her life fully: to describe her many unusual qualities because it is something she deserves, as many who knew and loved her would agree. There is also a larger message here: what the writer John Updike called, "Giving the mundane its beautiful due." One might ask, "Why write-or read-a book about this woman?" Barbara accomplished a few important things-founded a Free Clinic; co-authored a biography of Freud-but was hardly famous. In fact, she was not much known...