Author Description

This leading psychoanalytic anthropologist brings together here some of his most important writings of recent decades: work on the psychology & anthropology of psychotropic drugs, essays on the links of psychoanalysis & anthropology, & several "classic" papers on topics like social cynosure, psychoanthropology of sexuality, & psychoanalysis & the biology of religion. The lead paper on psychotropics does an original synthesis of six earlier papers of this author in a masterpiece combining meticulous detail & brilliant creative insights, marks of Le Barre's whole long & & enormously productive career. This master of THE HUMAN ANIMAL is clearly in evidence again in this feast. To order: Psyche Press, P.O. Box 780, New York, NY 10024. 212-721-4466.