Dostoyevsky's Stalker and Other Essays on Psychopathology and the Arts

From Dostoyevsky to the Unabomber; from Thoreau to Woody Allen, Michael Sperber's new book is a tour de force of integrative thinking and creative analysis. Dostoyevsky's Stalker will be a valuable work for all those seeking deeper channels into the human mind. -- Ronald Pies, M.D., editor-in-chief, Psychiatric Times, clinical professor of psychiatry, Tufts University School of Medicine, author, Zimmerman's T
Consistently and elegantly in these essays, Dr. Sperber shows psychodynamics and the arts to be mutually illuminating-offering complementary ways of perceiving persons struggling for self-awareness, authenticity, and worthy lives. An intelligently adventurous book-the report of an alert, imaginative, and appropriately ranging professional. -- Paul Schwaber, Ph.D., professor of letters, Wesleyan University, author, The Cast of Characters: A Reading of Ulysses
Dr. Sperber has discovered Freud's secret, that the artist sometimes has more to teach us about the human condition than our patients. In Dostoyevsky's Stalker he opens new windows into the 'secret gardens of the self.' -- Alan A. Stone M.D., Touroff-Glueck Professor of Law & Psychiatry, Harvard Law School; author of Movies and the Moral Adventure of Life