Brenda Webster's Blog

• The important case of Laura Albert aka J.T. Le Roy versus Antidote

  January 5, 2009

  • The Author"s Guild helps hundreds of authors negotiate and enforce their publishing contracts and they were naturally very concerned about the recent decision brought against Laura Albert aka J.T
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• Publication day

  December 30, 2008

  • After ten books you'd think I wouldn't be so excited but I am.

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• Dangerous Attraction to a Patient

  December 19, 2008

  • A young psychiatrist confesses to her supervisor that she is attracted to her male patient and he reprimands her severely saying he'd never seen anything similar.   Really?
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• Goals of therapy

  December 15, 2008

  • Jung at Heart (http://www.jung-at-heart.com/jung_at_heart) suggests that Freud's definition of health as the ability to love and work is a

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• An Ethical Dilemma in mixing fact and fiction?

  December 11, 2008

  • A Dutch scholar/novelist wrote me yesterday saying he was uncomfortable with my mixture of fact and fiction in my new novel

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• Terrorism and the Narcissistic Trilogy

  December 10, 2008

  • Is there a  link between Islamic terrorism and narcissistic injury?

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• Psychoanalysis as seduction

  November 11, 2008

  • The other day I found a blog by Laura Gonzales www.lauragonzales.co.uk that  has some interesting speculations about art and psychoanalysis.

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• A spy in the House of Freud

  October 19, 2008

  • When my friend Lisa invited me to the opening of  "Freud and Rodin as collectors"  in Paris, I had no idea attending would lead to a panic attack.

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• A conversation with Marilyn and Irvin Yalom about her new book, The American Resting Place: Four Hundred Years of History

  September 24, 2008

  • Last Saturday at our meeting of PEN WEST at my house in Berkeley, we had the pleasure of listening to the two halves of a brilli

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• Muriel, a real-life heroine who saved Jews from the Nazis had her story stolen by Lillian Helman

  September 12, 2008

  • I just read in Publishers Weekly that Palgrave-Macmillan signed a contract with Sheila Isenberg for the biography of Muriel Gardiner: Her War: Continue Reading » 4 Comments

• Get that s*** eating smile off your face

  September 5, 2008

  • You look like Goldilocks, my advisor said after I flunked my prospective exam for my Ph.D thesis at Cal.
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• One Secret of Sucess as a Writer

  September 4, 2008

  • Something that isn't talked about enough is perseverence. Take in those rejections and paper the bathroom with them,
    Send out your stories again. And again. And again.
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• Chosing a title

  August 30, 2008

  • When I was down to a final draft of my new novel, I started thinking of titles.
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• Writing a first novel

  August 20, 2008

  • I only taught briefly at UC extension because I had three young children and and a husband who taught at Cal.
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• Learning to Write Sarah's Way

  July 29, 2008

  • People wanted to hear more about Sarah's writing methods and suicide.
     I've just posted her story (Under Stories).  This is the beginning.
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