פרופ' משה הלוי ספירו

BOOK (author):

Spero, M.H. (2001). Self-Effacement as self-inscription: Reconsidering Freud's anonymous "Moses of Michaelangelo."  Madison, Conn: International Universities Press.

BOOK (co-editor):

Glas, G., Spero, M.H., Verhagen, P. & Van der Pragg, H. (Eds.). (2007). Hearing visions and seeing voices: Psychological aspects of Biblical concepts and personalities. Dordrecht: Springer Verlag.

CHAPTERS:

Spero, M.H. (2003). Dreams, death and desire in the psychotherapy of the obsessive-schizoid Kohen. In S. Arzi, M. Fechler & B. Kahana (Eds.), The homiletics of the soul: Jubilee volume in honor of the seventieth birthday of Mordekhai Rotenberg: Studies in psychology and Judaism (pp. 70-102). Tel Aviv: Yediot Ahronot. [Hebrew].

Spero, M.H. (2005). A garland for ashes: Diagnostic considerations regarding Jay F. Schechter’s ‘Diagnosis and treatment of psychotic depressive’. In D. Shatz & J. Wolowelsky (Eds.), Judaism and mind, body and psychology (pp. 189- 202).  New York: Yeshivah University Press/Ktav.

Spero, M.H. (2006). To whom, to where and to when does one “return” in te’shu‘vah? In Y. Berger (Ed.), Jewish perspectives on self (pp. 243-359). Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson.

Spero, M.H. (2007). The hidden subject of Job: Mirroring and the anguish of interminable desire. In G. Glas, M.H. Spero,  P. Verhagen & H. Van der Pragg, (Eds), Hearing visions and seeing voices: Psychological aspects of biblical concepts and personalities (pp. 231-266). Dordrecht: Springer Verlag.

JOURNAL ARTICLES:

Spero, M.H. (2000). A garland for ashes: Regarding the diagnosis of religious rituality in Jay F. Schechter's "Diagnosis and treatment of a psychotic depressive". Torah u-Madda Journal, 9, 152-168.

Spero, M.H. (2003). Inaugural communication: On writing in the Land of the Book. Israel Psychoanalytic Journal, 1, 7-32

Spero, M.H. (2003). A preoedipal representation of the analytic breast as illuminated by a patient's use of rabbinic legend. Israel Journal of Psychoanalysis, 1, 605-642.

Spero, M.H. (2004). What con-verges and what di-verges when religious object representations transform? An annotated critique of Cohen (2002). Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry, 32, 669-709.

Spero, M.H. (2004). Hearing the faith in time: Countertransference contributions to the unexpected emergence of religious metaphor during an oncology patient's psychotherapy. Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 73, 971-1021.

Spero, M.H. (2006). Reading notes on the beginning phase of the treatment of a religious patient: A commentary. Psychoanalytic Social Work, 13, 13-29.

BOOK IN PRESS:

Spero, M. H. (in press). The Well-House: A psychoanalytic reconsideration of the Judaic concept of teshuvah (repentance). Madison, Conn: International Universities Press .

CHAPTER IN PRESS:

Spero, M.H. (in press). The civilization of discontent: Notes on the hidden Unbehagen in Freud's relationship with the aesthetic dimension of civilization. In R. King, P. Neubauer, S. Abrams & A.S. Dowling (Eds.),The psychoanalytic study of the child, 63. New Haven, Conn: Yale University Press.

JOURNAL ARTICLES ACCEPTED OR IN PRESS (2008):

Spero, M.H. (in press). The psychoanalytic experience of religious transformation as an event horizon. Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 18.

Spero, M.H. (in press). Screen time: Clinical notes regarding Meissner’s (2006) chronically late patient. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 25. 

Spero, M.H. (in press). Moses as Madonna: Some evidence for the latent maternal dimension in the "Moses" by Michelangelo. American Imago.

Spero, M.H. (in press). Touched by Grace during the analytic hour: The analysis of a religious resistance. Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 67.