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1. The Psychoanalytic Study of Society, V. 19

   Essays in Honor of George A. De Vos

   Edited by L. Bryce Boyer, Ruth M. Boyer, Howard F. Stein

   Critical appreciations of George A. De Vos, a pioneer in the cross-cultural application of projective techniques (M. Suarez-Orozco, P. Lerner), and De Vos's own reminiscences, are followed by contributions true to the spirit of De Vos's methodology. They include a demonstration of the usefulness of...

   Published December 31st 1994 by Routledge
2. The Psychoanalytic Study of Society, V. 18

   Essays in Honor of Alan Dundes

   Edited by L. Bryce Boyer, Ruth M. Boyer, Stephen M. Sonnenberg

   Opening with a critical appreciation of Alan Dundes (M. Carroll) and Dundes's own cross-cultural study of the cockfight, Volume 18 includes chapters on psychoanalysis and Hindu sexual fantasies (W. Doniger); the modern folk tale "The Boyfriend's Death" (M. Carroll); a gruesome Eskimo bedtime story...

   Published June 30th 1993 by Routledge
3. The Psychoanalytic Study of Society, V. 17

   Essays in Honor of George D. and Louise A. Spindler

   Edited by L. Bryce Boyer, Ruth M. Boyer

   In Volume 17, a series of critical appreciations of George and Louise Spindler's multidisciplinary contributions focus on homogeneity and heterogeneity in American cultural anthropology (S. Parman); the molding of American anthropology (M. Suarez); education (H. Trueba); and the uses of projective...

   Published July 31st 1992 by Routledge
4. The Psychoanalytic Study of Society, V. 16

   Essays in Honor of A. Irving Hallowell

   Edited by L. Bryce Boyer, Ruth M. Boyer

   Volume 16 offers appreciations of A. Irving Hallowell by M. Spiro, R. Fogelson, and E. Bourguignon. Additional topics include Kagwahiv dream beliefs (W. Kracke); experiences of the self in Papua New Guinea (F. Poole); house design and the self in an African culture (R. & S. LeVine);...

   Published December 31st 1991 by Routledge
5. The Psychoanalytic Study of Society, V. 15

   Essays in Honor of Melford E. Spiro

   Edited by L. Bryce Boyer, Simon A. Grolnick

   Volume 15 features Melford Spiro's "Culture and Human Nature" and "The internalization of Burmese Gender Identity" along with an interview of Spiro by B. Kilbourne and S. Bolle. Additional topics include children's fantasy life in Papua New Guinea (F. Poole); a psychoanthropological approach to...

   Published June 30th 1990 by Routledge
6. The Psychoanalytic Study of Society, V. 14

   Essays in Honor of Paul Parin

   Edited by L. Bryce Boyer, Simon A. Grolnick

   Volume 14 includes chapters on the psychoanalysis of political commitment (P. Parin); Jews and homosexuals as strangers (P. Parin); the analogous tasks of the psychoanalyst and the ethnographer (M. Gehrie); cultic elements in early Christianity (W. Meissner); Jewish apocalyptists (D. Merkur);...

   Published November 30th 1989 by Routledge
7. The Psychoanalytic Study of Society, V. 13

   Essays in Honor of Weston LaBarre

   Edited by L. Bryce Boyer, Simon A. Grolnick

   Volume 13 includes chapters on the contributions of Weston LaBarre (B. Kilbourne); Geza Roheim's theory of myth (S. Morales); the origins of Christianity (W. Meissner); myths in Inuit religion (D. Merkur); the psychology of a Sherpa shaman (R. Paul); the psychoanalytic study of urban legends (M....

   Published July 31st 1988 by Routledge
8. The Psychoanalytic Study of Society, V. 12

   Essays in Honor of George Devereux

   Edited by L. Bryce Boyer, Simon A. Grolnick

   Volume 12 includes chapters on the hermeneutics of structuralism and psychoanalysis (H. van Velzen); prophetic initiation in Israel and Judah (D. Merkur); the cult phenomenon and the paranoid process (W. Meissner); the ego and adaptation (P. Parin); male adolescent initiation rituals (L. Rosen);...

   Published September 30th 1987 by Routledge
9. The Psychoanalytic Study of Society, V. 11

   Essays in Honor of Werner Muensterberger

   Edited by L. Bryce Boyer, Simon A. Grolnick

   Volume 11 includes chapters on the analysis of dybbuk possession and exorcism in Judaism (Y. Bilu); crisis and continuity in the personality of an Apache shaman (L. B. Boyer et al.); culture shock and the inability to mourn ( H. Stein); charismatically led groups (L. Balter); the psychoanalytic and...

   Published July 31st 1985 by Routledge
10. The Psychoanalytic Study of Society, V. 10

    Edited by Werner Muensterberger, L. Bryce Boyer, Simon A. Grolnick

    Published November 30th 1983 by Routledge