Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, Author . Ballantine $25.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-345-45281-8
The horrors have been pointed out before—that factory farm chickens are genetically altered, debeaked without anesthesia, and crammed into overcrowded coops; that calves are separated from their mothers and kept in dark crates to become veal....
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Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson. Bloomsbury, $26 (224p) ISBN 978-1-60819-615-9
Animal emotions expert and ex-psychoanalyst Masson (When Elephants Weep) looks to redeem animals, especially apex predators, from the reputation of being "cruel." He claims that the evidence mostly suggests that in the wild, interspecies and...
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Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, Author Addison Wesley Publishing Company $18.95 (212p) ISBN 978-0-201-52368-3
In becoming a psychoanalyst, Masson, like Shakespeare's Malvoleo, mistook the trappings for the thing itself; that he never achieved the power he bestowed on such figures as Kurt Eissler and Anna Freud is his continuing complaint. He trained at the...
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Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, Author Atheneum Books $0 (279p) ISBN 978-0-689-11929-3
The author (The Assault on Truth) takes the position here that all forms of psychotherapy are wrong because the very structure of the therapist-patient relationship negates the freedom and dignity of the person seeking help. Though this study is...
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Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, Author Pocket Books $24 (253p) ISBN 978-0-671-02083-5
Why do wolves make better dads than dogs, and what can they teach us about our own fathers and sons? Following up on his earlier bestsellers (When Elephants Weep; Dogs Never Lie About Love), Masson investigates the varied, sometimes inspiring roles...
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Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, Author Addison Wesley Publishing Company $21.33 (174p) ISBN 978-0-201-56778-6
In Final Analysis: The Making and Unmaking of a Psychologist , Masson told of his pursuit and abandonment of his career as a psychoanalyst, the time of his life during which he also wrote The Assault on Truth: Freud's Suppression of the Seduction...
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Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, Harper, $25.99 (272p) ISBN 978-0-06-177109-5
Masson (When Elephants Weep) explores the unique bond between humans and dogs in a humdrum and highly repetitive book that is illuminated at points by the author's odes to his own companion, Benjy, a failed guide dog with an unrestrained capacity to
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Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, Author Crown Publishing Group $24 (304p) ISBN 978-0-609-60057-3
Can dogs teach us how to save the planet? Perhaps, according to Masson (When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals), who claims that children who understand that we must share our planet with other creatures have had an early dose of canine
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Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, Author . Norton $24.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-393-06595-4
“Each bite of meat involves the killing of an animal that did not need to die,” Masson (When Elephants Weep
) reminds readers, and if the advocacy of a completely vegan diet (neither milk nor eggs, in addition to giving up meat and fish)
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Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, Author . Ballantine $22.95 (170p) ISBN 978-0-345-46613-6
Masson (When Elephants Weep
) records his attempt to "raise together a kitten, a puppy, a bunny, a chick, and a baby rat" in hopes that this "might offer some lessons to us humans" on how to avoid bigotry and war. The result hovers...
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Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, Author . Ballantine $15.95 (128p) ISBN 978-0-345-47866-5
A Sanskrit scholar and former projects director of the Sigmund Freud Archives, Masson is best known for his sensitive exploration of animal psychology in books such as the bestselling When Elephants Weep
. In this sentimental, didactic fable, Masson
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Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, Author . Ballantine $24.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-345-46614-3
Should you move to New Zealand? "The short answer," writes Masson in this breathless paean to his adopted home, "is 'Yes.' " Comprising two large islands, New Zealand is "the green gem in the middle of the South Pacific.&
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Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, Author . Ballantine $24.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-345-44882-8
Prevailing wisdom holds that cats are aloof, smug, quintessentially distant—especially when compared to dogs—but Masson, in his latest exploration of feelings in the animal world, argues otherwise: "cats," he says, "are...
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Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, Author, Jeffrey M. Mason, Author, Susan McCarthy, With Delacorte Press $23.95 (291p) ISBN 978-0-385-31425-1
When Masson searched modern scientific literature on the subject of emotions in nonhuman animals, he found very little. So the psychoanalyst turned his attention and analysis to these other species. With science writer McCarthy, he shows that...
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Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, Author, Paul Johann Anselm Feuerbach, Author Free Press $22.5 (8p) ISBN 978-0-684-82296-9
Imprisoned in a castle's dungeon from the age of four to 16, ""wild child"" Kaspar Hauser turned up in Nuremberg, Germany, in 1828, barely able to speak or walk. Within months he developed into an engaging, articulate adolescent, but was stabbed to...
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Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, Author, Susan McCarthy, Joint Author, Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, Prologue by Delta $17 (320p) ISBN 978-0-385-31428-2
An examination of the inner lives of animals, arguing that they possess an emotional sensibility not unlike that of humans. (June)
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Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, Author, Fred Stella, Read by , read by Fred Stella. Brilliance $29.99 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4233-8420-5
Masson combines solid research and deft prose in a persuasive argument in favor of a vegan diet. Drawing on such critics of the industrial food systems as Michael Pollan, he explores whether humans really need to be omnivores to get adequate...
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Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, Author, Donna L. Brooks, Editor, Shirley Felts, Illustrator Dutton Books $19.99 (64p) ISBN 978-0-525-45745-9
Setting the tone for these stories-cum- animal-rights agenda, Masson's long-winded introduction posits that animals ""have nearly all the feelings we do, and maybe even some that we don't."" Drawing primarily from published works, including his...
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Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, Author, Marianne Loring, Translator Noonday Press $8.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-374-52123-3
``The need to control and devalue women, and the denial of the reality of child sexual abuse are endemic flaws of male-dominated modern psychiatry, convincingly argues Masson,'' reported PW , calling this collection of articles, translated from 19th
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Tom Regan, Author, Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, Author Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. $23.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7425-3352-3
According to this friendly but uncompromising manifesto,""being kind"" and""avoiding cruelty"" to animals is not enough. Regan proscribes instead a strict regime of""animal rights,"" forbidding any exploitation of animals whatsoever--for food,...
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Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson. St. Martin’s, $27.99 (256p) ISBN 978-1-250-20223-9
Masson (The Secret World of Farm Animals) discusses people’s close relationships with their pets through the lens of mortality in this moving and intimate study. Now 79, he reflects on a lifetime of pets, including his current one, yellow Labrador...
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