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Publications

This section contains a listing of published books, chapters, and selected major journal articles. Please see Dr. Diamond's CV for a complete listing of all articles and book reviews. Many of the published articles may be downloaded in .pdf format from the website ResearchGate at: https://www.researchgate.net

Please see Dr. Diamond's CV for a complete listing of all articles and book reviews.

Books

  • ​Diamond, M.J. (2022). Ruptures in the American Psyche: Containing Destructive Populism in Perilous Times. Oxfordshire, UK: Phoenix Publishing.

  • Diamond, M.J. (2021). Masculinity and Its Discontents: The Male Psyche and the Inherent Tensions of Maturing Manhood. London and New York: Routledge.

  • Diamond, M.J. & Christian, C. (2011). The Second Century of Psychoanalysis: Evolving Perspectives on Therapeutic Action. London: Karnac Books.

  • Diamond, M.J. (2007). My Father Before Me: How Fathers and Sons Influence Each Other Throughout Their Lives. New York: W.W. Norton and Co. [Published in German as, Sohne und Vater: Eine Beziehung im lebenslangen Wandel, Frankfurt:  Brandes & Apsel, 2010; published in Portuguese as, Tal pai, tal filho: Como pais e filhos influenciam uns aos outros ao longo da vida, Sao Paulo: Academia de Inteligencia, 2008; published in Korean (translated) as, I Love My Son, Seoul: Kugil Publishing, 2008; published in Arabic, Cairo: Maktabt Dar Elkalema, 2011; published in Chinese (Mandarin translated) as, The Good Enough Father: How Fathers and Sons Influence Each Other Throughout Their Lives], Beijing Huazhang Company, 2021].

  • Shapiro, J.L., Diamond, M.J., & Greenberg, M. (1995). Becoming A Father: Social, Developmental, and Clinical Perspectives. New York: Springer. Winner, American Journal of Nursing 1996 Book of the Year Award.

Book Chapters

  • ​Diamond, M.J. (2021). “Dear Candidate – Letter To A Psychoanalytic Candidate.” In Busch, F., ed., Dear Candidate: Analysts from around the World Offer Personal Reflections on Psychoanalytic Training, Education, and the Profession, New York/London, Routledge, pp. 6-10.

  • Diamond, M.J. (2020). Treating the traumatized mind: Dissociation and psychoanalytic technique. In McBride, T., & Murphy, M., eds., Trauma and the Destructive-Transformative Struggle. London: Routledge, pp. 200-212.

  • Diamond, M.J. (2019). Die wiederentdeckung des fehlenden, verlorengegangenen vaters in der psychoanalytischen dyade (The rediscovery of the missing, lost father in the psychoanalytic dyad). In I. Moeslein-Teising, G Schäfer, & R. Martin, eds., Geschlechter-Spannungen (Gender Tensions). Gießen Germany: Psychosozial-Verlag Publishing, pp. 151-173. 

  • Diamond, M.J. (2017). The elusiveness of masculinity: Primordial vulnerability, lack, and the challenges of male development. In H-G. Metzger, ed., Männlichkeit, Sexualität, Aggression: Zur Psychoanalyse Männlicher Identität und Vaterschaftt. Berlin: Germany, Psychosozial-Verlag Publishing, pp. 35-90 (German translation of 2015 Psychoanalytic Quarterly paper].

  • Diamond, M.J. (2013). Evolving perspectives on masculinity and its discontents: Reworking the internal phallic and genital positions. In E. Palerm Mari, & F.  Thomson-Salo, editors, Masculinity and Femininity Today, London: Karnac Books, pp. 1-24.                                                                   

  • Diamond, M.J. (2013). It’s still the same old story: Looking back to the furture in Rangell’s ‘From Insight to Change’ (1981). In B.I. Kalish & C.P. Fisher, editors, The Rangell Reader: Commentaries on and Selected Papers by Leo Rangell, M.D., New York: International Psychoanalytic Books (IP Books), pp. 147-161. 

  • Diamond, M.J. (2011). The impact of the mind of the analyst: From unconscious processes to intrapsychic change. In M.J. Diamond & C. Christian’s (Eds.), The Second Century of Psychoanalysis: Evolving Perspectives on Therapeutic Action. London: Karnac Books, pp. 205-235.         

  • Diamond, M.J. & C. Christian (2011). Introduction–Evolving perspectives on therapeutic action: Where are we after a century? In M.J. Diamond & C. Christian’s (Eds.), The Second Century of Psychoanalysis: Evolving Perspectives on Therapeutic Action. London: Karnac Books, pp. xxi-xxxi.

  • Christian, C. & Diamond, M.J. (2011). A brief history of therapeutic action: Convergence, divergence, and integrative bridges. In M.J. Diamond & C. Christian’s (Eds.), The Second Century of Psychoanalysis: Evolving Perspectives on Therapeutic Action. London: Karnac Books, pp. 3-19.

  • Diamond, M.J. (2009). Masculinity and its discontents: Making room for the “mother” inside the male–An essential achievement for healthy male gender identity. In B. Reis & R. Grossmark’s (Eds.), Heterosexual Masculinities: Contemporary Perspectives from Psychoanalytic Gender Theory. New York: The Analytic Press, pp. 23-53.

  • Diamond, M.J. (1995). The emergence of the father as the watchful protector of the mother-infant dyad. In J.L. Shapiro, M.J. Diamond, & M. Greenberg's (Eds.), Becoming a Father: Social, Developmental, and Clinical Perspectives. NY: Springer, pp. 243-252.

  • Shapiro, J.L., Diamond, M.J., & Greenberg, M. (1995). Introduction. In J.L. Shapiro, M.J. Diamond, & M. Greenberg's (Eds.) Becoming a Father: Social, Developmental, and Clinical Perspectives. NY: Springer, pp. 3-14.

  • Diamond, M.J. (1989). The cognitive skills model: An emerging paradigm for investigating hypnotic phenomena. In N.P. Spanos & J.F. Chaves' (Eds.), Hypnosis: The Cognitive-Behavioral Perspective. Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, pp. 380-399.

  • Diamond, M.J. (1987/1995). Becoming a father: A psychoanalytic perspective on the forgotten parent. In R.M. Friedman & L. Lerner's, Eds., Toward a New Psychology of Men: Psychoanalytic and Social Perspectives, NY: Guilford Press, 1987; and in J.L. Shapiro, M.J. Diamond, & M. Greenberg's, Eds., Becoming a Father: Social, Developmental, and Clinical Perspectives, NY: Springer, 1995, pp. 268-285 (Originally published in The Psychoanalytic Review, 73: 445-468).

  • Diamond, M.J. (1986). The veracity of ideomotor signals. In B. Zilbergeld, M.G. Edelstein, and D.L. Araoz's (Eds.), Hypnosis: Questions and Answers. NY: W.W. Norton, pp. 47-49.

  • Diamond, M.J. (1985). When the knight regains his armor: An indirect psychodynamically-based brief hypnotherapy of an ego-dystonic sexual impulse disorder. In E.T. Dowd & J.M. Healy's (Eds.), Case Studies in Hypnotherapy, NY: Guilford Press, pp. 71-82.

  • Diamond, M.J. (1984). Other voices: The future of hypnosis. In G.J. Pratt, D.P. Wood, & B.M. Alman's (Eds.) A Clinical Hypnosis Primer. La Jolla, CA: Psychology and Consulting Associates Press, pp. 338-340.

  • Diamond, M.J. (1983). An hypnotic induction technique to induce therapist trance: The client-as-therapist. In J. Hariman's (Ed.), The Therapeutic Efficacy of the Major Psychotherapeutic Techniques.  Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas, pp. 69-73. (Reprinted in the Australian Journal of Clinical Hypnotherapy and Hypnosis, 1992, 13: 15-19).

  • Diamond, M.J. (1977). Issues and methods for modifying responsivity to hypnosis. In W.E. Edmonston's (Ed.), Conceptual and Investigative Approaches To Hypnosis and Hypnotic Phenomena. NY: New York Academy of Sciences Press (Volume 296), pp. 119-128.

  • Diamond, M.J., & Shapiro, J.L. (1981-1991). Changes in locus of control as a function of encounter group experiences: A study and replication.  In E.A. Aronson's, Ed., Readings About The Social Animal, 3rd-7th Editions, San Francisco: W.H. Freeman, 1981-1991.  (reprinted from Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 82: 514-518).

  • Diamond, M.J., & Lobitz, W.C. (1977-1991). When familiarity breeds respect: The effects of an experimental "depolarization" program on police and student attitudes toward each other. In E.A. Aronson's, Ed., Readings About The Social Animal, 1st-7th Editions, San Francisco: W.H. Freeman, 1977-1991. (reprinted from Journal of Social Issues, 29: 95-109).

  • Shapiro, J.L., & Diamond, M.J. (1973/1977). Increases in hypnotizability as a function of encounter group training: Some confirming evidence.  In E.A. Aronson's, Ed., Readings About The Social Animal, 1st, 2nd Editions, San Francisco: W.H. Freeman, 1973, 1977, pp. 406-411.  (reprinted from Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 79: 112-115).

  • Byrne, D., Bond, M., & Diamond, M.J. (1971/1973). Response to political candidates as a function of attitude similarity-dissimilarity. In H.C. Lindgren, D. Byrne and F. Lindgren's, Eds., Current Research In Psychology: A Book Of Readings. NY: Wiley, 1971, pp. 371-382; and, in J.H. Hamsher & H. Sigall's, Eds., Psychology and Social Issues.  NY: MacMillan, 1973, pp. 362-372 (reprinted from Human Relations, 22: 251-262. 

Most Significant Journal Articles

  • Diamond, M.J. (2023). Perverted containment: Trumpism, cult creation, and the rise of destructive American populism. Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 43: in press.

  • Diamond, M.J. (2020). Return of the repressed: Dissociation and the psychoanalysis of the traumatized mind. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 68: 839-874.

  • Diamond, M.J. (2020). The elusiveness of ‘the feminine” in the male analyst:  Living in yet not being of the binary. Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 89: 503-526.

  • Diamond, M.J. (2019). Gazing back, playing forward: Contemporary psychoanalytic musings on the relational essence of hypnotherapeutic action. American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, 62: 12-30.

  • Diamond, M.J. (2018). When fathering fails: Violence, narcissism, and the father function in ancient tales and clinical analysis. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 66: 7-40. 

  • Diamond, M.J. (2017). The missing father function in psychoanalytic theory and technique: The analyst's internal couple and maturing intimacy. Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 86: 861-887.

  • Diamond, M.J. (2017). The vibrant challenges of clinically effective psychoanalytic mindedness. Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 86: 86: 627-643.

  • Diamond, M.J. (2017). Recovering the father in mind and flesh: History, triadic functioning, and developmental implications. Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 86: 297-334.

  • Diamond, M.J. (2015). The elusiveness of masculinity: Primordial vulnerability, lack, an the challenges of male development.  Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 84: 47-102.

  • Diamond, M.J. (2014). Analytic mind use and interpsychic communication: Driving force in analytic technique, pathway to unconscious mental life. Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 83: 525-563.

  • Diamond, M.J. (2006). Masculinity unraveled: The roots of male gender identity and the shifting of male ego ideals throughout life. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 54: 1099-1130.

  • Diamond, M.J. (2004). The shaping of masculinity: Revisioning boys turning away from their mothers to reconstruct male gender identity.  International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 85: 359-380.

  • Diamond, M.J. (2004). Accessing the multitude within: A psychoanalytic perspective on the transformation of masculinity at mid-life.  International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 85: 45-64.

  • Diamond, M.J. (1998). Fathers with sons: Psychoanalytic perspectives on "good enough" fathering throughout the life cycle. Gender and Psychoanalysis, 3: 243-299.

  • Diamond, M.J. (1997). The unbearable agony of being: Interpreting tormented states of mind in the psychoanalysis of sexually traumatized patients. Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic, 61: 495-519.

  • Diamond, M.J. (1989). Stagnation, chaos, and severe character neuroses. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 6: 455-473.

  • Diamond, M.J. (1987). The interactional basis of hypnotic experience: On the relational dimensions of hypnosis. International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 35: 95-115. Winner, Roy M. Dorcus Award for Best Clinical Paper in Hypnosis, 1988.

  • Diamond, M.J. (1986). Becoming a father: A psychoanalytic perspective on the forgotten parent. The Psychoanalytic Review, 73: 445-468.

  • Diamond, M.J. (1984). It takes two to tango: Some thoughts on the neglected importance of the hypnotist in an interactive hypnotherapeutic relationship. American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, 27: 3-13. Winner, Milton H. Erickson Award for Writing in Hypnosis, 1986.

  • Diamond, M.J. (1974). Modification of hypnotizability: A review.  Psychological Bulletin, 81: 180-198. 

  • Diamond, M.J. (1974). From Skinner to Satori? Toward a social learning analysis of encounter group behavior change. Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 10: 133-148.

  • Diamond, M.J., & Lobitz, W.C. (1973). When familiarity breeds respect: The effects of an experimental "depolarization" program on police and student attitudes toward each other. Journal of Social Issues, 29: 95-109.

  • Diamond, M.J. (1972). Improving the undergraduate lecture class by use of student-led discussion groups. American Psychologist, 27: 978-981.

  • Byrne, D., Bond, M., & Diamond, M.J. (1969). Response to political candidates as a function of attitude similarity-dissimilarity. Human Relations, 22: 251-262.

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