Bøger af Gerald Schoenewolf

This volume, 4 SCREENPLAYS, contains a collection of literary screenplays by Gerald Schoenewolf, a psychoanalyst who brings his knowledge of psychology to bear in these works. All four of them won awards at film festivals, but none has been produced...yet! "A Way You'll Never Be" is a tragic and original road adventure about a serial murderer and an adorable young hitchhiker who wants to win fame and fortune on the TV show, American Idol. It is a dramatic tale full of drama and romance, but with a realistic, tragic ending. "Billy the Kid" is the author's biographical tale of the rise and fall of the famous outlaw. It is the most realistic and touching movie biography about this legend ever written, one that is as character-driven as it is action-packed. "Stopping by the Woods on a Rainy Evening" is Schoenewolf's contribution to the horror genre. It is a deeply psychological thriller about two couples who accidentally meet and end up tenting together at an isolated pond on a rainy night. It is complete with a twisted ending. Finally, "Lizzie Borden" offers a definitive take on the story of Lizzie Borden, who axed to death her father and stepmother in the late 18th Century. It portrays her not as a villain but as a sad and tragic figure caught up in a dysfunctional family. It is hoped these five works will add to a growing list of American literary screenplays.

Virgil, an aspiring New York artist and desperate nerd, meets Lila, a beautiful visitor from Eastern Europe with a mysterious flaw. He bumbles his way to her heart, but is handicapped by his phobia of beautiful women, which causes him to have a "kissing reflex," a malady that compels him to hastily kiss and have sex with a beautiful woman in order to allay his neurotic fears of rejection. Despite his handicap he succeeds in getting Lila to bed, whereupon she turns out not to be as beautiful as he thought. His despair at seeing her "birth defect" mortifies him, which in turn offends Lila and causes her to run off to Paradise Island. He follows her there and attempts to humbly apologize, but he is rebuffed again. Finally, after yelling at his mother during her misbegotten visit to New York, Virgil calms down and reaches a point of "temporary sanity," whereby he is able to engage in more mature conversation with Lila and show her his caring and generous side by painting her bathroom metallic gold, magenta, and green. Somehow all ends happily in the end. This is a romantic comedy like Something About Mary.

Based on the author's research as a psychoanalyst, A Way You'll Never Be tells the story of Robert Allen Jones (Bobby), the son of a white mother and a black father, and his unlikely relationship with a pretty runaway named Jenny. Written as a first-person diary, this hardboiled work provides a poignant glimpse into a serial murderer's mind as it follows him and teenage charmer Jenny on a road trip from Kansas to the Florida Keys. . Jenny falls in love with Bobby and wants to marry him to "make up for what your mom did," but he has other plans. The novel, full of oddball adventures, moves inexorably to its tragic ending in a cove on the Florida Keys. A haunting tale of with unforgettable characters, it has important things to say about love, murder, racial hatred and American culture.

The author, a psychoanalyst, has collected his philosophical poems and primitive drawings (the latter which he did while his patients were on the couch. Two categories of poems populate the book. Those in the first section, "Holding On," were mainly done in the first half of his life, and evidence a disturbed viewpoint of regretting and brooding about things. Those in the second section, "Letting Go," describe the state of accepting life as it is and living in harmony, a state which he aspired to obtain after about 40 years of his own psychotherapy. In all there are 58 poems and 50 drawingsWhile the author believes that the later poems represent emotional maturity, he does not now see himself as mature, but rather, improved. He passes on this collection in the hope that others will benefit from his journey.

Dolly Lahma is a feisty 25-year-old private eye who just took the P.I. licensing exam and set up her shingle-only to find herself catapulted into a case involving one of the most unusual sex traffic rings ever discovered. She is a petite mini-skirted blond with a high ponytail whose first-person voice is honest and real and pissed off at a great many things, especially her snotty older sister. She is like a female Holden Caulfield, but with a purpose. A comically kinky detective story, it starts off with a wild car chase while she is smitten by that time of the month. She then falls in love and has a steamy romp with a tall, handsome client, who is suddenly kidnapped. Then come various adventures on a road trip across America--including a peeing contest with a group of rosy-cheeked college boys--ending up in the Florida Keys, where she finds a man-made island on which rich widows have bought drugged and brain-washed men to use as sex toys. In the end, her father, sister, and an odd-ball friend, assist her in bringing down a fledgling empire in dramatic fashion. This is a bawdy tale with strikingly original characterizations and an array of exciting scenes the reader will never forget.

Hank Flugelhorn, a man somewhat taken with hyperbole, has written a book about his adventures in outer space, and he doesn't care if you believe him or not. According to him, three naked girls sidled up to him one day and kidnapped him. They dragged him kicking and giggling to their space ship and whisked him off to their planet. On the way he was forced to donate a sperm sample via a spermatron and then required to satisfy each of the naked ladies, a feat which he accomplished with great finesse. Not that he needed to brag. On their planet he was thrown into the clutches of Xquisitrix, whose job was to reprogram him so that he would not contaminate women on her planet with his toxic behavioral habits brought from Earth. Xquisitrix explained to him during this reprogramming that all males had died out due to homopox. His job would be to repopulate the planet. He asserted that he would do his best. When the time came he threw himself into his work with ultimate dedication. On the seventh day he rested, only to discover that he had now contracted the dreaded homopox, which manifested itself in the slow rotting of his sexual organs. Before that happened he managed to steal a rocket and take off for earth with his favored space gal.

. This is inspiring tale of a man's journey through life. It follows him as he goes through an abusive childhood, fleeting fame as a young playwright, a later descent into madness, redemption by way of psychotherapy with a female therapist, and finally success as a man, psychotherapist and writer.

This romantic science fiction novel follows a neurotic 37-year-old who orders an adanced Robodoll, hoping she will be his new sex object. Instead he discovers a robot who doesn't look like a robot and is more advanced than he is, including knowing how to love. Along the way Henry not only becomes intimately acquainted with the most technologically advanced orgasm reflex he has ever encountered, but also with a robot that can speak 66 languages, sing opera, dance ballet, cook international cuisine and read people's minds. A surprisingly funny fantasy adventure with an underlying psychological meaning, it follows Henry as he introduces his robodoll to society and finds out who she is and what she can do. The more he introduces her to society, the more complicated his life becomes. The novel reaches a turning point when she joins a pick-up softball game in Central Park and stuns everybody with her amazing performance, thereby provoking attention from the FBI, Hollywood, the New York Yankees and various others, sending Henry into a meltdown. ROBODOLL is a novel that indirectly probes not only the meaning of love but also the meaning of life, and is reminiscent of classics like Brave New World, 1984 and Gulliver's Travels.

76 TYPICAL THERAPY MISTAKES is a workbook for psychotherapists of all types, providing them with an instructive as well as entertaining way to avoid the common pitfalls of practicing psychotherapy. This practical book, written by a noted psychoanalyst, contains 76 teaching tales that cover all the typical mistakes therapists are prone to making. Each tale is followed by questions for readers to answer, and then an explanation of how the therapist went wrong and what he should have done. Written in a concise and witty style, the tales include "The Therapist Who Was Disgusted by Penises," "The Gay Therapist and the Handsome Brute," "The Grandiose Group Therapist," and "The Therapist Who Craved Love." The Workbook contains a helpful introduction on four types of countertransference and two types of counterresistance that often lead to therapy mistakes. Yet, for the most part, the book is free of terminology and can be read by professionals and lay people alike. It is sure to become a standard in the field.

Feminism is perhaps the most influential political movement of our times. In this volume a noted psychoanalyst looks at the history of feminism, analyzes its effect on American and world culture, and sheds light on its ultimate meaning. The book shows how, over the course of a hundred years, feminism became more than a political movement; it became a way of life and a new morality to many, and those who spoke out against the feminist doctrine were seen as engaging in hate speech and as proclaiming themselves to be culturally backwards. How did feminism get to this place? Fulfilling his psychoanalytic commitment to search for the truth, the author examines the psychological underpinnings of the women's movement. He looks at its stated goals (its conscious mind) in comparison with its ultimate consequences (its unconscious byproducts) and wonders whether feminism took society to a place that was beneficial to all And he examines whether it achieved its original goal of equality between men and women.On a more personal level, the author details his own involvement with the movement from his youth to the present, and describes various encounters with radicals. He tells about feeling hurt by the constant trashing of males that was part and parcel of the feminist movement, and how he was concerned about the demise of gender balance caused by feminism. He observes feminism's idealization of one gender and demonization of the other and writes of his concerned about the effect of this imbalance on the family, child-rearing and on the quality of life. This volume argues that as feminism became more radical and as its focus shifted from equal rights to a wholesale reconstruction of culture, it created more chaos and confusion than meaning. This important volume takes a backward glance at one of the most powerful political movements of our time."

In this collection of papers by a neo-classical psychoanalyst, he points the way back to a more centrist view. He argues with modern writings that have repealed Freud's theories about women, homosexuality, drive theory and cultural psychology without offering plausible substitutes. He posits a neutral thesis that is an attempt to unify a psychoanalysis that has fragmented into numerous schools since Freud's death.

The United States as twice as many mass killings than any other country in the world. In 2018, there were 18 mass killings in one year.Many critics say it is the accessibility of guns in the United States that is the cause of the mass killings. But guns have always been available in the US, particularly since 1781, when the second amendment was passed granting citizens the right to own guns. But mass killing began to multiply at the end of the 20th Century and continued to do so into the 21st Century.People kill not because they have guns, but because they have an urge to kill. The urge to kill is brought on either by an emotional disturbance or a cultural disturbance or both. The urge to kill many people is brought on by an even greater disturbance.Mass killers are the products of dysfunctional families and dysfunctional cultures. The traumas of childhood and the frustrations of living in a dysfunctional culture lead to the eruptions of mass killings.This book probes the minds of mass killers and the meaning of their killings. It begins with an introduction to the psychology of mass killings, then offers six case histories of some of the most notorious mass killers in recent American history. It ends with a chapter on how to prevent mass killings.