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Books
The Narcissistic/Borderline Couple: A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Marital Therapy (1992), Brunner/Mazel, New York, 1992 – 244 pp. More details. Available at Amazon.com
The Narcissistic/Borderline Couple: New Approaches to Marital Treatment (2nd Edition), Bruunner-Routeledge and Hove, New York (2004), pgs. 246. More details. Available at Amazon.com.

The Many Faces of Abuse: Treating the Emotional Abuse of High-Functioning Women, Jason Aronson, New York, 1998. More details. Available at Amazon.com.

Chapter in the Book:
The Disordered Couple
– “Narcissistic/Borderline Couples: A Psychodynamic Approach on Conjoint Treatment," Brunner/Mazel, New York, 1997
Books in Progress:
The “V-Spot: Healing Your Innermost Vulnerabilities from Emotional Abuse" (Jason Aronson 2006) More details.
How to Talk to a Narcissist (2007)
Aggression and Cruelty in Cross-Cultural Couples (work in progress)
Chapter in Book - Jihad and Sacred Vengeance: Psychological Undercurrents of History Volume III, by Jerry S. Piven (Editor), Henry W. Lawton (Editor), Chris Boyd (Editor), Universe, Incorporated, 2002.
Articles/Journals/Newsletters/Presentations
"Psychopathology of Terrorism: A Cultural V-Spot" - paper presented to the Rand Corporation's Los Angeles Terrorism Early Warning Group, Third Annual Conference, Terrorism and Global Security, May 8-9, 2008.

"Child Suicide Bombers" - Symposium conducted by Frontpage Magazine.com with Joan Lachkar, Ph.D., a licensed Marriage and Family therapist in private practice in Brentwood and Tarzana, California, who teaches psychoanalysis and is a much published and respected author in this field; Nancy Kobrin, a psycho-analyst, Arabist, and counter-terrorism expert; David Gutmann, emeritus professor of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences at Northwestern University Medical School in Chicago; and Dr. Anat Berko, Lt. Col. (Ret), a research fellow at the International Policy Institute for Counter Terrorism (ICT) at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya. Download the PDF transcript.

Diamonds are Forever - "High Anxiety," by Joan Lachkar and Linda Allen Bakker for INSTOREMAG.COM, December 2007: The highly charged topic of jewelry and what happens to couples when they go to the jewelry store. Download PDF.

"The Psychopathology of Terrorism: The Cultural V-Spot and Terrorism," presented to the International Psychohistorical Association (2006). Download the full presentation here.

"The Psychopathology of Terrorism: The Cultural V-Spot and Terrorism," published by Primal Psychotherapy Page, October 4, 2006. Link to the article.

"Parallels Between Political Marital Conflict," Journal of Psychohistory

Revision of Narcissistic/Borderline Couple, book 2nd Edition, Taylor and Francis (2004)

Article - Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, September 2004, p.327, quotes from The Many Faces of Abuse: Treating the Emotional Abuse of High Functioning Women

Article (Master Thesis) - "A Movement Study to Determine the Value of Dance Therapy as an Adjunctive Therapy," Thesis for the M. A. degree, California Family Study Center, 1980, 150 pp.

Article - "The Arab-Israeli Conflict: A Psychoanalytic Study." Dissertation for the Ph.D. Degree, International College, LA, 1983, 227 pp.

Article - "Narcissistic/Borderline Couples: A Psychoanalytic Perspective to Family, Therapy," International Journal of Family Psychiatry. (International Universities Press), 5,2, 1984, pp. 169-189.

"Narcissistic/Borderline Couples: Theoretical Implications for Treatment," Dynamic Psychotherapy: The Journal of the Postgraduate Center for Mental Health, 3, 2,Fall Winter 1985, pp. 109-125.

"The Violation of Human Rights. The Quest for Understanding," Bulletin of the Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute and Society, 72, Spring, 1985, pp. 17-21.

Newsletter - "Courts Beware! Narcissistic/Borderline Couples: Implications for Mediation," Conciliation Court Review Bulletin, June 1986, pp. 31- 43.

Article - "Implications for Mediation," Conciliation Court Review Bulletin, June 1986, pp.31-43

"Narcissism in Dance: Choreography and Dance: An International Journal," 6, 23-30.

Newsletter - "Official Terror, Psychological Causes, Consequences and Remedies," Bulletin of the Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute and Society, Fall 1987, p. 23.

Article - "Parallels Between Marital and Political Conflict," The Journal of Psychohistory (New York), 20, 3, Winter 1993, pp. 275-287.

Article - "Paradox of Peace: Folie a Deux in Marital and Political Relationships," The Journal of Psychohistory, New York, 22, 2, Fall 1994, pp.199-211.

Article - "Aggression and Cruelty in Cross-Cultural Couples." International Psychohistorical Association 21st Annual Convention. Fordham University, June 3-5, 1998. New York.

Article - "Aggression and Cruelty in Cross-Cultural Couples." Paris '98, The Psychohistory Congress, July 14-18. Paris.

Article - "Are You Being Emotionally Abused?" Article written about Many Faces in Celebrity News (1998).

Article - "The Incredible Shrinking Woman." (1998). Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles, Vol. 13 No.22.

Article - "Subtraumatic Abuse" (January 1999). Redbook Magazine.

Article - "Emotional Abuse of High-Functioning Women: A Psychodynamic Perspective;" Journal of Emotional Abuse, Vol. 2(1) 2000. Haworth Press, Inc. View

Article - "Dance and Narcissism" (2001). Choreography and Dance, 2001, Vol. 6. Part 1, pp, 23-0. Harwood Academic Publishers (member of Taylor and Francis). View

Media Interview - MSNBC Interview with Jennifer Koeich.

Article - "The Psychological Make-Up of a Suicide Bomber." International Psychohistorical Association, Annual Convention. Vol. 29, No. 4 Spring 2002. New York.

Article - "The Psychological Make-Up of a Suicide Bomber." The California Therapist, Vol. 14, June 2 March/April 2002.

Article - "The Psychological Make-Up of a Suicide Bomber." Journal of Psychohistory, Vol. 29, No. 4, Spring 2002. New York. View
Article - "Slobodan and Mirjana Milosevic: The Dysfunctional Couple that Destroyed the Balkans," A Psychoanalytic and Psychohistorical Inquiry by Joan Jutta Lachkar, Ph.D., submitted to the Essay Prize in Psychoanalysis and Culture, 2003. View

Article - Joan Lachkar and Peter Berton, "German and Japanese Reactions to Their Acts of Aggression During World War II: Applying Psychoanalytic Theory to History and Culture." Presented at the First Psychohistorical Convention in Amsterdam, 1997. (To be presented at the Sixth International Biennial Conference of Sino-Japanese Relations, Beijing, September 18-19, 2004)  View
 

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