Reviews (Book & Film), Non-Medical and Research Grants 

2024

Packer, Sharon: Book Review: New Israeli Horror: Local Cinema, Global Genre. by Olga Gershenson. Journal of Popular Culture, December.

​Packer, Sharon: Book Review: “Supervising Individual Psychotherapy: The Guide to ‘Good Enough’, by Katherine G. Kennedy, Randon S. Welton, Frank E. Yeomans (eds.),” Psychiatric Times, 11/26/24.

2019

Packer, Sharon: Book Review: Family Murders: Pathologies of Love and Hate by Susan Hatters-Friedman, M.D/Committee on Psychiatry & the Law Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry/American Psychiatric Association Publishing, 5/14/19 (Volume 23, Issue 20).

2018

Packer, Sharon: Book Review: Mental Health in Asia and the Pacific: Historical and Cultural Perspectives by Harry Minas and Milton Lewis (eds.), Springer-Verlag. 8/7/18 (Volume 22, Issue 32).

2017

Packer, Sharon: Book Review: Psychiatric Hegemony: A Marxist Theory of Mental Illness by Bruce Cohen. Palgrave Macmillan. 2/21/17 (Volume 21, Issue 8).

​Packer, Sharon: Book Review: Monsters, Demons & Psychopaths: Psychiatry and Horror Film. by Fernando Espi-Forcen. CRC Press. 5/23/17. Volume: 21, Number: 21

2016

Packer, Sharon: Book Review: A Heartfelt Memoir About Tay-Sachs. Genesis: Born with Tay-Sachs by Cary M. Berman, Infinity Publishing. Psychiatric Times. 8/2/16.

​Packer, Sharon: Book Review: Portrait of the Psychiatrist as a Young Man (with an emphasis on Logotherapy & Viktor Frankl) in Logotherapy and Existential Analysis: Proceedings of the Viktor Frankl Institute, Volume I (ed. A. Batthyany). Springer International AG, Char, 2016.

2015
Packer, Sharon: Book Review: Madness and Civilization by Andrew Scull, Princeton University Press. Metapsychology, 11/3/15 (Volume 19, Issue 45)

Packer, Sharon: Book Review: Encyclopedia of Asylum Therapeutics, 1750-1950s by Mary De Young, McFarland. Metapsychology:

6/10/15 (Volume 19, Issue 24).

2014

Packer, Sharon: Book Review: Generation Dada: The Berlin Avant-Garde and the First World War by Michael White. Yale University Press, . Metapsychology: 12/30/14 (Volume 18, Issue 1).

Packer, Sharon: Book Review: Medicine and Religion: A Historical Introduction by Gary B. Ferngren. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014. 7/8/14 (Volume 18, Issue 28)

Packer, Sharon: Book Review: Controlling Your Drinking: Tools to Make Moderation Work for  You, Second Edition, by William R. Miller and Ricardo F. Muñoz. Guilford Press. Metapsychology: 5/6/14 (Volume 18).

Packer, Sharon: Film Review: Six Million and One (Fisher, 2011) 5/1/14.

2013

Packer, Sharon: Book Review: Contemporary Psychoanalysis and the Legacy of the Third Reich: History, Memory, Tradition by Emily A. Kuriloff. Metapsychology: 10/15/13 (Volume 17, Issue 42).

Packer, Sharon: Film Review: Man of Steel, Psychiatric Times, 2013.

Packer, Sharon: Book Review: The Significance of Religious Experience by Howard Wettstein. Metapsychology: 5/28/13 (Volume 17, Issue 22) 

Packer, Sharon: Book Review: Learning Supportive Psychotherapy: An Illustrated Guide (Core Competencies in Psychotherapy) by Arnold Winston, Richard N. Rosenthal and Henry Pinsker. Metapsychology, 1/15/13 (Volume 17, Issue 3).

2012
Packer, Sharon: Book Review: Techniques of Pleasure: BDSM and the Circuits of Sexuality by Margot Weiss. Metapsychology. 10/30/12 (Volume 16, Issue 44).

Packer, Sharon: “Preventing Seasonal Affective Disorder.” SoHo Life, October 2012.

2011

Packer, Sharon: Book Review: Packer, Sharon: Portrait of a Psychiatrist as a Young Man by Alan Beveridge. Metapsychology. 12/13/11 (Volume 15, Issue 50).

Packer, Sharon: Film Review: “Thor: From Myth to Marvel Comics to Movies to Medical Commentary”, HCPLive. 8/26/11.

Packer, Sharon: Book Review: Packer, Sharon: Graphic Women by Hilary Chute. Metapsychology. 8/23/11

Packer, Sharon: Film Review: “Swan Moms, Tiger Moms, & Mad Moms in Black Swan & Requiem for a Dream: A look at the role mothers play in the downfall of their children in the films Black Swan and Requiem for a Dream", HCPLive. 3/22/11.

Packer, Sharon: Film Review: “Recalling Total Recall”. MDng Magazine, Psychiatry/Neurology Edition & HCPLive. February 2011.

2003

Packer, Sharon: Book Review: Consciousness & the Novel. Psychiatric Services 54:1554, November 2003.

1996

Packer, Sharon: Book Review: Jews, Medicine, and Medieval Society. Journal History of Medicine and Allied Sciences. June 51(3):367-369; 1996.

Packer, Sharon: Book Review: Myth & Madness: The Psychodynamics of Anti-Semitism. Bull Judaism and Psychiatry 1996.

Packer, Sharon: Book Review: Freud & Moses. Bulletin of Judaism and Psychiatry 1996.

Packer, Sharon: Book Review: Self, Struggle, & Change. Bulletin of Judaism and Psychiatry 1996.

Packer, Sharon: Book Review: Twelve Jewish Steps to Recovery. Bulletin of Judaism and Psychiatry, 1996.

Packer, Sharon: Book Review: Mourning & Mitzvah. Bulletin of Judaism and Psychiatry, 1996.

Packer, Sharon: Book Review: Ultimate Intimacy: The Psychodynamics of Jewish Mysticism. Bulletin of Judaism and Psychiatry, 1996.

Packer, Sharon: Book Review: Circle in the Square: Studies in the Use of Gender in Kabalistic Symbolism. Bulletin of Judaism and Psychiatry, 1996.

Packer, Sharon: ​Book Review: Religion's Challenge to Psychology. Bulletin of Judaism and Psychiatry 1996.

Packer, Sharon: Book Review: 100 Blessings Every Day. Bulletin of Judaism and Psychiatry 1996.

Packer, Sharon:​ Book Review: Auschwitz, A Doctor's Story. Bulletin of Judaism and Psychiatry 1996.

Packer, Sharon:​ Book Review: Lingering Shadows: Freudians, Jungians, and Anti-Semitism. Bulletin of Judaism and Psychiatry, 1996.

Packer, Sharon:​ Book Review: The Jung Cult. Bulletin of Judaism and Psychiatry, 1996.

Packer, Sharon:​ Book Review: Bettelheim. Jewish Book Review, 1996.

1994

Packer, Sharon: Trance States at Thaipusam. Essay and Photojournalism, Ward-Nasse Gallery, NYC, 1994.

1993

Packer, Sharon: Book Review: Dreamtime. International Psychohistorical Association, 1993

1992

Packer, Sharon: "Insiders, Outsiders, & Others." Essay for Artists in Mental Health Exhibit, Newark Museum Catalogue, 1992.​
 

Non-Medical Publications
Packer, Sharon: “The Holocaust Survivor in the Typewriter Repair Shop,” The Forward, February 21, 2024.

Packer, Sharon: “Does Judith of The Walking Dead reference the Jewish Judith of the Chanukah Story?” in Women in Judaism, 2022.

Packer, Sharon: “Daffodils as Antidepressants: What Wordsworth Knew” in SoHo Life, May 2013.

Packer, Sharon: “Daffodils as Antidepressants: What Wordsworth Knew” in Chelsea Life, May 2013.

Packer, Sharon: “Daffodils as Antidepressants: What Wordsworth Knew” in Morningside Heights Life, May 2013.

Packer, Sharon: “Busting the Myth of Holiday Blues.” SoHo Life, December 2012.

Packer, Sharon: “Busting the Myth of Holiday Blues.” Chelsea Life, December 2012.

Packer, Sharon: “Busting the Myth of Holiday Blues.” Morningside Hts Life, December 2012.

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Research Grants

Racial Revelation in the “Colorblind” Cyberclass (2001-2), grant supported by DIAL program, New School for Social Research and published in Race in the College Class (Rutgers UP), 2001.

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