A remarkable work.

Harper’s Magazine, on The Jump Artist

Acutely rendered…
brilliantly constructed.

The Guardian, on The Jump Artist

An exuberant, terrific book…
It made me laugh like I did when I was reading Goodbye, Columbus for the first time.

Arts Fuse, on In the Land of the Living

Austin Ratner is author of the novels In the Land of the Living and The Jump Artist, winner of the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature, and the non-fiction book The Psychoanalyst’s Aversion to Proof.

Austin Ratner
New Non-Fiction by Austin Ratner

New Non-Fiction by Austin Ratner

The Psychoanalyst's Aversion to Proof

A clear and engaging call-to-arms to Freudians everywhere and a fresh diagnosis of the major problem confronting psychoanalysis today, The Psychoanalyst’s Aversion to Proof presents exciting new ideas that could help psychoanalysis reclaim its eminent place among the mental sciences. By showing how and why Freudians have avoided proving their theories, The Psychoanalyst’s Aversion to Proof charts a new future of growth and engagement in which psychoanalysis fulfills its promise: to rescue humanity from its own irrationality.