Martin Nass, Ph.D., ABPP

B.A. 1948, Long Island University
M.A. 1949, Ph.D. 1954, New York University

· The study of creativity, particularly in musicians and composers

· Professor Emeritus, Brooklyn College, City University of New York
· Faculty, Training and Supervisory Analyst, Contemporary Freudian Society

Nass, M.L. (1956). The effects of three variables on children's concepts of physical causality. Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 53, 191-196.

Nass, M.L. (1959). Characteristics of a psychotherapeutically-oriented group for beginning teachers. Mental Hygiene, 43, 562-567.

Boehm, L. & Nass, M.L. (1962). Social class differences in conscience development. Child Development, 33, 565-574.

Nass, M.L. (1964). The deaf child's conception of physical causality. Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 69, 669-673.

Nass, M.L. (1964). The development of conscience: a comparison of the moral judgments of deaf and hearing children. Child Development, 35, 1073-1080.

Nass, M.L. (1966). The superego and moral development in the theories of Freud and Piaget. The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 21, 51-68.

Nass, M.L. (1971). Some aspects of a psychoanalytic interpretation of music. Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 40, 303-316.

Nass, M.L. (1975). On hearing and inspiration in the composition of music. Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 44, 431-449.

Nass, M.L. (1984). The development of creative imagination in composers. International Review of Psychoanalysis, 11, 481-491.

Nass, M.L. (1990) (The previous three papers also appear as chapters in Psychoanalytic Explorations in Music, Vol. I) S. Feder, L. Karmel, & G. Pollock (Eds.), New York: International Universities Press.

Nass, M.L. (1989). From transformed scream, through mourning to the building of psychic structure: a critical review of the literature on music and psychoanalysis. Annual of Psychoanalysis, 19, 159-181.

Nass, M.L. (1991). Una interpretation psicoanalitica de la musica: Algunas consideraciones. Gradiva, 4, 297-308. (This is a translation into Spanish of my 1971 paper and is published in the Journal of the Mexican Psychoanalytic Society.)

Nass, M.L. (1993). The composer's experience: variations on several themes. In Psychoanalytic Explorations in Music (Second Series) S. Feder, L. Karmel, & G. Pollock (Eds.) New York: International Universities Press.

Nass, M.L. (1994). [Review of the book Charles Ives: My Father’s Song by Stuart Feder] Psychoanalytic Review, 80, 475-479.

Nass, M.L. (1996). [Review of the book The Pleasures and Perils of Genius: Mostly Mozart by Peter Ostwald and Leonard S. Zegans] Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 44, 623-628.

Nass, M.L. (1998). Chapter in The Modern Freudians Proceedings of the NYU Postdoctoral Program Freudian Track Conference, November 3, 1996. International Universities Press.

Nass, M.L. (2002). [Review of the book The Musical Edge of the Therapeutic Dialogue by Steven H. Knoblauch] Psychoanalytic Review, 89, 267-271.

Nass, M.L. (2005). [Review of the book Between Couch and Piano: Psychoanalysis, Music, Art and Neuroscience by Gilbert J. Rose] Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 53, 679-684.

Nass, M.L. (2007). The mind of the composer. The American Psychoanalyst, 41, (4), 18-22.

 

Nass, M.L. (2015) The Omnipotence of the Psychoanalyst: Thoughts on the Need to Consider Retirement. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 63, 1013-1023.

 

Building Bridges: Selected Psychoanalytic Papers. By Helen K. Gediman. New York: International Psychoanalytic Books, 2018,

376 pp., $35.00,  Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association ,2019. 67:930-934.