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Whether you’re a psychoanalyst or in analysis, a New Yorker at heart or a lover of The New Yorker, Dr. Michael Stone's The Funny Bone is a hilarious compendium that can be absorbed in one sitting or savored slowly; either way, it’s a book to be revisited, again and again.
Michael Stone is a true Renaissance man: a brilliant and renowned psychiatrist, highly prized and widely read author, engaging and persuasive lecturer, an enlightened lover of the arts, and an accomplished pianist as well. But he is also a brilliant, witty and perceptive humorist. This collection of his cartoons, limericks, and musings is a treasure trove, a must-read. In this wonderful collection, through humor, Michael Stone offers us a prism through which to view life and its many foibles. Philosophy aside, it is also good for many chuckles and belly laughs.
—Paul Sheftel, Pianist, composer, performer and teacher
Doctor Stone the linguistic polymath,
Who ranked perpetrators of wrath,
Now collects his rude 'toons,
His puns like harpoons and his runes,
With the mirth that an analyst hath
—David V. Forrest, M.D., Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Columbia VP&S, Author of The Laughing Brain: A Hierarchy of Humor by Mental and Neural Levels
Dr Michael Stone’s book is an absolute treasure! A compendium of wisdom and humor, it’s a must read for all clinicians.
—Nechama Sorscher PhD, Director of the Sorscher Center in NYC
The psychiatrist, poet and polyglot
Herein lifts up the lid
On our collective psyche-pot
And lets us vent the id.
And as Stone's humor prods and pokes
At all we keep concealed,
We realize that through clever jokes
Ourselves have been revealed.
—Gary Brucato, Ph.D., co-author with Dr. Stone of The New Evil: Understanding the Emergence of Modern Violent Crime
Michael H. Stone, MD, is professor of clinical psychiatry at the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons. He is the author of 13 books, including The Anatomy of Evil, and over two hundred professional articles and book chapters. Formerly the host of the Discovery Channel series Most Evil, Dr. Stone is regularly featured in media outlets such as the New York Times, Psychology Today, CNN, ABC News, NBC News, and the BBC.
JONATHAN PECK (additional illustrations) attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and received his MFA from Yale. The Scenic Artist for 12 years with The Paper Bag Players, he also created sets for several films including Isabella Rossellini’s Seduce Me series for IFC. Exhibitions include Museum of Contemporary Art (Miami), and New Museum (New York). Jonathan teaches art at the Pratt Institute.
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