The Funny Bone of Dr. Michael Stone

<p>Discover the extraordinary world of renowned psychiatrist and author Michael Stone MD as he showcases his unique blend of humor and insight in <em>The Funny Bone</em>. Stone's comedic gifts have been honed since his early days as a medical resident in the 1960s. Sophisticated perceptive and sometimes downright absurd his cartoons show equal reverence and irreverence for the psychoanalytic session: imagining an analyst alligator in the Jurassic Period a computer listening to its anxious computer-patient on the couch and a sort of Freudian meat grinder where everything that goes in (Morality Aggression Work Dreams) comes out as Sex.</p><p><br></p><p>Beyond the confines of the couch Stone's cartoons touch on Eros the pleasures and troubles of big city living aging and above all a delightful menagerie where animals reign including an erudite pig who shuns pig Latin in favor of Cicero and Caesar's eloquence.</p><p><br></p><p>Animals also populate Stone's humorous writing such as his <em>Animalimericks</em> an alphabetical journey from Armadillo to Zebra charmingly illustrated by Jonathan Peck. Other offerings include an inspired array of verbal and visual puns a playful poem on philosophers from Ancient Greece to the present and a perfect four-word summation of life.</p><p><br></p><p>Whether you're a psychoanalyst or <em>in</em> analysis a New Yorker at heart or a lover of <em>The</em> <em>New Yorker</em> Michael Stone's <em>The Funny Bone</em> 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.</p>