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Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson is the bestselling author of 12 books. Jeff has a Ph. He was Professor of Sanskrit at the University of Toronto. While at the university he trained as a Freudian analyst from graduating as a full member of the International Psycho-Analytical Association.

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Given access to Freud's papers in London and the Library of Congress, his research led him to believe that Freud made a mistake when he stopped believing that the source of much human misery lay in sexual abuse. Masson's view was so controversial within traditional analytic circles that he was fired from the archives and had his membership in the international society taken away.

Janet Malcolm has written a book about this episode In the Freud Archives - the subject of a libel suit by Masson and Jeff has published a series of books critical of Freud, psychoanalysis, psychiatry and therapy. Skeptical that humans could be understood at least by psychologists Masson turned to animals. Since those two books he has published 7 more books about animals, looking in every one at their emotions: About cats he wrote The Nine Emotional Lives of Cats along with a fable, The Cat Who Came in from the Cold ; He looked at fatherhood in the animal world and the lessons to be learned for humans in The Evolution of Fatherhood ; writing about the emotional world of farm animals in The Pig Who Sang to the Moon turned Jeff into a vegan.

Lately he wondered why animals did not engage in genocide, and wrote Raising the Peaceable Kingdom.

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He wrote an encyclopedia of his favorite animals often with an animal-rights angle called Altruistic Armadillos - Zenlike Zebras. His most recent book, Dogs Make Us Human , about the evolution of dogs and humans in tandem, was published in September Leila, and Jeff are vegans. Manu, Ilan and his rat are vegetarian. Their three cats could not be persuaded to follow either philosophy, and are, alas, carnivores.

Benjy could be a vegan, but Jeff feels that he should not force him into this lifestyle, which should be a choice. I believe that in years maybe less people will look back on us and wonder about many things.