Book Review: Psychoanalysis: Textbook of Psychoanalysis

An Elementary Textbook of Psychoanalysis

Book Reviews Project for a Scientific Psychoanalysis

SELDOM does one have the privilege of reviewing work as important and impressive as these volumes. Along with Schore’s earlier work, Affect Regulation and the Origin of the Self, these two new collections constitute a trilogy of carefully crafted and researched papers. They also mark “a clarion call for a paradigm shift, both in psychiatry and in biology and in psychoanalytic psychotherapies.” ...

[Psychoanalysis].

First and foremost, the term designates the method of psychiatric treatment created by Sigmund Freud, who coined the term in two publications of 1896: Weitere Bemerkungen über Abwehr-Neuropsychosen (Further Remarks on the Neuro-Psychoses of Defense) and L ́hérédité et l ́étiologie des névroses (Heredity and the Aetiology of the Neuroses), the latter a treatise written in French, in which he depic...

An Outline of Psychoanalysis

revisions. It is interesting to compare the book with the earlier introductory Lectures, and to note the gradual broadening and development of psychoanalytical theory despite its firm retention of its basic truths and fundamental principles. This brief work of eighty pages contains, as is only to be expected, a clear summary of psychoanalytical theory explained in remarkably simple language. It...

Consilient Psychoanalysis

The concept of consilience, that is, the fundamental unity of knowledge across disciplines, is applied to the field of psychoanalysis. Whereas practitioners in other disciplines, especially the natural sciences, strive for consilience, psychoanalysis as a discipline is found to be frequently lacking in consilience. Implications for paradigm change, metatheory, and evidence-based practice are di...