Psychoanalytic Trends in Theory and Practice

M. Hossein Etezady, MD, is faculty member at the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia, head of faculty at the Tehran Psychoanalytic Institute, and in private practice in Malvern, Pennsylvania.Inga Blom, PhD, is senior psychologist at Lenox Hill Hospital, assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra University/Northwell, and private practitioner.Mary Davis, MD, is private practitioner in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

This volume of 13 essays by practitioners and theorists of psychoanalysis covers immense ground, and the editors deserve praise for including a broad range of topics relevant to the current psychoanalytic enterprise. The topics treated in this book are sure to excite both novices and experts: for example, narcissism, gender fluidity, emotional disturbance in childhood, depression, dissociative disorders, attachment and intersubjectivity, psychosomatics, and neuroscience. Each chapter author reviews a particular psychoanalytic concept's historical development, provides illustrative clinical examples, and reflects upon the topic's contemporary relevance. Many essays take a developmental perspective in terms of the individual's growth and maturation, and in this approach, a debt to the theorist Margaret Mahler can be discerned. The essays collected here tie theory to practice in eminently accessible language, providing a solid platform for current practitioners who wish to expand and deepen their knowledge of a field whose often postulated moribund nature is here belied. Well suited for both practitioners and students of psychoanalysis and psychology.Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals.

• Chapter 1: Developmental and Clinical Aspects of Affects by Harold P. BlumChapter 2: A Developmental Model to Enhance Understanding of Therapeutic Action by Alexandra HarrisonChapter 3: Observing Development from Infant to Parenthood: Separation-Individuation, Attachment, and Intersubjectivity in the Clinical Encounter by Inga BlomChapter 4: Gender Fluidity and Analytic Fluidity by Gabriel RuizChapter 5: Severe Emotional Disturbances in Childhood by Theodore FallonChapter 6: Narcissism: How It Develops and How It Appears by Mary Davis and M. Hossein EtezadyChapter 7: A Developmental Perspective on Trauma by Ann SmolenChapter 8: Depression: A Psychoanalytic Perspective by Corinne MasurChapter 9: The Dissociative Disorders by Richard P. KluftChapter 10: Psychoanalytic Aspects of Somatics by Richard CruzChapter 11: Back to Freud’s Beginning: Looking at Neurosciencee Through a Contemporary Psychoanalytic Lens by Susan P. SherkowChapter 12: Culture, Socialization, and Creativity in Analytic Practice by Monisha Nayar-AkhtarChapter 13: Psychological Testing for Psychoanalysis by Michael Garfinkle and Sara Lynn Richardson