Inside Out and Outside In

Joan Berzoff, MSW, EdD, is Professor Emerita of the Smith College School for Social Work, where she co-directed the doctoral program, directed the End of Life Program, and chaired the Human Behavior in the Social Environment Sequence. Currently on the faculty of the Institute for Clinical Social Work, she has co-authored five textbooks and over thirty-five articles, and she lectures widely in the United States and internationally. She supervises, consults, and maintains a private practice in Northampton, Massachusetts.Laura Melano Flanagan, LCSW, taught for decades at the Smith College School for Social Work and is currently a Field Faculty Advisor. She has also taught at the Hunter College and New York University Schools of Social Work Post Masters Programs. She maintains a private practice of psychotherapy and supervision in New York City and is a psychological consultant to various programs for young opera singers.Patricia Hertz, LICSW, maintains a private practice in the Boston area, where she works with individuals, couples, and families. Pat is a clinical consultant for staff at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Dana Farber Cancer Institute, as well as for the Laughter League Clown Care Unit at Boston Children’s Hospital. She taught for many years at the Smith College School for Social Work and Simmons College School of Social Work, and provides consultation to practicing clinicians and agencies in the area.

This book does a remarkable job of elucidating complex psychodynamic theory, making it powerfully relevant to clinical practice in a wide variety of settings. Numerous clinical vignettes offer a thoughtful integration of traditional psychodynamic concepts with a more contemporary understanding of ways in which social dynamics around race, gender and class help shape individual experience. I can think of no other book that offers an introduction to clinical practice as clear, comprehensive and culturally sensitive as that brought to us by the authors of Inside Out and Outside In.

• Acknowledgments 1 Why a Biopsychosocial Context? Joan Berzoff, Laura Melano Flanagan, and Patricia Hertz2 Drive and Beyond: Freud’s Psychoanalytic Concepts Joan Berzoff and Gerald Schamess3 Ego Psychology Gerald Schamess and Robert Shilkret4 Psychosocial Ego Development: The Theory of Erik Erikson Joan Berzoff5 Object Relations Theory Laura Melano Flanagan6 The Theory of Self Psychology Laura Melano Flanagan7 Relational and Intersubjective Theories Joan Berzoff8 Attachment Theory Cynthia J. Shilkret and Robert Shilkret9 Neurobiology, Attachment, and Trauma Janet Shapiro10 Psychodynamic Theories and Gender Joan Berzoff11 Psychodynamic Contributions to Understanding Racism: Implications for Clinical Practice Brian Rasmussen and Ann Marie Garran12 The Bridge: From Theory to Practice Patricia Hertz, Laura Flanagan, David S. Byers, and Joan Berzoff13 The Psychoses, with a Special Emphasis on Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders Patricia Hertz14 Personality Disorders, with a Special Emphasis on Borderline and Narcissistic Syndromes Patricia Hertz and Meg Hertz15 Mood Disorders, with a Special Emphasis on Depression and Bipolar Disorder Joan Berzoff, Teresa Méndez, and Daniel Buccino16 Anxiety and Its Manifestations Joan Berzoff and Susan Pasco17 Trauma Theories and Disorders Kathryn Basham18 Some Final Thoughts Joan Berzoff, Laura Melano Flanagan, and Patricia HertzReferencesIndex About the Contributors