Textbook of Psychoanalysis
The reference volume on psychoanalytic theory, technique and research, written in chapters by different hands.
Gabbard, Litowitz, and Williams gather specialist contributors to present contemporary psychoanalysis as a plural field rather than a single doctrine. The second edition opens with core concepts, motivation, the unconscious, transference and countertransference, defence, gender and sexuality, then sets the major schools beside one another: object relations, self psychology, attachment, relational thinking, Klein, Bion, and Lacan.
A long central section stays in the clinic, taking up therapeutic action, interpretation, resistance, termination, child analysis, the place of medication, and ethics. Separate parts weigh what outcome and process research can and cannot show, and follow the traffic between analysis and neuroscience, philosophy, anthropology, literature, and the arts.
Because each chapter stands on its own, a clinician can go to a single question and find where a concept began, how competing traditions handle it, and where the disagreements still sit. A glossary closes the volume.
About the authors
Glen Owens Gabbard
Glen O. Gabbard is an American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, born in 1949. He is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, and a training and supervising analyst at the Center for Psychoanalytic Studies. His work centres on psychodynamic psychiatry, professional boundary violations, and the psychotherapies. He has authored or edited many books and papers, including texts on psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, physician health, and depictions of mental illness in film.
Bonnie Litowitz
Bonnie E. Litowitz is a psychoanalyst and scholar whose work joins linguistics and language development with psychoanalytic theory. Trained in language study, she has written extensively on how language shapes psychoanalytic thinking, including semiotic and developmental perspectives. She served as editor-in-chief of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association (JAPA) and has held faculty appointments at Rush Medical College and the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis. With Glen O. Gabbard and Paul Williams, she co-edited the Textbook of Psychoanalysis.
Paul Williams
Paul Williams is a British psychoanalyst and a training and supervising analyst of the British Psychoanalytical Society. From 2001 to 2007 he was a joint editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis, sharing the role with Glen O. Gabbard. Much of his clinical writing concerns severe disturbance and the analytic treatment of psychosis. He is also a novelist, author of the autobiographical Fifth Principle trilogy, and a co-editor of the Textbook of Psychoanalysis.
Details
- 2012
- American Psychiatric Publishing
- American Psychiatric Publishing
- 9781585624102