Textbook of Psychoanalysis - Hardcover

Glen O. Gabbard; Bonnie E. Litowitz; Paul Williams

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 161537485X ISBN 13: 9781615374854

Publisher: American Psychiatric Association Publishing, 2024

Synopsis

"The psychoanalytic frame, as we have known it, is at risk of disappearing. Psychoanalysts must meet the challenges of working within a radically altered psychoanalytic frame at a time of antiscientific attitudes toward climate change and heightened demands for racial justice and gender self-identification. We live in a frightening world in which psychoanalytic thinking might be of great assistance. Authors in this new edition explore how psychoanalysis is evolving in the current zeitgeist with its many challenges. All the chapters show that psychoanalytic methods, while recognizing the importance of the past, continue to remain open to the potential for new possibilities even in uncertain, extraordinary times. The search for individual truth has always been at the core of psychoanalytic thought. This third edition acknowledges the sociocultural and geopolitical forces that are shaping all our lives and affecting our search for truth, with the aim of sustaining that search"--

About this title

About the Author

Glen O. Gabbard, M.D., is Brown Foundation Chair of Psychoanalysis and Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Baylor College of Medicine and Training and Supervising Analyst at Houston-Galveston Psychoanalytic Institute in Houston, Texas.

Bonnie E. Litowitz, Ph.D., is Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Rush Medical School and Faculty at the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis in Chicago, Illinois.

Paul Williams, Ph.D., is Training and Supervising Analyst at the British Psychoanalytical Society in London, United Kingdom.

From the Back Cover

Over the last several years, several factors—COVID-19, an increasingly hyperconnected world, and the effects of climate change—have led to a profound transformation in the practice of psychoanalysis. Whether these changes are temporary or long-lasting, no one knows. This third edition of the Textbook of Psychoanalysis invites readers into that uncertainty, positing that psychoanalysis—a profession concerned with what is not known—may have an important role to play in what can be disorienting times.

This new volume does not shy away from the major issues of the day: it opens with a discussion of the effects of the pandemic, racial and ethnic tensions, redefined gender and sexual identities, and more on both psychoanalysts and patients.

Subsequent chapters delve into foundational knowledge, describing the diverse schools of thought in psychoanalysis, its core concepts, various techniques and approaches to its practice, and the latest research.

What the future holds for psychoanalysis may yet be a mystery, but with the exhaustive information provided in this book, readers will be well positioned to navigate it.

Edition details

• Publisher: American Psychiatric Association Publishing
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 161537485X
• ISBN 13: 9781615374854
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 550
• Editor: Gabbard MD Glen O., Litowitz PhD Bonnie E., Williams PhD Paul