This text examines the process of psychoanalysis and discusses the inability of the analyst to determine the patient's actual experiences through the recollections of the patient.

Joseph Sandler has been an important influence in psychoanalysis throughout the world during the latter part of the 20th century, contributing to changing views on both psychoanalytic theory and technique. He has also been a bridging force in psychoanalysis, helping to close the gap between American ego psychologists, and British Kleinian and object relations theorists. This book provides a comprehensive overview of Sandler's contribution to the development of psychoanalysis. The contributors trace the development of the main themes and achievements of Sandler's work, in particular his focus...

The struggle over the issue of lay or nonmedical analysis has divided the psychoanalytic world for practically the entire first century of psychoanalytic history - from 1910 when the issue first arose, until 1988 with the final settlement of a laysuit brought against the American Psychoanalytic Association (APsaA) and International Psychoanalytic Association (IPA) for their exclusionary practices regarding the training of nonphysicians for psychoanalytic work. This text chronicles this history in detail. It begins with the events of 1910 in Europe and America that initiated their divergent...

Over the course of his distinguished career, Edward Weinshel has been a moral and intellectual force in contemporary psychoanalysis and an outspoken opponent of current trends in and out of the field toward dehumanization and deindividualization.
Commitment and Compassion in Psychoanalysis, under the editorship of Robert Wallerstein, brings together 14 of Weinshel's major papers. The six clinical papers reprinted in this collection address the kaleidoscope of common personality organizations and propensities which, in their extreme variants, motivate individuals to seek...