Click here to read about Dr. Jack Drescher’s book Textbook of Psychoanalysis from The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease.
The Textbook of Psychoanalysis could easily be subtitled Just About Anything You Wanted to Know About Psychoanalysis but Were Afraid to Ask. It is a collection of essays written by mainstream members of the American Psychoanalytic Association (APsaA) as well as contributors who have achieved prominence by training and working in institutes and theoretical traditions outside the APsaA. Refreshingly lacking in polemics and with some rare exceptions (noted below), The Textbook of Psychoanalysis provides an up-to-date snapshot of today’s broad field of psychoanalytic inquiry, theorizing, and treatment.