Click Here to Read:   The Mutuality of Meaning by Arnold Goldberg, M.D. on the Self Psychology Psychoanalysis website.

This book review of Giovacchini’s 2000 book discusses the jeopardy to any discipline when our theories become more important than our observations. Paul Ekman, the emotions researcher used a fundamental priniciple in his research:  separate observations from interpretations. This is from the J. of Am Academy of Psychoanalysis — citation at the end.

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Ved Mehta, the Nobel prize-winning author, gave four principles for good writing: clarity, harmony, truth and an unflinching courtesy to the reader. Peter Giovacchini follows these principles in his latest book, Continue reading Narcissistic Investment in Theories: A Danger to the Discipline by Nathan Szajnberg, MD