Richard D. Chessick is Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences, Fineberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University; an Emeritus Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst, Center for Psychoanalytic Study in Chicago; Psychoanalytic Fellow, American Academy of Psychodynamic Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis; Distinguished Life Fellow, American Psychiatric Association; Corresponding Member, German Psychoanalytic Society (DPG); Emeritus Senior Attending Psychiatrist, Evanston Hospital, Evanston, IL; former Adjunct Professor of Philosophy, Loyola University of Chicago; Life Fellow, American Orthopsychiatric Association; and Fellow of the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine and of the American Society for Adolescent Psychiatry.
The author selects and presents eighteen of his most salient clinical papers and draws on his forty years of clinical experience to discuss the factors which he feels have the potential to bring... (more)
See catalogue number 26856 for the paperback edition. "The Future of Psychoanalysis" explores the contemporary problem of multiple theories of psychoanalysis and argues for a return to a more... (more)
"The Future of Psychoanalysis" explores the contemporary problem of multiple theories of psychoanalysis and argues for a return to a more classical position based on Freud's work. Using his training... (more)
This book is a narrative in dialogue form in which the author, now an octogenarian who is a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and a PhD in philosophy, describes his intellectual evolution from a published... (more)