Chapter 1 An Early Psychoanalytic Success - Freud's Treatment of the "Rat Man" Chapter 2 George: Transformation Viewed from a Thirty-year Follow-up Chapter 3 Laila: Treatment of a Patient with a Serious Chronic Disease Chapter 4 Watt: A Case of Sexual (Dis-)Orientation Chapter 5 Caroline: "The Same But Forever Changed" Chapter 6 Sarah: "This Aplysia ... makes me sick to my stomach" Chapter 7 Jacob: Climbing Out of the Dungeon Chapter 8 Andrew: Inferiority, Social Anxiety and Submissiveness Chapter 9 Strengthening Analysis, Protecting Patients Chapter 10 Discussion and Conclusion - Seven Analyses
Joseph Schachter was trained as a clinical psychologist in the Department of Social Relations at Harvard University, obtained his medical degree from New York University-Bellevue Medical School, and received his psychoanalytic training at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. In mid-career he spent a number of years in full-time physiological/developmental research with infants and children. He subsequently returned to psychoanalytic practice and was a training and supervising analyst at the Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Institute. Recently retired, Dr. Schachter now resides in New York City.
Schachter and his colleagues indeed make a signal contribution to
the questions that have beset psychoanalysis throughout its century
long history as a treatment for emotional and mental illness: What
does analysis do? And how does it do it? What they incorporate into
seven detailed chapter-long very lucid accounts of psychoanalyses
that have gone well (conducted by seven different analysts), are
reviews from most of the analysands of their perceptions of the
analytic experience and its mutative impacts. The interplay is most
illuminating for its concordances and its critiques-in personal, in
professional, and potentially, in research terms.
*Robert S. Wallerstein, Department of Psychiatry, University of
California San Francisco School of Medicine and Emeritus Training
and Supervising Analys*
With the advent, first of pharmacological treatments, and then of
such evidence-based approaches as cognitive-behavioral therapy,
jargon-free accounts of psychoanalytic treatments have become
increasingly rare. This slim volume presents 7 readable, detailed
case reports including not only the perspective of 7 analysts in
addition to the editor but also the patients' own accounts of the
process and its outcome. It should interest both classical analysts
and other psychotherapists.
*The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease*
This unique well-written and well-edited book offers an invaluable
peek into the psychoanalyst's consulting room. If you are a
practicing or training psychoanalyst or a clinician who is
interested in the discipline, this book has a blessed absence of
jargon and a rich offering of case material, practical methods, and
insight into process. If you are a potential consumer of
psychoanalytic services and with questions about your own
treatment, you'll find answers here to the questions you're afraid
to ask. Fulfilling its promise to open a new vista of detailed case
material, including patients writing alongside their analysts about
their analyses, this book has something to teach all of us.
*Polly Young-Eisendrath, Ph.D., Author of Subject to Change and The
Resilient Spirit*
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