Horst Kächele

A basic issue for all those essaying to write comprehensive texts on the nature of psychoanalysis, whether oriented primarily to the exposition of the theory or of the technique of psychoanalysis, - within the American literature the books by Brenner and by Greenson come to mind as exemplars of the two categories - is that of the relationship of the theory to the technique and the practice. Meer

Recognition of the need for empirical research and interest in its findings are growing in psychoanalysis. Many psychoanalysts now acknowledge that research is imperative to try to deal with the factors propelling the diminution in status and prestige of the discipline, as well as the number of patients in intensive psychoanalytic treatment. Meer

Hartvig Dahl This is a book about the future that we hope will arouse the curiosity of clinicians and point a direction for researchers. It marks the surprisingly rapid evolution of psychodynamic psychotherapy research from an applied toward a basic science, and, as its title implies, describes strategies to follow rather than results to live by. Meer

Das Standardlehrbuch in Neuauflage!

Psychiatrie ohne Psychoanalyse ist nicht denkbar. Die Psychoanalyse hat eine über 100-jährige Geschichte und Tradition, jeder der sich mit dem Gedanken trägt psychiatrisch oder psychotherapeutisch tätig zu sein, wird sich mit der Psychoanalyse auseinandersetzen. Meer