New Psychoanalysis

<I>The New Psychoanalysis</I> explores and explains important developments in psychoanalytic thought and practice since Freud's death in 1939. Drawing on the experience of her many years of clinical work with patients as well research and teaching in the training institutes she directs Phyllis W. Meadow offers convincing testimony to the power of the unconscious forces that drive our thinking feeling and behaving. She shows how the mind unfolds in the face of tensions native to the unconscious life and how psychoanalysis is applicable to the full range of emotional disorders. This highly accessible book is ideal for the therapist or psychologist as well as the social theorist or general reader who is concerned with the hold of aggression on the lives of human beings facing a world still as violent and destructive as it was in Freud's day. The introduction by Charles Lemert provides a challenging essay on the connections between psychoanalytic and social theories.