Synopses & Reviews
Few topics elicit greater controversy within psychoanalysis today than the role of research in justifying or expanding upon analytic theory. Here, the issue of infant research is taken up by Daniel Stern and Andr Green, who stand on either side of the divide. Stern?
Synopsis
Few topics elicit greater controversy within psychoanalysis today than the bearing of research on analytic theory. Herein, the issue of infant research is taken up through the work of Daniel Stern, whose research on psychoanalysis and infant observation is world-renowned, and French psychoanalyst Andri Green, whose trenchant views on the limitations of research stands in direct opposition to Sterns work. This book offers compelling arguments from both luminaries, and then takes the debate to the next level, with additional discussions and viewpoints from Anne Alvarez, Irma Brenman Pick, and Rosine Jozef Perelberg, and an enlightening introductory chapter by Ricardo Steiner. This book is without question the most stimulating and insightful book on clinical and observational psychoanalytic research to date.