1st Edition
Psychoanalytic Conversations Interviews with Clinicians, Commentators, and Critics
Biography
Peter L. Rudnytsky, Ph.D., is Professor of English at the University of Florida and Editor of American Imago. He is the author of Freud and Oedipus (1987) and The Psychoanalytic Vocation: Rank, Winnicott, and the Legacy of Freud (TAP, 1991) and is a corresponding member of the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles.
"A scintillating set of conversation pieces, affording a truly kaleidoscopic overview of the psychoanalytic world - distinguished psychoanalytic innovators, sympathetic observers and scholars from neighboring disciplines, and provocatively challenging critics. This volume provides impressively illuminating insights into lived psychoanalytic history, as well as brilliant discursive elucidation of major contemporary issues in psychoanalytic scholarship and theory. The author's own perspective is a full match for the insights and erudition of each of his ten very singular interviewees."
- Robert S. Wallerstein, M.D., Past President, American Psychoanalytic Association
"Peter Rudnytsky has put together a series of interviews of extraordinary interest not only to analysts but also to anyone concerned with psychoanalysis. The content is very wide-ranging, from personal histories and anecdotes about prominent figures in the history of psychoanalysis, to sophisticated discussions of psychoanalytic theory, to current controversies in the field. Rudnytsky is an intelligent, informed, straightforward, and provocative interviewer. Expertly, he draws out the humanity and the creativity of his interviewees."
- Neil Altman, Ph.D., Co-Editor, Psychoanalytic Dialogues
