Books by John E. Gedo

Providing psychoanalysis with a tenable scientific framework, Psychoanalysis as Biological Science should be read by all professionals and students in psychoanalysis, psychiatry, and psychology.

In this intellectual memoir, Gedo paints a portrait of American psychoanalysis, its popular peak and its failure to face the complexity of its task, and thus its retreat to schismatic conflict. Interwoven is an accessible presentation of his intellectual work.

This survey of "the communicative repertory of humans" demonstrates the central importance of the theory and therapeutics of the communication of information. It explores modes of communication encountered in psychoanalysis, such as protolinguistic phenomena, and analytic dialogue.

This exploration of the psychology of creativity incorporates material drawn from the author's clinical work with artists, musicians, and other creative individuals. He also offers assessments of the artistic productivity of van Gogh, Picasso, Gauguin, and Caravaggio.

The most important new idea in the book (which is in many ways a primer of psycho-biography) is the distinction made between biographical methods primarily based on an empathic approach to the data and what the authors call conceptual methods that rely on deduction from some theoretical schema.