Books by Joseph Reppen

"Carefully balanced in terms of the different psychoanalytic schools and with sensitiveappreciation of the subjective dimension of psychoanalytic practice, this unique text exploresfailures in psychoanalytic treatment - both objective and subjective . . . .the reader is treatedto a panorama of insightful responses."-Gerald J. Gargiulo, PhDAuthor, Quantum Psychoanalysis,Essays on Physics, Mind and Analysis TodayThis most welcome reissue of a unique now classic collection of essays by a diverse groupof eminent psychoanalysts from the US and internationally incisively addresses the criticalquestion of the meaning and nature of clinical failures in psychoanalysis, one which has beengenerally sadly ignored. These stimulating, open-minded and thoughtful essays explore whatwe can learn from such failures to bring progress in psychoanalysis.-Douglas Kirsner, PhD, Author Unfree Associations;Emeritus Professor, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia

Mentoring intersects with memoir in this volume, as 31 psychotherapists share the origins of their professional ambitions and, mixing authority with levity, describe their professional odysseys. The psychotherapists include Martin A. Schulman, Jeffrey Seinfeld and Martha Stark.