Books by Richard D. Chessick

This book is a narrative in dialogue form in which the author, now an octogenarian who is a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and a PhD in philosophy, describes his intellectual evolution from a published laboratory researcher to engagement in the full-time clinical teaching and practice of psychoanalysis, psychodynamic psychotherapy, and philosophy.

Questions assumptions about what it is to be a human being by examining the ideas of thinkers such as Foucault, Winnicott, Lacan and Jaspers. Chessick combines succinct summaries of the writings of these European thinkers with critical commentaries.

The author presents 18 of his clinical papers and reveals an orientation based on his "five channel theory of psychoanalytic listening", that involves listening and responding to the patient from different stances or frameworks.

Criminal Personality, Volume two.

Borrowing its format from Galileo's "Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems", this work is written as a discussion between an experienced clinician and two students. In doing so, it introduces the basic tenets of psychodynamic technique as well as current controversies in the field.