Books by Susan S. Levine

This book explores an ethical value central to all mental health professions. Although "dignity" appears near the beginning of many codes of ethics, it has been largely unexamined in the professional literature. Potter Stewart famously declared about pornography that we can't define it but we know it when we see it. Likewise with dignity.

The underlying theme in Loving Psychoanalysis is that the analyst can love doing psychoanalysis and that appropriate love and respect for the patient are essential to clinical effectiveness. This book explores the art and craft of psychotherapeutic work through an examination of overlapping interdisciplinary themes: fantasies of creation, courage, having another, the aesthetics of psychoanalysis, self-disclosure, and chaos theory.