Psychoanalytic Terms and Concepts

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Edited by Burness E. Moore and Bernard D. Fine

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This book constitutes an expansion of the highly esteemed Glossary of the American Psychoanalytic Association into a mini-encyclopedia that presents both historical and current meanings of the most widely accepted psychoanalytic terms and concepts. The format has been revised, new concepts and terms have been added, and previous definitions have been clarified and updated.

"Anyone learning, teaching, or writing about psychoanalysis will find [this book] of uncommon usefulness and value. . . . The editing is superb, . . . the text [is] clear and concise, . . . jargon [has been] minimized, . . . and qualifiers avoid dogmatism. Early misconceptions (about female development and sexuality) are corrected, and the changes are consistent throughout the book. If one is building a personal psychoanalytic library, this should head the list of what to purchase next."—William D. Jeffrey, Bulletin of the Psychoanalytic Association of New York

"The best quick reference available for psychoanalytic terms....Should be part of every psychoanalyst's reference library."—Psychoanalytic Books: A Quarterly Journal of Reviews

"A book that offers well-written definitions and explanations of psychoanalytic terms. . . . There is much to recommend this volume to students, teachers, clinicians, and scientists."—David B. Allison, American Journal of Psychiatry

"Transcends the danger of dry mandatory definitions with exhilarating short essays. . . These succinct summaries make this book a lively piece that will appeal to the experienced student as well as the beginner."—Carl F. Hoppe, Readings: A Journal of Reviews and Commentary in Mental Health

Copublished with the American Psychoanalytic Association

Burness E. Moore, M.D., is clinical professor of psychiatry at the Emory University School of Medicine and training and supervising analyst emeritus at the Emory University Psychoanalytic Institute. He is a former president of the American Psychoanalytic Association and the New York Psychoanalytic Institute. The late Bernard D. Fine, M.D., was clinical associate professor of psychiatry at the New York University College of Medicine.

"Psychoanalysts seem to relish slinging about murky terms; this lexicon should enable the laity to sling back."—Washington Post Book World

"This is a fine reference tool and a recommended purchase for graduate and undergraduate libraries."—Choice

"The long-awaited, greatly revised and expanded third edition of this standard reference tool. . . . The material presented in these essays will be very useful to any health care professional working in the psychoanalytical field."—Jonathon Erlen, American Reference Books Annual

"As reference books go from edition to edition, they grow. This book is no exception, having started as a brief glossary. . . . It has . . . gained in the range of psychoanalytic ideas to which it refers and in the thoroughness of its expositions of terms and concepts. . . . A reference work for psychoanalysts as well as interested others. It is a useful volume to have on the shelves of those who care to use psychoanalytic terms as precisely as possible."—Chris Dare, International Review of Psychiatry

"The best quick reference available for psychoanalytic terms and should be part of every psychoanalyst’s reference library."—Psychoanalytic Books: A Quarterly Journal of Reviews

"Transcends the danger of dry mandatory definitions with exhilarating short essays. . . . These succinct summaries make this book a lively piece that will appeal to the experienced student as well as the beginner. . . . This thin volume is an excellent addition to the library of the teacher, the practitioner, and the student of psychoanalytic thought and therapy.”—Carl F. Hoppe, Readings: A Journal of Reviews and Commentary in Mental Health

"The arrival of an up-to-date lexicon has been long awaited. . . . Anyone writing on psychoanalysis, anyone teaching about psychoanalysis, and anyone learning about psychoanalysis . . . will find Psychoanalytic Terms and Concepts of uncommon usefulness and value. If one is building a personal psychoanalytic library, this should head the list of what to purchase next."—Psychoanalytic Association of New York

"A book that offers well-written definitions and explanations of psychoanalytic terms is welcome. Psychoanalytic Terms and Concepts is such a volume. It contains lucid explanations of psychoanalytic terms as well as caveats about their frequent misuse. . . . There is much to recommend this volume to students, teachers, clinicians, and scientists."—David B. Allison, Ph.D., American Journal of Psychiatry