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Book SynopsisClinical Applications of Psychoanalytic Theory provides a description of a psychoanalytic approach to a wide range of mental disorders affecting both adults and children. Clinical examples are provided.
Trade Review“Dr. Esther Fine’s Clinical Applications of Psychoanalytic Theory is a masterful treatment of theoretical and applied psychoanalysis. Her empirical study of the different schools of analytic thought and the ways in which they affect treatment outcome is groundbreaking. Dr. Fine applies her psychoanalytic insights to the treatment of abused children, children with attention deficit disorder and autism, and children who act out in hostile manners. In short, Dr. Fine's book is a wonderful collection of work spanning the career of a gifted clinician—a real tour de force.” -- Elyn Saks, PhD, JD, University of Southern California Law School
“Dr. Fine’s clinical accounts bring to our attention how a gifted therapist with a firm grasp of psychoanalytic theory deploys her knowledge to the benefit of her brave, struggling patients. What has become derailed becomes re-railed.” -- Gerald Aronson, MD
Table of Contents1) Three Theoretical Perspectives on Child Development. 2) Four Psychoanalytic Perspectives: A Study of Differences in Interpretive Interventions, published in The Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, Vol. 38, pp. 1017-1047, co-authored with my late husband, Sidney Fine, M.D. 3) The Protective Devices of the Human Psyche. A Construct That Bridges Four Psychoanalytic Theories. 4) Latency 5) Guidelines for a Positive Therapeutic Outcome 6) From Autism to Oedipus (Published in The Vulnerable Child, Vol. 3, pp. 300-334, co-authored with Sidney Fine, M.D.) 7) ADHD: A Rush to Judgment 8) Grapes of Wrath: Treatment of the Incomplete Repression of Revenge and Underlying Guilt 9) Psychodynamics of Physical and Sexual Child Abuse 10) A New Age in Psychoanalysis
