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Book SynopsisRudnytsky explores the dialectical interplay between literature and psychoanalysis by reading key psychoanalytic texts in a variety of genres.
Trade ReviewIt is a labor of love.... This volume is leisurely, informative, and often entertaining reading for reflective students of psychoanalytic history.
* Journal of Nervous and Mental Diseases *
Rudnytsky concludes the story of the division of psychoanalysis with a 'dream of consilience,' devoutly to be wished perhaps, yet one that the reader can only reach by walking over the hot coals of creative envy and murderous jealousy to be cooled in the holy waters where science and art run together.
-- John O'Neill * Journal of the History of Behavioral Sciences *
Rudnytsky deserves respect for his overall ability to remain neutral when assessing the merits and limitations of each analyst without showing dogmatic loyalties.
* Psychologist-Psychoanalyist *
Thoughtful, compelling, engagingly written... Reading Psychoanalysis is a groundbreaking text that has much to teach us of our past and present.
-- Ernst Prelinger * Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association *
