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These two volumes commemorate the twenty-first birthday of the Postgraduate Center for Mental Health and the career of Dr. Emanuel K. Schwartz, Dean of Training of the Center and a member of its first graduating class. Among the authors represented are Alexander Wolf, Lewis R. Wolberg, Moredecai Koffman, Mauricio Knobel, Peter B. Neubauer, Max Markowitz, Asya Kadis, Molly Harrower, Ralph Gundlach, Bernard F. Riess, Anne Steinmann, David J. Fox, Theodora M. Abel, and Paul W. Penningroth.
Volume II includes 31 papers by Dr. Schwartz, 16 of them in collaboration with others. Of special interest to readers of this journal will be studies of fairy tales, Kabuki Theatre, hippies, and the Bridey Murphy phenomenon. All of these papers share a number of characteristics found in Dr. Schwartz's work: clarity of expression, enthusiasm, and wisdom as well as knowledge.
The article on the fairy tale is representative of Dr. Schwartz's approach: It introduces some cross-cultural considerations, an analysis of themes, a scrutiny of language and form in the tale, contents of its thoughts, a comparison with dreams, a discussion of the number 3 in tales, the relationship between tales and the development of man, ethics, and connections between tales and “mental disease.” In 22 pages, Dr. Schwartz has compressed a great deal of information, opened up many areas for speculation, conveyed a number of insights, related a historical artifact to current clinical concerns, and provided an additional dimension of understanding toward our ability to appreciate the tale.
The high level of conceptualization and writing in “A Psychoanalytic Study of the Fairy Tale” is sustained throughout Volume II, which contains a number of the seminal articles on