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APA 45:941-958 (1997)

The New Psychiatric Texts And Psychoanalysis

Author: Jerome A. Winer

Abstract

Textbook of Psychiatry: Second Edition. Edited by Robert E. Hales, Stuart C. Yudovsky and John A. Talbott, Washington: American Psychiatric Association Press, 1994, 1694 pp.

Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry: Sixth Edition. Edited by Harold I. Kaplan and Benjamin J. Sadock. Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins, 1995, 2926 pp.

Treatments of Psychiatric Disorders: Second Edition. Edited by Glen O Gabbard. Washington: American Psychiatric Association Press, 1995, 2596 pp.

Psychodynamic Psychiatry in Clinical Practice: The DSM-IV Edition. By Glen O. Gabbard. Washington: American Psychiatric Association Press, 1994, 656 pp.

Psychodynamic Concepts in General Psychiatry Edited by Harvey J. Schwartz with Efrain Bleiberg and Sidney H. Weissman. Washington: American Psychiatric Association Press, 1995, 497 pp.

The last review of psychiatry textbooks to appear in this journal was a 1988 piece by Asch and Marcus; their aim was to evaluate psychoanalytic teaching in United States medical colleges. The authors presented an overview of problems that confront the teaching of psychoanalytic concepts to medical students. Now, nearly a decade later, another look at psychiatric texts is in order, but for reasons that did not exist then. The mid-1990s brought questions that seemed inconceivable to psychiatric educators a generation ago. Should