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This volume will be a generous, surprising gift to those meeting Edward M. Weinshel for the first time. His many former students and colleagues, and the friends he has made around the world, will be freshly reminded of the range and continuing vitality of his contri- butions to psychoanalytic thought. He has served our science and profession brilliantly and selflessly for more than thirty years.
The editor, Robert S. Wallerstein, a moving force behind the enterprise, has chosen six important clinical papers and eight theoretical ones, and has contributed incisive commentaries. The volume gains emotional resonance and poignancy from personal tributes and memories offered by Weinshel's wife Jenny, his daughter Julie Weinshel Tepper, his stepdaughter Dena Marshall Sorbo, and a granddaughter, Kaitlin Pittel Stark. Leonard Shengold, a close personal friend, colleague, and comrade-in-arms in the world of American and international psychoanalytic activities, creates an insightful portrait of Weinshel as a man with a gift for friendship, a generous mentor, a passionate advocate for his beliefs, and an upholder of standards of excellence in his beloved profession.
Several of the papers were written in collaboration with Weinshel's dear friend, the late Victor Calef. The two drew from one another the best each could offer; they were true brothers in psychoanalysis and in life. Together and separately, they were exciting, idealistic teachers of a generation of students in San Francisco, contributing their enthusiasm about the clinical and scientific potentials of psychodynamic thinking and psychoanalysis to psychiatric residents, candidates at the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute, and many others eager to learn who