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We are pleased to announce that starting with this issue Rachel Boué Widawsky—JAPA's Associate Book Review Editor for Foreign Books—will be joining us in introducing reviews. She will highlight for readers the significance for American psychoanalysis of contemporary ideas from abroad, thus helping us fulfill an important mission of the Review: to present a wide range of contemporary psychoanalytic perspectives, thereby fostering the development of psychoanalytic thought and practice around the globe.
The original papers in this issue of JAPA spotlight Otto Kernberg's work on personality disorders. In this section of the Review of Books, we extend the focus on severe psychopathology by introducing two books, each of which examines the psychodynamic treatment of psychosis from a unique angle.
Michael Garrett brings to his review of David Downing and Jon Mills's edited volume, Outpatient Treatment of Psychosis, his own deep experience as both clinician and researcher, combining psychodynamic and cognitive behavior methods in his work with psychotic individuals. Garrett deeply appreciates the authors' and editors' contributions to this book, and also raises some important questions. Where do the boundaries between psychosis and nonpsychotic pathology lie? How might we translate across, and perhaps integrate, the various meanings of “psychotic” that arise in different schools of psychoanalytic thought (e.g., Freudian, Kleinian, Lacanian, Jungian)? And, crucially, how might psychoanalysts help to bring psychodynamic treatment to those suffering with entrenched psychosis, most of whom cannot hope to pay out of pocket for treatment?
In a review of Lacan on Psychosis: From Theory to Praxis, Gerald Perman's ten-year study of Lacanian theory informs his close reading of another collection edited by Mills and Downing. Perman recommends