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There is no denying the interactional turn in modern psychoanalysis that in America was foreshadowed by Henry Stack Sullivan and the interpersonal school. Sullivan, for one, perceived Freud's drive theory as too limiting and disconnected from the experiential, interactionist, and psychotherapeutic orientation he favoured. This book is dedicated to the psychoanalytic tradition Sullivan founded and, behind the scenes, the William Allanson White Institute which he began along with Clara Thompson and Eric Fromm in 1942. All four editors of this book are linked to “The White” as training analysts.
There are fourteen articles reproduced for this volume, all written by prominent members of the interpersonal school The editors begin with Sullivan's “The Data of Psychiatry,” published in 1938, and end with a 1986 paper by John Schimel entitled “Psychotherapy with Adolescents: The Art of Interpretation.” All writers included in the book are deceased “pioneers” of the movement. Each paper is ably preceded by an introduction by a colleague or ex-student that denotes the author's unique contribution These are often interesting on their own and usefully situate the author in a working context. The articles chosen are representative of the analyst's work and scan the clinical horizon. Nevertheless, they include papers by such well-known writers as Frieda Fromm-Reichmann, Clara Thompson, Eric Fromm, Earnest Schachtel, and Sylvano Arieti. Together, however, they weave a