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Dr. Fred Busch is an internationally known American psychoanalyst and renowned representative of American ego psychology. In his numerous books and articles over the last 40 years, he has given us a clinical psychoanalytic theory and method based on Freud's second model of the mind (Freud, 1923/1961). Part of this ongoing project, this book is filled with clinical gems and sharply observed essays on psychoanalytic organizations and psychoanalysts. Busch has built a cohesive body of work that bridges theory, technique, and everyday clinical practice, offering a psychoanalytic framework that remains deeply Freudian and strikingly contemporary.
How Does Analysis Cure? is divided into two Parts. Part One: Clinical Contributions, comprises 12 chapters starting with “How Analysis Cures” to the final chapter with its intriguing title, “The Dreamer Who Couldn't Dream Her Dreams.” Part Two: Essays about Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalysts, is comprised of six chapters, with titles such as “The Gossip: A Recurring Problem in Psychoanalytic Organizations,” to “On Publishing,” “On Writing,” and “The Troubling Problem of Authority in Institutes.”
Each chapter is full of theoretical and clinical insights, though I will not provide the clinical vignettes here, as they are really gems and need to read fully and carefully, exactly as Busch provides them in this book.