You do not currently have permission to view the full text for this document. Please sign in to an account with an active subscription or contact support.
Kvarnes, M.D., Robert G. and Gloria H. Parloff (eds.), et al., A Harry Stack Sullivan Case Seminar: Treatment of a Young Male Schizophrenic. New York, Norton, 1976.
THIS BOOK, THE PRESENTATION of a case seminar, is genuine, vintage Sullivan, recorded live and offered in transcript form with later reflective commentary. It joins the growing body of posthumous work that his colleagues, students, and various coworkers are wisely deciding to organize, edit, and commit to print for enduring reference. These posthumous publications consist largely of transcripts of his discussions of theoretical concepts and therapeutic procedures, and of collections of his papers on a wide variety of topics in psychiatry, social policy and cultural values, and international relations. And now, in this volume under comment, the theme is his conduct of a seminar on the ongoing treatment of a young male schizophrenic.
The editors, Robert G. Kvarnes, M.D., and Gloria Parloff, and the commentators, John C. Dillingham, Stanley Jacobson, Ed.D., Robert G. Kvarnes, M.D., and Irving M. Rykoff, M.D., are to be congratulated for holding fast to their labor of love over the years until it could appear in hard cover, not only for their dedicated editing of the original 1946-1947 seminar led by Sullivan, and attended by a number of serious and penetrating participants, but also for their thoughtful 1971-1972 commentary on each of the five meetings. They seek to place the Sullivan legacy into historical focus from the perspective of the post-Sullivanian and even neo-Sullivanian present.