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It is a positive event for educators and mental health professionals that this classic training guide is once again available.
The book, first published in 1976, distills the ideas of the authors, who are the two preeminent thinkers in modern psychoanalysis. The presented theory behind the understanding of disorders originating in the earliest stages of human development and the treatment techniques developed to address such pathology have gained wide acceptance and use in the past decade. The therapeutic effect of constructive aggression follows naturally from the clearly elaborated extensions of Freud's theory the techniques detailed in these pages.
Meadow's revisions frame the research and creativity of Spotnitz, who, himself, traces the contributions of many post-Freudian psychoanalysts to the understanding and treatment of narcissism. Meadow, as editor, shows how Spotnitz's concepts of emotional induction, the narcissistic transference and the contact function informed the development of a group of specialized interventions for the preverbally regressed patient. Her own body of clinical reserch and theoretical integration are especially evident in the update of her chapter on dreams. Her addition in this volume also provide the historical context for the original collacborative text and enliven it with ongoing contemporary issues.
In the first theoretical section of the book, Meadow has updated and footnoted the title of the fourth chapter, “Toward an understanding of emotional contagion.” She tells us that the chapter spans Spotnitz's thinking on the subject from 1949 through his 1970s lectures on subjective and objective countertransference. He has continued