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The task of describing psychoanalytic thinking to the broader professional and general audience is a crucial one, and never more so than in this day and age when psychoanalytic ideas have been increasingly devalued in the academic- and healthcare-financing spheres. One of the most central of psychoanalytic ideas is that human experience is made meaningful by its developmental context. Ivan Sherick's book, Introduction to Child, Adolescent, and Adult Development: A Psychoanalytic Perspective for Students and Professionals, brings this core perspective to bear on the development of the mind and psychological experience across the life span. In straightforward, everyday language, he describes both the typical psychosocial experiences and the related psychoanalytic theory for each familiar epoch of human experience from birth to old age. To the degree that he succeeds, Sherick is indeed a good ambassador for psychoanalytic thinking to a broader educated audience seeking accessible entree into this complex body of understanding.
Sherick is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst who has been teaching, supervising, and practicing in Ann Arbor, Michigan, for over forty years. He trained in child and adolescent psychoanalysis with Anna Freud at the Hampstead Clinic in London, and did his adult training at the Michigan Psychoanalytic Society. He has a number of prior publications in top-tier psychoanalytic journals on such varying topics of child development as normal envy and emerging sexual identity, the use of ego-strengthening therapy with children who have primary ego deficiencies, and adoption and disturbed narcissism.