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CURRENT THEORIES OF PSYCHOANALYSIS edited by Robert Langs Madison, CT: International Universities Press, 1998, xii + 356 pp., $55.00
Robert Langs has edited a splendid collection of articles that reflect the current status of psychoanalytic theory. The 12 chapters include: interactional theory, relational psychoanalysis, intersubjectivity theory, the interpersonal approach, self psychology, Kleinian analysis, Jungian analysis, and the communicative approach, among others that reflect, as Langs points out, the relative insularity of psychoanalytic schools, and the shift to a two-person or interactional version of technique. The book would make a fine text for a course in comparative psychoanalysis, and a supplement to Beyond Freud (Hillsdale, NJ: Analytic Press, ).
THE PSYCHOANALYTIC STUDY OF THE CHILD Volume 53 edited by Albert J. Solnit, Peter B. Neubauer, Samuel Abrams, and A. Scott Dowling New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1998, 371 pp., $60.00
Of the 20 papers in this 53rd volume of The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, only a handful are about the study of children, which is not to say that they are not of high quality. Peter Gombosi's paper on the parents of autistic children is a sensitive account of his own experience as a parent of an autistic child, along with suggestions for working with traumatized parents. Francis Baudry's account of the role of subjectivity in the theorizing of Kohut and Glover is outstanding. In it, Baudry reexamines the Case of Mr. Z. and Glover's change of attitude toward Klein. Other papers include a revisit to Erikson's dream specimen paper, an interview with Joan Erikson, a group of papers on play, and others on narcissism, aggression, and Hamlet.