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Any word other than tome would diminish the accomplishment of the two editors of the Textbook of Applied Psychoanalysis. Salman Akhtar and Stuart Twemlow have assembled a book containing 44 contributors in 35 chapters with a breathtaking variety of perspectives about the use of psychoanalytic ideas in activities beyond the traditional treatment setting of psychoanalysis. Many chapters are well-articulated presentations and illustrations of the methods of applied psychoanalysis. Some, however, devolve into detailed discussions of points of view. Although the editors titled their work as a textbook, to this reviewer the richness of the compilation is an amalgam warranting a name such as a textopedia or an enclyclotext.
The book is jointly edited by Salman Akhtar and Stuart Twemlow. Each has published extensively with more than 100 listings in the Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing (PEP) library in their names separately. Dr. Twemlow's primary interest as a psychoanalyst has been to demonstrate the efficacy of psychoanalytic principles in the community. He has done this with prison populations and with bullying in schools. The first several years of Twemlow's writings were about standard psychoanalytic topics and reviews of books. The last 20 years of his active publishing life became more focused on the techniques of applying psychoanalytic principles to violence in the community in all of its permutations. Dr. Akhtar's publications began over 30 years ago and have remained within classical psychoanalytic theories. A thread within his writings has been the psychoanalytic understanding of immigration, its effects on the immigrant psychoanalyst, the immigrant in general, and the experience of being a Muslim in a country with a predominance of non-Muslim populations.
The book is organized around seven sections or broad topics to which psychoanalytic perspectives are applied. The editors introduce the book by highlighting the classical purview of applied psychoanalysis: “