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TITLE Pioneers in the Psychoanalysis of Schizophrenia
AUTHOR L. Bryce Boyer, M.D. Professor of Psychiatry, University of Illinois, and Co-Chairman, Research Committee, San Francisco Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. For more than 18 years Dr. Boyer has studied the applicability of psychoanalysis to the treatment of psychotics. He is author of 47 papers and co-author with Dr. Peter L. Giovacchini of the recent book, The Psychoanalytic Treatment of Schizophrenic and Characterological Disorders.
POUL M. FAERGEMAN, M.D. Associate Clinical Director of Psychiatry of the State Hospital, Aarhus University, Denmark, and a member of scientific societies on the Continent and abroad. Dr. Faergeman's 1945 thesis on reactive psychosis demonstrates their psychopathological relationship with the so-called schizophrenias. His book, Psychogenic Psychoses, concerning the classical Continental approach to these psychoses, is supplemented by the experience gained from his years of Freudian psychoanalytic training in America.
WILLIAM S. CONDON, ph.d. Assistant Professor of Human Communication in the Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh. He is a philosopher by training but now does full time research on human communication using sound film. He has had a year's post-doctoral training in linguistics at the University of Chicago. Dr. Condon has written a three-volume Synoptic Index of Freud's Complete Works which is presently being submitted for publication.
FREDERIC T. KAPP, M.D. Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Cincinnati and a Training Analyst of the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis. His discussion is a reflection of his interest in the genesis and social effects of the creative process in art and science. Other interests include psychological aspects of pain and psychiatry in medical education.