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This is a collaborative effort of some fifteen contributors mostly, but not exclusively, drawn from the Chicago Group of psychoanalysts. We have chapters by Alexander, Benedek, Brosin, French, Gerard, Maurice Lovine, J. W. Lyons, D. Levy, M. Mead, L. J. Saul, D. Shakow, L. B. Shapiro, Szasz, Eduardo Weiss and J. C. Whitehorn. Thus there are a number of contributors from other groups and schools giving a more inclusive picture of work in dynamic psychiatry.
As indicated in the preface, this volume is a comprehensive view of dynamic psychiatry. This very concept is, of course, a result of the enormous impact of psychoanalysis on psychiatry—its methods, treatment, theory, etc. The psychoanalytic results have moved psychiatry from pure clinical description to a newer and richer phase of etiological, explanatory and dynamic concepts. The book is really the first fairly comprehension presentation of the dynamic psychoanalytic trends in the whole field of psychiatry written by a group of well-known workers.
Divided into three parts of sixteen chapters (with more than adequate bibliographies) and a notable lack of polemical writing, the field of this special branch of medicine is ably covered. Little is made of contributions (if any) of the other than freudian schools of dynamic psychiatry. There is a refreshingly objective tone to the whole volume. It would be ideal for courses given to residents and advanced students in dynamic psychiatry both in medical schools as well as in hospitals. The “cross-fertilization” of psychiatry by ideas that have nearly revolutionized our science in the last thirty years is something that no one working in this area has been able to ignore and it is sheer stupidity to refuse to acknowledge the gains made.