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Welcome to the new Book Review Section of Progress in Self Psychology. This 2004 issue inaugurates the book review as another way to respond to the important expansions, shifts, and changes occurring in contemporary psychoanalytic thought. Why do we need a book review section? What are some specific reasons for this addition? Our premise is that a book review essay generally has a wider lens than that of a particular journal article. It can take a broader look at thematic changes within the field, can survey the development of a particular individual's thought over time, and can trace the elaboration of ideas that may have first appeared in more condensed form on these very pages. It is, thus, a place to compare and contrast the developed ideas of our colleagues and to measure their theoretical and clinical implications.
This year we offer two pieces in the Review Section, an interview with Robert Stolorow on the occasion of the publication of Worlds of Experience and a description and discussion of Frank Lachmann's three latest psychoanalytic contributions. Coincidentally, both men identify similar themes in their lives and work: the importance of collaborations; the importance of contexts and relationships in the unfolding of their thinking; and the unpredictable, nonlinear, constructivist nature of their respective life trajectories.
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