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D.W. Winicott once said that there are those who are free to enjoy life and live creatively and those who cannot, and when it comes to seeing who are society's “haves” and who are the “have-nots,” this one factor may prove the most relevant of them all. A new book, The Social Work Psychoanalyst's Casebook: Clinical Voices in Honor of Jean Sanville, addresses the clinical care of the have-nots. The patients depicted in this book do not suffer the pain of poverty; most, in fact, seem financially quite comfortable. Their impoverishment is psychological, and through the tales told by these social work scholars we are given access to their patients' bleak, lonely, embittered lives and shown how the soft light of hope-in the form of an analytic relationship-permits a fortunate few to ascend out of the darkness.
This book, edited by Joyce Edward and Elaine Rose, is the second to come to us courtesy of The National Study Group On Social Work and Psychoanalysis, a committee of the National Membership Committee on Psychoanalysis in Clinical Social Work. The first was Fostering Healing and Growth: A