Failures in Psychoanalytic Treatment

“Carefully balanced in terms of the different psychoanalytic schools and with sensitive

appreciation of the subjective dimension of psychoanalytic practice, this unique text explores

failures in psychoanalytic treatment - both objective and subjective . . . .the reader is treated

to a panorama of insightful responses.”

—Gerald J. Gargiulo, PhD

Author, Quantum Psychoanalysis,

Essays on Physics, Mind and Analysis Today

This most welcome reissue of a unique now classic collection of essays by a diverse group

of eminent psychoanalysts from the US and internationally incisively addresses the critical

question of the meaning and nature of clinical failures in psychoanalysis, one which has been

generally sadly ignored. These stimulating, open-minded and thoughtful essays explore what

we can learn from such failures to bring progress in psychoanalysis.

—Douglas Kirsner, PhD, Author Unfree Associations;

Emeritus Professor, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia