| Abstract: | Reviews the book, Dimensions of psychoanalysis edited by Joseph Sandler (see record 1990-97786-000). Dimensions of psychoanalysis is a collection of Inaugural Lectures by the sequence of scholars who held the Freud chair in London while it was assigned to visiting dignitaries. The book represents a fertile decade in the history of the discipline. Despite the heterogeneity of the viewpoints contained in the volume, it is striking that some of the most influential intellectual and clinical initiatives of the period are neither represented nor even mentioned in this book. There is no reason to look for comprehensiveness or a balance of viewpoints in a volume commemorating a lecture series, but it is well to remember that psychoanalysis has many dimensions absent from this book. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
