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Book reviews The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 56, No. 4, 1996 Edited by Robin Steier Goldberg, Ph.D. Collaborative Psychoanalysis: Anxiety, Depression, Dreams, and Personality Change, by Walter Bonime, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1989. Bonime's book consists of his many collected papers, including one published as early as 1953, with the latest two papers published in 1986. One of the problems with the book is that some of the chapters are aimed at essentially a lay audience or an audience of relatively low-level mental health workers, while others attain a higher degree of technical discussion. Examples of the former are the papers re- printed from the Journal of the Child Study Association of America, a journal and association that no longer exists. The unfortunate effect is that the book is often quite repetitive. Such a clear writer in my opinion would have done better to start fresh from his collected papers and write a new book; of course, this is a much more difficult task. The papers are divided into three sections: one on anxiety and other barriers to therapeutic progress; one on depression and paranoia; and one on dreams, then concluding with a few papers under the rubric of "coda." http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The American Journal of Psychoanalysis Springer Journals

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Springer Journals
Copyright
1996 Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis
ISSN
0002-9548
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1573-6741
DOI
10.1007/BF02735501
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The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 56, No. 4, 1996 Edited by Robin Steier Goldberg, Ph.D. Collaborative Psychoanalysis: Anxiety, Depression, Dreams, and Personality Change, by Walter Bonime, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1989. Bonime's book consists of his many collected papers, including one published as early as 1953, with the latest two papers published in 1986. One of the problems with the book is that some of the chapters are aimed at essentially a lay audience or an audience of relatively low-level mental health workers, while others attain a higher degree of technical discussion. Examples of the former are the papers re- printed from the Journal of the Child Study Association of America, a journal and association that no longer exists. The unfortunate effect is that the book is often quite repetitive. Such a clear writer in my opinion would have done better to start fresh from his collected papers and write a new book; of course, this is a much more difficult task. The papers are divided into three sections: one on anxiety and other barriers to therapeutic progress; one on depression and paranoia; and one on dreams, then concluding with a few papers under the rubric of "coda."

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The American Journal of Psychoanalysis – Springer Journals

Published: Dec 1, 1996

Keywords: Clinical Psychology; Psychotherapy; Psychoanalysis

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