Robert Alan Glick, MD, and Gloria Jean Stern, MD, two experts in the field of clinical psychiatry and psychoanalytic and psychotherapy education, provide an essential introduction to the core concepts and clinical practice of psychoanalysis. Students and other interested readers will find this an indispensable guide to the field.
Glick and Stern describe both the excitement and apprehension that can accompany students entering analysis. Their goal is to provide a map of the terrain that the students will traverse as they seek to become psychoanalysts.
Their primer helps define the core concepts in psychoanalytic theory and clinical process. It provides a concise overview of the fundamentals such as the unconscious, motivation, and defense.
The authors introduce their readers to the intensely personal experience and complexity of being a psychoanalyst. They show what it is like to be immersed in the transference and the countertransference. They illustrate how this immersion creates the clinical process and accomplishes the therapeutic action. The clinical situation becomes a transformative conversation and unique relationship with the patient.
Entering Analysis is committed to helping new analysts create uniquely beneficial and significant relationships with their patients. The identity of an analyst and the role he or she takes in clinical situations is nuanced. Glick and Stern offer their expertise to readers in order for them to get a better understanding of this new identity they are cultivating.
About the Author :
Robert Alan Glick, MD, is a professor of clinical psychiatry at Columbia University. He is a training and supervising psychoanalyst and was the former director of the Columbia University Center for Training and Research. Glick is also the former associate editor for education for the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association. He is in private practice in New York City.
Gloria Jean Stern, MD, is an associate clinical professor of psychiatry at Columbia University. She is a training and supervising psychoanalyst and is the former chair of curriculum of the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. She is in private practice in New York City.
