The New Psychoanalysis explores and explains important developments in
psychoanalytic thought and practice since FreudOs death in 1939. Drawing
on the experience of her many years of clinical work with patients, as
well as research and teaching in the training institutes she directs,
Phyllis W. Meadow offers convincing testimony of the power of the
unconscious forces that drive our thinking, feeling, and behaving. She
shows how the mind unfolds in the face of tensions native to the
unconscious life and how psychoanalysis is applicable to the full range
of emotional disorders. This highly accessible book is ideal for the
therapist or psychologist, as well as the social theorist or general
reader, who is concerned with the hold of aggression on the lives of
human beings facing a world still as violent and destructive as it was
in FreudOs day. The introduction, by Charles Lemert, provides a
challenging essay on the connections between psychoanalytic and social
theories.