Psychoanalytic Theory, Research, and Clinical Practice

Linda Gunsberg, Ph.D. is a psychoanalyst and forensic expert. She chairs the Family Law and Family Forensics Training Program at Washington Square Institute (NYC) and co-chairs the Psychoanalysis and Law Discussion Group of the American Psychoanalytic Association. Gunsberg is a Consulting Editor for Psychoanalytic Inquiry and has co-edited Fathers and Their Families and A Handbook of Divorce and Custody. Sandra G. Hershberg, M.D. is a psychoanalyst and adult and child psychiatrist. She is the Director of Psychoanalytic Training, Founding Member and Training and Supervising Analyst at the Institute of Contemporary Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis in Washington, D.C. She is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Washington Center for Psychoanalysis. Hershberg also serves as Associate Editor of the International Journal of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology and is a Consulting Editor for Psychoanalytic Inquiry.

• Dedication to Charlotte. Acknowledgements. Prologue. Up Close and Personal: The Evolution of a Creative Psychoanalyst. Friendship. The Development of Creative Structures. Creativity Seminar. Development of the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. The Development of a Psychoanalytic Training Program. Supervision. Professional, Artistic, and Familial Partnerships. Motivational Systems Theory. Developmental Theory. Attachment Research and Implications for Treatment. Clinical Papers. What Last and What Fades. Epilogue.

This is a wonderful book. Not only is it a richly deserved tribute to Joe Lichtenberg, who has made such seminal contributions to psychoanalysis, but it is a volume that contains some of the most original and penetrating essays on motivational systems, infant development and theories of therapy that have appeared for some time. This is a book that will enrich therapists everywhere. - Theodore Jacobs, M.D.‘This is a work of deep love and appreciation – truly a celebration the author/editors, Drs. Linda Gunsberg and Sandra G. Hershberg, convey of the life and work of Dr. Joseph D. Lichtenberg, their teacher, colleague, and friend. This extraordinary book is not generated simply by their admiration for Lichtenberg’s ideas, but by the fullness of his generativity and of all that he has offered to so many - the story of a man deeply regarded and respected. One does not have to know Dr. Lichtenberg personally to become immersed in this book - as a powerful story unfolds - told by him, his colleagues, his guide in his art collection, his friends. It is a moving story too of his history within the ever-growing field of psychoanalysis itself - and personally - with grandparents, parents, his children, colleagues, teachers, friends, and his late beloved wife, Charlotte, for whom this treasure of a book is dedicated. The editors are to be congratulated; the reader is in for a treat.’ - Evelyne Albrecht Schwaber, M.D. Training and Supervising Analyst, Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute Member, Psychoanalytic Institute of New England, East Visiting Faculty, Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center