Terra Incognita

Joseph Isaac Abrahams, MD, is a distinguished fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and a former associate clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of California at San Diego. His 70-year career includes pioneering work in group therapy and psychoanalysis with the severe disorders, occurring in both forensic institutions and in a flourishing private practice. He has written books on grassroots politics, the psycho-spiritual phenomenon of messianism, as well as an autobiographical work conveyed in his dreams and poems.

• ForewordPrefaceAcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter 1: Wartime Beginnings: A Riot on VJ Day—“I had to, captain!”Chapter 2: Washington, D.C. Early Practice 1950–1960: Institutes and Institutions Chapter 3: Later Practice 1960–1970: Dream Work, Conferences, and CouplesChapter 4: Sabbatical and La Jolla 1971–1989: Midlife Career, Midlife Crisis Chapter 5: Atascadero State Hospital 1990–1995: New Adventure, Unexpected AssaultChapter 6: Post Retirement—1996 to present: Six Iconic Cases and a Revealing ColloquySummaryGlossary of TermsAnnotated BibliographyAppendicesIndex

Dr. Abrahams’ seminal pioneering work has promoted a treatment paradigm for administrators of incarcerated populations by providing a less labor-expensive, psychotherapeutic approach to rehabilitation efforts for groups previously thought to be hopelessly fixated in durable psychotic and psychopathic psychopathology.