Looking at Psychoanalysis: Three Books

Three recently-added books examine psychoanalysis from different vantage points:

Freud at 150: 21st-century essays on a man of genius (2008). Merlino, J.P., et al. (Eds.). New York, NY: Rowman & Littlefield (BF109.F74/F683/2007)

Review: http://www.apadivisions.org/division-39/publications/reviews/freud-at-150.aspx

Essays from a 2006 symposium organized by the Austrian embassy and several psychoanalytic organizations.

Donald Winnicott today (2013). Abram, J. (Ed.). New York, NY: Routledge. (BF173.D556/2012)

http://www.karnacbooks.com/product/donald-winnicott-today/33371/

"...the editor and contributors provide a rare in-depth analysis of his original work, and highlight the specifics of his contribution to the concept of early psychic development ..." (book jacket).

Samuel, L.R. (2013). Shrink: A cultural history of psychoanalysis in America. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press. (BF173/.S2793/2013)

More info and an excerpt here: http://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/product/Shrink,675633.aspx

"By offering insight into the popular discourse around psychoanalysis throughout its American career, we gain a very good idea of how Freud's ideas about and approaches to the treatment of mental and emotional illnesses were put into play ..." (Introduction, p. x).