By Sander L. Gilman. 277 pp., illustrated. Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1993. $24.95. ISBN 0-691-03245-9.
Psychiatry and psychoanalysis, perhaps more than other branchesof medicine, have always made their own history a focus of theirresearch. Among the reasons for this, two stand out. First,as new insights into the mind are gained through clinical experience,they are layered with preceding ones, like the layered and multifacetedpsyche itself. Second, the exercise of historical investigationparallels the process of uncovering and reconstructing in theclinical situation proper. These efforts are aimed at recapturingsomething of the immediacy of past experience, allowing thereader or participant to enter into and make sense of that world.Naturally, . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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