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1. The Languages of Psychoanalysis

   By John E. Gedo

   In this remarkable survey of "the communicative repertory of humans," John Gedo demonstrates the central importance to theory and therapeutics of the communication of information. He begins by surveying those modes of communication encountered in psychoanalysis that go beyond the lexical...

   Published April 30th 1996 by Routledge
2. Beyond Interpretation

   Toward a Revised Theory for Psychoanalysis

   By John E. Gedo

   Hailed as "important book certain to stir extended psychoanalytic debate" (American Journal of Psychiatry) on publication in 1979, Gedo's Beyond Interpretation set forth a radically new theoretical framework and clinical agenda for modern psychoanalysis. The theoretical framework revolved around...

   Published September 30th 1993 by Routledge
3. Impasse and Innovation in Psychoanalysis

   Clinical Case Seminars

   Edited by John E. Gedo, Mark J. Gehrie

   Impasse and Innovation in Psychoanalysis offers a rare perspective on the technical difficulties and creative responses to them that typify clinical psychoanalysis. The four seminars at the heart of this volume are not case reports in the usual sense. Rather, each seminar revolves...

   Published January 31st 1993 by Routledge
4. The Biology of Clinical Encounters

   Psychoanalysis as a Science of Mind

   By John E. Gedo

   In The Biology of Clinical Encounters, Gedo utilizes recent findings in neuroscience and cognitive psychology to elaborate his conception of psychobiology and to consider its implications in clinical analysis. He pursues this challenging undertaking in several directions. He illuminates...

   Published September 30th 1991 by Routledge
5. Portraits of the Artist

   Psychoanalysis of Creativity and its Vicissitudes

   By John E. Gedo

   Gedo's pathbreaking exploration of the psychology of creativity incorporates first-hand material drawn from his extensive clinical work with artists, musicians, and other exceptionally creative individuals. Using this body of clinical knowledge as conceptual anchorage, he then offers illuminating...

   Published February 28th 1989 by Routledge
6. The Mind in Disorder

   Psychoanalytic Models of Pathology

   By John E. Gedo

   Anchoring his schema in the belief that nonorganic disorders are disturbances in adaptation explicable within a depth-psychological framework, Gedo posits two broad categories of functional disorder: "apraxias" that represent any failure to learn adaptively essential skills, and disorders of what...

   Published December 31st 1987 by Routledge
7. Conceptual Issues in Psychoanalysis

   Essays in History and Method

   By John E. Gedo

   In Conceptual Issues in Psychoanalysis, John Gedo's mastery of Freudian theory and broad historical consciousness subserve a new goal: an understanding of "dissidence" in psychoanalysis. Gedo launches his inquiry by reflecting expansively on recent assessments of Freud's character.&...

   Published April 30th 1986 by Routledge