Conceptual Issues in Psychoanalysis

In this examination of dissidence in psychoanalysis, Gedo offers acute assessments of the intellectual and personal agendas that inform the recent portraits of Freud by Sulloway, Masson, and Swales. Then, in topical studies of Sandor Ferenczi, Melanie Klein, and Heinz Kohut, he explicates the commonalities that bind together three generations of dissidents, each of whom sought to supplant Freud's edifice with alternative theories.