Morris N. Eagle: From Classical to Contemporary Psychoanalysis: A Critique and Integration

In Joseph Schachter's words the book "demonstrates a unique talent for presenting a remarkably lucid, largely jargon free, comprehensive, sympathetic delineation of Freud's oeuvre in approximately 100 pages--a stunning tour-de-force!"; Peter Fonagy calls it "a masterpiece of conceptual integration, ... the best guide to the development of modern psychoanalytic thinking" and Paul Wachtel writes that the "book is essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand deeply the ferment within psychoanalysis and the theoretical options that reside within its borders". The first two parts of the book are organized around fundamental topics of Freudian classical theory and contemporary psychoanalytic theories: (1) Conceptions of mind, (2) Conceptions of object relations, (3) Conception of psychopathology and (4) Conceptions of treatment.