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From the Editor, Robert Hunt Berry:
“This very rewarding enterprise of Howard Shevrin has provided unique and comprehensive paradigms that give many psychoanalytic constructs a special empirical accessibility and richness . . .
Whereas the Shevrin enterprise mostly has focused upon psychoanalytic research legacies, there also have been contributions in areas that are clinical, theoretical, scholarly, and literary . . .
The headwinds against psychoanalysis are strong, and especially in realms of academic research. And yet, if the basic research enterprise is abandoned, we forsake a natural science connection which Arnold Richards and others rightfully affirm—and neglect the responsibility of verification processes that Eric Kandel and others rightfully feel is very important . . .The career of Howard Shevrin was a breath of fresh air—as he manages to carve a meaningful career within academic psychiatry, and often was assiduous in demonstrating that without a meaningful empirical foundation for psychoanalysis, the enmity of adversaries would gain that much more traction. Shevrin fashioned a rich interdisciplinary approach, with more than a little success, that could address and sometimes transcend his methodological and ideological adversaries within the medical school . . .”
This volume also Includes a previously unpublished paper by Howard Shevrin.