Review of the Subversive Edge of Psychoanalysis by David James Fisher

 

Book Review, THE SUBVERSIVE EDGE OF PSYCHOANALYSIS London and New York: Routledge/History of Psychoanalysis series, 2025, pp. 236. From “Sihot—Dialogue: Israel Journal of Psychotherapy”

By Ofra Eshel, Ph.D.

Dr.Eshel is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Israel Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. She is the author of The Emergence of Analytic Oneness: Into the Heart of Psychoanalysis (Routledge, 2019).

Dr. David James Fisher is a core faculty member at the New Center for Psychoanalysis, a. Training and Supervising Analyst at the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis both in Los Angles, and a practicing psychoanalyst in private practice in Los Angeles. He works in the tradition of British Object Relations psychoanalysis and has taught psychoanalysis for 45 years. Fisher is a prominent and senior researcher in the history of psychoanalysis. His Continue reading Review of the Subversive Edge of Psychoanalysis by David James Fisher

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