Assessment: The Initial Clinical Interviews: The Technique and Practice of Psychoanalysis (The Ralph R. Greenson Training Seminars)

In the pages of this new, revised edition of Ralph R. Greenson's ASSESSMENT: THE INITIAL CLINICAL INTERVIEWS from San Diego State University Press, readers 'listen in on" the noted West Coast clinician's three introductory seminars that took place in Los Angeles, California in 1959.

Perhaps best known as Marilyn Monroe's psychiatrist, Greenson is a force in the history of psychoanalysis--especially that flavor of Freudian theory and practice that prospered on the West Coast after the middle of the last century. Lee Jaffe's newly re-edited and annotated edition emerges as a must-have volume for scholars, students, and psychologists interested in clinical practices, the history of medicine, the history of science, and/or psychoanalysis.

"Ralph Greenson was a gifted charismatic teacher of psychoanalytic technique, premiere in his generation. I and many other students of analysis had the privilege of learning from his clear yet scintillating seminars on dreams and clinical practice. The editor has done a major service to all mental health practitioners in providing these brilliant sparkling Greenson seminars, notes, and papers for our benefit."

Peter Loewenberg

Professor of History Emeritus, UCLA

Training and Supervising Analyst, Dean Emeritus

New Center for Psychoanalysis, Los Angeles