(1954). Psychoanalytic Review, 41:405-406 John Rosen is widely enough known to the psychiatric worker not to need an extended introduction. He has chosen to issue a collection of his papers previously published in psychiatric journals covering his work in “direct analysis”. The volume contains nine papers. The first one is especially prepared for this book, and the last paper is a book review of Zinkin's translation of Bleuler's monograph on “Dementia Praecox”. The other seven include practically all Rosen has written on his particular method of treatment of schizophrenics. Most of these papers have been somewhat revised for inclusion in this volume. The first paper on “General Principles” is important since it gives us some of the basic guiding principles behind his method, as well as a brief history of how he came to develop this technique. Rosen tells us that Federn suggested the term “direct analysis” for this new therapy. The author notes that it was & [This is a summary or excerpt from the full text of the book or article. The full text of the document is available to subscribers.] |
