The unsung psychoanalyst : the quiet influence of Ruth Easser / Mary Kay O'Neil.

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The Unsung Psychoanalyst touches on the founding and growth of New York's Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, and on the development of the Toronto Psychoanalytic Society and Institute where Easser taught during the last five years of her life.

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Ruth Easser (1922-75), a training analyst, was affiliated with the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research for 25 years and then returned to Canada to help found the Toronto Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. This factual and admiring biography draws on O'Neil's personal relationship with Easser, on Easser's papers, and on O'Neil's interviews with more than 30 of Easser's colleagues, supervisees, analysands, friends, and relatives. The book is at once a biography of a particular analyst and a portrait of professional psychoanalysis in the US during Easser's lifetime. The text appears in two fonts: one for biographical material and one for contextual material and accounts of others' experiences. Both presentations provide easy access to "unsung" (i.e., not well-known outside of their training institutes) analysts' lives as they go about their practice and training, shaped by and shaping theory. ^BSumming Up: Recommended. Lower-/upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals. C. T. Fischer Duquesne University