The Rangell Reader: Commentaries on and Selected Papers by Leo Rangell, M.D.

by Leo Rangell, Melvin R. Lansky, Phyllis Cath

Choosing from the vast enduring contributions to psychoanalysis of Dr. Leo Rangell, The Rangell Reader provides an outstanding collection of papers. The reader will engage Rangell's lucid and insightful clinical, technical, and theoretical formulations. His critical exploration and integration of the developments in the last six decades of psychoanalysis are invaluable. In his prominent leadership positions he was ever concerned about distortion and fragmentation of psychoanalytic theory, and its appropriate applications. Rangell was nevertheless open to developmental transformation within an expanding array of new propositions. He welcomed gradual theoretical innovation and potential unification based upon compelling evidence in the crucible of clinical work and convergent interdisciplinary research. These papers are paired with perceptive review and elaboration by distinguished psychoanalysts. Readers will be rewarded and stimulated in their own choices and decisions among complementary as well as competing psychoanalytic ideas.
—Harold P. Blum, MD, Training Analyst,
American Psychoanalytic Association,Executive Director, Sigmund Freud Archives

316 pages, Kindle Edition

First published November 17, 2014