The World Library of Mental Health celebrates the important contributions to mental health made by leading experts in their individual fields. Each author has compiled a career-long collection of what they consider to be their finest pieces: extracts from books, journals, articles, major theoretical and practical contributions, and salient research findings.

Leading psychoanalyst Joseph D. Lichtenberg is one of the most experienced and best respected psychoanalysts working in the US at present. In A Developmentalist's Approach to research, theory, and therapy he provides the reader with an opportunity to track the development of his conceptions in three realms of psychoanalysis.

Infant studies and developmentalist perspectives on the life cycle
Theoretical contributions to self-psychology
Motivational clinical contributions
Joseph Lichtenberg is a hugely influential name within US Psychoanalysis circles; this is the first collection of the seminal papers from his very long and distinguished career.

Joseph D. Lichtenberg, M.D., is Editor-in-Chief of Psychoanaytic Inquiry, Director Emeritus of the Institute of Contemporary Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, and past President of the International Council for Psychoanalytic Self Psychology

Joseph D. Lichtenberg, MD, is Editor-in-Chief of Psychoanalytic Inquiry, Director Emeritus of the Institute of Contemporary Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, and past President of the International Council for Psychoanalytic Self Psychology.

Introduction; Part I Infant studies and a developmentalist perspective on the life cycle; Chapter 1 The challenge for psychoanalytic theory from neonate research; Chapter 2 The Oedipus complex in the 21st Century; Chapter 3 Attachment love, romantic love, lustful love, lust without love, and transference love; Chapter 4 Development and psychoanalysis; Part II Theoretical contributions to self psychology and motivation; Chapter 5 A review of The Analysis of the Self by Heinz Kohut (New York: International Universities Press, 1971); Chapter 6 The empathic mode of perception and alternative vantage points for psychoanalytic work; Chapter 7 Revisions and elaborations of motivational systems theory; Chapter 8 The late works and styles of Eugene O'Neill, Henry James, and Ludwig van Beethoven; Part III Clinical contributions; Chapter 9 Experience as a guide to psychoanalytic theory and practice; Chapter 10 Listening, understanding and interpreting; Chapter 11 Model Scenes; Chapter 12 Therapeutic action;