Psychoanalysis and the Unspoken

What do therapists not talk about? What do we ignore/miss/sidestep? What factors—personal, social, political—inform our areas of blindness? This book names and explores what psychoanalytic theory often skips over or simplifies—how, when, and why we fail to uphold the professional ideal.

Turning a critical eye on her own theory, Slochower reflects on how it, she, and the field have evolved and what...