THE COLLECTED PAPERS OF DAVID RAPAPORT. Edited By Merton M. Gill

thick red cloth hardcover 8vo. (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. ink marked copy in good cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. 8 pages in the introduction have red pen underlining, remainder of contents free of markings. dustwrapper in vg cond. 2" tear spine bottom, missing 1" piece front panel bottom, spine chipped top and bottom, 1cm tear front flap top corner, not price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. first edition. first printing (NAP). glossy b&w frontis portrait. x+943p. supplementary bibliography. name index. subject index. biography. psychology. psychotherapy. psychoanalysis. psychiatry. philosophy. ~ This collection of sixty~five of David Rapaport's papers, appearing seven years after his untimely death in 1960, includes nine in print for the first time. Judiciously edited by his colleague and friend Merton Gill, these papers not only summarize the work of one of the two or three outstanding psychoanalytic theoreticians of our time but also afford a glimpse into the courageous and many~faceted nature of David Ra paport the man. David Rapaport's focus of interest throughout his career was on thought processes, particularly on how, despite his drive endowment, man's thoughts come more or less to correspond with external reality. Early in his professional life he came to believe that in psychoanalytic theory lay the groundwork for the thought processes, but that this theory required critical systematization as a prelude to its further development. His central goal became to make of psychoanalysis a general psychology, a psychology which would integrate ego and social psychology with Freud's pioneering insights into the id.…