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First editions (1967 & 1992.) The Technique and Practice of Psychoanalysis (1and 2.) Two 8vo hardcovers with dust jackets and with 952 pages also with addendum from Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association. Signed in year of publication on front free end paper, "6/17/67 For Ed & Millie with affectional feelings (of all kinds) And: with gratitude for: physicianly devotion, beautiful music and enduring friendship Ra (And Hildi too)" Also signed on front cover of addendum, "For Eddie and Millie with pleasure and regards. Ralph." The second volume signed on front free end paper by Ralph Greenson's widow, "For Ed & (?) devoted dear friends to me & to Romi with love Hildi." The first volume is in good condition with creasing to spine. The dust jacket is in good condition with chipping to top of spine, small tears to front panel and one 1 1/2 tear to bottom of spine. The second volume is in very good condition both dust jacket and book. The addendum is in good condition with creasing to front cover. Dr. Ralph Greenson (born Romeo Samuel Greenschpoon (1911-1979) was a prominent American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. Greenson is famous for being Marilyn Monroe's psychiatrist and the basis for Leo Rosten's 1963 novel, Captain Newman, M.D. The book was later made into a movie starring Gregory Peck as Greenson's character. Actually Greenson was the first to discover Marilyn Monroe's body after her suicide. ` Greenson was well know for his early work on returning WWII soldiers suffering from Post Traumatic Stress. He also had other famous clients such as, Tony Curtis, Frank Sinatra, and Vivien Leigh. Greenson and his wife Hildi Greenson, were the darlings of the Southern California psychoanalytic community, intellectuals and with certain notables in the Entertainment industry. The were good friends with Anna Freud, Fawn Brodie and Margaret Meade. He graduated from Colombia University in New York. In a time when Jews were not readily accepted into American medical schools, he studied medicine in Switzerland and completed his own analysis by Wilhelm Stekel, a student of Sigmund Freud and again by Otto Fenichel in Los Angeles. He published psychoanalytic material often dealing with analyzability, beginning of analysis, interpretations, dreams, working through, acting out, countertransference, and termination. Greenson was named a clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine and served on the Board on Professional Standards and the Committee on Institutes in The American. He published fifty-three papers in psychoanalytic journals. "The Technique and Practice of Psychoanalysis," published in 1967, has become the standard by which all other books on psychoanalytic technique will be measured. Pictures available upon request. Black spine/white text. #034053 Size: 8vo.
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