Fundamentals of Psychoanalytic Technique

“Bruce Fink restores psychoanalysis’s relevance and explains it in ways I dare say few of us ever understood or appreciated… . Every chapter contains insights worth pondering, not just about the analytic process, but about human nature itself… . [It] deserves to be read by a wide audience.” – PsychCentral”[A] useful and detailed work for the professionals who want to familiarize themselves with Lacan’s psychoanalytic theories.” – APA Division 39 Newsletter”[A] fervent, an appealing, and a unique contribution in the literature of psychoanalysis…should enjoy a wide readership.” – Journal of Phenomenological Psychology“Here readers will find trenchant discussions of a variety of topics central to psychoanalytic practice, such as analytic listening, punctuation, scanding, interpretation, transference, and countertransference. Dr. Fink is especially brilliant in his consideration of other psychoanalytic theories and writers, and demonstrates with striking clarity the differences between them and Lacanian analysis.” – Mitchell Wilson, MD, San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute and the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California“With his new book, Bruce Fink is proving once again that he is the undisputed leader of clinical Lacanian psychoanalysis in the Anglo-American world. With his characteristic blend of theoretical rigor, clinical acumen, and dry wit, Fink has quite simply reinvented the truth of Lacanian psychoanalysis, and his book will no doubt be as fundamental for a whole generation of scholars and practitioners as the techniques that it sets out to explain and advance.” – Dany Nobus, professor of psychology and psychoanalysis, Brunel University, London, UK

Bruce Fink, today’s premier translator of Lacan, is winner of a Translation Prize from the French-American Foundation for his translation of Lacan’s Ecrits. He is a professor of psychology at Duquesne University and lives in McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania.