Applying Psychoanalysis in Medical Care

Harvey Schwartz, MD is a training and supervising psychoanalyst at the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia and the Psychoanalytic Association of New York. He is a clinical professor of psychiatry and human behaviour at the Sidney Kimmel Medical School, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, USA. He is the producer and interviewer for the IPA podcast, Psychoanalysis On and Off the Couch.

1. An incentive to use psychoanalytic psychosomatics in everyday medicine Joachim Küchenhoff 2. At a Crossroads: the Psychoanalytic Model and the Medical Model Karen Proner and Valentino Ammannati 3. On Becoming a Parent: When the psychoanalyst meets the front- line professionals involved in the perinatal period Meropi Michaleli 4. Cruel Fate Jennifer Davids 5. Day hospital intensive care for patients with eating disorder Humberto Lorenzo Persano 6. Eating Disorders in childhood and adolescence: An interdisciplinary approach Monica Zac, Sandra Novas, Luz Zappa, Julian Onaindia, Alejandra Ariovich, Andrea Fränkel 7. Psychoanalysis and Psycho oncology: How Each Specialty Enriches the Other Norman Straker 8. Psychodynamic contributions to palliative care patients and their family members Linda Emanuel 9. How a Lack of Human Connection may Lead to Dehumanization and Addiction Jose Alberto Zusman, Edward J. Khantzian 10. Psychoanalytic approaches to the skin patient Jorge Ulnik 11. The Balint Group: The Arc of the Enduring Bridge Between Psychoanalysis and Medicine Randall H. Paulsen, Don R. Lipsitt