Narcissism, a psychoanalytic concept, is broadly defined as the inability to empathize with anyone but oneself.

Cleckley questions the usefulness of psychoanalytic approaches, while at the same time he uses some psychoanalytic explanatory concepts.

Dr. Sapirstein worked to mesh the advances being made in neurobiology in the 1940's with psychoanalytic concepts.

He immediately was attracted to psychiatry, and during the 1920's moved to integrate orthodox psychoanalytic concepts into his thinking and practice.

A researcher and scientist at heart, Beck designed and carried out a number of experiments to test psychoanalytic concepts of depression.

A. I think there is a tendency to confuse a nonjudgmental attitude with the psychoanalytic concept of neutrality.

Dr. Piers was internationally recognized for applying psychoanalytic concepts to the care and education of young children.

"The use of psychoanalytic concepts in crisis intervention."

Later he applied the psychoanalytic concept of working through to television.

"Intimate Worlds" will appeal to many readers who are not familiar with these psychoanalytic concepts.