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The Embedded Self:
A Psychoanalytic Guide to Family Therapy
by Mary-Joan Gerson
ISBN 0-88163-158-2
"With an admirable sensitivity at once clinical, theoretical, and literary, Dr. Gerson explores two very different approaches to human suffering: psychoanalysis and family therapy. She speaks to the clinician, but also to the student of the human condition in our times. What distinguishes the book throughout is the richness of clinical material that is examined from different perspectives. The author never needs reminding that life is narrative, nor that narratives illustrate theories. There are few scholar-clinicians anywhere who are as qualified as Mary-Joan Gerson to undertake an exploration of this order. We are all in her debt."
— Jerome S. Bruner, Ph.D., Research Professor of Psychology, New York University
"A brilliant and long overdue rapprochement between psychoanalysis and family therapy conceived by a practitioner trained and experienced in both modalities of treatment. Although primarily directed to psychoanalysts interested in expanding their clinical repertories, this book also offers family therapists an excellent overview of their own field."
— Edgar Levenson, MD, Training and Supervising Analyst, William Alanson White Institute
"In her masterful meditation on the figure-ground relationship between psychoanalytic and systemic thinking, Mary-Joan Gerson has brought each tradition into fresh focus, providing the clinician and theoretician alike with richly textured insights and innovative therapeutic techniques."
— Virginia Goldner, Ph.D., Senior Faculty, Ackerman Institute for Family Therapy
"Mary-Joan Gerson speaks to psychoanalysts from the perspective of family therapy and to family therapists from the perspective of psychoanalysis. This dual approach brings novelty to familiar concepts and phrases. Like a book of Borges' poetry that I read in both Spanish and English, The Embedded Self brings intellectual challenge and esthetic pleasure. Any clinician, whether systemic or psychodynamic, will find this book an enriching and thought-provoking experience."
— Salvador Minuchin, M.D., Research Professor of Psychiatry, New York University Medical Center
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