With wide-ranging scholarship and graceful writing, Carnochan refracts the major theoretical and clincal issues at stake in contemporary psychodynamic debates through the lens of countertransference - its history, its evolution, its philosophical ground,

Atlas's Perch. Freud and the Advent of Psychoanalysis. Freud: Gratification, Virtue, and the Therapeutic Process. Freud: Reality Testing and the Pleasure Principle. The Evolution of Psychoanalytic Technique after Freud. The Move to Modernity. Knowing and Analysis. Verification and Disclosure. Stillness and Provision: Theories of Virtue in Psychoanalytic Practice. Constructed Virtue: The Architecture of Psychoanalytic Morality.

Peter G. M. Carnochan, Ph.D., is a psychologist in private practice in San Francisco. He studied philosophy at Harvard University and is currently a candidate at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California. He has written articles on the development of emotion and cognition, and presented psychoanalytic papers at American Psychological Association conferences. Dr. Carnochan has served as the associate editor of the Psychologist Psychoanalyst and currently serves on the board of the Childhood and Adolescence Section of the Psychoanalysis Division of the APA.