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Fred M. Levin
Fred M. Levin is on faculty of Northwestern University Fineberg School of Medicine (Psychiatry), Chicago Medical School (Neurology), and the Chicago and Minneapolis Institutes for ...view moreFred M. Levin is on faculty of Northwestern University Fineberg School of Medicine (Psychiatry), Chicago Medical School (Neurology), and the Chicago and Minneapolis Institutes for Psychoanalysis. He is the author of Mapping the Mind: The Intersection of Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience (T.A.P.: Hillsdale, NJ, 1991) and Psyche and Brain: The Biology of Talking Cures (I.U.P.: Madison, CT, 2002). In over 60 publications and 85 invited lectures he has pursued in depth how psychotherapy works: this includes the psychology, anthropology, neurophysiology and chemistry of learning.
Meyer S. Gunther is on faculty of Northwestern University Fineberg School of Medicine (Psychiatry and Rehabilitation Medicine) and the Chicago and Minneapolis Institutes of Psychoanalysis. In over five decades of clinical research he has pursued the details of doing psychotherapy so that it can be a teachable, learnable scientific discipline. He been particularly focused on the psychology of catastrophic traumatic injuries. He has written extensively about the problems of such patients, their caregivers and families. In the present volume Levin and Gunther bring together multidiscipinary viewpoints on how best to enable psychotherapeutic process. Their approach carefully respects the difficulty factors, and the need to appreciate both biological and psychological perspectives in a unified compassionate approach.view less