Review

Professor Fink's Clinical Introduction to Lacanian Psychoanalysis addresses the clinically minded of all stripes, from the formally trained psychoanalyst to the layman who may be in, or in any way interested in, psychotherapy. His book will be particularly useful to analysts-in-training and doctoral-level students in psychology and the cognate disciplines. No previous exposure to Lacan's thinking is required.

--William Richardson, Boston College

Written with a clarity and accessibility unusual in Lacanian studies, Professor Fink's book leads the reader step by step through Lacanian analysis, moving progressively toward the more problematic aspects of the theory. For students and practitioners of psychoanalysis, I'd recommend this book as the best I've seen.

--Stanley A. Leavy, M.D., Western New England Institute for Psychoanalysis

Bruce Fink has established his place as one of the central authorities on Lacan in this country, without peer in his familiarity with all phases of Lacan's work and in the clarity of his exegeses. Fink presents something that has not yet been seen in America, and rarely approached with such perspicacity anywhere: an introduction to Lacanian psychoanalysis not only as theory, but as clinical methodology and practice.

--Kenneth Reinhard, University of California, Los Angeles

Bruce Fink has established his place as one of the central authorities on Lacan in this country, without peer in his familiarity with all phases of Lacan's work and in the clarity of his exegeses...Professor Fink presents something that has not yet been seen in America, and rarely approached with such perspicacity anywhere: an introduction to Lacanian psychoanalysis not only as theory, but as clinical methodology and practice.

--Kenneth Reinhard, University of California, Los Angeles

Bruce Fink is a practicing Lacanian psychoanalyst, analytic supervisor, and Professor of Psychology at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He trained as a psychoanalyst in France for seven years with and is now a member of the psychoanalytic institute Lacan created shortly before his death, the École de la Cause freudienne in Paris, and obtained his Ph.D. from the Department of Psychoanalysis at the University of Paris VIII (Saint-Denis).

He is the author of four books on Lacan, The Lacanian Subject: Between Language and Jouissance (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995), A Clinical Introduction to Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Theory and Technique (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997), Lacan to the Letter: Reading Écrits Closely (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2004), and Fundamentals of Psychoanalytic Technique: A Lacanian Approach for Practitioners (New York: W.W. Norton and Co., 2007).

Dr. Fink has translated Lacan's Seminar XX (1972-1973), Encore, On Feminine Sexuality (New York: W.W. Norton and Co., 1998), and Lacan's Écrits: The First Complete Edition in English (New York: W.W. Norton and Co., 2006), for which he received the 2007 nonfiction translation prize from the French-American Foundation and the Florence Gould Foundation.

He is also the coeditor of three collections on Lacan's work: Reading Seminar XI: Lacan's Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis (Albany: SUNY Press, 1995), Reading Seminars I and II: Lacan's Return to Freud (Albany: SUNY Press, 1996), and Reading Seminar XX: Lacan's Major work on Love, Knowledge, and Feminine Sexuality (Albany: SUNY Press, 2002).

Dr. Fink can be contacted regarding psychoanalysis and supervision (in person or by phone) at 412-859-3997 (350 Cobblestone Circle, McKees Rocks, PA 15136). He can be reached by email at fink@duq.edu.