Review of When suicide beckons: A psychoanalyst’s memoir.

Psychoanalytic Psychology, Vol 40(4), Oct 2023, 377-379; doi:10.1037/pap0000484Reviews the book, When Suicide Beckons: A Psychoanalyst's Memoir by Bhaskar Sripada (2022). According to the reviewer, the book has multiple possible uses. Anyone thinking of going into analysis and imagining analysis as an intimidating, alien enterprise could read this book and learn what it is really like. The book is a portal into the secret world that is shared by analysts and patients. A college course providing an introduction to psychoanalysis could rely on this book. The book would also be invaluable for students training to become psychoanalytic psychotherapists or psychoanalysts. The material Sripada provides is ideal for exploring basic questions such as How does psychoanalysis work? and what is the therapeutic factor in psychoanalysis? Sripada gives us his own answers to such questions. But, looking at the sessions depicted in this volume, students would be free to challenge and debate Sripada and each other and to come to their own conclusions. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)
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