Contemporary Conflict Theory: A Journey of a Psychoanalyst: Selected Papers of Sander M. Abend, MD.

“This collection of the psychoanalytic papers of Dr. Sander Abend is a more than welcome addition to our literature. Covering a wide range of psychoanalytic topics, and written in a clear and comprehensive way, it reveals an analyst equally at home with psychoanalytic theory and practice. Experienced analysts as well as beginners in the field will profit from a careful reading of these papers.”
—MARTIN S. WILLICK, M.D.

“Sander Abend’s invaluable contributions to theory and practice make him among the most important voices in psychoanalysis today. This long awaited collection of his extraordinary papers is destined to be a classic in our field. This book is essential reading for anyone seriously interested in contemporary psychoanalysis.” — THEODORE JACOBS, M.D.

SANDER M. (SANDY) ABEND, M.D. was a New York City native, who earned a BA from the University of Louisville, and subsequently his MD from the University of Chicago. He had a residency in psychiatry at Albert Einstein / Bronx Municipal Hospital. After active duty in the U.S. Navy in Japan, he returned to New York and opened an individual private practice in Manhattan. He then received psychoanalytic training at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute, where he soon joined the faculty and was later appointed a Training and Supervising Analyst. He became a member of the Editorial Board of The Psychoanalytic Quarterly, where he also served for several years as Editor-in-Chief. He became a student and friend of Charles Brenner, M.D., and collaborated with him in forming a number of psychoanalytic study groups. He wrote and published a number of clinical and theoretical papers. He subsequently presented and taught at several institutes and societies throughout the United States, Europe, Israel, South America, Japan, and Korea. He participated on many committees in New York, and in both the American Psychoanalytic Association and the International Psychoanalytic Association. Over the course of his career he also held a number of leadership positions in all of those organizations. He was a coauthor, with Michael Porder, M.D. and Martin Willick, M.D., of a book on psychoanalytic treatment perspectives pertaining to Borderline patients. At what he regarded as an appropriate age, he retired from clinical practice, whereupon he wrote A Brief Introduction to the Psychoanalysis of Sigmund Freud and its Enduring Legacy (IPBooks, 2016). He is a cofounder of the Franco-America Psychoanalytic Study Group, and was instrumental in assisting the Korean Guest Study Group to become fully accredited in the International Psychoanalytic Association. He can be reached via e-mail at: SMAbend@gmail.com