Countertransference and Related Subjects: Selected Papers [signed] [first edition]

Inscribed first edition of these classic papers on countertransference in psychoanalysis. Building upon Searles's 1965 COLLECTED PAPERS ON SCHIZOPHRENIA AND RELATED SUBJECTS and including papers published after that date: among them, "The Schizophrenic Individual's Experience of His World," "The Patient as Therapist to His Analyst," and others. Inscribed by Searles to a fellow DC-area psychiatrist in the year of publication. 9'' x 6''. Original green cloth, in white printed dust jacket. xii, 625, [1] pages. Inscribed on front free endpaper: "To Tom ____ / with best regards from / Harold Searles / May 23, '79." Moderate edgewear and scuffing to jacket edges, with a few small tears and traces of soil. Boards bumped at corners and spine ends. Very good plus in a very good plus jacket.