Descent into Darkness:
The Sources and Psychodynamics of Mental Illness and Introduction and Explication in the Form of Novel
About The Author
Dr. Richard D. Chessick
Richard D. Chessick, M.D., Ph.D. is Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Northwestern University, Life Fellow of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis, Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst (emeritus) of the Center for Psychoanalytic Study in Chicago, Senior Attending Psychiatrist (emeritus), Evanston Northwestern Healthcare Hospital, and was in the private practice of psychoanalysis in Chicago and Evanston, Illinois, U.S.A.
About The Book
Descent into Darkness:
The Sources and Psychodynamics of Mental Illness and Introduction and Explication in the Form of Novel
The purpose of this book is to acquaint educated interested persons with, as well as to help students and professionals in the mental health field learn about the source’s psychodynamics of mental illness. To facilitate learning about the issues involved and in order to make this information more convincing, more intelligible, and hopefully more interesting for the reader, I have cast it in the unusual form of what I call a didactic novel.
