Reading Goldberg opens both mind and heart. His vision is powerfully and profoundly
humane, transforming our understanding of people the world often scorns by
revealing them to be fellow travelers trying to hold themselves together in the face
of all but unendurable emotional pain. Goldberg also often surprises. He might
discuss the structure of the self in terms of a railway, or take up the question of
whether or not analysts should apologize to their patients, or lay out the vicissitudes
of "wishy-washy" personalities. He is concerned with the way psychoanalytic
theories at once empower and imprison the minds of those who employ them, writes
about how morality uncannily invades clinical thinking and maps the boundaries
between psychoanalysis and psychiatry.
--Jeffrey Stern, PhD,
Faculty, Intstitute for Psychoanalysis,
Editor, Psychoanalysis and Dreams (2015)

Arnold Goldberg, MD is perhaps the only one in psychoanalysis who blends the best
of classical theory with the nuanced ideas of self psychology. As these selected papers
illustrate, Goldberg's work ranges from a detailed analysis of the models of the mind;
to sensitive examinations of various forms of the perversions (and what they mean);
to wide-ranging clinical examples of the theory; and to the philosophical context for
theory and practice. His restless mind never settles for the ordinary and his insights are
trenchant and endlessly engaging. No one has been more consistently interesting.
--Charles Strozier, PhD
Professor, John Jay College & Grad. Center, CUNY
Author, Heinz Kohut: The Making of A Psychoanalyst