Psychoanalytic Theory and Clinical Relevance: What Makes a Theory Consequential for Practice? (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781138872134)

Louis S. Berger's rich professional career spans the fields of electrical engineering (B.S.), music (M.M.), physics (M.S.), and clinical psychology (Ph.D.). A former cellist with the Boston Symphony, he has served as Senior Research Scientist with the Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, and a teacher of statistics and a number of other mathematical and nonmathematical subjects. Following graduate training in clinical psychology in the early 1970s and a postdoctoral fellowship at the Texas Research Institute of Mental Sciences in 1974, he established a clinical practice in Houston. On relocating to Kentucky, he became Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Louisville School of Medicine. His journal publications encompass a range of disciplines and topics: psychoanalytic theory, forensic psychology, psychoacoustics, general semantics, applied physics, computerized test construction, cross-disciplinary communication, and the statistical theory of communication. He is the author of Introductory Statistics: A New Approach for the Behavioral Sciences (1981).