Leon Wurmser

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Dr Leon Wurmser is an internationally-known psychoanalyst, now Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at West Virginia University and a training and supervising analyst of the New York Freudian Society. He was formerly Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Program at University of Maryland, Baltimore.

Wurmser has authored 43 peer-reviewed scientific papers, 6 books, and numerous book chapters and essays. His works deal with topics surrounding addictions and drug use, some translated into other languages. They include the often-cited The Mask Of Shame, published in the early 1970s and reprinted into the 1990s. His focus on addictions continued through to 2005's Flight from Conscience: Psychodynamic Treatment of Character Perversion, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, and Addiction. His writing has also looked at topics such as narcissism and other issues.

Wurmser has also been the recipient of several awards in his career. In 2004, he was awarded the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association Journal Prize [1] for a paper titled "Psychoanalytic Reflections on 9/11, Terrorism and Genocidal Prejudice: Roots and Sequels." [2]

[edit] Selected books

  • Wurmser, Leon "Mask of Shame" (Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1981) 080182527X,
    • translated into German as "Die Maske der Scham" Berlin: Springer, 1990) (English and German eds. cited by 271 articles on Web of Science)
  • Wurmser, Leon "The Hidden Dimension: Psychodynamics in Compulsive Drug Use" (New York : J. Aronson, 1978.) 0876683081
    • translated into German as "Die verborgene Dimension" (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1997) (English and German eds. cited by 81 articles on Web of Science)
  • Wurmser, L.L "The Power of the Inner Judge: Psychodynamic Treatment of the Severe Neuroses" (New York, J. Aronson, 2000) 0765701774
  • Wormser, Leon. Das Rätsel des Masochismus" (Berline: Springer, 1993) 3540637397

[edit] Selected recent journal articles

  • Wurmser, L.L. "A defense of the use of metaphor in analytic theory formation" Psychoanalytic Quarterly , 46:466-498. (1977)
  • Wurmser, L.L. Psychoanalytic Considerations of the Etiology of Compulsive Drug... J. Amer. Psychoanal. Association., 22:820-843. . (1974) (cited by 125 articles on Web of Science)
  • Wormser, Leon “Abyss Calls Out to Abyss”: Oedipal Shame, Invisibility, and Broken Identity" The American Journal of Psychoanalysis 63:4 (Dec. 2003.)
  • Wurmser, L, "Flight from conscience:: experiences with the psychoanalytic treatment of compulsive drug users. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment 4:157-168. (2001)

[edit] External links

Int J Addict. 1987 Feb;22(2):103-13. (reference to his work as a standard.)


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