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Title: In the Shadow of the Epidemic: Being HIV-Negative in the Age of AIDS (Series Q) by Walt Odets ISBN: 0-8223-1638-2 Publisher: Duke Univ Pr (Trd) Pub. Date: September, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $21.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (4 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: A comprehensive and necessary volume
Comment: In the Shadow of the Epidemic is an essential textbook for all mental health professionals. Set in a brilliant clinical framework, it retains in a stirring way a sense of the person within each case study; there is a wealth of knowledge balanced with a profound feeling within. I found that each chapter evoked a sense of pain, grief and loss. This awareness is critical in understanding the clinical issues that must be examined when treating this community. Every mental health professional must confront these issues. This book is the essential tool to accomplish this. I am eagerly waiting for the next volume from Dr. Odets.

Rating: 5
Summary: Courage and compassion
Comment: Walt Odets has had the courage and the insight to examine the AIDS epidemic as a crisis in mental health. Clinically sound, this is also a work filled with pathos and humanity. This book is a moving, thought-provoking, and ground-breaking exploration of the effects of a nightmare from which we have yet to awake.

Rating: 3
Summary: Overstated, if not overrated
Comment: An intriguing theory, but one of little real relevance to understanding phenomena such as the "Second Wave" of HIV. It has almost nothing to say about the wave of seroconversions among younger gay men, who are not afflicted by the guilt of surviving the AIDS deaths of friends they never had, and most of whom, far from seeing it as "inevitable," actually give precious little thought to the possibility of becoming infected before it's too late.

A nice contribution to our understanding of a small subset of new infections, but that's all it is.

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