Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy

The Art of Psychotherapy (Fourth Edition)
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In this fourth edition, Holmes has added a chapter on the scientific validation of psychotherapy, sections on tele- and e-therapy, non-binary gender and sexual identities and the impact of race and class on the therapeutic relationship.
This title is due to be published on the 22nd December 2023. You can if you wish, order it now at our special pre-publication price and we will deliver it to you as soon as it becomes available.

Rethinking the Psychoanalysis of Masculinity: From Toxic to Seminal
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Drawing on a broad range of psychoanalytic, cultural and social influences, the author examines the concept of toxic masculinity for how it brings into focus a widespread anxiety about toxicity throughout daily life: In nature, society and personal relationships.
This title is due to be published on the 19th December 2023. You can if you wish, order it now at our special pre-publication price and we will deliver it to you as soon as it becomes available.

Rapprochement Between Fathers and Sons: Breakdowns, Reunions, Potentialities
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This thoughtful work brings fresh insight into the role of the father and masculinity and is essential reading for mental health professionals.
This title is due to be published on the 23rd November 2023. You can if you wish, order it now at our special pre-publication price and we will deliver it to you as soon as it becomes available.
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Clinical Encounters and the Lacanian Analyst: “Who’s your Dora?”
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Clinical Encounters and the Lacanian Analyst presents interviews with Lacanian analysts, exploring their professional development and the effects that their patients have had on them.

Clinical Psychoanalytic Case Studies with Complex Patients: Watching Experience at Work
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Clinical Psychoanalytic Case Studies with Complex Patients is a collection of key case studies that provides a rich resource of information and inspiration for clinicians working psychoanalytically with complex and disturbed patients in a range of contexts.

Mentalization with Neglected and Traumatized Children
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Mentalization with Neglected and Traumatized Children provides a comprehensive walkthrough of the impact on child development as a result of neglect and trauma, and how theories of mentalization can help.

Psychoanalysis and Ethics: The Necessity of Perspective
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Psychoanalysis and Ethics: The Necessity of Perspective is an attempt to look deeply into the relationship between psychoanalysis and ethics, and in particular into the failure of traditional psychoanalytic thinking to recognise the foundational character of ethical values.

Transgenerational Haunting in Psychoanalysis: Toxic Errands
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In this book, Maurice Apprey continues his unique work on transgenerational haunting to explore how events in our ancestors’ lives may be renegotiated and re-subjectivized in the present from within the therapeutic dyad.

Cambridge Guide to Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
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A unique and accessible guide to contemporary psychodynamic therapy and its applications. An author line-up of experienced educators guide the reader through the breadth of psychodynamic concepts in a digestible and engaging way.

Treating Pathological Narcissism with Transference-Focused Psychotherapy
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Filling a crucial gap in the clinical literature, this book provides a contemporary view of pathological narcissism and presents an innovative treatment approach.

Psychoanalytic Approaches to Forgiveness and Mental Health
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Psychoanalytic Approaches to Forgiveness and Mental Health will be key reading for psychoanalysts and psychotherapists in practice and in training and for other professionals interested in the role of forgiveness in mental life. It will also be of interest to academics and students of psychoanalytic studies, philosophy and spirituality.

Maternal Subjectivity: A Dissociated Self-State
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In this book, Ellen Toronto reveals the dissociation of maternal subjectivity from human experience and provides a psychoanalytic exploration of the (non-)history of motherhood to make possible an understanding and appreciation of maternal worlds.

Sigmund Freud: A Contemporary Introduction
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In this clear and concise volume, Susan Sugarman introduces the work of Sigmund Freud and keenly illustrates the impact his pioneering contributions have had on the way we think about ourselves and each other.

Guilt: A Contemporary Introduction
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This insightful and innovative book sheds light on the complexity of the concept of guilt, while exploring aspects of guilt that have previously been overlooked in psychoanalytic theory and discourse.

Interaction in Psychotherapy: Managing Relationships in Emotion-focused Treatments of Depression
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The therapist-client relationship in psychotherapy is considered one of the most important factors in promoting well-being and facilitating change in clients. This pioneering book provides a novel perspective on relationships by focusing on how they are accomplished through client-therapist interactions.

Trauma and the Supernatural in Psychotherapy: Working with the Curse Position in Clinical Practice
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Trauma and the Supernatural in Psychotherapy explores how traumatic experience interacts with unconscious phantasy based in folklore, the supernatural, and the occult.

The Unconscious: A Contemporary Introduction
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In The Unconscious: A Contemporary Introduction, Joseph Newirth presents a critical and comparative analysis of the unconscious and its evolution from a positivist to a postmodern frame of reference.

Dreaming and Being Dreamt: The Psychoanalytic Function of Dreams
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In Dreaming and Being Dreamt, John Schneider illustrates the central concept of all emotional functioning: that we are most alive in our dreaming, and that it is dreaming that brings us to life.

Desire, Pain and Thought: Primal Masochism and Psychoanalytic Theory
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Desire, Pain and Thought presents a new perspective on primal erotogenic masochism, which Marilia Aisenstein regards as the core of psychoanalytic theory.

First Principles: Applied Ethics for Psychoanalytic Practice (Hardcover)
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Using clinical examples, the book outlines a working model for how therapists can reflect on their practice, as well as devoting a chapter on how to teach ethics within psychoanalytic psychotherapy trainings and outlining a detailed curriculum for teaching ethics. This book is essential reading for psychoanalytic practitioners as well as clinical psychologists, psychiatrists, psychotherapists, counsellors, and psychoanalysts who work in the psychoanalytic tradition.

The Psychoanalytic Understanding of Consciousness, Free Will, Language, and Reason: What Makes Us Human?
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The Psychoanalytic Understanding of Consciousness, Free Will, Language, and Reason examines the ways in which we can use psychoanalysis in order to better understand humanity and explores the question of what makes us human.

A New Vision of Psychoanalytic Theory, Practice and Supervision: TALKING BODIES
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By viewing psychoanalysis through the lens of embodiment, Brothers and Sletvold suggest a shift away from traditional concept-based theory and offer new ways to understand traumatic experiences, to describe the therapeutic exchange and to enhance the supervisory process.

Melanie Klein: A Contemporary Introduction
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This important book provides a concise introduction to Melanie Klein and the key concepts and theories she founded, outlining their application to psychoanalytic technique, and explaining how her ideas have been further developed.

The Ethics of Lacanian Psychoanalysis: A Conversation about Living in Joy
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The Ethics of Lacanian Psychoanalysis observes different aspects of life – childhood, romantic love, sex, death, and human suffering – through a Lacanian lens, with a glance toward a Buddhist point of view.