Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
Psychoanalysis After Freud: Memory, Mourning and Repetition
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This book draws on a number of Freud’s lesser-known works to explore psychoanalytic perspectives on memory, mourning and repetition.
Clinical Research in Psychoanalysis: Theoretical Basis and Experiences through Working Parties
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This book offers different theoretical approaches about what clinical research is.
The Infantile in Psychoanalytic Practice Today
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The Infantile in Psychoanalytic Practice Today demonstrates the concept of the Infantile, first proposed almost a quarter of a century ago, and the ways in which it has become an indispensable tool in contemporary psychoanalytic clinical practice.
The Cure for Psychoanalysis
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This book contains two brilliant essays by one of the foremost thinkers in the field of psychoanalysis. In the first essay, ‘The Magic of Winnicott,’ Adam Phillips makes clear the subtlety and wisdom of Winnicott’s concept of play. In ‘The Cure for Psychoanalysis’ he works through psychoanalytic theories about cure and instructs us to take most seriously those that free the analyst and patient to wonder and to take pleasure in the unknowable adventure ahead of them.
Three Characters: Narcissist, Borderline, Manic Depressive
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Three Characters is a masterclass based on decades of lectures presented to psychoanalysts, analytical psychologists, and psychotherapists, and is a must-read for all psychoanalytic enthusiasts.
The Analyst’s Vulnerability: Impact on Theory and Practice
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This book examines the analyst’s experiences and traits, demonstrating the impact they have on theory-building and technique. Arguing that choice of theory and interventions are unconsciously shaped by clinicians’ early experiences, this book argues for greater self-awareness, self-acceptance and open dialogue as a corrective.
Gender Dysphoria: A Therapeutic Model for Working with Children, Adolescents and Young Adults
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This book is aimed primarily at clinicians working in the field to provide a model for understanding, assessing, and treating gender dysphoria. The model uses a psychoanalytic framework to help explain disturbed states of mind and how psychic defences can be enlisted unconsciously to avoid overwhelming psychic pain. This offers professionals a way of trying to think with, and offer understanding to, their trans identifying clients.
Timeless Grandiosity and Eroticised Contempt: Technical Challenges Posed by Cases of Narcissism and Perversion
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Using a blend of theory, case studies, literature, philosophy, and film, Michael and Batya Shoshani have created a masterpiece of psychoanalytic literature.
Change Through Time in Psychoanalysis: Transformations and Interventions, The Three Level Model
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In this new volume, ideas on observational research, clinical narratives based on 3-LM group discussions, and adaptations of the model for training candidates show more experience, more depth, more answers, and, of course, new questions.
Identification in Psychoanalysis: A Comprehensive Introduction
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This fascinating book offers an in-depth exploration of the gradual development of the concept of identification as it has evolved in the Freudian tradition of psychoanalysis.
The Work of Whiteness: A Psychoanalytic Perspective
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‘Whiteness’ is a politically constructed category which needs to be understood and dismantled because the system of racism so embedded within our society harms us all. It has profound implications for human psychology, an understanding of which is essential for supporting the movement for change. This book explores these implications from a psychoanalytic and Jungian analytic perspective.
Blooming in December: Psychodynamic Psychotherapy With Older Adults
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This book covers the essentials of psychotherapeutic work with older adults, discussing how contemporary psychodynamic thought can be applied clinically to engage the older patient in psychotherapeutic work of depth and meaning, work that not only relieves suffering but also promotes growth.
Coronavirus, Psychoanalysis, and Philosophy: Conversations on Pandemics, Politics and Society
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Originally published in the European Journal of Psychoanalysis (EJP), the essays in this volume are a set of responses to the coronavirus crisis by distinguished philosophers and psychoanalysts from around the globe.
Obsessions: The Twisted Cruelty
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This book explores the interrelatedness between obsessive compulsive disorders, thinking disorders, and depression. The issue is considered both from a psychiatric viewpoint and from a psychodynamic perspective. The age of the cases presented in the book ranges from childhood through adolescence to adulthood.
Translation/Transformation: 100 Years of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis
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Translation is at the heart of psychoanalysis: from unconscious to conscious, experience to verbal expression, internal to enacted, dream thought to dream image, language to interpretation, unrepresented to represented, and transference of past to present.
Psychoanalysis and Covidian Life: Common Distress
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Bringing together a dozen contributions from psychoanalysts of many different countries and theoretical orientations, Psychoanalysis and Covidian Life, a collective work edited by Howard Levine and Ana de Staal, offers readers the opportunity to explore and reflect upon the ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic has begun to influence analytical practice.
An Experience-based Vision of Psychoanalytic Theory and Practice: Seeking, Feeling, and Relating
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An Experience-based Vision of Psychoanalytic Theory and Practice looks at each individual as a motivated doer doing, seeking, feeling, and intending, and relates development, sense of self, and identity to changes that are brought about in analytic psychotherapy.
The Relational Revolution in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy
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At last, a comprehensive overview of Relational thinking and its impact on psychoanalytic technique written for both senior clinicians and those newer to the field.
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Finding the Piggle: Reconsidering D. W. Winnicott’s Most Famous Child Case
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Finding The Piggle gives new life to this classic piece of psychoanalytic literature in which the importance of the child’s feelings and conflicts is made abundantly clear. With this comprehensive exploration, a new generation of clinicians and others can rediscover this important case and think about it anew.
A Place for Beauty in the Therapeutic Encounter
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A Place for Beauty in the Therapeutic Encounter is written for all psychotherapists, counsellors, and psychologists who practise under the broad banner of psychoanalytic thinking. It is also for anyone who loves beauty and wants to think more about its place in the mind.
Vitalization in Psychoanalysis: Perspectives on Being and Becoming
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Pulling together work from major writers on vitalization from all the main psychoanalytic schools of thought, and covering development, theory and clinical practice, this book will be an invaluable guide for clinicians of all backgrounds, as well of students of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis.
Depending on Strangers: Freedom, Memory, and the Unknown Self
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In this book, David Levine explores the unknown self. The unknown self is the self existing as a potential to become something yet to be determined. The shape our personalities and life experiences take depends on a process. At the outset of this process, the self is, in a sense, a stranger; both to us and to others. The more this is the case, the greater the openness of the process of self-formation to a kind of freedom, which is the freedom from predetermination of its outcome.
The Sublime in Everyday Life: Psychoanalytic and Aesthetic Perspectives
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Using psychoanalytic and aesthetic theories, this book aims to revitalise the sublime by re-evaluating its significance for contemporary life and, in a unique and fascinating endeavour, opens up a space that explores the sublime in the ordinary, everyday and quotidian.
Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Puberty and Adolescence: The Inner Worlds of Teenagers and their Parents
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This book is based on rich clinical observations from international settings, unique within the field, and there is an emphasis placed by the author on the role of the body in self-awareness, identity crises and gender construction. It will be of great interest to psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, parents and carers, as well as all those interacting with adolescents in self, family and society.