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The Routledge Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy catalogue 2010 and our mini-catalogue for our New Library of Psychoanalysis series are now available.
The annual Routledge catalogue includes new books and selected bestsellers in Psychoanalysis, and series includingPsychoanalysis in a New Key, Psychoanalytic Inquiry, Psychological Issues, Relational Perspectives, Routledge Classics, Makers of Modern Psychotherapy, The New Library of Psychoanalysis, and The New Library of Psychoanalysis Teaching Series.
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The Psychoanalysis Arena provides professionals, researchers, instructors and students with information on the range of Psychoanalysis books produced by Routledge, Psychology Press, and also by Guilford Press.
Subjects covered by this Arena include: Relational/Interpersonal Psychoanalysis, Self Psychology and Intersubjectivity, Trauma and Dissociation, Affect and Emotion, Sleep and Dreaming, Transference and Countertransference, Attachment, Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis, Psychoanalysis in Film Studies, and the work of Sigmund Freud, Melanie Klein, and Jacques Lacan.
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A Woman's Unconscious Use of Her Body
Drawing on Dinora Pines’ lifetime of clinical experience this classic book provides a psychoanalytic understanding of women’s relationships with their bodies, focusing on key moments in women’s lives.
With a foreword from Susie Orbach, this book will be of interest to mental health professionals including counsellors, psychotherapists and psychoanalysts.
Please Select Your Gender: From the Invention of Hysteria to the Democratizing of Transgenderism
Utilizing elements of Lacanian theory and rich clinical vignettes, Patricia Gherovici demonstrates how the transgender discourse has both reoriented psychoanalytic practice and reframes debates about gender in American society.
She travels historical, theoretical, and clinical grounds to explore what has been termed the “democratizing of gender” – for what could be more democratic than the choice of one’s own gender, now able to be changed on demand?
Arguing for the depathologization of transgenderism, Gherovici aims to revise current notions of human sexuality in general, challenging psychoanalytic theory and practice with questions typically addressed only indirectly.
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Sabert Basescu: Selected Papers on Human Nature and Psychoanalysis
An influential part of the New York psychoanalytic scene for more than 50 years, Sabert “Sabe” Basescu is regarded as an outstanding analyst and a significant proponent of the integration of existentialism and phenomenology into psychoanalytic theory and practice.
George Goldstein and Helen Golden compile seven of Sabe’s best papers here, each with introductions from contemporary analysts who place his work in the context of their own, as well as current and future psychoanalytic theory and practice.
The relevance of Basescu’s work – and especially his humanity – is made readily apparent.
Invasive Objects: Minds Under Siege
Vivid clinical illustrations permeate this collection of papers by Paul Williams, who shares his lifetime of experience working with severely disturbed individuals.
As the title suggests, the unifying thread of these papers is the investigation of serious mental disturbance, often characterized by the presence of intrusive and invasive thoughts and fantasies that originate in a traumatic past but which can colonize and destroy the rational mind.
Whether engaging in the coconstructed therapeutic relationship or the implications for “madness in society” at large, Williams’ diverse influences – psychoanalytic and otherwise – repeatedly come to the fore in an intellectually stimulating and clinically enriching way.
Trauma and Human Existence
Trauma and Human Existence effectively interweaves two themes central to emotional trauma - the first pertains to the contextuality of emotional life in general, and of the experience of emotional trauma in particular, and the second pertains to the recognition that the possibility of emotional trauma is built into the basic constitution of human existence.
Robert D. Stolorow's book has been reviewed in the Huffington Post, in a thoughtful, autobiographical article by Helen Davey.
There is also a letter posted on the Huffington Post 'Living' Page from a military psychiatrist, thanking Dr Stolorow for how helpful his book has been in helping him treat PTSD in Iraq.
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Melanie Klein in Berlin: Her First Psychoanalyses of Children
In this book Claudia Frank discusses how Melanie Klein began to develop her psychoanalysis of children.
It offers a detailed comparative analysis of both published and unpublished material from the Melanie Klein Archives.
By using previously unpublished studies, Frank demonstrates how Klein enriched the concept of negative transference and laid the basis for the innovations on both technique and theory that eventually led not only to changes in child analysis, but also to changes in the analysis of adults…
Doubt, Conviction and the Analytic Process: Selected Papers of Michael Feldman
In this profound and subtle study, a practising psychoanalyst explores the dynamics of the interaction between the patient and the analyst.
Michael Feldman draws the reader into experiencing how the clinical interaction unfolds within a session.
In doing so, he develops some of the implications of the important pioneering work of such analysts as Klein, Rosenfeld and Joseph, showing in fine detail some of the ways in which the patient feels driven to communicate to the analyst, not only in order to be understood by him, but also in order to affect him…
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Building Out into the Dark: Theory and Observation in Science and Psychoanalysis
In this book, Robert Caper provides the reader with an introduction to psychoanalysis focusing explicitly on whether psychoanalysis is part of the sciences, and if not, where it belongs.
Many psychoanalysts, beginning with Freud, have considered their discipline a science.
In this book, Caper examines this claim and investigates the relationship of theory to observation in both philosophy and the experimental sciences and explores how these observations differ from those made in psychoanalytic interpretation…
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The Evocative Object World
In The Evocative Object World Christopher Bollas builds on Freud's account of dream formation, combining it with perceptive clinical, theoretical and cultural insights to show how the psychoanalytical method can provide a rich understanding of what has traditionally been regarded as 'the outside world'.
Moving from the fundamentals of the free associative technique, through an examination of how architecture and the built environment interact with individual and societal dream life, Bollas extends the work of psychoanalysis beyond relations with literature and culture to the actual objects which surround us…
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The Consulting Room and Beyond
The Consulting Room and Beyond is not a typical example of clinical writing in the field of psychoanalysis.
Therese Ragen, pushing the boundaries of the genre, thoughtfully explores in a very immediate way the intersubjective nature of psychoanalysis, particularly looking at the role of the psychoanalyst’s subjectivity, both how it influences and is influenced by the psychoanalytic relationship.
The profound ways in which analyst and patient affect each other are captured as the author moves from a moment with a patient, to one of her own memories, to a dream, to a professional consultation and back to the session with the patient.
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