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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The Intimate Room: Theory and Technique of the Analytic Field

The Intimate Room: Theory and Technique of the Analytic Field

The Intimate Room provides an original exploration of psychoanalytic thought, showing how contemporary psychoanalysis seeks to answer the challenges raised by today’s post-modern culture.

Offering a deeply personal and insightful reading of Bion, this book acts as a stimulating guide to the development of the theory of the analytic field and both its technical and clinical implications.

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A Disturbance in the Field

A Disturbance in the Field

The field, as Steven Cooper describes it, is comprised of the inextricably related worlds of internalized object relations and interpersonal interaction.

Furthermore, the analytic dyad is neither static nor smooth sailing. Eventually, the rigorous work of psychoanalysis will offer a fraught opportunity to work through the most disturbing elements of a patient's inner life as expressed and experienced by the analyst - indeed, a disturbance in the field.

How best to proceed when such tricky yet altogether common therapeutic situations arise, and what aspects of transference/countertransference should be explored in the service of continued, productive analysis?

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