Psychoanalysis Arena

Making a Difference in Patients' Lives

Emotional Experience in the Therapeutic Setting

• By Sandra Buechler.

Published April 2008

Winner of the 2009 Gradiva Award for Outstanding Psychoanalytic Publication! Within the title of her book, Making a Difference in Patients' Lives, Sandra Buechler echoes the hope of all clinicians. But, she counters, experience soon convinces most of us that insight, on its own…
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Jealousy and Envy

New Views about Two Powerful Feelings

• Edited by Léon Wurmser, and Heidrun Jarass.

Published August 2007

Jealousy and envy permeate the practice of psychoanalytic and psychotherapeutic work. New experience and new relevance of old but neglected ideas about these two feeling states and their origins warrant special attention, both as to theory and practice. Their great complexity and multilayered…
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Clinical Values

Emotions That Guide Psychoanalytic Treatment

• By Sandra Buechler.

Published July 2004

In this refreshingly honest and open book, Sandra Buechler looks at therapeutic process issues from the standpoint of the human qualities and human resourcefulness that the therapist brings to each clinical encounter. Her concern is with the clinical values that shape the psychoanalytically…
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Disgust

The Gatekeeper Emotion

• By Susan Miller.

Published May 2004

Susan Miller, author of two foundational works on shame (The Shame Experience [TAP, 1985/1993pbk]; Shame in Context [TAP, 1996]), now turns to disgust, an intriguing emotion that has received little attention in the professional literature. For Miller, the psychological study of disgust…
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Affect in Psychoanalysis

A Clinical Synthesis

• By Charles Spezzano.

Published January 2003

Drawing on the writings of Freud, Fairbairn, Klein, Sullivan, and Winnicott, Spezzano offers a radical redefinition of the analytic process as the intersubjective elaboration and regulation of affect. The plight of analytic patients, he holds, is imprisonment within crude fantasy elaborations of…
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Seduction, Surrender, and Transformation

Emotional Engagement in the Analytic Process

• By Karen J. Maroda.

Published November 2002

Seduction, Surrender, and Transformation demonstrates how interpersonal psychoanalysis obliges analysts to engage their patients with genuine emotional responsiveness, so that not only the patient but the analyst too is open to ongoing transformation through the analytic experience. In so doing,…
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The Widening Scope of Shame

• Edited by Melvin R. Lansky, and Andrew P. Morrison.

Published December 1997

The Widening Scope of Shame is the first collection of papers on shame to appear in a decade and contains contributions from most of the major authors currently writing on this topic. It is not a sourcebook, but a comprehensive introduction to clinical and theoretical perspectives on shame that is…
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Shame

The Underside of Narcissism

• By Andrew P. Morrison.

Published May 1997

Morrison provides a critical history of analytic and psychiatric attempts to make sense of shame, beginning with Freud and culminating in Kohut's understanding of shame in terms of narcissistic phenomena. The clinical section of the book clarifies both the theoretical status and treatment…
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Shame in Context

• By Susan Miller.

Published September 1996

In this enlightening and gracefully written study, Susan Miller examines shame in a variety of clinical contexts en route to a richer understanding of shame dynamics. Miller attends especially to the role of shame in creating and maintaining character pathology and devotes separate sections…
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Affects As Process

An Inquiry into the Centrality of Affect in Psychological Life

• By Joseph M. Jones.

Published May 1995

In this readable meditation on the nature of emotional experience, Joseph Jones takes the reader on a fascinating walking-tour of current research findings bearing on emotional development. Beginning with a nuanced reappraisal of Freud's philosophical premises, he argues that Freud's reliance…
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