Psychoanalysis Arena

First Do No Harm

The Paradoxical Encounters of Psychoanalysis, Warmaking, and Resistance

• Edited by Adrienne Harris, and Steven Botticelli.

Published May 2010

At the outset of World War I - the "Great War" - Freud supported the Austro-Hungarian Empire for which his sons fought. But the cruel truths of that bloody conflict, wrought on the psyches as much as the bodies of the soldiers returning from the battlefield, caused him to rethink his stance and…
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Good Enough Endings

Breaks, Interruptions, and Terminations from Contemporary Relational Perspectives

• Edited by Jill Salberg.

Published March 2010

In the relational literature, the subject of termination - the ending of an analysis - has received scant attention, and traditional Freudian or ego-psychological criteria are not always enough to assess the readiness to terminate therapy in the coconstructed, intersubjective analytic relationship.…
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Relational Approaches in Gestalt Therapy

• Edited by Richard Hycner, and Lynne Jacobs.

Published March 2010

Richard Hycner and Lynne Jacobs assemble an international group of Gestalt theorists and clinicians for an engaging and insightful investigation into the integration of relational approaches within Gestalt therapy. The book is divided thematically into three sections. The first section speculates…
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Invasive Objects

Minds Under Siege

• By Paul Williams.

Published January 2010

The "Director" controls Ms. B’s life. He flatters her, beguiles her, derides her. His instructions pervade each aspect of her life, including her analytic sessions, during which he suggests promiscuous and dangerous things for Ms. B to say and do, when he suspects that her isolated state is being…
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Sabert Basescu

Selected Papers on Human Nature and Psychoanalysis

• Edited by George Goldstein, and Helen Golden.

Published December 2009

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. Existential themes serve as a…
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The Hero in the Mirror

From Fear to Fortitude

• By Sue Grand.

Published November 2009

In times of stress, trauma and crisis—whether on a personal or global scale—it can be all too easy for us to externalize a larger-than-life figure who can assuage our suffering, a Hero who comes to the fore even as we recede into the background. In taking on our collective burden, however, such an…
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The Analyst in the Inner City

Race, Class, and Culture Through a Psychoanalytic Lens

• By Neil Altman.

Published October 2009

In 1995, Neil Altman did what few psychoanalysts did or even dared to do: He brought the theory and practice of psychoanalysis out of the cozy confines of the consulting room and into the realms of the marginalized, to the very individuals whom this theory and practice often overlooked. In doing so…
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Partners in Thought

Working with Unformulated Experience, Dissociation, and Enactment

• By Donnel B. Stern.

Published August 2009

Building on the innovative work of Unformulated Experience, Donnel B. Stern continues his exploration of the creation of meaning in clinical psychoanalysis with Partners in Thought. The chapters in this fascinating book are undergirded by the concept that the meanings which arise from…
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Sex Changes

Transformations in Society and Psychoanalysis

• By Mark Blechner.

Published February 2009

The last half-century has seen enormous changes in society’s attitude toward sexuality. In the 1950s, homosexuals in the United States were routinely arrested; today, homosexual activity between consenting adults is legal in every state, with same-sex marriage legal in Massachusetts and …
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Heterosexual Masculinities

Contemporary Perspectives from Psychoanalytic Gender Theory

• Edited by Bruce Reis, and Robert Grossmark.

Published February 2009

In recent years there have been substantial changes in approaches to how genders are made and what functions genders fulfill. Most of the scholarly focus in this area has been in the areas of feminist, gay, and lesbian studies, and heterosexual masculinity - which tended to be defined by lack and…
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