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Risking Intimacy and Creative Transformation in Psychoanalysis

In this compelling book, Lauren Levine explores the transformative power of stories and storytelling in psychoanalysis to heal psychic wounds and create shared symbolic meaning and coherence out of... (more)

Psychoanalysis, COVID and Mass Trauma: The Trauma of Reality

by Tihamer Bako, Katalin Zana

In this book, constructed as a psychoanalytic diary, the authors reflect on clinical observations from their work with patients during the COVID-19 pandemic, tracking these singular experiences to... (more)

The Émigré Analysts and American Psychoanalysis: History and Contemporary Relevance

Edited by Adrienne Harris

This book explores the impact of migration, including its causes, upon the key ideas and directions of psychoanalytic theory and practice from the twentieth century until today.

Having... (more)

The Desire and Passion for a Child: Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Reproductive Techniques

by Patricia Alkolombre

In this book, Patricia Alkolombre explores the desire for a child from a contemporary psychoanalytic perspective, and covers the questions raised in the face of new resources offered by reproductive... (more)

The Ethics of Lacanian Psychoanalysis: A Conversation about Living in Joy

by Yehuda Israely, Esther Pelled

The Ethics of Lacanian Psychoanalysis observes different aspects of life – childhood, romantic love, sex, death, and human suffering – through a Lacanian lens, with a glance toward a Buddhist point... (more)

Lacanian Psychoanalysis: A Contemporary Introduction

by Shlomit Yadlin-Gadot, Uri Hadar

Lacanian Psychoanalysis: A Contemporary Introduction sees Shlomit Yadlin-Gadot and Uri Hadar provide an original approach to the elaborate and complex world of Jacques Lacan, one of psychoanalysis’s... (more)

Psychoanalysis and Homosexuality: A Contemporary Introduction

by Leezah Hertzmann, Juliet Newbigin

This important book examines the ways in which same sex desire, or "homosexuality" has been theorised by psychoanalysis during its history to date and the impact of that on clinical... (more)

Psychoanalysis and Toileting: Minding One’s Business

by Paul Marcus

Psychoanalysis and Toileting is an accessible book that delineates and interprets the psychological meanings of defecating and urinating in everyday life.

Paul Marcus’ work gives the clinician... (more)

Spiritually Sensitive Psychoanalysis: A Contemporary Introduction

by Gideon Lev

This book provides an accessible introduction to spiritually sensitive psychoanalysis, an analytic tradition characterized by sensitivity to the spiritual and religious dimensions of human life and... (more)

Couple and Family Psychoanalysis: Volume 13 Number 1 – Special Issue: Private lives in a global storm

Edited by Lorna Robinson, Julie Friend

Couple and Family Psychoanalysis is an international journal sponsored by The Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology, which aims to promote the theory and practice of working with couple and... (more)

A Political Psychoanalysis for the Anthropocene Age: The Fierce Urgency of Now

by Ryan LaMothe

A Political Psychoanalysis for the Anthropocene Age presents an evaluation of the politics of climate change and considers how psychoanalysis can contribute to this discourse.

Presented in two... (more)

Lacanian Psychoanalysis and American Literature: Metaphoric Truth, Imaginary Fiction, Letter Jouissance, and Nomination

by Raul Moncayo

Lacanian Psychoanalysis and American Literature considers the psychoanalytic applications of three classic works of nineteenth century literature, applying Lacanian concepts throughout. Moncayo... (more)

The Routledge International Handbook of Psychoanalysis, Subjectivity, and Technology

Edited by David M. Goodman, Matthew Clemente

The Routledge International Handbook of Psychoanalysis, Subjectivity, and Technology uniquely provides a comprehensive overview of human subjectivity in the technological age and how psychoanalysis... (more)

How to Be Intimate with 15,000,000 Strangers: Musings on Media Psychoanalysis

by Brett Kahr

An investigation into how the fields of mental health and media can work together more collaboratively. Brett Kahr is well-known and was previously Resident Psychotherapist at the B.B.C. Explores... (more)

Testimony and Witnessing in Psychoanalysis: A Literary and Philosophical Perspective

by Zipi Rosenberg Schipper

In this fascinating volume, Zipi Rosenberg Schipper approaches the fundamental topic of testimony, seeking to recognize its value as a distinct and vital function in psychoanalytic work, separate... (more)

Psychoanalysis and Ethics in Documentary Film (2nd Revised Edition)

by Agnieszka Piotrowska

This distinctively interdisciplinary book draws upon psychoanalytic theory to explore how expectations, desires and fears of documentary subjects and filmmakers are engaged, and the ethical issues... (more)