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Sitting on a Suitcase: Psychoanalytic Stories
A powerful, multifaceted collection of accounts of what it means to be Jewish; to live under the shadow of anti-Semitism and unspoken threat of emigration. This diverse, minority community is marked... (more)
Bion’s Vertices: On Truth and Lies
A stellar international line-up of Bionian scholars examine the notions of truth and lies from a variety of perspectives. They explore the importance of truth and lies within an individual’s... (more)
Night Vision: Wilfred Bion's Epistemological Poetics and the Experience of the First World War
The first comprehensive study of Wilfred Bion’s autobiographical and literary writings: an in-depth analysis of how, throughout his life, Bion sought a narrative form for his traumatic experiences as... (more)
How Do We Even Talk about Palestine and Israel?: One Group’s Experience in Unspoken Territory
The world changed on 7 October 2023 when Hamas and other armed groups made incursions into Israeli territory from the Gaza Strip, resulting in the deaths of more than 1200 people and the taking of... (more)
The New Other: Alien Intelligence and the Innovation Drive
A clinical exploration of artificial intelligence (AI) that Amy Levy renames “alien intelligence”, a phrase coined by Yuval Noah Harari to demonstrate that this creation is a not an artifact, but a... (more)
Contemporary Psychoanalytic Practice
André Green revisits the very foundations of the analytic method. He traces a new map of the psychoanalytic field and proposes a contemporary clinical approach informed by the analytic framework,... (more)
The Physics of the Mind: New Perspectives for Psychotherapists, Healers and Seekers
Physics explores the nature of reality at the most fundamental level. Quantum physics and relativity have changed our understanding of the world and have profound implications for how we conceive the... (more)
Identity and the Foundational Myth: Psychoanalytic Insights into Gender Distress
There are increasing numbers of young adults presenting with symptoms of gender distress. Marcus Evans suggests that this focus on gender funnels feelings of distress into a narrow domain of mental... (more)
Body as Shadow: Jung’s Method of Embodied Healing
Body as Shadow brings forth in depth the missing piece in Jungian literature concerning Jung’s personal and professional relationship to the embodied soul and the central role it plays in his theory... (more)
Sexual Diversity: Being Human through Understanding and Acceptance
This book is a deep dive into sexual and erotic diversity. It includes the vast range of sexual and erotic orientations to help us challenge our preconceived ideas about sexuality and eroticism. It... (more)
What Alive Means: Psychoanalytic Explorations
Internationally acclaimed for the clarity of his writing and thinking, Ogden radically reconceives psychoanalysis as a therapeutic process in which a person comes not only to better know him- or... (more)
Linking Objects and Linking Phenomena: A Study of the Forms, Symptoms, Metapsychology, and Therapy of Complicated Mourning
This reissue of a classic work that revolutionized the understanding and treatment of pathological mourning contains a new preface, Foreword from Harold F. Searles, and fascinating, detailed reports... (more)
The Analyst’s Torment: Unbearable Mental States in Countertransference
Dhwani Shah moves the focus from using psychoanalytic theory and technique to explore the patient’s mind from a safe distance. Instead, he concentrates on the analyst’s feelings, subjective... (more)
Bringing Your Heart to Work: A Seven-Step Journey to Mental Health and Wellbeing
A life-affirming guide to help you reconnect with your purpose, learn to work in alignment with your values, and choose a healthier approach to success. Written by global mental health specialist... (more)
Echoes of Childhood: The Foundational Role of Child Analysis in Adult Analytic Work
Echoes of Childhood reveals how the wisdom of child analysis revitalizes work with adults. It gathers an international group of distinguished psychoanalysts who demonstrate the relevance of... (more)
Can We Play Now? The Meaning of Play Throughout Lifetime Development
This book is a roadmap to understanding why children, young people, and adults play the way they play and why it really matters. Scant literature exists about the meaning of play and less still on... (more)
Alienation, Conscious and Unconscious: Reflections on Psychoanalysis and Sociopolitical Issues
Too little is ever thought about the unconscious dimension of the mind when considering political and ideological issues and crises. To redress this lacuna, R. D. Hinshelwood presents eleven of his... (more)
Integrating Shadow: Authentic Being in the World
An in-depth exploration of Jung’s notion of shadow from world-leading expert Ann Casement. It divides the shadow into three parts, personal, collective, and archetypal, using analytical psychology,... (more)
On Resisting Women
Through a psychoanalytic lens, Michaela Chamberlain examines how individuals become misogynists. She shows how unrecognised misogyny infiltrates everyday life, in both public and private, shaping how... (more)
The Mind Movement: Integrating Body, Breath and Movement in Therapy
Lorna Evans illuminates the process of working with the body, breath, and movement in therapy. Her work bridges psychoanalytic theory with practical tools for clinicians; equips practitioners with... (more)
A Guilty Victim: Recovering Creativity after Trauma and Abuse
A Guilty Victim tells the true story of one man’s recovery from childhood trauma, grooming, and sexual abuse at a Catholic boarding school. This contemporary account of psychotherapy with an adult... (more)
Raising Confident Teenagers: The Take 3 Approach to Parenting Calmly in a Stressful World
An easily accessible and invaluable resource for parents of teenagers who want to improve the parent–teen relationship, and for professionals working with young people and their families. Packed with... (more)
The Seminar of Jacques Lacan IX: Identification
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Mapping the Landscape: Explorations in Psychoanalysis
Mapping the Landscape: Explorations in Psychoanalysis offers an overview and exploration of Priscilla Roth’s unique contribution to psychoanalysis over the course of her long and distinguished... (more)
Dark Side of the Womb: Pregnancy, Parenting and Persecutory Anxieties
Contents:
Chapter 1: MATERNAL ORIENTATIONS - Mothers' Approaches to Pregnancy, Birth and Parenting
Chapter 2: FAMILY CLIMATES - Interaction Between Fathers, Mothers, Babies and Siblings
Chapter... (more)
Winnicott’s Letter to Bion: Playing, Dreaming, and Beyond
Winnicott’s Letter to Bion presents reflections on a fascinating moment in the history of psychoanalytic thinking.
Donald Winnicott’s letter, sent on October 5, 1967, and conveying thoughts... (more)
The Hardest Passage: A Psychoanalyst Accompanies Her Patient’s Journey into Dementia
A fascinating narrative of a psychoanalyst’s experience of working with a patient with dementia. It is interspersed with current theory from the literature on attachment, object relations, and... (more)
The Seminar of Jacques Lacan XV: The Psychoanalytic Act
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Life and Hope Out of Darkness: Creative Interventions for Helping People in Violent Communities
With real-life examples, this book contains tools for providing effective support for people facing ongoing trauma due to living in a community with high levels of violent crime. It provides hope in... (more)
An Introduction to Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
This book presents and illustrates the theory and technique of working with young people, their parents, and their families. Wide-ranging in focus from individuals to communities, it gives a... (more)