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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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Culinary Psychology: Food Choices and the Mind–Body Connection
Culinary Psychology sheds light on the profound influence of nutrition and food on mental well-being. It examines the psychology of eating and cooking, with an emphasis on how our minds have an... (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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Dependency and Denial: The Stories That Divide Us
Our connection to one another is our lifeline to the world. Yet, it also makes us vulnerable. To manage this difficult paradox, we turn away from our need for each other and instead seek security in... (more)
The Seminar of Jacques Lacan XV: The Psychoanalytic Act
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Places of Safety: How Attachment Shapes Our Parenting
An updated, contemporary, and integrative perspective on attachment and parenting. Alix Hearn investigates how our capacity to parent is impacted by transgenerational, systemic, and environmental... (more)
Affect, Consciousness and Self: The View from the Bottom of the Mind
This book argues that mental life is organized by and around affect. It proposes a clinical model for understanding how affect influences states of consciousness and self. It illustrates how, from... (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)
Arminda Aberastury’s Theory and Technique of Child Analysis
Arminda Aberastury was a pioneering child analyst and contemporary of Anna Freud and Melanie Klein. She developed and popularised child psychoanalysis in Latin America and remains a profound... (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)
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)
Attics and Basements: The Evocative, Expressive and Embracing Functions of Homes and Other Human Dwellings
Attics and Basements investigates all manner of homes. Its approach is fundamentally psychoanalytic but borrows significantly from anthropology, history, architecture, religion, and general... (more)