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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)
Axioms of Mind and Lived Experience: On Character and the Assumed
Christopher Bollas presents an elusive and puzzling form of unconscious life that has hitherto eluded psychoanalytic theory. “The assumed” identifies select unconscious processes that are a crucial... (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)
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)
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)
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)
Leaders Emerging From Collective Trauma: Journeys of Transgenerational Healing
Leaders Emerging From Collective Trauma: Journeys of Transgenerational Healing examines the impacts of current-day and ancestral collective traumas on leaders and executives to illuminate the human... (more)
Navigating Racial Landscapes: Wholeness and Wounds
In Navigating Racial Landscapes: Wholeness and Wounds, the therapy room becomes a microcosm of the world’s racial tensions, where the work involves both exploring the inner topography of the self and... (more)
Narratives of Attachment, Danger and Survival
Why is it so difficult to leave toxic, hostile, or alienating relationships? Why stay when your physical or mental health is at risk? Attachment theory provides a strong basis for understanding the... (more)
Truth in a Time of Disinformation: Psychoanalytic Insights
Truth in a Time of Disinformation: Psychoanalytic Insights examines how the pursuit of truth – inner and outer, personal and collective – can restore coherence and integrity to a fractured world,... (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)
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)
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)
Entanglements: Weaving Our Futures
Weaving the entangled threads of cultural upheavals and sociopolitical events with personal experience, Entanglements shines a light on soul, power, and unconscious desire. Simon Western offers... (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)
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)
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 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)
Mystery, Hope and Reason: Faith in the Therapy Room
A practical, engaging, and honest look at an area of our lives that is often missed in therapy: the role of faith in psychotherapy for both therapist and client. Kate Graham embarks on a must-read... (more)
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)
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)
Jungian Training and Being Trained: Letting in the Light
A Jungian approach to training emphasises the importance of individuation. Yet, most analytic training takes place in institutions with hierarchical cultures. This edited volume investigates 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)
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)
Psychotechnical Becomings: Psychoanalysis, Identity, Desire, and Mourning in the Age of AI and Digital Mediation
Psychotechnical Becomings draws on contemporary philosophy and media theory to offer a groundbreaking reimagining of psychoanalysis for the digital age, showing how technology shapes human... (more)
Embodied Psychoanalysis: Body, Mind and Relationships
A practical and reflective guide for analysts seeking to deepen their understanding of the interrelation between body, mind, and the intersubjective relationship. Weaving together theory and clinical... (more)
Misogyny in Psychoanalysis
In psychoanalysis, misogyny hides in plain sight, seemingly above and beyond the usual conventions of workplace etiquette or even a vague awareness of sexism. It is commonplace in psychoanalytic... (more)
Diary of a Fallen Psychoanalyst: The Work Books of Masud Khan 1972–1975
A highly controversial and divisive character, Masud Khan’s story is both fascinating and complex. The publication of his private Work Books, which record personal encounters and opinions, present... (more)