Top 10 Titles
1. Dear Candidate: Analysts from around the World Offer Personal Reflections on Psychoanalytic Training, Education, and the Profession
In this first-of-kind book, senior psychoanalysts from around the world offer personal reflections on their own training, what it was like to become a psychoanalyst, and what they would like most to... (more)
2. What is Normal?: Psychotherapists Explore the Question
Many people strive to be normal, and deviation from accepted norms can feel likefailure. But why do we want to be normal? And what does that mean? Ordinary? Sane? Similar? When probed, the notion of... (more)
3. Living Mindfully Across the Lifespan: An Intergenerational Guide
Living Mindfully Across the Lifespan: An Intergenerational Guide provides user-friendly, empirically supported information about and answers to some of the most frequently encountered questions and... (more)
4. The Truth about Trauma and Dissociation: Everything You Didn't Want to Know and Were Afraid to Ask
This book takes us through the key concepts of trauma and dissociation, showing how to work successfully with people who have experienced all degrees of trauma, from working with complex, childhood... (more)
5. Psychoanalysts in Session: Clinical Glossary of Contemporary Psychoanalysis
Psychoanalysis is an intimate clinical experience and the concepts that it explores aim to grapple with the specific phenomena that unfold when a patient speaks and an analyst listens. This book aims... (more)
6. The Absent Father Effect on Daughters: Father Desire, Father Wounds
The Absent Father Effect on Daughters investigates the impact of absent - physically or emotionally - and inadequate fathers on the lives and psyches of their daughters through the perspective of... (more)
7. Silence and Silencing in Psychoanalysis: Cultural, Clinical, and Research Perspectives
This book is the first comprehensive treatment in recent decades of silence and silencing in psychoanalysis from clinical and research perspectives, as well as in philosophy, theology, linguistics,... (more)
8. Sex, Death, and the Superego: Updating Psychoanalytic Experience and Developments in Neuroscience
This second edition of Ronald Britton's personal reappraisal of psychoanalytic theories is based on further clinical experience, further study of current neuroscience and continued reflection on the... (more)
9. The Curiosity Drive: Our Need for Inquisitive Thinking
After eighteen frustrating months heading a specialist adolescent unit, Philip Stokoe applied for a training in consultation at the Tavistock Clinic based on the ‘Tavi’ aka ‘group relations’ model.... (more)
10. Psychoanalytical Notebooks No. 34: Paradigms of Jouissance
We have compiled a series of three texts selected from Jacques-Alain Miller’s interventions on Lacan’s teaching. This provides reference points to Miller’s trajectory through questions arising from... (more)