Forthcoming Books
Bluebird: The Place of Death and Fear of Dying in My Long, Good Life
This uplifting memoir is a meditation on mortality and the art of living. Exploring death, dying and the impact of life-threatening illness, it raises profound questions that pro30 to ISD and 20 to... (more)
The Psychoanalyst as Revolutionary: And Other Distinguished Characters
What is psychoanalysis? Using intentionally provocative analogies, Alan Karbelnig presents an overarching and easily understandable definition of an oft misunderstood profession. He demonstrates how... (more)
Fragments from an Extraordinary Life: Thriving on Adversity
Profesora Estela Welldon has lived a life anything but ordinary. A life filled from her earliest years with adventure, passion, hard work, despair, success, failure, love, and loss. Her story is... (more)
An Enduring Legacy: Revisiting Ten Forgotten Classics on Psychoanalytic Technique
Ten classic psychoanalytic papers that had a significant influence on current psychoanalytic process are returned to the fore. They represent a diversity of voices and perspectives, ensuring a... (more)
The Active Imagination: Notes from the Seminar Given in 1931
In the fall of 1931, C. G. Jung gave an intensive series of seminars on the use of active imagination in clinical practice. Delivered at the Hotel Sonne in Zurich, these lectures describe a technique... (more)
Knowledge and Its Pretenders: Perspectives on Freud
In this book, David Bell explores Freud's oeuvre starting with some of the earliest papers. He situates this work within the context of culture and the history of ideas. Covering such key topics as... (more)
The Climate Crisis and Beyond in the Consulting Room
As patients' anxieties about the precarious state of the environment grow more prevalent, the traditional psychoanalytic split between internal and external reality becomes unsustainable. The Climate... (more)
Through the Dark Clearly: The Art of Seeing What Others Miss
Manfred Kets de Vries invites us to pause, to think, to laugh, and to recalibrate. His reflections are shaped by decades of work as a psychoanalyst, professor, leadership scholar, executive coach,... (more)
Our Eternal Home: Bion’s Idea of the Self
In this fascinating volume, Meg Harris Williams explores Wilfred Bion’s autobiographical works, analysing their theoretical importance and continued relevance to the personal experience of others.... (more)
Perversions: A Contemporary Introduction
Perversions: A Contemporary Introduction offers a comprehensive exploration of psychoanalytic theories of perversion, tracing their evolution from Freud through contemporary practice with particular... (more)
Couple and Family Psychoanalysis: Volume 16 Number 2
Couple and Family Psychoanalysis is an international journal sponsored by Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology, which aims to promote the theory and practice of working with couple and family... (more)
Forensic Psychotherapy: Volume 8 Number 1
The International Journal of Forensic Psychotherapy (IJFP) is published in conjunction with the International Association for Forensic Psychotherapy and its avowed aim is to “Re-humanise the... (more)
Knowledge and Its Pretenders: Perspectives on Klein
In this book, David Bell examines Melanie Klein's central contributions and their later evolution, contextualising them within a broader cultural and intellectual framework.
Klein, building on... (more)
Integrative Systemic Therapy for Families with Children and Adolescents: A Clinician's Handbook
This book provides an in-depth introduction to the theory and application of Integrative Systemic Therapy (IST) when working with children and their families, allowing clinicians to enhance their... (more)
Launching into Young Adulthood: Evidence-Based Tools and Psychological Skills to Help Teens Succeed
The transition from adolescence to adulthood can be challenging. This easy-to-read guide on “how to succeed” as a young adult provides hands-on tools for building emotional awareness and... (more)
Integrating Therapy and Coaching: Expanding the Compass of Practice
There are very few texts that fully attend to therapy and coaching integration, even though it is an area of growing interest and urgency. This volume provides a framework for a new model of... (more)
Writings for a Liberation Psychoanalysis: Politicizing the Unconscious from the Core of a Crumbling Empire
In Writings for a Liberation Psychoanalysis, Robert K. Beshara establishes a groundbreaking framework that links the Freudo-Lacanian tradition directly to transmodernity and decoloniality.... (more)
Becoming a Self-Differentiated Leader: Harnessing the Power of Loyalty and Motivation in the Workplace and in Life
Becoming a Self-Differentiated Leader offers a transformative framework to understand why ruptures in communication happen and equips readers with the tools to overcome them.
Authentic... (more)
Key Topics in Positive Psychology
Key Topics in Positive Psychology provides an insightful guide to this burgeoning, rebellious discipline. Exploring the science of the good life through theoretical foundations, empirical evidence,... (more)
In Quest of the Mythical Mate: A Developmental Approach To Diagnosis And Treatment In Couples Therapy
Written by pioneers in the field of couples therapy, the classic edition of In Quest of the Mythical Mate presents Dr. Ellyn Bader and Dr. Peter Pearson's methodology for analyzing how couples'... (more)
Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Couples, Families, and Social Change: Contemporary Clinical Approaches to Relational Life
Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Couples, Families, and Social Change explores the complex interplay between individual psychodynamics, couple and family relationships, and societal changes from a... (more)
The Unconscious and the Family: The Psychoanalysis of Links and Transpersonal Pathologies
The Unconscious and the Family is an exploration of the complex unconscious dynamics that shape family and couple links. Drawing on extensive clinical experience, Anna Maria Nicolò offers profound... (more)
Gender Affirming Psychotherapy: Core Practices to Help Young People Thrive
Packed with practical tools, this book equips therapists and counselors to offer life-saving, affirming care to transgender and gender-expansive youth in today's constantly changing sociopolitical... (more)
DBT Skills for Adolescents Workbook, Second Edition: Handouts for Teens, Caregivers, and Families
In a convenient large-size format, DBT Skills for Adolescents Workbook, Second Edition, provides more than 100 reproducible DBT skills training handouts for teens and caregivers. All of the materials... (more)
A Trauma-Informed Approach to Childhood Maltreatment: Foundational Theory, Treatment, and Prevention of Complex PTSD and Moral Injury
Presenting case studies from across the lifespan, this book provides a comprehensive analysis of the causes and complications of complex trauma, as well as a framework for trauma-informed care.... (more)
Evaluating and Treating Families: A Guide to the Problem-Centered Systems Therapy of the Family
The second edition of Evaluating and Treating Families illustrates the McMaster model and Problem-Centered Systems Therapy of the Family (PCSTF) model, and reveals how clinicians can use these... (more)
The Journey of the Alienated Child: Healing the Hidden Trauma of Divorce and Separation
When a child rejects a parent after family separation, the experience can feel sudden, bewildering and absolute. This book offers a compassionate yet clinically grounded guide to understanding what... (more)
Working with Domestic Violence and Coercive Control in Clinical Practice: A Practical Guide for Psychologists
Presently, there is difficulty in finding information on how to work in the context of domestic violence and abuse in clinical practice within psychology, despite domestic violence being a... (more)
The Intergenerational Transmission of Trauma: Melancholia, Mothering and Motherhood
Prophecy Coles describes the psychic impact of intergenerational trauma, with reference to clinical cases, literature and social issues.
The book considers how trauma is transmitted across... (more)
Eric Miller, Social Scientist and Organisational Consultant: His Life and Work
This book explores the role of Eric Miller in establishing and developing the practice and application of the systems psychodynamics paradigm to organisational development consultancy, research and... (more)