Forthcoming Books
Mental Axioms 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 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)
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)
AI Intimacy and Psychoanalysis
A hybrid work of theory, poetic reflection and experimental memoir, AI Intimacy and Psychoanalysis explores the ever-evolving relationship between humans and generative AI through the lens of... (more)
Learning Beyond Reason: Psychodynamic Case Studies in Education
Five case studies explore varied challenges for young people and those working with them. Each one sets out the challenge, an analysis from a psychodynamic perspective, and the intervention.... (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)
Narcissism in Personality, Pathology and Psychotherapy
This timely volume questions our understanding of the highly current concept and phenomenon of narcissism, working from a broad psychotherapeutic perspective.
Making a strong case for revising... (more)
Into TA: A Comprehensive Textbook on Transactional Analysis
Into TA brings both beginners and more experienced readers towards a deeper understanding of transactional analysis (TA) in theory and practice.
This book presents the basic models of TA in a... (more)
Queer and Muslim: On Faith, Family, and Healing
What does it mean to be queer and Muslim in a world that insists you cannot be both?
Queer and Muslim is a powerful collection by and for LGBTQ+ Muslims navigating layered identities across... (more)
Psychoanalytic Perspectives on the Israel-Gaza Conflict
This book creates a vital space for psychoanalytic thought on the Israel-Palestine conflict, one of the most polarizing and emotionally charged geopolitical struggles of our time. In the wake of the... (more)
Single-Session Coaching: Distinctive Features
In this revised edition of Single-Session Coaching: Distinctive Features, Windy Dryden presents a clear and accessible overview of the theory and practice of Single-Session Coaching... (more)
Professional Development for Coaching Practitioners: An Interdisciplinary Approach
This book, featuring a cast of leading coaching practitioners, presents a guide for supporting the development of coaches and coaching psychologists.
Exploring the theory and application of... (more)
Mentalizing and Group Analysis
Mentalizing and Group Analysis presents a synthesis of group analysis and Mentalization-Based Group Therapy (MBT-G).
Sigmund Karterud brings together writing from the course of a career in group... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in China: Volume 8 Number 1 & 2
This peer-reviewed journal proposes to explore the introduction of psychoanalysis, psychoanalytic therapy, and the wider application of psychoanalytic ideas into China. It aims to have articles... (more)
Clinical Work With Men: Understanding Masculinity in Psychotherapy
Why do so many men avoid therapy—or never return after the first session? And how can clinicians better connect with them?
In Clinical Work With Men, psychologist Andrew P. Smiler offers a... (more)
Mentalization-Based Treatment for Children: A Time-Limited Approach, Second Edition
Mentalization—the ability to make sense of one’s own mind and the minds of others—is fundamental to developing emotional resilience, self-regulation, and successful relationships. Now in its second... (more)
Pathways to Wholeness: Archetypal Astrology and the Transpersonal Journey
The exploration of the psyche in non-ordinary states of consciousness provides access to powerful transformative experiences that can lead us towards a more complete experience of being human (the... (more)
Cannabis and Cancer: The Thinking Patient’s Guide
The biggest challenge for cancer patients and caregivers wanting to learn more about using cannabis as a treatment for their cancer is the complete absence of reliable, informed and unbiased... (more)
Earth Divination, Earth Magic: A Practical Guide to Geomancy
Here is a complete guide to the lost art of geomancy - one of the major divination systems that are part of the Western magical tradition.
Geomancy is simple, quick, and direct - anyone can get... (more)
Right of Passage
Set in the heyday of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement and Vietnam War era, Right of Passage explores the social change and conflict involved in that period. The emotional development of Chris, a... (more)
Materia Medica of Western Herbs
Based on the original Materia Medica of Western Herbs by Carole Fisher and Gilian Painter, this volume has been expanded and updated to include botanical, scientific, pharmacy and safety information.... (more)
Touching the Real: Trauma, History, and Psychoanalysis
In this book, Leslie Chapman explores the whole notion of trauma and how it can be conceptualised in terms of the Lacanian Real. In the process, he also looks at how trauma is situated within... (more)
Knitting a Clinic: Between the Child and the Other
Knitting a Clinic: Between the Child and the Other results from the primordial signifiers that cut through this text, signifiers such as structure, subject, lack, child, Other, object petit a and... (more)
Trauma and Narcissism in the Novels of Kazuo Ishiguro: Inner Worlds of Borderline Survival
Kazuo Ishiguro’s international best sellers explore trauma, including failures of dependency, and the universal, life-long struggle between narcissism, a protective psychological defence and... (more)
Vida Interior: Psicanálise e Desenvolvimento da Personalidade
Esta segunda edição de Vida Interior – ampliada, com um capítulo sobre os últimos anos do ciclo vital – aborda a relação entre a teoria psicanalítica e a natureza do desenvolvimento humano. Seguindo... (more)
A Matriz da Mente: Relações Objetais e o Diálogo Psicanalítico
Estamos perante uma visão global da teoria de relações objetais sob uma perspectiva kleiniana, contendo capítulos sobre a fantasia, as posições esquizoparanoide e depressiva, os objeto internos e a... (more)