Forthcoming Books
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Bion and Psychosis: A Long Road to Clinical Discovery
This comprehensive work systematically describes Wilfred Bion’s work on psychosis and critically develops his contribution in order to arrive at an appropriate and modern understanding of the... (more)
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 provoke the reader to... (more)
The Embodied Art Therapist: Theory and Practice for a New Paradigm
This volume, the first of its kind, brings together current research, protocols, and methods within embodied art therapy, from theoretical, clinical, and practical perspectives, for use by... (more)
Fostering Potential in Children with Special Needs: An Abilities-Oriented Perspective on Early Childhood Motor Development
An innovative contribution to therapeutic practice, Fostering Potential in Children with Special Needs provides a comprehensive introduction to the Jeremy Krauss Approach JKA. Building on the... (more)
Helping Children: Principles of Good Practice in Child Mental Health
Children and young people’s mental health is now recognised as one of society’s most pressing challenges. Rates of distress and disorder have risen sharply while services struggle to keep pace. Long... (more)
Resilient Caregiving for Neurodivergent Children: Practical Strategies for Managing Stress and Finding Joy
Resilient Caregiving for Neurodivergent Children is a supportive, neuroaffirming, and practical guide that helps caregivers protect their own well-being while managing the emotional and day-to-day... (more)
Reinventing Psychoanalysis for the Great Unknown: The Never-Ending Challenge
This book explores extreme experiences in psychoanalysis and examines how to work with and understand such experiences both theoretically and practically.
It invites readers into new,... (more)
Reading Freud’s Beyond the Pleasure Principle: Trauma and Life
Reading Freud’s Beyond the Pleasure Principle presents a new reading of this foundational text, based on the hypothesis that the work was written in two phases.
Herman Westerink explores the... (more)
Neuroaesthetics and Psychoanalysis: Curiosity, Creativity, and Crisis
This book looks at the fundamental question of why we take pleasure in art through a relatively new perspective of neuroaesthetics and explores the close links between cognitive and affective... (more)
Dissociative Retreat and Addiction: Trauma, Dissociation, and Affect Dysregulation
Dissociative Retreat and Addiction presents a new theoretical and clinical model for understanding and treating addiction. Giuseppe Craparo examines how addictive behaviors develop as the result of... (more)
Love, its Meaning and Exploration in Couple Therapy
Love, its Meaning and Exploration in Couple Therapy explores essential questions about love in couple relationships and couple therapy.
The respected international contributors assembled here... (more)
A Critical Companion to Bion: Functions of a Psychoanalytic Personality
A Critical Companion to Bion is an introduction to the extraordinary contributions of W.R. Bion, providing a close and detailed reading of his work, anchored in systematic critical expositions of the... (more)
Demystifying Relationship Therapy: A View from the Therapist's Chair
What happens when two therapists work together in extended sessions with couples in crisis? Demystifying Relationship Therapy: A View from the Therapist's Chair takes readers inside the therapy room... (more)
The Evolution of Hybrid and Remote Working: Transforming Office-based Jobs
This book examines the growth of hybrid and remote working following the pandemic and the diverse issues that result from this.
While hybrid work is undoubtedly the ‘new norm’, for office-based... (more)
Communication as an Art of Living: The Philosophy and Practice of Talking with Each Other
How can we listen better to each other? How can we offer criticism without being hurtful? Why do communication recipes never work? In this book, Friedemann Schulz von Thun and Bernhard Poerksen, two... (more)
Collected Psychoanalytic Works of Sabina Spielrein, Volume 2: Later Works from Lausanne, Geneva and Rostov-on-Don
This is the second of two volumes of totally new English translations of all the known published psychoanalytic works of Sabina Spielrein, an important early proponent of psychoanalysis—and in... (more)
Collected Psychoanalytic Works of Sabina Spielrein, Volume 1: Early Works from Zürich, Vienna and Berlin
This is the first of two volumes of totally new English translations of all the known published psychoanalytic works of Sabina Spielrein, an important early proponent of psychoanalysis—and in... (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)
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)