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Three Characters: Narcissist, Borderline, Manic Depressive

It is important to point out that these essays are about character types; it is not to suggest that all borderlines, narcissists or manic depressives are the same. Everyone is an individual and are... (more)

Herbert Rosenfeld – Then and Now: The Significance of His Work for Contemporary Psychoanalysis

Edited by Karin Johanna Zienert-Eilts, Wolfgang Hegener

This collection presents new insights into the life and work of Herbert Rosenfeld and his continuing influence on psychoanalytic theory and practice. It includes accounts from both personal and... (more)

The Dread of Falling: Reflections on Primitive Mental States

by Alina Schellekes

The Dread of Falling: Reflections on Primitive Mental States offers a comprehensive and original view of primitive mental states from a psychoanalytic perspective, allowing the reader to understand... (more)

A Psychoanalytic Childhood: A Memoir of Growing up in Mid-Twentieth-Century New York

by Caroline Zilboorg

Writer Caroline Zilboorg tells the fascinating story of growing up in New York City in the 1950s as the daughter of the Russian-American psychoanalyst and medical historian Gregory Zilboorg, a... (more)

Bion in the Consulting Room: An Implicit Method of Clinical Inquiry

by Joseph Aguayo, R.D. Hinshelwood

Bion in the Consulting Room addresses the long unanswered question of Bion’s clinical and supervisorial technique and examines the way Bion’s conceptual model and clinical practices informed his... (more)

Bion: An Introduction

by Nicola Abel-Hirsch

Wilfred R. Bion’s life spanned key events in the twentieth century. Born in India in 1897, he came to boarding school in England aged 8 and at 18 fought in the tanks in World War One. He trained as a... (more)

Specificities of Psychoanalytic Treatment: Birth of a Method

Edited by Yvette Dorey, Serge Frisch

A stimulating account of some of the key challenges found in psychoanalysis through a discussion of the Specificity initiative, a research method that examines how analysts work, associate, and... (more)

Learning and Unlearning through the Clinical Encounter: Becoming a Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist

Edited by Francesca Hume, Helen Barker

This book examines the learning process of becoming a psychoanalytic practitioner and presents training experiences at the Tavistock Clinic through the lens of both teachers and trainees.

The... (more)

Unlit Corners: Dirtiness, Miserliness, Shyness, Outrageousness, Shallowness, Indecisiveness, Restlessness, and Cowardliness

Edited by Salman Akhtar

Unlit Corners endeavours to bring light to neglected character traits which many struggle to overcome. Filled with relevant case studies and carefully crafted psychoanalytic theory, the book... (more)

Inside Lives: Psychoanalysis and the Growth of the Personality

by Margot Waddell

Inside Lives belongs to the heart of the thinking and working of the Tavistock Clinic. Its aim is to bring psychoanalytic theory to life, to make it accessible to a much wider range of readers, both... (more)

Echoes of Childhood: The Foundational Role of Child Analysis in Adult Analytic Work

Edited by Caroline M. Sehon

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)

Psychodynamic and Psychoanalytic Supervision: A Contemporary Introduction

by Christine Driver

In this comprehensive and informative book, Christine Driver provides a systematic overview of the key issues that a supervisor of psychodynamic and psychoanalytic therapy needs to consider and... (more)

Affect, Consciousness and Self: The View from the Bottom of the Mind

by Daniel Hill

This book argues that mental life is organized by and around affect. It proposes a clinical model for understanding how affect influences states of consciousness and self. It illustrates how, from... (more)

The Queerness of Psychoanalysis: From Freud and Lacan to Laplanche and Beyond

Edited by Vanessa Sinclair, Elisabeth Punzi

The Queerness of Psychoanalysis is an exploration of psychoanalysis’ often complicated and fraught history with thinking about queerness, as well as its multifaceted heritage.

Throughout the... (more)

Encountering Silencing: Forms of Oppression in Individuals, Families and Communities

Edited by Michael B. Buchholz, Aleksandar Dimitrijevic

Encountering Silencing is an invitation to closely observe the very practices and processes of silencing used by perpetrators of abuse and totalitarian institutions alike. A carefully selected group... (more)

How to Flourish as a Psychotherapist

by Brett Kahr

How do you develop a truly rich and rewarding career in psychotherapy? How can you find joy in such painful work? How do you develop your skills and capacities in the field? How can you conquer your... (more)

The Shadow of the Object: Psychoanalysis of the Unthought Known: 30th Anniversary Edition

by Christopher Bollas

In The Shadow of the Object, Christopher Bollas integrates aspects of Freud's theory of unconscious thinking with elements from the British Object Relations School. In doing so, he offers radical new... (more)

Life Narcissism Death Narcissism

by Andre Green

This title illustrates the number of forms of narcisssim met with in clinical practice, and draws attention to the duplicity underlying its structure. The author also shows that it is necessary to... (more)

Playing and Reality

by Donald W. Winnicott

What are the origins of creativity and how can we develop it - whether within ourselves or in others? Not only does Playing and Reality address these questions, it also tackles many more that... (more)

The Limits of Interpretation: Essays on Bion and Field Theory

by Giuseppe Civitarese

The Limits of Interpretation opens a window onto unexplored dimensions of Wilfred Bion’s thought, presenting essays that illuminate both familiar and lesser-known facets of his work. It guides... (more)

The Somato-Psychic Realm: Analytic Receptivity and Resonance

Edited by David G. Power, Dolan Power

Influenced by the groundbreaking work of Wilfred Bion, The Somato-Psychic Realm: Analytic Receptivity and Resonance sees 10 internationally acclaimed psychoanalysts explore the complex... (more)

Negative Hallucinosis in Wilfred Bion’s Theory of Transformations: On Finding One’s Ghost

by Rodrigo Barahona

In this illuminating volume, Rodrigo Barahona takes up the question of transformations in hallucinosis in Wilfred Bion’s work.

The book discusses how the analyst’s functioning, his receptivity... (more)

Freud and the Changing World: Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Its Troubles

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