Mapping the Landscape: Explorations in Psychoanalysis
Part of New Library of Psychoanalysis series - more in this series
Book Details
- Publisher : Routledge
- Published : September 2025
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 176
- Category :
Forthcoming - Category 2 :
Psychoanalysis - Catalogue No : 98206
- ISBN 13 : 9781032959474
- ISBN 10 : 1032959479
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Also by Tomasz Fortuna
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Mapping the Landscape: Explorations in Psychoanalysis offers an overview and exploration of Priscilla Roth’s unique contribution to psychoanalysis over the course of her long and distinguished career.
This book takes the reader on a journey through psychoanalytic clinical practice and the significance of themes such as: identity, identification, idealisation and reparation. This collection shows a variety of Roth’s interests but also the continuity of her approach - the unconscious thread, which links thoughts and memories together. Through close examination of the moment-to-moment psychoanalytic work, she emphasises how unconscious processes influence both patient and analyst without either of them becoming aware of it. In this sense, each analysis is unique. The second part of the book allows for reflection on lessons drawn from her work, and how psychoanalysis poses the question of what it means to be oneself for the analyst and the patient.
Reflecting her strong compassion for patients and depth of understanding of the nature of psychoanalysis, this is key reading for psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, and anyone interested in the experiences underpinning humanity in each of us.
Reviews and Endorsements
Reading Priscilla Roth’s papers, collected here for the first time, is a remarkable pleasure: lucid, compassionate and deeply humane, she brings the reader into the consulting room where we follow her careful thinking alongside her experience of her patients. These richly attuned, precisely depicted essays bring psychoanalysis to life. Singularly adept at evoking the texture of an analytic hour, Roth conveys complex theoretical principles in language every analyst will appreciate.
Dr. Lynne Zeavin, The New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute, Journal of American Psychoanalytic Association
Mapping the Landscape shows us a skillful clinician and lucid psychoanalytic thinker at work. Priscilla Roth’s essays are important contributions to contemporary Kleinian literature. They are already required reading on various clinical trainings, and, thanks to this book, will deservedly gain a still wider readership. Highly recommended.
Prof. Daniel Pick, Birkbeck, University of London, and British Psychoanalytical Society
This is a fine collection of psychoanalytic papers, which reflect Priscilla Roth’s clinical experience and knowledge, and her deep understanding and sympathy with her patients. The writing is clear and direct, and she has the capacity to make even complex ideas accessible to the reader. This book should be of great interest and value to a wide variety of readers.
Michael Feldman, Distinguished Fellow, British Psychoanalytical Society
This collection of PR papers over a lifetime of practice as a distinguished psychoanalyst is prefaced and introduced by lucid contributions by Tomasz Fortuna and Ignes Sodre. These paper by PR are stimulating, insightful and the evidence of an intelligent mind at work on the human condition. We are given access to the very convincing process of her thinking and finding ways to communicate with her patients that is illuminating for all of us working in this field. We highly recommend this interesting and intelligent book.'
Martha Papadakis and Ron Britton
Table of Contents
Part I - Clinical Papers
1. Mapping the Landscape: Levels of Transference Interpretation
2. Using Projective Identification
3. Being True to a False Object: A View of Identification
4. Absolute Zero" "A Man Who Doubts His Own Love..."
5. "I Used to Think You Were Wonderful": The Persecutory/Idealising Cycle of Melancholia
6. Pity and Disconnection: The Misuse of Metaphor
7. The Unconscious Thread and The Here and Now
Part II - Lectures and Essay
8. The Oedipus Complex Can Never be Fully Dissolved
9. On Becoming Oneself: Nabokov and The-One-who-Isn't-Super-Pig
10. Melanie Klein on Envy
About the Editor(s)
Priscilla Roth is a training and supervising analyst at the British Psychoanalytic Institute, where she was head of the training. Following her degree in psychology, she worked as a research assistant at the University of California at Berkeley. In the early 1970s she moved to the UK and trained first as a child and adolescent analyst at the Tavistock Clinic, London, and shortly thereafter as an adult analyst with the British Psychoanalytical Society. She has lectured at both institutions, and the University College, London. She has taught internationally in Europe and America and had been elected as a Distinguished Fellow by the British Psychoanalytical Society in 2022.
Ignes Sodre was born in Brazil, where she qualified as a clinical psychologist before coming to London in 1969 to train at the British Institute of Psychoanalysis. She is a Fellow and a Training and Supervising Analyst of the British Psychoanalytical Society. She has taught extensively in London and abroad, and was the first visiting professorial Fellow in Psychoanalysis at Birkbeck College. She has published many papers on psychoanalysis and on literature; as well as two books.
Dr Tomasz Fortuna trained as a psychoanalyst at the Institute of Psychoanalysis in London. He is a member of the British Psychoanalytical Society and Hanna Segal Institute for Psychoanalytic Studies. He had worked as a psychiatrist in the NHS for sixteen years and, currently, he works at the Portman Clinic and is in private psychoanalytic practice. At the Portman Clinic he conducts individual forensic psychotherapy as well as group work and assessments. He offers consultations and reflective practice to prison staff.
He is a Visiting Professor at the psychiatry department of the Universiti Putra Malaysia.
He teaches and supervises in the UK and abroad (including Poland, Russia, China, Malaysia, Singapore and South Korea). His professional interests include the relationship between psychoanalysis and the arts, understanding of severe emotional disturbance and criminal behaviour. He is interested in current developments in Bion’s thought and is a member of the Bion in Marrakech seminar.
Dr Fortuna is a Course Lead for the ‘Foundations in psychodynamic approaches to risk and complexity’, a one-year course offered at the Portman Clinic (Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust). In addition, he teaches courses at the Tavistock Clinic and the Institute of Psychoanalysis.
He co-authored a book Melanie Klein: The Basics and was a guest-editor of Empedocles: European Journal for the Philosophy of Communication.
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