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Errant Selves: A Casebook of Misbehavior by Arnold I. Goldberg
Booksplease Price: €71.50A major addition to the psychoanalytic casebook literature, Errant Selves: A Casebook of Misbehavior is a collection of case studies dedicated to the psychoanalytic understanding and treatment of... -
Funny Peculiar: Gershon Legman and the Psychopathology of Humor by Mikita Brottman
RRP: €45.21Booksplease Price: €43.17Why are jokes funny? Why do we laugh? In Funny Peculiar, Mikita Brottman demurs from recent scholarship that takes laughter-- and the broader domain of humor and the comical--as a liberating social... -
Analysts in the Trenches: Streets, Schools, War Zones Bruce Sklarew (in private practice, Maryland, USA) 9780881633450
RRP: €59.49Booksplease Price: €55.32The horrific events of 9/11 and its sequelae have reinforced what thoughtful analysts have long known: that they have a responsibilty to respond to the complex social and emotional issues arising in... -
Shame in Context Susan Miller 9780881632095
Booksplease Price: €71.50In this enlightening and gracefully written study, Susan Miller examines shame in a variety of clinical contexts en route to a richer understanding of shame dynamics. Miller attends especially to the... -
Relationality: From Attachment to Intersubjectivity Stephen A. Mitchell 9780881634174
RRP: €53.54Booksplease Price: €50.27In his final contribution to the psychoanalytic literature published two months before his untimely death on December 21, 2000, the late Stephen A. Mitchell provided a brilliant synthesis of the... -
The Designed Self: Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Identities Carlo Strenger (Carlo Strenger, University of Tel Aviv, USA) 9780881634198
Booksplease Price: €71.50What can contemporary psychoanalysis bring to the understanding of Generation X, a cohort for whom the trivialization of a dizzying array of possible experiences teamed with the pressure to lead... -
The Clinical Exchange: Techniques Derived from Self and Motivational Systems Joseph D. Lichtenberg (Private practice, Bethesda, Maryland, USA) 9780881633634
RRP: €49.97Booksplease Price: €45.66In this practical sequel to the same authors' Self and Motivational Systems (TAP, 1992), Lichtenberg, Lachmann, and Fosshage offer ten principles of technique to guide the clinical exchange. These... -
Having A Life: Self Pathology after Lacan by Lewis A. Kirshner
RRP: €46.40Booksplease Price: €44.20What is it about "having a life"- which is to say, about having a sense of separate existence as a subject or self - that is usually taken for granted but is so fragilely maintained in certain... -
Adolescent Identities: A Collection of Readings by Deborah L. Browning
Booksplease Price: €108.27Adolescent Identities draws the reader into the inner world of the adolescent to examine the process of identity formation through the various lenses of history, anthropology, sociology, psychology,... -
Conceptual Issues in Psychoanalysis: Essays in History and Method by John E. Gedo
Booksplease Price: €71.85In Conceptual Issues in Psychoanalysis, John Gedo's mastery of Freudian theory and broad historical consciousness subserve a new goal: an understanding of "dissidence" in psychoanalysis. Gedo... -
The Analyst's Preconscious Victoria Hamilton 9780881632217
Booksplease Price: €88.05How do the analyst's consciously held theoretical commitments intersect with the actual conduct of analysis? Do commitments to notions like "psychic truth" or "analytic neutrality" affect... -
Heterosexual Masculinities: Contemporary Perspectives from Psychoanalytic Gender Theory Bruce Reis 9780881635027
RRP: €53.54Booksplease Price: €50.27In recent years there have been substantial changes in approaches to how genders are made and what functions genders fulfill. Most of the scholarly focus in this area has been in the areas of... -
Psychoanalysis and Motivation by Joseph D. Lichtenberg
RRP: €88.05Booksplease Price: €80.97Carrying forward his inquiry into the nature and conditions of normal and abnormal development, Lichtenberg focuses on motivation. His goal is to offer an alternative to psychoanalytic drive theory... -
Kohut's Freudian Vision Philip F. D. Rubovits-Seitz 9780881632842
RRP: €94.00Booksplease Price: €87.69Heinz Kohut was arguably the most influential modern day psychoanalyst. Because current interest in Kohut's work has focused so completely on self psychology, however, certain aspects of Kohut's... -
Self Creation: Psychoanalytic Therapy and the Art of the Possible Frank Summers (Northwestern University, USA) 9780881633962
RRP: €65.44Booksplease Price: €61.39"Insight" and "Change." The problematic relationship between these two concepts, to which the reality of psychoanalytic patients who fully understand maladaptive patterns without being able to change... -
Saying Goodbye: A Casebook of Termination in Child and Adolescent Analysis and Therapy by Anita G. Schmukler
RRP: €113.04Booksplease Price: €108.27Termination of psychoanalysis or psychotherapy is centrally important both to the process of treatment and to the patient's experience of treatment. It is surprising, then, that there has heretofore... -
Nocturnes: On Listening to Dreams Paul Lippmann 9780881633863
RRP: €61.87Booksplease Price: €58.36Nocturnes, literally music for the night, is a delightfully impressionistic investigation into everything that is not known, and perhaps can never be known, about dreams. Rather than espousing yet... -
Transformations: Countertransference During the Psychoanalytic Treatment of Incest, Real and Imagined by Elaine V. Siegel
RRP: €103.52Booksplease Price: €20.98In recent years, memories and reconstructions of incestuous child abuse have become common features of psychoanalytic treatment. Among some clinicians, such abuse is suspected even when there is... -
The Reproduction of Evil: A Clinical and Cultural Perspective Sue Grand (New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, USA) 9780881633856
RRP: €57.11Booksplease Price: €53.30Why is it that victims of abuse so often become perpetrators, and what can psychoanalysis offer to these survivor-perpetrators, whose criminal conduct seems to transcend the possibilities of empathic... -
Transference: Shibboleth or Albatross? by Joseph Schachter
Booksplease Price: €71.23The theory of transference and the centrality of transference interpretation have been hallmarks of psychoanalysis since its inception. But the time has come to subject traditional theory and... -
Hidden Questions, Clinical Musings by M. Robert Gardner
Booksplease Price: €107.91In Hidden Questions, Clinical Musings, M. Robert Gardner chronicles an odyssey of self-discovery that has taken him beneath and beyond the categoies and conventions of traditional psychoanalysis. His... -
Disgust: The Gatekeeper Emotion by Susan B. Miller
RRP: €63.06Booksplease Price: €56.33Susan Miller, author of two foundational works on shame (The Shame Experience [TAP, 1985/1993pbk]; Shame in Context [TAP, 1996]), now turns to disgust, an intriguing emotion that has received little... -
Building Bridges: The Negotiation of Paradox in Psychoanalysis Stuart A. Pizer 9780881631708
RRP: €69.01Booksplease Price: €61.98In Building Bridges, Stuart A. Pizer gives much-needed recognition to the central role of negotiation in the analytic relationship and in the therapeutic process. Building on a Winnicottian... -
Contemporary Psychoanalytic Foundations: Postmodernism, Complexity, and Neuroscience by Mark Leffert 9780881634976
RRP: €34.50Booksplease Price: €34.08Past scholars have tried to classify psychoanalysis as an intrinsically positivist science, with varying degrees of success. Their critics have fared little better with narrow applications of... -
Psychoanalytic Therapy as Health Care: Effectiveness and Economics in the 21st Century by Harriette Kaley
RRP: €78.53Booksplease Price: €69.84In Psychoanalytic Therapy as Health Care, a timely and trenchant consideration of the clash of values between managed care and psychoanalysis, contributors elaborate a thoughtful defense of the... -
A Primer of Supportive Psychotherapy by Henry Pinsker
RRP: €61.87Booksplease Price: €58.36For many patients, supportive therapy is the treatment of choice, and for many others, the use of medications or of more expressive techniques optimally occurs in the context of a supportive... -
Understanding Countertransference: From Projective Identification to Empathy Michael J. Tansey 9780881632279
RRP: €57.11Booksplease Price: €53.30Seeking to mediate between the "classical" view of countertransference as a neurotic impediment to the treatment process and the more recent "totalist" perspective, which assumes that the therapist's... -
Frozen Dreams: Psychodynamic Dimensions of Infertility and Assisted Reproduction Allison Rosen 9780881634402
RRP: €65.44Booksplease Price: €61.39Wedding up-to-date scientific information to an understanding of the emotional burdens and ethical dilemmas that inhere in reproductive medicine, Frozen Dreams: Psychodynamic Dimensions of... -
Substance Abuse as Symptom: A Psychoanalytic Critique of Treatment Approaches and the Cultural Beliefs That Sustain Them Louis S. Berger 9780881631029
Booksplease Price: €88.05What can psychoanalysis contribute to an understanding of the etiology, treatment, and prevention of substance abuse? Here, Louis Berger contests both the orthodox view of substance abuse as a... -
Symptom-Focused Dynamic Psychotherapy by Mary E. Connors
Booksplease Price: €112.07Traditionally, psychoanalytically oriented clinicians have eschewed a direct focus on symptoms, viewing it as superficial turning away from underlying psychopathology. But this assumption is an... -
The Dream Frontier by Mark J. Blechner 9780881632248
Booksplease Price: €108.27The Dream Frontier is that rare book that makes available the cumulative wisdom of a century's worth of clinical examination of dreams and then reconfigured that wisdom on the basis of research in... -
Interpretation and Interaction: Psychoanalysis or Psychotherapy? by Jerome D. Oremland 9780881631272
RRP: €109.47Booksplease Price: €107.91In recent decades the relationship between psychoanalysis and psychotherapy has been a focal point for debate about the distinctiveness of analysis as a particular kind of therapeutic enterprise. In... -
Seduction, Surrender, and Transformation: Emotional Engagement in the Analytic Process Karen J. Maroda 9780881633979
RRP: €47.59Booksplease Price: €45.21Seduction, Surrender, and Transformation demonstrates how interpersonal psychoanalysis obliges analysts to engage their patients with genuine emotional responsiveness, so that not only the patient... -
Who Is the Dreamer, Who Dreams the Dream?: A Study of Psychic Presences James S. Grotstein 9780881633054
Booksplease Price: €108.27In Who Is the Dreamer Who Dreams the Dream? A Study of Psychic Presences, James Grotstein integrates some of his most important work of recent years in addressing fundamental questions of human... -
The Mark of Cain: Psychoanalytic Insight and the Psychopath J. Reid Meloy (University of California at San Diego) 9780881633108
Booksplease Price: €108.27The Mark of Cain makes available for the first time the accumulated psychoanalytic understanding of the psychopathic mind. Editor Reid Meloy, a leading authority on the psychology of the psychopath,... -
Is There Life Without Mother?: Psychoanalysis, Biography, Creativity by Leonard Shengold 9780881633368
Booksplease Price: €78.79In this richly textured study of personal growth and creativity hemmed in by childhood disaster, Shengold compares the differing gifts and differing solutions of extraordinary talents as they seek to... -
Lesbian Lives: Psychoanalytic Narratives Old and New by Maggie Magee
RRP: €47.59Booksplease Price: €43.53In this groundbreaking re-visioning of lesbianism, Magee and Miller transcend a literature that, for decades, has focused on the timeworn and misconceived task of formulating a lesbian-specific... -
Craft and Spirit: A Guide to the Exploratory Psychotherapies Joseph D. Lichtenberg (Private practice, Bethesda, Maryland, USA) 9780881634334
Booksplease Price: €71.50In Craft and Spirit, Joseph Lichtenberg writes of the craft of exploratory psychotherapy, by which he means the creative skill - even artistry - that mobilizes the spirit of inquiry in therapist and... -
The Misuse of Persons: Analysing Pathological Dependency Stanley J. Coen 9780881634570
RRP: €59.49Booksplease Price: €55.32In this major contribution to contemporary psychoanalysis, Stanley Coen illuminates a heretofore undescribed character structure especially resistant to analytic process. Pathologically dependent... -
A Spirit of Inquiry: Communication in Psychoanalysis by Joseph D. Lichtenberg 9780881633641
RRP: €59.49Booksplease Price: €55.32Thoroughly grounded in contemporary developmental research, A Spirit of Inquiry: Communication in Psychoanalysis explores the ecological niche of the infant-caregiver dyad and examines the...