Top 10 Titles
1. 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)
2. On Being a Therapist
For more than thirty years, On Being a Therapist has inspired generations of mental health professionals (and their clients) to explore the most private, confusing, and sacred aspects of helping... (more)
3. Six Degrees of Separation and Connectedness: Searching for Meaning in Living Society and Culture
How far do we have to go to find our own voice? How is the texture of one’s existential, intellectual, and emotional life woven together? Judit Szekacs-Weisz addresses these and many other questions... (more)
4. Darkness Was My Candle: An Odyssey of Survival and Grace
Born into poverty and violence, Lora's early life was one of extreme vulnerability. She was prostituted for the first time at the age of nine and suffered unspeakable treatment from those who should... (more)
5. Contented Couples: Magic, Logic or Luck?
What is the secret of a long and contented marriage?
In Contented Couples, Anne Power interviews eighteen couples in the USA and the UK to discuss how they found each other and what made it... (more)
6. The Erotic Screen: Desire, Addiction and Perversity in Cinema
The Erotic Screen takes as its starting point that Hollywood movies were steeped in eroticism from the beginning but censorship forced filmmakers to devise hidden sexual subtexts to preserve a film’s... (more)
7. 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)
8. The Claustrum: An Investigation of Claustrophobic Phenomena
Using the Kleinian concept of projective identification, with special reference to intrusive identification with internal objects, this work examines claustrophobic phenomena and its relations to the... (more)
9. Aesthetic Conflict and its Clinical Relevance
Donald Meltzer coined the term ‘aesthetic conflict’ to describe the emotional complexities of the ‘apprehension of beauty’. It had its roots in art, literature, infant observation, and above all, in... (more)
10. Towards an Ecopsychotherapy
Psychotherapy invites us to tell the story of our human relationships; ecopsychotherapy expands this to include our earth story, the context or continuum in which our human relationships sit. ... (more)