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. Entanglements: Weaving Our Futures
Weaving the entangled threads of cultural upheavals and sociopolitical events with personal experience, Entanglements shines a light on soul, power, and unconscious desire. Simon Western offers... (more)
3. Can We Play Now? The Meaning of Play Throughout Lifetime Development
This book is a roadmap to understanding why children, young people, and adults play the way they play and why it really matters. Scant literature exists about the meaning of play and less still on... (more)
4. 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)
5. Navigating Racial Landscapes: Wholeness and Wounds
In Navigating Racial Landscapes: Wholeness and Wounds, the therapy room becomes a microcosm of the world’s racial tensions, where the work involves both exploring the inner topography of the self and... (more)
6. 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)
7. Slouching Towards Bethlehem: ...and Further Psychoanalytic Explorations
In 1982, Nina Coltart gave a paper to the English-Speaking Conference of Psychoanalysts called “Slouching towards Bethlehem … or Thinking the Unthinkable in Psychoanalysis”, which created a stir and... (more)
8. The Baby and the Bathwater
Nina Coltart’s final book is an inspiring collection of classic papers that embody the practice of English psychoanalysis in the independent tradition. Containing wisdom to be enjoyed and reflected... (more)
9. Group Dynamics in Therapy and Supervision: Reaching the Unconscious
This valuable book presents the theory and practice of group psychotherapy and shows what can be achieved with psychoanalytic group psychotherapy and group work supervision, and why it is such an... (more)
10. Self-Agency in Psychotherapy: Attachment, Autonomy, and Intimacy
A discussion of the self, both in and out of therapy.
For each of us, our thoughts, beliefs, desires, expectations, and fantasies constitute our own sense of a unique identity. Here, Jungian and... (more)