Top 10 Titles
1. Embodied Psychoanalysis: Body, Mind and Relationships
A practical and reflective guide for analysts seeking to deepen their understanding of the interrelation between body, mind, and the intersubjective relationship. Weaving together theory and clinical... (more)
2. 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)
3. Ethical Upheaval, Creative Upheaval: The Actual of Ethics in Psychoanalysis and in Life
In a profound new interweaving of the ideas of Levinas and Laplanche, this book rethinks the origin of ethical capacity in human life.
It elaborates on the implications of ethics at the... (more)
4. Psychoanalysis and Religion: A Contemporary Introduction
In this illuminating volume, Tamas Pataki critically examines Freud’s psychoanalytic approach to religion, tracing its intellectual evolution and impact on contemporary theories and... (more)
5. Explorations of Mourning in Psychoanalysis and Literature: Turning Ghosts into Ancestors
This book explores the conflict between holding on to and letting go of loss, paying homage to Freud’s classic ‘Mourning and Melancholia’ and building on its foundation with contemporary... (more)
6. What Alive Means: Psychoanalytic Explorations
Internationally acclaimed for the clarity of his writing and thinking, Ogden radically reconceives psychoanalysis as a therapeutic process in which a person comes not only to better know him- or... (more)
7. Looking and Listening: Work from the São Paulo Mother-Baby Relationship Study Centre with a Supervision Seminar by Esther Bick
A collection of descriptions of infant observation and the applications of the method of observing babies as pioneered by Esther Bick. Includes a chapter with transcripts of Esther Bick at work in... (more)
8. From the Couch to the Circle: Group-Analytic Psychotherapy in Practice
From the Couch to the Circle: Group-Analytic Psychotherapy in Practice is a handbook of group therapy and a guide to the group-analytic model - the prevailing form of group therapy in Europe. It... (more)
9. Beyond Doer and Done to: Recognition Theory, Intersubjectivity and the Third
Beyond Doer and Done to integrates new clinical developments in relational analysis while reformulating crucial themes such as the development of intersubjectivity, the splitting of gender... (more)
10. The Psychosomatic Therapy Casebook: Stories from the Intersection of Mind and Body
Jean Benjamin Stora has worked as a psychoanalyst and psychosomatist for almost five decades. The aim of integrative psychosomatics is to heal the body and mind in relationship to one another rather... (more)