Priscilla Roth
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.
Imaginary Existences: Dream, Daydream, Phantasy, Fiction
Imaginary Existences interweaves scholarly psychoanalytic knowledge and extensive clinical experience with insights derived from close readings of great literature in a uniquely imaginative and... (more)
On Bearing Unbearable States of Mind
Providing guidance on how the analyst can encourage the patient to communicate the quality of their often intolerably painful states of mind, this text looks at how he/she can interpret these states,... (more)
Encounters with Melanie Klein: Selected Papers of Elizabeth Spillius
In Encounters with Melanie Klein: Selected Papers of Elizabeth Spillius the author argues that her two professions, anthropology and psychoanalysis, have much in common, and explains how her... (more)
Envy and Gratitude Revisited
These stimulating essays are evidence that 50 years after its publication Melanie Klein's Envy and Gratitude is still a rich source of psychoanalytic inspiration. Sixteen highly regarded analysts,... (more)
The Allure of Psychic Retreats: Clinical and Theoretical Inquiries
This book celebrates the eminent contributions by John Steiner to psychoanalytic theory and practice. It contains papers by colleagues and friends concerning one of his most important concepts, the... (more)