Series
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After Brain Injury: Survivor Stories
After Brain Injury: Survivor Stories was launched in 2014 to meet the need for a series of books aimed at those who have suffered a brain injury, their families and carers, and professionals who are involved in neuropsychological rehabilitation. Brain disorders can be life-changing events with far-reaching consequences. However, in the current climate of cuts in funding and service provision for neuropsychological rehabilitation, there is a risk that people whose lives have been transformed by brain injury are left feeling isolated with little support.
The Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families: Best Practice
An innovative new series of books written by clinicians and researchers at the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families on key aspects of meeting the challenges to child and adolescent mental health we currently face. Ranging from clinical practice – with titles focussing on infancy through to adolescence – to research and implementation issues around finding out what works for whom, and how to put what works into practice, each book will provide an authoritative and cutting-edge account of current best practice. Clearly and concisely written, the books in this series will be essential reading for professionals concerned with child mental health - psychologists, mental health workers, counsellors and psychotherapists, as well as teachers, youth workers and anyone interested in the education and care sectors.
Art, Creativity, and Psychoanalysis
Series Editor: George Hagman
The Art, Creativity, and Psychoanalysis book series seeks to highlight original, cutting edge studies of the relationship between psychoanalysis and the world of art and the psychology of artists, with subject matter including the psychobiography of artists, the creative process, the psychology of aesthetic experience, as well as the aesthetic, creative and artistic aspects of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Art, Creativity, and Psychoanalysis promotes a vision of psychoanalysis as a creative art, the clinical effectiveness of which can be enhanced when we better understand and utilize the artistic and creative processes at its core.
The series welcomes proposals from psychoanalytic therapists from all professional groups and theoretical models, as well as artists, art historians and art critics informed by a psychoanalytic perspective.
The Basics
The Basics is a highly successful series of accessible guidebooks which provide an overview of the fundamental principles of a subject area in a jargon-free and undaunting format.
Intended for students approaching a subject for the first time, the books both introduce the essentials of a subject and provide an ideal springboard for further study. With over 50 titles spanning subjects from Artificial Intelligence to Women’s Studies, The Basics are an ideal starting point for students seeking to understand a subject area.
Each text comes with recommendations for further study and gradually introduces the complexities and nuances within a subject.
The Bowlby Centre Monograph Series
A series of books taken from the annual John Bowlby Memorial Conference Lecture, produced in association with the John Bowlby Centre, London.
The Brain Injuries
A series dedicated to psychological therapies, social interventions and psychosocial issues following acquired brain injury, emphasising both theoretical exploration and the 'how-to' of therapeutic work. These titles stand in contrast with previous clinical titles in the brain injury literature that have been assessment-focused and offered little in the way of intervention. Every jobbing clinician and therapist working with survivors of brain injury and their significant others should have this series on their shelves.
Brett Kahr's Top Ten 2022
Professor Brett Kahr certainly knows something about the art of authoring books. Over the decades, he has written or edited sixteen volumes and has served as series editor for more than seventy-five further titles.
Cambridge Guides to the Psychological Therapies
The go-to resource for up-to-date, scientifically rigorous, and practical information on key, evidence-based psychological interventions. This series of clinical handbooks provides clear and concise guides to understanding and delivering therapy, and offers clinicians a handy reference for matching a specific therapy to a particular patient. Each book follows a consistent style, with chapters on theory, technique, indications, and efficacy, so that healthcare professionals can move seamlessly between different volumes to learn about various therapies in a consistent, familiar, and trusted format. The books also provide guidance on relevant adaptations for each therapy, such as for children, adolescents, and older people, as well as different methods of delivery, such as group interventions and digital therapy.
The Cassel Hospital Monograph
A series of monographs intended to present accessible teaching texts concerned with the practice of residential care.
CBT Distinctive Features
This exciting new series asks leading practitioners and theorists of the main CBT therapies to write simply and briefly on what constitutes the main features of their particular approach.
Each Distinctive Features book will highlight the thirty main features – practical and theoretical – of its respective approach. The series as a whole will be essential reading for psychotherapists, counsellors, clinical and counselling psychologists of all orientations who wish to learn more about the range of new and developing cognitive-behavioural approaches.
The Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research Library
The Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research (CFAR) was founded in 1985 with the aim of developing Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis in the UK. Lacan's rereading and rethinking of Freud had been neglected in the Anglophone world, despite its important implications for the theory and practice of psychoanalysis. The CFAR Library aims to make classic Lacanian texts available in English for the first time, as well as publishing original research in the Lacanian field.
Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis
Series Editors: Christine Anzieu-Premmereur; Mary Brady T.; Christine Franckx & Fernando Gomez
CIPS - Boundaries of Psychoanalysis
The Confederation of Independent Psychoanalytic Societies (CIPS) is the national professional association for the independent component societies of the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA) in the USA. CIPS also hosts the Direct Member Society for psychoanalysts belonging to other IPA societies. Our members represent a wide spectrum of psycho-analytic perspectives as well as a diversity of academic backgrounds. The CIPS Book Series, The Boundaries of Psychoanalysis, represents the intellectual activity of our community. The volumes explore the internal and external boundaries of psychoanalysis, examining the interrelationships between various psychoanalytic theoretical and clinical perspectives as well as between psychoanalysis and other disciplines.
Clinical Psychology: A Modular Course
This series was designed to overcome problems faced by the traditional textbook in conveying what psychological disorders are really like.
All the books in the series, written by leading scholars and practitioners in the field, can be read as stand-alone texts, but they will also integrate with other modules to form a comprehensive resource in clinical psychology.
The Collected English Papers of Wolfgang Giegerich
The Collected English Papers of Wolfgang Giegerich makes the work of one of archetypal psychology’s most brilliant theorists available in one place. A practicing Jungian analyst and a long-time contributor to the field, Giegerich is renowned for his dedication to the substance of Jungian thought and for his unparalleled ability to think it through with both rigor and speculative strength. The product of over three decades of critical reflection.
Contemporary Bion
Series editor Tomasz Fortuna curates an exciting series for Karnac, building on the pioneering work of W. R. Bion to demonstrate his continuing relevance to psychoanalytic theory and practice. Featuring leading post-Kleinians, these books are a must-read for all trainees, clinicians, and academics.
Controversies in Psychoanalysis
The International Psychoanalytical Association Controversies in Psychoanalysis Series
Theoretical and clinical progress in psychoanalysis continues to develop new concepts and to reconsider old ones, often in contradiction with each other. By confronting and opening these debates, we might find points of convergence but also divergences that cannot be reconciled; the ensuing tension among these should be sustained in a pluralistic dialogue.
Cultural Complex Series: Studies from Around the World
Series Editor: Thomas Singer
The Developments in Psychoanalysis
The Donald Winnicott Memorial Lecture
This series of books comes from the Donald Winnicott Memorial Lecture, an annual event designed for a wide audience of professionals and others involved with children. These lectures focus upon a specific topic, arising from Winnicott's life and ideas, in terms of relevance for 21st century living.
The EFPP Monograph
A series of Monographs produced in conjunction with the European Federation for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (EFPP). Each volume brings together writings on a particular topic by authors from several European countries. The EFPP promotes communication and discussion between psychotherapists across national boundaries in the child and adolescent, adult, family and group sections of the organisation, through its conferences and seminars on topics of interest in contemporary psychoanalytic psychotherapy. The organisation represents some 13,000 psychoanalytic psychotherapists in twenty-two countries in Western, Central and Eastern Europe and is concerned with many matters which are relevant to the profession, such as training and registration.
The Encyclopaedia of Psychoanalysis
This series presents collections of papers from various schools within psychoanalysis, including Freudian, Lacanian, Kleinian, Jungian and Object Relations perspectives. Each volume attempts to offer a wide-range of opinions on the main theme, with the majority of papers commissioned and written especially for this series.
Essential Papers in Psychoanalysis
Published by New York University Press under the general editorship of Leo Goldberger. A classic collection of important psychoanalytic papers by leaders in the field
Evolutions in Psychoanalysis
Series Editors: Daniel Goldin & Melvin Bronstein
Under the editorship of Melvin Bronstein and Daniel Goldin, the Evolutions in Psychoanalysis book series provides a shared space for writers who are eager to revisit formative psychoanalytical ideas in often innovative new ways. The word ‘evolve’ literally means ‘to unroll’, and the contemporary use of the latter term suggests that something new can be revealed through a process of incremental unravelling. As a definition of both the aspirations of this series and of psychoanalysis itself, this understanding exemplifies the possibility that one can take apart by creating and create by taking apart.
The volumes in this series do not represent a particular school of psychoanalytic thought, but rather comprise and encourage new voices from all schools and spaces – across time and geographical location – in the knowledge that brilliant thinkers and ideas can emerge from unforeseen places. The series does also encompass the editors’ interests in how contemporary psychoanalysis intersects with society and culture at large; differing analyses of the micro-processes that take place in clinical encounters; and the influence of other disciplines – such as philosophy and infant-research – upon the field of psychoanalysis, and welcomes contributions to these and other topics.
Of critical importance to the formation of this series is its aspiration to foreground voices from marginalized ethnic groups, for the vitality and creativity they offer which is so necessary to the field, and to continue in the direction of redress and repair for the omissions and exclusions of the past.
Explorations in Mental Health
The Explorations in Mental Health series draws together research, theory and practice from within the field of Mental Health, enhancing our understanding of key challenges and facilitate ongoing academic debate.
The Exploring Psycho-Social Studies
A series of publications which demonstrate the breadth and innovation of the new paradigm of psycho-social studies. It welcomes contributions which approach contemporary social issues, research methodologies and new theories, concepts or forms of clinical practice from the psycho-social perspective.
Family Systems Counseling: Innovations Then and Now
This series is aimed at both current practitioners and students who wish to learn about the historical power and boldness of the family systems approach, but who also need to see it applied to current problem situations. The books in this series will reflect on the pioneering elements of family systems approaches and how they might have been used previously with a particular issue or population.
Focus on Mental Health
Routledge Focus on Mental Health presents short books on current topics, linking in with cutting-edge research and practice.
The Forensic Psychotherapy Monograph
This series of books aims to provide both practical advice and theoretical stimulation for introductory students and senior practitioners alike.
Freud Museum London
The Freud Museum London and Karnac Books offer an exceptional series devoted to an examination of the life and work of Sigmund Freud and other significant figures in the history of psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, and depth psychology. It features works of outstanding scholarship and readability, including biographical studies, institutional histories, and archival investigations.
The Group Relations Conferences
An exciting picture of the Group Relations enterprise as it continues to adapt and innovate its approaches to the practice of Group Relations conferences globally.
The Guide to Supervision
These books aim to create a lively and readable resource that will be informative and inspirational for those planning for the future of training for supervisors of counsellors, or for those who create, teach on or apply for supervisor training courses.
The Harold Bridger Transitional
This series brings together several different facets of what is termed "the transitional approach". It will be valued by consultants, management students, practitioners and all those who want to gain a deeper understanding of the processes of organisational change.
The Harris Meltzer Trust
The Harris Meltzer Trust is an educational charity publishing books that promote psychoanalytic understanding, in particular of children and young people. It continues the aims and activities of the Roland Harris Educational Trust (Clunie Press), founded in 1970 by Martha Harris and Donald Meltzer.
Hearing Silencing
The Hearing Silencing Series is an invitation to closely observe the practices and processes of silencing used by perpetrators of abuse and totalitarian institutions alike. The series editors, Michael B. Buchholz and Aleksandar Dimitrijević, believe that it is the silencing that follows trauma which leads to mental pain and disorders. Thus, these volumes explore some of the darkest aspects of human communication in order to break that silencing. This focus on hearing silencing fulfils the intersubjective capacity and promise of psychoanalysis.
The History of Psychoanalysis
This series seeks to present outstanding new books that illuminate any aspect of the history of psychoanalysis from its earliest days to the present, and to reintroduce classic texts to contemporary readers.
The IJPA Key Papers
This collection brings together the most important psychoanalytic papers in the Journal's eighty-year long history in a series of accessible monographs.
Innovations in Transactional Analysis: Theory and Practice
This book series is founded on the principle of the importance of open discussion, debate, critique, experimentation, and the integration of other models in fostering innovation in all the arenas of transactional analytic theory and practice: psychotherapy, counseling, education, organizational development, health care, and coaching. It will be a home for the work of established authors and new voices.
Series Editor: William F. Cornell
International Federation of Psychoanalytic Societies
The International Federation of Psychoanalytic Societies (IFPS) is committed to the concept of pluralism in psychoanalysis as well as to the interdisciplinary exchange in matters of social interest. This series of books published by Karnac and under the sage editorship of Marco Conci brings the vital work of the IFPS and its member societies to a wider audience.
The International Journal of Forensic Psychotherapy
The International Journal of Forensic Psychotherapy (IJFP) is a brand-new journal launching this year in the summer of 2019. It is published in conjunction with the International Association for Forensic Psychotherapy and its avowed aim is to “Re-humanise the de-humanised”.
This will be a leading-edge journal that promotes the health of offenders and victims through the use of psychotherapeutic understanding, risk assessment, and treatment techniques, and will also advance understanding about forensic psychotherapeutic practice.
The annual subscription includes two printed issues a year and complimentary online access from Ingenta Connect.
Reasons to subscribe:
– A newly established journal for all professionals bringing together psychoanalytically underpinned understanding of work with people suffering from difficulties involving violence and paraphilias;
– An international journal with wide ranging peer-reviewed contributions in the field of forensic psychotherapy from around the world;
– An innovative journal critically reviewing and discussing developments in clinical practice, theory and research;
– An informative journal that aims to contribute to policy making, influence practice and encourage interdisciplinary collaboration across continents;
– A lively journal that encourages articles from the arts and current affairs, reflecting aspects of the world of forensic psychotherapy.
The Interviews with Icons
In this new series of “posthumous interviews” famous psychoanalysts are resurrected from the dead and are invited for a frank and detailed conversation about their lives and their work.
Donald Winnicott returns to his consulting room in London’s Chester Square to reminisce about his childhood, his training, his work at Paddington Green Children’s Hospital, his technical experiments with patients, and even the morning of his death and, also, provides readers with a comprehensive survey of his many contributions to developmental psychology and to clinical practice.
Sigmund Freud pays another visit to Vienna’s renowned Café Landtmann, where he had often enjoyed reading newspapers and sipping coffee. Freud explains how he came to invent psychoanalysis, speaks bluntly about his feelings of betrayal by Carl Gustav Jung, recounts his flight from the Nazis, and so much more, all the while explaining his theories of symptom formation and psychosexuality.
John Bowlby takes us on a grouse-shooting expedition – his favourite weekend passion – through the English countryside, while lambasting his colleagues for their failures to understand the true origins of mental illness.
Melanie Klein teaches us some of her favourite kitchen recipes while discussing the art of talking with patients.
These posthumous interviews – beautifully written, concisely composed, steeped in historical rigour, and full of hitherto unpublished archival gems – will provide students and qualified professionals alike with a master class in psychological theory and practice, comfortably contained within one portable, affordable, and lavishly illustrated volume.
Introductions to Contemporary Psychoanalysis
Introductions to Contemporary Psychoanalysis series will serve as concise introductions dedicated to the most useful and influential concepts, theories, leading figures and techniques in psychoanalysis. The length of each book is fixed at 40,000 words.
Not serving solely as an introduction for beginners, the purpose of the series is to offer compendiums of information in particular topics within different psychoanalytic schools. The series' books will be designed to be easily consulted and to provide informative answers in defined areas of psychoanalytic thought. Each book will provide contemporary and ideas on a topic relevant to contemporary psychoanalysis – from the unconscious to intersubjectivity, enactment and neuropsychoanalysis.
Series Editor: Aner Govrin
IPA - Contemporary Freud Turning Points and Critical Issues
The International Psychoanalytical Association Contemporary Freud: Turning Points and Critical Issues Series considers at least two lines of development: a contemporary reading of Freud that reclaims his contributions; and a clarification of the logical and epistemic perspectives from which he is read today.
Series Editor: Silvia Flechner
IPA - Current Challenges in Psychoanalysis
Series Editor - Silvia Flechner
IPA - International Psychoanalysis Library
The International Psychoanalytical Association International Psychoanalysis Library focus is on the scientific developments of today throughout the IPA, with an emphasis within the discipline on clinical, technical, and theoretical advances; empirical, conceptual, and historical research project.
IPA - Psychoanalytic Classics Revisited
Introduced in 2013, the focus is on books and articles that have made the history of psychoanalysis, revisited in the light of contemporary psychoanalytical theory and practice.
IPA - Psychoanalytic Ideas and Applications
The International Psychoanalytical Association Psychoanalytic Ideas and Applications Series aim to focus on the scientific production of significant authors whose works are outstanding contributions to the development of the psychoanalytic field and to set out relevant ideas and themes, generated during the history of psychoanalysis, that deserve to be discussed by present psychoanalysts.
IPA in the Community
IPA in the Community Book Series will present the outreach work of the International Psychoanalytic Association as it integrates itself into many facets of our community life. We will learn how psychoanalysis, while born in the consulting room, also has application far beyond. Its core skills inform care provided to many individuals and in many venues from cancer units to refugee centers, from prenatal clinics to prisons. Through this book series we will get the opportunity to observe the deeply generous and skillful work of psychoanalysts who are making meaningful contact with individuals both on and off the couch.
Series Editor: Harvey Schwartz
The Journal of Psychological Therapies in Primary Care
The Journal of Psychological Therapies in Primary Care aims to disseminate articles and new developments in the following broad areas:
- Counselling/psychotherapy and other models of clinical work, for example: art therapy
- Evaluation and outcome studies
- Politics, policy and debate
- Commissioning and purchasing developments
- Collaboration between general practice and all forms of psychotherapy work in Primary Care
- Student (Trainee Counsellors, Psychological Therapists and General Practice Registrars) experiences
The Karnac Developmental Psychology
Each book in this series focuses on a particular age range of a child's development. The emphasis is on the description of the typical ways in which the child, at each of these stages, experiences himself in his world. As he develops, the child has different needs, abilities, and resources that underlie his interaction with parents, relatives, and the world at large. The objective is to illustrate how these unfolding characteristics of the child influence and are influenced by the people in his world. It is only careful and (usually) long-term observation that will allow one to identify elements in the infant's or child's behaviour that are likely to be part of his inborn personality.
Karnac Introductions
Written in a jargon-free style, the Karnac Introductions series exists as a “gateway” into a particular subject. The books are aimed at practising and trainee mental health professionals but are accessible to the wider public. Written by leaders in the field, they are the perfect introduction to a wide range of theory and practice.
The LACK Book Series
Series Editors: Jennifer Friedlander & Hilary Neroni
The LACK Book Series is devoted to the promotion and development of thought inspired by the tradition of Lacanian psychoanalytic theory. The series publishes work that engages the intersection of psychoanalysis with philosophy, politics, and contemporary culture. The books in the series demonstrate the unique explanatory power of psychoanalysis in addressing the pressing concerns of our day. These books deepen readers’ engagements with Lacan by offering new insights and pushing Lacanian theory in novel directions. The series develops key psychoanalytic concepts (such as fantasy, desire, death drive, and repetition) in conjunction with the vital concerns of our day (the reappearance of fascism, the climate crisis, contemporary conceptions of gender and sexuality, the impact of racism, the shape of ideology, and many others). Additionally, it provides a space for psychoanalytic books that focus on film, television, and other forms of media. The LACK Book Series provides a forum for a diverse group of scholars from across a wide range of disciplines and from around the globe.
The LCP Practice in Psychotherapy
This series is intended to address a wide variety of important and challenging issues confronting those working in diverse contexts as psychoanalytic psychotherapists.
The Library of Analytical Psychology
Library of Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
A series with a psychoanalytic sensibility for therapists working with children, their families and their teachers. Psychotherapists and psychoanalysts for children and adolescents address development from infancy to late adolescence, understanding unconscious communication through play, dream, fantasy, family and peer relationships, transference and countertransference. Not just for individual therapists, the series covers relating to schools and agencies, dealing with trauma, and unravelling family secrets and the impact of intergenerational transmission on family dynamics, all within a context of cultural humility.
The Library of Couple and Family Psychoanalysis
The library consolidates and extends the work of Tavistock Relationships, and offers the best of psychoanalytically informed writing on adult partnerships and couple psychotherapy.
Series Editors: Brett Kahr, Christopher Clulow, David Scharff, Susanna Abse
The Library of Technology and Mental Health
This series, established in 2011, features authors from various parts of the global economy discuss the effects of technology on our growth and development, our relationships, our society in general, and the relevance of communication by telephone and internet to the spread of psychoanalysis. They discuss the impact of internet addiction including pornography, the effects of screen time and social media, and the value of telepsychotherapy, telepsychoanalysis, and telesupervision, all illustrated with clinical examples, ethical considerations, and personal reflections.
Series Editor: Jill Savege Scharff
The Lines of Development
This series focuses on a spectrum of psychoanalytic leaders whose ideas have generated a tradition of thinking and working in particular ways. By definition, such pioneers venture further into unknown or unclaimed territories - opening up new areas of theoretical inquiry and/or therapeutic work. As trailblazers, they often inspire others to expand their work and to build on their ideas through research, clinical developments, or practical applications.
Series Editors: Joan Raphael-Leff, Aleksandar Dimitrijević and Norka Malberg
The Lines of the Symbolic in Psychoanalysis
Psychoanalytic clinical and theoretical work is always embedded in specific linguistic and cultural contexts and carries their traces, traces which this series attends to in its focus on multiple contradictory and antagonistic ‘lines of the Symbolic’. This series takes its cue from Lacan’s psychoanalytic work on three registers of human experience, the Symbolic, the Imaginary and the Real, and employs this distinctive understanding of cultural, communication and embodiment to link with other traditions of cultural, clinical and theoretical practice beyond the Lacanian symbolic universe. Lines of the Symbolic in Psychoanalysis provides a reflexive reworking of theoretical and practical issues, translating psychoanalytic writing from different contexts, grounding that work in the specific histories and politics that provide the conditions of possibility for its descriptions and interventions to function. The series makes connections between different cultural and disciplinary sites in which psychoanalysis operates, questioning the idea that there could be one single correct reading and application of Lacan. Its authors trace their own path, their own line through the Symbolic, situating psychoanalysis in relation to debates which intersect with Lacanian work, explicating it, extending it and challenging it.
Series Editor: Ian Parker
The Neuro-Disability and Psychotherapy
New Directions in Self Psychology
Series Editor: George Hagman
Since Heinz Kohut’s The Analysis of the Self was published in 1971, psychoanalytic Self Psychology has developed into a theory and mode of treatment which is complex and multi-dimensional as well as vital and still evolving. Enlisting authors from a variety of disciplines, and under the editorship of psychoanalyst and social worker George Hagman, the New Directions in Self Psychology: Clinical, Research and Cultural Applications book series will examine the state-of-the–art in Self Psychology, providing an opportunity for authors to explore and extend the model in new directions.
Once limited to a small group centered in Chicago, Self Psychology currently has adherent organizations on every continent. Over the past half century, Self Psychology has influenced academic disciplines such as history, political science, art history, and social theory, as well as psychological research into child development, neuropsychology, addiction and psychopathology. Its influence on psychotherapy has been enormous, with many analytic and non-analytic models benefiting from its concepts such as motivational interviewing, grief therapies, addiction treatments, and person-centered counseling. Most importantly, Self Psychology has continued to thrive in the field of psychoanalysis, being elaborated and augmented by the contribution of many subspecialties such as motivational systems theory, Intersubjectivity theory, relational psychoanalysis, systems theory and complexity.
The volumes in this series will be devoted to a variety of topics including, but not limited to, couple’s treatment, addiction, depression and bereavement, intersubjective Self Psychology, adolescence, infant research, Relational Self Psychology, culture and historical theory. Specific clinical subjects will be highlighted such as the selfobject transference, rethinking resistance, new understandings of empathy, neuro-psychoanalysis, relationality, trauma, and grief. The editor invites contributions from across these areas of practice and the subject areas previously mentioned toward the promotion of vital culture of debate and experimentation in the field of Self Psychology.
The New International Library of Group Analysis
Drawing on the seminal ideas of British, European and American group analysts, psychoanalysts, social psychologists and social scientists, the books in this series focus on the study of small and large groups, organisations and other social systems, and on the study of the transpersonal and transgenerational sociality of human nature. NILGA books will be required reading for the members of professional organisations in the field of group analysis, psychoanalysis, and related social sciences. They will be indispensable for the "formation" of students of psychotherapy, whether they are mainly interested in clinical work with patients or in consultancy to teams and organisational clients within the private and public sectors.
New Library of Psychoanalysis
The aim of the New Library of Psychoanalysis is to maintain the high level of scholarship of the previous series, to provide a forum for increasing understanding between psychoanalysis and other disciplines and to increase the interest of the general book-reading public in psychoanalysis.
The New Library of Psychoanalysis published its first book in 1987 under the editorship of David Tuckett, later followed by Elizabeth Bott Spillius, Susan Budd, Dana Birksted-Breen and Anne Patterson. A considerable number of Associate Editors and readers have assisted the editors.
New Library of Psychoanalysis Teaching
The New Library of Psychoanalysis Teaching Series is published by Routledge in association with the Institute of Psychoanalysis, London. Its purpose is to facilitate a greater and more widespread appreciation of psychoanalysis and to provide a forum for increasing mutual understanding between psychoanalysts and those in other disciplines.
New Penguin Freud
A selection of classic Freud texts, in new translations, under the general editorship of Adam Phillips.
Papers of the Freudian School of Melbourne
Philosophy and Psychoanalysis
This book series is dedicated to current developments and cutting edge research in the philosophical sciences, phenomenology, hermeneutics, existentialism, logic, semiotics, cultural studies, social criticism, and the humanities that engage and enrich psychoanalytic thought through philosophical rigor.
Series Editor: Jon Mills
The Political Mind
The Political Mind Series is edited by David Morgan, organiser of the Political Mind Seminars, which focus on the role of the unconscious in political and social life. The seminars and the books explore contemporary issues such as racism, totalitarian thinking and dangers to democracy, as well as the NHS, the market economy, the climate crisis, and gender and sexuality and are essential reading for all free-thinking citizens.
The Portman Papers
The Portman Papers series specifically promotes the deeper understanding of, and work with, clients, patients and offenders whose sometimes very disturbing behaviours can often appear to defy understanding. The Portman Clinic, from where this series originated, offers clinical assessment and treatment, teaching, consultancy and research in relation to this patient population and their care and management.
The Professional Coaching
This series brings together leading exponents and researchers in the coaching field to provide a definitive set of core texts important to the development of the profession. It aims to meet two needs - a professional series that provides the core texts that are theoretically and experimentally grounded, and a practice series covering forms of coaching based in evidence. Together they provide a complementary framework to introduce, promote and enhance the development of the coaching profession.
Series Editor: David A. Lane
The Psychoanalysis and Popular Culture
This series builds on the work done since 2009 by the Media and the Inner World research network. It aims to consider the relationship between psychoanalysis and popular culture as a lived experience that is ever more emotionalised in the contemporary age. In contrast to many scholarly applications of psychoanalysis, works in this series set out to explore the creative tensions of thinking about cultural experience and its processes whilst also paying attention to observations from both the clinical and scholarly fields.
What can academic applications of psychoanalysis learn from the clinical perspective and how might the critical insights afforded by scholarly work cast new light on clinical experience? The series provides space for a dialogue between these different groups with a view to evoking new perspectives on the values and pitfalls of a psychoanalytic approach to ideas of selfhood, society and popular culture. In particular, the series strives to develop a psycho-cultural approach by foregrounding the usefulness of a post-Freudian, object relations perspective for examining the importance of emotional relationships and experience. We nevertheless welcome proposals from all fields of psychoanalytic enquiry.
Series Editors: Caroline Bainbridge and Candida Yates
Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in China
This peer-reviewed journal proposes to explore the introduction of psychoanalysis, psychoanalytic therapy, and the wider application of psychoanalytic ideas into China. It aims to have articles authored by Chinese and Western contributors, to explore ideas that apply to the Chinese clinical population, cultural issues relevant to the practice of analysis and psychotherapy, and to the cultural interface between Western ideas underpinning psychoanalysis, and the richness of Chinese intellectual and philosophical ideas that analysis must encounter in the process of its introduction.
The journal will be published first in English and is also planned to be published in Chinese through a collaboration with a Chinese partner. We will feature theoretical and clinical contributions, philosophical and cultural explorations, applications such as the analytic study of art, cinema and theatre, social aspects of analytic thought, and wider cultural and social issues that set the context for clinical practice.
Psychoanalysis and Women
This series grew from the work of the International Psychoanalytical Association Committee on Women and Psychoanalysis (COWAP). Publications further the conversations on women, sexuality, gender, men, and psychoanalysis, and intersections with diversity and cross-cultural experience. We value written exchanges between psychoanalysis and related disciplines of gender studies, anthropology, sociology, politics, philosophy, arts and activism.
The series editorial board is comprised of Paula Ellman (Editor-in-Chief, North America), Carolina Bacchi (North America) Sara Boffito (Italy), Lesley Caldwell (UK), Amrita Narayana (India), and Paula Escribens Pareja (Peru).
Psychoanalysis in a New Key
This series publishes books that share the aims psychoanalysts have always had, but that approach them differently. The books in the series are not expected to advance any particular theoretical agenda, although to this date most have been written by analysts from the Interpersonal and Relational orientations.
Psychoanalytic Field Theory
This series was initiated in 2015 as a new subseries of the Psychoanalytic Inquiry Book Series. It publishes books on subjects relevant to the continuing development of psychoanalytic field theory. The emphasis of this series is on contemporary work that includes a vision of the future for psychoanalytic field theory.
Since the middle of the twentieth century forms of psychoanalytic field theory emerged in different geographic parts of the world with different objectives, heuristic principles, and clinical techniques. Taken together they form a family of psychoanalytic perspectives that employs a concept of a bi-personal psychoanalytic field. The Psychoanalytic Field Theory Book Series seeks to represent this pluralism in its publications. Books on field theory in all its diverse forms are of interest in this series. Both theoretical works and discussions of clinical technique will be published in this series.
The series editors are especially interested in selecting manuscripts which actively promote the understanding and further expansion of psychoanalytic field theory. Part of the mission of the series is to foster communication amongst psychoanalysts working in different models, in different languages, and in different parts of the world.
The Psychoanalytic Ideas
Psychoanalytic Ideas is a series which bring together the best of Public Lectures and other writings given by analysts of the British Psycho-Analytical Society on important psychoanalytical subjects. The focus of this series is to communicate some of the intellectual excitement about the past, present, and future of psychoanalytic ideas. The series aims to help make these ideas accessible to an even larger group of students, scholars, and practitioners worldwide.
Series Editor: James Rose
The Psychoanalytic Monograph
This is a series of books combining the work of the Psychoanalysis Unit of University College, London and the Anna Freud Centre.
Psychological Insights for Understanding COVID-19
This series aims to highlight important themes in psychological science that engage with people’s unprecedented experience of the Covid-19 pandemic. These short, accessible volumes draw together chapters as they originally appeared before covid-19 descended on the world but demonstrate how researchers and professionals in psychological science had developed theory and research on key topics germane to the global pandemic.
Psychological Issues
The basic mission of Psychological Issues is to contribute to the further development of psychoanalysis as a science, as a respected scholarly enterprise, as a theory of human behavior, and as a therapeutic method.
Over the past 50 years, the series has focused on fundamental aspects and foundations of psychoanalytic theory and clinical practice, as well as on work in related disciplines relevant to psychoanalysis. Psychological Issues does not aim to represent or promote a particular point of view. The contributions cover broad and integrative topics of vital interest to all psychoanalysts as well as to colleagues in related disciplines. They cut across particular schools of thought and tackle key issues, such as the philosophical underpinnings of psychoanalysis, psychoanalytic theories of motivation, conceptions of therapeutic action, the nature of unconscious mental functioning, psychoanalysis and social issues, and reports of original empirical research relevant to psychoanalysis. The authors often take a critical stance toward theories and offer a careful theoretical analysis and conceptual clarification of the complexities of theories and their clinical implications, drawing upon relevant empirical findings from psychoanalytic research as well as from research in related fields.
The Editorial Board continues to invite contributions from social/behavioral sciences such as anthropology and sociology, from biologcal sciences such as physiology and the various brain sciences, and from scholarly humanistic disciplines such as philosophy, law, and ethics.
Series Editor: David Wolitzky
The Psychology of Everything
People are fascinated by psychology, and what makes humans tick. Why do we think and behave the way we do? We’ve all met armchair psychologists claiming to have the answers, and people that ask if psychologists can tell what they’re thinking. The Psychology of Everything is a series of books which debunk the popular myths and pseudo-science surrounding some of life’s biggest questions.
The series explores the hidden psychological factors that drive us, from our subconscious desires and aversions, to our natural social instincts. Absorbing, informative, and always intriguing, each book is written by an expert in the field, examining how research-based knowledge compares with popular wisdom, and showing how psychology can truly enrich our understanding of modern life.
Applying a psychological lens to an array of topics and contemporary concerns - from sex, to fashion, to conspiracy theories - The Psychology of Everything will make you look at everything in a new way.
Psychosocial Perspectives on Trauma, Displaced People & Political Violence
This series enables English-speaking readers the opportunity to familiarise themselves with important international contributions in this relevant field.
The Reflective Citizen
The intention of the "Reflective Citizen" series is to develop volumes from the various OPUS (An Organisation for Promoting Understanding of Society) activities which include Scientific Meetings, Workshops, Lectures, Debates and Conferences. The objective of OPUS is to promote and develop the study of conscious and unconscious organisational and societal dynamics through educational activities, research; consultancy and training; and, the publication and dissemination of these activities for the public benefit.
Relational Perspectives
The Relational Perspectives Book Series (RPBS) publishes books that grow out of or contribute to the relational tradition in contemporary psychoanalysis. The term relational psychoanalysis was first used by Greenberg and Mitchell to bridge the traditions of interpersonal relations, as developed within interpersonal psychoanalysis and object relations, as developed within contemporary British theory. But, under the seminal work of the late Stephen A. Mitchell, the term relational psychoanalysis grew and began to accrue to itself many other influences and developments. Various tributaries—interpersonal psychoanalysis, object relations theory, self psychology, empirical infancy research, feminism, queer theory, sociocultural studies and elements of contemporary Freudian and Kleinian thought—flow into this tradition, which understands relational configurations between self and others, both real and fantasied, as the primary subject of psychoanalytic investigation.
Founding Editor: Stephen Mitchell
Editor Emeritus: Lewis Aron
Series Editors: Adrienne Harris, Steven Kuchuck, Eyal Rozmarin
Research in Analytical Psychology and Jungian Studies
This series features research-focused volumes involving qualitative and quantitative research, historical/archival research, theoretical developments, heuristic research, grounded theory, narrative approaches, collaborative research, practitioner-led research, and self-study. The series also includes focused works by clinical practitioners, and provides new research informed explorations of the work of C.G. Jung that will appeal to researchers, academics, and scholars alike.
Series Advisor: Andrew Samuels
Routledge Classics
"Routledge Classics is more than just a collection of texts… it embodies and circulates challenging ideas and keeps vital debates current and alive." - Hilary Mantel
The Routledge Classics series contains the very best of Routledge’s publishing over the past century or so, books that have, by popular consent, become established as classics in their field. Drawing on a fantastic heritage of innovative writing published by Routledge and its associated imprints, this series makes available in attractive, affordable form some of the most important works of modern times.
Routledge Neuropsychoanalysis
Series Editor: Mark Solms
The Routledge Wilfred R. Bion Studies
The contributions of Wilfred R. Bion are among the most cited in the analytic literature. Their appeal lies not only in their content and explanatory value, but in their generative potential. Although Bion’s training and many of his clinical instincts were deeply rooted in the classical tradition of Melanie Klein, his ideas have a potentially universal appeal. Rather than emphasizing a particular psychic content (e.g., Oedipal conflicts in need of resolution; splits that needed to be healed; preconceived transferences that must be allowed to form and flourish, etc.), he tried to help open and prepare the mind of the analyst (without memory, desire or theoretical preconception) for the encounter with the patient.
Bion’s formulations of group mentality and the psychotic and non-psychotic portions of the mind, his theory of thinking and emphasis on facing and articulating the truth of one’s existence so that one might truly learn first hand from one’s own experience, his description of psychic development (alpha function and container/contained) and his exploration of O are "non-denominational" concepts that defy relegation to a particular school or orientation of psychoanalysis. Consequently, his ideas have taken root in many places…. and those ideas continue to inform many different branches of psychoanalytic inquiry and interest.
It is with this heritage and its promise for the future developments of psychoanalysis in mind that we present The Routledge Wilfred R. Bion Studies Book Series. This series gathers together under newly emerging and continually evolving contributions to psychoanalytic thinking that rest upon Bion’s foundational texts and explore and extend the implications of his thought.
Series Editor: Howard B. Levine
Search for the Self: Selected Writings of Heinz Kohut
The re-issuing of the four volumes of Heinz Kohut's writings is a major publishing event for anyone who is interested in both the theoretical and the therapeutic aspects of psychoanalysis. These volumes contain Kohut's pre-self psychology essays as well as those he wrote in order to continue to expand on his groundbreaking ideas.
The Self-Help
A series designed to help people work with, understand, and overcome, worrying problems or conditions affecting their lives and the lives of those around them.
Simple Guides
Providing easy routes to understanding difficult and complex concepts, these books give you an understanding of what trauma is and most importantly, how to help children and young people who have experienced it.
Series Editor: Betsy de Thierry
The Society of Analytical Psychology Monograph
Aimed primarily at trainees, these compact editions will be invaluable to all those who wish to learn the basics of major psychoanalytical theories from an intergrated viewpoint. The authors are Jungian analysts, trained at the SAP, highly experienced in both theory and practice.
Studying Lacan's Seminars
Studying Lacan’s Seminars brings together leading Lacanian scholars and practitioners from across the globe to participate in a contemporary examination of Lacan’s seminars, many of which are newly translated into English. Featuring practical examples from case studies and packed with cultural illustrations from film, literature and beyond, these books will provide vital companions for students and readers of Lacan. The first dedicated series on Lacan’s seminars, each book will cover the fundamental concepts while at the same time applying a contemporary perspective informed by the standards considered important by scholars and practising Lacanian psychoanalysts today.
The Systemic Thinking and Practice
This influential series was co-founded in 1989 by series editors David Campbell and Ros Draper to promote innovative applications of systemic theory to psychotherapy, teaching,
supervision and organisational consultation. In 2011, Charlotte Burck and Gwyn Daniel became series editors and aim to present new theoretical developments and pioneering practice, to make links with other theoretical approaches, and to promote the relevance of systemic theory to contemporary social and psychological questions.
The Tavistock Clinic
The Tavistock Clinic Series, written in a clear and accessible style, makes available the clinical and theoretical work that has been most influential at the Tavistock.
Series Editors: Margot Waddell, Jocelyn Catty, Kate Stratton
Theories of Psychotherapy
Published by the American Psychological Association
Understanding Your Child
Written by professionals working in the Child and Family, and the Adolescent Departments of the internationally renowned Tavistock Clinic, the guides in this series present balanced and sensitive advice that will help adults to become, or to feel that they are, 'good enough' parents. Each book concentrates on a key transition in a child's life, from birth to adolescence, looking especially at how parent's emotions and experiences interact with those of their children. Originally published by Rosendale Press, new revised editions now published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers.
The United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy
The United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) promotes the art and science of psychotherapy and psychotherapeutic counselling for the public benefit. It is a membership organisation and holds a national register of psychotherapists and psychotherapeutic counsellors, listing those practitioner members who meet exacting standards and training requirements. It has training and accrediting organisational members covering all the main traditions of psychotherapy. UKCP promotes research and high standards of education, training, and practice, as well as the wider provision of psychotherapy and psychotherapeutic counselling for all sections of the public.
The Winnicott Studies Monograph
Produced in association with the Squiggle Foundation, these titles explore the theoretical and clinical work of D. W. Winnicott. This series includes the eleven volumes of The Journal of the Squiggle Foundation.
Work with Organizations
The Systemic Thinking and Practice Series - Work with Organizations was co-founded in 1989 by series editors David Campbell and Ros Draper to promote innovative applications of systemic theory to psychotherapy, teaching, supervision and organisational consultation. In 2011, Charlotte Burck and Gwyn Daniel became series editors and aim to present new theoretical developments and pioneering practice, to make links with other theoretical approaches, and to promote the relevance of systemic theory to contemporary social and psychological questions.
World Library of Mental Health
The World Library of Mental Health celebrates the important contributions to mental health made by leading experts in their individual fields. Each author has compiled a career-long collection of what they consider to be their finest pieces: extracts from books, journals, articles, major theoretical and practical contributions, and salient research findings.
For the first time ever, the work of each contributor is presented in a single volume so readers can follow the themes and progress of their work and identify the contributions made to, and the development of, the fields themselves.
Each book in the series features a specially written introduction by the contributor giving an overview of their career, contextualizing their selection within the development of the field, and showing how their own thinking developed over time.