Psychoanalysis Books

New and Published Books

1. Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Man

   Psychoanalysis and Masculinity

   By Donald Moss

   Images and ideas associated with masculinity are forever in flux. In this book, Donald Moss addresses the never-ending effort of men—regardless of sexual orientation—to shape themselves in relation to the unstable notion of masculinity. Part 1 looks at the lifelong labor faced by boys and men of...

   Published May 21st 2012 by Routledge
2. Women's Bodies in Psychoanalysis

   By Rosemary M Balsam

   Why has the female body been marginalised in psychoanalysis, with a focus on female problems and pains only? How can we begin to think about body pleasure, power, competition and aggression as normal in females? In Women's Bodies in Psychoanalysis, Rosemary Balsam argues that re-tracing...

   Published April 25th 2012 by Routledge
3. Beginnings, Second Edition

   The Art and Science of Planning Psychotherapy

   By Mary Jo Peebles

   Utilizing a decade's worth of clinical experience gained since its original publication, Mary Jo Peebles builds and expands upon exquisitely demonstrated therapeutic approaches and strategies in this second edition of Beginnings. The essential question remains the same, however: How does a...

   Published April 25th 2012 by Routledge
4. Self Experiences in Group, Revisited

   Affective Attachments, Intersubjective Regulations, and Human Understanding

   Edited by Irene Harwood, Walter Stone, Malcolm Pines

   Series: Psychoanalytic Inquiry Book Series

   Since the publication of Self Experiences in Group in 1998—the first book to apply self psychology and intersubjectivity to group work—there have been tremendous advancements in the areas of affect, attachment, infant research, intersubjective regulation, motivational theory, neurobiology,...

   Published April 11th 2012 by Routledge
5. Still Practicing

   The Heartaches and Joys of a Clinical Career

   By Sandra Buechler

   Series: Psychoanalysis in a New Key Book Series

   "Still practicing" has several meanings. Still practicing suggests that the balance of heartaches and joys must not deter us from pursuing a clinical practice. At the same time, still practicing suggests that for the clinician "practice" never "makes perfect." We continue to refine our clinical...

   Published April 5th 2012 by Routledge
6. The Thinking Heart

   Three levels of psychoanalytic therapy with disturbed children

   By Anne Alvarez

   How do we talk about feelings to children who are cut off from feeling? How do we raise hope and a sense of safety in despairing and terrified children without offering false hope? How do we reach the unreachable child and interest the hardened child? The Thinking Heart is a natural sequel to Live...

   Published April 3rd 2012 by Routledge
7. Infant Observation and Research

   Emotional Processes in Everyday Lives

   Edited by Cathy Urwin, Janine Sternberg

   Psychoanalytic infant observation is frequently used in training psychoanalytic psychotherapists and allied professionals, but increasingly its value as a research method is being recognised, particularly in understanding developmental processes in vulnerable individuals and groups. This book...

   Published March 27th 2012 by Routledge
8. The Power of Witnessing

   Reflections, Reverberations, and Traces of the Holocaust: Trauma, Psychoanalysis, and the Living Mind

   Edited by Nancy R. Goodman, Marilyn B. Meyers

   Witnessing comes in as many forms as the trauma that gives birth to it. The Holocaust, undeniably one of the greatest traumatic events in recent human history, still resonates into the twenty-first century. The echoes that haunt those who survived continue to reach their children and others who did...

   Published March 20th 2012 by Routledge
9. Dancing with the Unconscious

   The Art of Psychoanalysis and the Psychoanalysis of Art

   By Danielle Knafo

   Series: Psychoanalysis in a New Key Book Series

   In writing and lecturing over the past two decades on the relationship between psychoanalysis and art, Danielle Knafo has demonstrated the many ways in which these two disciplines inform and illuminate each other. This book continues that discussion, emphasizing how the creative process in...

   Published March 4th 2012 by Routledge
10. Minding the Child

    Mentalization-Based Interventions with Children, Young People and their Families

    Edited by Nick Midgley, Ioanna Vrouva

    What is 'mentalization'? How can this concept be applied to clinical work with children, young people and families? What will help therapists working with children and families to 'keep the mind in mind'? Why does it matter if a parent can 'see themselves from the outside, and their child from...

    Published March 4th 2012 by Routledge