Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy 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. 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
3. 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
4. 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
5. 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
6. Bothered By Alligators

   By Marion Milner

   Milner's final text, Bothered by Alligators, came about when, in her nineties, she unexpectedly came across a diary she had kept during the early years of her son's life, recording his conversations and play between the ages of two and nine. With it was a storybook written and illustrated by him...

   Published February 23rd 2012 by Routledge
7. Mothers, Infants and Young Children of September 11, 2001

   A Primary Prevention Project

   Edited by Beatrice Beebe, Phyllis Cohen, K. Mark Sossin, Sara Markese

   The group of papers presented in this volume represents ten years of involvement of a group of eight core therapists, working originally with approximately forty families who suffered the loss of husbands and fathers on September 11, 2001. The project focuses on the families of women who were...

   Published February 23rd 2012 by Routledge
8. An Accident of Hope

   The Therapy Tapes of Anne Sexton

   By Dawn M. Skorczewski

   In 1956, Anne Sexton was admitted into a mental hospital for post-partum depression, where she met Dr. Martin Orne, a young psychiatrist who treated her for the next eight years. In that time Sexton would blossom into a world-famous poet, best known for her "confessional" poems dealing...

   Published February 6th 2012 by Routledge
9. The Silent Past and the Invisible Present

   Memory, Trauma, and Representation in Psychotherapy

   By Paul Renn

   Series: Relational Perspectives Book Series

   Drawing on research in the fields of cognitive and developmental psychology, attachment, trauma, and neuroscience, as well as 20 years in forensic and private practice, Paul Renn deftly illustrates the ways in which this research may be used to inform an integrated empirical/hermeneutic model...

   Published January 19th 2012 by Routledge
10. The Importance of Suffering

    The Value and Meaning of Emotional Discontent

    By James Davies

    In this book James Davies considers emotional suffering as part and parcel of what it means to live and develop as a human being, rather than as a mental health problem requiring only psychiatric, antidepressant or cognitive treatment. This book therefore offers a new perspective on emotional...

    Published November 22nd 2011 by Routledge