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Relational Perspectives


About the Series

Founding Editor:

Stephen Mitchell

Editor Emeritus:

Lewis Aron

Series Editors:
Adrienne Harris
Steven Kuchuck
Eyal Rozmarin

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.

 We refer to the relational tradition, rather than to a relational school, to highlight that we are identifying a trend, a tendency within contemporary psychoanalysis, not a more formally organized or coherent school or system of beliefs. Our use of the term relational signifies a dimension of theory and practice that has become salient across the wide spectrum of contemporary psychoanalysis. Now under the editorial supervision of Adrienne Harris, Steven Kuchuck and Eyal Rozmarin, the Relational Perspectives Book Series originated in 1990 under the editorial eye of the late Stephen A. Mitchell. Mitchell was the most prolific and influential of the originators of the relational tradition. Committed to dialogue among psychoanalysts, he abhorred the authoritarianism that dictated adherence to a rigid set of beliefs or technical restrictions. He championed open discussion, comparative and integrative approaches, and promoted new voices across the generations. Mitchell was later joined by the late Lewis Aron, also a visionary and influential writer, teacher and leading thinker in relational psychoanalysis.

 Included in the Relational Perspectives Book Series are authors and works that come from within the relational tradition, those that extend and develop that tradition, and works that critique relational approaches or compare and contrast them with alternative points of view. The series includes our most distinguished senior psychoanalysts, along with younger contributors who bring fresh vision. Our aim is to enable a deepening of relational thinking while reaching across disciplinary and social boundaries in order to foster an inclusive and international literature.   

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Clinical Storytelling, Art and the Problems of Being The Analyst's Necessary Vertigo

Clinical Storytelling, Art and the Problems of Being: The Analyst's Necessary Vertigo

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Jade McGleughlin
July 19, 2024

In a series of overlapping clinical essays—sometimes highly personal, sometimes bristling with theory, sometimes employing experimental writing—Jade McGleughlin upends the ways we tell a psychoanalytic story. Tracing the evolution of her thinking, the collection grapples with the problem of ...

Oedipal Experiences in Same-Sex Families

Oedipal Experiences in Same-Sex Families

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Yifat Eitan-Persico
April 18, 2024

This book updates the Oedipus complex for a contemporary audience in the light of social and cultural changes and explores its implications for psychoanalytic treatment and our understanding of queer families. Growing evidence during the past few decades indicates that children who grow up in ...

Early Women Psychoanalysts History, Biography, and Contemporary Relevance

Early Women Psychoanalysts: History, Biography, and Contemporary Relevance

1st Edition

Edited By Klara Naszkowska
February 29, 2024

Each life story is unique, yet each also entwines with other stories, sharing recurring themes linked to issues of gender, Jewishness, women's education, politics, and migration. The book's first section discusses relatively known analysts such as Sabina Spielrein, Lou Andreas-Salomé, and Beata ...

Sexuality, Intimacy, Power Classic Edition

Sexuality, Intimacy, Power: Classic Edition

1st Edition

By Muriel Dimen
November 28, 2023

This book offers Dimen’s classic take on psychosexuality, drawing on relational theory, feminism and postmodernism, with a new foreword by Virginia Goldner and Velleda Ceccoli honouring the late Muriel Dimen and introducing a new audience to her profound legacy. For Dimen, the shift from dualism ...

Transgenerational Haunting in Psychoanalysis Toxic Errands

Transgenerational Haunting in Psychoanalysis: Toxic Errands

1st Edition

Edited By William F. Cornell, Maurice Apprey
October 31, 2023

In this book, Maurice Apprey continues his unique work on transgenerational haunting to explore how events in our ancestors' lives may be renegotiated and re-subjectivized in the present from within the therapeutic dyad. With an informed and impassioned voice that evokes the tragic psychic ...

The Émigré Analysts and American Psychoanalysis History and Contemporary Relevance

The Émigré Analysts and American Psychoanalysis: History and Contemporary Relevance

1st Edition

Edited By Adrienne Harris
May 31, 2023

This book explores the impact of migration, including its causes, upon the key ideas and directions of psychoanalytic theory and practice from the twentieth century until today. Having originated with a conference called "Émigré Analysts," developed through the Sandor Ferenczi Center at...

Reading with Muriel Dimen/Writing with Muriel Dimen Experiments in Theorizing a Field

Reading with Muriel Dimen/Writing with Muriel Dimen: Experiments in Theorizing a Field

1st Edition

Edited By Stephen Hartman
May 16, 2023

Reading with Muriel Dimen/Writing with Muriel Dimen: Experiments in Theorizing a Field is a collection of reading and writing experiments inspired by the late feminist psychoanalyst Muriel Dimen. Each of the six projects that comprise this volume explores a stylistic and thematic manner of reading ...

Risking Intimacy and Creative Transformation in Psychoanalysis

Risking Intimacy and Creative Transformation in Psychoanalysis

1st Edition

By Lauren Levine
April 05, 2023

In this compelling book, Lauren Levine explores the transformative power of stories and storytelling in psychoanalysis to heal psychic wounds and create shared symbolic meaning and coherence out of ungrieved loss and trauma. Through evocative clinical stories, Levine considers the impact of trauma ...

Uprooted Minds A Social Psychoanalysis for Precarious Times

Uprooted Minds: A Social Psychoanalysis for Precarious Times

2nd Edition

By Nancy Caro Hollander
February 14, 2023

In the second edition of Uprooted Minds, Hollander offers a unique social psychoanalytic exploration of our increasingly destabilized political environment, augmented by her research into the previously untold history of psychoanalytic engagement in the challenging social issues of our times. Often...

Relational Conversations on Meeting and Becoming The Birth of a True Other

Relational Conversations on Meeting and Becoming: The Birth of a True Other

1st Edition

Edited By Michal Barnea-Astrog, Mitchel Becker
December 30, 2022

Demonstrating a relational, dialogic way of thinking and writing, this book offers an innovative perspective on the human potential for intersubjective engagement and on the nature of true encounter. The authors engage in creative, associative dialogues and trialogues inspired by psychoanalysis ...

Inhabiting Implication in Racial Oppression and in Relational Psychoanalysis

Inhabiting Implication in Racial Oppression and in Relational Psychoanalysis

1st Edition

Edited By Rachel Kabasakalian-McKay, David Mark
November 21, 2022

What does it feel like to encounter ourselves and one another as implicated subjects, both in our everyday lives and in the context of our work as clinicians, and how does this matter? With contributions from a diverse group of relational psychoanalytic thinkers, this book reads Michael Rothberg’s ...

More About Couples on the Couch Approaching Psychoanalytic Couple Psychotherapy from an Expanded Perspective

More About Couples on the Couch: Approaching Psychoanalytic Couple Psychotherapy from an Expanded Perspective

1st Edition

Edited By Shelley Nathans
October 25, 2022

Following the critically acclaimed Couples on the Couch, this volume offers further compelling ideas about couple psychotherapy from a psychoanalytic perspective. The book well represents the foundational basis of the Tavistock model and draws deeply from the work of Freud, Klein, Bion, Meltzer ...

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