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New Library of Psychoanalysis


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The New Library of Psychoanalysis is published by Routledge Mental Health 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. The series also aims to make some of the work of continental and other non-English speaking analysts more readily available to English-speaking readers, and to increase the interchange of ideas between British and American analysts.

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 and Dana Birksted-Breen. A considerable number of Associate Editors and readers have assisted the editors.

Under the guidance of Foreign Rights Editors, a considerable number of the New Library books have been published abroad, particularly in Brazil, Germany, France, Italy, Peru, Spain and Japan.

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 also aims to help the various schools of psychoanalysis to better understand each other. It has published books representing all three schools of thought in British psychoanalysis, including a particularly important work edited by Pearl King and Riccardo Steiner, expounding the intellectual and organisational controversies that developed in the British psychoanalytical Society between Kleinian, Viennese and 'middle group' analysts during the Second World War.

The New Library of Psychoanalysis has also translated and published several books by Continental psychoanalysts, and it plans in the future to continue the policy of publishing books that express as clearly as possible a variety of psychoanalytic points of view.

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Developmental Ruptures The psychoanalysis of breakdown and defensive solutions

Developmental Ruptures: The psychoanalysis of breakdown and defensive solutions

1st Edition

By Anna Maria Nicolò
February 29, 2024

This book questions the diagnostic categories applied to adolescents from a developmental viewpoint, putting forth an alternative perspective for assessment that considers prognostic and risk indicators. Going beyond the classification of adult psychopathology, Anna Maria Nicolò presents a ...

New Tools for Psychoanalysis Clinical Investigation and Psychoanalytic Training in the Working Parties

New Tools for Psychoanalysis: Clinical Investigation and Psychoanalytic Training in the Working Parties

1st Edition

Edited By Ruggero Levy, Bernard Reith, Agustina Fernández, Leopoldo Bleger, Nancy Kulish, Marie G. Rudden, Inés Bayona
February 06, 2024

Bringing together the findings from psychoanalysts across the globe, this book introduces and describes the research practices utilised by the Working Parties that were created by the European Psychoanalytical Federation and later supported by the International Psychoanalytical Association. The ...

Psychoanalysis and Ethics The Necessity of Perspective

Psychoanalysis and Ethics: The Necessity of Perspective

1st Edition

By David M. Black
November 01, 2023

Psychoanalysis and Ethics: The Necessity of Perspective is an attempt to look deeply into the relationship between psychoanalysis and ethics, and in particular into the failure of traditional psychoanalytic thinking to recognise the foundational character of ethical values.  In recent years, ...

Finding a Way to the Child Selected Clinical Papers 1983-2021

Finding a Way to the Child: Selected Clinical Papers 1983-2021

1st Edition

By Margaret Rustin, Kate Stratton, Simon Cregeen
December 30, 2022

Margaret Rustin’s writing is characterised not only by its subject matter, which is diverse, but by her imaginative sensitivity to the emotional lives of children and young people, the depth of her understanding, and her original insights into the complexities of child and adolescent psychotherapy....

W.R. Bion as Clinician Steering Between Concept and Practice

W.R. Bion as Clinician: Steering Between Concept and Practice

1st Edition

By R. D. Hinshelwood
December 29, 2022

Underpinned by rigorous close readings of his oeuvre, this book provides a comprehensive guide to the development, practice and evolution of Wilfred Bion’s clinical psychoanalytic work. Starting with the significance of Kant during Bion’s years as a student, the author traces the key influences on...

On Being One's Self Clinical Explorations in Identity from John Steiner's Workshop

On Being One's Self: Clinical Explorations in Identity from John Steiner's Workshop

1st Edition

Edited By Sharon Numa
September 05, 2022

On Being One’s Self emerges from discussions in John Steiner’s Workshop and investigates the meanings of self and identity, including the many ways in which the development of personal identity can be subverted, interrogating what can facilitate the development of a reasonably stable identity. The ...

Playing at Work Clinical Essays in a Contemporary Winnicottian Perspective on Technique

Playing at Work: Clinical Essays in a Contemporary Winnicottian Perspective on Technique

1st Edition

By Vincenzo Bonaminio
May 26, 2022

Playing at Work offers a thorough guide to the innovative psychoanalytic practices of Vincenzo Bonaminio, as he draws on the work of Winnicott, Bollas, and Tustin to demonstrate an effective method for working with adults, adolescents, and children in clinical settings. Using several clinical ...

Birth to Psychic Life

Birth to Psychic Life

1st Edition

By Albert Ciccone, Marc Lhopital
March 31, 2022

Based on rich clinical experience and on theory from numerous psychoanalytical works, this book explores and analyzes the emergence and development of the psychic life. Birth to Psychic Life explores the genesis of the psychic apparatus, reconstructs the development of subjectivity, with its ups ...

Vital Flows Between the Self and Non-Self The Interpsychic

Vital Flows Between the Self and Non-Self: The Interpsychic

1st Edition

By Stefano Bolognini
March 29, 2022

Vital Flows explores the concept of the Interpsychic, or that which exists in our unconscious or preconscious inter- and intra-human exchanges and demonstrates its significance for understanding psychoanalytic theory and practice. Drawing on rich clinical material, Bolognini explains how ...

Coming to Life in the Consulting Room Toward a New Analytic Sensibility

Coming to Life in the Consulting Room: Toward a New Analytic Sensibility

1st Edition

By Thomas H. Ogden
December 21, 2021

Ogden sets out a movement in contemporary psychoanalysis toward a new sensibility, reflecting a shift in emphasis from what he calls "epistemological psychoanalysis" (having to do with knowing and understanding) to "ontological psychoanalysis" (having to do with being and becoming). Ogden ...

Lost to Desire The École Psychosomatique de Paris and its Encounter With Patients Who Do Not Thrive

Lost to Desire: The École Psychosomatique de Paris and its Encounter With Patients Who Do Not Thrive

1st Edition

By Wolfgang Lassmann
November 29, 2021

This book covers the work of psychoanalysts in post WWII France with patients beset by somatic problems with little manifest fantasy life, and how their concept of opératoire continues to inform the theory and practice of working with patients in crisis. The author explores what the new concept ...

When the Body Speaks A British-Italian Dialogue

When the Body Speaks: A British-Italian Dialogue

1st Edition

Edited By Donald Campbell, Ronny Jaffe
November 15, 2021

This book is based on the work done by a group of British and Italian psychoanalysts who have been meeting twice yearly since 2003 to study clinically the relationship between the mind and the body of their patients. The analytical dyad became the focus of a dialectical movement between body and ...

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