Affect/ Emotion Books

New and Published Books

1. Loneliness Updated

   Recent research on loneliness and how it affects our lives

   Edited by Ami Rokach

   "To be alone is to be different. To be different is to be alone, and to be in the interior of this fatal circle is to be lonely. To be lonely is to have failed" (Susan Schultz, 1976) Loneliness carries a significant social stigma, as lack of friendship and social ties is socially undesirable, and...

   Published November 8th 2012 by Routledge
2. Making a Difference in Patients' Lives

   Emotional Experience in the Therapeutic Setting

   By Sandra Buechler

   Series: Psychoanalysis in a New Key Book Series

   Winner of the 2009 Gradiva Award for Outstanding Psychoanalytic Publication! Within the title of her book, Making a Difference in Patients' Lives, Sandra Buechler echoes the hope of all clinicians. But, she counters, experience soon convinces most of us that insight, on its own...

   Published April 23rd 2008 by Routledge
3. Jealousy and Envy

   New Views about Two Powerful Feelings

   Edited by Léon Wurmser, Heidrun Jarass

   Series: Psychoanalytic Inquiry Book Series

   Jealousy and envy permeate the practice of psychoanalytic and psychotherapeutic work. New experience and new relevance of old but neglected ideas about these two feeling states and their origins warrant special attention, both as to theory and practice. Their great complexity and multilayered...

   Published August 19th 2007 by Routledge
4. Clinical Values

   Emotions That Guide Psychoanalytic Treatment

   By Sandra Buechler

   Series: Psychoanalysis in a New Key Book Series

   In this refreshingly honest and open book, Sandra Buechler looks at therapeutic process issues from the standpoint of the human qualities and human resourcefulness that the therapist brings to each clinical encounter. Her concern is with the clinical values that shape the psychoanalytically...

   Published July 12th 2004 by Routledge
5. Disgust

   The Gatekeeper Emotion

   By Susan Miller

   Susan Miller, author of two foundational works on shame (The Shame Experience [TAP, 1985/1993pbk]; Shame in Context [TAP, 1996]), now turns to disgust, an intriguing emotion that has received little attention in the professional literature. For Miller, the psychological study of disgust...

   Published May 6th 2004 by Routledge
6. Affect in Psychoanalysis

   A Clinical Synthesis

   By Charles Spezzano

   Series: Relational Perspectives Book Series

   Drawing on the writings of Freud, Fairbairn, Klein, Sullivan, and Winnicott, Spezzano offers a radical redefinition of the analytic process as the intersubjective elaboration and regulation of affect. The plight of analytic patients, he holds, is imprisonment within crude fantasy elaborations of...

   Published January 31st 2003 by Routledge
7. Seduction, Surrender, and Transformation

   Emotional Engagement in the Analytic Process

   By Karen J. Maroda

   Series: Relational Perspectives Book Series

   Seduction, Surrender, and Transformation demonstrates how interpersonal psychoanalysis obliges analysts to engage their patients with genuine emotional responsiveness, so that not only the patient but the analyst too is open to ongoing transformation through the analytic experience. In so doing,...

   Published November 30th 2002 by Routledge
8. The Widening Scope of Shame

   Edited by Melvin R. Lansky, Andrew P. Morrison

   The Widening Scope of Shame is the first collection of papers on shame to appear in a decade and contains contributions from most of the major authors currently writing on this topic. It is not a sourcebook, but a comprehensive introduction to clinical and theoretical perspectives on shame that is...

   Published December 21st 1997 by Routledge
9. Shame

   The Underside of Narcissism

   By Andrew P. Morrison

   Morrison provides a critical history of analytic and psychiatric attempts to make sense of shame, beginning with Freud and culminating in Kohut's understanding of shame in terms of narcissistic phenomena. The clinical section of the book clarifies both the theoretical status and treatment...

   Published May 31st 1997 by Routledge
10. Shame in Context

    By Susan Miller

    In this enlightening and gracefully written study, Susan Miller examines shame in a variety of clinical contexts en route to a richer understanding of shame dynamics. Miller attends especially to the role of shame in creating and maintaining character pathology and devotes separate sections...

    Published September 30th 1996 by Routledge