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New and Published Books

  1. Transformative Relationships

    The Control Mastery Theory of Psychotherapy

    Edited by George Silberschatz

    The control-mastery theory, developed by Dr. Joseph Weiss over the second half of the twentieth century, is an attempt to integrate an understanding of how the mind works, how psychopathologies develop, and how psychotherapy can effectively help. Control-Mastery theory assumes that the patient's...

    Published May 2nd 2013 by Routledge

  2. Trauma and the Soul

    A psycho-spiritual approach to human development and its interruption

    By Donald Kalsched

    In Trauma and the Soul, Donald Kalsched continues the exploration he began in his first book, The Inner World of Trauma (1996)—this time going further into the mystical or spiritual moments that often occur around the intimacies of psychoanalytic work. Through extended clinical vignettes, including...

    Published April 15th 2013 by Routledge

  3. The Alchemy of Wolves and Sheep: A Relational Approach to Internalized Perpetration in Complex Trauma Survivors

    By Harvey L. Schwartz

    The literature on psychological trauma and traumatic attachment has progressed over the past few decades, however issues of coerced and internalized perpetration have not been fully explored and deconstructed. This book presents a synthesis of relational and archetypal psychology, trauma and...

    Published April 3rd 2013 by Routledge

  4. The Empty Couch

    The taboo of ageing and retirement in psychoanalysis

    Edited by Gabriele Junkers

    The Empty Couch is an introduction to the challenges and obstacles inherent in ageing as a psychoanalyst. It addresses the previously neglected issue of ill health, as well as the significance of ageing for psychoanalysts, exploring the analyst’s attitude towards getting older, impermanence and...

    Published March 11th 2013 by Routledge

  5. Wrestling with Destiny

    The promise of psychoanalysis

    By Lucy Holmes

    Can psychoanalysis help people control their destinies? Using empirical evidence from neuroscience, Lucy Holmes makes a powerful argument that it can. This book considers the various ways in which destiny is linked to the repetition compulsion, and how free association in psychoanalysis can...

    Published March 11th 2013 by Routledge

  6. Bion's Sources

    The shaping of his paradigms

    Edited by Nuno Torres, R.D. Hinshelwood

    There are an increasing number of publications concerned with the work of Wilfred Bion (1897-1979). Many have sought new ideas from his writing however, little attention has been paid to the intellectual context in which Bion wrote. Bion’s Sources traces where Bion’s new ideas came from, what job...

    Published February 26th 2013 by Routledge

  7. Psychoanalytic Reflections on a Gender-free Case

    Into the Void

    Edited by Ellen L. K. Toronto, Gemma Ainslie, Molly Donovan, Maurine Kelly, Christine C. Kieffer, Nancy McWilliams

    The past two decades of psychoanalytic discourse have witnessed a marked transformation in the way we think about women and gender. The assignment of gender carries with it a host of assumptions, yet without it we can feel lost in a void, unmoored from the world of rationality, stability and...

    Published January 28th 2013 by Routledge

  8. Catch Them Before They Fall: The Psychoanalysis of Breakdown

    By Christopher Bollas

    In this exploration of a radical approach to the psychoanalytical treatment of people on the verge of mental breakdown, Christopher Bollas offers a new and courageous clinical paradigm. He suggests that the unconscious purpose of breakdown is to present the self to the other for transformative...

    Published December 12th 2012 by Routledge

  9. Winnicott's Children

    Independent Psychoanalytic Approaches With Children and Adolescents

    Edited by Ann Horne, Monica Lanyado

    Series: Independent Psychoanalytic Approaches with Children and Adolescents

    Winnicott’s Children focuses on the use we make of the thinking and writing of DW Winnicott; how this has enhanced our understanding of children and the settings where we work, and how it has influenced the way in which we do that work. It is a volume by clinicians, concerned about how, as well as...

    Published December 5th 2012 by Routledge

  10. Psychotic Temptation

    By Liliane Abensour

    Series: The New Library of Psychoanalysis

    How can we understand the pull towards that which we fear: psychosis? In this thought provoking book, Abensour proposes the idea of a temptation towards psychosis rather than a regression, as a response to the hatred or denial of the subject’s origins. She shares her reflections on her...

    Published November 15th 2012 by Routledge