New Books in Mental Health

April-August 2012

Gender and Sexuality

  1. Rewriting the Rules

    An Integrative Guide to Love, Sex and Relationships

    By Meg Barker

    We live in a time of great uncertainty about relationships. We search for "The One," but find ourselves staying single because nobody measures up. The reality of our relationships is not what we expected, and it becomes hard to balance it with all the other things that we want out of life. At...

    Published August 1st 2012 by Routledge

  2. 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 20th 2012 by Routledge

  3. Women's Bodies in Psychoanalysis

    By Rosemary M Balsam

    Why has the female body been marginalised in psychoanalysis, with a focus on female problems and pains only? How can we begin to think about body pleasure, power, competition and aggression as normal in females? In Women's Bodies in Psychoanalysis, Rosemary Balsam argues that re-tracing...

    Published April 25th 2012 by Routledge