Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
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Bothered By Alligators
Milner's final text, Bothered by Alligators, came about when, in her nineties, she unexpectedly came across a diary she had kept during the early years of her son's life, recording his conversations and play between the ages of two and nine. With it was a storybook written and illustrated by him...
Published February 23rd 2012 by Routledge
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An Experiment in Leisure
What is it that stops people from knowing what they want? How often do we wonder where we are going and what our world is all about? Written in 1936 as a companion piece to A Life of One’s Own, An Experiment in Leisure further charts Marion Milner’s illuminating and rewarding investigation...
Published March 23rd 2011 by Routledge
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A Life of One's Own
How often do we ask ourselves, ‘What will make me happy? What do I really want from life?’ In A Life of One’s Own Marion Milner explores these questions and embarks on a seven year personal journey to discover what it is that makes her happy. On its first publication, W. H. Auden found the book ‘...
Published March 23rd 2011 by Routledge
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Eternity's Sunrise
A Way of Keeping a Diary
Following on from A Life of One’s Own and An Experiment in Leisure, Eternity’s Sunrise explores Marion Milner’s way of keeping a diary. Recording small private moments, she builds up a store of ‘bead memories.’ A carved duck, a sprig of asphodel, moments captured in her travels in Greece, Kashmir...
Published March 23rd 2011 by Routledge
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An Experiment in Leisure
What is it that stops people from knowing what they want? How often do we wonder where we are going and what our world is all about? Written in 1936 as a companion piece to A Life of One’s Own, An Experiment in Leisure further charts Marion Milner’s illuminating and rewarding investigation...
Published March 23rd 2011 by Routledge
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On Not Being Able to Paint
Milner’s great study, first published in 1950, discusses the nature of creativity and those forces which prevent its expression. In focusing on her own beginner’s efforts to draw and paint, she analyses not the mysterious and elusive ability of the genius but – as the title suggests – the all too...
Published September 22nd 2010 by Routledge
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The Hands of the Living God
An Account of a Psycho-analytic Treatment
At once autobiographical and psychoanalytic, The Hands of the Living God, first published in 1969, provides a detailed case study of Susan who, during a 20-year long treatment, spontaneously discovers the capacity to do doodle drawings. An important focus of the book is the drawings themselves,...
Published September 9th 2010 by Routledge
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Marion Milner
In this series, Emma Letley has worked with the Marion Milner estate to re-contextualise five classic volumes by arranging for experts to provide new scholarly introductions to each book. This five volume pack comprises: The Hands of the Living God On Not being Able to Paint Eternity's Sunrise A...
Published April 19th 2011 by Routledge
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China on the Mind
Several thousand years ago Indo-European culture diverged into two ways of thinking; one went West, the other East. Tracing their differences, Christopher Bollas examines how these mentalities are now converging once again, notably in the practice of psychoanalysis. Creating a freely associated...
Published October 28th 2012 by Routledge
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The Christopher Bollas Reader
This reader brings together a selection of seminal papers by Christopher Bollas. Essays such as "The Fascist State of Mind," "The Structure of Evil," and "The Functions of History" have established his position as one of the most significant cultural critics of our time. Also included are...
Published June 7th 2011 by Routledge
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The Evocative Object World
In The Evocative Object World Christopher Bollas builds on Freud's account of dream formation, combining it with perceptive clinical, theoretical and cultural insights to show how the psychoanalytical method can provide a rich understanding of what has traditionally been regarded as 'the outside...
Published October 12th 2008 by Routledge
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The Infinite Question
In his latest book Christopher Bollas uses detailed studies of real clinical practice to illuminate a theory of psychoanalysis which privileges the human impulse to question. From earliest childhood to the end of our lives, we are driven by this impulse in its varying forms, and The Infinite...
Published October 12th 2008 by Routledge
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Psychotic Temptation
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
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Engaging with Climate Change
Psychoanalytic and Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Series: New Library of Psychoanalysis 'Beyond the Couch' series
How can we help and support people to face climate change? Engaging with Climate Change is one of the first books to explore in depth what climate change actually means to people. It brings members of a wide range of different disciplines in the social sciences together in discussion and to...
Published September 19th 2012 by Routledge
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Psychoanalysis and Ecology at the Edge of Chaos
Complexity Theory, Deleuze|Guattari and Psychoanalysis for a Climate in Crisis
This book argues that psychoanalysis has a unique role to play in the climate change debate through its placing emphasis on the unconscious dimensions of our mental and social lives. Exploring contributions from Freudian, Kleinian, Object Relations, Self Psychology, Jungian, and Lacanian traditions...
Published July 24th 2011 by Routledge
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The Silent Past and the Invisible Present
Memory, Trauma, and Representation in Psychotherapy
Series: Relational Perspectives Book Series
Drawing on research in the fields of cognitive and developmental psychology, attachment, trauma, and neuroscience, as well as 20 years in forensic and private practice, Paul Renn deftly illustrates the ways in which this research may be used to inform an integrated empirical/hermeneutic model...
Published January 19th 2012 by Routledge
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The Shadow of the Tsunami
and the Growth of the Relational Mind
During early development, every human being is exposed to the relative impact of relational trauma – disconfirmation of aspects of oneself as having legitimate existence in the world of others – in shaping both the capacity for spontaneous human relatedness and the relative vulnerability to "...
Published August 18th 2011 by Routledge
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Awakening the Dreamer
Clinical Journeys
In Awakening the Dreamer: Clinical Journeys, Philip Bromberg continues the illuminating explorations into dissociation and clinical process begun in Standing in the Spaces (1998). Bromberg is among our most gifted clinical writers, especially in his unique ability to record peripheral...
Published September 9th 2010 by Routledge
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Standing in the Spaces
Essays on Clinical Process Trauma and Dissociation
Early in these essays, Bromberg contemplates how one might engage schizoid detachment within an interpersonal perspective. To his surprise, he finds that the road to the patient's disavowed experiences most frequently passes through the analyst's internal conversation, as multiple configurations of...
Published June 30th 2001 by Routledge
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Loneliness and Longing
Conscious and Unconscious Aspects
We all experience loneliness at some time in our lives and it often motivates people, consciously or otherwise, to enter treatment. Yet it is rarely explicitly addressed in psychoanalytic literature. Loneliness and Longing rectifies this oversight by thoroughly exploring this painful psychological...
Published October 9th 2011 by Routledge
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On Deaths and Endings
Psychoanalysts' Reflections on Finality, Transformations and New Beginnings
Winner of the 2008 Gradiva Award! Can something as negative as loss also be a positive, transformative experience? Is it possible that not only individuals but also societies can be developmentally arrested by problematic mourning? On Deaths and Endings brings together the work of psychoanalytic...
Published January 31st 2007 by Routledge
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Beginnings, Second Edition
The Art and Science of Planning Psychotherapy
Utilizing a decade's worth of clinical experience gained since its original publication, Mary Jo Peebles builds and expands upon exquisitely demonstrated therapeutic approaches and strategies in this second edition of Beginnings. The essential question remains the same, however: How does a...
Published April 25th 2012 by Routledge
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Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Man
Psychoanalysis and Masculinity
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
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Still Practicing
The Heartaches and Joys of a Clinical Career
Series: Psychoanalysis in a New Key Book Series
"Still practicing" has several meanings. Still practicing suggests that the balance of heartaches and joys must not deter us from pursuing a clinical practice. At the same time, still practicing suggests that for the clinician "practice" never "makes perfect." We continue to refine our clinical...
Published April 5th 2012 by Routledge
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Nothing Good Is Allowed to Stand
An Integrative View of the Negative Therapeutic Reaction
Series: Psychoanalytic Inquiry Book Series
Work with patients with severe neuroses very often has to cope with the phenomenon that every progress in the analytic or therapeutic work is followed paradoxically by a clinical deterioration. There are a number of dynamic factors that converge to bring about this negative therapeutic reaction,...
Published August 20th 2012 by Routledge
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Self Experiences in Group, Revisited
Affective Attachments, Intersubjective Regulations, and Human Understanding
Series: Psychoanalytic Inquiry Book Series
Since the publication of Self Experiences in Group in 1998—the first book to apply self psychology and intersubjectivity to group work—there have been tremendous advancements in the areas of affect, attachment, infant research, intersubjective regulation, motivational theory, neurobiology,...
Published April 11th 2012 by Routledge
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The Abyss of Madness
Series: Psychoanalytic Inquiry Book Series
Despite the many ways in which the so-called psychoses can become manifest, they are ultimately human events arising out of human contexts. As such, they can be understood in an intersubjective manner, removing the stigmatizing boundary between madness and sanity. Utilizing the post-Cartesian...
Published September 6th 2011 by Routledge
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Manual of Panic Focused Psychodynamic Psychotherapy – eXtended Range
Series: Psychoanalytic Inquiry Book Series
This manual presents a carefully researched, detailed psychodynamic treatment program for the alleviation of a transdiagnostic range of primary Axis I anxiety disorders, including panic disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, social anxiety disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, and related...
Published September 20th 2011 by Routledge
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Uncertainties, Mysteries, Doubts
Romanticism and the analytic attitude
What is it to listen? How do we hear? How do we allow meanings to emerge between each other? 'This book is about what Freud called "freely" or "evenly suspended attention", a form of listening, a kind of receptive incomprehension, which is fundamental and mandatory for the practice of...
Published September 2nd 2012 by Routledge
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The Analysis of Failure
An Investigation of Failed Cases in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy
Psychotherapy and psychoanalysis don't always work. Inevitably, a therapy or analysis may fail to alleviate the suffering of the patient. The reasons why this occurs are as manifold as the patients and analysts themselves, and oftentimes are a source of frustration and vexation to clinicians, who...
Published August 22nd 2011 by Routledge
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The Importance of Suffering
The Value and Meaning of Emotional Discontent
In this book James Davies considers emotional suffering as part and parcel of what it means to live and develop as a human being, rather than as a mental health problem requiring only psychiatric, antidepressant or cognitive treatment. This book therefore offers a new perspective on emotional...
Published November 22nd 2011 by Routledge
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Trauma and the Soul
A psycho-spiritual approach to human development and its interruption
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
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Reading Anna Freud
Series: New Library of Psychoanalysis Teaching Series
What place do Anna Freud’s ideas have in the history of psychoanalysis? What can her writings teach us today about how to work therapeutically with children? Are her psychoanalytic ideas still relevant to those entrusted with the welfare of infants and young people? Reading Anna Freud...
Published September 30th 2012 by Routledge
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Minding the Child
Mentalization-Based Interventions with Children, Young People and their Families
What is 'mentalization'? How can this concept be applied to clinical work with children, young people and families? What will help therapists working with children and families to 'keep the mind in mind'? Why does it matter if a parent can 'see themselves from the outside, and their child from...
Published March 1st 2012 by Routledge
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The Thinking Heart
Three levels of psychoanalytic therapy with disturbed children
How do we talk about feelings to children who are cut off from feeling? How do we raise hope and a sense of safety in despairing and terrified children without offering false hope? How do we reach the unreachable child and interest the hardened child? The Thinking Heart is a natural sequel to Live...
Published April 3rd 2012 by Routledge
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Infant Observation and Research
Emotional Processes in Everyday Lives
Psychoanalytic infant observation is frequently used in training psychoanalytic psychotherapists and allied professionals, but increasingly its value as a research method is being recognised, particularly in understanding developmental processes in vulnerable individuals and groups. This book...
Published March 27th 2012 by Routledge
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Winnicott's Children
Independent Psychoanalytic Approaches With Children and Adolescents
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
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Play: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Survival and Human Development
Is play only a children’s activity? How is the spontaneous play of adults expressed? What is the difference between “play” and “game”? What function does play have during war? Play:Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Survival and Human Development explores the importance of play in the life of the...
To Be Published August 25th 2013 by Routledge
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Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis
One Hundred Years After 'Little Hans'
Since Freud’s publication of 'Little Hans', advances in psychoanalytic technique and theory have transformed our clinical work with children. Individuals including Anna Freud, Melanie Klein and Donald Winnicott have influenced psychoanalytic play therapy and broadened the scope of practice with...
Published December 5th 2012 by Routledge
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Mothers, Infants and Young Children of September 11, 2001
A Primary Prevention Project
The group of papers presented in this volume represents ten years of involvement of a group of eight core therapists, working originally with approximately forty families who suffered the loss of husbands and fathers on September 11, 2001. The project focuses on the families of women who were...
Published February 14th 2012 by Routledge