Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy

The Hardest Passage: A Psychoanalyst Accompanies Her Patient’s Journey into Dementia
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This moving tale presents a unique perspective on living with dementia and is of interest not only to all professionals working with dementia, but also to those accompanying their loved ones on their own hardest passage.

Parenting Psychoanalysed: Letters to a Parent
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The first book of its kind, Parenting Psychoanalysed: Letters to a Parent collates the musings of a thoughtful group of psychoanalysts with a series of candid letters, each addressing the aspect of parenthood they most want to share and what they wish they knew before becoming a parent.
This title is due to be published on the 30th May 2025. You can if you wish, order it now at our special pre-publication price and we will deliver it to you as soon as it becomes available.

Learning and Unlearning through the Clinical Encounter: Becoming a Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist
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This book examines the learning process involved in becoming a psychoanalytic practitioner and presents training experiences at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust through the lens of both teachers and trainees.
This title is due to be published on the 7th May 2025. You can if you wish, order it now at our special pre-publication price and we will deliver it to you as soon as it becomes available.
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Psychoanalytic Group Psychotherapy: A Contemporary Introduction
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In this comprehensive volume, Richard M. Billow provides a thorough introduction to group psychotherapy from a psychoanalytic perspective.
This title is due to be published on the 21st April 2025. You can if you wish, order it now at our special pre-publication price and we will deliver it to you as soon as it becomes available.

Case Studies in Relational Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis: If I Could Turn Back Time
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This book brings the reader behind the closed door of the psychotherapy office through a selection of nine riveting psychotherapy and psychoanalytic case studies.
This title is due to be published on the 23rd April 2025. You can if you wish, order it now at our special pre-publication price and we will deliver it to you as soon as it becomes available.

The Evidence for Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: A Contemporary Introduction
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This book delivers a concise yet comprehensive introduction to the evidence for psychodynamic psychotherapy through explanations of research organized around therapy processes relevant to practicing clinicians and informed researchers.
This title is due to be published on the 16th April 2025. You can if you wish, order it now at our special pre-publication price and we will deliver it to you as soon as it becomes available.

Sitting on a Suitcase: Psychoanalytic Stories
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Sitting on a Suitcase: Psychoanalytic Stories contains eighteen moving tales of disparate Jewish lives from Eliat Aram, Leslie B. Brissett, Louisa Diana Brunner, Halina Brunning, Leila Djemal, Shmuel Erlich, Mira Erlich-Ginor, Franca Fubini, Stan Gold, Larry Hirschhorn, Susan Kahn, Alicia E. Kaufmann, Olya Khaleelee, James Krantz, Vega Zagier Roberts, Edward R. Shapiro, Mannie Sher, and Marlene Spero. The book begins with a thought-provoking preface from former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams and ends with a sensitive epilogue from Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg, both providing societal containment for what comes between them
This title is due to be published on the 27th March 2025. You can if you wish, order it now at our special pre-publication price and we will deliver it to you as soon as it becomes available.

Introduction to the Practice of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (Third Edition)
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An essential guide to psychoanalytic psychotherapy in modern practice. A must-have for those new to the field and seasoned professionals alike.

Understanding and Working with Shame: Psychotherapeutic, Cultural and Philosophical Perspectives
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This book discusses the pivotal role of shame in a wide range of mental disorders and as a driving force in societal polarization and escalating conflicts between nations and population groups.

A Psychoanalytic Exploration of Female to Male Transition
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Empathetic in its approach and thorough in its conceptualisation, this volume is a vital resource for psychodynamic and psychoanalytic psychotherapists working directly with trans patients, and with those experiencing gender dysphoria and issues of sexual identity.

What Does It Mean to ‘Make’ Love?: A Psychoanalytic Study of Sexuality and Phantasy
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What Does It Mean to ‘Make’ Love? shows how the choice of gender does not conform to anatomy and is based on an often unrecognised psychic bisexuality.

Depression: A Contemporary Introduction
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This book serves as a practical and comprehensive introduction to depression and its deep roots in trauma.

The Complexity of Trauma: Jungian and Psychoanalytic Approaches to the Treatment of Trauma
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This important volume offers a broad and in-depth overview of how to understand and treat trauma from a Jungian perspective, written by internationally recognized experts in the field of Jungian and traditional psychoanalysis.

Expanding Psychoanalysis: The Contributions of Susie Orbach
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The book studies Orbach’s multifaceted career in five sections, examining her multitudinous contributions to the mental health profession, from the creation of feminist psychotherapy to the enhancement of media psychology, to the growth of political and social consultation.

Mentalizing in Psychodynamic and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy : Basics, Applications, Case Studies
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A practical and research-oriented work, the book documents numerous case studies, and detailed transcripts of treatment dialogs supplemented by extensive commentary to illustrate the practical application of mentalizing. Mentalizing in Psychodynamic and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy will be of great interest to psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists in training and in practice who are looking to integrate mentalizing into their work.

Pregnancy, Assisted Reproduction, and Psychoanalysis
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This book is an essential read for psychoanalysts and other professionals working in the field of ART, as well as those interested in motherhood and its vicissitudes and intersection with psychoanalysis.

The Bodily Unconscious in Psychoanalytic Technique
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The Bodily Unconscious in Psychoanalytic Technique explores how corporeality and body memory can be more strongly integrated into psychoanalytic work.

The Death Drive: A Contemporary Introduction
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Written in a style that is at once accessible and precise, this book is an invaluable tool to students and psychoanalysts in training approaching the theory for the first time, as well as practising analysts, postgraduate students and scholars familiar with the concept and looking to explore it further.

How Does Analysis Cure?: Essays on a Psychoanalytic Method, Psychoanalytic Organizations and Psychoanalysts
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This book investigates the analytic relationship as a process of giving patients the freedom to think the unthinkable (to build representations) and change repeated patterns of action into the possibility of reflection.

Couples as Parents: Explorations in Couple Therapy
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The book considers the historical context of couple relationships, utilises research and psychoanalytic ways of thinking to further understanding for psychotherapists and interested parents, as well as offering a variety of therapeutic approaches to the specific needs of parents, whether as a couple, separated or single.

Psychoanalysis and the Unspoken
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What do therapists not talk about? What do we ignore/miss/sidestep? What factors―personal, social, political―inform our areas of blindness? This book names and explores what psychoanalytic theory often skips over or simplifies―how, when, and why we fail to uphold the professional ideal.

Miss-ing: Psychoanalysis 2.0
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Inspired by Jacques Lacan’s idea in his Seminar VI that “Human beings cannot help but consider themselves to be [. . .] missing something” this series of essays explores the idea of lack under multiple themes.

The Indian Jungle: Psychoanalysis and Non-Western Civilizations
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Insights from clinical work embedded in the cultural imaginations of non-Western civilizations could help psychoanalysis rethink some of its theories of the human psyche, extending these to cover a fuller range of human experience. These cultural imaginations are an invaluable resource for the move away from a universal psychoanalysis to a more global one that remains aware of but is not limited by its origins in the modern West.
This book of essays aims to be a step in that journey, of altering the self-perception of psychoanalysis from ‘one size fits all’ into a more nuanced enterprise that reflects and is enriched by cultural particularities.

Tolerance – A Concept in Crisis: Psychoanalytic, Group Analytic, and Socio-Cultural Perspectives
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This book examines tolerance as a concept under crisis, exploring its origin and functions, and how it can be at risk of replacement by moral intolerance or retributive justice in turbulent societies.