In the analytic encounter, body meets body, yet rarely is body mentioned. Without a body, we become like the nymph Echo, a disembodied voice condemned to echo what she hears. Rooted in analytical psyc
Carved by Experience is a close look through psychoanalysis and Buddhism into the mind's most basic conditioning: to crave the pleasant and reject the unpleasant. Drawing upon the rich literature conc
When the existential philosopher Colin Wilson died in December 2013, it was suggested by one perceptive obituary writer that, despite the seemingly diverse subject matter of his books, his true legacy
This book has been over twenty years in the making. It stems from an even longer history of experience with people who have disabilities and additional distress as a result of traumatic life experienc
This book is concerned with an enigmatic set of experiences which theorists in the Object Relations tradition have characterized as regression to dependence, a return to a primitive, pre-verbal relati
"The question whether God is a subject for psychoanalysis is something that must be tackled at the very outset of our enterprise. However as we pay attention to it, the question reveals itsel
The Fictions of Dreams explores the close connection between the narrative nature of dreams and the narrative devices employed in literature and creative writing. The book is unique in its confluentia
Group Analysis in the Land of Milk and Honey is a collection of beautifully written clinical essays by group analysts in Israel -- a society which suffers from chronic war and violence. Israeli group
Narrative therapy is an exciting and evolving psychotherapeutic approach. This book takes the reader on a journey across the territory of narrative therapy theories, principles and practices and its a
This book investigates recent conflictual events on college and university campuses, including protests directed at university leaders deemed victimizers, debates over the inclusion of “trigger warnin
In this compact and pithy book, the distinguished and prolific psychoanalyst Salman Akhtar steps out of his consulting room to address certain matters of urgent global concern. These include migration
A festschrift to explore and celebrate the work of Estela V. Welldon, whose pioneering work in forensic psychotherapy has influenced many of the psychotherapists and psychoanalysts working today.Each
This book is about love, how we fall in love, why we fall in love, and how much we suffer if unable to love or be loved. The need to love and be loved can be read as the prototype of every human need
In this book, the authors develop the theory of the tripartite matrix, consider music as a form of non-verbal communication as a sub-dimension of the matrix, and present empirical studies of the matri
A distillation of painstaking research into the life of Donald Winnicott, tracing his life from his childhood in Plymouth, through his career in paediatrics, to his election as President of the Britis
There is evidence of a movement from “a culture of narcissism” toward elements of a perverse culture. This book brings forth and examines the evidence as it reveals itself through one of the major ins
These selected papers from the 2014 7th International Conference on the Work of Frances Tustin amplify and extend her contributions to the study and treatment of autism, autistic spectrum disease and
The objective of this book is to update dynamic psychotherapists on the latest findings in Davanloo’s Intensive Short-term Dynamic Psychotherapy (IS-TDP). Previous authors have sometimes presented a s
Freud's invention of psychoanalysis was based on his own desire to know something about the unconscious, but what have been the effects of this original desire on psychoanalysis ever since? How has Fr
The fundamental outlook of this book is clinical. It attempts to establish a unitary model of the processes at work in different forms of narcissistic pathology, and to offer a model that is both an a
