Bücher der Reihe Relational Perspectives Book Series

Core Competencies of Relational Psychoanalysis provides a concise and clearly presented handbook for those who wish to study, practice and teach the core competencies of relational psychoanalysis, offering primary skills in a straightforward and useable format. Roy E. Barsness offers his own research on technique and grounds these methods with superb contributions from several master clinicians, expanding the seven primary competencies.

This collection of essays is illustrated by numerous cases, including psychosomatic presentations such as the analytic treatment of musculoskeletal pain, breast cancer in the therapist, living with physical difference and the deadened body that is the result of taking the mind as a primary object.

A collection of papers by authors within the recent psychoanalytical trend towards models of mind and development grounded in object relations concepts. Introductions place each paper in its historical context, and afterwords suggest subsequent developments in the author's thinking.

In this richly nuanced assessment of the various dimensions of mutuality in psychoanalysis, the author shows that the relational approach to psychoanalysis is a powerful guide to issues of technique and therapeutic strategy.

Developmental Perspectives in Child Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy incorporates recent innovations in developmental theory into understanding the nature of change in child psychotherapy. Instead of relying on more traditional psychoanalytic theory, each contributor brings forth his or her own voice as they unfurl the ingredients of therapeutic action and its implications for their own style and approach.

Self-examination and self-critique: for psychoanalytic patients, this is the conduit to growth. Yet within the field, psychoanalysts haven¿t sufficiently utilized their own methodology or subjected their own preferred approaches to systematic and critical self-examination. Across theoretical divides, psychoanalytic writers and clinicians have too often responded to criticism with defensiveness rather than reflectivity. This book is a first in the history of psychoanalysis; it takes internal dissension and difference seriously rather than defensively.

This volume aims to demonstrate how interpersonal psychoanalysis obliges analysts to engage their patients with genuine emotional responsiveness, so that not only the patient but analyst too is open to ongoing transformation through the analytic experience.

In this book, distinguished contributors give a comprehensive overview of where we are with current thinking on trauma and dissociation

Thematically integrating published and unpublished papers, and containing three chapters of autobiographical reflection, this book aims to make the author's distinct approach to clinical theory and practice available to a broad and receptive readership. This book bridges analytic practice, and other psychotherapeutic modalities.

Inspired by the clinical and ethical contributions of Muriel Dimen (1942-2016), a prominent feminist anthropologist and relational psychoanalyst, Boundary Trouble in Psychoanalysis challenges the established psychoanalytic and mental health consensus about the sources and appropriate management of sexual boundary violations (SBV).

This book goes beyond the established consensus that sexual boundary violations constitute a serious breach of professional ethics,to explore the cultural and historical implications of their chronic persistence.It appeals to specialists in psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, critical theory, feminist studies and social thought.

In 1995, Neil Altman did what few psychoanalysts did or even dared to do: He brought the theory and practice of psychoanalysis out of the cozy confines of the consulting room and into the realms of the marginalized. This title illustrates the challenges of working within this clinical milieu.

Psychoanalytic Treatment of Eating Disorders offers a compilation of some of the most innovative thinking on psychoanalytic approaches to the treatment of eating disorders available today.

Couples on the Couch provides a clear guide to applying the Tavistock model of couple psychotherapy in clinical psychoanalytic practice, offering a compelling sampling of ideas about couple relationships and couple psychotherapy from a broadly relational psychoanalytic perspective. The book provides an in-depth perspective to understanding intimate relationships and the complexities of working in this domain.

Immigration in Psychoanalysis: Locating Ourselves presents a unique approach to understanding the varied and multi-layered experience of immigration, exploring how social, cultural, political, and historical contexts shape the psychological experience of immigration, and with it the encounter between foreign-born patients and their psychotherapists.