Bücher der Reihe Relational Perspectives Book Series

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.

Offers a collection of papers which investigates the serious mental disturbance, often characterized by the presence of intrusive and invasive thoughts and fantasies that originate in a traumatic past but which can colonize and destroy the rational mind. This title also features papers on psychoanalytic thinking.

What can psychoanalysis bring to understanding Generation X, for whom the pressure to lead spectacular lives often leads to diffuse feelings of confusion, depression, and disorientation? Carlo Strenger explores the psychology of young adults for whom the weight of cultural, familial, and religious traditions has seemingly vanished.

This is a new kind of anthology. More conversation than collection, it locates the psychic and the social in clinical moments illuminating the analyst's struggle to grasp a patient's internal life as voiced through individual political, social, and material contexts. Each chapter is a single detailed case vignette in which aspects of race, gender, sexual orientation, heritage, ethnicity, class elements of the sociopolitical matrix of culture are brought to the fore in the transference-countertransference dimension, demonstrating how they affect the analytic encounter. Additionally, discussions by three senior analysts further deconstruct patients' and analysts' cultural embeddedness as illustrated in each chapter. For the practicing clinician as well as the seasoned academic, this highly readable and intellectually compelling book clearly demonstrates that culture saturates subjective experience - something that all mental health professionals should keep in mind.

This is a history of efforts to integrate psychoanalysis with other psychotherapeutic modalities, beginning with the early analysts to present day.

Provides a comparative framework for exploring the broad array of concepts developed for understanding interactive processes between analysand and analyst. This book considers the therapeutic action of psychoanalysis, anachronistic ideals, and the problems of gender and sexual orientation in the age of postmodernism.

This volume seeks to encompass the historic and still extant between object-relations and self psychology. The author views the self as housing the dialectical interplay between its pathological and non-pathological selves.

Can there be a relational criteria or paradigm for termination, and what would it include? How do treatment goals of the analyst and/or that of the patient affect the decision to terminate? How do the developments in attachment theory and research influence the preparation to end analysis? This title addresses these questions.

Psychoanalysis could tell us much about both the drive for war and the ways to undo the trauma that war inherently breeds. This book presents material by analysts, writers, and activists who have worked at the front lines of psychic life and war from various stances.

Locates some of the most ineffable types of situations for an analyst to take up with patients, such as the underlying grandiosity of self-criticism; the problems of too much congruence between what patients fantasize about and analysts wish to provide; and, the importance of analyzing hostile and aggressive aspects of erotic transference.

Offers a phenomenology of terror - through a look at war, genocide, terrorism, torture, and familial abuse - and queries the conditions through which an individual or group retains its humanity through acts of rescue, resistance, and memorial activity.

With chapters focusing on identity concerns associated with body-self (body size, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and age), urgent life crises, and defining life circumstances, The Therapist as a Person exemplifies the myriad ways in which the ther

Offers a view from the other side of the couch, illuminating the challenge and change experienced within the other half of the therapeutic relationship. This psychological adventure, fuses together the intimacy of the therapy with an account of the changes that have occurred in the practice of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis over the years.

The author explores two interrelated psychoanalytic problems - the nature of the unconscious mind, and the meaning and inner structure of human subjectivity. The result is a useful synthesis of contemporary psychoanalytic thought and an exploration of human suffering and spirituality.

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.