Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology Books

Book SynopsisToday sees the rise of nationalism, the return of totalitarian parties in Europe to electoral success, and the rise of the alt-right and white supremacists in the US. Thus, there is urgency for psychoanalysts, with their understanding of cruelty, sadomasochism, perversion, and other mental mechanisms, to speak out. Jonathan Sklar has risen to the challenge with this timely, thought-provoking, and, at times, upsetting work. Dark Times starts with a look at European history in terms of monuments and mourning, before moving into storytelling and the elision of thought and history at this current time, including harrowing detail of the brutalities inflicted by ISIS on the Yazidi, and concludes with a meditation on the relationship between cruelty in the early environment and hatred of the other within society, with particular focus on racism in the US. Sklar goes against the grain of brief sound bites, which are an aid to quickly pass over painful knowledge. Instead, he goes into detail to give extremely dark, horrid occurrences, and the human beings on the receiving end, respect and understanding, which enables the reader greater access to allowing unconscious things to be made more conscious, highlighting the quality of humanity in human beings. Also, listening to these stories enables us to become more aware, not only of what is going on over there, but also what is happening here, because in our increasingly joined-up world, here is always implicated and affected too. By ridding ourselves of the illusions of our political times, we can find greater freedom to think, develop, challenge, and create hope, for the future of our children and our grandchildren, as well as for ourselves. Dark Times is a timely, thought-provoking, and, at times, upsetting work that is a must- read for all those looking for a deeper understanding of today’s world.Trade ReviewNormalising Nazis is one example of a populist attack on thinking that psychoanalyst Jonathan Sklar highlights in his vital new book… Acknowledging human cruelty is hard but, like this book, should not be avoided. An important read. -- Rachael Mckeown, Psychodynamic Counsellor * Sussex Counselling & Psychotherapy News, Spring 2019 *Lucid, powerful, intelligent, and deeply relevant for the days of our times: a vastly thoughtful and important book. -- Philippe Sands, Professor of Law at University College London, author of ‘East West Street’Ranging contrapuntally over such themes as alterity, memory, trauma, and racism, Dark Times is a vitally important volume that illuminates the increasingly menacing horizons of our shared social and political life. In an age in which psychological quick-fixes such as cognitive behavioural therapy and psychopharmacology proliferate, Jonathan Sklar reminds us of the irreducibility of psychoanalysis in helping to secure the internal conditions for freedom and emancipation, and therefore in resisting tendencies towards what Hannah Arendt called 'total domination'. -- Samir Gandesha, Associate Professor of Humanities and Director of the Institute for the Humanities at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada'emotionally and intellectually engaging […] a remarkable experience of a book, committed not only to a visceral practice of psychoanalysis, but also a deeply practical one. In these dark times, more works like Sklar’s are urgently needed.' -- Eddy Carrillo – The Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 90:3‘Stir[s] up the fitfully applied, but urgently needed, subdiscipline of political psychoanalysis […] To work free of revenge is an ongoing work and, essentially, I think the essays in 'Dark Times' are a reflection on this imaginative task.’ -- Steven Groarke, 'The International Journal of Psychoanalysis', 101:3, 2020Table of ContentsPreface About the author Acknowledgements Introduction Europe in dark times: some dynamics in alterity and prejudice Thinking on the border: memory and trauma in society Cruelty in the early environment and its relationship with racism Epilogue References Index

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Book SynopsisHow do you develop a truly rich and rewarding career in psychotherapy? How can you find joy in such painful work? How do you develop your skills in the field? How can you conquer your creative inhibitions? In short, how do you flourish as a psychotherapist? Brett Kahr answers these questions, and so many more, in his brilliant new book, painting a frank portrait of the life of the psychotherapist. Taking the reader through the life cycle of the therapist, Brett offers lots of practical advice, from assessing one’s suitability for the career, to managing one’s finances, to preparing for death. His clear voice and style shine through in this authentic, readable narrative. Professor Kahr has produced a must-read, gripping account of how you can thrive in every respect in this complex and rewarding career. How to Flourish as a Psychotherapist should be required reading for every therapist, anyone considering taking up the career, and everyone who has ever wondered what kind of person becomes a therapist. This is a truly original work that should become compulsory reading by all in the field.Trade ReviewI found myself responding with enjoyment and gratitude to this book… Kahr is happy to share all he has learned the long way… [and] has a very serious point to make about the importance of deriving ‘deep delight’ from our work. -- Isobel Todd, Psychodynamic Counsellor * Sussex Counselling & Psychotherapy News, Spring 2019 *I recommend it not only to students and prospective students but to therapists at whatever stage of their career they may be. You’ll find plenty of solid evidence and inspiration to deepen and expand your practice, indeed your life. -- Dr David Van Nuys * Shrink Rap Radio *The book seems aimed at traditional psychoanalytic psychotherapists but its wisdom applies much more widely. -- Roslyn Byfield MBACP (Accred), psychodynamic counsellor in private practice * ‘Private Practice’, June 2019 *‘This is an impressive and easy read (because it is well written and interesting) – a cradle-to-grave guide to building a successful practice – about not just surviving but “flourishing”. The book tackles all the stages of a career in psychotherapy, from choosing the most suitable course to what to do when you’re approaching retirement, and deals with real-life issues such as the envy of colleagues and back pain.’ -- Martin Pollecoff, psychotherapist and UKCP chair * New Psychotherapist *‘… this detailed and candid book … provides the reader with a comprehensive and revealing description of how to build and maintain a successful psychotherapy practice. … In lively conversational style he offers fascinating and humorous scenarios and anecdotes from different stages of his career.’ -- Caroline Hallett * British Journal of Psychotherapy, 35 (2019): 655-657 *'This is an impressive and easy read (because it is well written and interesting) – a cradle-to-grave guide to building a successful practice – about not just surviving but ‘flourishing’. [...] Not only did I invite Brett to join us, I bought a second copy of his book for a friend who is considering following this career path. So, think on this – greater love hath no man for a book he is reviewing than to buy two copies using money from his own pocket.' -- Martin Pollecoff, psychotherapist and UKCP chair, 'New Psychotherapist', Spring 2019Table of Contents INTRODUCTION Survival may not be enough Part One Building a Secure Base CHAPTER ONE A Noble, Complicated Passion Mouthwash for the Mind Zyklon B Gas in the Consulting Room Friends with Oesophageal Cancer and Vascular Dementia CHAPTER TWO Assessing One’s Own Sanity The Perfect Candidate Pathological Motivations Can We Afford to Train? CHAPTER THREE On Marrying a Library Bibliophilia Psychotherapeutica Curling Up with Sigmund Freud My Three Favourite Reading Rooms CHAPTER FOUR The Joys and Pitfalls of Training A Child in a Sweet Shop Exhausted, Frazzled, and Scrutinised Legitimate at Last CHAPTER FIVE Cultivating Brilliant Mentors Dis-identifying from Disappointing Tutors A Most Inspiring Lecturer from Mendoza A Great Teacher Under Whom I Never Studied Part Two The Art of Prospering CHAPTER SIX Perpetual Pupils Training Never Ends How to Be a Medieval Monk Swimming in Organisations CHAPTER SEVEN Attracting Referrals The Art of Advertising My Last 500 Patients Answering the Telephone CHAPTER EIGHT Managing Money Under-Charging and Over-Charging Collecting Fees Financial Planning for the Future CHAPTER NINE The Promotion of Expertise Flagrant Exhibitionism or Neurotic Inhibitionism? Generativity versus Stagnation On Stage at the Royal Opera House CHAPTER TEN Patients as Persecutors and as Privileges The Prevention of Burn-Out Hate in the Countertransference Delightful, Honourable People Part Three Thriving Beyond the Consulting Room CHAPTER ELEVEN Nourishing Fledgling Colleagues Enlivening the Classroom On Being a Clinical Supervisor A Little Drink After Work CHAPTER TWELVE Public Lecturing My Very First Paper The Length of the Applause Addressing the United Nations CHAPTER THIRTEEN Daring to Research The Humiliation of Edward Glover A Search for the Traumatic Origins of Psychosis Sexual Fantasies at the Dinner Table CHAPTER FOURTEEN Writing Articles and Books The Agony of 300 Words and the Ease of 300,000 Publishing as a Relational Experience “Not Another Book on Projective Identification” CHAPTER FIFTEEN Blue-Sky Projects Freud Thinks Big A Bestseller and a Serial Killer Psychotherapists in Prison and in the Middle East Part Four Surviving Success CHAPTER SIXTEEN Avoiding Isolation The Need for Solitude Beware the Ethics Committee Choosing the Best Dinner Parties CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Navigating Envy Winnicott’s Mutterings in Geneva Thank God I’m Overweight On Being Provocative CHAPTER EIGHTEEN Nurturing the Ageing Spine The Ultimate Narcissistic Injury The Ten-Minute Gymnasium Lounging on the Beach CHAPTER NINETEEN Embracing Idiosyncrasy Conquering Creative Entanglements Mourning Unfulfilled Dreams The Maverick in Mental Health CHAPTER TWENTY Preparing for Death The Appointment of Clinical Executors How to Retire Properly On the Shaping of a Legacy EPILOGUE My Parting Thoughts Acknowledgements About the author References Index

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Book Synopsis‘Any Psychoanalyst must find his own way and come upon well-known and well-established theories through experiences of his own realisations.’ So says W. R. Bion in his Commentary in Second Thoughts. In First Thoughts, Jayne Hankinson does just this. She presents a personal account of her own ‘realisations’ and discoveries during an attempt to give thought to ‘beginnings’. She explores the meaning and relevance of creation myths, leading to a deep realisation of how they unconsciously represent and shape much of our lives, even today. This exploration meanders through the Garden of Eden, leaving with a realisation that there is an ‘Adam’ and ‘Eve’ aspect in dynamic tension within each of our minds. This serpentine journey becomes a ‘hermeneutic loop’ in which dissatisfaction with parts of psychoanalytic theory leads to an engagement in the phenomena of beginnings and a consequent reappraisal and reinterpretation, via a closer look at Sigmund Freud, Melanie Klein, Donald Winnicott, and Wilfred Bion to formulate an understanding of what their ‘first thoughts’ may be. The book ends with the author’s own creation myth reshaped and a deeper awareness of how important ‘beginnings’ are.Table of ContentsA tribute to Chris Mawson Part I Dissatisfaction 1. My beginning 2. Creation myths 3. Presence and absence 4. The dispute 5. The chaos or the word 6. The binding of Hans 7. Circularity and straight lines 8 Initial thoughts Part II Engaging in the phenomenon 9. In the beginning 10. The garden 11. Conception stories 12. Vicissitudes of penetration 13. Magical structures 14. Wholeness 15. Tentative thoughts Part III Reappraisal 16. Freud’s first thoughts 17. Klein’s first thoughts 18. Winnicott’s first thoughts 19. Bion’s first thoughts 20. Gathered thoughts Part IV Reformulation 21. Modus vivendi 22. An elemental structure 23. Narcissism 24. Threads 25. To myth or not to myth 26. Final thoughts References Acknowledgements About the author

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Book SynopsisRoger Kennedy has written a masterful investigation into the concept of evil. He begins with a general view of the subject before moving into more detailed analysis. First is a review of the science of evil, including evidence from neuroscience and social psychology. This is followed by psychoanalytical studies of the individual and groups before presenting an overview of the philosophy of evil. Also included are historical and social studies which inform an understanding of evil in action. Kennedy goes on to examine the nature of genocide using a main focus on the Holocaust and of slavery. Both of these “journeys to evil” remain relevant for understanding contemporary society and issues. The Nazi past continues to disturb and resonate decades on. The politics and social fabric of Western society was reliant on slavery as a foundation of economic wealth and is haunted by its inability to process the harsh reality of slavery and its continuing after-effects. Kennedy moves from there to a discussion on the genius of Shakespeare and his encapsulation of the essential features of how evil can develop and take over a person’s inner world. The book concludes with a summary of the main themes and a look at those who have resisted evil and what we can learn from them if we are to build a society that can resist the forces of evil. The book is informed by a psychoanalytic approach, with its emphasis on the power and influence of unconscious processes underlying human actions, and on the role of inner conflicting and elemental fears and anxieties often driving individual and group behaviours. It brings fresh insight to an eternal discourse.Trade Review‘Roger Kennedy brings wide-ranging perspectives to describe and understand this very difficult and compelling subject. History, philosophy, religion, morality, neuroscience, primatology, psychology, and other disciplines are brought together as well as refracted through psychoanalytic understandings. Human destructiveness is not a direct consequence of our animal instincts, nor is it innate. Rather, evil is a consequence of being human as he observes that our species “annihilates the human subject and obliterates human agency”. This is a tough and compelling read in resisting our species’ vicious destructiveness.’ -- Dr Jonathan Sklar, training analyst, British Psychoanalytical Society‘Dr Roger Kennedy worked as a Consultant Family Psychiatrist in the NHS at the famous Cassel Hospital in London for almost thirty years and was an Honorary Senior Lecturer in Psychiatry at Imperial College London. He has written widely on psychoanalysis and families at breaking point. His new book, The Evil Imagination, is a fascinating and ambitious exploration of one of the great subjects of our time: evil. One of the most thoughtful psychoanalytic thinkers of our time, Dr Kennedy asks what leads people to commit evil acts and how can we use the latest psychoanalytic thinking to make sense of evil?’ -- David Herman, writer and former TV producer of programmes on psychoanalysis and the history of madness‘We find ourselves surrounded by such an abundance of expressed evil that our own imaginations are drowned out by the lived atrocities. Roger Kennedy alerts us to the megalomania that has permitted humans to comfortably annihilate the other – body and culture – and how this is a leitmotif of the mass atrocities of both the past and present. We find some measure of comfort in his book through his illustrating how we can transform rage into scholarship, sorrow into insight, and helplessness into teaching. The Holocaust serves as the representative evil of our species. In immersing ourselves in Kennedy’s masterful yet accessible collection of groundbreaking neuroscience, uplifting poetry, and insight-providing psychoanalytic perspectives, we are able to use the best of who we are in order to honourably encounter the worst of who we are. In reading Kennedy's book, I feel redoubled in my efforts to unpack the obstructions to the good-enough affects in each of us. This, so that we will contain a counterweight to our destructiveness and thereby perhaps, just perhaps, we may survive.’ -- Harvey Schwartz, training and supervising analyst, Psychoanalytic Association of New York; host of the IPA podcast, Psychoanalysis On and Off the CouchTable of ContentsAbout the author 1. Terrains of evil 2. The science of evil 3. Psychoanalysis and evil 4. The philosophy of evil 5. Journeys to evil: The Holocaust and British-American slavery 6. Shakespeare and evil—the dagger of the mind 7. Summary and final comments Endnotes References Index

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Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1992 in French as Peter Pan ou l’Enfant Triste, the book was translated into English in 1997 and released as Peter Pan: The Story of Lost Childhood. This new English language version is translated by author Kathleen Kelley-Lainé and enriched with the addition of an epilogue from the author plus a new foreword from renowned psychoanalyst Jonathan Sklar. Peter Pan, “young innocent and heartless”, with his baby tooth smile is one of the most popular heroes of fiction of both children and adults for over one hundred years. The author explores this mythical figure, both as a story as well as a metaphor, revealing the hidden traumas and psychological conundrums of this “Lost Child”. The evocative and lyrical style takes the reader through multiple levels of understanding of this seemingly simple “fairy tale”, into the tragic story of its author J. M. Barrie and of other Peter Pans who never grow up. In Peter Pan, the Lost Child, psychoanalyst Kathleen Kelley-Lainé explores Peter Pan’s light-hearted escapades and uncovers a sad, lost child behind the ‘baby tooth’ smile. She uses the story as a framework for the stories of her patients to show how their own Peter Pan manifests, giving a unique insight into how childhood events can block growth into adulthood. She also investigates the sinister side of author James Mathew Barrie as it relates to his Peter Pan tale, and addresses her own family history and its links to The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up. Little by little, as the book progresses, Kelley-Lainé’s lost childhood emerges as a child who fled with her family from war-torn Hungary after the Second World War to the ‘promised land’ of Canada. These three interwoven storylines take the reader on a literary journey to uncover secrets and hidden emotions. Kelley-Lainé makes clear that the child who cannot grow up, the Peter Pan raging inside the adult, needs to be heard and understood. Only then can that lost child have a chance to find the road to maturity.Trade Review‘Interweaving explorations of Peter Pan, Pan’s creator J. M. Barrie, and the author’s own rich and difficult early years – with appearances by Sigmund Freud and some of her own patients – Kathleen Kelley-Lainé offers us an absorbing exploration of the trauma of losing one’s childhood. I read the first edition many years ago, but this updated edition pulled me right back in again. Kelley-Lainé’s book is both psychoanalytically sophisticated and compelling – she helps us really see what happens to, and within, the children she writes about. Her unique voice, and the truth and wisdom of her story, speak to everyone. I recommend this wonderful book most highly.’ -- Jay Frankel, Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor and Clinical Consultant, Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, New York University‘In this remarkable book, the psychoanalyst Kathleen Kelley-Lainé weaves together three very different narratives – the story of Peter Pan, J. M. Barrie’s biography, and her own traumatic story of escape and exile. The “lost child” invokes both Ferenczi’s “wise baby” and Winnicott’s psychic “survival-of-the-object”, inspiring the reader to explore their own inner story. This creative and moving endeavour changes the meaning of Peter Pan forever.’ -- Jan Abram, training analyst, British Psychoanalytical Society and author of 'The Surviving Object: Psychoanalytic Clinical Essays on Psychic Survival-of-the-object'‘This is a beautifully written, poignant, and far-ranging contribution. Through the frame of James Barrie’s Peter Pan, Kathleen Kelley-Lainé illuminates the perils and possibilities of childhood and parenting with episodes from her own traumatic life and insights from her Paris-based practice in psychoanalysis, against the backdrop of the worldwide transformations since World War Two. Anyone brave enough to reflect upon their own childhood in the context of social change will gain immeasurably from her analysis.’ -- Bruce Kidd, Professor Emeritus of sport and public policy, University of Toronto‘This is a gift of a book and for many audiences. Creatively structured, exquisitely written, this illuminating exploration of the parallels in fairy and family tales weaves biographical facts and revelatory fiction through psychoanalytical knowledge and long experience to make new and expanding meaning in our lives and the lives of children – and parents. The generous glimpses into the author’s consulting room forge a confidence to and in this work of understanding the genealogy of damage; more importantly, her clever compassion and humanity model ways of repair. In our lost world, this is a book for now. It is a book to savour, encountering as we do in the words of the author “the elements of identity” and the possibility of restoration. It is a work in which you will meet yourself.’ -- Dame Ruth Silver, consultant educationalist and policy adviser, president of the Further Education Trust for Leadership, and patron for the Centre for Social Dreaming‘In this fabulous piece of writing, Kathleen Kelley-Lainé intertwines her own voice with J. M. Barrie’s Peter Pan, folding fantasy into psychoanalytic exploration, entangling memoir within that impossible classic. She has written a reflective, sprightly book, as full of twists and turns as J. M. Barrie’s eternal boy himself. I have never encountered a book like it before, and I am glad to have grasped its hand and taken that flight out again with it back to childhood and to Neverland.’ -- Michael Newton, author of 'Savage Girls and Wild Boys' and editor of 'Victorian Fairy Tales''Ultimately this book is about remembering, experiencing and working through the author’s own traumatic history until the last page. Shaping trauma into a story is transformational and so is the experience of reading it. Kelley-Lainé raises existential questions through her earnest quest for restoring the lost continuity of being. Questions are the loose ends that readers can use to find and weave their own stories. It is an inspiring read.' -- Maia Kirchkheli, 'Infant Observation', 'International Journal of Infant Observation and Its Applications', 2023Table of ContentsAbout the author Foreword by Jonathan Sklar 1. Peter Pan is born 2. Peter Pan on the window-sill 3. The past, the passage, and the passer 4. Forgotten childhood 5. The lost child-adult: a wife as mother 6. Captain of the lost boys 7. Folded wings Epilogue

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Book Synopsis‘The lives of women are inextricably linked to the well-being of children. If they are not educated, if they are not healthy, if they are not empowered, the children are the ones who suffer.’ (UNICEF report, 2006) The study this book is based upon was of a pioneering facilitating programme enabling low-income mothers with little to no outside support to attend college or university. The women’s stories are told in their own words and are used to explore the importance of education as a way to improve their and their children’s lives. The book begins with an engaging Foreword from Rosemary H. Balsam, FRCPsych (London), MRCP (Edinburgh), Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Yale Medical School. Followed by the author’s introduction, the book is then split into three parts. Part I sets the background of the study itself and of Western societal attitudes towards single mothers over the centuries. Mary Kay O’Neil also investigates common maternal tasks, the effect of parental and relational experiences, the life impact of becoming a mother, and the various influences on the decision mother alone. Part II considers the characteristics basic to effective mothering: resilience, autonomy, and caring. In the light of the author’s interest in women’s development, Part III explores the psychodynamic understanding of mothers alone without resources, and outlines society’s role in providing the opportunity for them to become successful mothers. The parts are followed by an Afterword to summarise what was learned through the women’s generous openness and to suggest societal improvements for increased opportunity. The book closes with two Appendices. The first tells the story of O’Neil’s mother, who also mothered alone. The second delivers the research findings of the study for those interested in learning more. This clearly written book underlines the UNICEF statement above and does much to engage with the debate on support for those most vulnerable members of society.Trade Review‘This excellent book on mothering alone centres on the author’s interviews with women from a program that gave single mothers and their children help with lodging and education. The voices of the women shine through and illuminate many facets of the experience: social and economic aspects, family and traumatic issues, resilience, and much else. Skillfully interwoven with these moving comments are examples from clinical practice and literature, and discussions of the biological, psychological, and social aspects of mothering alone. This impressive book has much to offer anyone with professional or other interest in the topic of mothering alone.’ -- Joseph Fernando, MPsyc, MD, Director, Toronto Institute of Psychoanalysis‘This carefully argued and deeply moving book gives a powerful picture of the challenge to women electing to raise a child on their own. Many personal elements in a woman’s life make a difference: education, resources, intergenerational support, and, perhaps above all, personal resilience, and psychological strength. Mary Kay O’Neil’s work here also makes a clear case for the need for serious and deep social supports. Mothering alone works best in cultures that provide supports in respectful and deeply compassionate ways. This is a book to learn from, whether the reader is a clinician, a teacher, a parent, or a bystander. Mothering alone is daunting work that needs all our support.’ -- Adrienne Harris, New York University‘Mary Kay O'Neil, a psychoanalyst with a background in social work and psychology, describes her research in a Canadian programme designed to help those “mothering alone,” and combines these research findings with her own deep understanding of psychoanalytic literature, focusing on (amongst other topics) infant and child development, the development of sexuality, the female psyche, the pain(s) and pleasure(s) of pregnancy , childbirth, and of adults remaining together and separating. ‘The text is richly illustrated by fictional and factual accounts from literature and film, as well as from her own psychoanalytic clinical practice and her research interviews. Always respectful of the multiplicity of influences which can help or hinder healthy growth, she focuses on what helps, what is needed, what are the factors which can allow a mother to care for her child, to allow them both to flourish. There is hope everywhere in this book, but the hope is not naive or trite, it is a recognition of the powers of resilience, autonomy, and the capacity to care even under extremely difficult circumstances. ‘Subtitled “A plea for opportunity,” this volume makes a strong case for the importance of attending to both internal and external factors in order to give the best possible hope to mothers, their children, and those who will follow in future generations. This is a thought-provoking, compassionate, and important book which I can unreservedly recommend.’ -- Dr Julian Stern, FRCPsych, Consultant Psychiatrist in Psychotherapy, psychoanalytic psychotherapist, and formerly Director of Adult and Forensic Services, Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, London‘This important book gives a much-needed voice to the challenges faced by those who “mother alone.” Such mothers are often among the most vulnerable or marginalized members of our society. Frequently, they do not have the resources central to nurturing children effectively. Mary Kay O’Neil powerfully illustrates the need for and benefit of providing opportunities for mothers to develop those resources. A mother who takes the opportunity to improve her circumstances will also improve the circumstances of her children, and in doing so will benefit the future of our society. Mothering Alone: A Plea for Opportunity should be read widely. It is an important book for those whose work and interests touch on the lives of these families, including those involved in child protection, education, and governance. This book bears witness to the strength of women who parent alone, to their resilience, and to their courage and tenacity in trying to do their best for their families. Society must give these mothers opportunity to achieve that best.’ -- Susan E Lang, retired judge of the trial and appellate courts of Ontario‘[This book] is an important contribution to the understanding of women (mothers and non-mothers), underpinned by psychoanalytic theory and woven with lived experience. I enjoyed it very much.’ -- Jeanine Connor, psychodynamic psychotherapist, 'Therapy Today', March 2023Table of ContentsAbout the author Acknowledgments Foreword by Rosemary H. Balsam Introduction Part I: Attitudes, research, and motherhood 1. Attitudinal change 2. The research project 3. Maternal tasks 4. Becoming a mother 5. Parental and partner relationships 6. Life development stories Part II: Maternal growth 7. Resilience 8. Autonomy 9. Caring Part III: Development of mothers alone 10. Psychodynamic understanding 11. Society’s role Afterword References Appendix I Appendix II Index

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Book SynopsisWhat stands between us and authoritarianism seems increasingly fragile. Democratic practices are under attack by foreign intrusion into elections; voter suppression restricts citizen participation. Nations are turning to autocratic leaders in the face of rapid social change. Democratic values and open society can only be preserved if citizens can discover and claim their voices. We access society through our organisations, yet the collective voices and irrationalities of these organisations do not currently offer clear pathways for individuals to locate themselves. How can we move through the mounting chaos of our social systems, through our multiple roles in groups and institutions, to find a voice that matters? What kind of perspective will allow institutional leaders to facilitate the discovery of active citizenship and support engagement? This book draws on psychodynamic systems thinking to offer a new understanding of the journey from being an individual to joining society as a citizen. With detailed stories, the steps – and the conscious and unconscious linkages – from being a family member, to entering outside groups, to taking up and making sense of institutional roles, illuminate the process of claiming the citizen role. With the help of leaders who recognise and utilise the dynamics of social systems, there may be hope for us as citizens to use our institutional experiences to discover a place to stand.Trade ReviewIt is a far-reaching book in terms of the expressed desire to help bring about greater participatory democracy. It is a helpful book through its illustration of how to do this at many levels—in the family, in organisations, and in society. In many places it redefines how we think about issues such as mental health, maturity, leadership, and citizenship. […] I am grateful for the accessibility of the writing and the storytelling that brings it alive. I am grateful for the clear enunciation of ideas […] This is an important read. It brings forward the ways in which self-reflective practice, in taking up a place for one’s voice, listening to others, and finding important commonalities can lead to a true democracy. -- Susan Long, 'Organisational & Social Dynamics' 22(2) (2022)This is a brilliantly realized treatment of what it means to be a citizen, and how we find our way there through the deeply personal psychological voyage we all must sail. “Finding a Place to Stand” uses cutting-edge behavioral science, clear and cogent story-telling, and a deep understanding of the human condition to create a book that should be on every citizen’s nightstand. -- Admiral James Stavridis, USN (Ret); Supreme Allied Commander at NATO (2009–2013); Dean, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University (2013–2018)This is a book about close listening to and learning from experience, within and across the social frames in which we live, grow, work, and relate. At one level, it tells the story of one individual’s own journey of discovery, as a psychiatrist keenly attuned to the social contexts in which he practices and leads. At another, it is a powerful exploration of the conscious and unconscious processes involved in finding and enabling others to find one’s own voice, as an 'internal citizen', in a family, a group, an organization, and a nation. Hugely ambitious, wonderfully accessible, its publication could scarcely be more timely -- David Armstrong, Associate Consultant, Tavistock Consulting, LondonTaking off from the now familiar idea of studying “the individual in context,” Dr. Shapiro brilliantly extends this concept from the parent–child matrix, to the couple, the developing family, the group – a social or work entity – and onto the larger collectives of institutions and political cultures. The trajectory of this book also covers the four decades of Shapiro’s work experiences: in individual treatment, in hospital administration, in group dynamics, and in the study of group relations. It is an amazing ride. He is educating us so carefully in the ways that unconscious forces, splitting, and conflict, at every level of social organization, impede and shape our individual and social capacities. Read this book as an individual, as a practitioner, but, above all, as a citizen. A fascinating, containing guide in turbulent times. -- Adrienne Harris, Psychoanalyst, New York University, NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and PsychoanalysisFinding a Place to Stand is a psycho–socio–political tour de force – carefully, steadily, and powerfully building the case for conscious integration of our multiple human identities so that we can learn to coexist and participate as citizens in an increasingly complex and disruptive world. Dr. Shapiro draws deeply and effectively on his experiences, both as a psychiatrist and as a manager–leader, to set the stage for his exploration of the divisions in our society and his search for citizens who can bridge the divides. -- John Shattuck, Professor of Practice in Diplomacy, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy; U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (1993–1998); U.S. Ambassador to the Czech Republic (1998–2000)An in-depth examination of the ‘psychology of citizenship’. Shapiro addresses a subject that has vast implications for individuals and organizational leaders… He methodically analyzes human connections in the broadest sense of the word …[and] explores the complex psychological dynamics of individuals, families, groups, and organizations in lucid writing free of medical and scientific jargon. Throughout, Shapiro cites pertinent examples and includes anecdotes, each of which aptly illustrates a key point. These stories, whether they are about individuals in families, patients in hospitals, or employees in companies, all serve to enrich the theories presented. An observant, discerning work on understanding and improving organizations. -- Kirkus Reviews'The book’s sections flow cohesively from one to the next, so the logical progression of the argument becomes clear. The author explores the complex psychological dynamics of individuals, families, groups, and organisations in lucid writing free of medical and scientific jargon. Throughout, Shapiro cites pertinent examples and includes anecdotes, each of which aptly illustrates a key point. These stories, whether they are about individuals in families, patients in hospitals, or employees in companies, all serve to enrich the theories presented here. The author’s observations also further understanding of the less-than-logical ways humans process their situations, something that seems intuitive only once it’s explained. [...] An observant, discerning work on understanding and improving organisations.' -- Kirkus Reviews, December, 2022Table of ContentsAcknowledgments About the author Foreword Part I: Developmental Steps Toward Citizenship CHAPTER ONE Joining: How are they right? CHAPTER TWO Containment and Communication CHAPTER THREE Making Sense of Organizational Dynamics CHAPTER FOUR The Interpretive Stance CHAPTER FIVE Taking Up a Role: A Case Example Part II: Leadership and the Self-Reflective Institution CHAPTER SIX The CEO: Developing Institutional Citizenship CHAPTER SEVEN Learning about Systems Psychodynamics CHAPTER EIGHT From Group Relations to Leadership CHAPTER NINE Shaping a Mission: Case Example CHAPTER TEN A Citizenship Laboratory CHAPTER ELEVEN Institutional Learning on Behalf of Society Part III: A Citizen in Society CHAPTER TWELVE Approaching Social Interpretation Through Institutions CHAPTER THIRTEEN Do Nations Have Missions: American Identity CHAPTER FOURTEEN Citizenship as Development CHAPTER FIFTEEN Society as a Multicellular Learning System Conclusion References Index

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Book SynopsisVamık D. Volkan recounts the story of Judy, a woman attempting to solve her early life deprivations through non-chemical addiction. He provides an understanding of the psychology behind such an addiction and also illustrates pertinent therapeutic concepts and issues which arose in Judy’s case. These include built-in transference, twinning, interpretation, dreams, hoarding, acting out, and therapeutic play. By paying attention to such things, it is possible to gain a greater understanding of the internal worlds of patients with preoedipal deprivations, conflicts, and fixations. For this case, Dr Volkan undertook the role of supervisor to an analyst in training. The topics of the psychoanalytic supervisor–supervisee relationship and the supervisor’s emotional reactions toward the patient, whom the supervisor never meets, are rather ignored in the psychoanalytic literature. This book gives an open and frank overview of the relationship, reporting not only what was said but also what lay behind the words. Written in Dr Volkan’s characteristically accessible style, this book will be enjoyed equally by those under supervision as those providing it, and provides an excellent overview of work with addiction.Trade Review‘The author’s approach and style result in a clear explanation of the key points while maintaining interest for the reader. This is not a dry read and is best suited to reading from cover to cover. […] This is an enjoyable read and a good starting point to delve deeper into the concepts offered within. I found Volkan’s book to be a good addition to my library.’ -- Beverly Neeson, student member of BACP, ‘Therapy Today’ March 2022'In his latest book, Vamik Volkan, esteemed psychoanalyst, scholar and prolific author, takes up the phenomenon of sexually compulsive behaviour [...] The story is one that describes the layered, at times daunting, analytic journey of Judy, Dr Rowan and Volkan, and reminds us of the power of analytic treatment and its usefulness with some of the most complicated and entrenched repetitive behaviours and destructive patterns.' -- Drew Tillotson, The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 103:2, 2022Table of ContentsAbout the author About this book Chapter 1 A “hunter” of men Chapter 2 Psychoanalytic perspectives on addictions Chapter 3 Built-in transference Chapter 4 Twinning Chapter 5 Judy’s analysis begins: Establishing a psychoanalytic foundation and linking interpretations Chapter 6 The first dream and Judy’s first year of analysis Chapter 7 Animals, birds, fish, or insects “on the couch” Chapter 8 Judy’s dog Chapter 9 Analysands’ actions Chapter 10 Therapeutic play Chapter 11 Therapeutic neutrality and countertransference Chapter 12 Reaching P and renovating a new house Chapter 13 Finding R Chapter 14 What happened to Judy after I stopped working with Dr. Rowan? References Index

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Book SynopsisIn psychoanalysis, misogyny hides in plain sight, seemingly above and beyond the usual conventions of workplace etiquette or even a vague awareness of sexism. It is commonplace in psychoanalytic literature and in the presentation of case studies for a description of the female client’s attractiveness to be given as a diagnosis rather than an opinion, for the word ‘feminine’ to be used as a synonym for submission, for psychosexual development to still miss the glaringly important stage of menstruation, for women to still be described in terms of losing a penis but gaining a baby – not a vagina or clitoris – and for the fundamental experiences of pregnancy and birth to be overlooked. Ironically for a field that’s main currency is reflection, the different treatment of women is bypassed as misogyny is institutionalised in psychoanalysis. The book reflects the author’s experience in the world of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy as a trainee, supervisee, student, teacher, psychotherapist and supervisor in various institutions, and as a former CEO of a psychotherapy training organisation. It is a collection of five essays inviting you to join an inclusive conversation about why psychoanalysis is the way it is and, through a case study, experience the impact this misogyny has on the treatment of women. Misogyny in Psychoanalysis highlights what’s at risk for the practice of psychoanalysis / psychotherapy and, most importantly, for those seeking help when institutionalised misogyny goes by unchallenged.Trade Review'I really enjoyed reading the chapter ‘The misogynistic introject – a case study’ and thoroughly endorse your perception of how psychoanalysis assumes that it is a fault in the mother that creates autistic characteristics, and if not creates, then potentially amplifies. I am sure that you will be contacted by many mothers who resonate with the descriptions. My feedback is one of gratitude to you for writing the chapter and I know that mothers will support you. I only hope that analysts recognise the misogyny in psychoanalysis.' -- Professor Tony Attwood, clinical psychologist, specialist in Autism Spectrum Disorders'This long overdue book jolts us forcibly and necessarily out of our collective dissociative blindness. It rips away the veil of the ‘misogynistic introject’ of our unwillingness/inability to see what is (quoting the author) ‘hiding in plain sight’, throwing into stark relief and forcing us to confront the glaring misogyny and patriarchal foundations and their continuing pervasiveness in our field. [...] this book is a page-turner which had me riveted from beginning to end.' -- Debbie Zimmerman, attachment-based psychoanalytic psychotherapist, 'New Psychotherapist'‘It seems astonishing that this is the first psychoanalytic book about misogyny, and about the misogyny in psychoanalysis. It is fortunate that this is such a remarkable book, lucid, incisive and accessible: and essential now to the theory and practice not only of psychoanalysis, but to all the psychological therapies.’ -- Visiting Professor Adam Phillips, English Department, University of York‘This important book is a must-read for analyst and lay-person alike, providing a detailed and careful analysis illustrating why psychoanalysis as both a field of research and as a practice has a persistent blind spot when it comes to misogyny. In equal parts engaging and informative, Michaela Chamberlain draws in narrative, art, personal experience, and her detailed knowledge as a psychoanalyst to shake at the canon and ask, in eloquent yet forceful terms, for the need for psychoanalysis to take itself to the couch and examine the legacy of Freud's misogyny that continues to infiltrate the field. As a gender studies reader, I found the book both accessible and enlightening on the ways through which women's sexuality and mothering continue to be defined from a position of retrograde knowledge on women's lives, anatomy, health, and consciousness. From menstruation to mothering and academic life, Chamberlain has provided a text that will reverberate for readers in significant and lasting ways.’ -- Professor Gina Heathcote, School of Law, Gender and Media, SOAS University of London‘This is a brilliant, necessary book – so well written and argued. I tore through it in one sitting. The case material is illuminating and overall the book manages to be critical of psychoanalysis while remaining at all times psychoanalytic. A real achievement.’ -- Anouchka Grose, Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research‘Psychoanalysis can become a psychic retreat so as to avoid our own blind spots. We are all steeped in our respective eras with all the inherent defensive certainties that this social and political rootedness can engender. This has clearly been the case in relation to misogyny. It has taken some courage to write this challenging and well-crafted book. It will also require courage for male analysts to recognise themselves within it.’ -- David Morgan, Consultant Psychotherapist, psychoanalyst, and editor of the Political Mind series‘This book is a monograph of passionate critique concerning the forms of misogyny to be found embedded in various psychoanalytic concepts, theories, practices and institutions. The book’s brevity, Michaela Chamberlain says, is to render it accessible to anyone with an interest in psychoanalysis. It is welcome to have a renewed focus on misogyny and to be reminded once again of its persistence and insidiousness.’ -- Joanna Ryan, psychoanalytic psychotherapist, ‘British Journal of Psychotherapy’'[Chamberlain] eloquently interweaves her experience as a woman, psychotherapist and supervisor with meticulous research and critical analysis of misogyny in psychoanalytic theory and its practice – as well as its enactment and perpetuation in the communities and organisations in which we work and live. [...] This is also an engaging and sometimes moving read. Chamberlain powerfully conveys her sense of shock, pain and deep frustration at witnessing some glaring examples of misogynistic thinking. [...] This book is groundbreaking in the iconoclastic treatise which lies at its heart, the courage with which the author takes on the psychoanalytic establishment itself.' -- Debbie Zimmerman, attachment-based psychoanalytic psychotherapist, 'New Psychotherapist', Autumn 2022'It seems more important than ever that we face up to the legacy of misogyny in psychoanalysis, so that we do not pass it on to the next generation. Michaela Chamberlain has started a really important conversation. It is up to all of us to keep talking.' -- Annie Pesskin, trained at the BPF, works in private practice, and is the author of The Kids Are Crying Again: Emergency Communication Skills for Parents and PartnersTable of ContentsPreface The Mansplaining of Psychoanalysis Still Face Freud Bingo The Misogynistic Introject The Missing Period in Psychoanalysis Notes Acknowledgements About the author Index

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Book SynopsisVolume 2 of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in China continues the tradition began with Volume 1 of featuring cultural issues that confront analysts and therapists as they apply psychoanalytic thinking to their work with Chinese patients and students. Therapy and work with institutions are embedded in the civilisation, so the issues facing China and its people confront those who conduct therapy, consultation, and training there. This issue focuses on a wide-ranging view of cultural issues that underlie the work of psychoanalytic therapy, and that should equally inform training for that work. Just as the mental health needs of China are enormous, the obstacles to real cultural understanding are formidable. Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in China aims to aid both the educator and the practitioner in their efforts to bridge cultural gaps by deepening understanding of Chinese culture and mentality, and by applying that evolving understanding to therapeutic, consultative, and educational work.Table of ContentsEDITORIAL INTRODUCTION David E. Scharff ARTICLES Xie Yi Painting: A Chinese Cultural Therapy Richard Wu A Contribution to the Psychodynamics of Tolerance Tomas Plänkers Psychoanalysis and the Understanding of Chinese Life Experience Alf Gerlach Creativity and Transformation of the Psyche: Expressive Image Therapy Cai Chenghou A Commentary on Cai Chenghou’s “Creativity and Transformation of the Psyche” Marta Tibaldi What are the Characteristics and Concerns of High and Low Raters of Psychodynamic Treatment to Chinese Students Over VCON? Robert M. Gordon, Jane Tune, and Xiubing Wang Mother, Infant, and Woman’s Identity Jun Tong Interview of Sverre Varvin Jia Xiao-Ming BOOK REVIEWS Book Essay: A Bridge for Introducing Psychoanalysis to China. Five Concepts Proposed to Psychoanalysis by François Jullien Reviewed by Almatea Usuelli Evil Hours: A Biography of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder by David J. Morris Reviewed by Sverre Varvin When the Sun Bursts: The Enigma of Schizophrenia by Christopher Bollas Reviewed by Ronald Abramson THEATRE REVIEW Chimerica by Lucy Kirkwood Reviewed by David Scharff

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Book Synopsis'…if this is her final book, she has left the best for last. Psychoanalysts trained within the Independent Group are often asked by psychoanalysts and psychotherapists abroad which book they should read to get a feel for the way independent psychoanalysts think and work. In the past one has referred to Winnicott’s Playing and Reality, Rycroft’s Imagination and Reality, Khan’s The Privacy of the Self, and Marion Milner’s opus. But if we are to have one book, this is it. We may say “Here, you will find it here”. This work is a literary spirit of place – a beautifully rendered conjuring of sensibility – and to my mind it is the single best expression of the English psychoanalyst of independent persuasion we are ever likely to have.’ From the Foreword by Christopher BollasTrade ReviewNina Coltart’s The Baby and the Bathwater is a clear water flowing gently over rocks. Her observations of a career in psychoanalysis span more than thirty years of writing, showing us how the ends of her professional development were contained in the beginnings, and showing us how this was so in detail through her wonderful prose. From the specifics of clinical histories and experiences through her long and interesting career to the chapters on spirituality and philosophy – both personal and clinical examinations of philosophy – she demonstrates the powers of a penetrating mind. Trained at Oxford, Coltart has moved both within and beyond the constraints of several traditions – medicine, psychoanalysis, Christianity, Buddhism – to give us the rarest of gifts – an independent mind. This is a book for the novice because it will give them inspiration and courage to begin, and a book for the war-weary veteran psychotherapist and psychoanalyst because it is rejuvenating. If you want a fresh wind in your therapeutic sails, read this book! -- David E. Scharff, M.DTable of ContentsForeword 1. The man with two mothers 2. Why am I here? 3. Two’s company, three’s a crowd 4. Handling the transference 5. A philosopher and his mind 6. Blood, shit, and tears 7. “And now for something completely different…” 8. Buddhism and psychoanalysis revisited 9. Endings 10. The baby and the bathwater References

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Book Synopsis2021 Gradiva Award Winner The Piggle is one of the most famous and beloved child cases in the history of psychoanalysis. A two-year-old girl suffering from terrible nightmares, depression, and self-harming behaviours, the Piggle, came to Donald Winnicott for treatment. In writing up the case and allowing it to be published (with the posthumous help of his wife Clare and his student, Ishak Ramsey), Winnicott invited the world into his consulting room and allowed the inner world of the very young child to be seen. Seven psychoanalysts rediscover the Piggle, meeting her as an adult, re-scrutinising the case as it was formulated by Winnicott, and suggesting new understandings of the Piggle’s material. Introduced by a foreword from Angela Joyce, the book features an interview with the adult Piggle, discussing her recollections of the treatment and her view of its impact many years on, as well as a meticulous historical overview from an investigation of ‘The Piggle‘ archive revealing previously unknown information, a critical, detailed reappraisal of the case, and reflections from several authors on how modern psychoanalytic technique might be applied to the case were the Piggle to be seen in 2020. In this age, when the voice of the child needs to be heard more than ever, Finding The Piggle gives new life to this classic piece of psychoanalytic literature in which the importance of the child’s feelings and conflicts is made abundantly clear. With this comprehensive exploration, a new generation of clinicians and others can rediscover this important case and think about it anew.Trade ReviewThis thought-provoking, well-written, and well-organized book is a compendium of commentaries regarding a case study by Donald Winnicott [...] I heartily recommend Finding the Piggle to clinicians and others who have a basic knowledge of contemporary psychoanalysis and of course to all those who have read Winnicott’s case study itself. It is a powerful statement of what can emerge when you bring two or more people together in a consulting room with an open mind and heart. -- Victor L. Schermer, 'The Psychoanalytic Review'Winnicott’s famous “Piggle” (1977), was the Pied Piper that brought riveted readers into child psychotherapy training, more than any course or training advert. Finding the Piggle, with its excellent contributors, dares to bring the iconic work back to contemporary reappraisal as well as providing new relational understanding. a treasure at the heart of the book is that the real grown-up Piggle can be met in a way that respects both her, her analyst and her treatment as a child. Make way for more training places! -- Dr Valerie Sinason, former consultant child psychotherapist, Tavistock Clinic; founder and patron, Clinic for Dissociative StudiesIt takes a book as intriguing as The Piggle to prompt a book as searching and adventurous as Finding the Piggle. In addition to meticulous accounts of the original case study and supplementary archival material, the chapters cast Winnicott’s psychotherapeutic approach in a new light. The reader is invited to re-examine Winnicott’s clinical thinking from the viewpoint of attachment theory, contemporary interpersonal perspectives, and relational psychoanalysis. In an ambitious move along these lines, the volume aims above all to situate the Piggle and her family in terms of “shared pathology” and the transgenerational transmission of trauma. -- Steven Groarke, psychoanalystDr Masur’s Finding the Piggle is a gem that brings us a refreshingly honest, contemporary reappraisal of Winnicott’s famous child case. Each contributor brings a unique perspective – including issues of loss and mourning; relational aspects of child analysis; the concept of the analyst as a developmental object; and a family systems approach. It is a particular joy to hear from Gabrielle as she talks with Dr Luepnitz about her therapeutic encounters with Winnicott as a child. Finding the Piggle is a must-read. It accomplishes its mission of demonstrating the aliveness, richness, and complexity of psychoanalytically informed work with children, and their families. -- Jennifer Bonovitz, co-author of 'The Facilitating Partnership: A Winnicottian Approach for Social Workers and Other Helping Professionals'They reappraise the original book from diverse perspectives in the light of developments in theory and practice and expand understanding of Gabrielle’s family’s history and Winnicott’s life at the time. [...] I wholeheartedly recommend Finding the Piggle to anyone interested in the rich life of children, adults and families, as an invaluable companion for anyone reading The Piggle today, whether for the first time or returning to it and in the ongoing understanding and extending of the work of Donald Winnicott. -- Linda Wisheart, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist, Oxfordshire, for The Squiggle FoundationA magnificent seven eminent therapists offer us their own interpretations of DW Winnicott’s ‘most famous child case’, each one very different from the others. It was a joy to read every perspective and a treat to have the opportunity to follow the thinking of these therapists. It is a rare book that feels like it has always existed. […] Winnicott’s famous legacy is kept alive by these great thinkers.[…] There are valuable theoretical and imaginative insights here that will entertain and educate therapists of all persuasions. -- Gavin Conn, integrative counsellor – Therapy Today, Oct. 2021‘[T]his book is an important and useful addition to the Winnicott literature. […] We thus owe Masur and her colleagues a debt of gratitude for presenting us with their work. Piggle is, to a large extent, “re-found.”’ -- Steve Tuber, Journal of the American Psychoanalytical Association, 70:2'There are also moving accounts of Gabrielle being able to recount what she remembered of the treatment. Particularly poignant is her account of hearing Winnicott’s voice for the first time in over fifty years by listening to recordings of Winnicott’s radio broadcasts. [...] And this is why this book will be of interest so many and deserves to be widely read.' -- Kate BrownTable of ContentsAcknowledgements About the editor and contributors Foreword by Angela Joyce Introduction by Corinne Masur CHAPTER ONE The name of the Piggle: reconsidering Winnicott’s classic case in light of some conversations with adult “Gabrielle” Deborah Anna Luepnitz CHAPTER TWO “The Piggle Papers”: an archival investigation 1961 – 1977 Brett Kahr CHAPTER THREE Reappraising Winnicott’s The Piggle: a critical commentary Christopher Reeves CHAPTER FOUR The Piggle: rivalrous or bereft? Corinne Masur CHAPTER FIVE Child analysis is SHARED: holding the child’s relational context in mind Laurel Silber CHAPTER SIX A child analyst looks at The Piggle in 2020 Justine Kalas Reeves CHAPTER SEVEN Inviting the Piggle into therapy: a contemporary perspective Zack Eleftheriadou Conclusion Corinne Masur Index

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Book SynopsisEmotion is an integral aspect of musical experience; music has the power to take us on an emotional and intellectual journey, transforming the listener along the way. The aim of this book is to examine the nature of this journey, using a variety of perspectives. No one discipline can do justice to music’s complexity if one is to have a sense of the whole musical experience, even if one has to break up the whole experience into various elements for the purposes of clarification. The issues raised have some relationship to psychoanalytic understanding and listening, as after all psychoanalysis is a listening discipline; its bedrock is listening to the patient’s communications. While of course there are significant differences between understanding of, and listening to, a musical performance and a patient in a consulting room, the book explores common ground. Evidence from neuroscience indicates that music acts on a number of different brain sites, and that the brain is likely to be hard-wired for musical perception and appreciation, and this offers some kind of neurological substrate for musical experiences, or a parallel mode of explanation for music’s multiple effects on individuals and groups. After various excursions into early mother/baby experiences, evolutionary speculations, and neuroscientific findings, the book’s main emphasis is that it is the intensity of the artistic vision which is responsible for music’s power. That intense vision invites the viewer or the listener into the orbit of the work, engaging us to respond to the particular vision in an essentially intersubjective relationship between the work and the observer or listener. This is the area of what we might call the human soul. Music can be described as having soul when it hits the emotional core of the listener. And, of course, there is ‘soul music’, whose basic rhythms reach deep into the body to create a powerful feeling of aliveness. One can truly say that music of all the arts is most able to give shape to the elusive human subject or soul.Trade Review'Overall, it is a very readable book that is interesting and enriching for not only music lovers and psychoanalysts. He takes the reader on a journey to explore the nature of the musical experience from a psychoanalytic perspective, which is informative and rewarding. Although there is already some recent literature on the subject, Kennedy's work is characterized by its comprehensive and compact way of juxtaposing and relating the results of empirical studies, history, and psychoanalytic knowledge. The diversity of the literature, which he places in interesting contexts, is impressive. In this way, he makes an important contribution to understanding the phenomenon of the power of music.' -- Ingrid Erhardt, clinical psychologist, psychotherapist, music therapist, and psychoanalyst, International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Jan 2024The power that music exerts on human beings has been recognised since ancient times, but how and why it does so remains something of a mystery. As a psychoanalyst and music-lover, Roger Kennedy is well placed to undertake an examination of the effects of music on the mind and the relation of music to the unconscious. This book offers an accessible and engaged exploration of this fascinating area of investigation. -- Armand D’Angour, Fellow and Tutor in Classics, Jesus College, OxfordThe book betrays the enormously wide reading, interests, and sympathies of its author, by his multiple points of reference. Roger Kennedy discusses in-depth ideas from composers, psychoanalysts, performers, philosophers, literary authors, and musicologists. Seeing music in the round may be the most important feature of this deeply original book. His literary style combines scholarship and clarity. As you would expect from a psychoanalyst, he is particularly interested in relationships: the relationships within composers’ minds that have brought compositions into being, relationships between performers, critics and music lovers, relationships within pieces, between the notes themselves. I highly recommend this book. -- Francis Grier, composer and psychoanalystRoger Kennedy’s The Power of Music: Psychoanalytic Explorations is a masterful multidisciplinary account of the relationship between music and emotion. Drawing on infant research, neuroscience, and evolutionary theory as well as musicology and psychoanalysis, Kennedy leads his reader on a musical journey to the origins of musicality in infantile and social experience and its lifelong development in unconscious receptivity. -- Neil Vickers, Professor of English Literature and the Health Humanities, King’s College LondonI found it fascinating throughout, and drew comfort from an underpinning narrative that seems to centre on the importance of listening. An inability to listen, rather than to simply hear, causes so many problems, but music forces us to listen, and makes us better at it. I also loved the notion of ‘musicking’, bringing all involved in music together, whether writing, listening, or playing. -- Mark Wigglesworth, internationally renowned Olivier Award-winning conductor‘… a unique and thought-provoking read. Kennedy’s multidisciplinary approach ensures every reader will learn something new, no matter what their area of expertise.’ -- Rosie Olver * thecuspmagazine.com *The author invites readers to re-evaluate their current beliefs about music in therapy, as he presents a compelling argument that musicality acts as the basis of all human communication’ […] Accessible to therapists from all modalities […] The power of music is a well-considered and thoroughly researched study of a topic that might sit outside the everyday awareness of most therapists. The book gave me the opportunity to reflect on my practice from a totally new angle. I now notice the timbre and pitch of my patients’ voices, revealing a new pathway to the unconscious. -- Aiden Duffy, applied psychologist and BACP registered therapist – BACP Healthcare Counselling and Psychotherapy Journal April 2021Kennedy guides us on a fascinating journey through child development, neuroscience, musicology and psychoanalysis. […] This book will be of particular interest to practitioners with a love of music and a curiosity about its power to touch our deepest feelings yet elude explanation. -- Omar Sattaur MBACP (Accred) – Therapy Today, April 2021‘Kennedy takes us on a thought-provoking and absorbing journey down many and varied avenues in his mission to understand the enigma of music […] The reader is provided with a rich variety of ideas, thoughts and speculations derived from many fields and examined with scholarship and enthusiasm.’ -- Anthea Gomez, 'The International Journal of Psychoanalysis', 102:3, 2021Table of ContentsAbout the author CHAPTER ONE Overture CHAPTER TWO Early musical experience as a root of music’s power CHAPTER THREE Origins of music’s power CHAPTER FOUR Music and emotion, first movement CHAPTER FIVE Music and emotion, second movement CHAPTER SIX Finale – Musical and Psychoanalytic Connections References Index

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Book SynopsisShowcasing a diverse range of contributions from psychoanalysts of many different countries and theoretical orientations, Psychoanalysis and Covidian Life, a collective work edited by Howard B. Levine and Ana de Staal, offers readers the opportunity to explore and reflect upon the ways in which the Covid-19 pandemic has begun to influence analytical practice. From the changes imposed on the framework (online sessions) to the impact of the trauma of isolation and the disruption of our social anchoring (required by confinement and health protection gestures), to the challenge presented to the ‘ordinary’ denial of mortality, this book explores the lessons of what the pandemic can teach us about how to understand and treat collective distress individually and puts psychoanalytical tools to the test of the profound psychosocial upheavals that the twenty-first century may hold in store. This book will be of interest to practising and trainee clinicians and anyone with an interest in the all-consuming effects of a global pandemic. Contributions from Christopher Bollas, Patricia Cardoso de Mello, Bernard Chervet, Joshua Durban, Antonino Ferro, Serge Frisch, Steven Jaron, Daniel Kupermann, Howard Levine, François Lévy, Riccardo Lombardi, Elias & Alberto Rocha Barros, Michael Rustin, Ana de Staal, and Jean-Jacques Tyszler.Trade Review'Its editor cautions it is too soon to draw firm conclusions on the impact of the pandemic on the practice of therapy. Yet this collection of 15 essays … succeeds in its aim of providing some useful observations, ideas, and experiences.' -- Duncan Barford, psychodynamic counsellor, SCAP no. 141 (Summer 2021) sussex-counselling.co.uk'it is in demonstrating the resilience of the analytic frame and the value of psychoanalytic tools in illuminating the structure of our most personal fears that this book proves its unique worth. […] A fascinating read.' -- Jane Cooper, former senior counsellor at the University of of Cambridge – Therapy Today Nov 2021I think this book would be of interest to anyone working in the psychotherapeutic professions, who wishes to reflect on the multiple challenges of working and being over the past two years. It is a stimulating read for anyone who can resist the lure of amnesia now that the pandemic seems to be becoming endemic. -- Helen Lowe, registered member of BACP, Healthcare Counselling and Psychotehrapy Journal Vol 22 No 22 April 2022I was immediately taken with the title of this book and impressed that Howard Levine and Ana de Staal had been able, so quickly, to bring together papers by a range of psychoanalytic practitioners from many different countries. [… It] sets down some very important challenges for us as individuals and as a profession, with opportunities and responsibilities that go beyond the clinic and the office. I will be mulling over them for some time, as I think you will too. -- Lord John Alderdice, Harris Manchester College, Oxford, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, 2022‘The different chapters of this seminal book weave a rich tapestry of this covidian life. […] The contributors offer a much-needed attempt to conceptualize collective and individual distress, including the social/political context in which the pandemic emerged, its effect on the therapeutic setting and the frame, and the immediacy of the clinical realm.’ -- Isaac Tylim, 'The Psychoanalytic Quarterly', 92:1, 148-153, 2023Table of ContentsAcknowledgements About the editors and contributors Editors’ note Part I The background scene/the context 1. Civilization and the discontented 2. The coronavirus pandemic and its meanings Part II Living and thinking in pandemic times 3. The shattering of a denial as food for thought 4. Landscapes of mental life under Covid-19 5. Catastrophe and its vicissitudes: denial and the vitalising effect of “good air” Part III The setting under pressure 6. Being online: what does it mean for psychoanalysis? 7. The burnt compartment. Or: Psychoanalysis without a couch 8. Individual distress, institutional distress Part IV Reconfigurations and changes in practice 9. Body and soul in remote analysis: anguished countertransference, pandemic panic, and space–time limits 10. A short circuit in the analytical process 11. Beyond the all-traumatic: narrative imagination and new temporalities in the analytic session Part V Clinical journals 12. Katabasis, anabasis: working in a post-ICU Covid-19 unit in a public hospital 13. Where does the psychoanalyst live? The online setting in the psychoanalysis of a three-year-old girl on the autistic spectrum 14. Where does the Covid live? Osmotic/diffuse anxieties, isolation, and containment in times of the plague Part VI Conclusion 15. Covidian life Index

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Book SynopsisIt is important to point out that these essays are about character types; it is not to suggest that all borderlines, narcissists or manic depressives are the same. Everyone is an individual and are who they are for many different reasons. What they have in common is a typical relation between their subjectivity and the world they inhabit. In other words, Christopher Bollas has identified the axioms that these individuals share. Following a discussion of the features of each type, the axioms are delivered in the character’s own voice. By placing ourselves within their own logic, we can begin to identify and empathise with them. At the root of all character disorders there is mental pain and each disorder is an intelligent attempt to solve an existential problem. If the clinician can grasp their specific intelligence and help the analysand to understand this, then a natural process of healing can begin. Three Characters is a masterclass based on decades of lectures presented to psychoanalysts, analytical psychologists, and psychotherapists, and is a must-read for all psychoanalytic enthusiasts.Trade Review'this book is worth the investment of both reading and thinking about. […] The book takes the reader, sometimes at breath-taking speed, through Bollas’s ideas about character developed over 30 plus years of clinical work and writing. Through his dissecting and describing the lived experiences of the various character structures, the reader is offered a way of thinking about clinical work with these sufferers. […] Bollas’s endeavour to understand the territory and to give his patients the space to be who they are comes through. In answer to one of the questions, Bollas writes of ‘the right of free speech in analysis’ (p. 67). I think the book shows something of how he has tried to demonstrate this in his writing as well as how he tries to give this freedom to his patients.' -- Jan McGregor, British Journal of Psychotherapy 38, 1 (2022)The chapters are a wonderful way of thinking about object relations in action. There is a sense of academic surety in Bollas’ psychoanalytical explanation, which, as an integrative counsellor, does not always sit easy with me. These lectures inspire me to know more, and I imagine most readers will feel the same. Have a notepad and pencil handy! -- Gavin Conn, counsellor in private practice in London, ‘Therapy Today’ April 2022‘In these pages, one can feel how Bollas has spent decades venturing to enter states of deep identification with his analysands […] Bollas is perhaps examining some of the more deadened, character-disordered aspects of psychoanalytic thinking, giving each of these age-old characters a creative reorganising that allows for new and deepening understandings.’ -- Nancy de Holl, Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, IJP Vol. 104 (2023) Issue 2Table of ContentsIntroduction Acknowledgements 1. The narcissist 2. The borderline 3. The manic depressive Discussion with Sacha Bollas, PsyD

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Book SynopsisBion’s life spanned key events in the twentieth century. Born in India in 1897, he came to boarding school in England aged 8 and at 18 fought in the tanks in World War One. He trained as a doctor between the wars and, in his World War Two work for the army, he was an innovator. After the war, he became a patient of Melanie Klein, qualified as a psychoanalyst, and was part of an extraordinary period in psychoanalysis of work with psychotic mechanisms in patients. In the late 1950s, he identified the configuration container/contained as being at the heart of human development. He looked outside of psychoanalysis to philosophers, scientists, mathematicians, and even theo-mystical thinkers. His work evolved radically throughout the 1960s and, at age 70 when many would be thinking of slowing down, he emigrated to California and began to travel internationally, giving lectures and supervisions across three continents. After Freud, Bion appears to be the most quoted psychoanalyst of our time and this book provides the opportunity, even for those familiar with his work, to gain insight into its sheer breadth, showcased so brilliantly in this slim volume. As author of Bion: 365 Quotes, Nicola Abel-Hirsch’s immersion in Bion’s vast œuvre has enabled a comprehensive introduction to Bion and his work. Her lightness of touch, whilst retaining the necessary depth, makes it a joy to read. Bion and his work can be somewhat enigmatic but Abel-Hirsch’s understanding offers the ideal introduction to the man and his work.Trade Review‘Nicola Abel-Hirsch is a masterful teacher of Bion's works; knowledgeable of his history as an individual and a psychoanalyst. Like the best of teachers, she knows her subject intimately and explains even the most obscure concepts clearly. Her new book, Bion: An Introduction, displays her deep appreciation and knowledge of the work of Bion. I highly recommend Bion: An Introduction to all clinicians and psychoanalysts who want to understand Bion's life and work in depth.’ -- Lawrence J. Brown, author of 'Transformational Processes in Clinical Psychoanalysis: Dreaming, Emotions and the Present Moment' and 'On Freud's “Moses and Monotheism”'‘Underpinned by six opening thoughts and six closing thoughts as pointers, Bion: An Introduction is a masterpiece that captures the heart of Bion’s life and works brilliantly. Nicola Abel-Hirsch’s intimate knowledge of the thinking of W. R. Bion, combined with her deep capacity to dialogue with disciplines such as mathematics, philosophy, literature, the arts, and science, enables her to tackle a wide range of topics in a high-quality, original work. Bion: An Introduction is an essential, up-to-date, scholarly book for the study and exploration of Bion which intelligently stimulates new paths for thinking and dreaming.’ -- Jani Santamaría, co-editor of 'Autistic Phenomena and Unrepresented States: Explorations in the Emergence of Self'‘Nicola Abel Hirsch has written a short, comprehensive new book on Bion, encompassing and interweaving his life and the progression of his work from the first to the final books and papers. Her extensive knowledge and profound understanding of Bion’s immense contribution to psychoanalysis makes her the ideal author for this book. The book is a pleasure to read; we feel her deeply engaged presence throughout, as if in a vivid dialogue with Bion in which she is always trying to understand him better. The compactness of the format consistently avoids over-simplification; one is left with an experience of fluidity and integration, and a sense of satisfaction for having been offered an accomplished, lively portrait of Bion the man and Bion the thinker.’ -- Ignês Sodré, author of 'Imaginary Existences: A Psychoanalytic Exploration of Phantasy, Fiction, Dreams and Daydreams'Table of ContentsPrologue About the author Five opening thoughts 1. Bion’s war The Battle of Cambrai Tanks War languages Amiens Turning the guns round 2. Oxford, medicine, Samuel Beckett The 1920s and 1930s Some detail Bion and Samuel Beckett 3. What groups do The 1940s Starting to ask questions again World War Two work: including Northfield The Tavistock groups: including Bion the observer, basic assumptions An eyewitness account of Bion’s group-work (From an occasion when Bion took a group in 1964 for about four months) 4. A time of membership Late 1940s/1950s Analysis with Klein and Klein’s group of 4 The Imaginary Twin ‘Verbal thinking’ in the 50s papers Bion and Winnicott 5. A breakthrough And then Bion made a breakthrough On Arrogance (1958) Attacks on Linking (1959) Braithwaite and Frege The beginning of Bion’s ‘cogitations’ 6. Going back to beginnings India Bishop Stortford School 7. Thinking The Theory of Thinking Hume and Kant 8. Opening up his own thinking: Learning from Experience (1962) The “name givers” Alpha-function Beta elements Container/contained Bion’s own clinical work in this period Galileo and Poincaré 9. A new instrument: Elements of Psychoanalysis (1963) The Grid Reversible Perspective An eyewitness account of Bion’s clinical work in the 1960s 10. Going as far as possible: Transformations: Change from Learning to Growth (1965) Transformations and Invariants Bion’s own clinical work in this period The emergence of ’O’: the last chapter of Transformations Plato and Milton 11. Talking about his findings Memory and Desire 1965 Catastrophic Change 1966 The Commentary to Second Thoughts: Selected Papers on Psycho-Analysis 1967 12. Los Angeles 1967 Spectrum Dispute with Greenson 13. Elaborations: Attention and Interpretation: A Scientific Approach to Insight in Psycho-Analysis and Groups (1970) Container/contained Suffering Intuition and ‘F’[Faith] Bion’s own clinical work in this period An eyewitness account of Bion’s clinical work in the 1970s 14. International lectures, seminars and supervisions The Brazilian Lectures The Brazilian Clinical Seminars The Tavistock Seminars The Italian Seminars 15. Autobiography and A Memoir of the Future Bion’s autobiography A Memoir of the Future Five closing thoughts Brief glossary Bibliography

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Book SynopsisDhwani Shah moves the focus from using psychoanalytic theory and technique to explore the patient’s mind from a safe distance. Instead, he concentrates on the analyst’s feelings, subjective experiences, and histories, and how these impact on the intersubjective space between analyst and patient. His eight chapters each highlight a particular emotional state or problematic feeling and explore their impact on the analytic work, which requires emotional honesty and open reflection. This authenticity is vital for every unique encounter within the shared space of both the analyst and patient. The analyst must strive to be responsive, yet disciplined, and this requires the work of mentalization. An ability to “go there” with patients offers the best chance at helping them. The analyst’s uncomfortable and disowned emotional states of mind are inevitably entangled with the therapeutic process and this has the potential to derail or facilitate progress. The chapters deal with uncomfortable themes for the analyst to face: arrogance, racism, dread and its close relation erotic dread, dissociation, shame, hopelessness, and jealousy. These bring up common ways in which analysts stop listening and struggle in the face of uncertainty and intensity; the difficulties in facing unbearable experiences with patients, such as suicidality; disruptions to being with patients in an affective and embodied way; and thwarted fantasies of being the “hero”. With all of these difficult topics, Shah describes painful and tormenting experiences in a clinically meaningful way that allow growth. In this exceptional debut work, Shah demonstrates that what analysts feel, in their affects, bodies, and reveries with patients, is vital in helping them to understand and metabolise the patients’ emotional experiences. This is a must-read for all practising clinicians.Trade Review'The book really comes to life when Shah offers personal reflexivity on the therapeutic process through clinical vignettes. [...] Written in a clear, digestible style, I read the book from start to finish, underlining points that really resonated. I can see myself regularly returning to specific chapters when an ‘unbearable state’ emerges in my client work, for both theoretical and skills-based ideas on how to navigate a complex intersubjective process. Overall, I found the book to be a helpful reminder that often as ‘wounded-healers’ working in the profession, how we respond to clients can be deeply intwined in our personal histories. Therefore, ongoing and honest self-reflection alongside one’s own analysis can be as important for making sense of the unfolding intersubjective process as analysing the client’s inner world.' -- Lettica Banton, TR Together, February 2024‘Anyone wanting to know how it feels to be a psychoanalytic therapist should read this book. Dhwani Shah has given us an uncommonly honest, compelling account of the emotional consequences of genuine engagement with patients’ suffering. Although his writing reflects extensive scholarship and clinical experience, it is his humanity, humility, and originality that take these chapters beyond ordinary reflections on countertransference. The Analyst’s Torment achieves something rare for a psychoanalytic book: it is a real page-turner. I recommend it enthusiastically to clinicians, students, patients, and scholars interested in the haunted inner life of the therapist.’ -- Nancy McWilliams, PhD, ABPP, Rutgers Graduate School of Applied & Professional Psychology‘Dhwani Shah’s The Analyst’s Torment is honest, probing, and does not hesitate in the pursuit of investigating the integrity of psychoanalytic work. The book draws from a range of theorists but does not stay aloft in abstract, illustrating the ideas with detailed, incisive clinical examples. Shah addresses many of the most compelling topics that influence contemporary psychoanalytic work. However, this is a book that all clinicians can learn and grow from: humility is needed in order to be genuinely affected by and to affect our patients.’ -- Elliot Jurist, Ph.D., Professor, Psychology and Philosophy, CCNY, CUNY‘In The Analyst’s Torment, Dhwani Shah speaks to what remains silenced within the analyst’s mind: their arrogance, racism, dread of mental anguish or unrelenting erotic longing, envy, and jealousy. Affects that can leave the analyst ashamed, dissociated, and, if prolonged, in a state of existential hopelessness. Shah explores all this and more with openness and authenticity, allowing the clinician to recognize similar affects within themselves; remaining in the sunken and unsavoury places that must be embodied for therapeutic understanding and transformation. During this time of pandemic, sociopolitical and racial upheaval, Shah’s compassion invites the reader to dwell within these complex affect states for their inherent value, resulting in our feeling less alone and incapacitated by these powerful emotions. Shah’s book should be a constant companion for any contemporary psychotherapist or psychoanalyst and should serve as a source of relief in these tormenting times.’ -- Dionne R. Powell, MD, Training and Supervising Analyst, the Psychoanalytic Association of New York and Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research‘Sitting all day in a chair, listening to innumerable tales of horror, certainly cannot be described as easy or relaxing. In this immensely honest, highly refreshing, and grippingly written book, Dr Dhwani Shah has drawn upon his rich clinical experience and his unique insights, and has provided us with a very illuminating map of the confidential complexities of the consulting room. Every mental health clinician should read this excellent work, which will prompt us all to review our own practices with much greater vigilance.’ -- Professor Brett Kahr, Senior Fellow, Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology, London and Visiting Professor of Psychoanalysis and Mental Health, Regent’s University London‘While this book covers many complex psychoanalytic concepts, it does so in a way that is accessible and peppered with personal insight and humour. […] Shah has an easy, conversational style in presenting the clinical work, and is incredibly honest in sharing his own personal thoughts, feelings and associations to it, including his perceived missteps.’ -- Jeanine Connor, psychodynamic psychotherapist, 'Therapy Today' April 2023'Shah balances both classical and contemporary views of countertransference without losing focus on his central theme: staying open to and curious about countertransference rather than evading it or grasping for ready-made explanations. While Shah cites many theoretical concepts from writers of different times and of different orientations, he does not “present” a theory on how to deal with the “unbearable mental state”. I feel that the strength and the focus of the book is to demonstrate how to stay present and non-defensive with countertransferential reactions. This is especially useful for beginning therapists in learning how to familiarize themselves with various difficult mental states and making use of them in clinical work. Shah’s openness and sincerity make this book an important contribution to the current discussion of countertransference.' -- Grace Yan, International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 2023, (104)(6):1147-1150Table of ContentsAcknowledgments About the author Introduction CHAPTER 1 Arrogance CHAPTER 2 Racism CHAPTER 3 Dread CHAPTER 4 Erotic Dread CHAPTER 5 Dissociation CHAPTER 6 Shame CHAPTER 7 Hopelessness CHAPTER 8 Jealousy References Index

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Book SynopsisThe increase in the number of non-binary children and adults in our society raises important treatment questions as well as much controversy. It seems essential that analysts and candidates grapple with the challenges this change in society presents. As we struggle in our psychoanalytic societies to diversify our membership and broaden our understanding of difference, this collection offers an opportunity for further discussion and study of one of the most important issues of our time. The opening essay by editor Shari Thurer provides a clear overview of recent cultural changes and the evolution of thinking about gender identification by the American Psychoanalytic Association. Next is an autobiographical essay by long-term non-binary individual Robin Haas plus a clinical reflection on Haas’ contribution by Rita Teusch. A recent account of an individual becoming non-binary from Francesca Spence is followed by the reactions of their parents, L. Harry Spence and Robin Ely. After that are psychoanalytic thoughts about the body and gender by Malkah Notman and reflections on gender from Dan Jacobs. The book ends with an extensive bibliography on the subjects of transsexuality and non-binary gender by Oren Gozlan Beyond the Binary: Essays on Gender introduces readers to current ideas about gender fluidity and choice, as well as giving voice to those who have chosen to be non-binary. This is a must-read for all practising clinicians that will help broaden their perspective on this growing issue. This is the fourth publication sponsored by the Library Committee of the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute and the first published by Phoenix.Trade Review‘Gender is always arriving, and psychoanalysts seem always to be chasing its coattails. Most often this chase has been an effort to corral gender: to capture, categorize, and conclude. Beyond the Binary – a collection of essays written as history, memoir, guide, critique, bibliography – works to move past the capture of categories. This monograph is possessed of a beguiling intimacy that engages the reader to rethink gender, gendered embodiment, and the analytic enterprise in listening to gender, its vicissitudes, and discontents.’ -- Ken Corbett, Clinical Assistant Professor, New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy‘Beyond The Binary is a deeply personal and beautiful collection of reflections about contemporary understandings of gender in the psychoanalytic community. Eloquently written and accessible to all who are curious, it impresses through its inclusivity and compelling engagement between the reader and its authors.’ -- Dr Daniel Anderson, psychiatrist and group analyst, author of 'The Body of the Group: Sexuality and Gender in Group Analysis'‘Psychoanalysis originated within a nineteenth-century, binary view conflating sexuality with gender. In this matrix, Freud hypothesized a biological, drive-driven, cross-cultural universal theory of mind. Times have changed. Today’s nontraditional gender presentations instead rely on individual subjectivities that call into question universalizing, cisnormative beliefs. These new clinical presentations also challenge psychoanalysts to move beyond procrustean developmental theories, theories that all too frequently lead to countertransferential impositions of therapists’ subjectivity onto patients. Beyond the Binary offers a good introduction for therapists wishing to rethink what they think they know about gender and how it affects their clinical practices.’ -- Jack Drescher, MD, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Columbia University, Adjunct Professor, New York University, Training and Supervising Analyst, William Alanson White InstituteTable of ContentsIntroduction Rita Teusch 1. Psychoanalysis Meets They Shari Thurer 2. Being Non-Binary Robin Haas 3. A Clinical Reflection on “Being Non-Binary” Rita Teusch 4. Non-Binary Thinkpiece Francesca Spence 5. Thoughts by the Parents of a Non-binary Individual Harry Spence and Robin Ely 6. Some Recent Thoughts on Gender Malkah Notman 7. Reflections on Sexuality and Gender Dan Jacobs 8. Transsexuality Bibliography Oren Gozlan Index

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Book SynopsisInspired by many successful years of teaching to analysts in training, Franco De Masi has selected the most significant lessons and added a few new ones to provide an enriching discussion of psychopathology and psychoanalytic clinical work. Lessons in Psychoanalysis begins with a general discussion of the scientific status of psychoanalysis, its main theories and models, and the way in which the unconscious registers emotional reality. These are followed by detailed chapters on key topics which relate more closely to clinical work. De Masi begins with the problem of diagnosis in psychoanalysis and the importance of a patient’s clinical history. He then turns his attention to transference and the analytic relationship, which he views as central to clinical work, followed by chapters on the analytic impasse and the use of countertransference. He then deals with other vital themes: regression, anxiety, phobia and panic, trauma, depersonalisation in the various syndromes, melancholic and non-melancholic depression, narcissism, and psychic withdrawal. He concludes with some final considerations of analytic therapy. De Masi makes clear that analytic concepts are not linear but formed over time from numerous contributions. To demonstrate this, he provides a description of how ideas evolved to form a concept. Following the trajectory enables a fuller understanding and demonstrates the flexibility of analytic concepts to incorporate new contributions without losing meaning. De Masi also includes data from neuroscientific research on certain phenomena to broaden the discussion and demonstrate what is happening in other related fields. His work shows that psychoanalysis has the capacity to be a unitary body which allows various models and theories to coexist even where disagreement may arise. This book is essential reading for trainee psychoanalysts and students, and highly recommended for qualified professionals who continue to question analytic practice and theory.Trade Review‘Lessons in Psychoanalysis, written by one of the leading contemporary voices in our field, draws upon its author’s long and fruitful experience as a clinician, educator, and theoretician. Starting from the assumption that there is no single explanatory theory that helps us understand the many-sidedness of clinical experience, it introduces readers to a number of key authors and theories, offering hypotheses that can be helpful when applied to specific psychopathological domains. At its heart is the assertion that psychoanalytic therapy avails itself of a natural function of the mind—emotional-intuitive functioning— potentially present in each of us, that allows us to make contact with unconscious processes in our patients and in ourselves.’ -- Howard B. Levine, Editor-in-Chief, 'The Routledge W. R. Bion Studies Series'‘Approximately fifteen years ago, I had the chance to be the first to publish Franco De Masi’s work in French. Since then, I have never stopped publishing his writing. His great psychoanalytic knowledge and methodological competencies, combined with undeniable clinical experience, notably in the field of psychosis, have made him an essential contemporary author. Thanks to the clarity of his thinking, the reader of Lessons in Psychoanalysis will not only be able to return to the fundamentals of practice, but will also be able to access a specifically analytical examination of psychopathology from the best of today’s psychoanalytic clinical work.’ -- Ana de Staal, psychoanalyst, member of the Freudian Psychoanalysis Society, and publisher in Paris‘Franco De Masi’s new book is a milestone in teaching psychoanalysis. It displays the author’s unique capacity to explain basic concepts up to complex clinical issues, like countertransference, trauma, and states of psychic withdrawal. It will be an essential text not only for the psychoanalytic student, but also for those experts who want to deepen and extend their didactic competence. The book also provides an insight into the author’s own clinical work and areas of research, in particular in working with narcissistic, borderline-psychotic, and severely traumatised patients. In my view, an invaluable contribution.’ -- Prof. Heinz Weiss, head, Department of Psychosomatic Medicine, Robert Bosch Hospital, Stuttgart, and member, board of directors, Sigmund Freud Institute, Frankfurt am MainTable of ContentsAbout the author Introduction CHAPTER 1 On the specific nature of psychoanalysis CHAPTER 2 Making a diagnosis in psychoanalysis CHAPTER 3 The significance of history CHAPTER 4 Psychoanalytic theories CHAPTER 5 The unconscious and emotional reality CHAPTER 6 Non-validation of emotional experience CHAPTER 7 Transference and the analytic relationship CHAPTER 8 Impasse CHAPTER 9 Countertransference CHAPTER 10 Regression CHAPTER 11 Anxiety CHAPTER 12 Phobia and panic CHAPTER 13 Trauma CHAPTER 14 Identity and psychopathology CHAPTER 15 Melancholic depression CHAPTER 16 Non-melancholic depression CHAPTER 17 Narcissism CHAPTER 18 Psychic withdrawal CHAPTER 19 Final considerations References Index

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Book SynopsisFor many years, debate has raged as to whether children are capable of embarking on a true mourning process. In When a Child Grieves, Corinne Masur provides an excellent overview of the myriad psychoanalytic theories on the subject and demonstrates conclusively that children can and do mourn. She describes how children and adolescents experience grief and how the mourning process can go awry. Dr Masur provides ample guidelines for the evaluation and treatment of children and adolescents struggling with their grief, alongside a multitude of clinical examples to illustrate her salient points. One detailed and poignant case history is returned to throughout the book, that of a three-year-old who lost his father to suicide. This sensitive and important work fills a void in the literature and will become a key text for trainees and qualified psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, clinicians, and other professionals working with bereaved children.Trade ReviewFrom the beginning, this book intimately engages the reader, offering a means to understand childhood grief through the study of relevant literature, while at the same time evoking an emotional intensity that allows us to connect with our own experiences of loss. […] A book such as this can help us to think about loss, death and grief by providing a containing framework in which to understand the relationship between external events and our internal worlds. -- Lynda Miller, Infant Observation 25:1‘In this well-researched and personal work, Corinne Masur sensitively addresses one of the most painful experiences in life: a child’s loss of a parent. Masur cogently addresses the psychological challenges a child faces, taking into account the suffering and efforts to adapt to this most painful loss while on the journey to “becoming a self.” Enriched by existing studies on the topic, Masur’s reportage constitutes a highly informative narrative. The reader will be well rewarded by Masur’s scholarship.’ -- Henri Parens, MD, formerly Professor of Psychiatry, Division of Child and Family Psychiatry, T. Jefferson Medical College; training and supervising (adult & child) analyst, Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia‘This tour de force presents a comprehensive and interdisciplinary review of research on children’s bereavement, their abilities to mourn and to understand death based on their developmental level. Dr. Masur corrects anachronistic theories of mourning to assist parents and clinicians, clarifying that children of all ages, even the tiniest, can begin the meaningful process of mourning so they can go forward to have constructive, meaningful, joyful lives despite enduring the terrible agony of losing a parent in childhood. This book is crucial at this time of increased parental deaths due to Covid, opioid use, and suicide.’ -- Justine Kalas Reeves, child, adolescent, and adult psychoanalyst; member of the Association for Child Psychoanalysis‘Corinne Masur presents a comprehensive review of past and present psychoanalytic thinking about children who have suffered parental bereavement. She champions an approach which respects individuality and the need for personal understanding. Respecting the importance of key people in the children’s everyday lives, she also identifies where children may require additional, professional input. Using clinical material, she demonstrates how a psychoanalytic, practice-orientated approach can provide support for grieving children and, when necessary, provide a means of helping them through direct therapy. In conjunction with this, Dr. Masur explores the impact of this work upon practitioners, adding an extra dimension to this important book through the judicious sharing of her own personal experience.’ -- Professor Adrian Sutton, Director, The Squiggle Foundation; author of ‘Paediatrics, Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis: Through Countertransference to Case Management’Masur writes for therapists while addressing a level of ignorance in the general population which is still shockingly high. […] This book provides information which may assist therapists in work with clients who need to address their own childhood bereavements or to understand and support bereaved children. -- Julia Segal, Psychodynamic Practice'This book helps parents, teachers, psychotherapists, child psychoanalysts, and pediatricians understand the psychological challenges of children who face the loss of parents—of particular relevance now, in this turbulent time of the Covid pandemic and violence against children in the U.S. Masur has compiled rich clinical materials, comprehensive historical and contemporary research studies, and a practical therapeutic approach that applies psychoanalytic techniques, helping bereaved children and their parents and teachers.' -- Mali Mann, MD, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, Journal of the American Psychoanalytic AssociationTable of ContentsAcknowledgments About the author Author’s note Preface Introduction Part I: Theory 1. The History of the Study of Bereavement: Theoretical Underpinnings 2. Can Children Mourn? 3. Children Can and Do Mourn 4. How Children Understand Death Part II: Clinical Consideration 5. Treating Childhood Bereavement References Index

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Book SynopsisPsychoanalytic encounters are filled with the unknowability of two unconscious minds meeting. Here one may forge a link that enables the process of meaning-making, or else it can become the space for destruction, perversion, evacuation, regression, and stasis. The area that lies between the mind of the analyst and that of the analysand is thus the liminal area of psychoanalysis – of growth, change, turbulence, as well as that of impasse, bastion, and failure. This latter could be what Bion meant by minus links. It seems that the primitive part of the mind is always looking for ways to evade psychic pain and emotional truth is always in peril. Analytic links are always fraught with danger. Minus links share with each other the quality of evading truth and therefore inhibiting emotional growth and the capacity to give meaning to experiences. Blind spots may be enabled by analytic allegiance to our particular schools, our inability to forge a technique in the face of the protomental apparatus which can breed arrogance, the complacencies of language, gaps between our theoretical allegiance and our technique, and, finally, all too often, our unwillingness and inability to get in touch with our true experience. Would it help to chronicle our quotidian failures? In these liminal moments, the links between analyst and analysand slide away from the emotional truth, rather than towards it. Nilofer Kaul presents these moments and explores the complex reasons behind them in a stunning debut work that questions the heart of analytic practice.Trade Review‘Nilofer Kaul's inspirational book gently sways us in the liminal space between sleep and waking, conscious and unconscious, truth and deception. Her literary scholarship grants her further tools to approach ineffable emotional experience and give words to wordless psychic realms, the ghosts of psychoanalysis. Writing at the threshold of what is almost unbearable, “on the foremost circle that surrounds the abyss”, her book is deeply moving, and yet unsettling, perturbing. Kaul does not let us rest on our laurels, but compels us to acknowledge, not only our patients’, but also our own too-often collapse to negative links, lies, and untruthful interpretations. Kaul thus touches the heart of psychoanalytic practice, that which lies in the thin, hairbreadth space between truth and its evasion.’ -- Avner Bergstein, training and supervising psychoanalyst, Israel Psychoanalytic Society‘Plato’s Ghost is an absorbing and highly personal meditation on the positive and negative linkages that promote or stunt personality development, and the role of language in advancing or disguising truthful links. Plato’s classic formulation of truthful or lying representations becomes, in Bion’s model of the mind, his now familiar formula of LHK versus minus LHK – positive and negative emotional links. Using this model as her basis, Nilofer Kaul terms the points of potential change “liminal spaces” inhabited by the “ghosts” of internal objects of both analyst and analysand which meet through the transference. The book is wide-ranging in its references but Kaul draws her most telling examples from her own clinical work, in close association with evocations of emotional states in literature and myth. ‘She is especially concerned with the analyst’s own linguistic temptations: to use what Bion terms the “language of substitution” in the face of feelings of helplessness, when pressured either by sterile desires for professional or social “success” or excessive desire to help the patient. Kaul was a teacher of literature for many years and the book is structured along dichotomies that are familiar in literature, such as equivocation versus ambiguity or paradox, communication versus deception, emotionality versus sentimentality, empathy versus collusion, which are applicable also to the intimacy of the psychoanalytic consulting room. Her sensitivity and courage in exploring the nature of apparent “failures” or unsatisfactory endings in terms of the analyst’s own learning from experience, rather than romanticising them for self-protection, will be found valuable and appreciated by many practising analysts.’ -- Meg Harris Williams, psychoanalytic and literary author‘Plato's Ghost is a beautiful exploration of what constitutes the paradoxical essence of analytic space. It is not by chance that Kristeva borrows from Plato the concept of the “semiotic chora”, which we can define as the dynamic and affective-sensory container within which the “aesthetic” birth of the subject takes place. From the outset, this kind of external extension of the maternal womb is a dialectical space. It is neither one nor the other, but of both and neither. Psychoanalysis has many concepts to allude to dimension: transference, analytical field, hymenality, transitionality, middle kingdom, wakeful dream, caesura, reversible perspective, negative capability, no-thing, projective identification, and so on. Being an analyst means knowing how to inhabit this spatiality, in which the ego becomes itself only if it allows itself to be alienated from the other, without ever collapsing the processuality onto any of the terms that establish it. Nilofer Kaul demonstrates a great skill in dealing with such challenging but fascinating themes. Hers is also an important contribution to the current and very lively development of psychoanalysis inspired by Bion and post-Bionian models, in a word, a psychoanalysis more that is of the order of becoming than of having. Last, but not least, the author style of writing is excellent, which makes for not only a rewarding but also for a fluent and very pleasant reading. I can warmly recommend Plato's Ghost: Minus Links and Liminality in Psychoanalytic Practice not only to all psychoanalysts and psychotherapists who are passionate about their work and feel the need to constantly refine the tools they use in their clinical practice, but also—for example because of the great attention to the theme of language and its relation to the unconscious that runs throughout the text—to scholars of the humanities.’ -- Giuseppe Civitarese, author of Sublime Subjects: Aesthetic Experience and Intersubjectivity in Psychoanalysis‘Using examples from her practice, the author shows us how we may look for ways to evade psychic pain and romanticise outcomes for self-protection […] This book is an important contribution to Bionian thinking and will challenge readers to reassess their practice.’ -- Jane Cooper, former senior counsellor at University of Cambridge – Therapy Today May 2022‘There is great value in this book, which in its gentle insistence on “the inherently liminal nature of psychoanalysis” […] can remind us of what psychoanalysis initially was, is, and can continue to become. […] Readers of this book will be immersed in a leading edge of contemporary analytic thinking.’ -- Howard B. Levine, MA, 'The Psychoanalytic Quarterly', 92:1, 148-153, 2023Table of ContentsAcknowledgements About the author Prologue: On liminality and minus links Introduction Part I: Language 1. Unconscious and psychoanalysis 2. Vocabulary and syntax 3. Sentiment and emotion 4. Pride and arrogance Part II: Vertices 5. Womb and foetus 6. Mind and body 7. Endings and failures Epilogue: Solitude or blank desertion References Index

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Book SynopsisAutonomy, Relatedness and Oedipus is an innovative and inspiring work from Thijs de Wolf that takes a critical look at the field of psychoanalysis. He takes the view that psychoanalysis is about both the inner and outer world and presents a compelling case. Using the works of Freud and other leading writers, such as Ferenczi, Faimberg, Laplanche, Lacan, Fonagy, Target, and Blatt, de Wolf investigates the central concepts of psychoanalysis and its place in the world. The wide-ranging chapters include a detailed examination of Freud’s book on Leonardo da Vinci; discussions of the personality, the unconscious, and sexuality; the development of the psychoanalytic frame, not just in terms of the individual but also the object relational, group, and systemic aspects; the issue of descriptive and structural diagnostics and how to find a balance between the two; the analysis of dreams; the concept of change; the difficulties surrounding termination of treatment; and end with a novel explication of the oedipal constellation that brings many new insights to a key foundation stone of psychoanalytic theory. This book is written for trainees and professionals looking to find their own “path” in psychoanalysis; those open to findings from other scientific areas, such as developmental psychopathology, the neurosciences, attachment theories, and human infant research. De Wolf’s theoretical pluralism and breadth of scholarship bestows a stimulating range of ideas to take psychoanalysis back to its place as a leader in the field.Trade Review[A] masterclass in the exploration of the polarity in psychoanalysis between relatedness and autonomy […] by the final chapter, I felt I had internalised a helpful new framework for understanding the current plethora of psychoanalytic treatments and I have a much stronger grasp of what works for who and why that might be. -- Jane Cooper, ‘Therapy Today’, June 2022In this book, Thijs de Wolf generously shares the valuable and unique perspective that can only come from a lifetime of experience as a psychoanalyst and researcher. Revisiting the variegations of the Oedipus myth, he examines what is surely a central question for psychoanalysis: how to understand what it means to be autonomous. A consummate psychoanalytic educator, de Wolf deftly examines both theory and practice as he explores the themes of autonomy and relatedness in the psychotherapeutic process. This text will satisfy clinicians at all levels of experience. -- Alessandra Lemma, Fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society and Visiting Professor at the Psychoanalysis Unit, University College LondonThijs de Wolf provides us with a much-needed book. At a time when the field of psychoanalysis is increasingly splintering, de Wolf has written a work that communicates, in highly accessible language, the continuing relevance of analytic thought and practice. De Wolf manages to link trends in analysis while still respecting diversity. His position is that there is not one correct reading but readings that speak to each other and enrich each other. In making his arguments, de Wolf’s text remains very experience-near rather than abstract and intellectualized. The book ends with a fascinating and long overdue revisiting and expansion of our appreciation of the Oedipus story, weaving in the strong narcissistic trends and ultimately emphasizing the heart of the analytic project – to find a balance not only between internal forces but also between those forces and external reality. The emphasis on dynamism continues in his reflection on the oedipal story, with the important message that development and psychological structure are intertwined and that development does not so much leave behind prior structures but creates layers that interact with the potential to either enrich our experience or lead to pathology. -- Frank Yeomans, M.D., Ph.D., Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Director of Training at the Personality Disorders Institute, Weill Cornell Medical CollegeThis book is actually an amazing masterclass in psychoanalysis. Writing in a most accessible and scholarly way, Dr. de Wolf has provided us with a synthesis of contemporary ideas, which is firmly rooted in classical thinking. From Freud, Ferenczi, and Klein to Fonagy, Faimberg, and Kernberg – and more – the theory and practice of psychoanalysis is presented in a lucid, thoughtful way. This gem of a text then culminates in a reinterpretation of our “creation myth”, giving us fresh insights into the fundamental oedipal constellation. It is a must-read for analysts, analysts in training, and students of the mind at all levels. -- Ira Brenner, M.D., Training and Supervising Analyst and Emeritus Director of the Psychotherapy Training Program, Psychoanalytic Center of PhiladelphiaTable of Contentsvii Acknowledgments ix About the author xi Introduction Prologue 3 Chapter 1: Psychoanalysis: a matter of trust Part I: Foundation 21 Chapter 2: The basics 43 Chapter 3: Attachment and development 61 Chapter 4: Separateness and intimacy 73 Chapter 5: The return of the unconscious and sexuality Part II: Praxis 119 Chapter 6: Development of the psychoanalytic frame 147 Chapter 7: A second road 169 Chapter 8: Diagnostics 193 Chapter 9: Various psychoanalytical forms of individual treatment 225 Chapter 10: Working with dreams 247 Chapter 11: Treatment and change Epilogue 269 Chapter 12: Oedipus: dyadic and triadic functioning 293 References 309 Index

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Book SynopsisA therapeutic relationship is a web of interactions, tasks and processes in space and time. It is not easy to stay aware of the relationship in the thick of helping someone, but doing so boosts flexibility and enables deeper formulation. A therapist who can be attentive not only to activities specific to the model, but also to common factors underlying all therapy (or in simple terms, balance a task and person focus) has a far greater chance of enabling change. Building on thirty years of theory and practice in the field of Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT), yet speaking directly to practitioners across all therapeutic modalities, Brief Therapy Relationships explores the complex relationships that shape and contribute to therapeutic change. In doing so, it arms readers with a deeper understanding of what it means to be part of a therapeutic relationship, leading to increased control and confidence when working with clients.Table of ContentsTable of Contents 1. Introduction Core concepts; stories from the therapy room 2. How to Have a Therapeutic Relationship Talking and listening; within us and between us 3. Mapping, Writing, Other Methods of Relating Mapping to hold and shape the therapy 4. Setting the Scene Considerations for the therapist and client 5. Beginning to Work Together Beginning therapeutic narrative; arriving at a focus 6. Establishing and maintaining a reformulation Holding, shaping, monitoring; evaluating 7. What to do in the middle of therapy Time, tasks, relationships; common problems 8. Ending Managing the end of the relationship therapeutically 9. Therapeutic versatility CAT as a framework for EMDR, Compassion-focused therapy, behavioural therapy, Gestalt therapy, groupwork, art therapy, authenticity 10. The therapeutic dance list: Tools for self-supervision and development Relational competences and dimensions of relating

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