Books by Alan Roland

Drawing on work with Indian and Japanese patients, this title explores inner worlds that are markedly different from the Western psyche. It features case studies that illustrate this argument: the 'familial self', rooted in the subtle emotional hierarchical relationships of the family and group, predominates in Indian and Japanese psyches.

Exploring the artistic process and the concept of the artistic self in terms of self-objects and transformational objects, this work challenges the basic assumption of applied psychoanalysis - that the work of art is a dream or daydream expressed within a formal aesthetic framework.

This book explores the creative dialogue that psychoanalysts since Freud have had with the modern Northern European/North American culture of individualism, focusing on psychoanalysis which is applied to those from Asian cultures.