Books by James S. Grotstein

Describes how to understand and to interpret in an analytic session.

Aims to synopsize, synthesize, extend, and to challenge Bion in a reader-friendly manner. This book presents the most important legacy-ideas for psychoanalysis, the ideas that are on the cutting edge of the field that, and need to be known by the mental health profession at large.

Elucidates general principles on how the psychoanalyst or psychoanalytically informed psychotherapist may optimally provide and maintain the setting for the psychoanalysis, listen to and process the analysand's or patient's free associations, and intervene with interpretations - principally from the Kleinian/Bionian perspective.

All the contributors to this compilation knew Bion personally and were influenced by his work. They include: Herbert Rosenfeld, Frances Tustin, Andre Green, Donald Meltzer and Hanna Segal.

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