Books in the Psychoanalysis in a New Key Book Series series

Traversing the biological, psychological, cultural, and economic dimensions of mothering, this book covers the perplexing choices confronting mothers in the contemporary world. This book addresses the question 'What do mother's want?' from perspectives that encompass differences in marital status, parental status, gender and sexual orientation.

First Published in 2012. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Over the years there have been substantial changes in approaches to how genders are made and what functions genders fulfill. This title rethinks a psychoanalytic tradition that has long thought of masculinity as a sort of brittle defense against femininity, softness, and emotionality.

Collects papers Mark Blechner has written over the years on sex, gender, and sexuality. This title shows how changes in society, changes in his life, and changes in his writing on sexuality - as well as changes within psychoanalysis itself - have affected one another.

Explores in a way the intersubjective nature of psychoanalysis, looking at the role of the psychoanalyst's subjectivity, both how it influences and is influenced by the psychoanalytic relationship. This title captures the profound ways in which analyst and patient affect each other. It is of interest to theorists, academics and clinicians alike.

Many clinicians and therapists have turned toward emotional experience, within and outside the treatment setting, as a resource. This work explores how the power to feel can become the power to change.

Sandra Buechler looks at therapeutic process issues from the standpoint of the human qualities and human resourcefulness that the therapist brings to each clinical encounter. Her concern is with the clinical values that shape the psychoanalytically oriented treatment experience.