Books in the Psychoanalytic Inquiry Book Series series

Recognition of the need for empirical research and interest in its findings are growing in psychoanalysis. This book revivifies the experimental potential of psychoanalysis by focusing a number of structured research methods on a single case study.

This volume focuses on treatment issues pertaining to patients with borderline psychopathology. A section on psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy (with contributors by V. Volkan, H. Searles, O. Kernberg, L. B. Boyer, and J. Oremland, among oth

This collection of findings, about the first two years of life, examines the implications for contemporary psychoanalysis. It explores this in terms of the unfolding sense of self, then reconceptualizes the analytic situation, and forms an experiential account of the therapeutic action of analysis.

This volume focuses on treatment issues pertaining to patients with borderline psychopathology. It covers psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy, and explores alternative approaches. The concluding essay discusses the controversies and convergences among the different treatment approaches.

Drawing on a variety of disciplinary backgrounds - philosophical, developmental, biological, and neuroscientific - this title addresses the tension between individuality and the emergence of contextualism as a mode of psychoanalytic theory and practice, providing insights into the role and place of individuality in and out of the clinical setting.

Making use of relational systems theory, this book shows that experiences of uncertainty are continually transformed by the regulatory processes of everyday life such as feeling, knowing, forming categories, making decisions, using language, creating narratives, sensing time, remembering, forgetting, and fantasizing.

Containing 10 chapters, this book expatiates on the craft of exploratory psychotherapy as it pertains to patients who typically bring to therapy backgrounds of insecure attachment and serious concerns about safety and retraumatization. Each chapter formulates a different guideline for technique.

Thoroughly grounded in contemporary development, this text explores the ecological niche of the infant-caregiver dyad and examines the evolutionary leap that permits communication to take place concurrently in nonverbal and verbal modes.

Psychoanalytic Treatment: An Intersubjective Approach fleshes out the implications for psychoanalytic understanding and treatment of adopting a consistently intersubjective perspective.  In the course of the study, the intersubjective viewpoint is demonstrated to illuminate a wide array of clinical phenomena, including transference and resistance, conflict formation, therapeutic action, affective and self development, and borderline and psychotic states.  As a consequence, the authors demonstrate that an intersubjective approach greatly facilitates empathic access to the patient''s subjective world and, in the same measure, greatly enhances the scope and therapeutic effectiveness of psychoanalysis.  Psychoanalytic Treatment is another step in the ongoing development of intersubjectivity theory, as born out in Structures of Subjectivity (1984), Contexts of Being (1992), and Working Intersubjectively (1997), all published by the Analytic Press

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Best known for his contributions to the development of contemporary intersubjectivity theory, Bernard Brandchaft has dedicated a career to the advancement of psychoanalytic theory and practice. This title features the chapters that articulate the evolution of Brandchaft's thinking along the road toward an emancipatory psychoanalysis.

This overview of intersubjectively theory offers contextualist critiques of the concept of psychoanalytic technique and of the myth of analytical neutrality, intersubjective contexts of extreme states of psychological disintegration and what it means to think and work contextually.

Carrying forward his inquiry into the nature and conditions of normal and abnormal development, the author focuses on motivation. The text offers an alternative to psychoanalytic drive theory that accommodates the developmental insights of infancy research.

Explores the areas of convergence and divergence, opposition, and integration between attachment and sexuality. This book suggests that there is a bi-directional web of influences that weaves the attachment and sexual systems together in increasingly complex ways from infancy to adulthood.

Placed in a historical context, sexuality was once so prominent in psychoanalytic writing that sexual drive and psychoanalysis were synonymous. This book offers insight into contemporary psychoanalytic thought, and presents clinicians with a perspective for exploring their patients sensuality and sexuality with renewed interest and knowledge.

Concerns the way emerging knowledge of developmental processes, biological systems, and therapeutic process can be integrated in terms of basic principles that govern the living system as an ongoing creative process. This book shows how evolution of conscious organization will enable the human species to achieve the state of being 'together-with'.

Using the contemporary critique of Kohut and Loewald as a touchstone of inquiry into the status of psychoanalysis, this text focuses on a select group of postmodern theorists - including Lewis Aron and Owen Renik - whose writings comprise a questioning subtext to Kohut's and Loewald's ideas.

This book contains state of the art studies in Bion scholarship that are directly applicable to clinical and theoretical thinking.

This book contains state of the art studies in Bion scholarship that are directly applicable to clinical and theoretical thinking.

This book describes the personal journey of a collection of contributors, detailing their pathways to becoming psychoanalysts and psychotherapists, with insights from many of the most interesting analysts in the field.

This book describes the personal journey of a collection of contributors, detailing their pathways to becoming psychoanalysts and psychotherapists, with insights from many of the most interesting analysts in the field.