Books in the Relational Perspectives Book Series series

Clinical psychoanalyst Randall Sorenson invites us to take an interest in our patients' spirituality that is "respectful but not diffident, curious but not reductionistic, welcoming but not indoctrinating." Out of this invitation emerges an investigation of how contemporary psychoanalysis can "mind" spirituality.

Explores the emerging field of comparative-integrative psychoanalysis. This book provides a framework for approaching the fractious state of the psychoanalytic discipline. It offers an investigation into the nature of thought and its intrinsic problems. It elaborates the desideratum in detail, exploring its implications with respect to theory.

What can psychoanalysis bring to understanding Generation X, for whom the pressure to lead spectacular lives often leads to diffuse feelings of confusion, depression, and disorientation? Carlo Strenger explores the psychology of young adults for whom the weight of cultural, familial, and religious traditions has seemingly vanished.

This volume seeks to encompass the historic and still extant between object-relations and self psychology. The author views the self as housing the dialectical interplay between its pathological and non-pathological selves.

Locates some of the most ineffable types of situations for an analyst to take up with patients, such as the underlying grandiosity of self-criticism; the problems of too much congruence between what patients fantasize about and analysts wish to provide; and, the importance of analyzing hostile and aggressive aspects of erotic transference.

Offers a collection of papers which investigates the serious mental disturbance, often characterized by the presence of intrusive and invasive thoughts and fantasies that originate in a traumatic past but which can colonize and destroy the rational mind. This title also features papers on psychoanalytic thinking.

In "Impossible Training: A Relational View of Psychoanalytic Education", Emmanuel Berman turns his attention to the current status and future prospects psychoanalytic education.

Offers a phenomenology of terror - through a look at war, genocide, terrorism, torture, and familial abuse - and queries the conditions through which an individual or group retains its humanity through acts of rescue, resistance, and memorial activity.

Building on developmental research that attests to the role of embodied, nonverbal language in the meanings children impute to their experiences, Sebastiano Santostefano offers this demonstration of effective child therapy conducted in the "great outdoors."

Offers a view from the other side of the couch, illuminating the challenge and change experienced within the other half of the therapeutic relationship. This psychological adventure, fuses together the intimacy of the therapy with an account of the changes that have occurred in the practice of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis over the years.

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.

Examining transformation from the perspective of Jewish mysticism and psychoanalysis, this book addresses the question of how one achieves self-understanding that leads to insight and meaningful change. It uses the Kabbalah's metaphors as a framework with which to illuminate the experience of transformation in psychoanalytic process.

In 1995, Neil Altman did what few psychoanalysts did or even dared to do: He brought the theory and practice of psychoanalysis out of the cozy confines of the consulting room and into the realms of the marginalized. This title illustrates the challenges of working within this clinical milieu.

Thematically integrating published and unpublished papers, and containing three chapters of autobiographical reflection, this book aims to make the author's distinct approach to clinical theory and practice available to a broad and receptive readership. This book bridges analytic practice, and other psychotherapeutic modalities.

In this richly nuanced assessment of the various dimensions of mutuality in psychoanalysis, the author shows that the relational approach to psychoanalysis is a powerful guide to issues of technique and therapeutic strategy.

This volume aims to demonstrate how interpersonal psychoanalysis obliges analysts to engage their patients with genuine emotional responsiveness, so that not only the patient but analyst too is open to ongoing transformation through the analytic experience.

Opposing the traditional notion of development as the linear unfolding of predictable stages, Adrienne Harris argues that children become gendered in multiply configured contexts. And she proffers new developmental models to capture the fluid, constructed, and creative experiences of becoming and being gendered.

Sabina Spielrein and the Beginnings of Psychoanalysis joins the growing field of scholarship on Spielrein's distinctive and significant theoretical innovations at the foundations of psychoanalysis and serves as a new English language source of some of Spielrein's key works.

Psychoanalysis, Law, and Society explores the connections between psychoanalysis and law, arguing that these are required not only for conceptual or theoretical needs in both fields, but also for the vast range of practical implications and possibilities their association enables.

First Published in 2007. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

First Published in 2007. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Growing out of the horrific events of 9/11/01, this extraordinary collection gathers information from various domains - clinical studies of trauma, developmental psychopathology, psychobiology, epidemiology - in delineating the relationship between human

Inspired by the clinical and ethical contributions of Muriel Dimen (1942-2016), a prominent feminist anthropologist and relational psychoanalyst, Boundary Trouble in Psychoanalysis challenges the established psychoanalytic and mental health consensus about the sources and appropriate management of sexual boundary violations (SBV).

Inspired by the clinical and ethical contributions of Muriel Dimen (1942-2016), a prominent feminist anthropologist and relational psychoanalyst, Boundary Trouble in Psychoanalysis challenges the established psychoanalytic and mental health consensus about the sources and appropriate management of sexual boundary violations (SBV).