Books in the Relational Perspectives Book Series series

Psychoanalytic Treatment of Eating Disorders offers a compilation of some of the most innovative thinking on psychoanalytic approaches to the treatment of eating disorders available today.

Couples on the Couch provides a clear guide to applying the Tavistock model of couple psychotherapy in clinical psychoanalytic practice, offering a compelling sampling of ideas about couple relationships and couple psychotherapy from a broadly relational psychoanalytic perspective. The book provides an in-depth perspective to understanding intimate relationships and the complexities of working in this domain.

How can we talk about evil? How can we make sense of its presence all around us? How can we come to terms with the sad fact that our involvement in doing or enabling evil is an interminable aspect of our lives in the world? This book is an attempt to engage these questions in a new way.

Immigration in Psychoanalysis: Locating Ourselves presents a unique approach to understanding the varied and multi-layered experience of immigration, exploring how social, cultural, political, and historical contexts shape the psychological experience of immigration, and with it the encounter between foreign-born patients and their psychotherapists.

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.

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.

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.

Sabert 'Sabe' Basescu is regarded as an outstanding analyst and a significant proponent of the integration of existentialism and phenomenology into psychoanalytic theory and practice. This book includes a selection of seven of Sabe's articles, and explores issues such as self-disclosure in the therapy session, and the origins of creativity.

With chapters focusing on identity concerns associated with body-self (body size, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and age), urgent life crises, and defining life circumstances, The Therapist as a Person exemplifies the myriad ways in which the ther

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.

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.

Introduces readers to modalities such as craniosacral therapy and polarity therapy, as well as to use of yoga, the usefulness of which can be grounded neurophysiologically. This book also discusses somatic interventions, the extent to which they can promote depth-psychological change outside the psychoanalytic consulting room.

Seeking to reverse the stifling, non-interactive trend that has held psychoanalysts in its grip for many years, Kenneth Frank reasons that fundamental concepts in psychoanalysis can be understood differently within the two-person, as compared with the more traditional psychoanalytic model.

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.

This collection of essays is illustrated by numerous cases, including psychosomatic presentations such as the analytic treatment of musculoskeletal pain, breast cancer in the therapist, living with physical difference and the deadened body that is the result of taking the mind as a primary object.

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 book is revised edition of a book with a new title previously published with Columbia University Press called Aboriginal Populations in the Mind: Race and Primitivity in Psychoanalysis, NY, 2003.

Developmental Perspectives in Child Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy incorporates recent innovations in developmental theory into understanding the nature of change in child psychotherapy. Instead of relying on more traditional psychoanalytic theory, each contributor brings forth his or her own voice as they unfurl the ingredients of therapeutic action and its implications for their own style and approach.

Developmental Perspectives in Child Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy incorporates recent innovations in developmental theory into understanding the nature of change in child psychotherapy. Instead of relying on more traditional psychoanalytic theory, each contributor brings forth his or her own voice as they unfurl the ingredients of therapeutic action and its implications for their own style and approach.

Self-examination and self-critique: for psychoanalytic patients, this is the conduit to growth. Yet within the field, psychoanalysts haven¿t sufficiently utilized their own methodology or subjected their own preferred approaches to systematic and critical self-examination. Across theoretical divides, psychoanalytic writers and clinicians have too often responded to criticism with defensiveness rather than reflectivity. This book is a first in the history of psychoanalysis; it takes internal dissension and difference seriously rather than defensively.

Self-examination and self-critique: for psychoanalytic patients, this is the conduit to growth. Yet within the field, psychoanalysts haven't sufficiently utilized their own methodology or subjected their own preferred approaches to systematic and critical self-examination. Across theoretical divides, psychoanalytic writers and clinicians have too often responded to criticism with defensiveness rather than reflectivity. This book is a first in the history of psychoanalysis; it takes internal dissension and difference seriously rather than defensively.

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.