Psychology & Psychiatry:

Lacan For Beginners

Written by Philip Hill
Illustrated by David Leach

Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: August 25, 2009
Price: $16.99

Jacques Lacan is probably the most influential psychoanalyst since Freud (of the roughly 20,000 psychoanalysts in the world, about half are ‘Lacanians’) yet most people know nothing about him. The 10,000 analysts who use Lacan’s ideas, work mostly in France, Spain, Italy, and South America. To the rest of the world... Read more >

New Studies of Old Villains
A Radical Reconsideration of the Oedipus Complex
Written by Paul Verhaeghe

Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: January 13, 2009
Price: $17.95

Freud’s discovery of the Oedipus complex has had a tumultuous fate in the field of psychology in the United States. At first considered the kernel of psychoanalysis it progressively lost its luster because of its patriarchal underpinnings—today Freud is barely studied in psychology departments. His theory of the unconscious born of... Read more >

Insight and Interpretation

Written by Roy Schafer

Format: Trade Paperback, 182 pages
On Sale: November 11, 2008
Price: $20.00

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Mind to Mind
Infant Research, Neuroscience, and Psychoanalysis
Written by Sharone Berger, PH.D.
Edited by Elliot Jurist and Arietta Slade

Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: June 10, 2008
Price: $36.00

This volume, based upon a conference held at the City University of New York in September 2005, brings together leading researchers and thinkers such as Peter Fonagy, Mary Target, Otto Kernberg, Glen Gabbard, Sidney Blatt, Donnel Stern, and Philip Bromberg. From diverse contemporary psychoanalytic perspectives, the authors consider the concept of... Read more >

The Sacred Path Beyond Trauma
Reaching the Divine Through Nature's Healing Symbols
Written by Ellen Macfarland, Ph.D.
Foreword by Robert Romanyshyn

Format: Trade Paperback, 232 pages
On Sale: June 3, 2008
Price: $16.95

One of Graham Greene’s characters famously said, “I suffer, therefore I am,” suggesting that pain is an inescapable, and perhaps incurable, part of the human condition. But must this be so? Ellen Macfarland argues otherwise in The Sacred Beyond Trauma. Through the use of mythology, stories from film and fiction, real-life... Read more >

False Self
The Life of Masud Khan
Written by Linda Hopkins

Format: Trade Paperback, 568 pages
On Sale: January 1, 2008
Price: $29.00

Winner of the 2007 Gradiva Award and the 2006 Goethe Award for Psychoanalytic Scholarship

The definitive biography of one of the most engaging figures of British psychoanalysis.

Both gifted analyst and generational bete noire, M. Masud R. Khan (1924–1989) exposed through his candor and scandalous behavior the bigotry of his proponents turned detractors... Read more >

Biology of Freedom

Written by Francois Ansermet and Pierre Magistretti

Format: Trade Paperback, 254 pages
On Sale: December 17, 2007
Price: $29.00

This groundbreaking book delivers a much needed bridge between the neurosciences and psychoanalysis.

Freud hoped that the neurosciences would offer support for his psychoanalysis theories at some point in the future: both disciplines, after all, agree that experience leaves traces in the mind. But even today, as we enter the twenty-first century... Read more >

From Death Instinct to Attachment Theory

Written by Tomas Geyskens and Philippe Van Haute

Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: August 17, 2007
Price: $27.00

Two leading psychoanalysts resolve the conflict between attachment theory and trauma theory.

In From Death Instinct to Attachment Theory, Tomas Geyskens and Philippe Van Haute address a theoretical conflict at the heart of contemporary psychoanalysis. Analytic theory, especially the work of Melanie Klein, asserts the developmental primacy of infantile Hilflosigkeit and the... Read more >

Traumatizing Theory

Written by Karyn Ball

Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
On Sale: June 17, 2007
Price: $35.00

A volume in the Contemporary Theory Series edited by Frances Restuccia

An interdisciplinary collection of essays that critically reflect on the value and limits of psychoanalysis for conceptualizing traumatic affect.
A page-turner for anyone even remotely drawn to the subject of trauma, Traumatizing Theory includes essays that go beyond psychoanalysis in rethinking the... Read more >

Resisting Arrest

Written by Robert A. Rushing

Format: Trade Paperback, 216 pages
On Sale: May 17, 2007
Price: $29.00

A volume in the Cultural Studies Series edited by Samir Dayal

An innovative and entertaining look at genre, popular culture, enjoyment, and psychoanalysis.

Detective fiction, a category that, broadly defined, runs the gamut from Oedipus Rex to "The Purloined Letter," continues to draw a range of fans and scholars, and to play a... Read more >

Beyond the Reflection

Written by Paulina F. Kernberg

Format: Trade Paperback, 232 pages
On Sale: April 17, 2007
Price: $26.00

An analysis of the use of the mirror as a diagnostic and therapeutic tool for children and adolescents.

Dr. Paulina F. Kernberg, the founder of a clinical program for children of divorced families at New York Presbyterian/Westchester Hospital, was an authority on personality disorders and on the emotional effects of divorce on... Read more >

Power Games

Written by Richard Raubolt

Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: November 17, 2006
Price: $32.00

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An intense account of the misuse of power in psychotherapeutic training that offers solutions to this urgent issue.

Over the course of his own training in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis, Richard Raubolt came to see that advanced training is more often than not plagued by authoritarian practices, some subtle and many pronounced. It... Read more >

Like Wind, Like Wave

Written by Stefano Bolognini

Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: October 17, 2006
Price: $13.95

An Italian psychoanalyst and raconteur reflects insightfully on life and the common experiences that make us human.

“The brief pieces collected in this volume are as much short stories as they are essays as they are psychoanalytic studies. In every chapter, the stage is set for consideration of large matters—the nature of... Read more >

Practical Psychoanalysis

Written by Owen Renik

Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: September 17, 2006
Price: $24.00

A clear and readable how-to manual for results-oriented psychoanalysis.

By now, the term "practical psychoanalysis" has become an oxymoron. The way psychoanalytic treatment is generally conducted is extremely impractical and doesn't serve the needs of the vast majority of potential patients, who want to achieve maximum relief from emotional distress as quickly... Read more >

The Symptom Is Not the Whole Story
Psychoanalysis for Non-Psychoanalysts
Written by Daniel Araoz

Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: September 17, 2006
Price: $27.00

A practical introduction to contemporary psychoanalysis that is accessible to all mental health professionals.

Trained mostly in cognitive-behavioral methods and techniques, many recent graduates from psychology, counseling, family therapy, and other mental health programs have not been exposed to psychoanalysis as a vibrant, practical, and beneficial approach to human problems. In The... Read more >

Reinventing the Soul
Posthumanist Theory and Psychic Life
Written by Mari Ruti

Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: August 17, 2006
Price: $26.00

Essential reading for scholars and students in critical theory, psychoanalysis, and gender studies.

How does the self care for itself in the posthumanist era? What psychic processes might allow the postmodern subject to find meaning and value in its life? Is it possible to delineate a theory of psychic potentiality that... Read more >

Writing About Patients

Written by Judy Leopold Kantrowitz

Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: August 17, 2006
Price: $26.00

An important new study of the clinical conundrum surrounding the publication of patient material.

The publication, presentation, and discussion of case studies are essential to the dialogue of psychoanalysis. However, presenting patient material to the public by either disguising the patient's identity or asking for the patient's consent presents a clinical dilemma... Read more >

Bad Feelings

Written by Roy Schafer

Format: Trade Paperback, 184 pages
On Sale: April 17, 2006
Price: $26.00

Bad feelings are ubiquitous to human experience. Everyone deals with grief, envy, disappointment, dejection, humiliation, mortification, and anxiety. However, when we consciously push troubling feelings aside and then avoid them, we should be under no illusions that such repression empowers us to lead untroubled lives. The price that we pay, simply... Read more >

Subjective Experience and the Logic of t

Written by Romulo Lander

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: February 17, 2006
Price: $25.00

The first Lacanian handbook for American psychotherapists.

Subjective Experience and the Logic of the Other is the first handbook on Lacanian clinical practice specifically designed for American psychotherapists. Dispensing with jargon and elliptic formulations, Lander accomplishes the tour de force of making Lacan "user friendly."

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What Lacan Said About Women
A Psychoanalytic Study
Written by Colette Soler

Format: Trade Paperback, 344 pages
On Sale: January 15, 2006
Price: $25.00

The definitive work on LacanâÄôs theory of the feminine.

With exquisite prose and penetrating insights, Colette Soler shares her theoretical and clinical expertise in this vibrant new text. She spins out seductive explications of Lacan's thought on the controversial question of sexual difference. With the subtlety that these topics deserve, she takes... Read more >

Freud

Written by Jacques Sedat

Format: Trade Paperback, 200 pages
On Sale: December 17, 2005
Price: $23.00

An insightful synopsis of Freud's major clinical and theoretical concepts.

Freud introduced into the cultural field a new discipline separate from philosophy, medicine, and religion. How, he asked, are subjects constructed by the family and culture to which they belong? For the first time, this clinical practice made it possible to challenge... Read more >

Freud Along the Ganges

Written by Salman Akhtar

Format: Trade Paperback, 440 pages
On Sale: December 17, 2005
Price: $27.00

Winner of the 2006 Gradiva Award 

A collection of new and previously-published essays that sheds light on the intersections between psychoanalysis and Indic Studies.

While Indian academics and clinicians have been familiar with psychoanalysis for many decades, they have kept this Western model of the mind separate from the spiritual and philosophical... Read more >

To Redeem One Person is to Redeem the World
The Life of Freida Fromm-Reichmann
Written by Gail A. Hornstein

Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
On Sale: September 17, 2005
Price: $24.95

A fascinating and dramatic account of a controversial figure in twentieth-century psychiatry.

In this “dazzling and provocative”* biography, Gail Hornstein brings back to life the maverick psychiatrist Frieda Fromm-Reichmann. To Redeem One Person Is to Redeem the World tells the extraordinary life story of the German-Jewish refugee analyst who accomplished what Freud... Read more >

Forms of Intersubjectivity

Written by Beatrice Beebe

Format: Trade Paperback, 200 pages
On Sale: August 17, 2005
Price: $25.00

With new discussions by Theodore Jacobs and Regina Pally

Adult psychoanalysis has approached the study of intersubjectivity by concentrating primarily on the verbal dialogue, an explicit mode of communication. Infant research, on the other hand, focuses on nonverbal communication and implicit modes of action sequences, operating largely out of awareness, such as... Read more >

Mourning and Modernity

Written by Isaac D. Balbus

Format: Trade Paperback, 264 pages
On Sale: August 17, 2005
Price: $25.00

In this collection of new and previously published essays, political theorist Isaac D. Balbus deepens and extends the feminist neo-Kleinian account of sexual, political, and technological domination he developed in his earlier works. The first half of Mourning and Modernity responds to Marxist, nonpsychoanalytic, feminist, and post-structuralist criticisms of that psychoanalytic... Read more >