IPA in the Community
About the Book Series
I am pleased to welcome you to the IPA in the Community Book Series. These volumes will present the outreach work of the International Psychoanalytic Association as it integrates itself into many facets of our community life. We will learn how psychoanalysis, while born in the consulting room, also has application far beyond. Its core skills inform care provided to many individuals and in many venues from cancer units to refugee centers, from prenatal clinics to prisons. Through this book series we will get the opportunity to observe the deeply generous and skillful work of psychoanalysts who are making meaningful contact with individuals both on and off the couch.
Harvey Schwartz MD
Anxiety, Psychoanalysis and Law: Confronting Chaos
1st Edition
Edited
By Ronald Doctor, Adrienne Harris, Plinio Montagna
January 09, 2026
Anxiety, Psychoanalysis and Law examines the challenges of maintaining a psychoanalytic stance when working in chaotic times, with international contributors reflecting not only on their work with severely disturbed patients, but also during times of massive disturbances in society. Presented in ...
With Climate in Mind: Psychoanalysts on Climate Breakdown
1st Edition
Edited
By Sally Weintrobe, Lynne Zeavin
December 08, 2025
This groundbreaking book enriches and expands psychoanalytic theory and method as it applies to the climate. It embeds psychoanalysis in environmental and cultural awareness; restores the importance Freud gave to external reality and its mental representations; introduces an integrative concept of ...
A Psychoanalytic Approach to Refugee Mental Health: Safe Harbor
1st Edition
By Chrysi Giannoulaki
September 12, 2025
A Psychoanalytic Approach to Refugee Mental Health reflects on psychoanalytic work with vulnerable people during the refugee crisis. Chrysi Giannoulaki describes her work as a supervisor of groups of caregivers dealing with the mental health of refugees and occasionally as a psychiatrist of ...
Exploring Eating Disorders Through Psychoanalysis: Unravelling the Psyche
1st Edition
By Humberto Lorenzo Persano
August 20, 2025
Exploring Eating Disorders Through Psychoanalysis explores eating disorders as complex clinical conditions and uses psychoanalysis to explore the psychological factors behind them. Humberto Lorenzo Persano considers several key factors including psychosexual aspects of the psyche, object relations,...
Psychoanalytic Work in East Africa
1st Edition
By Barbara Saegesser
November 15, 2024
Psychoanalytic Work in East Africa presents a unique insight into psychoanalytic practice with urban populations in Eastern Africa. Barbara Saegesser describes her psychoanalytic work in different East African locations and in a wide range of contexts. Each chapter considers a particular context, ...
Trauma, Flight and Migration: Psychoanalytic Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Vivienne Elton, Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber, Gertraud Schlesinger-Kipp, Vivian Pender
September 19, 2022
This book brings together leading international psychoanalysts to discuss what psychoanalysis can offer to people who have experienced trauma, flight, and migration. The four parts of the book cover several elements of this work, including psychoanalytic projects beyond the couch, and collaboration...
Applying Psychoanalysis in Medical Care
1st Edition
Edited
By Harvey Schwartz
December 29, 2021
Applying Psychoanalysis in Medical Care describes the many ways that analysts interact with the medical world and make meaningful contributions to the care of a variety of patients. Clinicians with a deep psychoanalytic understanding of our vulnerabilities, fears and hopes are well suited to ...