New Library of Psychoanalysis
About the Book Series
The New Library of Psychoanalysis is published by Routledge Mental Health in association with the Institute of Psychoanalysis, London.
Its purpose is to facilitate a greater and more widespread appreciation of psychoanalysis and to provide a forum for increasing mutual understanding between psychoanalysts and those in other disciplines. The series also aims to make some of the work of continental and other non-English speaking analysts more readily available to English-speaking readers, and to increase the interchange of ideas between British and American analysts.
The New Library of Psychoanalysis published its first book in 1987 under the editorship of David Tuckett, later followed by Elizabeth Bott Spillius, Susan Budd and Dana Birksted-Breen. A considerable number of Associate Editors and readers have assisted the editors.
Under the guidance of Foreign Rights Editors, a considerable number of the New Library books have been published abroad, particularly in Brazil, Germany, France, Italy, Peru, Spain and Japan.
The aim of the New Library of Psychoanalysis is to maintain the high level of scholarship of the previous series, to provide a forum for increasing understanding between psychoanalysis and other disciplines and to increase the interest of the general book-reading public in psychoanalysis.
The New Library of Psychoanalysis also aims to help the various schools of psychoanalysis to better understand each other. It has published books representing all three schools of thought in British psychoanalysis, including a particularly important work edited by Pearl King and Riccardo Steiner, expounding the intellectual and organisational controversies that developed in the British psychoanalytical Society between Kleinian, Viennese and 'middle group' analysts during the Second World War.
The New Library of Psychoanalysis has also translated and published several books by Continental psychoanalysts, and it plans in the future to continue the policy of publishing books that express as clearly as possible a variety of psychoanalytic points of view.
Vital Flows Between the Self and Non-Self: The Interpsychic
1st Edition
By Stefano Bolognini
March 29, 2022
Vital Flows explores the concept of the Interpsychic, or that which exists in our unconscious or preconscious inter- and intra-human exchanges and demonstrates its significance for understanding psychoanalytic theory and practice. Drawing on rich clinical material, Bolognini explains how ...
Coming to Life in the Consulting Room: Toward a New Analytic Sensibility
1st Edition
By Thomas H. Ogden
December 21, 2021
Ogden sets out a movement in contemporary psychoanalysis toward a new sensibility, reflecting a shift in emphasis from what he calls "epistemological psychoanalysis" (having to do with knowing and understanding) to "ontological psychoanalysis" (having to do with being and becoming). Ogden ...
Lost to Desire: The École Psychosomatique de Paris and its Encounter With Patients Who Do Not Thrive
1st Edition
By Wolfgang Lassmann
November 29, 2021
This book covers the work of psychoanalysts in post WWII France with patients beset by somatic problems with little manifest fantasy life, and how their concept of opératoire continues to inform the theory and practice of working with patients in crisis. The author explores what the new concept ...
When the Body Speaks: A British-Italian Dialogue
1st Edition
Edited
By Donald Campbell, Ronny Jaffe
November 15, 2021
This book is based on the work done by a group of British and Italian psychoanalysts who have been meeting twice yearly since 2003 to study clinically the relationship between the mind and the body of their patients. The analytical dyad became the focus of a dialectical movement between body and ...
The Surviving Object: Psychoanalytic clinical essays on psychic survival-of-the-object
1st Edition
By Jan Abram
September 28, 2021
In this book, Abram proposes and elaborates the dual concept of an intrapsychic surviving and non surviving object and examines how psychic survival-of-the-object places the early m/Other at the centre of the nascent psyche before innate factors are relevant. Abram’s clinical-theoretical ...
Sexuality and Procreation in the Age of Biotechnology: Desire and its Discontents
1st Edition
By Paola Marion
July 13, 2021
Through the lens of psychoanalytic thought about sexuality, the book examines changes in the area of procreation and generation, the disjunction between sexuality and procreation introduced by biotechnology and some new methods of reproduction, and their impact on the essential moments of existence...
Translation/Transformation: 100 Years of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis
1st Edition
Edited
By Dana Birksted-Breen
March 09, 2021
Translation is at the heart of psychoanalysis: from unconscious to conscious, experience to verbal expression, internal to enacted, dream thought to dream image, language to interpretation, unrepresented to represented and transference of past to present. The book’s first part discusses the ...
Psychoanalysts in Session: Clinical Glossary of Contemporary Psychoanalysis
1st Edition
Edited
By Laurent Danon-Boileau, Jean-Yves Tamet
November 24, 2020
Psychoanalysis is an intimate clinical experience and the concepts that it explores aim to grapple with the specific phenomena that unfold when a patient speaks and an analyst listens. This book aims to give concrete examples of how these concepts take shape when analysts work. The structure of ...
The Contemporary Freudian Tradition: Past and Present
1st Edition
Edited
By Ken Robinson, Joan Schachter
October 20, 2020
This is the first book dedicated to the Contemporary Freudian Tradition. In its introduction, and through its selection of papers, it describes the development and rich diversity of this tradition over recent decades, showing how theory and practice are inseparable in the psychoanalytic treatment ...
Sexuality, Excess, and Representation: A Psychoanalytic Clinical and Theoretical Perspective
1st Edition
By Rosine Jozef Perelberg
August 27, 2019
Sexuality, Excess, and Representation develops a psychoanalytic understanding of psychic bisexuality and how it can be understood theoretically and in clinical practice. Rosine Jozef Perelberg articulates a Freudian metapsychology with modern preoccupations with questions of sexual difference and ...
Psychoanalytic Concepts and Technique in Development: Psychoanalysis, Neuroscience and Physics
1st Edition
By Florence Guignard
June 24, 2019
Psychoanalytic Concepts and Technique in Development offers a clear and thorough overview of contemporary psychoanalytic theory and clinical technique, from a largely post-Freudian, French perspective, but also informed by the work of Klein, Bion and Winnicott. Drawing on the French tradition, ...
Concerning the Nature of Psychoanalysis: The Persistence of a Paradoxical Discourse
1st Edition
By Gregorio Kohon
June 04, 2019
In his new book, Considering the Nature of Psychoanalysis: The Persistence of a Paradoxical Discourse, Gregorio Kohon describes the complexity of the psychoanalytic encounter, questioning the misguided attempts to simplify and/or reduce it to either art or science. Kohon disputes the contemporary...