Psychoanalysis in a New Key
About the Book Series
When music is played in a new key, the melody does not change, but the notes that make up the composition do: change in the context of continuity, continuity that perseveres through change. Psychoanalysis in a New Key publishes books that share the aims psychoanalysts have always had, but that approach them differently. The books in the series are not expected to advance any particular theoretical agenda, although to this date most have been written by analysts from the Interpersonal and Relational orientations.
The most important contribution of a psychoanalytic book is the communication of something that nudges the reader’s grasp of clinical theory and practice in an unexpected direction. Psychoanalysis in a New Key creates a deliberate focus on innovative and unsettling clinical thinking. Because that kind of thinking is encouraged by exploration of the sometimes surprising contributions to psychoanalysis of ideas and findings from other fields, Psychoanalysis in a New Key particularly encourages interdisciplinary studies. Books in the series have married psychoanalysis with dissociation, trauma theory, sociology, and criminology. The series is open to the consideration of studies examining the relationship between psychoanalysis and any other field – for instance, biology, literary and art criticism, philosophy, systems theory, anthropology, and political theory.
But innovation also takes place within the boundaries of psychoanalysis, and Psychoanalysis in a New Key therefore also presents work that reformulates thought and practice without leaving the precincts of the field. Books in the series focus, for example, on the significance of personal values in psychoanalytic practice, on the complex interrelationship between the analyst’s clinical work and personal life, on the consequences for the clinical situation when patient and analyst are from different cultures, and on the need for psychoanalysts to accept the degree to which they knowingly satisfy their own wishes during treatment hours, often to the patient’s detriment.
Reinventing Psychoanalysis for the Great Unknown: The Never-Ending Challenge
1st Edition
By Ofra Eshel
July 27, 2026
This book explores extreme experiences in psychoanalysis, and examines how to work with and understand such experiences both theoretically and practically. It invites readers into new, transformative quantum frontiers of psychoanalytic thought and clinical experience. Taking her profound work as ...
A Critical Companion to Bion: Functions of a Psychoanalytic Personality
1st Edition
By Charles Levin
July 13, 2026
A Critical Companion to Bion is an introduction to the extraordinary contributions of W.R. Bion, providing a close detailed reading of his work, anchored in systematic critical expositions of the arguments in his four main theoretical studies (1962-1970). The complex reality of Bion’s texts and ...
Unknowing as Truth: Epistemic Inversions and the Recursive Psyche
1st Edition
By Todd Anderson
May 27, 2026
Unknowing as Truth reframes psychoanalysis as a discipline of recursive hospitality through the lens of epistemic inversion—treating unknowing not as deficit but as the living medium of analytic truth. This book invites clinicians to work at the rim of symbolization—where refusals, reversals, and ...
Gravitational Psyche: Further Developments of the Psychoanalysis of Unstable Objects
1st Edition
By Todd Anderson
April 01, 2026
Gravitational Psyche draws on ideas from physics, psychoanalysis, and philosophy, to propose a radical reframing of how subjectivity is structured and sustained. What if the psyche, like the cosmos, is governed by invisible curves and recursive loops? Exploring how symbolic atmosphere, affective ...
The Fragmented Self, Recognition, and the Edge of Desire: Foundations of the Psychoanalysis of Unstable Objects
1st Edition
By Todd Anderson
April 01, 2026
This book explores the most unstable facets of psychic life and how these can be understood and engaged in the psychoanalytic consulting room. Psychic life is sustained by its very instabilities—by fragmentation, paradox, and the defenses that make survival possible. In dialogue with both ...
Airless Worlds and the Restoration of Psychic Breathing: Working Psychoanalytically with Early Relational Trauma
1st Edition
By Steven Stern
August 11, 2025
This book focuses on the recognition and psychoanalytic treatment of a debilitating form of early relational trauma poignantly described by Steven Stern as airless world syndrome. A patient can be said to be living in an airless world when one or both parents have failed to recognize, or ...
Field Perspectives in Clinical Practice: A Dialogue between Relational Psychoanalysis, Post-Bionian Psychoanalysis, and Gestalt Therapy
1st Edition
Edited
By Gianni Francesetti, Michela Gecele, Paolo Migone
June 16, 2025
This book is the outcome of fruitful engagement between relational psychoanalysis, neo-Bionian psychoanalysis, and Gestalt therapy on a contemporary growing edge of clinical practice: field theory. What is happening in contemporary clinical practice that seems to be pushing theories towards a field...
Psychoanalysis and the University: Resistance and Renewal from Freud to the Present
1st Edition
By Max Cavitch
April 23, 2025
This book charts the past and present vicissitudes of psychoanalysis’s relation to education and emphasizes on the necessity of its increased presence in university settings. Why can fewer and fewer people afford either time-intensive psychoanalytic psychotherapy or a three- to four-year college ...
A Shimmering Landscape: The Imaginative and Actual in Psychic Life
1st Edition
By Dodi Goldman
December 19, 2024
Acclaimed Winnicott scholar Dodi Goldman offers an intriguing account of the psyche’s work of imaginative elaboration. Why does the world feel one way when we are imaginatively alive to it and quite another when we are not? How does one both imagine and see things as they are? What happens ...
Passion, Shame, and the Freedom to Become: Seizing The Vital Moment in Psychoanalysis
1st Edition
By Peter Shabad
December 09, 2024
This book examines how humans can overcome feelings of shame through self‑acceptance and regain their innate passion and freedom to grow. Peter Shabad examines in detail how self-shaming and passivity are intertwined with the fatalism of self-pity, envy, resentment, and ultimately, regret for not "...
“Nasty Women” — Reclaiming the Power of Female Aggression: A Psychoanalytic Perspective
1st Edition
By Janet Rivkin Zuckerman, Ph.D.
November 28, 2024
This book addresses the fraught relationship between women and aggression, one troubled by age-old patriarchal forces that disparage women’s ambition, assertion, and voice. Told from a psychoanalytic perspective, the book details the sociocultural forces that infect a woman’s intrapsychic dynamics ...
On Coming into Possession of Oneself: Transformations of the Interpersonal Field
1st Edition
By Donnel B. Stern
September 05, 2024
This book is Donnel B. Stern’s latest contribution to the kind of understanding of the psychotherapeutic and psychoanalytic process offered by field theory. Stern anchors his understanding of therapeutic action in the freedom of both patient and analyst to create a meaningful experience with ...