Psychoanalytic Inquiry Book Series
About the Book Series
Like its counterpart, Psychoanalytic Inquiry: A Topical Journal for Mental Health Professionals, the Psychoanalytic Inquiry Book Series presents a diversity of subjects within a diversity of approaches to those subjects. Under the editorship of Joseph Lichtenberg, in collaboration with Melvin Bornstein and the editorial board of Psychoanalytic Inquiry, the volumes in this series strike a balance between research, theory, and clinical application. We are honored to have published the works of various innovators in psychoanalysis, such as Lachmann, Fosshage, Stolorow, Orange, Sander, Wurmser, Grotstein, Jones, Brothers, Busch, and Lichtenberg, among others.
The series includes books and monographs on mainline psychoanalytic topics, such as sexuality, narcissism, trauma, homosexuality, jealousy, envy, and varied aspects of analytic process and technique. In our efforts to broaden the field of analytic interest, the series has incorporated and embraced innovative discoveries in infant research, self psychology, intersubjectivity, motivational systems, affects as process, responses to cancer, borderline states, contextualism, postmodernism, attachment research and theory, medication, and mentalization. As further investigations in psychoanalysis come to fruition, we seek to present them in readable, easily comprehensible writing.
After 25 years, the core vision of this series remains the investigation, analysis and discussion of developments on the cutting edge of the psychoanalytic field, inspired by a boundless spirit of inquiry.
A Rumor of Empathy: Resistance, narrative and recovery in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy
1st Edition
By Lou Agosta
June 02, 2015
Empathy is an essential component of the psychoanalyst’s ability to listen and treat their patients. It is key to the achievement of therapeutic understanding and change. A Rumor of Empathy explores the psychodynamic resistances to empathy, from the analyst themselves, the patient, from wider ...
Craft and Spirit: A Guide to the Exploratory Psychotherapies
1st Edition
By Joseph D. Lichtenberg
December 01, 2014
In Craft and Spirit, Joseph Lichtenberg writes of the craft of exploratory psychotherapy, by which he means the creative skill — even artistry — that mobilizes the spirit of inquiry in therapist and patient and sustains it over the course of psychotherapy. He expatiates on this craft as it ...
Creative Analysis: Art, creativity and clinical process
1st Edition
By George Hagman
November 24, 2014
Creative Analysis: Art, Creativity and Clinical Process explores the dynamics of creativity in psychoanalytic treatment. It argues that the creative process of the analytic interaction is characterized by specific forms of feeling, thinking and most importantly, relating that result in the ...
The Search for a Relational Home: An intersubjective view of therapeutic action
1st Edition
By Chris Jaenicke
October 13, 2014
In The Search for a Relational Home, Chris Jaenicke gives the reader an inside view of what actually happens in psychotherapy and how change occurs. He describes how both participants – the patient and the therapist – feel, and how they affect each other. The reader is encouraged to vicariously ...
A Spirit of Inquiry: Communication in Psychoanalysis
1st Edition
By Joseph D. Lichtenberg, Frank M. Lachmann, James L. Fosshage
September 11, 2014
Thoroughly grounded in contemporary developmental research, A Spirit of Inquiry: Communication in Psychoanalysis explores the ecological niche of the infant-caregiver dyad and examines the evolutionary leap that permits communication to take place concurrently in verbal an nonverbal modes. ...
Attachment and Sexuality
1st Edition
Edited
By Diana Diamond, Sidney J. Blatt, Joseph D. Lichtenberg
September 11, 2014
The papers featured in Attachment and Sexuality create a dense tapestry, each forming a separate narrative strand that elucidates different configurations of the relationship between attachment and sexuality. As a whole, the volume explores the areas of convergence and divergence, opposition, and ...
Psychotherapy and Medication: The Challenge of Integration
1st Edition
By Fredric N. Busch, Larry S. Sandberg
September 11, 2014
Over the past two decades, the use of medication combined with psychotherapy or psychoanalysis has shifted from an infrequent occurrence to common practice. Concurrently, attitudes toward medication have changed from viewing this intervention as disruptive or as a last resort to a welcome aid in ...
Jealousy and Envy: New Views about Two Powerful Feelings
1st Edition
Edited
By Léon Wurmser, Heidrun Jarass
June 09, 2014
Jealousy and envy permeate the practice of psychoanalytic and psychotherapeutic work. New experience and new relevance of old but neglected ideas about these two feeling states and their origins warrant special attention, both as to theory and practice. Their great complexity and multilayered ...
Living Systems, Evolving Consciousness, and the Emerging Person: A Selection of Papers from the Life Work of Louis Sander
1st Edition
By Louis Sander, Gherardo Amadei, Ilaria Bianchi
June 09, 2014
This collection of previously published papers can be viewed as a story of the gradual emergence of an overarching idea through the course of a life’s work. The idea concerns the way emerging knowledge of developmental processes, biological systems, and therapeutic process can be integrated in ...
Structures of Subjectivity: Explorations in Psychoanalytic Phenomenology and Contextualism
2nd Edition
By George E. Atwood, Robert D. Stolorow
May 21, 2014
Structures of Subjectivity: Explorations in Psychoanalytic Phenomenology and Contextualism, is a revised and expanded second edition of a work first published in 1984, which was the first systematic presentation of the intersubjective viewpoint – what George Atwood and Robert Stolorow called ...
Psychoanalytic Complexity: Clinical Attitudes for Therapeutic Change
1st Edition
By William J. Coburn
December 21, 2013
Psychoanalytic Complexity is the application of a multidisciplinary, explanatory theory to clinical psychoanalysis and psychotherapy. It carries with it incisive and pivotal attitudes that aim to transform our understanding of therapeutic action and the change process. Here, William Coburn offers a...
Growth and Turbulence in the Container/Contained: Bion's Continuing Legacy
1st Edition
Edited
By Howard B Levine, Lawrence J. Brown
February 07, 2013
Wilfred Bion remains the most cited author in psychoanalytic literature after Sigmund Freud. His formulation of alpha function, waking dream thoughts, his theory of thinking and of the container/contained have proven seminal for the elaboration of psychoanalytic theory and practice, as well as the ...