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.
Metaphor and Fields: Common Ground, Common Language, and the Future of Psychoanalysis
1st Edition
Edited
By S. Montana Katz
December 18, 2012
Metaphor and Fields is an explanation and demonstration of the value of metaphoric processes and fields in psychoanalysis. In this book, Montana Katz articulates a future direction for psychoanalysis which is progressively explored, taking into account features essential to psychoanalysts of all ...
Nothing Good Is Allowed to Stand: An Integrative View of the Negative Therapeutic Reaction
1st Edition
Edited
By Léon Wurmser, Heidrun Jarass
August 21, 2012
Work with patients with severe neuroses very often has to cope with the phenomenon that every progress in the analytic or therapeutic work is followed paradoxically by a clinical deterioration. There are a number of dynamic factors that converge to bring about this negative therapeutic reaction, ...
Self Experiences in Group, Revisited: Affective Attachments, Intersubjective Regulations, and Human Understanding
1st Edition
Edited
By Irene Harwood, Walter Stone, Malcolm Pines
April 12, 2012
Since the publication of Self Experiences in Group in 1998—the first book to apply self psychology and intersubjectivity to group work—there have been tremendous advancements in the areas of affect, attachment, infant research, intersubjective regulation, motivational theory, neurobiology, ...
Manual of Panic Focused Psychodynamic Psychotherapy - eXtended Range
1st Edition
By Fredric N. Busch, Barbara L. Milrod, Meriamne B. Singer, Andrew C. Aronson
September 21, 2011
This manual presents a carefully researched, detailed psychodynamic treatment program for the alleviation of a transdiagnostic range of primary Axis I anxiety disorders, including panic disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, social anxiety disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, and related ...
The Abyss of Madness
1st Edition
By George E. Atwood
September 07, 2011
Despite the many ways in which the so-called psychoses can become manifest, they are ultimately human events arising out of human contexts. As such, they can be understood in an intersubjective manner, removing the stigmatizing boundary between madness and sanity. Utilizing the post-Cartesian ...
World, Affectivity, Trauma: Heidegger and Post-Cartesian Psychoanalysis
1st Edition
By Robert D. Stolorow
April 15, 2011
Stolorow and his collaborators' post-Cartesian psychoanalytic perspective – intersubjective-systems theory – is a phenomenological contextualism that illuminates worlds of emotional experience as they take form within relational contexts. After outlining the evolution and basic ideas of this ...
Persons in Context: The Challenge of Individuality in Theory and Practice
1st Edition
Edited
By Roger Frie, William J. Coburn
August 24, 2010
In contemporary forms of psychoanalysis, particularly intersubjective systems theory, the turn towards contextualism has permitted the development of new ways of thinking and practicing that have dispensed with the notion of isolated individuality. For many who embrace this "post-subjectivist" way ...
Psychoanalysis and Motivational Systems: A New Look
1st Edition
By Joseph D. Lichtenberg, Frank M. Lachmann, James L. Fosshage
August 24, 2010
Introduced in Psychoanalysis and Motivation (1989) and further developed in Self and Motivational Systems (1992), The Clinical Exchange (1996), and A Spirit of Inquiry (2002), motivational systems theory aims to identify the components and organization of mental states and the process by which...
Toward an Emancipatory Psychoanalysis: Brandchaft's Intersubjective Vision
1st Edition
By Bernard Brandchaft, Shelley Doctors, Dorienne Sorter
May 12, 2010
Best known for his contributions to the development of contemporary intersubjectivity theory, Bernard Brandchaft has dedicated a career to the advancement of psychoanalytic theory and practice. Continually searching for a theoretical viewpoint that would satisfactorily explain the clinical ...
From Psychoanalytic Narrative to Empirical Single Case Research: Implications for Psychoanalytic Practice
1st Edition
By Horst Kächele, Joseph Schachter, Helmut Thomä
July 22, 2008
Recognition of the need for empirical research and interest in its findings are growing in psychoanalysis. Many psychoanalysts now acknowledge that research is imperative to try to deal with the factors propelling the diminution in status and prestige of the discipline, as well as the number of ...
Mentalization: Theoretical Considerations, Research Findings, and Clinical Implications
1st Edition
Edited
By Fredric N. Busch
February 25, 2008
Mentalization is the capacity to perceive and interpret behavior in terms of intentional mental states, to imagine what others are thinking and feeling, and is a concept that has taken the psychological and psychoanalytic worlds by storm. This collection of papers, carefully edited by ...
Transforming Narcissism: Reflections on Empathy, Humor, and Expectations
1st Edition
By Frank M. Lachmann
December 19, 2007
Using Kohut's seminal paper "Forms and Transformations of Narcissism" as a springboard, Frank Lachmann updates Kohut's proposals for contemporary clinicians. Transforming Narcissism: Reflections on Empathy, Humor, and Expectations draws on a wide range of contributions from empirical ...