The International Psychoanalytical Association Current Challenges in Psychoanalysis
About the Book Series
This series delves into the evolving landscape of psychoanalytic practice, addressing contemporary issues such as trauma, cultural diversity, technology’s influence, and shifts in psychoanalytical dynamics. Each volume offers concise, interdisciplinary insights from leading experts, bridging classical psychoanalytic theory with modern challenges. Designed for clinicians and researchers, this series serves as a vital resource for those seeking to navigate and innovate within today’s complex therapeutic environment.
Other series published by the IPA:
The International Psychoanalytical Association Controversies in Psychoanalysis series
The International Psychoanalytical Association International Psychoanalysis Library
The International Psychoanalytical Association Psychoanalytic Ideas and Applications series
The International Psychoanalytical Association Psychoanalytic Classics Revisited
Paths of Symbolization
1st Edition
By Alain Gibeault
February 25, 2026
Paths of Symbolization explores philosophical and psychoanalytic questions about the concept of symbolization. Alain Gibeault connects symbolization with concepts like playing, sublimation and creation. With reference to Freud’s metapsychology and the French context specifically, Gibeault explores ...
The Defenses in Psychoanalysis: Theoretical Concepts to Empirical Research
1st Edition
By Anna Maria Rosso
February 11, 2026
The Defenses in Psychoanalysis explores the nature and assessment of defense mechanisms through an integration of psychoanalytic theory and empirical research in contemporary psychoanalysis. Presented in two parts, the first section offers a comprehensive overview of major psychoanalytic ...
Narcissism: Psychoanalytic Clinicians and Researchers in Dialogue
1st Edition
Edited
By Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber, Stephan Hau, Rogério Lerner, Erik Stänicke, Siri Erika Gullestad
November 13, 2025
Narcissism: Psychoanalytic Clinicians and Researchers in Dialogue presents current research and practice on working psychoanalytically with narcissism. The contributors discuss a broad spectrum of approaches for understanding narcissism, from cultural-theoretical and social perspectives to clinical...
Art and Psychoanalysis: Between the Dialectics of the Other and Poetic Estrangement
1st Edition
By Gabriela Goldstein
October 27, 2025
This book explores the concept of estrangement from a psychoanalytic perspective, intertwining art and aesthetics to offer a paradigm of the aesthetic experience. Gabriela Goldstein suggests that an unexpected encounter with a work of art may lead to a state of poetic estrangement, promoting a ...
Couple Work, Work with Couples
1st Edition
By Éric Smadja
July 31, 2025
Couple Work, Work with Couples provides a new exploration of psychoanalysis with couples. Éric Smadja takes two key approaches, first providing a metapsychological exploration of couple work – at intrapsychic-individual, intersubjective and group levels – and investigating love, being in love ...
Psychoanalysis and Severe Disorders in Young Children: Clinical and Community Work with Autism Spectrum Disorder and Child Mental Health
1st Edition
By Nahir Bonifacino
October 15, 2024
Psychoanalysis and Severe Disorders in Young Children presents case material and resources for professionals working with young children in the clinic and in the community. Presented in two main parts, the book explores Nahir Bonifacino’s work with children and their parents. The first part ...