Book Series
Relational Perspectives Book Series
New & Published Titles:
Gender as Soft Assembly
Gender as Soft Assembly weaves together insights from different disciplinary domains to open up new vistas of clinical understanding of what it means to inhabit,… read moreAugust 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-88163-498-3 (Routledge)
Repair of the Soul
Metaphors of Transformation in Jewish Mysticism and Psychoanalysis
Repair of the Soul examines transformation from the perspective of Jewish mysticism and psychoanalysis, addressing the question of how one achieves self-understanding that leads not…
read moreJune 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-88163-487-7 (Routledge)
Adolescent Identities
A Collection of Readings
Adolescent Identities draws the reader into the inner world of the adolescent to examine the process of identity formation through the various lenses of history,…
read more2007 | Hardback: 978-0-88163-461-7 (Routledge)
Bodies In Treatment
The Unspoken Dimension
Bodies in Treatment is a challenging volume that brings into conceptual focus an "unspoken dimension" of clinical work - the body and nonverbal communication -…
read more2007 | Hardback: 978-0-88163-448-8 (Routledge)
Comparative-Integrative Psychoanalysis
A Relational Perspective for the Discipline's Second Century
This exceptionally practical and insightful new text explores the emerging field of comparative-integrative psychoanalysis. It provides an invaluable framework for approaching the currently fractious state…
read more2007 | Hardback: 978-0-88163-460-0 (Routledge)
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Relational Psychoanalysis, V. 3
New Voices
Relational psychoanalysis has revivified psychoanalytic discourse by attesting to the analyst's multidimensional subjectivity and then showing how this subjectivity opens to deeper insights about the…
read more2007 | Paperback: 978-0-88163-456-3 (Routledge)
Creating Bodies
Eating Disorders as Self-Destructive Survival
Amid the welter of clinical studies, memoirs, and other death-defying tales of eating disorders, we remain unclear about the relationships among trauma, anorexia, and bulimia,… read more2006 | Paperback: 978-0-88163-438-9 (Routledge)
Getting From Here to There
Analytic Love, Analytic Process
It is clinical work with the most difficult patients - those with severe narcissistic, sadomasochistic, and borderline disorders - that poses the greatest challenge to…
read more2006 | Hardback: 978-0-88163-439-6 (Routledge)
Unconscious Fantasies and the Relational World
What is the role of unconscious fantasies in psychological development, in psychopathology, and in the arts? In Unconscious Fantasies and the Relational World,…
read more2005 | Hardback: 978-0-88163-420-4 (Routledge)
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The Healer's Bent
Solitude and Dialogue in the Clinical Encounter
Over the course of a 50-year career, James T. McLaughlin has sought to open the playing field of psychoanalytic exploration by treating unconscious processes as… read more2005 | Hardback: 978-0-88163-436-5 (Routledge)
Forthcoming Titles:
On Termination: Relational Perspectives
Edited by Jill Salberg
To be published May 1st 2010
Imaginable Storms: Psychoanalytic Work with Seriously Disturbed Patients
By Paul Williams
To be published April 1st 2010
The Treatment of Dissociative Identity Disorder: A Relational Approach
By Elizabeth F. Howell
To be published April 1st 2010
The Analyst in the Inner City: Race, Culture, and Class through a Psychoanalytic Lens, 2E
By Neil Altman
To be published November 1st 2009
The Hero in the Mirror: From Fear to Fortitude
By Sue Grand
To be published August 1st 2009
Dare to Be Human: A Contemporary Psychoanalytic Journey
By Michael Shoshani
To be published January 22nd 2009