Journal Articles and Book Chapters by BPSI Authors
If you would like to be featured on our blog, please email librarian Nina Rabkina at library@bpsi.org to have your works added! 2025 Steven Cooper, PhD Cooper, S. H. (2025). Becoming a psychoanalyst: A life so far in psychoanalytic practice, teaching, and writing. Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 45(3), 202–213. https://doi.org/10.1080/07351690.2025.2463839 Cooper, S. H. (2025). Living an experience of defence: Exploring defensive process within the play framework. The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 106(1), 11–26....
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Steven H. Cooper – Psychoanalysis in Play: Expanding Psychoanalytic Concepts from a Play Perspective
Book purchases can be made here. About the book: In this book, Steven H. Cooper expands on his thinking of psychoanalysis as a form of play and the implications of this for theory and clinical practice. The most important activities of the analyst as a usable object for the patient have to do with finding the patient’s creative elements of self. Cooper illuminates this process of finding within both patient and analyst. He illuminates how play processes occur in relation to such concepts as defense, temporality, and neutrality within the...
read moreSteven H. Cooper, Christopher G. Lovett (Eds.) – Winnicott’s Letter to Bion: Playing, Dreaming, and Beyond
Book purchases can be made here About the Book Winnicott’s Letter to Bion presents reflections on a fascinating moment in the history of psychoanalytic thinking. Donald Winnicott’s letter, sent on October 5, 1967, and conveying thoughts about two of Wilfred Bion’s papers, never received a response. In this book, international contributors elaborate on the contents of the letter, overlapping and divergent projects of the two psychoanalysts, and the meaning of Bion’s silence. The chapters consider topics including the historical context of...
read morePsychoanalysis and The Project for a Scientific Psychology: Trauma, Dissociative Multiplicity, and Clinical Narratives in Dialogue with Neuroscience
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LI Qinyun (李沁云) – Expressions of a Heart (心的表达)
About the book: Published in January, 2025 in Chinese, Expressions of a Heart (心的表达) is a collection of 31 essays on an array of topics about psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. These essays cover the author’s work and training experiences in the period of 2017~2024. Intended for a general readership, this book aims at increasing knowledge of mental health issues, demystifying the clinical process, lessening stigma for seeking treatment, and promoting an interest in in-depth treatments among contemporary Chinese readers. Essays...
read moreEllen Pinsky, Michael Slevin (Eds.) – Driven to Write: 45 Writers on the Motives and Mysteries of their Craft
Book purchases can be made here. About the Book: In this book of essays, over 40 successful writers in varied fields —poetry, science, the performing and visual arts, psychoanalysis, journalism, literature and more— explore what drives them to write, and to work at their craft. In contributions arranged under three headings— “Models and Mentors,” “Urges and Traumas,” and “Evidence and Experiences”—each writer explores their personal understanding of writing as a psychological necessity. In varying ways, these candid, often emotional essays...
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Anthony D. Bram – Psychological Assessment of Emotional Dysregulation in Children and Adolescents: The Bipolar Spectrum and Beyond
Book purchases can be made here. About the Book This book explains the process by which assessment psychologists can evaluate and report the nature and severity of emotional dysregulation in their young patients.As referrals for clinical assessment of complex children and adolescents frequently involve questions about emotional regulation in general and the possibility of bipolar spectrum conditions in particular, trainees and practitioners will find this to be an invaluable resource. Challenges with emotional regulation are common among...
read moreCordelia Schmidt-Hellerau – Life Drive & Death Drive, Libido & Lethe: A Clear Road Through Freud’s Metapsychology Leading to Helpful Findings and New Concepts
Book purchases can be made here. About the Book “Cordelia Schmidt-Hellerau navigates what has been for many of us the murky waters of metapsycholgy, and provides an exceptionally lucid, logically coherent account of the overall structure of Freud’s psychoanalytic theory, the relationship of its various elements, and the significance for clinical practice and neurophysiological priniciples. She convinces the reader that Freud’s metapsychology, critically and synthetically approached, contains more creative potential than...
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