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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

Book purchases can be made here. About the Book Building upon fifty years of clinical experience, Fred Busch addresses a central question facing all psychoanalysts: What is essential to a psychoanalytic curative process, and what are the methods of working that can bring this about? This book investigates the analytic relationship as a process of giving patients the freedom to think the unthinkable (to build representations) and...