Preorders can be purchased 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...
Cordelia 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...
Fred Busch – How Does Analysis Cure? Essays on a Psychoanalytic Method, Psychoanalytic Organizations and Psychoanalysts
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...
Rodrigo Barahona – Negative Hallucinosis in Wilfred Bion’s Theory of Transformations: On Finding One’s Ghost
Preorders can be made here. Use code BION25 for 25% off! About the Book In this illuminating volume, Rodrigo Barahona takes up the question of transformations in hallucinosis in Wilfred Bion’s work. The book discusses how the analyst’s functioning, his receptivity and ability to make sense out of what is unconsciously occurring between himself and the patient, and the ability to find words to represent it—the basic psychoanalytic task—is...
Andrea Celenza – Erotic Transferences: A Contemporary Introduction
Book purchases can be made here. Use code AFLY03 for 20% off! About the Book Erotic Transferences: A Contemporary Introduction offers a comprehensive introduction to this key, yet challenging aspect of the psychoanalytic process. Despite emerging frequently in the psychoanalytic process, Andrea Celenza highlights the sparseness of literature on erotic transferences and a tendency to desexualise psychoanalytic theorizing, which she posits...
Steven H. Cooper and Judy L. Kantrowitz(Eds) – Anton O. Kris: Selected Papers
Book purchases can be made here. About the Book The work of Tony Kris is a rare treasure for practicing psychoanalysts: He was famous for making grand technical terms work for practicing analysts in their office. What is the actual experience of a patient who is wrestling with a “conflict?” Kris reaches into that most basic term and finds that it may refer to two quite different kinds of quandary, each with its own set of choices. He describes...