The Clinical Erik Erikson: A Psychoanalytic Method of Engagement and Activation by Stephen Schlein, PhD (Routledge, 2016). The twentieth century has been described as the time of man’s discovery of himself; few have contributed more to this cause than Erik Erikson. The Clinical Erik Erikson: A psychoanalytic method of engagement and activation highlights Erikson’s transforming contributions to the field of psychoanalysis and honors his legacy...

Rodrigo Barahona, PsyaD (2018). Book Review of Una visión binocular: Psicoanálisis y filosofía (A Binocular Vision: Psychoanalysis and Philosophy). Bárbara Bettocchi & Raúl Fatule. Lima: Fondo Editorial de la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2014, 265 pp. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 66/2: 386-392. Steven H. Cooper, PhD (2017). The Analyst’s “use” of Theory or Theories: The Play of Theory. Journal of the...

In Steven Cooper’s new book The Analyst’s Experience of the Depressive Position: The Melancholic Errand of Psychoanalysis (Routledge, 2016), the author explores a subject matter previously applied more exclusively to patients, but rarely to psychoanalysts. Cooper probes the analyst’s experience of the depressive position in the analytic situation. These experiences include the pleasures and warmth of helping patients to bear what appears...

Looking Back: Memoir of a Psychoanalyst by a BPSI member, Paul Ornstein, with Helen Epstein, and an afterword by Charles Fenyvesi has just been released by Plunkett Lake Press. The book is available in paperback for $15.95 (click here to order).  You can also purchase it in the electronic format for your Kindle, Nook, Apple iBooks, or Kobo for $9.99 (if you don’t have an eBook device, you can still read it on your tablet or any computer...

Sexualities: Contemporary Psychoanalytic Perspectives (London and New York: Routledge, 2015) presents a broad selection of contemporary psychoanalytic thinking on sexuality from a wide range of psychoanalytic traditions. Sexuality remains at the heart of much psychoanalytic theory and practice but it is a complex and controversial subject. Edited by Alessandra Lemma and Paul E. Lynch, this volume includes a range of international contributions...

Freud and the Buddha: The Couch and the Cushion edited by Axel Hoffer, MD. London: Karnac Books, 2015. Read Axel Hoffer’s thoughts on what Psychoanalysis and Buddhism can learn from each other in a recent Karnacology blog! This book investigates what psychoanalysis and Buddhism can learn from each other, and offers chapters by a Buddhist scholar, a psychiatrist-author, and a number of leading psychoanalysts. It begins with a discussion of...