Nancy J. Chodorow, PhD Routledge, 2012 In Individualizing Gender and Sexuality, Nancy J. Chodorow examines the complexity and uniqueness of each person’s personal creation of sexuality and gender and the ways that these interrelate with other aspects of psychic and cultural life. She brings theoretical agility, wide-ranging interdisciplinarity, and clinical experience to every chapter. The book reflects on on Freud, Melanie Klein,...

Lawrence J. Brown, PhD NY: Routledge, 2011 Intersubjective Processes and the Unconscious looks at how the minds of the therapist and the patient interact with each other in a profound and unconscious way: a concept first described by Freud. This book expands Freud’s ideas further and examines how these have been greatly elaborated by contributions from the Kleinian School as well as from the work of Bion. It explores how, together, patient and...

  Lance M. Dodes, MD Harper Perennial, 2011 Finally—a road map to recovery from the nation’s most original thinker on addiction In his revolutionary book The Heart of Addiction, Dr. Lance Dodes examined the underlying emotions that drive addictive behaviors—whether undergoing drugs and xanax rehab, drinking, gambling, sex, or eating. Now, in Breaking Addiction, Dodes presents a comprehensive guide outlining seven critical steps to...

Ernest Hartmann, MD SIRCC, 2011 In this book Hartmann discusses many kinds of boundaries, including both psychological boundaries, and those outside us. His group has done research over many years showing that boundaries can be measured, and that different sorts of boundaries are connected n surprising ways.  Our boundaries are related to our personal relationships, groups and entire societies, and the relations among nations. They are...

Ernest Hartmann, MD Oxford University Press, 2010 The Nature and Function of Dreaming presents a comprehensive theory of dreaming based on many years of research by Ernest Hartmann and his collaborators. Critical to this theory is the concept of the Central Image.  Hartmann starts with his repeated finding that dreams of being swept away by a tidal wave, or something similar, are common among adults who have recently experienced a trauma...