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...
read moreFred 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 change repeated patterns of action into the possibility of reflection. This entails careful examination...
read moreTry Something New: Psychoanalytic Podcasts
Whether you’re looking for something new to listen to on your commute or hoping to hear from analysts accross the country, psychoanalytic podcasts are a great way to stay connected to contemporary voices and topics in the field. Recommendations from BPSI member Aaron Kook, LMHC Discussions on Psychoanalysis Every month we try to offer a good enough, candid and open discussion on different aspects of psychoanalysis. Freud Museum London: Psychoanalysis Podcast A treasure trove of ideas in psychoanalysis. History, theory, and...
read moreRodrigo 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 enhanced when the distinction between two basic types of transformations in hallucinosis can be borne in...
read moreAndrea 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 is a result of the inherent threat erotic transferences can pose to the analyst. By providing a...
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