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Adrienne Harris and Plinio Montagna, "Psychoanalysis, Law, and Society" (Routledge, 2019)

May 26, 2020

Psychoanalysis, Law, and Society

Adrienne Harris and Plinio Montagna

The areas of the Law and psychoanalysis overlap in interesting and compelling fashion in the new book, Psychoanalysis, Law, and Society (Routledge, 20…

Robert P. Drozek, "Psychoanalysis as an Ethical Process" (Routledge, 2019)

October 28, 2019

Psychoanalysis as an Ethical Process

Robert P. Drozek

The subject of ethics in psychoanalysis has long been relegated to the sidelines of clinical theory. In his new book Psychoanalysis as an Ethical Proc…

Adrienne Harris and Victoria Demos, "Heart Melts Forward: The Collected Writings of Emmanuel Ghent" (Routledge, 2018)

June 7, 2019

Heart Melts Forward

Adrienne Harris and Victoria Demos

Composer, philosopher, scientist, psychoanalyst-Emmanuel ("Manny") Ghent was all of these and more. In this comprehensive interview with the editors, …

Nathan Kravis, "On the Couch: A Repressed History of the Analytic Couch from Plato to Freud" (MIT Press, 2017)

November 7, 2018

On the Couch

Nathan Kravis

Sometimes, a couch is a only a couch, but not in Dr. Nathan Kravis’s new book, On the Couch: A Repressed History of the Analytic Couch from Plato to F…

Irwin Hirsch and Donnell Stern, eds., "The Interpersonal Perspective and Psychoanalysis, 1960s-1990s" (Routledge, 2017)

April 19, 2018

The Interpersonal Perspective in Psychoanalysis, 1960s-1990s

Irwin Hirsch and Donnell Stern, eds.

The history of psychoanalysis is full of twists, turns and also glaring omissions. In their new two-volume set, editors Irwin Hirsch and Donnell Stern…

Margaret Crastnapol, "Micro-trauma: A Psychoanalytic Understanding of Cumulative Psychic Injury" (Routledge, 2015)

September 8, 2017

Micro-trauma

Margaret Crastnopol

Little murders, unkind cutting back, uneasy intimacy and connoisseurship gone awry are just a few of the provocative relational concepts Dr. Margaret …

Naoko Wake, "Private Practices: Harry Stack Sullivan, the Science of Homosexuality, and American Liberalism" (Rutgers UP, 2011)

August 1, 2017

Private Practices

Naoko Wake

The influential yet controversial psychiatrist, Harry Stack Sullivan was pioneering in his treatment of schizophrenia however the way he lived private…

Irwin Hirsch, "The Interpersonal Tradition: The Origins of Psychoanalytic Subjectivity" (Routledge, 2015)

December 9, 2016

The Interpersonal Tradition

Irwin Hirsch

The Interpersonal School of psychoanalysis developed independent of the classical tradition in the United States early in the twentieth century, and w…

Gail Hornstein, "To Redeem One Person Is to Redeem the World: The Life of Frieda Fromm-Reichmann" (Other Books, 2005)

October 13, 2016

To Redeem One Person Is to Redeem the World

Gail Hornstein

The life of the German-born, pioneering American psychoanalyst, Frieda Fromm-Reichmann, is intriguing enough in itself, but in the biography, To Redee…

Sheldon Itzkowitz and Elizabeth Howell, "The Dissociative Mind in Psychoanalysis: Understanding and Working with Trauma" (Routledge, 2016)

June 30, 2016

The Dissociative Mind in Psychoanalysis

Sheldon Itzkowitz and Elizabeth Howell, eds.

The rediscovery of trauma in the analytic field coupled with the the development of the concept of dissociation is the focus of a new book edited by t…

Jon Sletvold, "The Embodied Analyst: From Freud and Reich to Relationality" (Routledge, 2016)

May 4, 2016

The Embodied Analyst

Jon Sletvold

Bodies, both the patient's and the analyst, has been a neglected area of investigation in psychoanalysis for many years, despite it's presence in Freu…

Sophia Richman, "Mended By the Muse: Creative Transformations of Trauma" (Routledge, 2014)

December 18, 2015

Mended by the Muse

Sophia Richman

In a wide ranging and courageous interview that touched on the creative process, personal history, memoir and self-disclosure, the psychoanalyst and w…

Theodore J. Jacobs, "The Possible Profession: The Analytic Process of Change" (Routledge, 2013)

October 20, 2015

The Possible Profession

Theodore J. Jacobs

In this interview Dr. Theodore Jacobs discusses his book The Possible Profession: The Analytic Process of Change (Routledge, 2013) . Dr. Jacobs is a p…

Emily Kuriloff, "Contemporary Psychoanalysis and the Third Reich" (Routledge, 2013)

June 2, 2015

Contemporary Psychoanalysis and the Third Reich

Emily Kuriloff

In her new book, Contemporary Psychoanalysis and the Third Reich: History, Memory, Tradition (Routledge, 2013), Emily Kuriloff details a dimension of …

Daniel Shaw, "Traumatic Narcissism: Relational Systems of Subjugation" (Routledge, 2013)

January 28, 2015

Traumatic Narcissism

Daniel Shaw

Conventional psychoanalytic views of narcissism focus on familiar character traits: grandiosity, devaluation, entitlement and a lack of empathy. In hi…

Sophia Richman, "Mended By the Muse: Creative Transformations of Trauma" (Routledge, 2014)

October 21, 2014

Mended By the Muse

Sophia Richman

In a wide ranging and courageous interview that touched on the creative process, personal history, memoir and self-disclosure, the psychoanalyst and w…