New Books in Psychoanalysis

Dominique Scarfone, "The Reality of the Message: Psychoanalysis in the Wake of Jean Laplanche" (Unconscious in Translation, 2023)

Psychoanalysis requires a shift from prioritizing ego-driven adaptation to engaging with the "exigency" of the unconscious. Dominique Scarfone and Avgi Saketopoulou argue that Freud’s work is best understood through Jean Laplanche’s framework, which posits that infantile sexuality is not innate but emerges from enigmat...

Helena Vissing, "Somatic Maternal Healing: Psychodynamic and Somatic Trauma Treatment for Perinatal Mental Health" (Routledge, 2023)

A Conversation with Austin Ratner, the New Editor of "The American Psychoanalyst"

Dhwani Shah, "The Analyst's Torment: Unbearable Mental States in Countertransference" (Karnac Books, 2022)

Joan A. Friedman, "Twins in Session: Case Histories in Treating Twinship Issues" (Rocky Pines Press, 2018)

Emma R. Jones, "Being as Relation in Luce Irigaray" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)

Linda L. Michaels et al.. "Advancing Psychotherapy for the Next Generation: Humanizing Mental Health Policy and Practice" (Routledge, 2023)

Adam Blum et al., "Here I'm Alive: The Spirit of Music in Psychoanalysis" (Columbia UP, 2023)

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James Newlin and James W. Stone, "New Psychoanalytic Readings of Shakespeare: Cool Reason and Seething Brains" (Routledge, 2023)

Johanna Dobrich, "Working with Survivor Siblings in Psychoanalysis: Ability and Disability in Clinical Process" (Routledge, 2021)

Alexander Stille, "The Sullivanians: Sex, Psychotherapy, and the Wild Life of an American Commune" (FSG, 2023)

B. D'Amato, "Triskele: A Novel" (Atmosphere Press, 2023)

Michael J. Diamond, "Ruptures in the American Psyche: Containing Destructive Populism in Perilous Times" (Phoenix Publishing, 2022)

Petra Bueskens, "Modern Motherhood and Women’s Dual Identities: Rewriting the Sexual Contract" (Routledge, 2018)

Lee Grossman, "The Psychoanalytic Encounter and the Misuse of Theory" (Routledge, 2022)

Kevin Volkan and Vamik Volkan, "Schizophrenia: Science, Psychoanalysis, and Culture" (Phoenix Publishing House, 2022)

Avgi Saketopoulou and Ann Pellegrini, "Gender Without Identity" (Unconscious in Translation, 2023)

Gender Without Identity challenges static psychoanalytic models of gender by reframing it as an emergent, allocentric process rather than an innate, ontological core. Authors Avgi Saketopoulou and Ann Pellegrini argue that gender is not a fixed developmental outcome but a fluid, idiosyncratic "self-theorization" shaped...

Robert Falconer, "The Others Within Us: Internal Family Systems, Porous Mind, and Spirit Possession" (Great Mystery Press, 2023)

The Environmental Unconscious