Bøger i Psychoanalysis in a New Key Book Series serien

Reveals what happens to those who survive horrific childhoods, only to commit terrifying crimes of their own. This work explores how unformulated traumata become embedded in Manichean scripts that provide meaning for otherwise inexplicable experiences of brutality and betrayal. It challenges the beliefs about criminal character and motivation.

Offers a systematic attempt to differentiate adult onset trauma from childhood trauma, with which it is frequently confused. This book shows how survivors of major catastrophe, whether a natural disaster, a life-threatening assault, or an act of terrorism, experience a near-fatal disruption of fundamental aspects of self experience.

Collects papers Mark Blechner has written over the years on sex, gender, and sexuality. This title shows how changes in society, changes in his life, and changes in his writing on sexuality - as well as changes within psychoanalysis itself - have affected one another.

Explores in a way the intersubjective nature of psychoanalysis, looking at the role of the psychoanalyst's subjectivity, both how it influences and is influenced by the psychoanalytic relationship. This title captures the profound ways in which analyst and patient affect each other. It is of interest to theorists, academics and clinicians alike.

Explores the creation of meaning in clinical psychoanalysis. This book features chapters that are undergirded by the concept that the meanings which arise from unformulated experience are catalyzed by the states of relatedness in which the meanings emerge. It theorizes enactment as the interpersonalization of dissociation.

Sandra Buechler looks at therapeutic process issues from the standpoint of the human qualities and human resourcefulness that the therapist brings to each clinical encounter. Her concern is with the clinical values that shape the psychoanalytically oriented treatment experience.

Many clinicians and therapists have turned toward emotional experience, within and outside the treatment setting, as a resource. This work explores how the power to feel can become the power to change.