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Psychoanalytic Inquiry Book Series

Series Editor: Joseph D. Lichtenberg, Joseph D. Lichtenberg, Private Practice, Washington, DC, USA

Like its counterpart, Psychoanalytic Inquiry: A Topical Journal for Mental Health Professionals, the Psychoanalytic Inquiry Book Series presents a diversity of subjects within a diversity of approaches to those subjects. Under the editorship of Joseph Lichtenberg, in collaboration with Melvin Bornstein and the editorial board of Psychoanalytic Inquiry, the volumes in this series strike a balance between research, theory, and clinical application. We are honored to have published the works of various innovators in psychoanalysis, such as Lachmann, Fosshage, Stolorow, Orange, Sander, Wurmser, Grotstein, Jones, Brothers, Busch, and Lichtenberg, among others. 

The series includes books and monographs on mainline psychoanalytic topics, such as sexuality, narcissism, trauma, homosexuality, jealousy, envy, and varied aspects of analytic process and technique.  In our efforts to broaden the field of analytic interest, the series has incorporated and embraced innovative discoveries in infant research, self psychology, intersubjectivity, motivational systems, affects as process, responses to cancer, borderline states, contextualism, postmodernism, attachment research and theory, medication, and mentalization. As further investigations in psychoanalysis come to fruition, we seek to present them in readable, easily comprehensible writing.

After 25 years, the core vision of this series remains the investigation, analysis and discussion of developments on the cutting edge of the psychoanalytic field, inspired by a boundless spirit of inquiry.

New and Published Books

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  1. Manual of Panic Focused Psychodynamic Psychotherapy – eXtended Range

    By Fredric N. Busch, Barbara L. Milrod, Meriamne B. Singer, Andrew C. Aronson

    Series: Psychoanalytic Inquiry Book Series

    This manual presents a carefully researched, detailed psychodynamic treatment program for the alleviation of a transdiagnostic range of primary Axis I anxiety disorders, including panic disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, social anxiety disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, and related...

    Published September 20th 2011 by Routledge

  2. The Abyss of Madness

    By George E. Atwood

    Series: Psychoanalytic Inquiry Book Series

    Despite the many ways in which the so-called psychoses can become manifest, they are ultimately human events arising out of human contexts. As such, they can be understood in an intersubjective manner, removing the stigmatizing boundary between madness and sanity. Utilizing the post-Cartesian...

    Published September 6th 2011 by Routledge

  3. World, Affectivity, Trauma

    Heidegger and Post-Cartesian Psychoanalysis

    By Robert D. Stolorow

    Series: Psychoanalytic Inquiry Book Series

    Stolorow and his collaborators' post-Cartesian psychoanalytic perspective – intersubjective-systems theory – is a phenomenological contextualism that illuminates worlds of emotional experience as they take form within relational contexts. After outlining the evolution and basic ideas of this...

    Published April 14th 2011 by Routledge

  4. Change in Psychoanalysis

    An Analyst's Reflections on the Therapeutic Relationship

    By Chris Jaenicke

    Series: Psychoanalytic Inquiry Book Series

    In this clinically rich and deeply personal book, Chris Jaenicke demonstrates that the therapeutic process involves change in both the patient and the analyst, and that therapy will not have a lasting effect until the inevitability and depth of the analyst's involvement in the intersubjective...

    Published January 13th 2011 by Routledge

  5. Persons in Context

    The Challenge of Individuality in Theory and Practice

    Edited by Roger Frie, William J. Coburn

    Series: Psychoanalytic Inquiry Book Series

    In contemporary forms of psychoanalysis, particularly intersubjective systems theory, the turn towards contextualism has permitted the development of new ways of thinking and practicing that have dispensed with the notion of isolated individuality. For many who embrace this "post-subjectivist" way...

    Published August 23rd 2010 by Routledge

  6. Psychoanalysis and Motivational Systems

    A New Look

    By Joseph D. Lichtenberg, Frank M. Lachmann, James L. Fosshage

    Series: Psychoanalytic Inquiry Book Series

    Introduced in Psychoanalysis and Motivation (1989) and further developed in Self and Motivational Systems (1992), The Clinical Exchange (1996), and A Spirit of Inquiry (2002), motivational systems theory aims to identify the components and organization of mental states and the process by which...

    Published August 23rd 2010 by Routledge

  7. Toward an Emancipatory Psychoanalysis

    Brandchaft's Intersubjective Vision

    By Bernard Brandchaft, Shelley Doctors, Dorienne Sorter

    Series: Psychoanalytic Inquiry Book Series

    Best known for his contributions to the development of contemporary intersubjectivity theory, Bernard Brandchaft has dedicated a career to the advancement of psychoanalytic theory and practice. Continually searching for a theoretical viewpoint that would satisfactorily explain the clinical...

    Published May 11th 2010 by Routledge

  8. From Psychoanalytic Narrative to Empirical Single Case Research

    Implications for Psychoanalytic Practice

    By Horst Kächele, Joseph Schachter, Helmut Thomä

    Series: Psychoanalytic Inquiry Book Series

    Recognition of the need for empirical research and interest in its findings are growing in psychoanalysis. Many psychoanalysts now acknowledge that research is imperative to try to deal with the factors propelling the diminution in status and prestige of the discipline, as well as the number of...

    Published July 21st 2008 by Routledge

  9. Mentalization

    Theoretical Considerations, Research Findings, and Clinical Implications

    Edited by Fredric N. Busch

    Series: Psychoanalytic Inquiry Book Series

    Mentalization is the capacity to perceive and interpret behavior in terms of intentional mental states, to imagine what others are thinking and feeling, and is a concept that has taken the psychological and psychoanalytic worlds by storm. This collection of papers, carefully edited by...

    Published February 24th 2008 by Routledge

  10. Transforming Narcissism

    Reflections on Empathy, Humor, and Expectations

    By Frank M. Lachmann

    Series: Psychoanalytic Inquiry Book Series

    Using Kohut's seminal paper "Forms and Transformations of Narcissism" as a springboard, Frank Lachmann updates Kohut's proposals for contemporary clinicians. Transforming Narcissism: Reflections on Empathy, Humor, and Expectations draws on a wide range of contributions from empirical...

    Published December 18th 2007 by Routledge

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