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Psychoanalytic Inquiry Book Series

Series Editor: Joseph D. Lichtenberg

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. Contexts of Being

    The Intersubjective Foundations of Psychological Life

    By Robert D. Stolorow, George E. Atwood

    Series: Psychoanalytic Inquiry Book Series

    In this volume, the authors complete the circle begun with Faces in a Cloud (1979) and continued with Structures of Subjectivity (1984) and Psychoanalytic Treatment: An Intersubjective Approach (1987- with Brandchaft). They now extend intersubjectivity theory to a rethinking of the foundational...

    Published May 31st 2002 by Routledge

  2. Kohut, Loewald and the Postmoderns

    A Comparative Study of Self and Relationship

    By Judith G. Teicholz

    Series: Psychoanalytic Inquiry Book Series

    In Kohut, Loewald, and the Postmoderns, Judith Teicholz, using the contemporary critique of Kohut and Loewald as a touchstone of inquiry into the current status of psychoanalysis, focuses on a select group of postmodern theorists whose recent writings comprise a questioning subtext to Kohut's and...

    Published November 30th 2001 by Routledge

  3. The Clinical Exchange

    Techniques Derived from Self and Motivational Systems

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

    Series: Psychoanalytic Inquiry Book Series

    In this practical sequel to the same authors' Self and Motivational Systems (TAP, 1992), Lichtenberg, Lachmann, and Fosshage offer ten principles of technique to guide the clinical exchange. These principles, which pertain equally to exploratory psychotherapy and psychoanalysis, integrate the...

    Published September 30th 2001 by Routledge

  4. Working Intersubjectively

    Contextualism in Psychoanalytic Practice

    By Donna M. Orange, George E. Atwood, Robert D. Stolorow

    Series: Psychoanalytic Inquiry Book Series

    From an overview of the basic principles of intersubjectivity theory, Orange, Atwood, and Stolorow proceed to contextualist critiques of the concept of psychoanalytic technique and of the myth of analytic neutrality. They then examine the intersubjective contexts of extreme states of psychological...

    Published August 31st 2001 by Routledge

  5. Psychoanalysis and Motivation

    By Joseph D. Lichtenberg

    Series: Psychoanalytic Inquiry Book Series

    Carrying forward his inquiry into the nature and conditions of normal and abnormal development, Lichtenberg focuses on motivation. His goal is to offer an alternative to psychoanalytic drive theory that accommodates the developmental insights of infancy research while accounting for the entire...

    Published July 31st 2001 by Routledge

  6. Self and Motivational Systems

    Towards A Theory of Psychoanalytic Technique

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

    Series: Psychoanalytic Inquiry Book Series

    In this sequel to Lichtenberg's Psychoanalysis and Motivation (TAP, 1989), the authors show how their revised theory of motivation provides the foundation for a new approach to psychoanalytic technique. The approach in Self and Motivational Systemsemphasizes a finely honed sensitivity to...

    Published June 30th 2001 by Routledge

  7. Psychoanalytic Treatment

    An Intersubjective Approach

    By Robert D. Stolorow, Bernard Brandchaft, George E. Atwood

    Series: Psychoanalytic Inquiry Book Series

    Psychoanalytic Treatment: An Intersubjective Approach fleshes out the implications for psychoanalytic understanding and treatment of adopting a consistently intersubjective perspective. In the course of the study, the intersubjective viewpoint is demonstrated to illuminate a wide array of...

    Published January 31st 2000 by Routledge

  8. Affects As Process

    An Inquiry into the Centrality of Affect in Psychological Life

    By Joseph M. Jones

    Series: Psychoanalytic Inquiry Book Series

    In this readable meditation on the nature of emotional experience, Joseph Jones takes the reader on a fascinating walking-tour of current research findings bearing on emotional development. Beginning with a nuanced reappraisal of Freud's philosophical premises, he argues that Freud's reliance...

    Published May 31st 1995 by Routledge

  9. Psychoanalysis and Infant Research

    By Joseph D. Lichtenberg

    Series: Psychoanalytic Inquiry Book Series

    Lichtenberg collates and summarizes recent findings about the first two years of life in order to examine their implications for contemporary psychoanalysis. He explores the implications of these data for the unfolding sense of self, and then draws on these data to reconceptualize the analytic...

    Published June 30th 1991 by Routledge

  10. The Borderline Patient

    Emerging Concepts in Diagnosis, Psychodynamics, and Treatment

    Edited by James S. Grotstein, Marion F. Solomon, Joan A. Lang

    Series: Psychoanalytic Inquiry Book Series

    This volume focuses on treatment issues pertaining to patients with borderline psychopathology. A section on psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy (with contributors by V. Volkan, H. Searles, O. Kernberg, L. B. Boyer, and J. Oremland, among others) is followed by a section exploring a...

    Published May 31st 1987 by Routledge