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TOM GREENSPON, PH.D.: I'm not sure if this is relevant to our
group, but I think it might be. Last March my book What to do when good
enough isn't good enough: The real deal on perfectionism was published
by Free Spirit Publishing. It is a book for 9-13-year-olds and goes with
my earlier book for adults and families, entitled Freeing our families
from perfectionism. These are of course books for the general public,
but they are based on a contextualist, intersubjective understanding of
the nature of perfectionism and its treatment (a paper describing this
in more detail is awaiting review).
Attachment and Sexuality (2007) DIAMOND, SIDNEY BLATT, AND
JOSEPH D. LICHTENBERG (Eds.). New York: The Analytic Press and The
Psychoanalytic Inquiry Book Series.
Sensuality and Sexuality Across the Divide of Shame.(2007)
Joseph D. Lichtenberg. New York: The Analytic Press and The
Psychoanalytic Inquiry Book Series.
BARRY MAGID, Ending the Pursuit of Happiness: A Zen
Guide (Wisdom Publications, Boston 2008)
"Ending the Pursuit of Happiness is destined to become a
classic. Magid has written a guide to Zen practice that is inspired by a
deep understanding of the essence of both Zen and psychoanalysis. He
systematically exposes and dismantles the subtle fantasies that keep us
trapped in our futile attempts to transcend the human condition. Magid
speaks with an authentic voice that is wise, sly and subversive. There
is not a false note here. In an era dominated by the pursuit of quick
fixes and the growing medicalization of the mental health field, this
book provides a radical and vitally important challenge to the
prevailing cultural ethos." —Review by Jeremy D. Safran, Ph.D., Professor and
Director of Clinical Psychology New School for Social Research
CHRIS JAENICKE: My book The Risk of Relatedness—Intersubjectivity
Theory in Clinical Practice was published by Jason
Aronson (Rowman and Littlefield Publishers,Inc.), New York, 2007 in
December 2007. The book combines two interrelated subjects: the risk of
relatedness for both the patient and the therapist inherent in the
therapeutic process and the clinical application of intersubjectivity
theory.
ANNE PARIS, PH.D., Standing at Water's Edge: Moving Past
Fears, Blocks, and Pitfalls to Discover the Power of Creative
Immersion published by San Francisco: New World Library, 2008.
In describing her book, Dr. Paris says, "Based in the leading edge of
contemporary psychoanalytic theory, Standing at Water's Edge
helps artists start and sustain their creative process. Filled with
examples from psychotherapy sessions, interviews, film clips, and
personal reflections, this book is written for a mainstream audience and
challenges the notion that we find the courage to create from deep
within ourselves. Instead, Dr. Paris argues that our capacity for
creativity is generated through connections with others, with the
audience, and with the art form. She guides the reader through the
internal, secret world of creativity, and offers a new way of
understanding what we need in order to immerse into creativity. She
conveys an empathic appreciation of the fears, dreads, hopes, and
fantasies that artists confront and illuminates the power of selfobject
experience in the creative process. Dr. Paris shines a light on a
dimension of our inner experience that largely goes unrecognized or is
misunderstood—but that has a powerful impact on our moment-to-moment
thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. She helps us realize how
relationships with mirrors, heroes, and twins can help us to dive into
creativity and how to cultivate these types of connections. This is a
book to recommend to patients as well as to use as a resource in helping
all clients reach their full potentials."
DORIS BROTHERS PH.D.: My new book is Toward a Psychology
of Uncertainty: Trauma-Centered Psychoanalysis. The publication
date is 2008 and it is part of the Psychoanalytic Inquiry Book Series of
The Analytic Press. The following paragraph describes the book:
By capsizing Freud's positivist paradigm, the relational revolution
challenged psychoanalysts to address the profound uncertainties that
pervade the analytic situation and human life in general. This book is
concerned mainly with uncertainty surrounding the relational bases of
selfhood and its experiential transformation within living systems—most
notably, the analytic dyad. In optimal development, such
transformations occur silently by means of the regulatory processes of
everyday life, and through the emergence of "systemically emergent
certainties" (SECs) that organize relational experience. Trauma, insofar
as it destroys our SECs, generates overwhelming uncertainty about
psychological survival and leads to the development of extreme attempts
at transformation often in the form of constricting and dualistic
relational patterns that dominate treatment. This perspective sheds
fresh light on the analytic process and numerous topics of interest to
analysts such as gender, faith, and cults. Illustrations are drawn from
the clinical situation as well as film and theater.
FRANK M. LACHMANN, PH.D., Transforming Narcissism:
Reflections on Empathy, Humor, and Expectations, The Analytic
Press
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 infant research, psychoanalytic and
psychotherapeutic practice, social psychology, and autobiographies of
creative artists to expand and modify Kohut's proposition that archaic
narcissism is transformed in the course of development or through
treatment into empathy, humor, creativity, an acceptance of transience
and wisdom. He asserts that empathy, humor, and creativity are not the
goals or end products of transformations, but are an intrinsic part of
the ongoing therapist-patient dialogue throughout treatment.
For beginning therapists, Transforming Narcissism presents an
engaging approach to treatment that incorporates the therapeutic action
of these transformations, but also leaves room for therapists to develop
styles of their own. For more experienced therapists, it fills a
conceptual and clinical gap, provides a scaffold for crucial aspects of
treatment that are often unacknowledged (because they are not
"analytic", or are dismissed and pejoratively labeled
"countertransference.") Most importantly, Lachmann offers a balance
between therapeutic spontaneity and professional constraint. Focused
and engaging, Transforming Narcissism provides a bridge from self
psychology to a rainbow of relational approaches that beginning and
seasoned therapists can profitably traverse in either direction.
MYRNA ORENSTEIN, PHD: (morenstein@smartbutstuck.com): The
second edition of my book Smart but Stuck: How Resilience frees
learning disabilities from Imprisoned Intelligence came out last June
from Haworth Press. It's about smart people with learning gaps and the
self depletion and ensuing resilience that can come with living with
undiagnosed learning disabilities. There is a forward by Joe Palombo
and a statement from Connie Goldberg endorsing the book. There is a
chapter on self psychology and learning disabilities as well as a
chapter written by myself and Dr. Fred Levin from a neuroscience
perspective entitled: "Fortitude and Flexibility in people with Learning
Disabilities."
DANIEL SHAW, LCSW, wrote "Narcissistic Authoritarianism in
Psychoanalysis," a chapter in a book published by Other Press in 2007,
edited by Richard Raubolt, entitled: Power Games: Influence,
Persuasaion, and Indoctrination in Psychotherapy Training."
BUIRSKI, P. and KOTTLER, A. (Eds.). New Developments in
Self Psychology Practice. New York: Jason Aaronson. Published by
Jason Aronson Publishers Inc. An imprintof Rowman and Littlefield
Publishers Inc.
About the book: It has been 35 years since the publication of Heinz
Kohut's monumental book The Analysis of the Self in
1971, and in this period self psychology has undergone
a vibrant and exciting evolution that has significantly
influenced and expanded the range of psychoanalytic
thinking. While undergoing this change, self psychology
has kept the developmental importance of self-object
relatedness and the primacy of subjective experience as
central tenets of the theory. But where other theories
of mind can tend to stagnate and resist innovations
that transcend their founding figure, Kohut's self
psychology continues to grow in depth, complexity and
richness. Indeed one of the great strengths of the self
psychology movement has been the openness of the
succeeding generations to push the theoretical envelope—to
entertain, examine and integrate new
understandings and perspectives.
New Developments in Self Psychology Practice gives
voice to many of these developments, reflected in its
four sections. The first section examines complexity
theory, attachment theory and the work of the Boston
Change Study Group. The second section is concerned
with the treatment of children, while the third section
examines various treatment modalities such as family
therapy, group therapy, and the supervisory process.
The final section looks at diversity, difference, and
otherness within both the therapeutic dyad and the
therapeutic community and considers how shame,
enactments and traumatic experiences influence the
therapeutic process.
JUDITH BLACKSTONE, PH.D., has two new books this year: The
Empathic Ground: Nonduality and Intersubjectivity in the
Psychotherapeutic Process, from Suny Press and a revised edition of
The Enlightenment Process: A Guide to Embodied Spiritual
Awakening, from Paragon House. Both books look at the interface
between psychological healing and spiritual development. For more information,
visit www.realizationcenter.com.
In Trauma and Human Existence, ROBERT STOLOROW, PH.D. , explores the
phenomenology, contextuality, and existentiality of emotional trauma as
these crystallized in his efforts to grasp his own experience of
traumatic loss.
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