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Psychoanalysis in a New Key


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When music is played in a new key, the melody does not change, but the notes that make up the composition do: change in the context of continuity, continuity that perseveres through change. Psychoanalysis in a New Key publishes books that share the aims psychoanalysts have always had, but that approach them differently. The books in the series are not expected to advance any particular theoretical agenda, although to this date most have been written by analysts from the Interpersonal and Relational orientations.

The most important contribution of a psychoanalytic book is the communication of something that nudges the reader’s grasp of clinical theory and practice in an unexpected direction. Psychoanalysis in a New Key creates a deliberate focus on innovative and unsettling clinical thinking. Because that kind of thinking is encouraged by exploration of the sometimes surprising contributions to psychoanalysis of ideas and findings from other fields, Psychoanalysis in a New Key particularly encourages interdisciplinary studies. Books in the series have married psychoanalysis with dissociation, trauma theory, sociology, and criminology. The series is open to the consideration of studies examining the relationship between psychoanalysis and any other field – for instance, biology, literary and art criticism, philosophy, systems theory, anthropology, and political theory.

But innovation also takes place within the boundaries of psychoanalysis, and Psychoanalysis in a New Key therefore also presents work that reformulates thought and practice without leaving the precincts of the field. Books in the series focus, for example, on the significance of personal values in psychoanalytic practice, on the complex interrelationship between the analyst’s clinical work and personal life, on the consequences for the clinical situation when patient and analyst are from different cultures, and on the need for psychoanalysts to accept the degree to which they knowingly satisfy their own wishes during treatment hours, often to the patient’s detriment.

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On Coming into Possession of Oneself Transformations of the Interpersonal Field

On Coming into Possession of Oneself: Transformations of the Interpersonal Field

1st Edition

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By Donnel B. Stern
September 05, 2024

This book is Donnel B. Stern's latest contribution to the kind of understanding of psychotherapeutic and psychoanalytic process offered by field theory. Stern anchors his understanding of therapeutic action in the freedom of both patient and analyst to create meaningful experience with a minimum of...

Psychoanalysis and the Unspoken

Psychoanalysis and the Unspoken

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Joyce Slochower
June 10, 2024

What do therapists not talk about? What do we ignore/miss/sidestep? What factors—personal, social, political—inform our areas of blindness? This book names and explores what psychoanalytic theory often skips over or simplifies—how, when, and why we fail to uphold the professional ideal.  Turning a ...

Psychoanalysis as Radical Hospitality Six Perspectives on Turning-to versus Turning-Away

Psychoanalysis as Radical Hospitality: Six Perspectives on Turning-to versus Turning-Away

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Dana Amir
June 06, 2024

This book focuses on different forms of turning-to versus turning-away from speech across a range of experiences in clinical treatment and general life. The chapters of this volume deal with the entrapment involved in exile from mother tongue, the parasitic language that uses the other's language ...

Body Words and the Analyst’s Use of Self Transforming the Unspeakable in Clinical Process

Body Words and the Analyst’s Use of Self: Transforming the Unspeakable in Clinical Process

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Barbara Pizer
April 11, 2024

In this book, it becomes impossible to stand apart from the analytic field as abstract concepts, such as dissociation, intersubjectivity, and unconscious communication, as well as newly coined ones, like "Relational (K)not" and "Body Words," come alive through a vivid unfolding of analytic process....

From Breakdown to Breakthrough Psychoanalytic Treatment of Psychosis

From Breakdown to Breakthrough: Psychoanalytic Treatment of Psychosis

1st Edition

By Danielle Knafo, Michael Selzer
November 22, 2023

As a clear and user-friendly guide for clinicians who work with patients affected by psychosis, this book challenges the false notion that psychosis is untreatable through talk therapy. The authors contend that since psychotic symptoms are features of survival adaptation, they naturally serve as a ...

Clara M. Thompson’s Early Years and Professional Awakening An American Psychoanalyst (1893-1933)

Clara M. Thompson’s Early Years and Professional Awakening: An American Psychoanalyst (1893-1933)

1st Edition

By Ann D'Ercole
January 23, 2023

Ann D’Ercole tells the story of Clara M. Thompson, drawing extensively on unpublished archival interviews and correspondence, to provide a full and complex picture of an early American pioneer of psychoanalysis. The book begins by exploring Thompson’s youth, which was steeped in evangelical ...

Clara M. Thompson’s Professional Evolution and Legacy An American Psychoanalyst (1933-1958)

Clara M. Thompson’s Professional Evolution and Legacy: An American Psychoanalyst (1933-1958)

1st Edition

By Ann D'Ercole
January 23, 2023

Beginning in 1933, after Sandor Ferenczi’s death, this volume draws extensively from interviews, personal correspondence, and scholarly essays to explore the latter part of Clara Thompson’s life and professional career. The reader is afforded an understanding of Thompson's development with the ...

Patriarchy and Its Discontents Psychoanalytic Perspectives

Patriarchy and Its Discontents: Psychoanalytic Perspectives

1st Edition

Edited By Jean Petrucelli, Sarah Schoen, Naomi Snider
December 30, 2022

This anthology of interviews and essays joins luminaries in contemporary psychoanalysis with pioneers of feminism to provide a timely analysis of the crushing effects of patriarchy and the role that psychoanalysis can play in moving us into a future defined by mutuality and respect. Departing from ...

White Privilege Psychoanalytic Perspectives

White Privilege: Psychoanalytic Perspectives

1st Edition

By Neil Altman
December 19, 2022

White Privilege: Psychoanalytic Perspectives looks at race and the significant role it plays in society and in clinical practice. Much of the effort going into racial consciousness-raising rests on the concept of unearned "white privilege". In this book, Neil Altman looks deeply into this notion, ...

The Trauma of Racism Lessons from the Therapeutic Encounter

The Trauma of Racism: Lessons from the Therapeutic Encounter

1st Edition

Edited By Beverly J. Stoute, Michael Slevin
October 31, 2022

The Trauma of Racism: Lessons from the Therapeutic Encounter is a pioneering reflection on the psychology of racism and its impact on us all. With the intimacy of personal experience and depth of analytic exposition, the authors expose racism’s searing effects on personal, clinical, and community ...

From Budapest to Psychoanalysis Three Portraits and their Analytic Frames

From Budapest to Psychoanalysis: Three Portraits and their Analytic Frames

1st Edition

Edited By Veronica Csillag
September 27, 2022

This book follows the personal and professional journeys of three Jewish women from Budapest, originally classmates in the same high school. The book shows how they and their families were marked by the Shoah, and explores the impact of the social, cultural, and political milieu in which they ...

Attuned Treatment of Developmental Trauma Non-abused, High-functioning People Living Outside of Time

Attuned Treatment of Developmental Trauma: Non-abused, High-functioning People Living Outside of Time

1st Edition

By Kathleen Adams
August 30, 2022

This book takes a painstaking look at developmental trauma as it manifests in group, individual, and combined psychotherapies, tracking the growth of non-abused individuals who have courageously addressed overwhelming childhood experiences to make sense of the chaos in their lives. The cumulative ...

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