The Art of Interpretation is a profound examination by Wolfgang Loch of Freud's use and definition of interpretation as a therapeutic tool as well as viewing it from the philosophical perspective of meaning and its definition. Loch does not confine himself to the examination of Freud's discoveries but also follows the later developments made by Klein and Bion.

Wolfgang Loch was a revered teacher of psychoanalysis in Germany and this is his best-known work. It now appears in this excellent English translation making it available at last to both English speaking teachers and...

In this book, edited by Jose Carlos Calich and Helmut Hinz, outstanding authors from different regions and traditions present an excellent and scholarly panorama of psychoanalytical pluralism on the concept of unconscious. It fosters reflection, doubts and debates on the theme and nurtures the creativity that may later be reflected in theoretical progress and a greater understanding and effect of clinical practice.

Escape from Selfhood is a detailed study of a very traumatised son of a Hungarian couple who managed to evade the Nazi death machinery by finding refuge in a house protected by the Swedish Embassy in Budapest. Ilany writes like a master novelist as she describes her patient's attempts to invade her, fuse with her and destroy her. Concomitantly Ilany does not flinch from relating her own pain and suffering as she engages with a person who is both a victim and victimizer. The resultant account is chilling and electrifying. This is a very elegant and timely study highly recommended for its...

In Talking About Supervision, Laura Elliot offers us the wisdom of a distinguished group of international psychoanalysts about supervision and other aspects of the psychoanalytic training experience. Supervision is now coming more into focus with the growing emphasis on training analysis as a personal matter for the candidate, entirely separate from the institutional setting. All the respondents are asked the same questions, but their answers reflect the diversity of the analytic educational attitudes extant in our profession worldwide.

In this superb volume, the contributions of Bob Wallerstein are catalogued and elaborated by colleagues around the world, all leaders in their own right. The book is a fitting capstone to Wallerstein's illustrious career and will be informative to analysts and mental health professionals of all levels of experience and training. Contributors: Wilma Bucci, Hartvig Dahl, Kathryn N. DeWitt, Tamara Fischmann, Peter Fonagy, Richard Fox, Norbert Freedman, Ethan Graham, Dorothea Huber, Otto Kernberg, Gunther Klug, George Klumpner, Thomas Klumpner, Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber, Lester Luborsky,...

-How do we psychoanalysts, first and foremost concerned with the Unconscious, go about thinking about consciousness? And why should we be interested in the first place? I believe that Antonio Alberto Semi's answer would simply be this: because there is no talk regarding the unconscious if not from the standpoint of consciousness. In answering this, we are already, on the one hand, linking consciousness with language and speech, and Semi will elegantly show how the figures of discourse teach us a lot about the interface between consciousness and the unconscious.- -- From the Foreword by...

These stimulating essays are evidence that 50 years after its publication Melanie Klein's Envy and Gratitude is still a rich source of psychoanalytic inspiration. Sixteen highly regarded analysts, representing a wide range of psychoanalytic thinking, provide new insights and highlight current developments without avoiding the controversies that surround the original publication. The clinical and literary material is engaging and illustrates the effect of theory on practice and the influence of practice on the evolution of theory.

In the last several decades, the analytic field has widened considerably in scope. The therapeutic task is now seen by an increasing number of analysts to require that patient and analyst work together to strengthen, or to create, psychic structure that was previously weak, missing, or functionally inoperative. This view, which may apply to all patients, but is especially relevant to the treatment of non-neurotic patients and states of mind, stands in stark contrast to the more traditional assumption that the therapeutic task involves the uncovering of the unconscious dimension of a present...

Hostile and Malignant Prejudice: Psychoanalytic Approaches represents the leading edge of work in the field of prejudice by members of the International Psychoanalytical Association's Committee on Prejudice (including Anti-semitism), psychoanalysts who hail from Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Peru, Sweden, the United States, and Uruguay. It pursues the issues surrounding hostile and malignant prejudice as defined in the first chapter by Henri Parens, whose path-breaking work over four generations with children and their mothers uncovered the sources of aggression and prejudice on a...

How can we, analysts, evaluate whether analysis is generating transformations in our patients? The IPA Project Committee on Clinical Observation and Testing offers a tool: The Three-Level Model for Observing Patient Transformations (3-LM); a guide for refining, conceptualizing, and systematizing clinical observations about patient transformations. It seeks to enhance clinical observations, making them more accurate and more useful for theory testing and theory building through a systematic analysis of clinical material.

Time for Change: Tracking Transformations in Psychoanalysis...