Contemporary Psychoanalysis

Contemporary Psychoanalysis offers a modern approach for an in-depth understanding of how problems are formed and offers a new way to help people to resolve deep emotional and psychological problems. There is no one single source or text that does an adequate job representing the amazing changes occurring in the field of psychoanalysis.

Contemporary Psychoanalysis is in a dynamic, fluid, still-forming state of development. The major influences contribution to the formation of a contemporary psychonytic approach are the following:

Relational Psychoanalysis:

Aron, Lewis. (1996). A meeting of minds: Mutuality in psychoanalysis. Hillsdale, N.J.: The Analytic Press.

Aron, Lewis, & Harris, Adrienne. (2005). Relational psychoanalysis: Vol. 2: Innovation and expansion.Hillsdale, N.J.: The Analytic Press.

Cohen, Etty. (2003). Playing hard at life: A relational approach to treating multiply traumatized adolescents. Hillsdale, N.J.: The Analytic Press.

Mitchell, Stephen A. (1988). Relational concepts in psychoanalysis. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.

Mitchell, Stephen A. & Aron, Lewis. (1999). Relational psychoanalysis: The emergence of a tradition. Hillsdale, N.J.: The Analytic Press.

Intersubjective Systems Theory:

Stolorow, Robert D., Brandchaft, Bernard, & Atwood, George E. (1987). Psychoanalytic Treatment: An intersubjective approach. Hillsdale, N.J.:     The Analytic Press.

Stolorow, Robert D., Atwood, George E., & Brandchaft, Bernard. (1994). The intersubjective perspective. Northvale, N.J.: Jason Aronson, Inc.

Stolorow, Robert D., Atwood, George E., & Orange, Donna M. ((2002). Worlds of experience: Interweaving philosophical and clinical dimensions in psychoanalysis. N.Y., N.Y.: Basic Books.

Empirical Research: Direct Observation Studies of Mother-Infant Dyads:

Beebe, Beatrice, & Lachmann, Frank M. ((2002). Infant research and adult treatment: Co-constructing interactions. Hillsdale, N.J.: The Analytic     Press.

Beebe, Beatrice, Knobloch, Steven, Rustin, Judith, & Sorter, Dorienne. (2005). Forms of intersubjectivity in infant research and adult treatment. N.Y., N.Y.: Other Press.

Lachmann, Frank M. (2000). Transforming aggression: Psychotherapy with the difficulty-to-treat patient. Northvale, N.J.: Jason Aronson, Inc.

Stern, Daniel N. (1985). The interpersonal world of the infant: A view from psychoanalysis & developmental psychology. N.Y., N.Y.: Basic Books. 

Stern, Daniel N. (2004). The present moment in psychotherapy and everyday life. N.Y., N.Y.: W.W. Norton & Co.

 Neurobiological Research, Mentalization and Affect Regulation

Bradley, Susan J. (2000). Affect regulation and the development of psychopathology. N.Y., N.Y.: The Guilford Press.

Edelman, Gerald M. (1987). Neural Darwinism: The theory of neuronal group selection. N.Y., N.Y.: Basic Books.

Edelman, Gerald M. (1992). Bright air, brilliant fire. : On the matter of the mind. N.Y., N.Y.: Basic Books.

Edelman, Gerald M., & Tononi, Giulio. (2000). A universe of consciousness: How matter becomes imagination. N.Y., N.Y.: Basic Books.

Fonagy, Peter, Gergely, Gyorgy, Jurist, Elliot, L., & Target, Mary. (2002). Affect Regulation, mentalization, and the development of the self. N.Y., N.Y.: Other Press.

Siegel, Daniel J. (1999). The developing mind: How relationships and the brain interact to shape who we are. N.Y., N.Y.: The Guilford Press.

Schore, Allan N. (1994). Affect regulation and the origin of the self: The neurobiology of emotional development. Hillsdale, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers.

Schore, Allan N. (2003). Affect dysregulation and disorders of the self. N.Y., N.Y.: W.W. Norton & Co.

Schore, Allan N. (2003). Affect regulation and the repair of the self. N.Y., N.Y.: W.W. Norton & Co.

Feminism and The Women's Movement

Benjamin, Jessica (1988). The bonds of love: Psychoanalysis, feminism, and the problem of domination. N.Y., N.Y.: Pantheon Books.

Benjamin, Jessica. (1995). Like subjects, love objects: Essays on recognition and sexual difference. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press.

Benjamin, Jessica. (1998). The shadow of the other: Intersubjectivity and gender in psychoanalysis. N.Y., N.Y.: Routledge.

Chodorow, Nancy J. (1999). The power of feelings: Personal meaning in psychoanalysis, gender, and culture. New Haven, Conn. Yale University Press.

Harris, Adrienne. (2005). Gender as soft assembly. Hillsdale, N.J.: The Analytic Press.

Nicholson, Linda. (Ed.). (1997). The second wave: A reader in feminist theory. N.Y., N.Y.: Routledge.

Philipson, I.J. (1993). On the shoulders of women. N.Y., N.Y.: The Guilford Press.

Slochower, Joyce A. (1996). Holding and psychoanalysis: A relational perspective. Hillsdale, N.J.: The Analytic Press.

Postmodernism, Perspectival Realism, Social Constructivism, and Nonlinear Dynamic Systems

Lewis, Marc D., & Granic, Isabela. (Eds.). (2000). Emotion, Development, and self-organization: Dynamic systems approaches to emotional development. N.Y., N.Y.: Cambridge University Press.

Thelen, Esther, & Smith, Linda B. (1994). A dynamic systems approach to the development of cognition and action. Mass.: MIT Press.

Hoffman, Irwin. (1998) Ritual and spontaneity in psychoanalytic process: A dialectical-constructivist view. Hillsdale, N.J.: The Analytic Press.

Orange, Donna. (1995). Emotional understanding: Studies in psychoanalytic epistemology. N.Y., N.Y.: The Guilford Press.

 The Unconscious as A Language and Cultural Relevance

Dor, Joel. (1997). Introduction to the reading of Lacan: The unconscious structured like a language. Northvale, N.J.: Jason Aronson, Inc.

Fink, Bruce. (1995). The Lacanian subject: Between language and jouissance. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.

Miller, Jacques-Alain. (1981/1998). The seminar of Jacques Lacan. Books I – XX (various Translators for various books). N.Y., N.Y.: W.W. Norton & Co.    

Modern Attachment Theory

Cassidy, Jude, & Shaver, Phillip R. (Eds.) (1999). Handbook of attachment: Theory, research, and clinical applications. N.Y., N.Y.: The Guilford Press.

Holmes, Jeremy. (1996). Attachment, intimacy, autonomy: Using attachment theory in adult psychotherapy. Northvale, N.J.: Jason Aronson, Inc.

Karen, Robert. (1998). Becoming attached: First relationships and how they shape our capacity to love. N.Y., N.Y.: Oxford University Press.

Levy, Terry M. (2000). Handbook of attachment interventions. N.Y., N.Y.: Academic Press.

Contemporary Psa Approaches to Child, Marital, and Family Therapy

Altman, Neil, et al. (2002). Relational child psychotherapy. N.Y., N.Y.: Other Press.

Doane, Jeri A., & Diamond, Diana. (1994). Affect and attachment in the family: A family-based treatment of major psychiatric disorder. N.Y., N.Y.: Basic Books.

Johnsen, Astri, Sundet, Rolf, & Torsteinsson, Vigdis Wie. (2004). Self in relationships: Perspectives on family therapy from development psychology. N.Y., N.Y.: Karnac.

Johnson, Susan M., & Whiffen, Valerie E. (Eds.). (2003). Attachment processes in couple and family therapy. N.Y., N.Y.: The Guilford Press.

Luepnitz, Deborah A. (1988/2002). The family interpreted: Psychoanalysis, femininism, and family therapy. N.Y., N.Y.: Basic Books.

Mathelin, Catherine. (1999). Lacanian psychotherapy with children: The broken piano. (Translator: Susan Fairfield). N.Y., N.Y.: Other Press. 

Contemporary Ego Psychology

Busch, Fred. (1995). The ego at the center of clinical technique. Northvale, N.J.: Jason Aronson, Inc.

Busch, Fred. (1999). Rethinking clinical technique. Northvale, N.J.: Jason Aronson, Inc.

Gray, Paul. (1994). The ego and the analysis of defense. Northvale, N.J. Jason Aronson, Inc.

Contemporary Self Psychology

Lee, Ronald R., & Martin, J. Colby. (1991). Psychotherapy after Kohut: A textbook of self psychology. Hillsdale, N.J.: The Analytic Press.

Lessem, Peter A. (2005). Self psychology: An introduction. N.Y., N.Y.: Jason Aronson.

Shapiro, Sanford. (1995). Talking with patients: A self psychological view. Northvale, N.J.: Jason Aronson, Inc.

Contemporary Object Relations Theory

Bacal, Howard A. (1990). Theories of object relations: Bridges to self psychology. N.Y., N.Y.: Columbia University Press.

Bacal, Howard A. (Ed.). (1998). Optimal responsiveness: How therapists heal their patients. Northvale, N.J.: Jason Aronson, Inc.

Bollas, Christopher. ((1987). The shadow of the object: Psychoanalysis of the unthought known. London: Free Association Books.

Bollas, Christopher, & Sundelson, David. ((1995). The new informants: The betrayal of confidentiality in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy.

Eigen, Michael. ((1998). The psychoanalytic mystic. Binghampton, N.Y.: ESF Publishers.

Greenberg, Jay R., & Mitchell, Stephen A. (1983). Object relations in psychoanalytic theory. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.

Ogden, Thomas. (1994). Subjects of analysis. Northvale, N.J. Jason Aronson, Inc.

Ogden, Thomas. (1990). The matrix of the mind: Object relations and the psychoanalytic dialogue.Northvale, N.J.: Jason Aronson, Inc.

Perlman, Stuart D. (1999). The therapist's emotional survival: Dealing with the pain of exploring trauma. Northvale, N.J.: Jason Aronson, Inc.

Pizer, Stuart A. (1998). Building bridges: The negotiation of paradox in psychoanalysis. Hillsdale, N.J.: The Analytic Press.

Renik, Owen. (Ed.). (1998). Knowledge and authority in the psychoanalytic relationship. Northvale, N.J.: Jason Aronson, Inc. 

Minorities, the Underprivileged, and the Underserved

Altman, Neil. (1995). The analyst in the inner city: Race, class, and culture through a psychoanalytic lens. Hillsdale, N.J.: The Analytic Press.

Berzoff, Joan, Flanagan, Laura M., & Hertz, Patricia. (1996). Inside out and outside in: Psychodynamic clinical theory and practice in contemporary multicultural contexts. Northvale, N.J.: Jason Aronson, Inc.

Dalal, Farhad. (2002). Race, colour and processes of racialization: New perspectives from group analysis, psychoanalysis and sociology.N.Y., N.Y.: Brunner-Routledge.

Foster, RoseMarie Perez,  Moskowitz, Michael, & Javier, Rafael Art. (Eds.). (1996).  Reaching across boundaries of culture and class: Widening the scope of psychotherapy. Northvale, N.J.: Jason Aronson, Inc.