Susie OrbachBodies

August 15, 2011

“Why is the body the site of so much ongoing, current and growing attention in the West”? asks the feminist psychoanalyst and public intellectual Susie Orbach in her book Bodies (Picador, 2009). In this interview, the groundbreaking author of Fat is a Feminist Issue (inter alia) speaks to New Books in Psychoanalysis about how the body is “no longer [...]

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Lucy HolmesThe Internal Triangle: New Theories of Female Development

June 8, 2011

In this interview we revisit the complicated female oedipal constellation, as New Books in Psychoanalysis speaks with Dr. Lucy Holmes about her book The Internal Triangle: New Theories of Female Development (Jason Aronson, 2007). According to Holmes, the “Internal triangle” is the cornerstone of the female psyche. All of us, male and female, need to [...]

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Sheldon BachThe How-to Book for Students of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy

May 13, 2011

Who knew there could be a “how to” book regarding the “impossible profession”? Well, Sheldon Bach has written one. In The How-to Book for Students of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (Karnac Books, 2011), Bach speaks plainly and with warmth about the many difficulties facing new clinicians ranging from setting and collecting fees to dealing with the sadomasochistic [...]

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Neil AltmanThe Analyst in the Inner City: Race, Class, and Culture Through an Analytic Lens

April 10, 2011

In his book The Analyst in the Inner City: Race, Class, and Culture Through an Analytic Lens (Routledge, 2009), the well-respected psychoanalyst Dr. Neil Altman explores what happens when one practices analysis outside the private practice frame and, instead, among the urban poor. Drawing on years of experience helping underprivileged groups, Altman discusses the impact [...]

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Irwin HirschCoasting in the Countertransference: Conflicts of Self-Interest between Analyst and Patient

March 18, 2011

This interview should be of interest to both a professional and lay audience.  What analysand has not wondered to herself whether she just represents a paycheck in her analyst’s world?  And what analyst has not kept a patient in treatment long after the analysis was brought to completion due to financial concerns? In his book [...]

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Hendrika FreudElectra vs Oedipus: The Drama of the Mother-Daughter Relationship

February 27, 2011

Who doesn’t want to know what women want, right? Well, in this interview with Hendrika Freud, we begin to get the idea that women often prefer not to know. As I sit in my private practice, many of my female patients put on a good smoke and mirror show, cloaking desires behind reaction formations, saying [...]

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