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Gender as Soft Assembly Adrienne Harris, New York University, USA “In this dazzling tour de force, Adrienne Harris reminds us why she is a leading relational thinker and theorist of gender... Harris’s range is breathtaking, as she moves the reader beyond perspectives on development... to a theory that incorporates recent findings in psychoanalysis... throughout we find a profoundly humane, brave, and gifted analyst at work.” - Nancy J. Chodorow, San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute, USA Gender as Soft Assembly weaves together insights from different disciplinary domains to open up new vistas of clinical understanding of what it means to inhabit, to perform, and to be, gendered. Opposing the traditional notion of development as the linear unfolding of predictable stages, Adrienne Harris argues that children become gendered in multiply configured contexts. And she proffers new developmental models to capture the fluid, constructed, and creative experiences of becoming and being gendered. According to Harris, these models, and the images to which they give rise, articulate not only with contemporary relational psychoanalysis but also with recent research into the origins of mentalization and symbolization. Contents: Introduction. Part I: Relational Developmental Theory. Multiple
Selves, Multiple Codes. Timelines and Temporalities. Chaos Theory as a Theory of Development. Part II: Gender as a Soft Assembly. Gender Narratives in Psychoanalysis. Tomboys’ Stories. Gender as a Strange Attractor: Gender’s Multidimensionality. Genders Emerge in Contexts. Clinical and Theoretical Approaches to Gender as a Soft Assembly. Part III: Developmental Theory and Research. Developmental Applications of Nonlinear Dynamic Systems Theory: Learning How to Mean. Dynamic Skills Theory: Relational Mourning as Shared Labor. 2008: 320pp. Hb: 978-0-88163-370-2: 2004: £39.95/$65.00 Pb: 978-0-88163-498-3: £21.99/$34.95
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Repair of the Soul Metaphors of Transformation in Jewish Mysticism and Psychoanalysis Karen E. Starr, The City University of New York, USA Foreword by Lewis Aron
“In Repair of the Soul, Karen Starr has provided us with a sophisticated and well-informed discussion of the ways in which kabbalistic metaphors of transformation can be related to the work of psychic change in psychoanalysis... Starr’s book makes a valuable contribution to the contemporary awareness of issues of faith, of the ineffable other, and of the ‘transcendent Third,’ in analytic work.” - Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg, author, The Beginning of Desire: Reflections on Genesis
Repair of the Soul examines transformation from the perspective of Jewish mysticism and psychoanalysis, addressing the question of how one achieves self-understanding that leads not only to insight but also to meaningful change. In this beautifully written and thoughtprovoking book, Karen Starr draws upon a contemporary relational approach to psychoanalysis to explore the spiritual dimension of psychic change within the context of the psychoanalytic relationship.
Influenced by the work of Lewis Aron, Steven Mitchell and other relational theorists, and drawing upon contemporary scholarship in the field of Jewish studies, Starr brings the ideas of the Kabbalah, the ancient Jewish mystical tradition, into dialogue with modern psychoanalytic thought. Contents: Aron, Foreword. Introduction: The Kabbalah. Transformation. The Interpretive Encounter. Faith as the Fulcrum of Change. The Transformation of Evil. Epilogue: Jacob’s Ladder.
2008: 160pp. Hb: 978-0-88163-486-0: £50.00/$80.00 Pb: 978-0-88163-487-7: £18.99/$29.95
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Adolescent Identities A Collection of Readings Edited by Deborah L. Browning, New York University, USA “With astutely chosen readings, this excellent anthology provides widely encompassing perspectives on adolescence... The collection will be of immense help to all teachers and students interested in adolescence. I will assign it in my course on adolescence and literature.”
- Paul Schwaber, Wesleyan University, USA
Adolescent Identities draws the reader into the inner world of the adolescent to examine the process of identity formation through the various lenses of history, anthropology, sociology, psychology, and psychoanalysis. The volume reveals there is no single “normal” adolescent, nor is there a singular adolescent experience. Editor Deborah L. Browning illustrates that in the course of development, each individual must integrate one’s unique biologically-given constitution and temperament, personal life history, and the influence of the social and cultural milieu. SELECTED Contents: Part I: Identifying Adolescence. Part II: Identity and Diversity and the Cultural Milieu. Part III: Adolescent Identity Formation and the Relational World. Part IV: Erik Erikson and Psychosocial Identity. Part V: Adolescent Identity Formation and the Internal World. Part VI: Challenges to Identity Coherence and Maintenance.
2007: 377pp. Hb: 978-0-88163-461-7: £34.99/$59.95
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ComparativeIntegrative Psychoanalysis A Relational Perspective for the Discipline’s Second Century Brent Willock, Toronto Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Canada
“The challenge we face as psychoanalytic educators is how to foster conviction without stultifying conformity and encourage creativity in our candidates. [Dr. Willock’s] answer is the comparative-integrative approach. His book convincingly presents the theoretical, philosophical, and clinical foundations for this approach... I have Dr. Willock’s book and I am sure it will have the wide and interested audience that it deserves.” - Arnold Richards, Training and Supervising Analyst, New York Psychoanalytic Institute, USA