Winner of the 2009 Goethe Award for Psychoanalytic Scholarship! Irwin Hirsch, author of
Coasting in the Countertransference, asserts that countertransference experience always …

Does psychoanalysis have anything to say about the emotional landscapes of class? How
can class-inclusive psychoanalytic projects, historic and contemporary, inform theory and …

The experiences and struggles involved in graduating from psychoanalytic training and then
beginning a private practice are rarely discussed in depth. The influences of the analyst's …

While there is a long history to the acquaintance between psychoanalysis and India,
psychoanalytic thought has never quite taken hold in Indian culture. However, due to …

By extending the views of Foulkes, Bion, Freud, and Klein, this book draws the outline of a
group analytic theory and meta-theory by studying the paternal and maternal functions as …

This chapter explores how therapists can strive for transparency, integrity and ethicality in
public and private practices. Marketing private practice becomes ethical by being …

The Freudian psychoanalytic interpretation of a subject's relation to money as a figuration of
unconscious anal erotism remains an important theme in contemporary conceptions of …

This paper addresses the impact of the current economic crisis on the psychic functioning of
the patient and the analyst, their relationship and collaboration. This intrusion of 'external …

This paper discusses the experience of psychodynamically oriented therapists in private
practice as they contemplate raising their fees. Raising fees stirs up competing self-interest …

Myriad factors influence the initial phase of treatment. Among these, the impact of the referral
source and what transpires during the referral process is a neglected area. The patient …