Cyclical Psychodynamics and the Contextual Self articulates in new ways the essential
features and most recent extensions of Paul Wachtel's powerfully integrative theory of …

Attachment matters: its role, development, maintenance, and disruption are major themes in
the social and biological sciences. Rooted in the work of Darwin and Freud, attachment …

Wounds of History Page 1 Page 2 Wounds of History Wounds of History takes a new view in
psychoanalysis using a transgenerational and social/political/cultural model looking at trauma …

The theory of unformulated experience is an interpersonal/relational conception of
unconscious process. The idea is that unconscious content is not fully formed, merely …

The relationship between attachment theory and psychoanalysis, historically, has not been
an easy one (Cassidy & Shaver, 2008; Eagle, 2013; Fonagy, 2001). But in recent years …

When I was five or six years old, I had a recurring dream, actually more a nightmare. I dreamt
that I was with my parents and older sister in what looked like a smoke-filled saloon from a …

Attachment resilience is the ability of attachment relationships to survive adversity and
maintain their functions in the face of stress and is a critical component of personal and …

Video or film microanalysis operates like a social microscope into the underworld just below
perceptible view in real time. The author describes how bidirectional regulation became a …

The Enigma of Desire: Sex, Longing and Belonging in Psychoanalysis, introduces new
perspectives on desire and longing, in and outside of the analytic relationship. This exciting …

The sense of self has always been a topic of high interest in both psychoanalysis and most
recently in neuroscience. Nowadays there is agreement in psychoanalysis that the self …