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New Books by IARPP Members

Lewis Aron, Ph.D. and Karen Starr, Psy.D.
A Psychotherapy for the People: Toward a Progressive Psychoanalysis
(Routledge, Relational Perspectives Book Series 2012)

How did psychoanalysis come to define itself as being different from psychotherapy?
How have racism, homophobia, misogyny and anti-Semitism converged in the creation of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis? Is psychoanalysis psychotherapy?
Is psychoanalysis a “Jewish science”?

Jeremy Holmes and Anthony Storr
Storr's The Art of Psychotherapy, Third Edition
(CRC Press, Taylor Francis Group 2012)

Judith Rustin
Infant Research and Neuroscience at Work in Psychotherapy: Expanding the Clinical Repertoire
(Norton, New York 2013)

Asaf Rolef Ben-Shahar, PhD
with introductions by Sharon Ziv Beiman, PhD and Jacqueline Carlton, PhD
A Therapeutic Anatomy – Body psychotherapy [Hebrew Edition],
(Pardes, Haifa)

The therapeutic encounter is a meeting of embodied-psyches, of two bodies present to one another, dialoguing, influencing and being influenced; bodies waiting for us to listen to them and speak their language.

Reviews of Books and Articles

Elisabeth Hanscombe review of
The Fifth Principle by Paul Williams
(Karnac Books, London 2012)

Paul Williams prefaces his book, The Fifth Principle – the first of three to constitute his memoirs – with the following words, “The author of the book, and the individual written about, are not the same person…”. (p. 9) 

Helene Beinoglou-Negri
Destructiveness and Aliveness reflections on  
On Winnicott’s clinical innovations in the analysis of adults by Michael Eigen
(International Journal of Psychoanalysis 2012 - 93:1449–1459)

The IARPP Bookshelf has given me the opportunity to thank Michael Eigen for his recent article, “On Winnicott's Clinical Innovations in the Analysis of Adults.”  It stays in me as a living being and keeps on expanding as time goes by.

Articles by IARPP Members

Paul Renn
"Moments of Meeting: The Relational Challenges of Sexuality in the Consulting Room" (British Journal of Psychotherapy, 29(2), May 2013)

Dianne Elise
Contributor of an article in a new book:
The Clinical Problem of Masochism
(Jason Aronson, The Rowman & Littlefiled Publishing Group, Inc 2012 D. Holtzman & N. Kulish (Eds.)

"The Danger in Deception: Oedipal Betrayal and the Assault on Truth"
(Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association August 2012 Vol. 60 No. 4 pp 679-705)

Steven Kuchuck 
"Please (Don't) Want Me:The Therapeutic Action of Male Sexual Desire in the
Treatment of Heterosexual Men"
(Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 2012 Volume 48, issue 4, pages 544-562)

Noreen O’Connor
"'Here I am!' - Irreducible Invocation of the Other"
from The Bonds of Love at 25. A Collection of Essays, Part 2
(Studies in Gender and Sexuality, Vol. 14, No. 1. Philadelphia: Taylor and Francis (Routledge), pp. 78 - 86.)

Barry Magid
Interviewed in the March 2013 issue of Shambhala Sun

Paper Presentations by IARPP Members

Jack Danielian and Patricia Gianotti
Jack Danielian and Patricia Gianotti presented a paper, "The Unfinished Theory of Shame and Violence" this year at the Chicago meeting of the Association of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology.  The paper is substantially taken from their  recent book,  "Listening with Purpose: Entry Points into Shame and Narcissistic Vulnerability.” 

Ruth Lijtmaer
presented the following papers:
“Where is home?: Issues of Immigration and identity" New Jersey Psychoanalytic Society, January 15, 2013 at Hackensack Hospital, Hackensack, New Jersey, USA and
"Social class, social reality and power: Emphasis on the Latino poor", February 15 to 16, 2013 at The Winter Roundtable, Columbia University, New York City, New York USA.

IARPP Bookshelf - eNews Special Edition - March 2013