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William Miller On second thought: How ambivalence shapes your life: From the founder of Motivational Interviewing The rich inner world of a human being is far more complex than either/or. You can love and hate, want to go and want to stay, feel both joy and sadness. Psychologist William Miller—one of the world's leading experts on the science of change—offers a fresh perspective on ambivalence and...

Jon Mills  Debating relational psychoanalysis: Jon Mills and his critics In  Debating Relational Psychoanalysis , Jon Mills provides an historical record of the debates that had taken place for nearly two decades on his critique of the relational school, including responses from his critics. Since he initiated his critique, relational psychoanalysis has become an international phenomenon with prop...

Amy Schwartz Cooney and Rachel Sopher  Vitalization in psychoanalysis: Perspectives on being and becoming In Vitalization in Psychoanalysis, Schwartz Cooney and Sopher develop and explore the concept of vitalization, generating new ways of approaching and conceptualizing the psychoanalytic project. Vitalization refers to the process between two people that ignites new experiences and brings withdr...

Ronald Beiner Dangerous minds: Nietzsche, Heidegger, and the return of the Far Right Following the fall of the Berlin Wall and demise of the Soviet Union, prominent Western thinkers began to suggest that liberal democracy had triumphed decisively on the world stage. Having banished fascism in World War II, liberalism had now buried communism, and the result would be an end of major ideological con...

Christos Tombras Discourse Ontology: Body and the Construction of a World, from Heidegger through Lacan This book explores the themes within, and limits of, a dialogue between Martin Heidegger's philosophy of being and Jacques Lacan's post-Freudian metapsychology. It argues that a conceptual bridging between the two is possible, and lays the foundations of that bridge, starting with Heidegger and...

Joel Whitebook Freud: An intellectual biography The life and work of Sigmund Freud continue to fascinate general and professional readers alike. Joel Whitebook here presents the first major biography of Freud since the last century, taking into account recent developments in psychoanalytic theory and practice, gender studies, philosophy, cultural theory, and more. Offering a radically new portrait...