Psychopathology

Andrew Samuels has, for 40 years, been evolving a unique blend of post-Jungian, relational psychoanalytic and humanistic approaches to therapy work. He is recognized internationally as a leading commentator from a psychotherapeutic perspective on political and social problems. His work on the father, sexuality, spirituality and countertransference has also been widely appreciated. He is a Founder Board Member of the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, past chair of the UK Council for Psychotherapy, and co-founder of Psychotherapists and Counsellors for Social Responsibility and also of the Alliance for Counselling and Psychotherapy. He is Professor of Analytical Psychology at Essex University and holds visiting chairs at New York, London and Roehampton Universities. His many books have been translated into 19 languages.

Notes on Bibliography and Conventions -- Introduction -- Depressed patients and the coniunctio -- Success, retreat, panic: over-stimulation and depressive defence -- A psychological study of anorexia nervosa: an account of the relationship between psychic factors and bodily functioning -- Object constancy or constant object? -- Narcissistic disorder and its treatment -- Reflections on introversion and/or schizoid personality -- Reflections on Heinz Kohut’s concept of narcissism -- The borderline personality: vision and healing -- The treatment of chronic psychoses -- The energy of warring and combining opposites: problems for the psychotic patient and the therapist in achieving the symbolic situation -- Schreber’s delusional transference: a disorder of the self -- Masochism: the shadow side of the archetypal need to venerate and worship -- The psychopathology of fetishism and transvestism -- The androgyne: some inconclusive reflections on sexual perversions -- The archetypes in marriage -- The analyst and the damaged victims of Nazi persecution -- Working against Dorian Gray: analysis and the old