The purpose of this series, edited by Peter Fonagy and Mary Target of University College London, is to publish clinical and research based texts of academic excellence in the field. Each title makes a significant contribution and the series is open-ended. The readership is academics and graduate students in psychoanalysis, together with clinical practitioners, worldwide.

"The Whurr Series in Psychoanalysis has been able to attract some of the most interesting and creative minds in the field. Our commitment is to no specific orientation, to no particular professional group, but to the intellectual challenge to explore the questions of meaning and interpretation systematically, and in a scholarly way. Our focus in this series is to communicate the intellectual excitement which we feel about the past, present and future of psychoanalytic ideas. We hope that our work with the authors and editors in the series will help to make these ideas accessible to an ever-increasing and worldwide group of students, scholars and practitioners." - Peter Fonagy and Mary Target, from the Series Foreword.

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A Language for Psychosis edited by Paul Williams (2001).

This book brings together a number of international writers who are concerned with understanding and treating psychoses. The orientation of the book is psychoanalytic, but it is also cognisant of the need for a multi-disciplinary approach to these disorders for which there remains no comprehensive cure. One of the greatest obstacles clinicians and patients face lies less in our ignorance than in failure by mental health services to integrate existing knowledge into workable treatment plans. Too often clinical disciplines (psychiatry, psychoanalysis, clinical psychology, neuropsychology, nursing etc.) work separately rather than together, employing languages that are mutually incomprehensible. As a result, patients are unlikely to have their different needs properly met. At the heart of the multi-disciplinary approach lies the therapeutic relationship between patient and psychoanalyst, psychodynamically-minded psychiatrist or psychotherapist. Detailed clinical cases are presented together with contemporary conceptualisations of psychotic states.

Outcomes of Psychoanalytic Treatment edited by Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber and Mary Target (2002).

Psychoanalysis and psychoanalytical psychotherapy remain an unparalleled source of insights into the unconscious determinants and dimensions of psychological suffering. However, there is a worldwide debate, as to the most appropriate ways in which to carry out research into psychopathology and treatment, which remains true to the essence of the discipline. This volume presents the rationales, methods and findings of some of the main empirical studies. The methodological and scientific problems, and some sophisticated solutions, are illustrated with concrete research examples. The authors of this volume share the common aim to bridge the gap between practising therapists and researchers. They seek to further an interdisciplinary and public dialogue on psychoanalytic treatments, their specific goals, methods and contributions to the psychic health of our patients.

Kleinian Theory: A Contemporary Perspective edited by Catalina Bronstein (2001).

This text comprises an introduction to major psychoanalytical concepts in Kleinian theory starting with the ideas formulated by Melanie Klein and extending them to those developed by her main followers. There are chapters focusing on: the psychoanalytic play technique, unconscious fantasy, paranoid-schizoid and depressive positions, envy and gratitude, oedipus complex, projective identification, internal obejects, symbolization, models of the mind, containment and transference. This text is part of the "Whurr Series in Psychoanalysis" which publish clinical and research texts of academic excellence in the field. Each title makes a significant contribution and the series is open-ended. The chapters of this text have been written by leading psychoanalysts: David Bell, Jill Boswell, Ronald Britton, Marco Chiesa, Betty Joseph, Ruth Riesemberg Malcolm, Hannah Segal, Elizabeth Bott Spillius, Priscilla Roth and Jane Temperley.

Psychoanalysis, Science and Masculinity by Karl Figlio (2000).

A psychoanalytic exploration of the need to know in western culture. It argues that this need is expressed by the relentless drive of science to get to the source of all phenomena. But the profound reach into the interior of nature is accompanied by primitive unconscious fantasies of mastery, of knowing as making, of masculine intrusion into nature's creativity and of nature's retaliation and deterioration. Science becomes a tool of domination and a suspect magical enterprise. Benign nature becomes an ominous nature. As a result, the need to know becomes a moral quest, in which science unconsciously researches into the internal world of our intentions, externalized into the world of the phenomena that it investigates. The book also argues that the masculine domination of nature is typically understood as phallic mastery and has roots in a fantasy mediated by semen, in which the male identifies with and replicates the sources of life. These themes are addressed in a Kleinian psychoanalytic framework, using clinical, mythological, anthropological and historical material.

Organisations, Anxieties and Defences: Towards a Psychoanalytic Social Psychology edited by R. D. Hinshelwood & Marco Chiesa (2001).

Psychoanalysis has long been applied to the understanding of social groups, organizations and cultures, and it has involved many different approaches. This volume brings together contributions to the field of "psychoanalytic social psychology", with work from a wide-ranging group of contributors. The substantial introductory chapters by the editors describe a conceptual map of psychoanalytic ideas on social groups that have been formed around the world. These introduce eight chapters from eminent authors on the topic, writing in Europe, the Americas and Britain.