CIPS is proud to announce the release of the fourth book in its Karnac book series,The Boundaries of Psychoanalysis.

In this highly praised volume, West Coast psychoanalytic clinician-scholars re?ect on essential ideas about the "mechanisms of change" that makes psychoanalysis work. The authors bring an open-minded, inclusive, and independent thinking perspective that builds upon the fundamental tenets of psychoanalytic knowledge, theory, and technique to focus on the question of the theory of therapeutic action underlying the multiple perspectives in psychoanalysis. The question of how psychoanalysis effects therapeutic change and the methods by which this change is achieved is answered from the perspectives of: classical theory, ego psychology and modern conflict theory, contemporary object relations theory, neo-Kleinian and Bionian theory, intersubjectivity, attachment theory, and self psychological theory, as well as total composite theory and pluralistic perspectives. The volume explores how these theories of therapeutic action diverge and converge, and ultimately what holds these diverse approaches within the boundaries of psychoanalysis.

Contributors include: Hedda Bolgar, Christopher Christian, Michael J. Diamond, Morris Eagle, Tom Helscher, Nancy Hollander, Beth Kalish, Peggy Porter, Stephen Portuges, Leo Rangell, Linda Sobelman, Alan Spivak, and Peter Wolson.

Notes about the editors

Michael J. Diamond, PhD is Training and Supervising Analyst and Faculty, Los Angeles Institute and Society for Psychoanalytic Studies, Faculty, Wright Institute Los Angeles, and Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, University of California, Los Angeles. His major publications are on psychoanalytic technique, psychoanalytic gender theory, treatment of early trauma and dissociation, and fathering and masculinity, including his recent book (2007), My Father Before Me: How Fathers and Sons Influence Each Other Throughout Their Lives.

Christopher Christian, PhD, is Member, Los Angeles Institute and Society for Psychoanalytic Studies; graduate of the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (IPTAR), New York; Assistant Professor of Psychology, New School for Social Research; and Director of the New School/Beth Israel Center for Clinical Training and Research at the Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City. He has a private practice in Manhattan.

Purchase the book from Karnac's website.