Contributors: Susan Coates, Claudio Laks Eizirik, Peter Fonagy, Richard C. Friedman, Andre E. Haynal, Rainer Krause, Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber, Linda C. Mayes, Friedemann Pfafin, Anne-Marie Sandler, Sheila Spensley, Sverre Varvin, and Rudi Vermote."Sex has undoubtedly become more complex since Freud s original descriptions, yet in another way it has changed little. It is still there as the primary motor ensuring the survival of our species, the perpetuation of our genetic material. For all mammals the process of reproduction is at the centre of their behavioural systems. For mammals with minds, this is unlikely to be different. Sexual inhibition and dissatisfaction, conflicts and perversions, the sheer intensity of guilt, jealousy, and rage that sexuality entails, are indicators of how central sexual function remains for us. Psychoanalysis cannot shirk its traditional responsibility of casting light into the darkest recesses of our mental existence."--Peter Fonagy"All the contributors to this volume agree that understanding sexuality in its current manifestations, its normalities and pathologies, its relevance to illness and the process of recovery from trauma and failed developments within the therapeutic dyad and other relationships remains a central topic for future psychoanalytic research. Sexuality has to be rediscovered by psychoanalysis as its genuine field of research, which earns a high priority in our everyday clinical practice as well as in theorizing and research."--Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber"

While Freud opened the door on the formative and motivating power of sexuality, contemporary psychoanalysts, with some notable exceptions, have consigned sexuality to the psychoanalytic closet. This book not only re-opens the door on the broad subject of psychosexuality, but also provides fresh insights into heterosexuality, bisexuality, homosexuality, gender identity disorder, transvestism and transsexualism. This publication brings together some of the leading psychoanalytic authorities from around the globe to consider in depth the complex interweaving of identity, gender and sexuality from theoretical, clinical, historical and research perspectives. The author strongly recommends "Identity, Gender and Sexuality" to those looking for a book that does not pull punches. The reader will find a debate about the relative merits of clinical, empirical, and conceptual research, critical assessments of interdisciplinary findings from infant and child development research, embodied cognitive science, academic psychology, neurobiology, genetics, ethology, and other fields of inquiry, and honest and illuminating psychoanalytic case studies. - Donald Campbell

This year we have the pleasure to introduce Jeremy Holmes as a guest publisher. He is a topclass representative of Psychoanalysis himself and he succeeded in getting contributions of real value about the presence and the future of Psychoanalysis from authors who instigate a lively development of Psychoanalysis. In his Editorial 'towards a secure theoretical and evidential base for psychoanalytic psychotherapy' he gives an introduction and an outline of this collection of psychoanalytic writings which are not written for psychoanalysts but for all psychotherapists who want to know more about today's Psychoanalysis, who want to do notional steps towards it, maybe for to break with old prejudices, to become more open again for psychodynamic ideas or to ascertain similarities that are much bigger then assumed until now.

In der vollstandig uberarbeiteten Neuauflage werden die beiden Bande der Erstauflage zu einem Gesamtwerk zusammengefasst. Im ersten Teil werden die Grundlagen unter Berucksichtigung der diagnostischen Klassifikationssysteme OPD und DSM behandelt. Neue Erkenntnisse der Saarbrucker und Innsbrucker Forschungsgruppe zur therapeutischen Beziehung werden in einem Prozessmodell formalisiert, in dem das nonverbale, vor allem affektive Verhalten der beiden Protagonisten als Basis der sprachlichen Interventionen genau erlautert wird. Dieses Modell hat sich theoretisch und klinisch bewahrt und kann fur die Supervision und auch fur die Grundausbildung in allen Psychotherapieformen angewendet werden. Der Autor, jahrelang als wissenschaftlicher Sachverstandiger "Psychotherapie" des Bundesausschusses fur die Bewertung von Heilverfahren tatig, diskutiert detailliert die Schnittstellenprobleme zwischen der Behandlungspraxis und deren Implementierung in unserem Versorgungssystem.