A Relational Reading List

To start with:  “EVERYTHING YOU’VE WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT RELATIONAL PSYCHOANALYSIS BUT WERE TOO CONFUSED TO ASK” By Philip Ringstrom, Ph.D.

Some Key Texts in Relational Theory and Practice – what would you add?

Aron, Lewis, and Adrienne Harris, eds. Relational Psychoanalysis, Volume 5: Evolution of Process. Routledge, 2014.

Aron, Lewis. (1996). A Meeting of Minds; mutuality in psychoanalysis. Hilsdale, NJ: The Analytic Press.

Aron, Lewis. and Harris, Adrian. (2005). Relational Psychoanalysis; Volume 2, Innovation and Expansion. Hillsdale NJ and London: The Analytic Press.

Aron, Lewis. and Harris, Adrian. (2011). Relational Psychoanalysis; Volume 4, Expansion of Theory. Hillsdale NJ and London: The Analytic Press.

Benjamin, J. (1988). The Bonds of Love: Psychoanalysis, Feminism and the Problem of Domination. New York: Panthenon.

Benjamin, J. (1995). Like Subjects, Love Objects: Essays on Recognition and Sexual Difference. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

Benjamin, J. (1997). Shadow of the Other: Intersubjectivity and Gender in Psychoanalysis. New York: Routledge.

Dimen, M. (2011). With Culture in Mind: Psychoanalytic Stories. New York: Routledge.

Lowenthal, Del and Samuels, Andrew (2014). Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy; appraisals and reappraisals. Hove: Routledge.

Mitchell, Stephen A., and Lewis Aron. Relational psychoanalysis: The emergence of a tradition. Analytic Press, 1999.

Maroda, Karen. (1991) The Power of Countertransference: Innovations in Analytic Technique.  Chichester, UK: Wiley. Paperback, (1995), Northvale, NJ: Aronson. Second edition, (2005) Hinsdale, NJ: The Analytic Press.

Maroda, Karen. (1999).Seduction, Surrender and Transformation: Emotional Engagement in the Analytic Process.  Hinsdale, NJ: The Analytic Press.

Mitchell, Stepehen. and Black, Margaret. (1995). Freud and Beyond: a history of modern psychoanalytic thought. New York: Basic Books.

Mitchell, Stephen. and Greenberg, Jay. (1983). Object Relations in Psychoanalytic Theory. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press.

Mitchell, Stephen. (1988). Relational Concepts in Psychoanalysis: an integration. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press.

Mitchell, Stephen and Aron, Lewes. (1999). Relational Psychoanalysis; the emergence of a tradition. New York and London: The Analytic Press.

Orbach, Susie.(2009). Bodies. London: Profile Books.

Orbach, Susie. (1999). The Impossiblity of Sex: stories of the intimate relationship between therapist and patient. New York and London: Simon and Schuster.

Suchet, Melanie, Adrienne Harris, and Lewis Aron, eds. Relational Psychoanalysis, Volume 3: New Voices. Vol. 3. Routledge, 2013.