Mapping the Landscape

Mapping the Landscape: Explorations in Psychoanalysis offers an overview and exploration of Priscilla Roth’s unique contribution to psychoanalysis over the course of her long and distinguished career.

This book takes the reader on a journey through psychoanalytic clinical practice and the significance of themes such as identity, identification, idealization and reparation. This collection shows a variety of Roth’s interests but also the continuity of her approach – the unconscious thread, which links thoughts and memories together. Through close examination of the moment-to-moment psychoanalytic work, she emphasizes how unconscious processes influence both patient and analyst without either of them becoming aware of it. In this sense, each analysis is unique. The second part of the book allows for reflection on lessons drawn from her work, and how psychoanalysis poses the question of what it means to be oneself for the analyst and the patient.

Reflecting her strong compassion for patients and depth of understanding of the nature of psychoanalysis, this is key reading for psychoanalysts, psychotherapists and anyone interested in the experiences underpinning humanity in each of us.

Priscilla Roth is a training and supervising analyst at the Institute of Psychoanalysis, where she was head of training. Following her degree in psychology and working as a research assistant at the University of California, Berkeley, she trained as a child and adolescent psychotherapist at the Tavistock Clinic, and an analyst with the British Psychoanalytical Society. She has lectured at both institutions, the University College London, and internationally. She had been elected as a Distinguished Fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society in 2022. She published many papers and edited several books, including Imaginary Existences: A Psychoanalytic Exploration of Phantasy, Fiction, Dreams and Daydreams, by Ignês Sodré, and Envy and Gratitude Revisited.

Ignês Sodré is a training and supervising analyst of the British Psychoanalytical Society. She has taught extensively in London and abroad, and was the first visiting professorial fellow in psychoanalysis at Birkbeck College. She has published on psychoanalysis and on literature, and authored Imaginary Existences: A Psychoanalytic Exploration of Phantasy, Fiction, Dreams and Daydreams.

Tomasz Fortuna is a psychoanalyst with the British Psychoanalytical Society. He works at the Portman Clinic and in private practice in London. He was a visiting profess or in psychoanalysis at the University Putra Malaysia and co-authored Melanie Klein: The Basics.