New Tools for Psychoanalysis

Bringing together the findings from psychoanalysts across the globe, this book introduces and describes the research practices utilised by the Working Parties that were created by the European Psychoanalytical Federation and later supported by the International Psychoanalytical Association.

The book opens with a discussion of the epistemology of research in psychoanalysis, then the various Working Parties describe their methodology and findings, and finally, in the last chapter, an assessment is made of what contributions this oxygenating movement has made to psychoanalysis. It examines topics including individual and group work, supervision, clinical interpretation, erotic transference and psychosomatics, and contains contributions from many distinguished analysts.

Providing a wealth of information on the place of research in evaluating new clinical methods and tools, this book is key reading for psychoanalysts both in practice and in training.

Ruggero Levy is a psychoanalyst, full member and training analyst of the Porto Alegre Psychoanalytical Society (SPPA); former chair of the IPA Working Parties Committee (2017–2021); former IPA board member (2011–2013 and 2013–2021); gave the keynote paper at the IPA Congress in 2017; and is former president of the SPPA

Bernard Leith is training and supervising analyst and former president of the Swiss Society of Psychoanalysis; regional editor for Europe of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis; former co-chair for Europe of the IPA Working Parties Committee (2017–2021) and chair (2021–2023); and former chair of the EPF Working Party on Initiating Psychoanalysis (2005–2016)

Agustina Fernández is a psychoanalyst, full member and training analyst of the Argentine Psychoanalytic Association (APA); co-chair for Latin America of the IPA Working Parties Committee (2017–2021 and 2021–2023); and former co-chair of FEPAL Working Parties Commission (2012–2014) and former chair (2014–2016)

Leopoldo Bleger left Argentina in 1976, where he trained as a medical doctor and psychiatrist, and has lived in Paris since. He is a "supervisor analyst" of the French Association. He is member of the EPF WP on Specificity of the Psychoanalytic Treatment Today and was general secretary of the European Federation (2012–2016) and president of his society (2017–2019)

Nancy Kulish is a faculty member and training and supervising analyst of the Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute and adjunct professor, Department of Psychiatry, Wayne State Medical School. She is a member of the IPA Working Parties Committee and gave the Plenary Panel address on Sexuality at the International Psychoanalytic Congress in Mexico City, 2011

Marie G. Rudden is training and supervising analyst of the American Psychoanalytic Association; co-chair of the North American Comparative Clinical Methods Working Party; associate editor, International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies; on the North American Editorial Board, International Journal of Psychoanalysis; and co-author, Psychodynamic Treatment of Depression (first and second editions), APA

Inés Bayona Villegas is a psychoanalyst and full member of the Colombian Psychoanalytic Society; former IPA chair for Latin America of the Interregional Encyclopedia and Dictionary of Psychoanalysis (2019–2022) and author of Dear Candidate (2021)