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by Eric Rosen

Book of the Month: Seeing and Being Seen: Emerging from a Psychic Retreat
By: John Steiner
Publisher: Routledge
Published: February 2011
Cover: Paperback
Pages: 216
Series: New Library of Psychoanalysis.

Seeing and Being Seen: Emerging from a Psychic Retreat examines the themes that surface when considering clinical situations where patients feel stuck and where a failure to develop impedes the progress of analysis. This book analyses the anxieties and challenges confronted by patients as they begin to emerge from the protection of psychic retreats. Divided into three parts, areas of discussion include:

• embarrassment, shame, and humiliation
• helplessness, power, and dominance
• mourning, melancholia, and the repetition compulsion.

As well as offering fresh ideas, Steiner bases his creative and integrative efforts on previous contributions by psychoanalysts including Freud, Klein, Rosenfeld, and Bion. As such, this book will be of interest to psychoanalysts, clinical psychotherapists, and all those with an interest in the psychoanalytic field.

Recent used bookstore discoveries

• Bernard, William. (1949). Jailbait: The Story of Juvenile Delinquency. New York: Greenberg.
• Deutsch, Felix & Murphy, William. (1955). The Clinical Interview-Vols I & II. New York: International Universities Press.
• Gill, Merton & Hoffman, Irwin. (1982). Analysis of Transference, Vol. II: Studies of Nine Audio-Recorded Psychoanalytic Sessions. New York: International Universities Press.
• Margolis, Philip M.(1973). Patient Power: The Development of a Therapeutic Community in a Psychiatric Unit of A General Hospital. Springfield, Illinois: Charles C. Thomas.
• Murphy, Lois Barclay. (1956). Personality in Young Children: Colin, a Normal Child. New York: Basic Books.
• Soddy, Kenneth (1956). Mental Health and Infant Development: Volume One-An Encyclopedic Inventory of Behavior Patterns in Childhood. New York: Basic Books.

Library Moving News

Due to construction on the fourth floor, the library will be packing up the collection and moving to a temporary location on the third floor for 3 months. At the temporary location, we will continue to operate in a limited way until we will move back to the fourth floor in late August/Early September.

Core works from the general collection, including the more widely circulated journals, popular psychoanalytic works (including the standard edition, of course), recent acquisitions, the bookstore, members shelf, audiovisual holdings and other materials will be available for use in the temporary space, while we are waiting for the fourth floor to be renovated. Study space will available as will Wi-Fi, internet access and photocopying.

Checkout and other service on the fourth floor will end due to the move on Friday, May 13, and will resume when we have moved into the temporary space. Holds will only be able to be made by May 1 and must be picked up by May 13th. We will be unable to process book returns until we have moved into the temporary space so just hold onto them until we reopen in the temporary space on June 6th.

Requests for ILL need to be in by May 13th, and bibliographic research requests should be made before then as well. The used bookstore will be packed away until we return back upstairs in our old space on the 4th floor in September, so any requests for titles should be made as soon as possible. Requests for book orders should be in by May 1st.

Thank you for bearing with us during the move, and we look forward to seeing you in the library when we reopen in our temporary space in June.

SFCP Library Hours:
Mon 12:30-4:30pm / Tue 9:30-4:30pm / Wed 9:30-3:30pm / Thurs-Fri: 12:30-5:00pm

The Library will perform bibliographic database searches for citations for a fee of 8.00.
Photocopying services are available for .15 per page for .15 plus a service fee if we do it for you.
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