my Latest Book
Sadism: Psychoanalytic Developmental Perspectives is founded on the premise that paying close attention to what is happening in our internal world can help us understand the rise of sadism in the world of popular culture. Voyeuristic sadism as a form of entertainment appears to be on the rise, an increase corresponding with an upsurge in public appetite for sadomasochism as a recreational activity. This book acts as a forum in which psychotherapists present psychoanalytic perspectives on the phenomenon of sadomasochism at different stages of the human lifecycle: in childhood, adolescence, adulthood and in later life, and consider its developmental roots.
Psychoanalytic Developmental Perspectives
Sadism
Publications, Lectures and Presentations
Since 1994, Amita has been widely published. Below is just a selection of publications from the most recent years.
2022
Sehgal, A. (2022). The threatening third: working with betrayal in couples. Video-link seminar to Russia Couple and Family Therapy Course jointly run by the Institute of Practical Psychology and Psychoanalysis (Moscow) and the International Psychotherapy Institute (Washington, DC), on 4 February 2022.
Sehgal, A. (2022). The threatening third: working with betrayal in couples. Video-link seminar to the International Psychotherapy Institute (Washington, DC) on 27 April 2022.
Sehgal, A. (2022). Feelings in Family Law: Help or Hinderance. Lecture given at The East and West Sussex Dispute Resolution Day in Brighton, on 7 June 2022.
2021
Sehgal, A. (2021). Fractured families, fractured systems: overcoming the silo mentality in family justice work. Couple and Family Psychoanalysis, 11(1): 27-49.
Sehgal, A. (2021). Understanding Sadism and Sadomasochistic Relating. Video-link workshop for Wessex Psychotherapy Society, England. April 21, 2021.
Sehgal, A. (2021). Feelings in Family Law: Help or Hinderance. Lecture given at The East and West Sussex Dispute Resolution Day in Brighton, on 7 June 2022.
Sehgal, A. (2021). The threatening third: working with betrayal in couples. Presentation to the Tavistock Relationships Association of Psychotherapists and Counsellors Couples Convivium, on 17 November 2021.
Sehgal, A. (2021). Viewing the absence of sex in couple relationships from the ‘core complex’ lens. Annual Psychoanalytic Couple Psychotherapy Lecture 2021 organised by the Psychoanalytic Couple Psychotherapy Group in the Bay Area, San Francisco. Discussant: Paula Mandel. Video- link presentation on 30 October 2021.
2020
Sehgal, A. (2020). Managing family law during the Covid-19 crisis. A view from various perspectives. Webinar to Women in Family Law (https://womeninfamilylaw.net). 19 May 2020
Sehgal, A. (2020). Modern ways of dealing with couples, separation and children. Presentation to the International Academy of Family Lawyers: Oslo week. 3 June 2020.
Sehgal, A. (2020). Music Therapy with Couples and Families in the United Kingdom: A Review. Couple and Family Psychoanalysis, 10: 99-107.
Clulow, C., & Sehgal, A. (2020). Couples for couples: co-therapy as interpretive action. Couple and Family Psychoanalysis, 10: 143-156.
Translated into Portuguese by Órgão Oficial da Federacão Brasileira de Psicanálise: Clulow, C. e Sehgal, A. (2020). Casais e casais. Revista Brasileira de Psicanálise, 54 (3).
2019
Sehgal, A. (2019). Book Review of Family and Couple Psychoanalysis: A Global Perspective, by David E. Scharff and Elizabeth Palacios (Eds.). British Journal of Psychotherapy. 35(3): 484-500.
2018
Sehgal, A. (2018). Sadism: Developmental Psychoanalytic Perspectives. A. Sehgal (Ed.). Forensic Psychotherapy Monograph Series. Routledge:Karnac Books, London.
Sehgal, A. (2018). Exploring the role of blame in couple relationships within the triangular setting of couple psychotherapy. British Journal of Psychotherapy. 34(2): 255-269.
Sehgal, A. (2018). On Increasing Session Frequency In Couple Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: Some Clinical Considerations. Couple and Family Psychoanalysis. 8(1): 38-55.
Sehgal, A. (2018). Book Review of A Web of Sorrow: Mistrust, Jealousy, Lovelessness, Shamelessness, Regret, Hopelesness by Salman Akhtar. Journal of Psychotherapy and Counselling Psychology Reflections, 3(1).
2017
Sehgal, A. (2017). Couple psychotherapy settings and change in the digital age. In: J. Savege Scharff (Ed.), Psychoanalysis Online (v.3). pp 169-186. London: Karnac Books.
Vincent, C., Barnett, M., Killpack, L., Sehgal, A. and Swinden, P. (2017). Advancing Telecommunication Technology and its Impact on Psychotherapy in Private Practice. British Journal of Psychotherapy, 33(1): 63-76.
2015
Sehgal, A. (2015). Couple Therapy and Intergenerational Change. New Associations (British Psychoanalytic Council). Issue 18, Summer 2015.
Sehgal, A. (2015). The contribution of creative responses to the experience of shame in couple psychotherapy. Couple and Family Psychoanalysis 5(1): 41-56.
2014
Sehgal, A. (2014). Breaking up is hard to do. New Associations (British Psychoanalytic Council). Issue 15, Summer 2014.
Sehgal, A. (2014). What is psychoanalytic couple psychotherapy? New Associations (British Psychoanalytic Council). Issue 14, Spring 2014.
Sehgal, A. (2014). Book Review of The Anatomy of Regret: From Death Instinct to Reparation and Symbolization through Vivid Case Studies, by Susan Kavaler-Adler. Couple and Family Psychoanalysis. 4(2).
2012
Sehgal, A. (2012). Viewing the absence of sex in couple relationships from the ‘core complex’ lens. Couple and Family Psychoanalysis 2(2): 149-164.
Sehgal, A. (2012). Review of Self within Marriage: The Foundation for Lasting Relationships, by Richard M. Zeitner. Couple and Family Psychoanalysis 2(1): 110-112.