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Publications

Lemma, A. (in press) Transgender Identity: A Contemporary Introduction. London: Routledge

Lemma, A. (2017) The Digital Age on the Couch: Psychoanalytic Practice and New Media. London: Routledge (nominated for Gradiva Award, 2018).

Lemma, A. (2015) Introduction to the Practice of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. Second Edition. Chichester: Wiley.

Lemma, A. and Lynch. P. (Eds) (2015) Sexualities: Contemporary Psychoanalytic Perspectives. London: Routledge.

Lemma, A. (2014) Minding the Body: the body in psychoanalysis and beyond. London: Routledge.

Lemma, A. & Caparrotta, L. (Eds) (2014) Psychoanalysis in the Technoculture Era. London: Routledge.

Lemma, A. (2012) Contemporary Developments in Adult and Young Adult Therapy: The Work of the Tavistock and Portman Clinics. London: Karnac Books.

Lemma, A., Target, M., Fonagy, P. (2011) Brief Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy: A Clinician’s Guide (Oxford: OUP).

Lemma, A. (2010) Under the Skin: A Psychoanalytic Study of Body Modification. London: Routledge.

Lemma, A. & Patrick, M. (2010) (Eds) Off the Couch: Contemporary Psychoanalytic Applications. London: Routledge

Briggs, S., Lemma, A., Crouch, W. (2008) Relating to Self-Harm and Suicide: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Practice, Theory and Prevention. London: Routledge.

Roth, P. & Lemma, A. (2008) Envy and Gratitude Revisited (London, IPA/Karnac Books).

Levy, S. & Lemma, A. (2004) The Perversion of Loss: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Trauma (London: Whurr).

Lemma, A. (2003) Introduction to the Practice of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (Chichester: Wiley).

Lemma, A. (2000) Humour on the Couch: Exploring Humour in Everyday life and in Psychotherapy. London: Whurr.

Lemma, A. (1996) Introduction to Psychopathology. London: Sage.

Lemma, A. (1995) Invitation to Psychodynamic Psychology. London: Whurr.

Lemma, A. (1994) Starving to Live: The Paradox of Anorexia Nervosa. London: Central Publishing.

Selected referred journal articles

Refereed journal articles

Lemma, A. (2020) Commentary on  "Forever young? The ethics of ongoing puberty suppression for non-binary adults". British Journal Medical Ethics.

Lemma, A. (2018). Trans-itory identities: Some psychoanalytic reflections on transgender identities. The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 99(5), 1089-1106.

Amra S Rao, Alessandra Lemma, Peter Fonagy, Marta Sosnowska, Matthew P Constantinou, Malgorzata Fijak-Koch & Gilla Gelberg (2019) Development of dynamic interpersonal therapy in complex care (DITCC): a pilot study, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, 33:2, 77-98, DOI: 10.1080/02668734.2019.1622147

Panagiotopoulou, E.,Crucianelli, L, Lemma^, A. & Fotopoulou, A. (submitted) Identifying with the Beautiful: Facial attractiveness enhances face ownership independently of multisensory integration

Fonagy, Peter, Alessandra Lemma, Mary Target, Sally O'Keeffe, Matthew P Constantinou, Tamara Ventura Wurman, Patrick Luyten, Elizabeth Allison, Anthony Roth, John Cape, and Stephen Pilling. "Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy for Moderate to Severe Depression: A Pilot Randomized Controlled and Feasibility Trial." Psychological Medicine (2019): 1-10. Web

Gessler S, King M, Lemma A, Barber J, Jones L, Dunning S, et al. (2019) Stepped approach to improving sexual function after gynaecological cancer: the SAFFRON feasibility RCT. Health Technol Assess. 23(6)

Lemma, A. (2019) Il legame estetico: l’uso del corpo dell’analista e del corpo della stanza di analisi da parte del paziente . Rivista di Psicoanalisi LXV:

Leonidaki , V. Lemma, A. Hobbis , I. (2018) The active ingredients of Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy (DIT): An exploration of clients' experiences

Journal: Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (RPPS)

Portone, A; D’Agostino, A. Lemma, A. (2016) Beauty matters: Psychological Features of Surgical and Nonsurgical Cosmetic Procedures, Psychoanalytic Psychology

Leonidaki , V. Lemma, A. Hobbis , I. (2016) , Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, 30(1) 42-61

Lemma, A. (2015) "Psychoanalysis in times of technoculture: Some reflections on the fate of the body in virtual space", IJP, 96:569-58

Lemma, A. (2016) Present without Past: The disruption of temporal integration in a case of transsexuality. Psychoanalytic Inquiry, VOL. 36, NO. 5, 1–11

Lemma, A (2014) The body of the analyst and the analytic setting: reflections on the embodied setting and the symbiotic transference. 95(2):225-44

Lemma, A. (2013). Whose Skin is it Anyway?: Some Reflections on the Psychic Function of Necrophilic Fantasies. Rivista Psicoanal., 59:283-304.

Lemma, A. & Fonagy, P (2013) A feasibility study of a psychodynamic online group intervention for depression and anxiety. Psychoanalytic Psychology, Vol 30(3), 367-380

Luyten, P., Van Houdenhove, B., Lemma, A., Target, M., & Fonagy, P. (2013). Vulnerability for Functional Somatic Disorders: A Contemporary Psychodynamic Approach. Journal of Psychotherapy Integration

Lemma, A. (2013) The body one has and the body one is: the transsexual’s need to be seen. Int. J. Psychoanalysis, Apr. 94(2):277-92

Lemma, A. (2012) Research off the couch: revisiting the transsexual conundrum. Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, 26 (4)

Lemma, A. (2012) A Perfectly Modern Frankenstein: ´¡±ô³¾´Ç»åó±¹²¹°ù’s The Skin I Live In. International . J. Psychoanal.93(5): 1291-1300.

Patrick L., Van Houdenhove B., Lemma, A. Target, M, Fonagy, P. (2012) A mentalization-based approach to the understanding and treatment of functional somatic disorders. Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, 26 (2)

Lemma, A. (2012) Some reflections on the ‘teaching attitude’ and its application to teaching about the use of the transference: a British view. British Journal of Psychotherapy,  28(4): 454-473.

Lemma, A., Target, M., Fonagy, P. (2011) The development of a brief psychodynamic intervention (Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy) and its application to depression: a pilot study. Psychiatry: Biological and Interpersonal Processes, 74(1): 43-50.

Lemma, A (2011) An order of pure decision: growing up in a virtual world and the adolescent’s experience of the body. Journal of American Psychoanalytic Association, 58 (4):691-714

Lemma, A., Target, M., Fonagy, P. (2010) The Development of a Brief Psychodynamic Protocol for Depression: Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy. Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: Applications, Theory and Research, 24(4): 329-346

Lemma, A (2010) Copies without originals: the psychodynamics of cosmetic surgery. Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 79(1): 129-157

Lemma, A (2010) The power of relationship: a study of key working as an intervention with traumatised young people. Journal of Social Work Practice, 24(4): 409-427.

Lemma, A. (2009) Being Seen or Being Watched: a psychoanalytic perspective on body dysmorphia.  Int. J. Psychoanal. 90(4): 753-771.

Lemma, A. (2005) The Many Faces of Lying. Int. J. Psychoanal., 86: 737-53.