Fred Busch has published numerous articles on psychoanalytic technique, and he has been invited to present papers and clinical workshops nationally and internationally. His last four books: Creating a Psychoanalytic Mind (2014); The Analyst's Reveries: Explorations in Bion's Enigmatic Concept (2019); Dear Candidate (2020); A Fresh Look at Psychoanalytic Technique (2021).

Introduction Part One: What is Basic in Psychoanalytic Technique and Theory? 1. Waking a Sleeping Beauty 2. New Forms of Psychopathology in a Changing World: a Challenge for Psychoanalysis in the Twenty-First Century 3. A Turn Towards or a Turn Away? Why and How Resistance to Unbearable Ideas Evoked in the Analyst's Presence Must be the Cornerstone of Psychoanalytic Work 4. The Relational Unconscious: A Core Element of Intersubjectivity, Thirdness, and Clinical Process 5. How to Grow a Psychoanalytic Forest: A Challenge Going Forward 6. Affirming: "That's Not Psychoanalysis!": On the Value of the Politically Incorrect Act of Attempting to Define the Limits of our Field 7. Psychoanalysis and its Future: Destiny at the Crossroads 8. Technique at the Crossroads 9. Those Who Listen 10. Crossroads, Cloverleaf Overpass, or Skein: The Relationship Between Some Neurocognitive Research and the Development of the Unconscious Mind Part Two: Psychoanalysis and Social Issues 11. Difference: Our Legacy and Our Future 12. Conviction, Lies and Denialism: Psychoanalytic Reflections 13. First Do No Harm 14. On Whiteness, Racial Rhetoric, Identity Politics, and Critical Race Theory: A Critical Moment in American Psychoanalysis Part Three: The Role of Psychoanalytic Institutes 15. The Training and Supervising Analyst System in the United States, Current Issues 16. Why Does Psychoanalytic Education Cause Such Dissension? 17. Psychoanalytic Institutes and their Discontents 18. A Perspective from Buenos Aires Part Four: New Directions 19. The Self as Mental Agent: Explorations of a Long-Neglected Concept 20. Another Perspective on Dreams: The Dream as an Experience 21. Intersections Between the Feminine and the Infantile