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The Importance of Sibling Relationships in Psychoanalysis

The Importance of Sibling Relationships in Psychoanalysis

by Prophecy Coles

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'Coles' book starts from the claim that traditionally psychoanalysis, in stressing the relations of conflict between children and parents, has tended to overlook and displace the co-operative... (more)

Infantile Sexuality and Attachment

Infantile Sexuality and Attachment

Edited by Daniel Widlocher

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Including papers by Peter Fonagy and Jean Laplanche. The idea for this book arose in a debate stimulated by the new proposals of Widlocher on an ongoing issue for theoretical and clinical... (more)

Psychosis (Madness)

Psychosis (Madness)

by Paul Williams

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In this volume a number of British psychoanalysts introduce us to psychoanlaytic definitions of intra-psychic and subjective meaning in patients suffering psychotic conditions. Irrespective of the... (more)

On the Way Home: Conversations Between Writers and Psychoanalysts

On the Way Home: Conversations Between Writers and Psychoanalysts

by Marie Bridge

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'On The Way Home' is a series of public dialogues intended to forge links between psychoanalysis and other disciplines, including the physical and the social sciences, history and literature. They... (more)

Analyst of the Imagination: The Life and Work of Charles Rycroft

Analyst of the Imagination: The Life and Work of Charles Rycroft

Edited by Jenny Pearson

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This collection of papers pays tribute to a leading intellectual force and one of psychoanalysis' foremost free thinkers.... (more)

After Winnicott: Compilation of Works Based on the Life, Writings and Ideas of D.W. Winnicott

After Winnicott: Compilation of Works Based on the Life, Writings and Ideas of D.W. Winnicott

by Harry Karnac

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Harry Karnac began to specialise in psychoanalytic bookselling at the suggestion of Donald Winnicott, a customer at Karnac's bookshop in Gloucester Road during the late 1950s. The two became good... (more)

Key Papers in Literature and Psychoanalysis

Key Papers in Literature and Psychoanalysis

Edited by Paul Williams, Glen O. Gabbard

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Since Freud invoked the Oedipus story to exemplify and verify his findings with patients and in analyzing his own dreams, psychoanalysis and literature have had a fruitful if often distrusting... (more)

Phobia: A Reassessment

Phobia: A Reassessment

Edited by Sian Morgan

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This volume in the seminal Encyclopaedia of Psychoanalysis Series is a daring reassessment of the psychoanalytic theory of phobia from numerous schools of thought.... (more)

Masculine Scenarios

Masculine Scenarios

Edited by Alcira Mariam Alizade

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'Human identity, sexual identity, primary and secondary identification, object choice, narcissism - all of these lie on a continuum with homosexuality, transsexualism, transvestism, heterosexuality... (more)

Sex Makes the World Go Round

Sex Makes the World Go Round

by Colette Chiland

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It is well known that Freud laid great emphasis on sexual matters. In the years that followed, a distinction was drawn between sex and gender, and the idea of gender identity was introduced. Human... (more)

Who Owns Psychoanalysis?

Who Owns Psychoanalysis?

Edited by Ann Casement

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A collection of thought-provoking essays from leading analysts from all schools of analytic thought that addresses the long-standing and contentious question of just who does own psychoanalysis?... (more)

The Edge of Experience: Borderline and Psychosomatic Patients in Clinical Practice

The Edge of Experience: Borderline and Psychosomatic Patients in Clinical Practice

Edited by Grigoris Vaslamatzis, Andreas Rabavilas

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The Edge of Experience, drawn from papers presented at the First European Conference on Psychotherapy held in Athens in 1997, demonstrates how psychoanalytic practice has had to accomodate the... (more)

The Embodied Female

The Embodied Female

Edited by Alcira Mariam Alizade

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This is the first volume in a unique series arising out of the Committee on Women and Psychoanalysis. This volume presents a collection of highly original and insightful essays broadly concerned with... (more)

Selected Contributions to Psycho-Analysis

Selected Contributions to Psycho-Analysis

by John Rickman

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A welcome reissue of the collected papers of John Rickman, originally published in 1957, with a new preface by Pearl King. It spans 30 years of Rickman's rapidly-expanding psychoanalytic research in... (more)

Winnicott Studies. No 9

Winnicott Studies. No 9

by Squiggle Foundation, Laurence Spurling

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The Squiggle Foundation's aims are to study and disseminate the work of Winnicott, with a particular emphasis on application. ... (more)

Tradition, Change, Creativity: Repercussions of the New Diaspora on aspects of British Psychoanalysis

Tradition, Change, Creativity: Repercussions of the New Diaspora on aspects of British Psychoanalysis

by Riccardo Steiner

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A companion volume to "It is a New Kind of Diaspora". Taking up where that book leaves off, it traces some of the consequences of the emigration of German and Austrian psychoanalysts to... (more)

Electra vs Oedipus: The Drama of the Mother-Daughter Relationship

Electra vs Oedipus: The Drama of the Mother-Daughter Relationship

by Hendrika C. Freud

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Electra vs Oedipus explores the deeply complex and often turbulent relationship between mothers and daughters. In contrast to Sigmund Freud's conviction that the father is the central figure,... (more)

Science, Systems and Psychoanalysis

Science, Systems and Psychoanalysis

by Robert Langs

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This book has been written for a broad audience. It is addressed to anyone who is at all concerned with a scientific grounding for the art of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis, and for the... (more)

Within Time and Beyond Time: A Festschrift for Pearl King

Within Time and Beyond Time: A Festschrift for Pearl King

Edited by Riccardo Steiner, Jennifer Johns

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This book is dedicated to Pearl King who is something of an institution in herself within psychoanalysis as well as an important contributor to the development of the institution of psychoanalysis.... (more)

The Practice of Psychoanalysis

The Practice of Psychoanalysis

by Thierry Bokanowski

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This volume highlights several of the areas of tension and difficulty that have met psychoanalysis since its inception, and provides an incisive, informative history of various attempts to surmount... (more)

Exploring Transsexualism

Exploring Transsexualism

by Colette Chiland

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This intriguing volume is a work by a French psychoanalyst with extensive experience of working with transsexuals. It is a useful addition to the debate on transsexualism and the definitions of sex... (more)

Studies on Femininity

Studies on Femininity

Edited by Alcira Mariam Alizade

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'In this volume, the reader will find not only papers from different essentialist, constructivist and culture-based standpoints, but will also note the existence of theoretical and clinical... (more)

Logics of the Mind: A Clinical View

Logics of the Mind: A Clinical View

by Jorge L. Ahumada

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This collection of papers, spanning the last 15 years, presents a spirited defence of Freud's clinical method, considering the "crisis of psychoanalysis" in the wider context of a crisis of... (more)

Winnicott Studies. No 5

Winnicott Studies. No 5

by Squiggle Foundation, Alexander Newman

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The Squiggle Foundation's aims are to study and disseminate the work of Winnicott, with a particular emphasis on application. ... (more)

Constructing and Deconstructing Woman's Power

Constructing and Deconstructing Woman's Power

Edited by Beth J. Seelig

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This work explores power and gender issues from a variety of psychoanalytic, as well as social, cultural and philosophical perspectives. ... (more)

Questioning Identities: Philosophy in Psychoanalytic Practice

Questioning Identities: Philosophy in Psychoanalytic Practice

by Mary Lynne Ellis, Noreen O'Connor

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Face-to-face with differences in the analytical relationship analysts frequently confront the limitations of their theories. In this new book Mary Lynne Ellis and Noreen O'Connor move to the heart of... (more)

Deconstructing the Feminine: Psychoanalysis, Gender and Theories of Complexity

Deconstructing the Feminine: Psychoanalysis, Gender and Theories of Complexity

by Leticia Glocer Fiorini

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The guiding thread of this theoretical review is the illumination of the impasses of binary thought and of the essentialist conceptions of women and the feminine. In this trajectory, the author's... (more)

The Fifth Principle

The Fifth Principle

by Paul Williams

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The Fifth Principle is the first of three books that take as their subject aspects of the author's life. This book reflects upon a period between birth and eight years of age; the second book... (more)

Betweenity: A Discussion of the Concept of Borderline

Betweenity: A Discussion of the Concept of Borderline

by Judy Gammelgaard

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From its inception psychoanalysis has sought to effect a cure through the therapeutic relationship between analyst and analysand. Betweenity looks at what happens when the established... (more)

On Balance

On Balance

by Adam Phillips

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In this absorbing and provocative new book from one of Britain's most elegant and original prose stylists, psychoanalyst Adam Phillips addresses a variety of urgent concerns - many centred around the... (more)

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