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Creative Readings: Essays on Seminal Analytic Works

1. Creative Readings: Essays on Seminal Analytic Works

by Thomas Ogden

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Thomas Ogden is internationally recognized as one of the most creative analytic thinkers writing today. In this book he brings his original analytic ideas to life by means of his own method of... (more)

Ferenczi and His World: Rekindling the Spirit of the Budapest School

2. Ferenczi and His World: Rekindling the Spirit of the Budapest School

by Judit Szekacs-Weisz, Tom Keve

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This volume honours Sandor Ferenczi, a central character in the birth of psychoanalysis, whose warm and passionate personality, ideas, and teachings permeate his world and his work, shaping... (more)

Projective Identification: The Fate of a Concept

3. Projective Identification: The Fate of a Concept

Edited by Elizabeth Spillius, Edna O'Shaughnessy

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Elizabeth Spillius and Edna O'Shaughnessy explore the development of the concept of projective identification, which had important antecedents in the work of Freud and others, but was given a... (more)

Lost in Transmission: Studies of Trauma Across Generations

4. Lost in Transmission: Studies of Trauma Across Generations

Edited by M. Gerard Fromm

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A central thesis of this volume is that what human beings cannot contain of their experience - what has been traumatically overwhelming, unbearable, unthinkable - falls out of social discourse, but... (more)

The Course of Life: A 1979 Lecture by Anna Freud (DVD)

5. The Course of Life: A 1979 Lecture by Anna Freud (DVD)

by Anna Freud, Elisabeth Young-Bruehl

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Anna Freud delivered the lecture that is the basis for this film in the library of the Hampstead Centre in London, now the Anna Freud Centre. The year was 1979, she was 84 years old, and this was her... (more)

Freud and the Desire of the Psychoanalyst

6. Freud and the Desire of the Psychoanalyst

by Serge Cottet

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Freud's invention of psychoanalysis was based on his own desire to know something about the unconscious, but what have been the effects of this original desire on psychoanalysis ever since? How has... (more)

Broken Bounds: Contemporary Reflections on the Antisocial Tendency

7. Broken Bounds: Contemporary Reflections on the Antisocial Tendency

Edited by Christopher Reeves

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In 2009–2010, The Squiggle Foundation, whose aim is to stimulate interest in the work of Donald Winnicott, organized a series of lectures on the theme of “the antisocial tendency”. These lectures are... (more)

Remembering Our Childhood: How Memory Betrays Us

8. Remembering Our Childhood: How Memory Betrays Us

by Karl Sabbagh

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In a number of highly-charged child abuse cases, teachers and parents have been wrongfully arrested because of claims of recovered memory. But brain science is now discovering how memories can alter,... (more)

Psyche and Brain: The Biology of Talking Cures

9. Psyche and Brain: The Biology of Talking Cures

by Fred M. Levin

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'There is a sea change afoot in contemporary psychoanalysis and this brilliant volume is a manifesto of it. When brain science and clinical psychoanalysis are put on exactly equal conceptual footing... (more)

Why Can't I Help this Child to Learn? Understanding Emotional Barriers to Learning

10. Why Can't I Help this Child to Learn? Understanding Emotional Barriers to Learning

Edited by Helen High

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The book outlines theories of child development from the point of view of the kinds of relationships children make with adults and the effects of their relationships on their learning. In addition,... (more)

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