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Permission to Narrate: Explorations in Group Analysis, Psychoanalysis, Culture
Permission to Narrate develops exciting new theory and explorations for group analysis. They are diverse in range and, from differing bases in theory and research, aim to cast light on how clients... (more)
On the Lyricism of the Mind: Psychoanalysis and Literature
On the Lyricism of the Mind: Psychoanalysis and Literature explores the lyrical dimension (or the lyricism) of the psychic space. It is not presented as an artistic disposition, but rather as a... (more)
The Analyst's Experience of the Depressive Position: The Melancholic Errand of Psychoanalysis
In The Analyst's Experience of the Depressive Position: The Melancholic Errand of Psychoanalysis, Steven Cooper explores a subject matter previously applied more exclusively to patients, but rarely... (more)
Religion and Psychoanalysis in India: Critical Clinical Practice
Religion and Psychoanalysis in India questions the assumptions of an established scientific, evidence-based global mental health paradigm by examining the practices of faith-based healing. It... (more)
Truth and the Unconscious in Psychoanalysis
What is the truth of the unconscious? Truth and the Unconscious in Psychoanalysis explores the intersection of these two concepts within a Bionian framework. Giuseppe Civitarese maps out the... (more)
Ghosts in the Consulting Room: Echoes of Trauma in Psychoanalysis
Ghosts in the Consulting Room: Echoes of Trauma in Psychoanalysis is the first of two volumes that delves into the overwhelming, often unmetabolizable feelings related to mourning. The book uses... (more)
The Dissociative Mind in Psychoanalysis: Understanding and Working with Trauma
The Dissociative Mind in Psychoanalysis: Understanding and Working With Trauma is an invaluable and cutting edge resource providing the current theory, practice, and research on trauma and... (more)
Immigration in Psychoanalysis: Locating Ourselves
Immigration in Psychoanalysis: Locating Ourselves presents a unique approach to understanding the varied and multi-layered experience of immigration, exploring how social, cultural, political, and... (more)
Freud, Psychoanalysis and Death
Was 'death' a lacuna at the heart of Sigmund Freud's work? Liran Razinsky argues that the question of death is repressed, rejected and avoided by Freud, therefore resulting in an impairment of the... (more)
Trauma, Trust, and Memory: Social Trauma and Reconciliation in Psychoanalysis, Psychotherapy, and Cultural Memory
Trauma is one of the most important topics discussed throughout the clinical, social and cultural field. Social traumatization, as we meet it in the aftermath of genocide, war and persecution, is... (more)
Lacanian Psychoanalysis with Babies, Children, and Adolescents: Further Notes on the Child
Lacan did not say or write very much about the psychoanalysis of children. There is no doctrine of the psychoanalysis of children in his work. Instead, his 1956-1957 seminar on ‘the object relation’... (more)
Carved by Experience: Vipassana, Psychoanalysis, and the Mind Investigating Itself
How does the tendency to crave pleasure and reject pain shape our lives? How does it affect the way we perceive reality, and how is it related to the emergence of suffering and the way it is... (more)
The Subject of Liberation: Zizek, Politics, Psychoanalysis
The book shares Zizek's central problem of how to revitalize the radical political left through theory. It initially follows the argument developed in The Ticklish Subject that contemporary leftist... (more)
The Scientific Status of Psychoanalysis: Evidence and Confirmation
In his Foundations of Psychoanalysis: A Philosophical Critique, Adolf Gru¨nbaum claimed that the arguments supporting psychoanalytic hypotheses are both logically invalid and unsound. They are... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in China (2023 Institutional Print Subscription)
This peer-reviewed journal proposes to explore the introduction of psychoanalysis, psychoanalytic therapy, and the wider application of psychoanalytic ideas into China. It aims to have articles... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Architecture: The Inside and the Outside
This book explores how psychoanalysis and architecture can enhance and increase the chances of mental 'containment', while also fostering exchange between inside and outside.
The way in which... (more)
Nourishing the Inner Life of Clinicians and Humanitarians: The Ethical Turn in Psychoanalysis
Nourishing the Inner Life of Clinicians and Humanitarians: The Ethical Turn in Psychoanalysis, demonstrates the demanding, clinical and humanitarian work that psychotherapists often undertake with... (more)
The Enigma of Desire: Sex, Longing, and Belonging in Psychoanalysis
The Enigma of Desire: Sex, Longing and Belonging in Psychoanalysis, introduces new perspectives on desire and longing, in and outside of the analytic relationship. This exciting volume explores the... (more)
The Cornerstones of Psychoanalysis: Volume 2: Sigmund Freud and Sandor Ferenczi
This volume considers Freud's psychoanalytic work alongside social and medical practices in the late 19th century, exploring the role of women and femininity in relation to Freud's self-analysis.... (more)
Apropos of Nothing: Deconstruction, Psychoanalysis, and the Coen Brothers
The Coen Brothers’ films are rife with figures of absence. In The Big Lebowski, the Dude does nothing. He is put on the trail of a kidnapping that never took place, and pays the ransom to a gang of... (more)
Specialty Competencies in Psychoanalysis in Psychology
In its evolution, psychoanalysis has become a broad spectrum of theories making use of an approach that can be considered psychoanalytic in that it is based on the existence and importance of... (more)
Couple and Family Psychoanalysis: Volume 6 Number 1
Couple and Family Psychoanalysis Journal is an international journal sponsored by The Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology, and aims to promote the theory and practice of working with couple and... (more)
Couple and Family Psychoanalysis: Volume 6 Number 2
Couple and Family Psychoanalysis Journal is an international journal sponsored by The Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology, and aims to promote the theory and practice of working with couple and... (more)
Psychoanalysis, Identity, and the Internet: Explorations into Cyberspace
Every day we seek information from the internet, buy something, play videogames, chat, work, and so on. But what exactly is the nature of the space we surf in and through? Is it virtual or real?... (more)
The Non-Linear Mind: Psychoanalysis of Complexity in Psychic Life
This book is concerned with whether we can develop our understanding of the mind through the application of new approaches to the study of complex systems. It is divided into two sections. The first... (more)
Clinical Dialogues on Psychoanalysis with Families and Couples
This book widens the scope of clinical and theoretical contributions on Couple and Family Psychoanalysis by collecting case presentations and discussions by analysts from Europe, North America, Latin... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in China: Volume 1
This peer-reviewed journal proposes to explore the introduction of psychoanalysis, psychoanalytic therapy, and the wider application of psychoanalytic ideas into China. It aims to have articles... (more)
Critical Psychotherapy, Psychoanalysis and Counselling: Implications for Practice
There is increasing concern about the growing state influences on the talking therapies. Critical Psychotherapy, Psychoanalysis and Counselling: Implications for Practice is a response to that... (more)
The Future of Psychoanalysis: The Debate About the Training Analyst System
This book is concerned with the question of what psychoanalytic training should look like today. Should we go on with the system that has developed over time? Or should we abandon it, and if so, for... (more)
Embodied Encounters: New Approaches to Psychoanalysis and Cinema
What is the role of the unconscious in our visceral approaches to cinema? Embodied Encounters offers a unique collection of essays written by leading thinkers and writers in film studies, with a... (more)