Search results for "psychoanalysis"
Reflections on the Aesthetic Experience: Psychoanalysis and the Uncanny
Interest in the relationship between psychoanalysis and art - and other disciplines - is growing. In his new book Reflections on the Aesthetic: Psychoanalysis and the Uncanny, Gregorio Kohon examines... (more)
Geographies of Psychoanalysis: Encounters Between Cultures in Tehran
Can psychoanalytical hypotheses have a universal value? Can they describe the same - or a similar – psychic dynamic for any human, regardless of the historical, social and cultural context? Can... (more)
From Anxiety to Zoolander: Notes on Psychoanalysis
From Anxiety to Zoolander is a collection of writings on psychoanalytic themes. Each text was originally delivered as a talk, and the book aims to retain the informality and directness of the spoken... (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)
Attachment: New Directions in Psychotherapy and Relational Psychoanalysis - Vol.11 No.2
Attachment: New Directions in Psychotherapy and Relational Psychoanalysis is a leading edge journal for clinicians working relationally with their clients; it is a professional journal, featuring... (more)
Twenty-First Century Psychoanalysis
If psychoanalysis will survive in the twenty-first century, this book’s wager is that it will be Lacanian psychoanalysis. Today, the survival of psychoanalysis is in question. Even Jacques Lacan... (more)
Family and Couple Psychoanalysis: A Global Perspective
This book explores family interaction and family psychoanalysis from varying standpoints used around the world. It illustrates these with extensive clinical cases discussed from varying perspectives.... (more)
Lacunae: APPI International Journal for Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Issue 11
Contents:
Rob Weatherill - Men Behaving (Badly) with Gervais and Others
Gustavo Dessal - Wanted: Men. Those Interested should Present Themselves around the Next Corner
Hilda Fernandez Alvarez... (more)
Lacunae: APPI International Journal for Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Issue 12
Easter Rising 1916 Centenary issue.
Contents:
Editorial - Medb Ruane
from Geomantic - Paula Meehan
Some Words on Commemorating 1916 - Mary E. Daly
From Vivid Faces to Frozen Masks?... (more)
Above the Ground and Beneath the Clouds: Schizophrenia in Lacanian Psychoanalysis
Above the Ground and Beneath the Clouds examines the history, conceptualisation, and treatment of the psychotic sub-type of schizophrenia, as this is advocated by psychoanalysis of Lacanian... (more)
The Technique and Practice of Psychoanalysis: Volume I
This systematic and comprehensive volume, written in a lively and clear style, is devoted essentially to the fundamentals of psychoanalytic technique: transference and resistance. Dr. Greenson... (more)
The Linked Self in Psychoanalysis: The Pioneering Work of Enrique Pichon Riviere
Enrique Pichon Riviere was a pioneering psychoanalyst, writing in Spanish in Argentina in the middle of the 20th century. He has never been translated into English, so his ideas are only known... (more)
Psychoanalysis, Culture, and Religion: Essays in Honour of Sudhir Kakar
This collection of essays celebrates three streams of knowledge-psychoanalysis, culture, and religion-and their confluence in Kakar's work as a kind of post-independence renaissances of the Indian... (more)
Critical Flicker Fusion: Psychoanalysis at the Movies
The premise of this book is that films, like other works of the imagination, may be elucidated by applying methods derived from psychoanalysis, and that doing so will result in a deeper and richer... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Literature: The Stories We Live
Psychoanalysis offers many concepts that are extremely useful clinically but not always accessible in the original. In Psychoanalysis and Literature: The Stories We Live, Marilyn Charles pairs case... (more)
Freud's Other Theory of Psychoanalysis: The Replacement for the Indelible Theory of Catharsis
Freud's Other Theory of Psychoanalysis: The Replacement for the Indelible Theory of Catharsis argues that Freud's familiar theory of psychoanalysis is an elaboration of his catharsis theory. Although... (more)
Crossroads in Psychoanalysis, Buddhism, and Mindfulness: The Word and the Breath
A comprehensive collection of essays exploring the interstices of Eastern and Western modes of thinking about the self, Crossroads in Psychoanalysis, Buddhism, and Mindfulness: The Word and the... (more)
Future Psychoanalysis: Toward a Psychology of the Human Subject
A crisis in psychoanalysis has been developing since the 1970s, manifesting in a gradual but persistent loss of patients and young mental health providers in psychoanalytic training and therapy. In a... (more)
The Coral Mind: Adrian Stokes's Engagement with Art History, Criticism, Architecture, and Psychoanalysis
Our view of modernism in the arts has been largely shaped by the prominence of painting and, in particular, by a succession of major painters working in Paris - from Courbet and Manet to the Cubists.... (more)