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Couple and Family Psychoanalysis: Volume 7 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 7 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)
Feminism, Psychoanalysis, and Maternal Subjectivity
In this book, Alison Stone develops a feminist approach to maternal subjectivity. Stone argues that in the West the self has often been understood in opposition to the maternal body, so that one must... (more)
Field Theory in Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis: Understanding and Reacting to Unexpected Developments
Field Theory in Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis looks at the intersection of two types of psychoanalysis that challenge the classic model; child analysis, and field theory.
Children... (more)
The Trouble with Pleasure: Deleuze and Psychoanalysis
Is pleasure a rotten idea, mired in negativity and lack, which should be abandoned in favor of a new concept of desire? Or is desire itself fundamentally a matter of lack, absence, and loss? This is... (more)
Journeys in Psychoanalysis: The Selected Works of Elizabeth Spillius
Elizabeth Spillius is a greatly respected and influential psychoanalyst, particularly within the Kleinian school of thought. This book brings together a collection of Spillius's papers from across... (more)
The New Analyst's Guide to the Galaxy: Questions about Contemporary Psychoanalysis
This book consists of a dialogue between a young psychoanalyst, Luca Nicoli, and a renowned teaching analyst, Antonino Ferro. It touches upon many of the key areas of contemporary psychoanalysis:... (more)
Intersubjectivity in Psychoanalysis: A Model for Theory and Practice
In this book, Kirshner explains and illustrates the concept of intersubjectivity and its application to psychoanalysis. By drawing on findings from neuroscience, infant research, cognitive... (more)
The Late Sigmund Freud: Or, the Last Word on Psychoanalysis, Society, and All the Riddles of Life
Freud is best remembered for two applied works on society: The Future of an Illusion andCivilization and its Discontents. Yet the works of the final period are routinely denigrated as merely... (more)
Nonlinear Psychoanalysis: Notes from Forty Years of Chaos and Complexity Theory
Nonlinear concepts from chaos theory, complexity studies, and fractal geometry have transformed the way we think about the mind. Nonlinear Psychoanalysis shows how nonlinear dynamics can be... (more)
The Interpersonal Perspective in Psychoanalysis, 1960s-1990s: Rethinking Transference and Countertransference
North American psychoanalysis has long been deeply influenced and substantially changed by clinical and theoretical perspectives first introduced by interpersonal psychoanalysis. Yet even today,... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Holocaust Testimony: Unwanted Memories of Social Trauma
Psychoanalytic work with socially traumatised patients is an increasingly popular vocation, but remains extremely demanding and little covered in the literature. In Psychoanalysis and Holocaust... (more)
The Organizational Life of Psychoanalysis: Conflicts Dilemmas and the Future of the Profession
The Organizational Life of Psychoanalysis is a wide-ranging exploration and examination of the organizational conflicts and dilemmas that have troubled psychoanalysis since its inception. Kenneth... (more)
Lacanian Treatment: Psychoanalysis for Clinicians
Secret wishes, forbidden pleasures, and painful memories hide below the false bottom of consciousness. How do we decipher the desire and pleasure located between the words spoken in psychotherapeutic... (more)
The Routledge Handbook of Psychoanalysis in the Social Sciences and Humanities
The Routledge Handbook of Psychoanalysis in the Social Sciences and Humanities provides a comprehensive, critical overview of the historical, theoretical and applied forms of psychoanalytical... (more)
Psychoanalysis and the Human Sciences
What can psychoanalysis, a psychological approach developed more than a century ago, offer us in an age of rapidly evolving, hard-to-categorize ideas of sexuality and the self? Should we abandon... (more)
Joyce and Lacan: Reading, Writing and Psychoanalysis
What happens when the intellectual giant of twentieth-century literature, James Joyce, is made an object of consideration and cause of desire by the intellectual giant of modern psychoanalysis,... (more)
The Wisdom of Lived Experience: Views from Psychoanalysis, Neuroscience, Philosophy and Metaphysics
In our quest toward truth we often rely on the guidance and clarity of conscious thought, but in doing so we may bypass awareness of a more deeply informing resource, which is embodied in lived... (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)
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)
Psychoanalysis Online 3: The Teleanalytic Setting
Psychoanalysis Online 3: The Teleanalytic Setting is a highly topical, continuing conversation on the role of technology in psychoanalysis and its tremendous potential for outreach to patients in the... (more)
Climate Crisis, Psychoanalysis, and Radical Ethics
Psychoanalysis engages with the difficult subjects in life, but it has been slow to address climate change. Climate Crisis, Psychoanalysis, and Radical Ethics draws on the latest scientific evidence... (more)
Art, Creativity, and Psychoanalysis: Perspectives from Analyst-Artists
In recent years, there has been considerable interest in the relationship between artistic and psychoanalytic practices. Both professions are viewed as highly creative, with spontaneity,... (more)
Emotional Presence in Psychoanalysis: Theory and Clinical Applications
Emotional Presence in Psychoanalysis provides a detailed look at the intricacies of attaining emotional presence in psychoanalytic work. John Madonna and a distinguished group of contributors draw on... (more)
From Illiteracy to Literature: Psychoanalysis and Reading
From Illiteracy to Literature presents innovative material based on research with 'non-reading' children and re-examines the complex relationship between psychoanalysis and literature, through the... (more)
Psychoanalysis and the Unrepresentable: From Culture to the Clinic
Psychoanalysis and the Unrepresentable opens a space for meaningful debate about translating psychoanalytic concepts from the work of clinicians to that of academics and back again. Focusing on the... (more)
The Mother in Psychoanalysis and Beyond
The question of what it means to be a mother is a very contentious topic in psychoanalysis and in wider society. The Mother in Psychoanalysis and Beyond explores our relationship to the maternal... (more)
Psychoanalysis Beyond the End of Metaphysics: Thinking Towards the Post-Relational
Psychoanalysis Beyond the End of Metaphysics offers a new paradigm approach which advocates reengaging the importance of metaphysics in psychoanalytic theorizing. The emergence of the relational... (more)
The Budapest School of Psychoanalysis: The Origin of a Two-Person Psychology and Emphatic Perspective
The Budapest School of Psychoanalysis brings together a collection of expertly written pieces on the influence of the Budapest (Ferenczi) conception of analytic theory and practice on the evolution... (more)