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Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry: Partners and Competitors in the Mental Health Field
Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry: Partners and Competitors in the Mental Health Field offers a comprehensive overview of the many links between the two fields. There have long been connections between... (more)
Forced Migration and Social Trauma: Interdisciplinary Perspectives from Psychoanalysis, Psychology, Sociology and Politics
Forced Migration and Social Trauma addresses the topic of social trauma and migration by bringing together a broad range of interdisciplinary and international contributors, comprising refugee care... (more)
Working with Mystical Experiences in Psychoanalysis: Opening to the Numinous
A mystical experience, no matter what else, is a subjective occurrence in psyche. However, when it appears in the psychoanalytic consulting room, its origin, content, and meaning are unknowable. Yet... (more)
Couple and Family Psychoanalysis: Volume 8 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)
Attachment: New Directions in Psychotherapy and Relational Psychoanalysis - Vol.12 No.1
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)
Psychoanalysis, the Body, and the Oedipal Plot: A Critical Re-Imaging of the Body in Psychoanalysis
Psychoanalysis, the Body, and the Oedipal Plot is a new radical departure in psychoanalytic exposition. An attempt is made to convey, in a language accessible for people from different disciplines,... (more)
An Evidence-Based Critique of Contemporary Psychoanalysis: Research Theory and Clinical Practice
An Evidence-Based Critique of Contemporary Psychoanalysis assesses the state of psychoanalysis in the 21st century. Joel Paris examines areas where analysis needs to develop a stronger scientific and... (more)
Islamic Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Islam: Cultural and Clinical Dialogues
This pioneering volume brings together scholars and clinicians working at the intersection of Islam and psychoanalysis to explore both the connections that link these two traditions, as well as the... (more)
Psychoanalysis as an Ethical Process
What role does ethics play in the practice of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy? For most of its history, psychoanalysis has viewed ethics as a side issue in clinical work-occasionally important, but... (more)
Conceptual Issues in Psychoanalysis: Essays in History and Method
In Conceptual Issues in Psychoanalysis, John Gedo's mastery of Freudian theory and broad historical consciousness subserve a new goal: an understanding of "dissidence" in psychoanalysis. Gedo... (more)
Transformational Processes in Clinical Psychoanalysis: Dreaming Emotions and the Present Moment
In this book, Lawrence J. Brown offers a contemporary perspective on how the mind transforms, and gives meaning to, emotional experience that arises unconsciously in the here-and-now of the clinical... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Hidden Narrative in Film: Reading the Symptom
"There is no one school of psychoanalysis from which the author invokes authority. Rather, he compares and contrasts several schools and tries to find the common ground between them. Psychoanalysis... (more)
Fictional Clinical Narratives in Relational Psychoanalysis: Stories from Adolescence to the Consulting Room
Fictional Clinical Narratives in Relational Psychoanalysis explores the therapeutic space between the patient and therapist in psychoanalysis and the transformative effect of the therapeutic... (more)
Clinical Evolutions on the Superego, Body, and Gender in Psychoanalysis
Patients in psychoanalytic treatment present with a variety of problems that reflect contemporary cultural issues and values. Clinical Evolutions of the Superego, Body, and Gender in Psychoanalysis... (more)
Couple and Family Psychoanalysis: Volume 8 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)
Cold War Freud: Psychoanalysis in an Age of Catastrophes
In Cold War Freud, Dagmar Herzog uncovers the astonishing array of concepts of human selfhood which circulated across the globe in the aftermath of World War II. Against the backdrop of Nazism and... (more)
After Lacan: Literature, Theory, and Psychoanalysis in the 21st Century
This book draws on the distinct phases of Jacques Lacan's career to show his way of thinking in and beyond his lifetime. It is an examination of the past, present, and futures of psychoanalysis, as... (more)
Psychoanalysis and the GlObal
Psychoanalysis and the GlObal is about the hole at the heart of the "glObal," meaning the instability and indecipherability that lies at the hub of globalization. The contributors use psychoanalysis... (more)
Moments of Meeting in Psychoanalysis: Interaction and Change in the Therapeutic Encounter
There are moments of connection between analysts and patients during any therapeutic encounter upon which the therapy can turn. Moments of Meeting in Psychoanalysis explores how analysts and... (more)
Interpersonal Psychoanalysis and the Enigma of Consciousness
Edgar A. Levenson is a key figure in the development of interpersonal psychoanalysis whose ideas remain influential. Interpersonal Psychoanalysis and the Enigma of Consciousness builds on his... (more)
The Technique and Practice of Psychoanalysis: Volume II: A Memorial Volume to Ralph R. Greenson
The exciting discovery of several incomplete chapters of Ralph R. Greenson's long awaited Volume II of The Technique and Practice of Psychoanalysis form the cornerstone of this memorial to a man... (more)
Faces of the Freudian 'I': The Structure of the Ego in Psychoanalysis
In this book, Reher-Langberg undertakes a systematic analysis of the notion of the Ego, such as it evolves throughout the writings of Sigmund Freud. This is done in close readings of central works,... (more)
Promises, Promises: Essays on Literature and Psychoanalysis
This is a collection of essays that sets out to make and break the links between psychoanalysis and literature. It gives insights into anorexia and cloning, the work of Tom Stoppard and A.E. Housman,... (more)
Psychoanalysis, History and Subjectivity: Now of the Past
Clinical psychoanalysis since Freud has put reconstruction of the patient's history at the forefront of its task but in recent years, this approach has not been so prominent. This book aims to... (more)
The Compass and the Couch: Geographies of Psychoanalysis
What is the connection between a compass and a couch? It is the meeting of a mechanical gadget used for geographical orientation on the planet, together with another artifact, one of furniture, which... (more)
The Letter 40: Irish Journal for Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Spring 2009
Schizophrenia and Psychoanalysis: Brief Observations from Contemporary American Psychiatric Literature - Kevin Malone; Schizophrenia in Freud and Lacan: No Return to pre-Kraepelinian Bewilderment -... (more)
Freud and Psychoanalysis
Pocket guide to the life and works of Freud. (more)
Sexual Orientation and Psychoanalysis: Sexual Science and Clinical Practice
This book offers an interdisciplinary view of the development of male and female sexual orientation. The authors integrate research in genetics, psychoendocrinology, psychological development and... (more)