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Freud's Russia: National Identity in the Evolution of Psychoanalysis
Freud's lifelong involvement with the Russian national character and culture is examined in James Rice's imaginative combination of history, literary analysis, and psychoanalysis. Freud's Russia... (more)
Old and Dirty Gods: Religion, Antisemitism, and the Origins of Psychoanalysis
Freud's collection of antiquities-his old and dirty gods-stood as silent witnesses to the early analysts' paradoxical fascination and hostility toward religion. Pamela Cooper-White argues that... (more)
Elizabeth Severn: The 'Evil Genius' of Psychoanalysis
Elizabeth Severn: The `Evil Genius' of Psychoanalysis chronicles the life and work of Elizabeth Severn, both as one of the most controversial analysands in the history of psychoanalysis, and as a... (more)
Core Concepts in Contemporary Psychoanalysis: Clinical, Research Evidence and Conceptual Critiques
In Core Concepts in Contemporary Psychoanalysis, alongside its companion piece Core Concepts in Classical Psychoanalysis, Morris N. Eagle asks: of the core concepts and formulations of psychoanalytic... (more)
Sublime Subjects: Aesthetic Experience and Intersubjectivity in Psychoanalysis
Sublime Subjects explores two fundamental questions: What is the start of humanity? When and how does a newborn child become a subject? These are relevant to psychoanalysis not only theoretically,... (more)
Fetishism, Psychoanalysis, and Philosophy: The Iridescent Thing
Fetishism, Psychoanalysis, and Philosophy explores how and why Freud's late work on fetishism led to the beginnings of a re-formulation of the theory and practice of psychoanalysis. Freud himself,... (more)
Further Developments in Interpersonal Psychoanalysis, 1980s-2010s: Evolving Interest in the Analyst's Subjectivity
Further Developments in Interpersonal Psychoanalysis, 1980s-2010s is the second collection of selected classic articles of the modern era by psychoanalysts identified with the interpersonal... (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)
Why Psychoanalysis?
Why do some people still choose psychoanalysis - Freud's so-called "talking cure" - when numerous medications are available that treat the symptoms of psychic distress so much faster? Elisabeth... (more)
Meaning of the Dream in Psychoanalysis
The Freudian claim that dreams are meaningful and that their meanings can be discovered through dream interpretation has in recent times come under harsh attack from both scientific and... (more)
The Oedipus Complex: Focus of the Psychoanalysis-Anthropology Dispute
This book examines the contentious relationship between psychoanalysis and anthropology as it has played out in disputes surrounding the Oedipus complex. Here, Eric Smadja explores the complicated... (more)
Core Competencies of Relational Psychoanalysis: A Guide to Practice, Study and Research
Core Competencies of Relational Psychoanalysis provides a concise and clearly presented handbook for those who wish to study, practice, and teach the core competencies of Relational Psychoanalysis,... (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)
Humanisation?: Psychoanalysis, Symbolisation, and the Body of the Unconscious
Unquenched desire, the dividing up of the drives, repetition, and symptom are the keywords concerning the effects on the body of the unconscious as deciphered by Freud. Harmony is not on the agenda,... (more)
Psychoanalysis in Britain, 1893-1913: Histories and Historiography
Historians and biographers of psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, psychology, medicine and culture, even Wikipedia, believe Ernest Jones discovered Freud in 1904 and had become the first English-speaking... (more)
Exploring the Life of the Soul: Philosophical Reflections on Psychoanalysis and Self Psychology
In this book, John Hanwell Riker develops and expands the conceptual framework of self psychology in order to offer contemporary readers a naturalistic ground for adopting an ethical way of being in... (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)
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)
Mother Infant Attachment and Psychoanalysis: The Eyes of Shame
Brings together theoretical interpretations of shame with clinical studies and integrates major concepts from psychoanalysis, Jungian analysis, developmental psychology and anthropology. The result... (more)
Psychoanalysis, Class and Politics: Encounters in the Clinical Setting
Do political concerns belong in psychodynamic treatment? How do class and politics shape the unconscious? The effects of an increasingly polarized, insecure and threatening world mean that the... (more)
For and Against Psychoanalysis: Second Edition
For and Against Psychoanalysis provides an accessible introduction and critical guide to the current standing of psychoanalysis. It is essential reading for students of psychoanalysis, counselling,... (more)
Psychoanalysis, Violence and Rage-Type Murder: Murdering Minds
What turns an apparently 'normal' individual into a killer?
A Spirit of Inquiry: Communication in Psychoanalysis
Thoroughly grounded in contemporary development, this text explores the ecological niche of the infant-caregiver dyad and examines the evolutionary leap that permits communication to take place... (more)
Psychoanalysis in Focus
This much-needed introduction to the major criticisms of psychoanalysis as a theory and as a practice forms part of the 'Counselling and psychotherapy in focus' series and encourages psychoanalysts,... (more)