Search results for "psychoanalysis"
Worlds of Experience: Interweaving Philosophical and Clinical Dimensions in Psychoanalysis
The intersubjective perspective regards all psychological processes as emanating from personal interrelatedness. First presented by Robert D. Stolorow in his classic work Faces in a Cloud (1978), it... (more)
Dreams and History: The Interpretation of Dreams from Ancient Greece to Modern Psychoanalysis
What is a dream? Dreams are universal, but their perceived significance and conceptual framework change over time. This book provides new perspectives on the history of dreams and dream... (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)
Race, Colour and the Processes of Racialization: New Perspectives from Group analysis, Psychoanalysis and Sociology
Is racial conflict determined by biology or society?
So many conflicts appear to be caused by racial and ethnic differences; for example, the cities of Britain and America are regularly affected... (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)
Emotional Development in Psychoanalysis, Attachment Theory and Neuroscience: Creating Connections
Drawing on a wide range of detailed case studies with subjects across childhood and adolescence, this book provides insight into how very different schools of thought can work together to achieve... (more)
Homosexuality Transsexuality Psychoanalysis and Traditional Judaism
Homosexuality, Transsexuality, Psychoanalysis and Traditional Judaism explores the often incommensurable and irreconcilable beliefs and understandings of sexuality and gender in the Orthodox Jewish... (more)
The Emergence of Analytic Oneness: Into the Heart of Psychoanalysis
The Emergence of Analytic Oneness is a profound and penetrating exploration of a fundamental dimension of analytic presence and patient-analyst interconnectedness that offers new possibilities for... (more)
An Apocryphal Dictionary of Psychoanalysis
An Apocryphal Dictionary of Psychoanalysis is a book of transpositions, collecting together the author's clinical vignettes, enigmatic objects, stray thoughts, projects, images, notes from readings,... (more)
Psychoanalysis, Neuroscience and Adolescent Development
Psychoanalysis, Neuroscience and Adolescent Development: Non-Linear Perspectives on the Regulation of the Self explores how psychoanalysis can combine its theoretical perspectives with more recent... (more)
Sabina Spielrein and the Beginnings of Psychoanalysis
Sabina Spielrein stands as both an important and tragic figure-misunderstood or underestimated by her fellow analysts (including Jung and Freud) and often erased in the annals of psychoanalytic... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Dreams: Bion, the Field and the Viscera of the Mind
Psychoanalysis and Dreams explores some of the cornerstones of Antonino Ferro's theoretical model but also attempts to extend the dreamlike boundaries of the model. Based on Bion's theory of alpha... (more)
Nurturing Children: From Trauma to Growth Using Attachment Theory, Psychoanalysis and Neurobiology
Nurturing Children describes children's lives transformed through therapy. Drawing on decades of experience, internationally respected clinician and trainer Graham Music tackles major issues... (more)
Attachment: New Directions in Psychotherapy and Relational Psychoanalysis - Vol.12 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)
Interpretation and Interaction: Psychoanalysis or Psychotherapy?
In recent decades the relationship between psychoanalysis and psychotherapy has been a focal point for debate about the distinctiveness of analysis as a particular kind of therapeutic enterprise. In... (more)
Decolonial Psychoanalysis: Towards Critical Islamophobia Studies
In this provocative and necessary book, Robert K. Beshara uses psychoanalytic discursive analysis to explore the possibility of a genuinely anti-colonial critical psychology. Drawing on postcolonial... (more)
Integrating Relational Psychoanalysis and EMDR: Embodied Experience and Clinical Practice
Integrating Relational Psychoanalysis and EMDR: Embodied Experience and Clinical Practice provides contemporary theoretical and clinical links between Relational Psychoanalysis, attachment theory,... (more)
Intimacy and Separateness in Psychoanalysis
Clinical psychoanalysis serves as our best laboratory for exploring the riddle of what it is to be a person, and how a person is at once singularly unique while always a piece of the interpersonal... (more)
Six Moments in Lacan: Communication and identification in psychology and psychoanalysis
Many first-time readers of Jacques Lacan come to his work via psychology, a discipline that Lacan was notoriously antagonistic toward. Six Moments in Lacan takes up the dual challenge of introducing... (more)
Temporality and Shame: Perspectives from Psychoanalysis and Philosophy
Temporality has been a central preoccupation of modern philosophy, and shame has been a major theme in contemporary psychoanalysis. To date, however, there has been little examination of the critical... (more)
The Modernity of Sandor Ferenczi: His Historical and Contemporary Importance in Psychoanalysis
The Modernity of Sandor Ferenczi provides a concise yet thorough overview of the life and work of Sandor Ferenczi. It seeks to help make his thought and work better known, as a controversial... (more)
Introduction to Contemporary Psychoanalysis: Defining terms and building bridges
This book provides a clear introduction to the main contemporary psychoanalytic theoretical perspectives. Psychoanalysis is often thought of as an obscure and outdated method, and yet, those familiar... (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)