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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)
Psychoanalysis in the Barrios: Race, Class, and the Unconscious
Psychoanalysis in the Barrios: Race, Class, and the Unconscious demonstrates that psychoanalytic principles can be applied successfully in disenfranchised Latino populations, refuting the misguided... (more)
Introduction to Key Concepts and Evolutions in Psychoanalysis: From Freud to Neuroscience
Introduction to Key Concepts and Evolutions in Psychoanalysis offers an accessible starting point to understanding psychoanalysis by focusing on seven key psychoanalytic models and their creators and... (more)
Sabina Spielrein and the Poetry of Psychoanalysis: Writing and the End of Analysis
Sabina Spielrein, who has been mostly known for her relation with her analyst Carl Jung, came to the attention of the wider public following the discovery and publication of some of her diaries and... (more)
Psychoanalysis Online 4: Teleanalytic Practice, Teaching, and Clinical Research
Psychoanalysis Online 4: Teleanalytic Practice, Teaching, and Clinical Research brings a systematic, qualitative research perspective to the question of the effectiveness of teletherapy,... (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)
Ruthless Winnicott: The Role of Ruthlessness in Psychoanalysis and Political Protest
Ruthless Winnicott is an extended exploration of the role of ruthlessness in psychic development. That survival is of no use unless it is preceded by a ruthless attack is one of D.W. Winnicott's most... (more)
Knowing Not-Knowing and Jouissance: Levels Symbols and Codes of Experience in Psychoanalysis
This book explores the practice and transmission of Lacanian and Freudian theory. It discusses the pure versus applied analysis of Lacanian and Freudian theory in practice; and the hierarchical... (more)
Lacanian Psychoanalysis between the Child and the Other
Lacanian Psychoanalysis between the Child and the Other explores what topology can contribute to clinical work with children, emphasizing that psychoanalytic listening goes beyond the individuals who... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Contemporary American Men: Gender Identity in a Time of Uncertainty
Debate over gender and especially the lives of men is currently at a fever pitch, particularly in the United States. New perspectives that capture the complexity of men and this rapidly changing... (more)
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)
On Psychoanalysis and Violence: Contemporary Lacanian Perspectives
Psychoanalysis has not examined violence as such since it is a sociological and criminological concept; psychoanalysis is concerned with speech. On Psychoanalysis and Violence brings together noted... (more)
Interpretation in Couple and Family Psychoanalysis: Cross-Cultural Perspectives
This collection of contemporary clinically-oriented papers covers a range of theoretical approaches to the fundamentally important technical issue of interpretation. It offers thought-provoking,... (more)
Concerning the Nature of Psychoanalysis: The Persistence of a Paradoxical Discourse
In his new book, Considering the Nature of Psychoanalysis: The Persistence of a Paradoxical Discourse, Gregorio Kohon describes the complexity of the psychoanalytic encounter, questioning the... (more)
Reflections on Long-Term Relational Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis: Relational Analysis Interminable
Reflections on Long-Term Relational Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis explores how relational analysts think about and pursue long-term therapeutic relationships in their practices. Many therapists... (more)
Couple and Family Psychoanalysis: Volume 9 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)
Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in China: Volume 2
This peer-reviewed journal proposes to explore the introduction of psychoanalysis, psychoanalytic therapy, and the wider application of psychoanalytic ideas into China. It aims to have articles... (more)
The Phallus and the Mask: The Patriarchal Unconscious of Psychoanalysis (Psychology)
Psychoanalysts from all schools – even when they are women – have often dismissed and sometimes openly disapproved of feminism and its critique of male universalism. While other disciplines, like... (more)
Psychoanalysis, Clinic and Context: Subjectivity, History and Autobiography
Psychoanalysis is a strange and mysterious practice. In his new book, Ian Parker offers insights into his own experiences, first as trainee then as analyst, the common assumptions about... (more)
Psychoanalysis Meets Psychosis: Attachment, Separation, and the Undifferentiated Unintegrated Mind
Psychoanalysis Meets Psychosis proposes a major revision of the psychoanalytic theory of the most severe mental illnesses including schizophrenia. Freud believed that psychosis is the consequence of... (more)
Rediscovering Pierre Janet: Trauma, Dissociation, and a New Context for Psychoanalysis
Rediscovering Pierre Janet explores the legacy left by the pioneering French psychologist, philosopher and psychotherapist (1859-1947), from the relationship of between Janet and Freud, to the... (more)
Psychoanalysis, Law, and Society
Psychoanalysis, Law, and Society explores the connections between psychoanalysis and law, arguing that these are required not only for conceptual or theoretical needs in both fields, but also for the... (more)
From Psychoanalytic Bisexuality to Bisexual Psychoanalysis: Desiring in the Real
This is the first book to assess bisexuality through a range of psychoanalytic and critical perspectives, highlighting both the issues faced by bisexual people in contemporary society and the... (more)
Discovering Françoise Dolto: Psychoanalysis, Identity and Child Development
This psychobiographical study of the renowned French pediatrician and psychoanalyst Françoise Dolto introduces both her theories of child development and her unique insights into language and... (more)
Femininity and Psychoanalysis: Cinema, Culture, Theory
For Freud, famously, the feminine was a dark continent, or a riddle without an answer. This understanding concerns man’s relationship to the question of ‘woman’ but femininity is also a matter of... (more)
Attachment: New Directions in Psychotherapy and Relational Psychoanalysis - Vol.13 No.1
CONTENTS
EDITORIAL – Betrayal trauma: how do we hear it, how do we heal it? by Sue Richardson
ARTICLES
– Developmental trauma and unresolved loss in the Adult Attachment Interview by... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Deconstruction: Freud's Psychic Apparatus
Psychoanalysis and Deconstruction: Freud's Psychic Apparatus demonstrates the relevance of deconstructive thinking for the clinical practice of psychoanalysis. Arguing that deconstruction has been... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Other Matters: Where Are We Now?
Can we 'stand inside' new thoughts, rather than outside, looking at a closed box? This innovative and interdisciplinary collection aims to answer this question by broadening the way we look at and... (more)