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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)
Between Couch and Piano: Psychoanalysis, Music, Art and Neuroscience
Between Couch and Piano links well-established psychoanalytic ideas with historical and neurological theory to help us begin to understand from a psychoanalytic perspective some of the reasons behind... (more)
The Fantasy Principle: Psychoanalysis of the Imagination
The Fantasy Principle makes a strong case for a new school of psychoanalysis - the school of 'imaginal psychology'. It radically affirms the centrality of imagination and emphasizes the... (more)
Subject to Change: Jung, Gender and Subjectivity in Psychoanalysis
Subject to Change is a collection of essays by Polly Young-Eisendrath that deal with the "big issues" surrounding how psychoanalysts understand their profession and how they can improve it. (more)
Culture, Subject, Psyche: Dialogues in Psychoanalysis and Anthropology
A collection of in-depth interviews and essays which update the prevailing conceptions of psychoanalysis within anthropology, exploring distinctive psychoanalytic contributions and ethnographic... (more)
Seeds of Illness, Seeds of Recovery: The Genesis of Suffering and the Role of Psychoanalysis
This captivating book explores Antonino Ferro's conception of the way the mind works, his interpretation of the analytic understanding of psychopathology, his reconceptualization of the therapeutic... (more)
The Quiet Revolution in American Psychoanalysis: Selected Papers of Arnold M. Cooper
The selected papers of one of the leading intellectual figures in psychoanalysis, Arnold M. Cooper M.D., record his unique ability to reflect upon the process of change and help us understand not... (more)
Rereading Freud: Psychoanalysis Through Philosophy
This book celebrates and philosophically critiques Freud's most important contribution to understanding humanity: that psychic reality is governed by the unconscious mind. The contributors focus on... (more)
Psychoanalysis at the Limit: Epistemology, Mind, and the Question of Science
Psychoanalysis has long been charged as being a pseudoscience. This timely book explores and reexamines the nature of psychoanalysis within contemporary debates about science, epistemology,... (more)
Celluloid Couches, Cinematic Clients: Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in the Movies
Consisting of contributions from psychoanalysts and therapists, as well as authors in such fields as literature and cinema studies, Celluloid Couches, Cinematic Clients explores how therapy and... (more)
Freud - The Key Ideas: From psychoanalysis and sex to dreams, the unconscious and more
Reading the complete works of Sigmund Freud would take more time than most of us have to spare. Freud - the Key Ideas condenses all the information you need about the life and work of the great man... (more)
Art, Death and Lacanian Psychoanalysis
Art, Death and Lacanian Psychoanalysis examines the relationship between art and death from the perspective of Lacanian psychoanalysis. It takes a unique approach to the topic by making explicit... (more)
At War with the Obvious: Disruptive Thinking in Psychoanalysis
Psychoanalytic thought has already transformed our basic assumptions about the psychic life of individuals and cultures. Those assumptions often take on the valence of common sense. However, this can... (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)
Contemporary Bionian Theory and Technique in Psychoanalysis
'This volume reflects the passion, creativity and commitment of Antonino Ferro and his colleagues from Pavia as they strive to forge a psychoanalysis built upon a creative, intersubjective dialogue... (more)
Trauma and the Ontology of the Modern Subject: Historical Studies in Philosophy, Psychology, and Psychoanalysis
Recent scholarship has inquired into the socio-historical, discursive genesis of trauma. Trauma and the Ontology of the Modern Subject, however, seeks what has not been actualized in trauma studies -... (more)
Reconsidering the Moveable Frame in Psychoanalysis: Its Function and Structure in Contemporary Psychoanalytic Theory
Reconsidering the Moveable Frame in Psychoanalysis explores the idea of `the frame' at a time when this concept is undergoing both systematic revival and widespread transformation. It has always been... (more)
Re-Encountering Jung: Analytical Psychology and Contemporary Psychoanalysis
Since the split between Freud and Jung, psychoanalysis and analytical psychology have largely developed in an atmosphere of mutual disregard. Only in recent years have both discourses shown signs of... (more)
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)
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)