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The Pioneers of Psychoanalysis in South America: An Essential Guide
A guide to the seminal ideas and practices of the South American psychoanalysts who made theoretical and clinical contributions to psychoanalysis. (more)
Jacques Lacan and the Logic of Structure: Lacanian Structures and Language in Psychoanalysis
Lacan postulated that the psyche can be understood by means of certain structures, which control our lives and our desires, and which operate differently at different logical moments or stages of... (more)
Relational Psychotherapy, Psychoanalysis and Counselling: Appraisals and Reappraisals
Therapy's relational turn is something to celebrate. It is a major world-wide trend taking place in all the therapy traditions. But up to now appreciation of these developments has not been twinned... (more)
Sabina Spielrein: Forgotten Pioneer of Psychoanalysis: Second Edition
Spielrein is probably best known for her love affair with her doctor, Carl Gustav Jung. Their intense therapeutic relationship led to a mutual fascination that lasted, for Spielrein, for the rest of... (more)
Psychology After Psychoanalysis: Psychosocial Studies and Beyond
Why is psychoanalysis now re-emerging as a sub-discipline inside psychology? What is the value of using psychoanalytic ideas to develop psychosocial research? How does psychoanalysis tackle the... (more)
Underworlds: Philosophies of the Unconscious from Psychoanalysis to Metaphysics
The first book of its kind to provide a detailed analysis of the history of the unconscious from the underworlds of Greek and Egyptian mythology to psychoanalysis and metaphysics, Jon Mills presents... (more)
Wish-Fulfilment in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis: The Tyranny of Desire
Wish-fulfilment as a singular means of satisfying ineluctable desire is a pivotal concept in classical psychoanalysis. Freud argued that it was the thread that united dreams, daydreams, phantasy,... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Philosophy of Mind: Unconscious Mentality in the Twenty-first Century
Of the topics found in psychoanalytic theory it is Freud’s philosophy of mind that is at once the most contentious and enduring. Psychoanalytic theory makes bold claims about the significance of... (more)
Time for Change: Tracking Transformations in Psychoanalysis - The Three-Level Model
How can we, analysts, evaluate whether analysis is generating transformations in our patients? The IPA Project Committee on Clinical Observation and Testing offers a tool: The Three-Level Model for... (more)
Textbook of Applied Psychoanalysis
The Textbook of Applied Psychoanalysis is a unique and original contribution to the field of psychoanalysis. Emphasizing and underscoring the need for interdisciplinary discourse in understanding the... (more)
Psychoanalysis, Culture, and Religion: Essays in Honour of Sudhir Kakar
This collection of essays celebrates three streams of knowledge-psychoanalysis, culture, and religion-and their confluence in Kakar's work as a kind of post-independence renaissances of the Indian... (more)
The Unhappy Divorce of Sociology and Psychoanalysis: Diverse Perspectives on the Psychosocial
Why does the field of sociology in the United States often overlook or marginalize psychoanalytic concepts like anxiety, defence mechanisms, and the unconscious dating back to Sigmund Freud? The... (more)
Missing Us: Re-Visioning Psychoanalysis from the Perspective of Community
In Missing Us: Re-Visioning Psychoanalysis from the Perspective of Community, Ryan LaMothe questions the ways in which psychoanalytic and psychodynamic theorists and clinicians have historically... (more)
The Uses of Psychoanalysis in Working with Children's Emotional Lives
This volume offers very specific illustrations of psychoanalytic ways of thinking and working in both clinical and pedagogical contexts with children. It is designed for professionals who work with... (more)
Autism Spectrum Disorder: Perspectives from Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience
Autism Spectrum Disorder: Perspectives from Psychoanalysis is written by practicing child psychoanalysts with extensive experience treating children with autistic spectrum disorders (ASD) and uneven... (more)
Crossroads in Psychoanalysis, Buddhism, and Mindfulness: The Word and the Breath
A comprehensive collection of essays exploring the interstices of Eastern and Western modes of thinking about the self, Crossroads in Psychoanalysis, Buddhism, and Mindfulness: The Word and the... (more)
Relating to God: Clinical Psychoanalysis, Spirituality, and Theism
In Relating to God: Clinical Psychoanalysis, Spirituality, and Theism, Dan Merkur conceptualizes religious discourse within psychoanalysis. He proposes that God be treated as a transferential figure... (more)
Freud and the Culture of Psychoanalysis: Studies in the Transition from Victorian Humanism to Modernity
Originally published in 1984, this book broke new ground in assessing Freud as both an exemplary late-Victorian and as a pivotal figure in the creation of modern thought and culture. In his close... (more)
Psychoanalysis: The First Ten Years, 1888-1898
First published in 1969, this was a new assessment of Freud's most creative years and the formative period in psychoanalysis and was the first book to attempt a systematic presentation of Freud's... (more)
Outside the Dream (RLE: Lacan): Lacan and French Styles of Psychoanalysis
Originally published in 1983, Martin Stanton has written an intriguing and original guide to French styles of psychoanalysis. He describes the development of psychoanalytic technique and shows how it... (more)
The Psychoanalysis of Organizations: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Behaviour in Groups and Organizations
One of the most pressing needs of modern society is to understand and construct organizations that are not only effective in terms of carrying out work but that also allow and encourage people to... (more)
Psychoanalysis and the Artistic Endeavor: Conversations with Literary and Visual Artists
Psychoanalysis and the Artistic Endeavor offers an intriguing window onto the creative thinking of several well-known and highly creative individuals. Internationally renowned writers, painters,... (more)
Immigration in Psychoanalysis: Locating Ourselves
Immigration in Psychoanalysis: Locating Ourselves presents a unique approach to understanding the varied and multi-layered experience of immigration, exploring how social, cultural, political, and... (more)
Freud, Psychoanalysis and Death
Was 'death' a lacuna at the heart of Sigmund Freud's work? Liran Razinsky argues that the question of death is repressed, rejected and avoided by Freud, therefore resulting in an impairment of the... (more)
Trauma, Trust, and Memory: Social Trauma and Reconciliation in Psychoanalysis, Psychotherapy, and Cultural Memory
Trauma is one of the most important topics discussed throughout the clinical, social and cultural field. Social traumatization, as we meet it in the aftermath of genocide, war and persecution, is... (more)
The Non-Linear Mind: Psychoanalysis of Complexity in Psychic Life
This book is concerned with whether we can develop our understanding of the mind through the application of new approaches to the study of complex systems. It is divided into two sections. The first... (more)
Clinical Dialogues on Psychoanalysis with Families and Couples
This book widens the scope of clinical and theoretical contributions on Couple and Family Psychoanalysis by collecting case presentations and discussions by analysts from Europe, North America, Latin... (more)
Psychoanalysis in the Age of Totalitarianism
Psychoanalysis in the Age of Totalitarianism provides rich new insights into the history of political thought and clinical knowledge. In these chapters, internationally renowned historians and... (more)
On the Lyricism of the Mind: Psychoanalysis and Literature
On the Lyricism of the Mind: Psychoanalysis and Literature explores the lyrical dimension (or the lyricism) of the psychic space. It is not presented as an artistic disposition, but rather as a... (more)
The Analyst's Experience of the Depressive Position: The Melancholic Errand of Psychoanalysis
In The Analyst's Experience of the Depressive Position: The Melancholic Errand of Psychoanalysis, Steven Cooper explores a subject matter previously applied more exclusively to patients, but rarely... (more)