Search results for "psychoanalysis"
The Emotional Needs of Young Children and Their Families: Applications of Psychoanalysis in Community Settings
Describes the ways psychoanalytic ideas can be adapted and used in a variety of community settings, to help children who are emotionally disturbed or who have been physically or sexually abused. It... (more)
The Good Society and the Inner World: Psychoanalysis, Politics and Culture
A forceful advocacy of a psychoanalysis that is social not individualistic in its view of human life, The Good Society and the Inner World surveys the implications of recent psychoanalytical work for... (more)
The Spoils of Freedom: Psychoanalysis, Feminism and Ideology after the Fall of Socialism
Presents the difficulties of post-socialist Eastern Europe as a symptom, in which the inherent contradictions of liberal democracy become visible. The author also explores how psychoanalytic theories... (more)
Sexual Difference: Masculinity and Psychoanalysis
Examines theories of sexual difference from a Kleinian and a Lacanian perspective, and the application of these issues in the practice of treating sexual violence and child abuse. (more)
Between Philosophy and Psychoanalysis: Lacan's Reconstruction of Freud
Uses Lacanian concepts to analyze the inner logic of Freud's thought, and provide a bridge between Lacanian concepts and traditional terminology. 165 pages. (more)
Speculations after Freud: Psychoanalysis, Philosophy and Culture
This collection of essays considers the interrelationship of psychoanalysis, philosophy, and cultural studies, and questions the future of a discipline which has emerged from the intimate experience... (more)
Anthropology and Psychoanalysis: An Encounter Through Culture
This book examines the interface between anthropology and psychoanalysis, considering its historical context and investigating the distinctive reactions of British, French and American anthropology... (more)
A Clinical Introduction to Lacanian Psychoanalysis
A lucid introduction to the clinical application of Lacanian psychoanalysis. The book starts with the place of desire in analytic technique, moves on to diagnosis and the position of the analyst, and... (more)
Cultural pluralism and psychoanalysis: The Asian and American experience
This volume explores the creative dialogue in which psychoanalysts since Freud have engaged the modern Northern European / North American culture of individualism. The focus is on the the ways in... (more)
Listening Subjects: Music, Psychoanalysis, Culture
David Schwarz uses psychoanalytic techniques to probe the visceral experiences of music listeners. Using classical, popular, and avant-garde music as texts, Schwarz addresses intriguing questions:... (more)
Performance anxieties: Staging psychoanalysis, staging race
Looks at the on-going debate concerning the value of psychoanalysis for feminist theory and politics - specifically concerning the social and psychical meanings of 'race'. The author indicates how... (more)
Tradition and Change in Psychoanalysis
This book traces a line of continuity in psychoanalysis back to Freud and his immediate followers, and describes the major transformations that followed, particularly in the works of Heinz Hartmann... (more)
Art and psychoanalysis
A clearly written, informative, and stimulating contribution to the fields of art history and psychoanalysis. (more)
Dispatches from the Freud Wars: Psychoanalysis and Its Passions
Delves into the posthumous disputes over Freud. With wit and erudition, Forrester tackles questions central to our psychoanalytic century's way of thinking and living. 320 pages. (more)
The Freudian Body: Psychoanalysis and Art
A study of the application of psychoanalysis to art, and vice versa. (more)
Dimensions of Psychoanalysis: A Selection of Papers Presented at the Freud Memorial Lectures
Dimensions of Psychoanalysis contains a selection of the Freud Memorial Lectures delivered by eminent British, French and American analysts at University College in the University of London. Together... (more)
A Skin for Thought: Interviews with Gilbert Tarrab on Psychology and Psychoanalysis
A French analyst discusses the interface between psychoanalysis and psychology. A Skin for Thought takes the form of ten transcribed discussions between Didier Anzieu and Gilbert Tarrab, recorded in... (more)
The Seminar of Jacques Lacan II: The Ego in Freud's Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis, 1954-1955
Discusses the Real, Imaginary and Symbolic, the relation of the symbol and the machine, repetition, and Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Purloined Letter'.
The Seminar of Jacques Lacan VII: The Ethics of Psychoanalysis, 1959-60
Includes discussion of the problem of sublimation, the paradox of jouissance, and the essence of tragedy.
Representing the woman: cinema and psychoanalysis
A study of the theory and politics of representation in narrative film. Questioning current accounts of cinema's pleasures for men and women, this text draws on the psychoanalytic theory of Freud and... (more)
New Directions in Psychoanalysis: The Significance of Infant Conflict in the Pattern of Adult Behaviour
Melanie Klein's contribution to psycho-analysis is centered on her exploration into the early stages of the mental development of the child, which she began while a pupil of Karl Abraham. Taking as... (more)
Feminism and Psychoanalysis: A Critical Dictionary
A comprehensive overview of psychoanalytic theories and their relationship to feminist thought. (more)
Lost Angels: Psychoanalysis and cinema
This study takes Freud's preoccupation with femininity and feminine fantasy as a starting point and goes on to explore his differentiation between masculine and feminine forms of fantasy through... (more)
All the Mothers are One: Hindu India and the Cultural Reshaping of Psychoanalysis
An attempt to uncover childhood developmental patterns predicated on norms and practices profoundly different from those on which classical psychoanalytic theory is based.
Object-relations theory and clinical psychoanalysis
A collection of papers detailing the basics and applications of Kernberg's psychoanalytic object-relations theory, illuminating a wide range of clinical issues, including: the treatment of borderline... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology: An Outline of Freud's ideas & their evolution
A simple summary of major psychoanalytic concepts and ideas including the theory of neurosis. The development of Freud's theories - modified by his clinical experiences of success and failure - is... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Gender: An Introductory Reader
What is object-relations theory and what does it have to do with literary studies? How can Freud's phallocentric theories be applied by feminist critics? The book offers clear and straightforward... (more)
The Repression of Psychoanalysis: Otto Fenichel and the Political Freudians
By examining the private correspondence of a circle of German psychoanalyst emigres that included Otto Fenichel, Annie Reich, and Edith Jacobson, Russell Jacoby recaptures the radical zeal of... (more)