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Building Out Into The Dark: Theory and Observation in Science and Psychoanalysis
An introduction to psychoanalysis focusing explicitly on whether psychoanalysis is part of the sciences, and if not, where it belongs. Many psychoanalysts, beginning with Freud, have considered their... (more)
The Second Century of Psychoanalysis: Evolving Perspectives on Therapeutic Action
This book focuses on the question of the theory of therapeutic action underlying the multiple perspectives in psychoanalysis. The question of how psychoanalysis effects therapeutic change and the... (more)
In Freud's Tracks: Conversations from the Journal of European Psychoanalysis
The privileged link of psychoanalysis to spoken language does not necessarily facilitate communication among analysts and psychotherapists of different mother tongues. The Journal of European... (more)
Love, Hate and Knowledge: The Kleinian Method and the Future of Psychoanalysis
This book introduces the clinical concept of analytic contact. This is a term that describes the therapeutic method of investigation that makes up psychoanalytic treatment. The field has been in... (more)
Sex Changes: Transformations in Society and Psychoanalysis
The last half-century has seen enormous changes in society's attitude toward sexuality. In the 1950s, homosexuals in the United States were routinely arrested; today, homosexual activity between... (more)
Loving Psychoanalysis: Technique and Theory in the Therapeutic Relationship
Written by an analyst who loves doing psychoanalysis, and who believes that psychoanalysis is a fundamentally loving endeavor. Susan S. Levine argues that the proper working attitude of the analyst... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Male Homosexuality: Twentieth Anniversary Edition
This landmark book is the first and only historical, cultural, and theoretical account of how male homosexuality has been viewed - and sometimes misconstrued - the psychoanalytic tradition, from... (more)
Tragic Knots in Psychoanalysis: New Papers on Psychoanalysis
This is a collection of published and unpublished papers on clinical, theoretical and applied aspects of psychoanalysis that take up various aspects of unconscious mental processes and conflicts and... (more)
Psychoanalysis and the Challenge of Islam
Unveils the psychoanalytic undercurrents of contemporary Islam. Fethi Benslama is a psychoanalyst who, although a secular thinker, identifies himself as a person of Muslim culture who rejects... (more)
Psychoanalysis, Aesthetics and Politics in the Work of Julia Kristeva
Considers the social and political significance of Kristeva's oeuvre. The social and political relevance of Julia Kristeva's work is perhaps the central question in Kristeva studies, and the essays... (more)
The Very Thought of Education: Psychoanalysis and the Impossible Professions
A startling reading of the educational enterprise through a psychoanalytic lens. For anyone who has ever been to school, the very thought of education recalls an emotional world denounced. What... (more)
Thinking for Clinicians: Philosophical Resources for Contemporary Psychoanalysis and the Humanistic Psychotherapies
Whether they are supervisees entering analytic training or veteran analysts with twenty years of private practice, many capable psychoanalysts express frustration or doubt when trying to locate their... (more)
The Aesthetic Development: The Poetic Spirit of Psychoanalysis: Essays on Bion, Meltzer, Keats
'Few people would be better qualified than Meg Harris Williams to write this innovative and eagerly anticipated post-Kleinian book. Deeply versed in the opus of Bion and Meltzer, Harris Williams... (more)
The Crescent and the Couch: Cross-Currents Between Islam and Psychoanalysis
Attempting to advance knowledge about Islam and to create the possibility of a dialogue between Islam and psychoanalysis, The Crescent and the Couch brings together a distinguished panel of Muslim... (more)
Taboo or Not Taboo? Forbidden Thoughts, Forbidden Acts in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy
'Psychoanalysis has, from its inception, been a discipline concerned with overcoming the ill effects of certain social taboos. Given this focus, it might be assumed that psychoanalysis and its... (more)
Mind Works: Technique and Creativity in Psychoanalysis
Antonino Ferro uses clinical material such as detailed reports of sessions, together with client's analytic histories, to develop Bion's original findings and illustrate complex concepts in the field... (more)
Faith, Theology, and Psychoanalysis: The Life and Thought of Harry S. Guntrip
Harry S. Guntrip was best known for his affiliation with two famous psychoanalysts from what is known as the British Independent tradition of psychoanalysis in England: Ronald Fairbairn and Donald... (more)
The Death of Sigmund Freud: Fascism, Psychoanalysis and the Rise of Fundamentalism
When Hitler invaded Vienna in the winter of 1938, Sigmund Freud, old and desperately ill, was among the citys 175,000 Jews dreading Nazi occupation. Mark Edmundson traces Hitler and Freud's oddly... (more)
Unspeakable Secrets and the Psychoanalysis of Culture
See catalogue number 29198 for the paperback edition. Explores the radical political potential of close reading to make the case for a new and invigorated psychoanalytic cultural studies. Esther... (more)
Freud's Drive: Psychoanalysis, Literature and Film
When Freud revised his view of the drives, he was living under the shadow of death and the threat of biological and cultural genocide. Like the early twentieth century, our times are marked by... (more)
Psychoanalysis Outside the Clinic: Interventions in Psychosocial Studies
Psychoanalytic theory offers an interesting insight into the study of culture and the arts. This unique book explains how clinical concepts inform and engage with key issues throughout the humanities... (more)
Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Revolutions in Subjectivity
Jacques Lacan's impact upon the theory and practice of psychoanalysis worldwide cannot be underestimated. Lacanian Psychoanalysis looks at the current debates surrounding Lacanian practice and... (more)
Searching for the Perfect Woman: The Story of a complete Psychoanalysis
This is not your typical psychotherapy case; it is the story of one man's inner struggle to find peace and happiness in an internal world filled with dangerous father figures and tempting but... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Paediatrics: Key Psychoanalytic Concepts with Sixteen Clinical Observations of Children
This book is Françoise Dolto’s 1939 medical thesis and is dedicated to medical practitioners, paediatricians, and parents without prior knowledge of psychoanalysis. Françoise Dolto’s aim was to... (more)
Uprooted Minds: Surviving the Politics of Terror in the Americas: Psychoanalysis, History, Memoir
In our post-9/11 environment, our sense of relative security and stability as privileged subjects living in the heart of Empire has been profoundly shaken. Hollander explores the forces that have... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Motivational Systems: A New Look
Introduced in Psychoanalysis and Motivation (1989) and further developed in Self and Motivational Systems (1992), The Clinical Exchange (1996), and A Spirit of Inquiry (2002), motivational systems... (more)
Sexual Revolutions: Psychoanalysis, History and the Father
The ideas of psychoanalyst Otto Gross (1877-1920) have had a seminal influence on the development of psychoanalytic theory and clinical practice and yet his work has been largely overlooked. For... (more)
Freud's Foes: Psychoanalysis, Science, and Resistance
Freud's Foes addresses Freud's fiercest contemporary critics. Kurt Jacobsen defends psychoanalysis, while accepting that it has inherent flaws. He argues that although today's "foes" pose as daring... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Theism: Critical Reflections on the Grunbaum Thesis
How should we approach the psychological study of religion, and how relevant is classical psychoanalysis, identified with the writings of Sigmund Freud, to the understanding of religion? Freud's... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Narrative Medicine
In this pioneering volume, Peter L. Rudnytsky and Rita Charon bring together distinguished contributors from medicine, psychoanalysis, and literature to explore the multiple intersections between... (more)