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Communicative Psychoanalysis with Children

This work explains the communicative theory of psychoanalysis of Robert Langs and teaches the rudiments of communicative clinical technique. Part Two presents therapists' consultation room... (more)

Freud and psychoanalysis:

by W.W. Meissner

Combining a comprehensive account of Freudian theory with a synthesis of contemporary psychoanalysis, this volume details the development of analytic theory. The author traces this evolution from the... (more)

Historicism, Psychoanalysis, and the Making of Early Modern Culture

Edited by Carla Mazzio, Douglas Trevor

Did people in early modern Europe have a concept of an inner self? The contributors of this book explore the complicated, nuanced, and often surprising union of history and subjectivity in Europe... (more)

The ethics of psychoanalysis

by Thomas Szasz

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Attachment Theory and Psychoanalysis

by Peter Fonagy

This book undertakes to demontrate that the relationship between attachment theory and psychoanalysis is more complex than adherants of either community generally recognize. Beginning with a brief... (more)

Irony Through Psychoanalysis

by Giorgio Sacerdoti

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'It is a New Kind of Diaspora': Explorations in the Sociopolitical and Cultural Context of Psychoanalysis

by Riccardo Steiner

Riccardo Steiner, one of the most well known historians of psychoanalysis has in the numerous papers in this volume traced the relationship between psychoanalysis and the larger cultural sphere with... (more)

Resistances of Psychoanalysis:

by Jacques Derrida

Derrida argues against the notion that the basic ideas of psychoanalysis have been thoroughly worked through, argued and assimilated in the three essays that make up this stimulating book. He... (more)

Psychoanalysis and Culture: A Kleinian Perspective

Edited by David Bell

Through her numerous books and papers in learned journals, Hanna Segal has made contributions that have profoundly influenced contemporary psychoanalytic thinking. This influence extends far beyond... (more)

Psychoanalysis and culture: Contemporary states of mind

by Rosalind Minsky

Provides an introduction to key issues concerning the application of psychoanalytic theories to culture. The argument of this volume is that we cannot grasp the complexity of contemporary global... (more)

Affective Genealogies: Psychoanalysis, Postmodernism and the Jewish Question After Auschwitz

by Elizabeth J. Bellamy

Affective Genealogies is an incisive contribution to the current reassessment of postmodern culture and theory. Elizabeth J. Bellamy examines how the Holocaust and Jews have been represented in a... (more)

Feminism and its discontents: A century of struggle with psychoanalysis

by Mari Jo Buhle

With Sigmund Freud flummoxed on the question of what women want, any encounter between psychoanalysis and feminism would seem to promise a standoff. However, Mari Jo Buhle argues that the... (more)

The feminist difference: Literature, psychoanalysis, race, and gender

by Barbara Johnson

Embattled and belittled, demonized and deemed passé, this text argues that feminism in the late 1990s seems becalmed, but without being calm. It is as true in literary criticism as elsewhere in the... (more)

Freud, Jung, Klein - The Fenceless Field: Essays on Psychoanalysis and Analytical Psychology

by Michael Fordham, Roger Hobdell

This work draws together some of Fordham's key writings on psychoanalysis and analytical psychology, including a major new work on the recorded cases of Freud, Jung and Klein, discussing them in the... (more)

Presenting the past: Psychoanalysis and the sociology of misremembering

by Jeffrey Prager

Psychology is the dogma of our age, psychotherapy is our means of self-understanding, and "repressed memory" is now a universally familiar form of trauma. The author explores the degree to which we... (more)

Psychoanalysis and Cognitive Science: A multiple code theory

by Wilma Bucci

The book firstly reviews the historical role of theory in psychoanalysis, and explores the factors separating cognitive science from psychoanalysis today. Building on this, the author presents a... (more)

A Fresh Look at Psychoanalysis: The View from Self Psychology

Edited by Arnold Goldberg

Arnold Goldberg uses the questions posed by self psychology as point of entry to a thoughtful consideration of issues with which every clinician wrestles: the scientific status analysis, the... (more)

Judaism and Psychoanalysis

Edited by Mortimer Ostow

Is psychoanalysis a "Jewish science"? Ten essays contributed by the editor and distinguished scholars explore the Jewishness of psychoanalysis, its origins in the Jewish situation of late nineteenth... (more)

Therapy or Coercion: Does Psychoanalysis Differ from Brainwashing?

by R.D. Hinshelwood

This book questions whether 'autonomy' is a pivotal psychotherapeutic value. Basing his discussion upon the key Kleinian concept of 'projective identification', the author argues that 'integration'... (more)

A History of Child Psychoanalysis

by Claudine Geissmann, Pierre Geissmann

Traces the history and development of child psychoanalysis from its birth in Vienna to its present status as a thriving discipline, practiced on an international scale. The authors argue that a... (more)

Shadow of the Other: Intersubjectivity and Gender in Psychoanalysis

by Jessica Benjamin

A discussion of how the individual has two sorts of relationships with an 'other' - other beings, other individuals. The first regards the other as an entirely different being from oneself, but one... (more)

Sexual Subjects: Lesbians, Gender and Psychoanalysis

by A.E. Schwartz

A theoretical book, seasoned with clinical anecdotes to make the theory come alive, the author questions the construction of certain categories of identity and reference: 'woman', 'feminine',... (more)

Female subjects in black and white: Race, psychoanalysis, feminism

by Elizabeth Abel

Focusing on the racial dynamics of feminist interpretation, the essays in this collection question such issues as the primacy of sexual difference, the universal nature of psychoanalytic categories,... (more)

Spleen and nostalgia: a life and work in psychoanalysis

by John E. Gedo

In this intellectual memoir, Gedo paints a portrait of American psychoanalysis, its popular peak and its failure to face the complexity of its task, and its consequent retreat into schismatic... (more)