David Gutmann is a highly successful consultant to leading institutions and organisations. In this enriching and challenging dialogue with the Italian journalist Oscar Iarussi, he brings his passion... (more)
'The space of the paranormal can indeed be frightening. But psychoanalysis specializes in entering and tolerating frightening spaces. Why should this one be an exception?'
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Perversion - its ubiquity in infantile life and its persistence in the psychical and sexual lives of some adults - was a central element of Freud's lifelong work. The problem of perversion has since... (more)
'Coles' book starts from the claim that traditionally psychoanalysis, in stressing the relations of conflict between children and parents, has tended to overlook and displace the co-operative... (more)
This fascinating book will bridge the gap between academic textbooks on psychoanalysis and the books written primarily for those training in the field. It will be of major interest to students of... (more)
This collection of essays reconsiders the troubled relationship between same- sex desire and psychoanalysis, assessing homosexuality's status in psychoanalytic theory and practice, as well as the... (more)
This book is an indispensable work for anyone interested in the pioneering psychoanalyst Sandor Ferenczi.
As the supervisor of the recently published correspondence between Freud and Ferenczi,... (more)
A remarkable rendering of psychoanalysis in contemporary thought and literature, offering a compelling theory of human development. (more)
This work explores the justification and legitimacy of psychoanalytic knowledge, and its relevance to political and social questions. Part one explores the achievements of British psychoanalytic... (more)
Despite its aloofness from ethical questions, psychoanalysis has attracted to itself an extraordinary degree of sectarian bitterness. Original thinkers have become condemned as dissidents. This title... (more)
This work presents a complete history of psychoanalysis from its origins in 19th-century medical science to the end of the 20th century. The origins of psychoanalysis as well as the more immediate... (more)
This reissued classic text is a comprehensive guide to the basics that shows simply how things work. Each chapter begins with a precis to relate the contents to the wider context and the book ends... (more)
This book explores the expanding literature on spirituality as an important dimension of psychology, and explains the relationship between psychological treatment and spiritual healing. The author... (more)
This book explores some of the ways in which an understanding of poetry, and the poetic impulse, can be fruitfully informed by psychoanalytic ideas. It could be argued that there is a particular... (more)
This essential edition brings together a collection of classic papers from key figures in Kleinian and post-Kleinian thought that explore the relationship between psychoanalysis and art.
Sandra... (more)
In her earlier books, Susan Kavaler-Adler identified healthy mourning for traumas and life changes as an essential aspect of successful analysis, and drew the distinction between a healthy... (more)
This book has been written for a broad audience. It is addressed to anyone who is at all concerned with a scientific grounding for the art of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis, and for the... (more)
In this work Quinodoz discusses a particular type of dream that comes after a phase in analysis where integration has taken place. Accompanied by anxiety and fear, which seem surprising as the dream... (more)
Janet Sayers tells the story of the revolution in psychology pioneered by psychoanalyst Melanie Klein through an account of the personal and public lives of its main architects, their families and... (more)
Acknowledging the influence of such thinkers as Bion, Winnicott, Lacan and Ricour Jurgen Reeder charts his own course in this 'exploration into my own standpoints'.
At the heart of this book is... (more)
Psychoanalysis is in danger of becoming marginalized, if not extinct, contends Robert Prince. Questions asked by the contributors to this book include: will psychoanalysis survive?, and will it... (more)
With the intrigue of a mystery, Questions for Freud uncovers the paradoxes that riddle psychoanalysis today and traces them to FreudÆs life. Nicholas Rand and Maria Torok develop a new biographical... (more)
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)
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)
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)
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 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)