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Psychoanalysis and the Paranormal: Lands of Darkness
'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: Psychoanalytic Perspectives/Perspectives on Psychoanalysis
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)
Reflecting Psychoanalysis: Narrative and Resolve in the Psychoanalytic Experience
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)
Dreams that Turn Over a Page: Paradoxical Dreams in Psychoanalysis
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)
The Subject of Addiction: Psychoanalysis and The Administration of Enjoyment
Drugs and drug use are an integral part of human culture. Yet we know hardly anything about drugs, at least not the kind of knowledge that would help us to understand how drugs affect people and how... (more)
Mirror to Nature: Drama, Psychoanalysis and Society
This book brings the insights of psychoanalysis to bear on drama in the western dramatic tradition. Plays which are discussed in detail include works by Shakespeare, Ibsen, Chekhov, Wilde, and... (more)
Learning From Our Mistakes: Beyond Dogma in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy
This text examines some of the problems that are inherent to psychoanalysis, particularly in view of the analyst's claim to know the patient's mind better than the patient, which can blind the... (more)
Nazi Psychoanalysis, Volume 1: Only Psychoanalysis Won the War
A sweeping, magisterial work by one of the most incisive and interesting scholars of modern philosophy, theory, and culture,
Nazi Psychoanalysis, Volume 2: Crypto-Fetishism
In this second volume, Rickels demonstates the surprising degree to which the Nazi moral system parallels that of psychoanalysis, particularly in thier common projection and protection of... (more)
Cassandra's Daughter: A History of Psychoanalysis
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)
Mapping the Mind: The Intersection of Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience
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)
Wild Desires and Mistaken Identities: Lesbianism and Psychoanalysis
This groundbreaking book provides a challenging exploration of psychoanalytic ideas about lesbians and lesbianism. Based on the authors' clinical experience as psychoanalytic psychotherapists, it... (more)
Mourning, Spirituality and Psychic Change: A New Object Relations View of Psychoanalysis
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)
Key Papers in Literature and Psychoanalysis
Since Freud invoked the Oedipus story to exemplify and verify his findings with patients and in analyzing his own dreams, psychoanalysis and literature have had a fruitful if often distrusting... (more)
Acquainted with the Night: Psychoanalysis and the Poetic Imagination
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)
Psychoanalysis and Art: Kleinian Perspectives
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.
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The Failed Assassination of Psychoanalysis: The Rise and Fall of Cognitivism
It can happen that a law incurs the wrath of the very people it set out to protect. This is what happened in France at the end of 2003 with the Accoyer Amendment, a Bill that intended to regulate the... (more)
The Real Jouissance of Uncountable Numbers: The Philosophy of Science within Lacanian Psychoanalysis
Lacan critiqued imaginary intuition for confusing direct perception with unconscious pre-conceptions about people and the world. The emphasis on description goes hand in hand with a rejection of... (more)
Cixous, Derrida, Psychoanalysis
This book considers the different ways psychoanalysis is of immense importance to the work of Helene Cixous and Jacques Derrida. Bringing together original essays by leading contemporary thinkers in... (more)
Living Psychoanalysis: From Theory to Experience
Living Psychoanalysis: From Theory to Experience represents a decade of work from one of today's leading psychoanalysts. Michael Parsons brings to life clinical psychoanalysis and its theoretical... (more)
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)
Psychoanalysis in the Technoculture Era
By now the internet and other forms of virtual communication have been in place for at least twenty years. However, surprisingly little has been written about the use of new technologies in the... (more)