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Secrets of the Soul: A Social and Cultural History of Psychoanalysis
The fledgling science of psychoanalysis permanently altered the nineteenth-century worldview with its remarkable new insights into human behavior and motivation. It quickly became a benchmark for... (more)
The Development of Consciousness: An Integrative Model of Child Development, Neuroscience and Psychoanalysis
Using 'Freud's Project for a scientific psychology' as a starting point, this book is a brilliant new approach that combines psychoanalytical research with neuroscience. Its aim is to to delineate a... (more)
The International Self: Psychoanalysis and the Search for Israeli-Palestinian Peace
"The International Self" explores an age-old question in international affairs, one that has been particularly pressing in the context of the contemporary Middle East: what leads long-standing... (more)
The World of Perversion: Psychoanalysis and the Impossible Absolute of Desire
See catalogue number 26855 for the paperback edition. An original critique of queer theory, from a psychoanalytic perspective. In "The World of Perversion", James Penney argues that antihomophobic... (more)
The Many Voices of Psychoanalysis
The Many Voices of Psychoanalysis spans over thirty years of Roger Kennedy's work as a practicing psychoanalyst, providing a fascinating insight into the process of development of psychoanalytic... (more)
The Letter 36: Lacanian Perspectives on Psychoanalysis: Spring 2006
Spring 2006 issue. Cormac Gallagher: Lacan's Viator and the Time Traveller's Wife; Barry O'Donnell: Lacan's invention; Florencia F.C. Shanahan: Erring fathers; Patricia McCarthy: Psychoanalysis is... (more)
The Letter 37: Lacanian Perspectives on Psychoanalysis: Summer 2006
Summer 2006 issue. Rolando Karothy: The writing of Joyce; Oscar Zentner: From the Lacan-Joyce correspondence; Colette Soler: Joyce's Nora; Andrew Lewis: The psychoanalytic case history; Stephen J.... (more)
The Academic Face of Psychoanalysis: Papers in Philosophy, the Humanities, and the British Clinical Tradition
Ever since Freud, psychoanalysts have explored the connections between psychoanalysis and literature and psychoanalysis and philosophy, while literary criticism, social science and philosophy have... (more)
Freud's Art: Psychoanalysis Retold
In Freud's Art: Psychoanalysis Retold, Janet Sayers provides a refreshingly new introduction to psychoanalysis by retelling its story through art. She does this by bringing together experts from the... (more)
Freud and the Media: The Reception of Psychoanalysis in Viennese Medical Journals 1895 - 1938 (Hardback)
This book presents the results of a research project on the early reception of analysis in two influential Viennese medical weeklies, the Wiener Medizinische Wochenschrift and the Wiener Klinische... (more)
Psychoanalysis in Sweden: Problems, Prospects and Two Propositions
From the author's introduction: "It is my hope that more reports like this will be forthcoming from different countries, with detailed information describing the present situation of psychoanalysis;... (more)
The Ethics of Psychoanalysis: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan
A charismatic and controversial figure, Lacan is one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century and his work has revolutionized linguistics, philosophy, literature, psychology, cultural... (more)
Relational Psychoanalysis: Volume 3: New Voices
Relational psychoanalysis has revivified psychoanalytic discourse by attesting to the analyst's multidimensional subjectivity and then showing how this subjectivity opens to deeper insights about the... (more)
The Future of Prejudice: Psychoanalysis and the Prevention of Prejudice
Established psychoanalytic/psychodynamic researchers and theorists bring the exploration of prejudice to a new level by examining how psychoanalysis might elucidate strategies that will eliminate... (more)
Time, Self, and Psychoanalysis
"Time, Self, and Psychoanalysis" has two theoretical foci - the first is the nature of time experience and the second is the implications of the understanding of time for conceptualizing the nature... (more)
Comparative-Integrative Psychoanalysis: A Relational Perspective for the Discipline's Second Century
This exceptionally practical and insightful new text explores the emerging field of comparative-integrative psychoanalysis. It provides an invaluable framework for approaching the currently fractious... (more)
Freud's Memory: Psychoanalysis, Mourning and the Foreign Body
A wide-ranging reading of Freud's work, this book focuses on Freud's scientifically discredited ideas about inherited memory in relation both to poststructuralist debates about mourning, and to... (more)
Romantic Psychoanalysis: The Burden of the Mystery
In this provocative work, Joel Faflak argues that Romanticism, particularly British Romantic poetry, invents psychoanalysis in advance of Freud. The Romantic period has long been treated as a time of... (more)
Listening to Hanna Segal: Her Contribution to Psychoanalysis
How has Hanna Segal influenced psychoanalysis today? Jean-Michel Quinodoz provides the reader with a comprehensive overview of Segal's life, her clinical and theoretical work, and her contribution to... (more)
Beyond Yahweh and Jesus: Bringing Death's Wisdom to Faith, Spirituality and Psychoanalysis
"Beyond Yahweh and Jesus" constitutes the first in-depth psychoanalytic study of the Old and New Testaments in terms of God's role in enabling humans to cope with death and the anxiety it evokes. The... (more)
The Embodied Subject: Minding the Body in Psychoanalysis
The relationship between psyche and some is extremely important from a psychoanalytic theoretical and clinical perspective. This book reflects the cutting edge intersection of analytic theory,... (more)
Torment Me, But Don't Abandon Me: Psychoanalysis of the Severe Neuroses in a New Key
Offers analysts and psychodynamic therapists an innovative way of understanding the theoretical intersection of masochism, perversion, shame, guilt, narcissism substance abuse. This constellation of... (more)
Taking Risks from the Unconscious: A Psychoanalysis from Both Sides of the Couch
Taking Risks from the Unconscious tells the story of a remarkably successful psychoanalysis from the point of view of both analyst and patient. The analyst, Dr Marcus, describes the risk he undertook... (more)
Shame and Sexuality: Psychoanalysis and Visual Culture
Why do human beings feel shame? What is the cultural dimension of shame and sexuality? Can theory understand the power of affect? How is psychoanalysis integral to cultural theory? The experience of... (more)
Toward a Psychology of Uncertainty: Trauma-Centered Psychoanalysis
Since trauma is a thoroughly relational phenomenon, it is highly unpredictable, and cannot be made to fit within the scientific framework Freud so admired. In "Toward a Psychology of Uncertainty:... (more)
Freudian Passions: Psychoanalysis, Form and Literature
Freud's thinking about the unconscious has always been seen to be more about representations than affects. When it came to the passions of the transference and the demands of his hysterical patients,... (more)
The World of Perversion: Psychoanalysis and the Impossible Absolute of Desire
An original critique of queer theory, from a psychoanalytic perspective. In "The World of Perversion", James Penney argues that antihomophobic criticism has nothing to lose - and indeed everything to... (more)
The Future of Psychoanalysis
"The Future of Psychoanalysis" explores the contemporary problem of multiple theories of psychoanalysis and argues for a return to a more classical position based on Freud's work. Using his training... (more)
Sitegeist - Number 2 (Spring 2009) - A Journal of Psychoanalysis and Philosophy
Sitegeist is a space for thinking and questioning philosophy and psychoanalysis; it aims at a change in Geist - spirit, mind, intellect, wit, genius and morale. It seeks to contribute to a renewal of... (more)
The Philosopher's Desire: Psychoanalysis, Interpretation, and Truth
This book is about interpretation as it pertains to literature, philosophy, and psychoanalysis. It argues against certain trends of thought that claim we should do without interpretation by... (more)