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Anna Freud: The Dream of Psychoanalysis
Robert Cole's penetrating intellectual portrait gives us an entirely new view of Anna Freud. Far from the stereotype of the distant analyst, she was the warm guide, the ego ideal, the "good parent"... (more)
Relational Psychoanalysis: Volume 1: The Emergence of a Tradition
A collection of papers by authors within the recent psychoanalytical trend towards models of mind and development grounded in object relations concepts. Introductions place each paper in its... (more)
Pioneers of Interpersonal Psychoanalysis
This volume brings together 14 papers by interpersonal pioneers. Collectively, they demonstrate the coherence and explanatory richness of interpersonal psychoanalysis, emphasizing relational patterns... (more)
Analytic Freud: Philosophy and psychoanalysis
This collection of essays on the importance of Freudian thought for analytic philosophy, investigates its impact on mind, ethics, sexuality, religion and epistemology. The book addresses the... (more)
Freud and the Politics of Psychoanalysis
This is a critique of Freud's work, tracing its political content and context from his early writings to his late essays. It shows that when read politically Freud's discourse can be seen to unite... (more)
Organizations in depth: The psychoanalysis of organizations
Illustrated with numerous examples, this is a comprehensive and systematic examination of the insights psychoanalysis can offer to the study of organizations and organizational behaviour. 338 pages. (more)
Psychoanalysis: The Major Concepts
New in paperback. A survey of current psychoanalytic theory and a discussion of its principles, technical aspects, clinical phenomena and applications. It should be useful both as an introduction to... (more)
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)
The sense and non-sense of revolt: The powers and limits of psychoanalysis
Linguist, psychoanalyst and cultural theorist Julia Kristeva explores one aspect of 20th-century culture - rebellion - in this text. She illustrates the advances and impasses of rebel culture through... (more)
Freud and psychoanalysis:
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
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)
Psychoanalysis: A Critical Introduction
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)
Homosexuality and Psychoanalysis
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)
Disappearing and Reviving: Sandor Ferenczi in the History of Psychoanalysis
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)
Freud, psychoanalysis, social theory: the unfulfilled promise
Freud, Psychoanalysis, Social Theory explores the parallel decline of psychoanalysis which, as psychoanalysts themselves testify, has lost its position as a vital source for innovative cultural... (more)
Witnessing Psychoanalysis: From Vienna back to Vienna via Buchenwald and the USA
The eighteen papers which form this collection by Ernst Federn, some of them previously unpublished, are grouped under four headings: (1) On social Psychology, (2) On the Psychology of Terror and... (more)
Handbook of Interpersonal Psychoanalysis
A decade in the making, the Handbook is the definitive contemporary exposition of interpersonal psychoanalysis. It provides an authoritative overview of development, psychopathology, and treatment as... (more)
Ship of Thought: Essays on Psychoanalysis and Learning
Learning is the most basic means by which we can change oursleves. Of all the activities of the mind, learning is perhaps the most fundamental, yet one of the most provocative and difficult to... (more)
Shakespeare in Psychoanalysis
This work provides an introductory cultural history of the relationship between psychoanalytic concepts and Shakespearean texts. This is played out in a variety of expected and unexpected contexts,... (more)
The Historiography of Psychoanalysis
This work explores the vagaries of Freud's impact over the 20th century, including controversial issues relating Freud to histiography of psychoanalysis. Other topics covered include "Freud Studies",... (more)
Psychoanalysis and performance:
This volume maps out the relationship between psychoanalysis and performance (more)
Continuity and Change in Psychoanalysis: Letters from Milan
'A collection of essays by a psychoanalyst who practices in a country whose language is not familiar to the majority of readers in the Anglo-Saxon world is to be heartily welcomed - all the more so... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Film
In full acknowledgment of the important cultural significance of film, this outstanding collection of psychoanalytic essays brings a methodological and theoretical sophistication to an absorbing... (more)
Is There Life without Mother?: Psychoanalysis, Biography, Creativity
In this richly textured study of personal growth and creativity hemmed in by childhood disaster, Shengold compares the differing gifts and differing solutions of extraordinary talents as they seek to... (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,