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The Gendered Unconscious: Can Gender Discourse Subvert Psychoanalysis?
Feminist interventions in psychoanalysis have often attempted either to subvert or re-frame the masculinist and phallocentric biases of Freud's psychoanalysis. This book investigates the nature of... (more)
The Conscious in Psychoanalysis
How do we psychoanalysts, first and foremost concerned with the Unconscious, go about thinking about consciousness? And why should we be interested in the first place? The author's answer is simply... (more)
Derrida, Deleuze, Psychoanalysis
These eight probing essays explore the critical relationship between psychoanalysis and the work of Derrida ("Speech and Phenomena", "Of Grammatology", and his later writing on autoimmunity, cruelty,... (more)
Relational Psychoanalysis - 3-volume Set
Over the course of the past 15 years, there has been a vast sea change in American psychoanalysis. It takes the form of a broad movement away from classical psychoanalytic theorizing grounded in... (more)
Object Relations and Social Relations: The Implications of the Relational Turn in Psychoanalysis
This book has two essential aims. First, to introduce some of the key assumptions behind relational psychoanalysis to an international audience and to outline the points where this approach counters,... (more)
Evolving Lacanian Perspectives for Clinical Psychoanalysis: On Narcissism, Sexuation, and the Phases of Analysis in Contemporary Culture
This book presents an evolving Lacanian reading of the psychoanalytic theory of narcissism, of the phases within Oedipus, transference, and within different types of analytic treatments. Sexual... (more)
Systems and Psychoanalysis: Contemporary Integrations in Family Therapy
'This intellectually rigorous and generative collection of papers, positioned at the intersection of systemic and psychoanalytic therapy, captures the potential synergy of bringing these two honoured... (more)
Becoming a Subject: Reflections in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis
One of the guiding premises of Becoming a Subject is that philosophical investigation into the specifically human way of being in the world cannot separate itself from investigations of a more... (more)
Freud's Free Clinics: Psychoanalysis and Social Justice, 1918-1938
Many view Sigmund Freud as an elitist whose psychoanalytic treatment was reserved for the intellectually and financially advantaged. This work presents a different picture of Freud and early... (more)
The Janus Face of Prenatal Diagnostics: A European Study Bridging Ethics, Psychoanalysis, and Medicine
Coping with modern technology in the life sciences (biology and medicine) became a major issue for people living in the Twentieth Century, and continues to be so in the present century. Biotechnology... (more)
The 6th International Neuro-Psychoanalysis Congress: Dreams and Psychosis, Rio de Janeiro, July 2005 - DVD (PAL Format)
The DVDs come in four sets, containing two disks each, covering both the Educational Day and the main Congress. SET 1 (Educational Day, 2 disks): - Physiology of Sleep and Dreaming: Oliver Turnbull... (more)
The 6th International Neuro-Psychoanalysis Congress: Dreams and Psychosis, Rio de Janeiro, July 2005 - DVD (NTSC Format)
The DVDs come in four sets, containing two disks each, covering both the Educational Day and the main Congress. SET 1 (Educational Day, 2 disks): - Physiology of Sleep and Dreaming: Oliver Turnbull... (more)
Desire of the Analysts: Psychoanalysis and Cultural Criticism
Why do we continue to desire psychoanalysis? What can this desire contribute to a vital cultural criticism? In "Desire of the Analysts", these and other questions are addressed by leading... (more)
Centers of Power: The Convergence of Psychoanalysis and Kabbalah
Kabbalah and psychoanalysis are conceptions about the nature of reality. The former is over two thousand years old. The latter has been formalized less than a hundred years ago. Nonetheless they are... (more)
Understanding Psychoanalysis
Presents a broad introduction to the key concepts and developments in psychoanalysis and its impact on modern thought. Charting pivotal moments in the theorization and reception of psychoanalysis,... (more)
NeuroAnalysis: Bridging the Gap between Neuroscience, Psychoanalysis, and Psychiatry
"NeuroAnalysis" investigates using the neural network and neural computation models to bridge the divide between psychology, psychoanalysis, and neuroscience when diagnosing mental health disorders... (more)
Masculinity, Psychoanalysis, Straight Queer Theory: Essays on Abjection in Literature, Mass Culture and Film
Using Lacanian psychoanalysis and queer theory to explore the unstable relationship between heterosexual masculine identity and cultural representation, this book examines the ways straight men are... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Religion in the 21st Century: Competitors or Collaborators?
Freud described religion as the universal obsessional neurosis, and uncompromisingly rejected it in favour of 'science'. Ever since, there has been the assumption that psychoanalysts are hostile to... (more)
Reading Freud: Psychoanalysis as Cultural History
Cultural theory has found a renewed interest in psychoanalysis, bringing many new readers to Freud and his work. This book is an introductory guide to Freud and brings together for the first time: an... (more)
Psychoanalysis and the Time of Life: Durations of the Unconscious Self
Psychoanalysis and the Time of Life examines the relationship between therapy and the time of life, presenting an original and thought-provoking re-reading of psychoanalysis in relation to questions... (more)
The Crescent and the Couch: Cross-Currents Between Islam and Psychoanalysis
Attempting to advance knowledge about Islam and to create the possibility of a dialogue between Islam and psychoanalysis, The Crescent and the Couch brings together a distinguished panel of Muslim... (more)
Taboo or Not Taboo? Forbidden Thoughts, Forbidden Acts in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy
'Psychoanalysis has, from its inception, been a discipline concerned with overcoming the ill effects of certain social taboos. Given this focus, it might be assumed that psychoanalysis and its... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Positivity
Without falling into unwarranted enthusiasm or naive optimism, the book examines how positivity operates, and goes on to investigate the concept of the construction of an internal framework, the... (more)
Unspeakable Secrets and the Psychoanalysis of Culture
See catalogue number 29198 for the paperback edition. Explores the radical political potential of close reading to make the case for a new and invigorated psychoanalytic cultural studies. Esther... (more)
Introducing Freud: A Graphic Guide to the Father of Psychoanalysis
Freud revolutionized the way we think about ourselves. His psychoanalytic terms such as Id, Ego, libido, neurosis and Oedipus Complex have become a part of our everyday vocabulary. But do we know... (more)
Repair of the Soul: Metaphors of Transformation in Jewish Mysticism and Psychoanalysis
Examines transformation from the perspective of Jewish mysticism and psychoanalysis, addressing the question of how one achieves self-understanding that leads not only to insight but also to... (more)
Philosophy, Psychoanalysis and the A-rational Mind
Psychoanalytic theories have come in and out of favour in the past hundred years. As a central theory behind recent empirically validated treatments such as mentalisation based therapy, there is a... (more)
Revolution in Mind: The Creation of Psychoanalysis
George Makari answers two fundamental questions: How did Freudian theory come together as a body of ideas, and how did these ideas attract followers who spread this model of the mind throughout the... (more)
Transference and Countertransference: A Unifying Focus of Psychoanalysis
Since Freud's initial papers on transference and countertransference, these vast and inexhaustible subjects have occupied psychoanalysts. Transference and countertransference, the essence of the... (more)
In Search of the Good Life: Emmanuel Levinas, Psychoanalysis, and the Art of Living
Emmanuel Levinas (1906-1995), French phenomenological philosopher and Talmudic commentator, is regarded as perhaps the greatest ethical philosopher of our time. While Levinas enjoys prominence in the... (more)