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Psychic Reality in Context: Perspectives on Psychoanalysis, Personal History, and Trauma
This book skillfully combines autobiographical stories with clear psychoanalytical theories. During her childhood, the author experienced the Holocaust and was left understandly traumatised by it. It... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Politics: Histories of Psychoanalysis Under Conditions of Restricted Political Freedom
More than just a therapeutic technique, psychoanalysis as a school of thought has redefined our ideas on sexuality, the self, morality, family, and the nature of the mind for much of the twentieth... (more)
Interview and Indicators in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy
The book deals with initial interviews in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy, suggesting the idea of special “indicators”. These indicators relate to three main areas.
Firstly, psychoanalytical... (more)
Rereading Freud: Psychoanalysis Through Philosophy
This book celebrates and philosophically critiques Freud's most important contribution to understanding humanity: that psychic reality is governed by the unconscious mind. The contributors focus on... (more)
After Freud Left: A Century of Psychoanalysis in America
From August 29 to September 21, 1909, Sigmund Freud visited the United States, where he gave five lectures at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. This volume brings together a stunning... (more)
Oedipus: The Most Crucial Concept in Psychoanalysis
First English translation of Nasio’s groundbreaking work on the Oedipus complex.
In this long-awaited book, Juan-David Nasio, one of France’s leading Lacanian psychoanalysts, argues that 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)
The Second Century of Psychoanalysis: Evolving Perspectives on Therapeutic Action
This book focuses on the question of the theory of therapeutic action underlying the multiple perspectives in psychoanalysis. The question of how psychoanalysis effects therapeutic change and the... (more)
Sacral Revolutions: Reflecting on the Work of Andrew Samuels: Cutting Edges in Psychoanalysis and Jungian Analysis
Sacral Revolutions is a unique project reflecting the contribution that Andrew Samuels has made to the general field of psychoanalysis and Jungian analysis in both clinical and academic contexts.... (more)
Freud on a Precipice: How Freud's Fate Pushed Psychoanalysis Over the Edge
This book is a psychoanalytic detective story that takes the reader back to the late 1890's and to the generally unappreciated, yet single most important, turning point in the history of... (more)
Unspeakable Secrets and the Psychoanalysis of Culture
Explores the radical political potential of close reading to make the case for a new and invigorated psychoanalytic cultural studies. Esther Rashkin argues that psychoanalysis galvanizes, as no other... (more)
A World of Fragile Things: Psychoanalysis and the Art of Living
Psychoanalytic perspective on what Western philosophers from Socrates to Foucault have called the art of living. How are our lives meaningful? What is the relationship of loss to creativity? How can... (more)
Maimonides' Cure of Souls: Medieval Precursor of Psychoanalysis
Explores the unacknowledged psychological element in Maimonides work, one which prefigures the latter insights of Freud. Is Moses Maimonides an unacknowledged ancestor of the psychoanalytic movement?... (more)
Rescuing Psychoanalysis from Freud and Other Essays in Re-Vision
In his latest groundbreaking book, Peter L. Rudnytsky examines the history of psychoanalysis from a resolutely independent perspective. At once spellbinding case histories and meticulously crafted... (more)
Freud's Schreber Between Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis: On Subjective Disposition to Psychosis
This book investigates what was distinctive about the predisposition to psychosis Freud posited in Daniel Paul Schreber, a presiding judge in Saxony's highest court. It argues that Freud's 1911... (more)
Sabert Basescu: Selected Papers on Human Nature and Psychoanalysis
An influential part of the New York psychoanalytic scene, Sabert "Sabe" Basescu is regarded as an outstanding analyst and a significant proponent of the integration of existentialism and... (more)
The Edinburgh International Encyclopaedia of Psychoanalysis
The one thousand entries in this book provide the best single volume coverage of psychoanalysis available. With its wide, objective and catholic vision, the Encyclopaedia demonstrates that... (more)
First Do No Harm: The Paradoxical Encounters of Psychoanalysis, Warmaking, and Resistance
At the outset of World War I - the "Great War" - Freud supported the Austro-Hungarian Empire for which his sons fought. But the cruel truths of that bloody conflict, wrought on the psyches as much as... (more)
Toward an Emancipatory Psychoanalysis: Brandchaft's Intersubjective Vision
Best known for his contributions to the development of contemporary intersubjectivity theory, Bernard Brandchaft has dedicated a career to the advancement of psychoanalytic theory and practice.... (more)
Being for the Other: Emmanuel Levinas, Ethical Living and Psychoanalysis
“I am definitely not a Freudian,” declared Levinas in an interview. And yet, Marcus passionately argues, Levinas’s path-breaking ethical writings can profoundly enhance theoretical and clinical... (more)
Searching for the Perfect Woman: The Story of a complete Psychoanalysis
This is not your typical psychotherapy case; it is the story of one man's inner struggle to find peace and happiness in an internal world filled with dangerous father figures and tempting but... (more)
Uprooted Minds: Surviving the Politics of Terror in the Americas: Psychoanalysis, History, Memoir
In our post-9/11 environment, our sense of relative security and stability as privileged subjects living in the heart of Empire has been profoundly shaken. Hollander explores the forces that have... (more)
The Foundations of Psychoanalytic Theories: Project for a Scientific Enough Psychoanalysis
The normal approach to the study of the foundations of psychoanalysis is to focus on Sigmund Freud's classical texts. In this book, however, Vesa Talvitie approaches the issue from the perspective of... (more)
Freud's Drive: Psychoanalysis, Literature and Film
When Freud revised his view of the drives, he was living under the shadow of death and the threat of biological and cultural genocide. Like the early twentieth century, our times are marked by... (more)
Psychoanalysis Outside the Clinic: Interventions in Psychosocial Studies
Psychoanalytic theory offers an interesting insight into the study of culture and the arts. This unique book explains how clinical concepts inform and engage with key issues throughout the humanities... (more)
Couple and Family Psychoanalysis Journal (2024 Individual Subscription)
Couple and Family Psychoanalysis Journal is an international journal sponsored by Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology , which aims to promote the theory and practice of working with couple and... (more)