Search results for "psychoanalysis"
Psychoanalysis and Culture at the Millennium
A stimulating and important collection of essays which explore the influence of psychoanalysis on culture and thought. (more)
Building Bridges: The Negotiation of Paradox in Psychoanalysis
This work gives recognition to the central place of negotiation in the analytic relationship and therapeutic process, and in psychoanalytic development and clinical theory. It examines how analyst... (more)
The social edges of psychoanalysis:
This text collects together the author's essays on psychoanalytic concepts. Psychoanalytic theory has had an ambivalent relationship with sociology, and these essays explore that ambivalence,... (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)
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)
Adolescence and Psychoanalysis: The Story and the History
This collection of classic and contemporary essays makes a major contribution to the reassessment of psychoanalytic understanding and treatment of adults.
Contributors:
Peter Blos, Raymond...
(more)
A psychoanalysis for our time: Exploring the blindness of the seeing I
Psychoanalysis has profound relevance for our troubled time. The author steers a course between Freud's followers and dissenters and shows both the strengths and weaknesses of modern psychoanalysis.... (more)
Freud, psychoanalysis and symbolism:
This work offers a general theory of symbolism, derived from Freud's psychoanalytic theory and relocated within mainstream scientific psychology. It presents a development of Freud's treatment of... (more)
Psychoanalysis on the Move: The Work of Joseph Sandler
A comprehensive overview of Joseph Sandler's contribution to the development of psychoanalysis. This book traces the development of the main themes and achievements of Sandler's work, in particular... (more)
Ghosts: Deconstruction, psychoanalysis, history
These essays consider the importance of the metaphor of haunting as it has appeared in literature, culture and philosophy. Haunting is considered as both a literal and figurative term that... (more)
The Psychoanalysis of Race
This collection of essays studies the seemingly permanent racial undercurrents of society, focusing on unconscious fantasies and identities. The essays engage with postcolonial, political and... (more)
Unformulated Experience: From Dissociation to Imagination in Psychoanalysis:
In this text on psychoanalysis, hermeneutics and social constructivism, Donnel Stern explores the relationship between two fundamental kinds of experiences: explicit verbal reflection and... (more)
The Other Freud: Religion, Culture and Psychoanalysis
This is an analysis of Freud's major writings on religion and culture. The author analyses the texts and uses theories derived from contemporary French theorists Jacques Lacan and Julia Kristeva, in... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Cognitive Science: A multiple code theory
The book firstly reviews the historical role of theory in psychoanalysis, and explores the factors separating cognitive science from psychoanalysis today. Building on this, the author presents a... (more)
A Fresh Look at Psychoanalysis: The View from Self Psychology
Arnold Goldberg uses the questions posed by self psychology as point of entry to a thoughtful consideration of issues with which every clinician wrestles: the scientific status analysis, the... (more)
Judaism and Psychoanalysis
Is psychoanalysis a "Jewish science"? Ten essays contributed by the editor and distinguished scholars explore the Jewishness of psychoanalysis, its origins in the Jewish situation of late nineteenth... (more)
Therapy or Coercion: Does Psychoanalysis Differ from Brainwashing?
This book questions whether 'autonomy' is a pivotal psychotherapeutic value. Basing his discussion upon the key Kleinian concept of 'projective identification', the author argues that 'integration'... (more)
A History of Child Psychoanalysis
Traces the history and development of child psychoanalysis from its birth in Vienna to its present status as a thriving discipline, practiced on an international scale. The authors argue that a... (more)
Shadow of the Other: Intersubjectivity and Gender in Psychoanalysis
A discussion of how the individual has two sorts of relationships with an 'other' - other beings, other individuals. The first regards the other as an entirely different being from oneself, but one... (more)
Sexual Subjects: Lesbians, Gender and Psychoanalysis
A theoretical book, seasoned with clinical anecdotes to make the theory come alive, the author questions the construction of certain categories of identity and reference: 'woman', 'feminine',... (more)
Female subjects in black and white: Race, psychoanalysis, feminism
Focusing on the racial dynamics of feminist interpretation, the essays in this collection question such issues as the primacy of sexual difference, the universal nature of psychoanalytic categories,... (more)