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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)
Spleen and nostalgia: a life and work in psychoanalysis
In this intellectual memoir, Gedo paints a portrait of American psychoanalysis, its popular peak and its failure to face the complexity of its task, and its consequent retreat into schismatic... (more)
The ethics of psychoanalysis
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Subject relations in psychoanalysis: Unconscious experience and relational psychoanalysis
In this text the authors discuss the existence of an interpersonal and transpersonal unconscious - a relational space, which is unrepressed and capable of creativity in making relationships. They... (more)
Truth games: lies, money and psychoanalysis
New in paperback. These essays offer a philosophical and historical perspective on the mechanics, moral dilemmas, and implications of psychoanalysis. The book attempts to provide an understanding of... (more)
Questions for Freud: The secret history of psychoanalysis
With the intrigue of a mystery, Questions for Freud uncovers the paradoxes that riddle psychoanalysis today and traces them to FreudÆs life. Nicholas Rand and Maria Torok develop a new biographical... (more)
Midwifery of the soul: A holistic perspective on psychoanalysis
Examines how, early in her career, Margaret Arden became fascinated by the problem of the gap between theory and practice. The text considers how, as a result, she arrived at the belief that there is... (more)
The death of psychoanalysis: Murder? suicide? or rumor greatly exaggerated?
Psychoanalysis is in danger of becoming marginalized, if not extinct, contends Robert Prince. Questions asked by the contributors to this book include: will psychoanalysis survive?, and will it... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Culture: A Kleinian Perspective
Through her numerous books and papers in learned journals, Hanna Segal has made contributions that have profoundly influenced contemporary psychoanalytic thinking. This influence extends far beyond... (more)
Psychoanalysis and culture: Contemporary states of mind
Provides an introduction to key issues concerning the application of psychoanalytic theories to culture. The argument of this volume is that we cannot grasp the complexity of contemporary global... (more)
Affective Genealogies: Psychoanalysis, Postmodernism and the Jewish Question After Auschwitz
Affective Genealogies is an incisive contribution to the current reassessment of postmodern culture and theory. Elizabeth J. Bellamy examines how the Holocaust and Jews have been represented in a... (more)
Feminism and its discontents: A century of struggle with psychoanalysis
With Sigmund Freud flummoxed on the question of what women want, any encounter between psychoanalysis and feminism would seem to promise a standoff. However, Mari Jo Buhle argues that the... (more)
The feminist difference: Literature, psychoanalysis, race, and gender
Embattled and belittled, demonized and deemed passé, this text argues that feminism in the late 1990s seems becalmed, but without being calm. It is as true in literary criticism as elsewhere in the... (more)
Freud, Jung, Klein - The Fenceless Field: Essays on Psychoanalysis and Analytical Psychology
This work draws together some of Fordham's key writings on psychoanalysis and analytical psychology, including a major new work on the recorded cases of Freud, Jung and Klein, discussing them in the... (more)
Presenting the past: Psychoanalysis and the sociology of misremembering
Psychology is the dogma of our age, psychotherapy is our means of self-understanding, and "repressed memory" is now a universally familiar form of trauma. The author explores the degree to which we... (more)
Attachment Theory and Psychoanalysis
This book undertakes to demontrate that the relationship between attachment theory and psychoanalysis is more complex than adherants of either community generally recognize. Beginning with a brief... (more)
'It is a New Kind of Diaspora': Explorations in the Sociopolitical and Cultural Context of Psychoanalysis
Riccardo Steiner, one of the most well known historians of psychoanalysis has in the numerous papers in this volume traced the relationship between psychoanalysis and the larger cultural sphere with... (more)
Resistances of Psychoanalysis:
Derrida argues against the notion that the basic ideas of psychoanalysis have been thoroughly worked through, argued and assimilated in the three essays that make up this stimulating book. He... (more)
Science, Systems and Psychoanalysis
This book has been written for a broad audience. It is addressed to anyone who is at all concerned with a scientific grounding for the art of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis, and for the... (more)
Belief and Imagination: Explorations in Psychoanalysis
This volume collates Ronald Britton's writing on these subjects over the last fifteen years, exploring the concepts from a Kleinian perspective. Topics include how the notions of objectivity and... (more)
Tradition, Change, Creativity: Repercussions of the New Diaspora on aspects of British Psychoanalysis
A companion volume to It is a New Kind of Diaspora. Taking up where that book leaves off, it traces some of the consequences of the emigration of German and Austrian psychoanalysts to London,... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy: The Controversies and the Future
In this, the sixth volume in the highly successful monograph series produced under the auspices of the European Federation for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in the Public Health Services (EFPP), the... (more)
Who Owns Psychoanalysis?
So who does own psychoanalysis? Equally pertinent, what is psychoanalysis? Even before the death of Sigmund Freud, psychoanalysis was splintering into different groups, each convinced of their... (more)
Reflecting Psychoanalysis: Narrative and Resolve in the Psychoanalytic Experience
Acknowledging the influence of such thinkers as Bion, Winnicott, Lacan and Ricour Jurgen Reeder charts his own course in this 'exploration into my own standpoints'.
At the heart of this book is... (more)
Commitment and Compassion in Psychoanalysis: Selected Papers of Edward M.Weinshel
Over the course of his distinguished career, Edward Weinshel has been a moral and intellectual force in contemporary psychoanalysis and an outspoken opponent of current trends in and out of the field... (more)
The Designed Self: Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Identities
What can contemporary psychoanalysis bring to the understanding of Generation X, for whom the trivialisation of possible experiences and the pressure to lead spectacular lives often leads to diffues... (more)
Joy and the Objects of Psychoanalysis: Literature, Belief, and Neurosis
A remarkable rendering of psychoanalysis in contemporary thought and literature, offering a compelling theory of human development. (more)