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From Classical to Contemporary Psychoanalysis: A Critique and Integration
The landscape of psychoanalysis has changed, at times dramatically, in the hundred or so years since Freud first began to think and write about it. Freudian theory and concepts have risen, fallen,... (more)
Toward Mutual Recognition: Relational Psychoanalysis and the Christian Narrative
Ever since its nascent days, psychoanalysis has enjoyed an uneasy coexistence with religion. However, in recent decades, many analysts have been more interested in the healing potential of both... (more)
Independent Psychoanalysis Today
Independent Psychoanalysis Today is a book that shows how contemporary Independent psychoanalysts think and work. There are three themes to the book: Independent thinking including the theory of... (more)
Sexuality and Psychoanalysis: Philosophical Criticisms
The relationship between sexuality and psychoanalysis can be described in terms of an old and stormy love affair. The same can be said about the relationship between psychoanalysis and philosophy. It... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Politics: Exclusion and the Politics of Representation
Thinking psychoanalytically about the nature of social exclusion involves a self-questioning on the part of the interpreter. While we may all have some experiences of having been subject to... (more)
Change in Psychoanalysis: An Analyst's Reflections on the Therapeutic Relationship
In this clinically rich and deeply personal book, Chris Jaenicke demonstrates that the therapeutic process involves change in both the patient and the analyst, and that therapy will not have a... (more)
The Emptiness of Oedipus: Identification and Non-Identification in Lacanian Psychoanalysis
Lacan's seminar on identification marks a turning point from the early to the later years of his work. In this book Raul Moncayo builds on many of the concepts that Lacan developed in his seminar,... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Ecology at the Edge of Chaos: Complexity Theory, Deleuze/Guattari and Psychoanalysis for a Climate in Crisis
This book argues that psychoanalysis has a unique role to play in the climate change debate through its placing emphasis on the unconscious dimensions of our mental and social lives. Exploring... (more)
Relational Psychoanalysis: Volume 4: Expansion of Theory
Building on the success and importance of three previous volumes, Relational Psychoanalysis continues to expand and develop the relational turn. Under the keen editorship of Lewis Aron and Adrienne... (more)
Relational Psychoanalysis: Volume 5: Evolution of Process
Building on the success and importance of three previous volumes, Relational Psychoanalysis continues to expand and develop the relational turn. Under the keen editorship of Lewis Aron and Adrienne... (more)
Why Things Matter: The Place of Values in Science, Psychoanalysis and Religion
In this book, David M. Black asks questions such as why do we care? and what gives our values power? using ideas from psychoanalysis and its adjacent sciences such as neuroscience and evolutionary... (more)
World, Affectivity, Trauma: Heidegger and Post-Cartesian Psychoanalysis
Stolorow and his collaborators' post-Cartesian psychoanalytic perspective - intersubjective-systems theory - is a phenomenological contextualism that illuminates worlds of emotional experience as... (more)
Distance Psychoanalysis: The Theory and Practice of Using Communication Technology in the Clinic
'Many analysts around the world have found themselves in a situation of continuing (or even beginning) psychoanalytic treatment from a distance - either by telephone or other means of communication.... (more)
Sitegeist - Number 7 (Spring 2012) - A Journal of Psychoanalysis and Philosophy
Sitegeist is a space for thinking and questioning philosophy and psychoanalysis; it aims at a change in Geist - spirit, mind, intellect, wit, genius and morale. It seeks to contribute to a renewal of... (more)
A Short Introduction to Psychoanalysis: Second Edition
A user-friendly introduction to arguably the most misunderstood of all the psychological therapies. This fully updated and revised second edition explains what psychoanalysis really is and provides... (more)
Paradigms in Psychoanalysis: An Integration
This book aims at making explicit the scientific theories, termed paradigms, that the author has found useful in psychoanalysis. It lists nine paradigms: genetics, neurobiology, attachment theory,... (more)
John Bowlby - From Psychoanalysis to Ethology: Unravelling the Roots of Attachment Theory
This accessible book draws on unique evidence from oral histories and little-known archive material to shed new light on the working relationships which led to John Bowlby's shift from psychoanalysis... (more)
Desire, Self, Mind, and the Psychotherapies: Unifying Psychological Science and Psychoanalysis
Desire, Self, Mind, and the Psychotherapies unifies psychological science with contemporary relational psychoanalysis, arguing that the disciplines can be integrated if the concept of repression is... (more)
From Psychoanalysis to Group Analysis: The Pioneering Work of Trigant Burrow
This volume gathers a selection of psychoanalytic and group analytic essays by Trigant Burrow (1875-1950), precursor of group analysis and co-founder of the American Psychoanalytic Association. They... (more)
The Clinical Application of the Theory of Psychoanalysis
The “catharsis theory”, which Freud formulated when he used hypnosis, is still the prevailing theory in psychoanalysis. Freud fitted his very significant discoveries from free association into that... (more)
Knowing, Not-Knowing and Sort-of-Knowing: Psychoanalysis and the Experience of Uncertainty
A contemporary, wide-ranging exploration of one of the most provocative topics currently under psychoanalytic investigation: the relationship of dissociation to varieties of knowing and unknowing.... (more)
The Life and Death of Psychoanalysis
From its peculiar birth in Freud's self-analysis to its current state of deep crisis, psychoanalysis has always been a practice that questions its own existence. Like the patients that risk... (more)
Social Theory, Psychoanalysis and Racism
Sociological explanations of racism tend to concentrate on the structures and dynamics of modern life that facilitate discrimination and hierarchies of inequality. In doing so, they often fail to... (more)
Jung Contra Freud: The 1912 New York Lectures on the Theory of Psychoanalysis
In the autumn of 1912, C.G. Jung, then president of the International Psychoanalytic Association, set out his critique and reformulation of the theory of psychoanalysis in a series of lectures in New... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Education: Minding a Gap
This book provides a unique and highly topical application of psychoanalytic theory to the broad context of education, including schools, universities, and adult learning. Education is understood as... (more)
Unusual Interventions: Alterations of the Frame, Method, and Relationship in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis
Radical departures from the set and familiar rules of technique often become necessary in the course of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. These can include conducting a session outside the office,... (more)
What is a Child?: Childhood, Psychoanalysis, and Discourse
Childhood is defined in different preconceived manners by different discourses. Thus the categories defined by age such as infant, child, adolescent and so on, are to some extent arbitrary divisions... (more)
In Search of the Spiritual: Gabriel Marcel, Psychoanalysis and the Sacred
Gabriel Marcel (1889-1973), the first French existentialist and phenomenologist, was a world-class Catholic philosopher, an accomplished playwright, drama critic and musician. He wrote brilliantly... (more)
The Analysis of Failure: An Investigation of Failed Cases in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy
Psychotherapy and psychoanalysis don't always work. Inevitably, a therapy or analysis may fail to alleviate the suffering of the patient. The reasons why this occurs are as manifold as the patients... (more)
Couple and Family Psychoanalysis: Volume 2 Number 1
Couple and Family Psychoanalysis Journal is an international journal sponsored by The Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology, and aims to promote the theory and practice of working with couple and... (more)