A lucid introduction to the clinical application of Lacanian psychoanalysis. The book starts with the place of desire in analytic technique, moves on to diagnosis and the position of the analyst, and... (more)
Links the phenomena of loneliness to unresolved separation anxiety. (more)
This book examines the importance of language and writing in psychoanalytic theory and practice, offering an understanding of how language works can give a deeper insight into the psyche both in... (more)
This book draws on a number of Freud's lesser-known works to explore psychoanalytic perspectives on memory, mourning and repetition.
It is remarkable that Freud in his speculations on the human... (more)
Through a collection of letters sent by members of a Jewish family between 1925-42, this fascinating book explores phenomenological and psychoanalytical aspects of the Holocaust and its associated... (more)
EDITORIAL
by Linda Cundy
ARTICLES
– You are how you eat by Andrea Oskis
– Dining in the dark by Toni Hoskins
– Dem belly full but we hungry: culinary spaces and Black masculinity... (more)
In this second edition Herbert J. Schlesinger explores endings and beginnings within psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic therapy; both the obvious main endings and beginnings of any course in... (more)
Psychoanalysts working in clinical situations are constantly confronted with the struggle between conservative forces and those which enable something new to develop. Continuity and change, stasis... (more)
The conflict and dissociation between the Body and the Mind have determinant implications in the context of our current clinical practice, and are an important source of internal and relational... (more)
Is someone radically different after an analysis? Since Freud, psychoanalysis has been questioned about what the psychoanalytic experience can change in someone’s life beyond shedding light on... (more)
Sublime Subjects explores two fundamental questions: What is the start of humanity? When and how does a newborn child become a subject? These are relevant to psychoanalysis not only theoretically,... (more)
Elements is a discussion of categorising the ideational context and emotional experience that may occur in a psychoanalytic interview. The text aims to expand the reader's understanding of cognition... (more)
Sigmund Freud evolved his theories throughout his lifetime. This entailed many revisions and changes which he himself never tried to standardize rigidly into a definitive conceptual system. The need... (more)
Covering a wide range of topics, the collection consists of twenty-six papers and essays published over a period of two decades. Readers of this book are thus enabled to trace the analyst's... (more)
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)
Shows how each person unconsciously invests the ordinary objects of life with particular and private meaning. As each person subsequently voyages through the environment he encounters objects that... (more)
From unedited French manuscripts (more)
Why is dreaming the mind's single most important psychoanalytic activity? This Art of Psychoanalysis offers a unique perspective on psychoanalysis that features a new way of conceptualizing the role... (more)
Initiating Psychoanalysis presents an international collection of papers brought together by the Working Party on Initiating Psychoanalysis of the European Psychoanalytic Federation and addresses the... (more)
The Empty Couch is an introduction to the challenges and obstacles inherent in ageing as a psychoanalyst. It addresses the previously neglected issue of ill health, as well as the significance of... (more)
After a hundred years of psychoanalysis, what has the psychoanalytic interpretation of dreams now become? Are what Simic calls "the films of our lives" still the royal road to the unconscious or do... (more)
This volume brings together many of the important writings of Hans Loewald, one of the major theoreticians of psychoanalysis today. Among other subjects, Dr. Loewald discusses the nature of the... (more)
Kevin Volkan and Vamik Volkan present a comprehensive study of schizophrenia using a psychoanalytic lens on the existing interdisciplinary research. Over the last seventy years, mainstream research... (more)
This book explores the nature of paradoxes in Lacanian psychoanalysis, how they can be approached in treatment and how they can be resolved.
Building on Freud’s and Lacan’s own work in resolving... (more)
Psychoanalytic Concepts and Technique in Development offers a clear and thorough overview of contemporary psychoanalytic theory and clinical technique, from a largely post-Freudian, French... (more)
In this book, Lawrence J. Brown offers a contemporary perspective on how the mind transforms, and gives meaning to, emotional experience that arises unconsciously in the here-and-now of the clinical... (more)
Nurturing Children describes children's lives transformed through therapy. Drawing on decades of experience, internationally respected clinician and trainer Graham Music tackles major issues... (more)
Christopher Bollas is one of the most expressive and eloquent exponents of the ideas, meanings and experience of psychoanalysis currently writing. He has a real gift for taking the reader into the... (more)
New Introductory Lectures (1932) and An Outline of Psychoanalysis (1938).
No discovery has done more to shape modernity than Freud’s theory of the unconscious and the part it plays in determining... (more)
Provides the first truly sustained commentary to appear in either English or French on Lacan's most important seminar, 'The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis'. The sixteen contributors... (more)