Search results for "psychoanalysis"
Subject to Ourselves: Social Theory, Psychoanalysis and Postmodernity
Examines current debates about modernity and postmodernity from the viewpoint of psychoanalytic theory. The story develops an account of postmodernity which supplants current understandings of... (more)
Anna Freud, Melanie Klein, and the Psychoanalysis of Children and Adolescents
The central theme of this book is concerned with the controversies on technique between Anna Freud and Melanie Klein in the 1920s and 1930s, and with a clear differentiation between child analysis... (more)
Psyche, Self and Soul: Rethinking Psychoanalysis, the Self and Spirituality
a many faceted exploration of the relationship of psychotherapy and spirituality. Introducing the term 'an everyday transcendence', Gargiulo studies the silent alone space of each individual and... (more)
Julia Kristeva: Psychoanalysis and Modernity
This is the first systematic overview of Julia Kristeva's vision and work in relation to philosophical modernity. It provides a clear, comprehensive, and interdisciplinary analysis of her thought on... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Motivation
Carrying forward his inquiry into the nature and conditions of normal and abnormal development, the author focuses on motivation. The text offers an alternative to psychoanalytic drive theory that... (more)
The Edinburgh International Encyclopaedia of Psychoanalysis
With over one thousand entries, 'the Edinburgh International Encyclopaedia of Psychoanalysis' provides the best single-volume coverage of the field available. An international array of contributors... (more)
Psychoanalysis: Its Image and Its Public
Moscovici's development of the theory of social representations has long been recognised as a major contribution to social psychology, but discussion of the theory has been limited by the... (more)
The Essentials of Psychoanalysis
Key articles on Psychoanalysis, including 'On Dreams' and 'Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality'. (more)
Hate and the 'Jewish Science': Anti-Semitism, Nazism and Psychoanalysis
Psychoanalysis has always grappled with its Jewish origins, sometimes celebrating them and sometimes trying to escape or deny them. Through exploration of Freud's Jewish identity, the fate of... (more)
Killing Freud: Twentieth Century Culture and the Death of Psychoanalysis
Killing Freud takes the reader on a journey through the 20th century, tracing the work and influence of one of its greatest icons, Sigmund Freud. A devastating critique, Killing Freud ranges across... (more)
Psychoanalysis as Biological Science: A Comprehensive Theory
Psychoanalysis was once considered primarily a humanistic enterprise. The psychoanalyst was a philosopher and an artist, adept at deciphering the communications and intrapsychic behaviors of the... (more)
The Lacanian Left: Psychoanalysis, Theory, Politics
Engaging with the role of affect and emotion in political life through the central Lacanian notion of 'enjoyment', The Lacanian Left puts forward innovative anlyses of political power and authority,... (more)
Becoming Alive: Psychoanalysis and Vitality
Becoming Alive draws on the Winnicottian idea of transitional objects, and puts forward the argument that human beings relate to and use objects in order to generate experiences of 'being alive'. (more)
The Matrix of Hysteria: Psychoanalysis of the Struggle Between the Sexes as Enacted in the Body
The current diversity in psychoanalytic theories of hysteria h confused our understanding of the concept. Matrix of Hysteria offers a new perspective, which draws on previous theories to present a... (more)
4th International Neuro-Psychoanalysis Congress DVD (PAL Format)
4-disc DVD box-set of the First Education Day held during the 4th International Neuro-Psychoanalysis Congress in New York in July 2003. PAL format is compatible in all regions except North America.... (more)
4th International Neuro-Psychoanalysis Congress DVD (NTSC Format)
4-disc DVD box-set of the First Education Day held during the 4th International Neuro-Psychoanalysis Congress in New York in July 2003. NTSC format is compatible in North America. For PAL format see... (more)
Freud's Free Clinics: Psychoanalysis and Social Justice 1918-1938
Today many view Sigmund Freud as an elitist whose psychoanalytic treatment was reserved for the intellectually and financially advantaged. However, in this new work Elizabeth Ann Danto presents a... (more)
Is It Too Late?: Key Papers on Psychoanalysis and Ageing
This book brings together a selection of classic psychoanalytical papers related to ageing, dying and death that have appeared in the renowned International Journal of Psychoanalysis (IJP). Two... (more)
Relational and Intersubjective Perspectives in Psychoanalysis
This volume is the first concentrated effort to offer a philosophical critique of relational and intersubjective perspectives in contemporary psychoanalytic thought. The distinguished group of... (more)
The Fall of an Icon: Psychoanalysis and Academic Psychiatry
Over the last few decades, academic psychiatry has undergone a revolution. After the Second World War, most department chairs were psychoanalysts who belonged to separate institutes, not subject to... (more)
Fair Sex, Savage Dreams: Race, Psychoanalysis, Sexual Difference
In Fair Sex, Savage Dreams, Jean Walton examines the work of early feminist psychoanalytic writing to decipher it in the unacknowledged yet foundational role of race. Focusing on the 1920s and 1930s,... (more)
Psychoanalysis of Science: The Role of Metaphor, Paraprax, Lacunae and Myth
By systematically deconstructing and analysing scientific texts for irrational unconscious motivations, new scientific associations can be produced. Four categories are suggested as guidelines for... (more)
Taboo Subjects: Race, Sex, and Psychoanalysis
Interrogates the intersection of gender and racial subjectivity in American culture. In American literature, a traumatic scene of racial and sexual awakeningfrequently involving photographs, mirrors,... (more)
Secrets of the Soul - A Social and Cultural History of Psychoanalysis
Traces the origins and development of psychoanalysis, from the Enlightenment through the twentieth century, in social, economic, and cultural perspectives. (more)
Freud Wars: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Psychoanalysis
How can psychoanalytic thinking be justified? The Freud Wars offers a comprehensive introduction to the crucial question of the justification of psychoanalysis. No specialised knowledge is assumed,... (more)
Poetics of Psychoanalysis: In the Wake of Klein
"The Poetics of Psychoanalysis: In the Wake of Klein" explores the literary aspects of the twentieth-century psychoanalytic tradition that has come to be known as British Object Relations... (more)
Relational Psychoanalysis: Volume 2: Innovation and Expansion
A volume of reprints of previously printed articles. Part I: Therapeutic Action D. Ehrenberg, The Intimate Edge in Therapeutic Relatedness (1974) J. Slochower, Holding: Something Old and Something... (more)
Loving Psychoanalysis: Looking at Culture with Freud and Lacan
Psychoanalysis was neither a product of philosophy nor of academic study. Rather, psychoanalysis was born in the clinic. Freud took his lead from hysterical women; the accounts of their pain,... (more)