Search results for "psychoanalysis"
The Idea of the Past: History, Science and Practice in American Psychoanalysis
Looks at the different theories of the psychoanalytic past - from object relations, to Lacanianism, to ego psychology. 320 pages.
Hide and Seek: The Child Between Psychoanalysis and Fiction
Examines representations of the child in fiction, psychoanalysis and popular culture. Drawing on popular images of the child from the 19th century to the present, it raises provocative questions... (more)
The Essentials of Psychoanalysis
Concerning the Rites of Psychoanalysis: Or the Villa of the Mysteries
Looks at Lacanian psychoanlaysis in a clinical context and how the ancient mysteries of the phallus, prefigure concepts of the symbol, the feminine and the sacred. (more)
Hypothesis and Evidence in Psychoanalysis
A scholar, psychologist, physician, and experienced psychoanalyst, Marshall Edelson is uniquely qualified to respond to questions about the scientific status of psychoanalysis. He has written this... (more)
Psychoanalysis: A Theory in Crisis
324 pages (more)
Sartre and Psychoanalysis: An Existential Challenge to Clinical Metatheory
Explores the implications of Sartrean philosophy for the Freudian psychoanalytic tradition. The author shows that Sartre appreciated Freud's psychoanalytic achievements, but rebelled against the... (more)
The Problem of the Passions: Feminism, Psychoanalysis and Social Theory
This book addresses what is often missing from discussions of women's psychology in feminist social theory: an account of women as ambivalent, both empathic and engaged, both loving and hating.
The Foundations of Psychoanalysis: A Philisophical Critique
A comprehensive and systematic philisophical examinations of Freud's own arguements for his theoretical and therapeutic enterprise. 310 pages. (more)
On Not Being Able to Sleep: Psychoanalysis and the Modern World
The whole book circles around issues of intimacy and privacy, versus the need to speak out, to define and organise the world through writing, analysis and politics - exploring the uncomfortable... (more)
Psychoanalysing Ambivalence with Freud and Lacan: On and Off the Couch
Taking a deep dive into contemporary Western culture, this book suggests we are all fundamentally ambivalent beings. A great deal has been written about how to love - to be kinder, more empathic, a... (more)
Cruelty, Sexuality, and the Unconscious in Psychoanalysis: Freud, Lacan, Winnicott, and the Body of the Void
In Cruelty, Sexuality, and the Unconscious in Psychoanalysis, Touria Mignotte explores an innovative conception of cruelty. Integrating the life sciences and quantum physics, this approach shows that... (more)
Intersectionality and Relational Psychoanalysis: New Perspectives on Race, Gender, and Sexuality
Intersectionality and Relational Psychoanalysis: New Perspectives on Race, Gender, and Sexuality examines the links between race, gender, and sexuality through the dual perspectives of relational... (more)
Toward a Social Psychoanalysis: Culture, Character, and Normative Unconscious Processes
For over thirty years, Lynne Layton has heeded the call for a social psychoanalysis and produced a body of work that examines unconscious process as it operates both in the social world and in the... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Therapies
As the original theory of psychotherapy, psychoanalysis is often presented as a starting point in psychology theory courses. Yet, many people’s understanding of psychoanalysis is limited to the... (more)
The Arabic Freud: Psychoanalysis and Islam in Modern Egypt
The first in-depth look at how postwar thinkers in Egypt mapped the intersections between Islamic discourses and psychoanalytic thought
In 1945, psychologist Yusuf Murad introduced an Arabic... (more)
Novel Relations: Victorian Fiction and British Psychoanalysis
Novel Relations engages twentieth-century post-Freudian British psychoanalysis in an unprecedented way: as literary theory. Placing the writing of figures like D. W. Winnicott, W. R. Bion, Michael... (more)
Trauma and the Discourse of Climate Change: Literature, Psychoanalysis and Denial
The more the global north has learned about the existential threat of climate change, the faster it has emitted greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. In Trauma and the Discourse of Climate Change,... (more)
In the Event of Laughter: Psychoanalysis, Literature and Comedy
Using Lacanian psychoanalysis, as well as its pre-history and afterlives, In the Event of Laughter argues for a new framework for discussing laughter. Responding to a tradition of 'comedy studies'... (more)
From Sign to Symbol: Transformational Processes in Psychoanalysis, Psychotherapy, and Psychology
In From Sign to Symbol: Transformational Processes in Psychoanalysis, Psychotherapy, and Psychology, Joseph Newirth describes the evolution of the unconscious from the psychoanalytic concept that... (more)
Attachment: New Directions in Psychotherapy and Relational Psychoanalysis - Vol.13 No.2
CONTENTS
EDITORIAL - by Orit Badouk Epstein
ARTICLES
– Historical section edited by Brett Kahr
Bowlby 1939: “Hysteria in children” and the birth of attachment theory
A neglected... (more)