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Illusion, Disillusion, and Irony in Psychoanalysis
Illusion, Disillusion, and Irony in Psychoanalysis explores and develops the role of illusion and daydream in everyday life, and in psychoanalysis. Using both clinical examples and literary works,... (more)
Addiction, Accommodation, and Vulnerability in Psychoanalysis: Circles without a Center
This book explores the compulsions and trauma that underlie addiction, using an intersubjective approach in seeking to understand the inspirations and challenges arising from the psychoanalytic... (more)
Media and Psychoanalysis: A Critical Introduction
Our lives are saturated by media that we use in conscious as well as unconscious ways. Spanning a wide range of examples, from film and TV to social media, from gaming to robots, this critical... (more)
Sibling Relations and the Horizontal Axis in Theory and Practice: Contemporary Group Analysis, Psychoanalysis and Organization Consultancy
This book explores the interpersonal world of sibling relationships, explaining how these relationships are central to the development of the psyche of the individual, of the group, of society and of... (more)
Living and Containing Psychoanalysis in Institutions: Psychoanalysts Working Together
Encompassing diverse perspectives on the psychoanalyst as individual, social being, and member of psychoanalytic institutions, this book provides practical and informed answers to the question of how... (more)
Mutual Impact: At the Crossroads of Psychoanalysis and Literature
What can psychoanalysis contribute to the interpretation and understanding of cultural products, in particular, literary works? What, on the other hand, can novels and plays offer to widen the... (more)
Femininity, Desire and Sublimation in Psychoanalysis: From the Melancholic to the Erotic
Femininity, Desire and Sublimation in Psychoanalysis explores female subjectivity and examines the complexities inherent in psychoanalytic work realized by women analysts with women.
The book... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Colonialism: A Contemporary Introduction
Within this important and insightful book, Sally Swartz introduces readers to early entanglements of psychoanalytic theory with colonialism and how it has led to significant and long-lasting... (more)
Space in Psychoanalysis, Psychoanalysis in Space
Space in Psychoanalysis, Psychoanalysis in Space explores the immense potential of psychoanalytic thought to questions of spatiality.
The international contributors combine the symbolic, the... (more)
Negativity in Psychoanalysis: Theory and Clinic
Negativity in Psychoanalysis examines the role of negativity in psychoanalytic theory and its application in clinical settings.
While theories around negativity and death drive have become... (more)
Freud and the Changing World: Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Its Troubles
A highly original, convivial dialogue between two leading psychoanalysts invites the reader to pause and reflect on current transformations and emotional affects in a changing world. Two analysts of... (more)
Après-coup in Psychoanalysis: The Fulfilment of Desire and Thought
This important book argues that après-coup, a concept that has blossomed in French psychoanalytic discourse, not only allows an understanding of how repressed early memories determine adult life, and... (more)
The Spectre of the Other in Jungian Psychoanalysis: Political, Psychological, and Sociological Perspectives
This volume explores Jung’s theories in relation to the concept of Other and in conjunction with the lived experience of it, while examining current events and cultural phenomena through the lens of... (more)
On the History and Transmission of Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Speaking of Lacan
On the History and Transmission of Lacanian Psychoanalysis addresses key questions about the history and transmission of Lacan’s work in North America through discussions with experienced... (more)
Textbook of Applied Psychoanalysis
The Textbook of Applied Psychoanalysis is a unique and original contribution to the field of psychoanalysis. Emphasizing and underscoring the need for interdisciplinary discourse in understanding the... (more)
Schelling, Freud and the Philosophical Foundations of Psychoanalysis: Uncanny Belonging
Schelling, Freud, and the Philosophical Foundations of Psychoanalysis provides a long-overdue dialogue between two seminal thinkers, Schelling and Freud. Through a sustained reading of the sublime,... (more)
Interpretation in Couple and Family Psychoanalysis: Cross-Cultural Perspectives
This collection of contemporary clinically-oriented papers covers a range of theoretical approaches to the fundamentally important technical issue of interpretation. It offers thought-provoking,... (more)
Psychoanalysis in Hong Kong: The Absent the Present and the Reinvented (Routledge Studies in Asian Behavioural Sciences)
How is it possible that a phenomenon like psychoanalysis, which has dominated the cultural and intellectual life of the last century in Europe, North and South America, has seemingly had little-to-no... (more)
Lacunae: APPI International Journal for Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Issue 15
Issue 15 (December 2017) of Lacunae has a host of articles on Kant, interpretation, the “selfie," a case of psychosis, the Wolfman, transsexuality and Gender Identity Disorder, plus two book reviews... (more)
Wisdom Won from Illness: Essays in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis
Wisdom Won from Illness brings into conversation two fields of humane inquiry - psychoanalysis and moral philosophy - that seem to have little to say to one another but which, taken together, form a... (more)
The Essential Writings of Sabina Spielrein: Pioneer of Psychoanalysis
Sabina Spielrein's writings explore the burning topics in the early days of psychoanalysis while providing insight into the culture of the time and her own personal struggles. After a comprehensive... (more)
Race, Colour and the Processes of Racialization: New Perspectives from Group analysis, Psychoanalysis and Sociology
Is racial conflict determined by biology or society?
So many conflicts appear to be caused by racial and ethnic differences; for example, the cities of Britain and America are regularly affected... (more)
Self-examination in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy: Countertransference and Subjectivity in Clinical Practice
Self-examination in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy provides open and intimate accounts of the experience of being in psychotherapy. The internal life of the therapist is as much at the heart of the... (more)
Psychoanalysis Online 4: Teleanalytic Practice, Teaching, and Clinical Research
Psychoanalysis Online 4: Teleanalytic Practice, Teaching, and Clinical Research brings a systematic, qualitative research perspective to the question of the effectiveness of teletherapy,... (more)
Psychoanalysis in the Barrios: Race, Class, and the Unconscious
Psychoanalysis in the Barrios: Race, Class, and the Unconscious demonstrates that psychoanalytic principles can be applied successfully in disenfranchised Latino populations, refuting the misguided... (more)
The Emergence of Analytic Oneness: Into the Heart of Psychoanalysis
The Emergence of Analytic Oneness is a profound and penetrating exploration of a fundamental dimension of analytic presence and patient-analyst interconnectedness that offers new possibilities for... (more)
The Phallus and the Mask: The Patriarchal Unconscious of Psychoanalysis (Psychology)
Psychoanalysts from all schools – even when they are women – have often dismissed and sometimes openly disapproved of feminism and its critique of male universalism. While other disciplines, like... (more)
The Shadow of the Object: Psychoanalysis of the Unthought Known: 30th Anniversary Edition
In The Shadow of the Object, Christopher Bollas integrates aspects of Freud's theory of unconscious thinking with elements from the British Object Relations School. In doing so, he offers radical new... (more)
The Art of Personality in Literature and Psychoanalysis
The Art of Personality is a diverse selection of talks and papers on psychoanalysis and literature given by the author over the past ten years. They elaborate on the goal expressed by Milton as... (more)
The Greening of Psychoanalysis: André Green's New Paradigm in Contemporary Theory and Practice
The influence of André Green on psychoanalysis has been immeasurable - his theoretical, clinical and cultural contributions have identified him as one of the most important psychoanalytic thinkers of... (more)