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Reading French Psychoanalysis

Edited by Dana Birksted-Breen, Alain Gibeault

How has psychoanalysis developed in France in the years since Lacan so dramatically polarized the field? In this book, Dana Birksted-Breen and Sara Flanders of the British Psychoanalytical Society,... (more)

Psychoanalysis and Paediatrics: Key Psychoanalytic Concepts with Sixteen Clinical Observations of Children

by Francoise Dolto

This book is Françoise Dolto’s 1939 medical thesis and is dedicated to medical practitioners, paediatricians, and parents without prior knowledge of psychoanalysis. Françoise Dolto’s aim was to... (more)

Hauntings: Psychoanalysis and Ghostly Transmissions

by Stephen Frosh

Hauntings: Psychoanalysis and Ghostly Transmissions shows how the present is troubled by the past and by the future, using the idea of haunting to explore psychoanalytically how identities, beliefs,... (more)

Catch Them Before They Fall: The Psychoanalysis of Breakdown

by Christopher Bollas

In this exploration of a radical approach to the psychoanalytical treatment of people on the verge of mental breakdown, Christopher Bollas offers a new and courageous clinical paradigm. He suggests... (more)

Winnicott's Babies and Winnicott's Patients: Psychoanalysis as Transitional Space

by Margaret Boyle Spelman

Winnicott’s thinking continues to grow in importance in psychoanalysis today. This book can be described as a clinical primer: by presenting her own personal responses to Winnicott and her initial... (more)

The Psychic Home: Psychoanalysis, Consciousness and the Human Soul

by Roger Kennedy

The Psychic Home: Psychoanalysis of Consciousness and the Human Soul develops, from a number of different viewpoints, the significance of home in our lives. Roger Kennedy puts forward the central... (more)

The Shell and the Kernel: Renewals of Psychoanalysis, Volume 1

by Nicolas Abraham, Maria Torok

A collection of essays showing the richness and originality of Abraham's and Torok's approach to psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic literature . Central to their approach is a theory of psychic... (more)

Second Thoughts: Selected Papers on Psychoanalysis

by Wilfred R. Bion

Second Thoughts is a collection of papers on Schizophrenia, Linking and Thinking, and his commentary upon them in the light of later work. Originally composed between 1950 and 1962, it derives its... (more)

The Seminar of Jacques Lacan VII: The Ethics of Psychoanalysis, 1959-60

by Jacques Lacan, Jacques-Alain Miller

Includes discussion of the problem of sublimation, the paradox of jouissance, and the essence of tragedy. (more)

The Interpersonal World of the Infant: A View from Psychoanalysis and Developmental Psychology

by Daniel N. Stern

The ground-breaking book which attempts to bridge the gap between the psychoanalytic and cognitive psychological theories of child development. (more)

Psychoanalysis, Literature and War: Papers 1972-1995

by Hanna Segal

This collection of writings by Hanna Segal shows how the same conflicts between life and death instincts, phantasy and reality, are experienced in the consulting room, reflected in literature, and... (more)

The Unconscious in Neuroscience and Psychoanalysis: On Lacan and Freud

by Marco Maximo Balzarini

The Unconscious in Neuroscience and Psychoanalysis presents a unique and provocative approach to the assimilation of these two disciplines while offering a thorough assessment of the unconscious from... (more)

Attachment: New Directions in Psychotherapy and Relational Psychoanalysis - Vol.16 No.2: Special issue – Fathers

Edited by Aysha Begum

EDITORIAL

by Dr Aysha Begum

ARTICLES

– Sigmund Freud as the Father of Attachment Theory by Prof. Brett Kahr

– The Father in Psychoanalysis by Gordon Alderson

– Double Father... (more)

Antisemitism and Racism: Ethical Challenges for Psychoanalysis

by Stephen Frosh

Psychoanalysis has not had a comfortable history in relation to "race" and racism, despite its origins in the Jewish lives of Freud and its other first-generation progenitors and the insistent... (more)

Negativity in Psychoanalysis: Theory and Clinic

Edited by Duane Rousselle, Mark Gerard Murphy

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)

The Marion Milner Method: Psychoanalysis, Autobiography, Creativity

by Emilia Halton-Hernandez

This book traces the development of British psychoanalyst Marion Milner’s (1900–98) autobiographical acts throughout her lifetime, proposing that Milner is a thinker to whom we can turn to explore... (more)

A Clinician’s Guide to Understanding and Using Psychoanalysis in Practice

by Paul Terry

This book provides an intimate portrait of a clinician’s psychoanalytic approach to working in the public health sector with people suffering from acute and chronic emotional pain.

Drawing on... (more)

The Infinite Infantile and the Psychoanalytic Task: Psychoanalysis with Children, Adolescents and their Families

Edited by Nilde Parada Franch, Christine Anzieu-Premmereur

The Infinite Infantile and the Psychoanalytic Task is a fascinating collection of essays that proposes to restore and elaborate original conceptions of the complexity of mental processes in the early... (more)

Living and Containing Psychoanalysis in Institutions: Psychoanalysts Working Together

Edited by Gabriele Junkers

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)

Beyond Fragmentation: Clinical Journeys in Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy

by Ingrid Pedroni

‘Profoundly honest, unflinching in examining her own history as a thinker and clinician, Ingrid Pedroni challenges us to see where we have been and where we have failed, each of us.’ Donna Orange,... (more)

Femininity, Desire and Sublimation in Psychoanalysis: From the Melancholic to the Erotic

by Elda Abrevaya

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)

Media and Psychoanalysis: A Critical Introduction

by Jacob Johanssen, Steffen Kruger

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

Edited by Smadar Ashuach, Avi Berman

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)

Couple and Family Psychoanalysis: Volume 11 Number 2

by Christopher Vincent

Couple and Family Psychoanalysis is an international journal sponsored by The Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology, which aims to promote the theory and practice of working with couple and... (more)

Silence and Silencing in Psychoanalysis: Cultural, Clinical, and Research Perspectives

Edited by Aleksandar Dimitrijevic, Michael B. Buchholz

This book is the first comprehensive treatment in recent decades of silence and silencing in psychoanalysis from clinical and research perspectives, as well as in philosophy, theology, linguistics,... (more)

Psychoanalysis from the Inside Out: Developing and Sustaining an Analytic Identity and Practice

by Lena Theodorou Ehrlich

In the face of considerable scepticism over the function and effectiveness of psychoanalysis, Lena Ehrlich demonstrates how analysis is unique in its potential to transform patients at an emotionally... (more)

Couple and Family Psychoanalysis: Volume 9 Number 2

Edited by Molly Ludlam