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Psychoanalysis in a Plague Year

by Donald Moss

Selecting one sentence from each session every day, Donald Moss has recorded the words spoken by his patients during one year of ‘Covid-time’. The patients conjure a moving mixture of the mundane and... (more)

Attachment: New Directions in Psychotherapy and Relational Psychoanalysis - Vol.15 No.2

Edited by Orit Badouk Epstein

CONTENTS

EDITORIAL

John Southgate: pioneer of attachment-based psychotherapy by Brett Kahr

ARTICLES

– The attachment antecedents of shame: mothers’ representations of the shamed... (more)

Couple and Family Psychoanalysis: Volume 12 Number 1 – Special Issue: Therapy in the time of Covid-19

Edited by Christopher Clulow

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)

Parenthood and Immigration in Psychoanalysis: Shaping the Therapeutic Setting

Edited by Marie Rose Moro, Genevieve Welsh

This book presents a comprehensive overview of psychoanalytic work with immigrant mothers, fathers, and their children, combining clinical examples and contemporary research to explore ways in which... (more)

Psychoanalysis and Maternal Absence: From the Traumatic to Faith and Trust

by Ofrit Shapira-Berman

Experience of maternal absence manifests in a variety of ways and this book explores a selection of its emotional, psychical, and somatic consequences as they relate to an individual's relationship... (more)

Obscenity, Psychoanalysis and Literature: Lawrence and Joyce on Trial

by William Simms

Obscenity, Psychoanalysis and Literature offers a fascinating psychoanalytic reading of four landmark obscenity trials involving the texts of D. H. Lawrence and James Joyce. By tracing the legal... (more)

Applying Psychoanalysis in Medical Care

Edited by Harvey Schwartz

Applying Psychoanalysis in Medical Care describes the many ways that analysts interact with the medical world and make meaningful contributions to the care of a variety of patients.

Clinicians... (more)

Psychoanalysis, Culture and Social Action: Act Signatures of the Unconscious

by Dieter Flader

Dieter Flader explores how current social and cultural concerns are connected to the unconscious, and how this affects our responses to them. Flader focuses on the role of the ego, assessing how our... (more)

Building Bridges: The Negotiation of Paradox in Psychoanalysis

by Stuart A. Pizer

In Building Bridges, Stuart A. Pizer gives much-needed recognition to the central role of negotiation in the analytic relationship and in the therapeutic process. Building on a Winnicottian... (more)

Paradoxes in Lacanian Psychoanalysis

by Yehuda Israely

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)

Sublimation and Superego: Psychoanalysis Between Two Deaths

by Jared Russell

This book integrates a thinking about dilemmas faced in the context of the clinical practice of psychoanalysis today, with contemporary social and political concerns specific to the age of the global... (more)

Couple and Family Psychoanalysis: Volume 13 Number 2

Edited by Christopher Clulow

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)

Migration and Intercultural Psychoanalysis: Unconscious Forces and Clinical Issues

Edited by Kristin White, Ina Klingenberg

How does migration affect us in the deeper layers of our minds, where forces are at work that affect our mental and physical health, our experiences in the world and our behaviour?

This edited... (more)

Translation/Transformation: 100 Years of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis

Edited by Dana Birksted-Breen

Translation is at the heart of psychoanalysis: from unconscious to conscious, experience to verbal expression, internal to enacted, dream thought to dream image, language to interpretation,... (more)

Theoretical and Clinical Perspectives on Narrative in Psychoanalysis: The Creation of Intimate Fictions

by Joye Weisel-Barth

This book is of and about psychoanalytic stories. It describes the personal, theoretical, and cultural stories that patients and analysts bring, create, and modify in analytic work. It shows how the... (more)

Attachment: New Directions in Psychotherapy and Relational Psychoanalysis - Vol.14 No.2

Edited by Orit Badouk Epstein

CONTENTS

EDITORIAL

My lockdown experience, our lockdown experiences by Gülcan Sutton Purser

OBITUARY

“What is brave is being part of a majority and standing out, not being... (more)

Couple and Family Psychoanalysis: Volume 11 Number 1 – Special Issue: Separation and Divorce

Edited by Kate Thompson

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)

The Story of Original Loss: Grieving Existential Trauma in the Arts and the Art of Psychoanalysis

by Malcolm Owen Slavin

This book explores the universal human existential trauma of "original loss," a trauma the author describes as arising from our primal, human evolutionary loss of experiencing ourselves as innately... (more)

The Political Clinic: Psychoanalysis and Social Change in the Twentieth Century

by Carolyn Laubender

For decades, psychoanalysis has provided essential concepts and methodologies for critical theory and the humanities and social sciences. But it is also, inseparably, a clinical practice and... (more)

The Sense and Non-Sense of Revolt: The Powers and Limits of Psychoanalysis

by Julia Kristeva

Linguist, psychoanalyst, and cultural theorist, Julia Kristeva is one of the most influential and prolific thinkers of our time. Her writings have broken new ground in the study of the self, the... (more)

Translating the Jewish Freud: Psychoanalysis in Hebrew and Yiddish

by Naomi Seidman

There is an academic cottage industry on the "Jewish Freud," aiming to detect Jewish influences on Freud, his own feelings about being Jewish, and suppressed traces of Jewishness in his thought. This... (more)

The Role of the Patient-Analyst Match in the Process and Outcome of Psychoanalysis

by Judy Kantrowitz

The Role of the Patient-Analyst Match in the Process and Outcome of Psychoanalysis is a compilation of Judy Kantrowitz’s previously published papers on the patient-analyst "match" and its effect on... (more)

Yoga and Psychoanalysis: Perspectives on the Psychology of Regression

by Anand C. Paranjpe

This book discusses the relevance of tracing back the course of individual development noted in psychoanalysis (regression) and in Patañjali’s Yoga (prati-prasava).

Although Freud found the... (more)

Pregnancy, Assisted Reproduction and Psychoanalysis

Edited by Renata Viola Vives, Ana Teresa Vale

Pregnancy, Assisted Reproduction and Psychoanalysis reflects on contemporary views on pregnancy, while offering guidance on how to work with women and couples experiencing infertility as well as the... (more)

Understanding Human Life through Psychoanalysis and Ancient Greek Tragedy: Explorations of Euripides, Sophocles and Aeschylus

by Sotiris Manolopoulos

Drawing parallels between ancient theatre, the analytic setting and the workings of psychic life, this book examines the tragedies of Euripides, Sophocles and Aeschylus through a psychoanalytic lens,... (more)

Sport and Psychoanalysis: What Sport Reveals about Our Unconscious Desires, Fantasies, and Fears

Edited by Jack Black, Joseph S. Reynoso

Sport and Psychoanalysis: What Sport Reveals about Our Unconscious Desires, Fantasies, and Fears explores the intersection of sport and psychoanalysis, emphasizing the often-overlooked psycho-social... (more)

The Politics and Psychoanalysis of Comedy

by Robert Samuels

This book looks at the political aspects of comedy and how humor is shaped by unconscious social and psychological factors within a particular cultural and historical context. Updating Freud’s work... (more)

Why Read Ogden?: The Importance of Thomas Ogden's Work for Contemporary Psychoanalysis

Edited by Marina F. R. Ribeiro

Why Read Ogden? explores the importance of Thomas Ogden's work to contemporary psychoanalysis, both as an interpreter of classic psychoanalytic thinkers and as a new and original theorist and... (more)

Formative Media: Psychoanalysis and Digital Media Platforms

by Steffen Kruger

Formative Media presents a psychoanalytic and psychosocial inquiry into the significance of the most widely used digital platforms – including Facebook, Google, YouTube, Twitter (X), and Instagram –... (more)

The Subversive Edge of Psychoanalysis

by David James Fisher

The Subversive Edge of Psychoanalysis examines the radical and non-conformist perspectives of both classical and contemporary psychoanalysis.

The papers included in this book span the course of... (more)