An investigation into how the fields of mental health and media can work together more collaboratively. Brett Kahr is well-known and was previously Resident Psychotherapist at the B.B.C. Explores... (more)
In this fascinating volume, Zipi Rosenberg Schipper approaches the fundamental topic of testimony, seeking to recognize its value as a distinct and vital function in psychoanalytic work, separate... (more)
Located at the crossroads of psychoanalysis and history, this book investigates the ambiguous concept of trauma and the changes to its formulation and use between the years 1866 and 1939.
Luis... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Witnessing intertwines aspects of the history of psychoanalysis with the development of Philippe Réfabert’s own thinking and clinical practice.
Réfabert’s work invites... (more)
Wittgenstein’s Folly: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis and Language Games presents a dialogue between the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, the author Françoise Davoine, and Davoine’s patients with extreme... (more)
Theories and Practices of Psychoanalysis in Central Europe explores the close relationship between psychoanalysis, psycho-medical discourses, literature, and the visual arts of the late 1800s and... (more)
A Political Psychoanalysis for the Anthropocene Age presents an evaluation of the politics of climate change and considers how psychoanalysis can contribute to this discourse.
Presented in two... (more)
Lacanian Psychoanalysis and American Literature considers the psychoanalytic applications of three classic works of nineteenth century literature, applying Lacanian concepts throughout. Moncayo... (more)
The Routledge International Handbook of Psychoanalysis, Subjectivity, and Technology uniquely provides a comprehensive overview of human subjectivity in the technological age and how psychoanalysis... (more)
This distinctively interdisciplinary book draws upon psychoanalytic theory to explore how expectations, desires and fears of documentary subjects and filmmakers are engaged, and the ethical issues... (more)
EDITORIAL INTRODUCTION
Gertraud Schlesinger-Kipp and David E. Scharff
Mother, infant and father: development and gender in a cross-cultural dialogue
Frances Thomson-Salo
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EDITORIAL INTRODUCTION
David E. Scharff
SECTION ONE: TRAINING PROGRAMMES AND RESEARCH
Group relations conferences in China 2014 to 2019: theory and dynamics
Seth Harkins and Xiaohua... (more)
EDITORIAL INTRODUCTION
David E. Scharff
SECTION ONE: LEAD ARTICLES
The Peony Pavilion as a picture of sexual individuation
Huan Wang
DOI 10.33212/ppc.v4n2.2021.151
Research on the... (more)
EDITORIAL
David E. Scharff
SECTION ONE: PAPERS FROM CONFERENCE ON COUPLE AND FAMILY PSYCHOANALYSIS
Some thoughts on thinking space and linking in couple analytic therapy
Lin Tao
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EDITORIAL
David E. Scharff
SECTION ONE
Containment and father image transformation in treating the family of an adolescent Chinese boy
Song Rui and Fang Fang
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Psychoanalysis and the Small Screen examines the impact of cinema closures and the shift to small-screen consumption on our aesthetic and subjective desires during the Covid-19 pandemic from a... (more)
This book applies ecolinguistics and psychoanalysis to explore how films fictionalising environmental disasters provide spectacular warnings against the dangers of environmental apocalypse, while... (more)
Lacanian Psychoanalysis: A Contemporary Introduction sees Shlomit Yadlin-Gadot and Uri Hadar provide an original approach to the elaborate and complex world of Jacques Lacan, one of psychoanalysis’s... (more)
In this compelling book, Lauren Levine explores the transformative power of stories and storytelling in psychoanalysis to heal psychic wounds and create shared symbolic meaning and coherence out of... (more)
In this book, constructed as a psychoanalytic diary, the authors reflect on clinical observations from their work with patients during the COVID-19 pandemic, tracking these singular experiences to... (more)
This book explores the impact of migration, including its causes, upon the key ideas and directions of psychoanalytic theory and practice from the twentieth century until today.
Having... (more)
In this book, Patricia Alkolombre explores the desire for a child from a contemporary psychoanalytic perspective, and covers the questions raised in the face of new resources offered by reproductive... (more)
The Ethics of Lacanian Psychoanalysis observes different aspects of life – childhood, romantic love, sex, death, and human suffering – through a Lacanian lens, with a glance toward a Buddhist point... (more)
This is a timely update of a seminal text which re-interprets key films of the horror genre, including Carrie, The Exorcist, The Brood and Psycho.
In the first edition, Creed draws on Julia... (more)
Written by pioneering analyst and creative thinker, James Grotstein, A Beam of Intense Darkness offers a thorough overview and illuminating insight into the often complex work of W. R.... (more)
This collection presents new insights into the life and work of Herbert Rosenfeld and his continuing influence on psychoanalytic theory and practice. It includes accounts from both personal and... (more)
Demonstrating the connections between contemporary psychoanalysis, Jewish thought and Jewish history, this volume is a significant contribution to the traditions of dialogue, debate and... (more)
Dialogues Between Psychoanalysis and Architecture explores the multisensory space of therapy, real or virtual, and how important it is in providing the container for the therapeutic relationship and... (more)
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)
In this brilliant and revolutionary collection of fourteen major essays that draw from more than twenty-five years of painstaking research, M. Guy Thompson regales us with a stunning revisioning of... (more)