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Critical Theory and Psychoanalysis: From the Frankfurt School to Contemporary Critique
Critical theory has traditionally been interested in engaging classical psychoanalysis rather than addressing postclassical thought. For the first time, this volume brings critical theory into proper... (more)
From Fiction to Psychoanalysis: Reimagining a Relationship
How can reading literary fiction shed light on the way we speak ourselves within psychoanalysis? Rather than offering psychoanalytic insights into literature, Rosemary Rizq, a practicing psychologist... (more)
Grace Pailthorpe’s Writings on Psychoanalysis and Surrealism
This book gathers the published and unpublished writings of Dr Grace Pailthorpe (1883-1971), English surgeon, specialist in psychological medicine and surrealist artist to provide an in-depth study... (more)
Heteronormativity and Psychoanalysis: Oedipus Gay
Heteronormativity and Psychoanalysis proposes a critical reading of the Freudian and Lacanian texts that paved the way for a heteronormative bias in the theory and practice of... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Toileting: Minding One’s Business
Psychoanalysis and Toileting is an accessible book that delineates and interprets the psychological meanings of defecating and urinating in everyday life.
Paul Marcus’ work gives the clinician... (more)
Spiritually Sensitive Psychoanalysis: A Contemporary Introduction
This book provides an accessible introduction to spiritually sensitive psychoanalysis, an analytic tradition characterized by sensitivity to the spiritual and religious dimensions of human life and... (more)
Couple and Family Psychoanalysis: Volume 13 Number 1 – Special Issue: Private lives in a global storm
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)
Psychoanalysis of Judaism
Judaism is not only a religion. It is also a political project based on one main idea: the disappearance of borders, the unification of the earth and the establishment of a world of "peace". For... (more)
Uprooted Minds: A Social Psychoanalysis for Precarious Times: Second Edition
In the second edition of Uprooted Minds, Hollander offers a unique social psychoanalytic exploration of our increasingly destabilized political environment, augmented by her research into the... (more)
The Guru, the Bagman and the Sceptic: A story of science, sex and psychoanalysis
A brilliantly witty book about the intertwined lives of psychoanalyst Ernest Jones, surgeon Wilfred Trotter and the guru of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud.
Ernest Jones was Sigmund Freud's... (more)
Linguistics and Psychoanalysis: A New Perspective on Language Processing and Evolution
This groundbreaking, provocative book presents an overview of research at the disciplinary intersection of psychoanalysis and linguistics.
Understanding that linguistic activity, to a great... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Zen Buddhism: A Realizational Perspective
In this book, Cooper brings together psychoanalysis and Zen Buddhism by offering a comprehensive and integrated model, described as "The Realizational Model", that is consistent with the core... (more)
Life Studies in Psychoanalysis: Faces of Love
Life Studies in Psychoanalysis consists of four psychoanalytic studies, each representing a patient’s course of treatment over several years.
These studies demonstrate how love, in an array of... (more)
A Political Psychoanalysis for the Anthropocene Age: The Fierce Urgency of Now
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: Metaphoric Truth, Imaginary Fiction, Letter Jouissance, and Nomination
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
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)
Dialogues between Psychoanalysis and Architecture: The Relational Space of the Consulting Room Through the Senses
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)
How to Be Intimate with 15,000,000 Strangers: Musings on Media Psychoanalysis
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)
Testimony and Witnessing in Psychoanalysis: A Literary and Philosophical Perspective
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)
Risking Intimacy and Creative Transformation in Psychoanalysis
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)
Psychoanalysis, COVID and Mass Trauma: The Trauma of Reality
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)
The Émigré Analysts and American Psychoanalysis: History and Contemporary Relevance
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)
The Desire and Passion for a Child: Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Reproductive Techniques
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: A Conversation about Living in Joy
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)
Lacanian Psychoanalysis: A Contemporary Introduction
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)
Psychoanalysis and Homosexuality: A Contemporary Introduction
This important book examines the ways in which same sex desire, or "homosexuality" has been theorised by psychoanalysis during its history to date and the impact of that on clinical... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Ethics in Documentary Film (2nd Revised Edition)
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)
Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in China: Volume 3 Number 2
This peer-reviewed journal proposes to explore the introduction of psychoanalysis, psychoanalytic therapy, and the wider application of psychoanalytic ideas into China. It aims to have articles... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in China: Volume 4 Number 1
This peer-reviewed journal proposes to explore the introduction of psychoanalysis, psychoanalytic therapy, and the wider application of psychoanalytic ideas into China. It aims to have articles... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in China: Volume 4 Number 2
This peer-reviewed journal proposes to explore the introduction of psychoanalysis, psychoanalytic therapy, and the wider application of psychoanalytic ideas into China. It aims to have articles... (more)