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Lost in Cognition: Psychoanalysis and the Cognitive Sciences
This book examines the pretensions of the new paradigm in psychology that has put itself forward as the model for the future of the clinical disciplines, thereby seeking to put paid to... (more)
Doing Psychoanalysis in Tehran
Is psychoanalysis possible in the Islamic Republic of Iran? This is the question that Gohar Homayounpour poses to herself, and to us, at the beginning of this memoir of displacement, nostalgia, love,... (more)
Psychoanalysis Online: Mental Health, Teletherapy, and Training
Psychoanalysis Online: Mental Health, Teletherapy and Training, edited by Jill Savege Scharff, MD, is an international collaboration by psychotherapists and psychoanalysts who consider the impact of... (more)
The One and the Many: Relational Psychoanalysis and Group Analysis
This book is a of papers written between 2002 and 2012 on the subject of group analysis and relational psychoanalysis. From the author’s point of view, these two disciplines are really the two sides... (more)
The Violence of Emotions: Bion and Post-Bionian Psychoanalysis
In The Violence of Emotions the author marries an ability to introduce the reader to the intimate climate of an analytic session with a passionate rereading of Bion. To emphasize both the empirical... (more)
Art in Psychoanalysis: A Contemporary Approach to Creativity and Analytic Practice
A revolution is brewing in psychoanalysis: after a century of struggle to define psychoanalysis as a science, the concept of psychoanalysis as an art is finding expression in an unconventional... (more)
Metaphor and Fields: Common Ground, Common Language, and the Future of Psychoanalysis
Metaphor and Fields is an explanation and demonstration of the value of metaphoric processes and fields in psychoanalysis. In this book, Montana Katz articulates a future direction for psychoanalysis... (more)
Forgetting Freud: Is Psychoanalysis in Retreat?
Is psychoanalysis in retreat? Who needs psychoanalysis with its complex theory of the person? Weatherill draws not only on the work of key analytic figures like Freud, Klein and Lacan but also on... (more)
Key Concepts of Lacanian Psychoanalysis
In this classic work, eight crucial Lacanian ideas are explained through detailed exploration of the theoretical and/or practical context in which Lacan introduced them, the way in which they... (more)
Psychic Reality in Context: Perspectives on Psychoanalysis, Personal History, and Trauma
This book skillfully combines autobiographical stories with clear psychoanalytical theories. During her childhood, the author experienced the Holocaust and was left understandly traumatised by it. It... (more)
What is a Child?: Childhood, Psychoanalysis, and Discourse
Childhood is defined in different preconceived manners by different discourses. Thus the categories defined by age such as infant, child, adolescent and so on, are to some extent arbitrary divisions... (more)
Women's Bodies in Psychoanalysis
Why has the female body been marginalised in psychoanalysis, with a focus on female problems and pains only? How can we begin to think about body pleasure, power, competition and aggression as normal... (more)
The Significance of Dreams: Bridging Clinical and Extraclinical Research in Psychoanalysis
This book looks at dreams from a twenty-first century perspective. It takes its inspiration from Freud’s insights, but pursues psychoanalytic interest into both neuroscience and the modern... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Culture: A Kleinian Perspective
Through her numerous books and papers in learned journals, Hanna Segal has made contributions that have profoundly influenced contemporary psychoanalytic thinking. This influence extends far beyond... (more)
Truth games: lies, money and psychoanalysis
New in paperback. These essays offer a philosophical and historical perspective on the mechanics, moral dilemmas, and implications of psychoanalysis. The book attempts to provide an understanding of... (more)
A History of Child Psychoanalysis
Traces the history and development of child psychoanalysis from its birth in Vienna to its present status as a thriving discipline, practiced on an international scale. The authors argue that a... (more)
Shadow of the Other: Intersubjectivity and Gender in Psychoanalysis
A discussion of how the individual has two sorts of relationships with an 'other' - other beings, other individuals. The first regards the other as an entirely different being from oneself, but one... (more)
The Importance of Sibling Relationships in Psychoanalysis
'Coles' book starts from the claim that traditionally psychoanalysis, in stressing the relations of conflict between children and parents, has tended to overlook and displace the co-operative... (more)
Wild Desires and Mistaken Identities: Lesbianism and Psychoanalysis
This groundbreaking book provides a challenging exploration of psychoanalytic ideas about lesbians and lesbianism. Based on the authors' clinical experience as psychoanalytic psychotherapists, it... (more)
Witnessing Psychoanalysis: From Vienna back to Vienna via Buchenwald and the USA
The eighteen papers which form this collection by Ernst Federn, some of them previously unpublished, are grouped under four headings: (1) On social Psychology, (2) On the Psychology of Terror and... (more)
The Subject of Addiction: Psychoanalysis and The Administration of Enjoyment
Drugs and drug use are an integral part of human culture. Yet we know hardly anything about drugs, at least not the kind of knowledge that would help us to understand how drugs affect people and how... (more)
Mirror to Nature: Drama, Psychoanalysis and Society
This book brings the insights of psychoanalysis to bear on drama in the western dramatic tradition. Plays which are discussed in detail include works by Shakespeare, Ibsen, Chekhov, Wilde, and... (more)
Shakespeare in Psychoanalysis
This work provides an introductory cultural history of the relationship between psychoanalytic concepts and Shakespearean texts. This is played out in a variety of expected and unexpected contexts,... (more)
Clinical Studies in Neuro-psychoanalysis: Introduction to a Depth Neuropsychology: Second Edition
When the first edition of Clinical studies in Neuro-Psychoanalysis was published in 2000, it was hailed as a turning point in psychoanalytic research. It is now relied on as a model for the... (more)
Being a Character: Psychoanalysis and Self-Experience
Shows how each person unconsciously invests the ordinary objects of life with particular and private meaning. As each person subsequently voyages through the environment he encounters objects that... (more)
Selected Papers on Psychoanalysis
Covering a wide range of topics, the collection consists of twenty-six papers and essays published over a period of two decades. Readers of this book are thus enabled to trace the analyst's... (more)
Before I was I: Psychoanalysis and the Imagination
This volume is the collected papers of a leading figure in British psychoanalysis. The book is divided into three parts, which show her at work with individual patients, doctors and marital... (more)
Life and Death in Psychoanalysis
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