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Relational Psychoanalysis: Volume 2: Innovation and Expansion
A volume of reprints of previously printed articles. Part I: Therapeutic Action D. Ehrenberg, The Intimate Edge in Therapeutic Relatedness (1974) J. Slochower, Holding: Something Old and Something... (more)
The Signifier Pointing at the Moon: Psychoanalysis and Zen Buddhism
Within the context of a careful review of the psychology of religion and prior non-Lacanian literature on the subject, Raul Moncayo builds a bridge between Lacanian psychoanalysis and Zen Buddhism... (more)
The Ethics of Psychoanalysis: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan
A charismatic and controversial figure, Lacan is one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century and his work has revolutionized linguistics, philosophy, literature, psychology, cultural... (more)
Skin in Psychoanalysis
Skin in Psychoanalysis is an important theoretical contribution, revising several authors starting with Freud in whose writing we can now discover multiple direct or indirect references to the skin.... (more)
Relational Psychoanalysis - 3-volume Set
Over the course of the past 15 years, there has been a vast sea change in American psychoanalysis. It takes the form of a broad movement away from classical psychoanalytic theorizing grounded in... (more)
The Aesthetic Development: The Poetic Spirit of Psychoanalysis: Essays on Bion, Meltzer, Keats
'Few people would be better qualified than Meg Harris Williams to write this innovative and eagerly anticipated post-Kleinian book. Deeply versed in the opus of Bion and Meltzer, Harris Williams... (more)
'It is a New Kind of Diaspora': Explorations in the Sociopolitical and Cultural Context of Psychoanalysis
Riccardo Steiner, one of the most well known historians of psychoanalysis has in the numerous papers in this volume traced the relationship between psychoanalysis and the larger cultural sphere with... (more)
A Fresh Look at Psychoanalysis: The View from Self Psychology
Arnold Goldberg uses the questions posed by self psychology as point of entry to a thoughtful consideration of issues with which every clinician wrestles: the scientific status analysis, the... (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)
The Chains of Eros: The Sexual in Psychoanalysis
André Green, a leading figure in contemporary psychoanalytic theory, deplores the absence of sexuality and the erotic from current psychoanalytic theory and practice. Instead, he demonstrates how... (more)
Attachment Theory and Psychoanalysis
This book undertakes to demontrate that the relationship between attachment theory and psychoanalysis is more complex than adherants of either community generally recognize. Beginning with a brief... (more)
Belief and Imagination: Explorations in Psychoanalysis
This volume collates Ronald Britton's writing on these subjects over the last fifteen years, exploring the concepts from a Kleinian perspective. Topics include how the notions of objectivity and... (more)
Approaching Psychoanalysis: An Introductory Course
A comprehensive user-friendly introductory account of Freudian theory and other major currents in psychoanalytic thought. It also includes biographical material on the major theorists. It helps to... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Management: The Transformation
David Gutmann is a highly successful consultant to leading institutions and organisations. In this enriching and challenging dialogue with the Italian journalist Oscar Iarussi, he brings his passion... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Film
In full acknowledgment of the important cultural significance of film, this outstanding collection of psychoanalytic essays brings a methodological and theoretical sophistication to an absorbing... (more)
Dimensions of Psychoanalysis: A Selection of Papers Presented at the Freud Memorial Lectures
Dimensions of Psychoanalysis contains a selection of the Freud Memorial Lectures delivered by eminent British, French and American analysts at University College in the University of London. Together... (more)
Hidden Selves: Between Theory and Practice in Psychoanalysis
The 'hidden selves' that Masud Khan reveals to us in this third volume of his psychoanalytic writings are to be understood in two ways. Primarily, they are those aspects of the self which are... (more)
A Clinical Introduction to Lacanian Psychoanalysis
A lucid introduction to the clinical application of Lacanian psychoanalysis. The book starts with the place of desire in analytic technique, moves on to diagnosis and the position of the analyst, and... (more)
Selected Papers: Psychoanalysis and Group Analysis
The collection of Foulkes' papers, which includes some unpublished material and some published in English for the first time, comprises not only the later Group-Analytic writings but also those from... (more)
Hidden Conversations: An Introduction to Communicative Psychoanalysis
Hidden Conversations introduces Robert Langs radical reinterpretation of psychoanalysis by presenting and expanding his ideas in new and accessible ways. It is the first clear account of the theories... (more)
Dream Analysis: A Practical Handbook of Psychoanalysis
Written originally as a practical handbook on dream analysis, this book has established itself as a work of lasting value not only to psychoanalysts engaged in therapy, for whom it is primarily... (more)
The Politics of Psychoanalysis: An Introduction to Freudian and Post-Freudian Theory
This completely revised and updated second edition is a guide to the range and complexity of psychoanalytic theories. Beginning with the work of Freud, it examines the basic assumptions and social... (more)
What Happens in Groups: Psychoanalysis, the Individual and the Community
Systematically works through the psychoanalytic concepts which bear on what happens in groups, with examples from the author's own practice, and readings of the works of Klein, Bion and Menzies-Lyth.... (more)
Reading Seminar XI: Lacan's Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis: Including the First English Translation of Position of the Unconscious
Provides the first truly sustained commentary to appear in either English or French on Lacan's most important seminar, 'The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis'. The sixteen contributors... (more)
Object-relations theory and clinical psychoanalysis
A collection of papers detailing the basics and applications of Kernberg's psychoanalytic object-relations theory, illuminating a wide range of clinical issues, including: the treatment of borderline... (more)
The Supervisory Encounter: A guide for teachers of psychodynamic psychotherapy and psychoanalysis
This text offers a theoretical and technical framework for understanding and deepening the supervisory process in therapist training. It includes descriptions of: the phases of supervision; its... (more)
The Taming of Solitude: Separation Anxiety in Psychoanalysis
Links the phenomena of loneliness to unresolved separation anxiety. (more)
Why War?: Psychoanalysis, Politics and the Return to Melanie Klein
Essays on war, the seduction theory, Margaret Thatcher, education, and a call for a radical re-reading of Melanie Klein's work.
Apophatic Elements in the Theory and Practice of Psychoanalysis: Pseudo-Dionysius and C.G. Jung
How can the psychotherapist think about not knowing? Is psychoanalysis a contemplative practice? This book explores the possibility that there are resources in philosophy and theology which can help... (more)
Bion and Thoughts Too Deep for Words: Psychoanalysis, Suggestion, and the Language of the Unconscious
This book addresses a range of fundamental questions around the nature of psychoanalysis. It distinguishes how psychoanalysis differs from other forms of therapy, explores the ways in which insights... (more)