Search results for "psychoanalysis"
Antisemitism and Racism: Ethical Challenges for Psychoanalysis
Psychoanalysis has not had a comfortable history in relation to "race" and racism, despite its origins in the Jewish lives of Freud and its other first-generation progenitors and the insistent... (more)
Psychoanalysis and the Unspoken
What do therapists not talk about? What do we ignore, miss or sidestep? What factors, personal, social, political, inform our areas of blindness? This book names and explores what psychoanalytic... (more)
Psychoanalysis as Radical Hospitality: Six Perspectives on Turning-To Versus Turning-Away
This book focuses on different forms of turning towards versus turning away from speech across a range of experiences in clinical treatment and general life.
The chapters of this volume deal... (more)
The Sense and Non-Sense of Revolt: The Powers and Limits of Psychoanalysis
Freud and psychoanalysis taught us that rebellion is what guarantees our independence and our creative abilities. But in the contemporary "entertainment" culture, is rebellion still a viable option?... (more)
Why Read Ogden?: The Importance of Thomas Ogden's Work for Contemporary Psychoanalysis
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)
Pregnancy, Assisted Reproduction and Psychoanalysis
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)
The Infinite Infantile and the Psychoanalytic Task: Psychoanalysis with Children, Adolescents and their Families
The Infinite Infantile and the Psychoanalytic Task is a fascinating collection of essays that proposes to restore and elaborate original conceptions of the complexity of mental processes in the early... (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 Globally Networked: The Origins of the International Federation of Psychoanalytic Societies
Since the very beginning with Sigmund Freud, the psychoanalytic movement has been in the sway of strong group dynamics. There have been hierarchies, tensions between subgroups, splits and exclusions.... (more)
The Role of the Patient-Analyst Match in the Process and Outcome of Psychoanalysis
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)
Psychoanalysts in Session: Clinical Glossary of Contemporary Psychoanalysis
Psychoanalysis is an intimate clinical experience and the concepts that it explores aim to grapple with the specific phenomena that unfold when a patient speaks and an analyst listens. This book aims... (more)
Couple and Family Psychoanalysis: Volume 10 Number 1 – Special Issue: Musical Connections
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)
Psychoanalysing Ambivalence with Freud and Lacan: On and Off the Couch
Taking a deep dive into contemporary Western culture, this book suggests we are all fundamentally ambivalent beings. A great deal has been written about how to love - to be kinder, more empathic, a... (more)
The Arabic Freud: Psychoanalysis and Islam in Modern Egypt
The first in-depth look at how postwar thinkers in Egypt mapped the intersections between Islamic discourses and psychoanalytic thought
In 1945, psychologist Yusuf Murad introduced an Arabic... (more)
Loss, Grief and Transformation: The Therapist's Personal Experience in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis
This book is a timely and relevant book for psychotherapists and psychoanalysts who process loss both in their own lives and in the lives of their patients, offering perspectives from a range of... (more)
The Authority of Tenderness: Dignity and the True Self in Psychoanalysis
This insightful and beautifully written work explores non-linear processes of recovery of the loss of Self. The inherent healing power of hard-earned, wholehearted self-acceptance is conceived... (more)
Couple and Family Psychoanalysis: Volume 13 Number 2
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)
Introduction to Psychoanalysis: Contemporary Theory and Practice: Second Edition
What is psychoanalysis? Is it relevant to today's mental health crisis? How can psychoanalysis help people suffering from psychological distress and illness? This vital new book examines how... (more)
Vitalization in Psychoanalysis: Perspectives on Being and Becoming
In Vitalization in Psychoanalysis, Schwartz Cooney and Sopher develop and explore the concept of vitalization, generating new ways of approaching and conceptualizing the psychoanalytic... (more)
The Cure for Psychoanalysis
In his first essay, ‘The Magic of Winnicott: Playing and reality, and reality’, Adam Phillips makes clear the subtlety and wisdom of Winnicott’s concept of play. Its inspiration came from a wonderful... (more)
The Deconstruction of Narcissism and the Function of the Object: Explorations in Psychoanalysis
The Deconstruction of Narcissism and the Function of the Object addresses the topic of narcissistic suffering and presents an innovative take on its psychoanalytic treatment through the... (more)
How the Mind Works: Concepts and Cases in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy
There is a great deal of confusion about psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy, even among practitioners of these methods. One reason is the sheer volume of psychoanalytic psychotherapies... (more)
Attachment: New Directions in Psychotherapy and Relational Psychoanalysis - Vol.16 No.2: Special issue – Fathers
EDITORIAL
by Dr Aysha Begum
ARTICLES
– Sigmund Freud as the Father of Attachment Theory by Prof. Brett Kahr
– The Father in Psychoanalysis by Gordon Alderson
– Double Father... (more)
Playing and Vitality in Psychoanalysis
Building on their long-lasting scientific partnership, Civitarese and Ferro offer an array of thought-provoking writings bolstered by extensive clinical material, attesting to their shared... (more)
Mutual Impact: At the Crossroads of Psychoanalysis and Literature
What can psychoanalysis contribute to the interpretation and understanding of cultural products, in particular, literary works? What, on the other hand, can novels and plays offer to widen the... (more)
Asexuality and Freudian-Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Towards a Theory of an Enigma
Asexuality and Freudian-Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Towards a Theory of an Enigma proposes that asexuality is a libidinally founded desire for no sexual desire, a concept not included in psychoanalytic... (more)
Attachment: New Directions in Psychotherapy and Relational Psychoanalysis - Vol.15 No.2
CONTENTS
EDITORIAL
John Southgate: pioneer of attachment-based psychotherapy by Brett Kahr
ARTICLES
– The attachment antecedents of shame: mothers’ representations of the shamed... (more)
Applying Psychoanalysis in Medical Care
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, Politics, Oppression and Resistance: Lacanian Perspectives
This innovative text addresses the lack of literature regarding intersectional approaches to psychoanalysis, underscoring the importance of thinking through race, class, and gender within... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Literary Theory: An Introduction
Psychoanalysis and Literary Theory introduces the key concepts, figures and movements of both psychoanalytic theory and the history of literary criticism and theory, engaging with Freud, Zizek,... (more)