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The Budapest School of Psychoanalysis: The Origin of a Two-Person Psychology and Emphatic Perspective
The Budapest School of Psychoanalysis brings together a collection of expertly written pieces on the influence of the Budapest (Ferenczi) conception of analytic theory and practice on the evolution... (more)
Journeys in Psychoanalysis: The Selected Works of Elizabeth Spillius
Elizabeth Spillius is a greatly respected and influential psychoanalyst, particularly within the Kleinian school of thought. This book brings together a collection of Spillius's papers from across... (more)
The New Analyst's Guide to the Galaxy: Questions about Contemporary Psychoanalysis
This book consists of a dialogue between a young psychoanalyst, Luca Nicoli, and a renowned teaching analyst, Antonino Ferro. It touches upon many of the key areas of contemporary psychoanalysis:... (more)
Letters to a Young Psychoanalyst: Lessons on Psyche, Human Existence, and Psychoanalysis
Written in the form of letters from an experienced analyst to a young colleague, Letters to a Young Psychoanalyst expands the psychoanalytic frame to include South American, French, and British... (more)
Metapsychology and the Foundations of Psychoanalysis: Attachment, Neuropsychoanalysis and Integration
Metapsychology and the Foundations of Psychoanalysis redresses faults in Freud's original conception to develop a coherent theoretical basis for psychodynamic theory. Simon Boag demonstrates that... (more)
Psychoanalysis, Society, and the Inner World: Embedded Meaning in Politics and Social Conflict
Psychoanalysis, Society, and the Inner World explores ideas from psychoanalysis that can be valuable in understanding social processes and institutions and in particular, how psychoanalytic ideas and... (more)
Psychoanalysis, Trauma and Community: History and Contemporary Reappraisals
Trauma is one of the hottest contemporary topics within psychoanalysis, whilst many psychoanalysts are increasingly interested in applying their skills outside the traditional setting of the... (more)
The Purloined Self: Interpersonal Perspectives in Psychoanalysis
The Purloined Self: Interpersonal Perspectives in Psychoanalysis brings together nineteen essays in updated form, still as relevant, witty and informative today as when the book originally published.... (more)
The War Inside: Psychoanalysis, Total War, and the Making of the Democratic Self in Postwar Britain
The War Inside is a groundbreaking history of the contribution of British psychoanalysis to the making of social democracy, childhood, and the family during World War II and the postwar... (more)
Marxism and Psychoanalysis: In or Against Psychology?
The intellectual traditions initiated by Freud and Marx have enabled a range of scholars to critically reflect upon the ideological foundations upon which modern and now postmodern western societies... (more)
The Psychoanalysis of Career Choice, Job Performance, and Satisfaction: How to Flourish in the Workplace
Freud said that love and work are the central therapeutic goals of psychoanalysis; the twin pillars for a sound mind and for living the good life. While psychoanalysis has masterfully contributed to... (more)
Metapsychology for Contemporary Psychoanalysis: Mind, World, and Self
Metapsychology for Contemporary Psychoanalysis is a complete revision of the theoretical underpinnings of psychoanalysis and psychodynamic psychotherapy. It is an attempt to replace the traditional... (more)
Mindfulness-Informed Relational Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis: Inquiring Deeply
Mindfulness-Informed Relational Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis: Inquiring Deeply provides a refreshing new look at the emerging field of Buddhist-informed psychotherapy. Marjorie Schuman presents a... (more)
Dreams, Neuroscience, and Psychoanalysis: Mind, Body, and the Question of Time
Dreams, Neuroscience, and Psychoanalysis sets out to give a scientific consistency to the question of time and find out how time determines brain functioning. Neurological investigations into dreams... (more)
Positive Psychoanalysis: Meaning, Aesthetics and Subjective Well-Being
Psychoanalysis and psychotherapy have, in one way or another, focused on the amelioration of the negative. This has only done half the job; the other half being to actively bring positive experience... (more)
Understanding Classical Psychoanalysis: Freudian Concepts in Contemporary Practice
Understanding Classical Psychoanalysis gives a clear overview of the key tenets of classical Freudian psychoanalysis, and offers a guide to how these might be best understood and applied to... (more)
Visual Politics of Psychoanalysis: Art and the Image in Post-traumatic Cultures
Activists working in post-traumatic societies have tended to resist psychoanalytical terms because they fear that pathologizing individual suffering displaces the collective and political causes of... (more)
Lacunae: APPI International Journal for Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Issue 13
Contents:
Marlene ffrench Mullen - 1916 Diary Extracts
Marlene ffrench Mullen - The Bubbling Has Not Yet Subsided: An Introduction to the Diaries of Marlene ffrench Mullen and the Rising of the... (more)
Couple and Family Psychoanalysis: Volume 7 Number 1
Couple and Family Psychoanalysis Journal is an international journal sponsored by The Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology, and aims to promote the theory and practice of working with couple and... (more)
Couple and Family Psychoanalysis: Volume 7 Number 2
Couple and Family Psychoanalysis Journal is an international journal sponsored by The Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology, and aims to promote the theory and practice of working with couple and... (more)
Feminism, Psychoanalysis, and Maternal Subjectivity
In this book, Alison Stone develops a feminist approach to maternal subjectivity. Stone argues that in the West the self has often been understood in opposition to the maternal body, so that one must... (more)
Field Theory in Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis: Understanding and Reacting to Unexpected Developments
Field Theory in Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis looks at the intersection of two types of psychoanalysis that challenge the classic model; child analysis, and field theory.
Children... (more)
Torture, Psychoanalysis and Human Rights
In recent years, there has been an increased interest in psychoanalytic views on wider social topics. In this book, the author examines how and why torture exists from a broadly psychoanalytic... (more)
Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Modern Jewish Philosophy: Two Languages of Love
Relational psychoanalysis and modern Jewish philosophy have much to say about the dynamics of human relationships, but there has been no detailed, thorough, and constructive examination that brings... (more)
Lacan, Psychoanalysis and Comedy
This collection of essays explores laughter, humor, and the comic from a psychoanalytic perspective. Edited by two leading practicing psychoanalysts and with original contributions from Lacanian... (more)
The Trouble with Pleasure: Deleuze and Psychoanalysis
Is pleasure a rotten idea, mired in negativity and lack, which should be abandoned in favor of a new concept of desire? Or is desire itself fundamentally a matter of lack, absence, and loss? This is... (more)
The Technique and Practice of Psychoanalysis: Volume II: A Memorial Volume to Ralph R. Greenson
The exciting discovery of several incomplete chapters of Ralph R. Greenson's long awaited Volume II of The Technique and Practice of Psychoanalysis form the cornerstone of this memorial to a man... (more)
Intersubjectivity in Psychoanalysis: A Model for Theory and Practice
In this book, Kirshner explains and illustrates the concept of intersubjectivity and its application to psychoanalysis. By drawing on findings from neuroscience, infant research, cognitive... (more)
The Late Sigmund Freud: Or, the Last Word on Psychoanalysis, Society, and All the Riddles of Life
Freud is best remembered for two applied works on society: The Future of an Illusion andCivilization and its Discontents. Yet the works of the final period are routinely denigrated as merely... (more)