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Tales of Transformation: A Life in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis

Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Therapies

As the original theory of psychotherapy, psychoanalysis is often presented as a starting point in psychology theory courses. Yet, many people’s understanding of psychoanalysis is limited to the... (more)

In the Event of Laughter: Psychoanalysis, Literature and Comedy

by Alfie Bown

Using Lacanian psychoanalysis, as well as its pre-history and afterlives, In the Event of Laughter argues for a new framework for discussing laughter. Responding to a tradition of 'comedy studies'... (more)

The Arabic Freud: Psychoanalysis and Islam in Modern Egypt

by Omnia El Shakry

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)

Trauma and the Discourse of Climate Change: Literature, Psychoanalysis and Denial

by Lee Zimmerman

The more the global north has learned about the existential threat of climate change, the faster it has emitted greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. In Trauma and the Discourse of Climate Change,... (more)

Intersectionality and Relational Psychoanalysis: New Perspectives on Race, Gender, and Sexuality

Edited by Max Belkin, Cleonie White

Intersectionality and Relational Psychoanalysis: New Perspectives on Race, Gender, and Sexuality examines the links between race, gender, and sexuality through the dual perspectives of relational... (more)

Toward a Social Psychoanalysis: Culture, Character, and Normative Unconscious Processes

by Lynne Layton

For over thirty years, Lynne Layton has heeded the call for a social psychoanalysis and produced a body of work that examines unconscious process as it operates both in the social world and in the... (more)

A Short Introduction to Psychoanalysis

by Giuseppe Civitarese, Antonino Ferro

The science of Psychoanalysis is now more than a century old. During this period, it has been established as the instrument offering the most profound understanding of the human mind, and as the most... (more)

Bion and Thoughts Too Deep for Words: Psychoanalysis, Suggestion, and the Language of the Unconscious

by Robert Caper

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)

The Jewish Thought and Psychoanalysis Lectures

Edited by Harvey Schwartz

Freud's relationship with his Judaism – his by virtue of his self-description as a "fanatical Jew" – was framed by two of his convictions. He was centered both by his passionate cultural affiliation... (more)

Psychoanalysis, Classic Social Psychology and Moral Living: Let the Conversation Begin

by Paul Marcus

In Psychoanalysis, Classic Social Psychology and Moral Living: Let the Conversation Begin, Paul Marcus uniquely draws on psychoanalysis and social psychology to examine what affects the ethical... (more)

Relational Psychoanalysis at the Heart of Teaching and Learning: How and Why it Matters

by Lissa D’Amour

This book introduces the insights of contemporary relational psychoanalysis to educational thought and uses them as the foundation for a comprehensive model for understanding and informing teaching... (more)

Psychoanalysing Ambivalence with Freud and Lacan: On and Off the Couch

by Stephanie Swales, Carol Owens

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)

Cruelty, Sexuality, and the Unconscious in Psychoanalysis: Freud, Lacan, Winnicott, and the Body of the Void

by Touria Mignotte

In Cruelty, Sexuality, and the Unconscious in Psychoanalysis, Touria Mignotte explores an innovative conception of cruelty. Integrating the life sciences and quantum physics, this approach shows that... (more)

Attachment: New Directions in Psychotherapy and Relational Psychoanalysis - Vol.13 No.2

Edited by Orit Badouk Epstein

CONTENTS

EDITORIAL - by Orit Badouk Epstein

ARTICLES

– Historical section edited by Brett Kahr

Bowlby 1939: “Hysteria in children” and the birth of attachment theory

A neglected... (more)

Novel Relations: Victorian Fiction and British Psychoanalysis

by Alicia Mireles Christoff

Novel Relations engages twentieth-century post-Freudian British psychoanalysis in an unprecedented way: as literary theory. Placing the writing of figures like D. W. Winnicott, W. R. Bion, Michael... (more)

Freud's Early Psychoanalysis, Witch Trials and the Inquisitorial Method: The Harsh Therapy

by Kathleen Duffy

In Freud's Early Psychoanalysis, Witch Trials and the Inquisitorial Method: The Harsh Therapy, Kathleen Duffy asks why Freud compared his 'hysterical' patients to the accused women in the witch... (more)

Eros Crucified: Death, Desire, and the Divine in Psychoanalysis and Philosophy of Religion

by Matthew Clemente

Weaving together psychoanalytical, philosophical, and theological thought from art and literature, this work provides a fresh perspective on how humans can make sense of suffering and finitude and... (more)

Innovations in Psychoanalysis: Originality, Development, Progress

Edited by Aner Govrin, Jon Mills

From its very inception, psychoanalysis has been a discipline encompassing two contradictory tendencies. This dualistic tendency - tradition alongside disenchantment and the will to improve knowledge... (more)

Psychoanalysis, Neuroscience and the Stories of Our Lives: The Relational Roots of Mental Health

by Sarah Sutton

Psychoanalysis, Neuroscience and the Stories of Our Lives: The Relational Roots of Mental Health offers a new understanding of identity and mental health, shining the light of twenty-first century... (more)

The Cure for Psychoanalysis

by Adam Phillips

In two brilliant essays, Adam Phillips reveals what is at the heart of psychoanalysis--how it can be practiced so that analyst and patient might live more fully, more creatively. In the first essay,... (more)

Psychoanalysis, History, and Radical Ethics: Learning to Hear

by Donna M. Orange

Psychoanalysis, History, and Radical Ethics: Learning to Hear explores the importance of listening, being able to speak, and those who are silenced, from a psychoanalytic perspective. In particular,... (more)

Groundwork for a Transpersonal Psychoanalysis: Spirituality, Relationship, and Participation

by Robin S. Brown

This book explores how a deeper engagement with the theme of spirituality can challenge and stimulate contemporary psychoanalytic discourse. Bringing relational psychoanalysis into conversation with... (more)

Couple and Family Psychoanalysis Journal - Volume 9 Number 2

Edited by Molly Ludlam

CONTENTS

EDITORIAL

PERSONAL VIEW – Oedipus simplex: the British blind spot by Deborah Anna Luepnitz