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Psychoanalysis and Feminism: A Radical Reassessment of Freudian Psychoanalysis
With a new introduction from the author, this critical text of feminist theory explores how Freud's work helps us understand the subjugation of women today.
Psychoanalysis and Feminism had a... (more)
Psychoanalysing Horror Cinema
Inspired by the Wild About Horror segments on the Evolution of Horror Podcast, Psychoanalysing Horror Cinema investigates fifty films across six core subgenres—Mind, Body, Nature, Aliens, Vampires,... (more)
Visual Narrative and Lacanian Psychoanalysis
This book analyses narrativity in painting from a Freudian-Lacanian perspective.
Narrativity in painting is prominently discussed through disciplinary laws and lens of art history, art theory,... (more)
The Poetry, Art and Science of Psychoanalysis in Bion's O
The Poetry, Art and Science of Psychoanalysis in Bion's O pays homage to Wilfred Bion’s lifelong love of poetry and his desire to integrate it with his psychoanalytic work as a means of communicating... (more)
A Psychoanalysis of Act and Action: An Itinerary through Lacan, Philosophy, and Crime
Psychoanalysis of Act and Action brings together the study of the philosophy of action and Jacques Lacan’s psychoanalytic theory.
Drawing on the works of Freud and Lacan, this book examines... (more)
Mapping the Landscape: Explorations in Psychoanalysis
Mapping the Landscape: Explorations in Psychoanalysis offers an overview and exploration of Priscilla Roth’s unique contribution to psychoanalysis over the course of her long and distinguished... (more)
Selfscapes, Selfhoods, and Subjectivities: Perspectives from Psychoanalysis and Anthropology
This book explores cross-cultural similarities and differences of human subjectivity and selfhood through the concept of selfscapes.
Utilizing an ethnographic and person-centered approach to the... (more)
Freud in Istanbul: Turkish Contributions to Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis
A vital book that seeks to place Turkish contributions to psychoanalytic theory and practice on the international stage from which, until now, it has been curiously absent. It includes chapters from... (more)
On the Theory and Clinic of Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Speaking of Lacan
On the Theory and Clinic of Lacanian Psychoanalysis presents conversations with clinicians about their research interests, and their experiences in relation to psychoanalytic practice, focusing... (more)
Why Read Klein? The Importance of Melanie Klein's work for Contemporary Psychoanalysis
Why Read Klein? explores the importance of Melanie Klein’s work to contemporary psychoanalysis, her contributions as a key early psychoanalyst and continued influence on contemporary... (more)
The Hour of Birth: Psychoanalysis of the Sublime and Contemporary Art
To explore the impact of psychoanalytic ideas and contemporary visual artists upon each other, this volume examines the aesthetics of the sublime as an allegory for psychic birth.
Through the... (more)
Alice’s Adventures in Lacan-Land: Demystifying Lacanian Psychoanalysis
Alice’s Adventures in Lacan-Land is an accessible exploration of Lacanian psychoanalysis through the prism of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel, Through the... (more)
Exploring Eating Disorders Through Psychoanalysis: Unravelling the Psyche
Exploring Eating Disorders through Psychoanalysis explores eating disorders as complex clinical conditions and uses psychoanalysis to explore the psychological factors behind them.
Humberto... (more)
Interpersonal Psychoanalysis: A Contemporary Introduction
In this book, Anna Maria Loiacono introduces the reader to the origins of Interpersonal Psychoanalysis, its most important concepts, and their clinical value.
Throughout the chapters, Loiacono... (more)
The Psychoanalysis of Aesthetic Experience: Self, Relationship and Culture
In The Psychoanalysis of Aesthetic Experience: Self, Relationship and Culture, George Hagman eloquently provides an overview of ideas regarding the aesthetic foundation of human experience and the... (more)
Polymorphisms: Sexual and Gender Migrations in Contemporary Psychoanalysis
Polymorphisms presents an overview of key theories, ideas and issues within psychoanalysis relating to sexual and gender diversity.
The chapters consider key topics including the... (more)
Psychoanalysis in Play: Expanding Psychoanalytic Concepts from a Play Perspective
In this book, Steven H. Cooper expands on his thinking of psychoanalysis as a form of play and the implications of this for theory and clinical practice.
The most important activities of the... (more)
Field Perspectives in Clinical Practice: A Dialogue Between Relational Psychoanalysis, Post-Bionian Psychoanalysis, and Gestalt Therapy
This book is the outcome of a fruitful dialogue between relational psychoanalysis, neo-Bionian psychoanalysis, and Gestalt therapy on a contemporary growing edge of clinical practice: field... (more)
Psychoanalysis for Children with ADHD
In Psychoanalysis for Children with ADHD, a group of eminent analysts highlight the positive impact that psychoanalytic work and the clinical space can have on children with Attention Deficit... (more)
The Journey from Psychoanalysis to Group Analysis: Further Papers of Malcolm Pines
The Journey from Psychoanalysis to Group Analysis presents a selection of papers from Malcolm Pines’s long career, documenting his profound contribution to group analysis and its... (more)
God Is Undead: Psychoanalysis for Unbelievers
The undead are neither alive nor dead. They are animate yet non-living. In God Is Undead, Lorenzo Chiesa and Adrian Johnston contend that true unbelief today sees the divine precisely as exemplifying... (more)
Existential Psychoanalysis: A Contemporary Introduction
A fascinating introductory volume, Existential Psychoanalysis: A Contemporary Introduction integrates existential philosophy with psychoanalysis, drawing on key theorists from both areas and expertly... (more)
Fanon, Psychoanalysis and Critical Decolonial Psychology: The Mind of Apartheid
This groundbreaking book examines the psychological dimension of decolonial thought in reference to foundational texts. Previously published as A Critical Psychology of the Postcolonial, this new... (more)
Psychoanalysis and the University: Resistance and Renewal from Freud to the Present
This book charts the past and present vicissitudes of psychoanalysis’s relation to education and emphasizes on the necessity of its increased presence in university settings.
Why can fewer and... (more)
Case Studies in Relational Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis: If I Could Turn Back Time
This book brings the reader behind the closed door of the psychotherapy office through a selection of nine riveting psychotherapy and psychoanalytic case studies.
Each story delves into the... (more)
The Loss of Self: Self-Writing as a Tool in Borderline Psychoanalysis
The Loss of Self considers distinctions and connections between the writing of survival and survival as a mode of being and thinking encountered in analytic work with borderline... (more)
Couple and Family Psychoanalysis: Volume 15 Number 1 – Special Issue: Couples and Families in Film
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)
The Spiritual Resistance of Rabbi Leo Baeck: Psychoanalysis and Religion
The Spiritual Resistance of Rabbi Leo Baeck provides an overview of the life of Dr. Leo Baeck (1873–1956), a German-Jewish rabbi, theologian, historian and Holocaust survivor, from a psychoanalytic... (more)
Reflecting Critically on the Political Psyche: Therapy, Testament and Trouble in Psychoanalysis and Jungian Analysis
With passion and originality, within this new book, Samuels presents powerful material on culture and politics (including a critical take on political violence) and a compassionate account of the... (more)
The Fraternal Complex in the Middle East: Group and Family Psychoanalysis for Peacemaking and Peacebuilding
The Fraternal Complex in the Middle East extends group and family psychoanalytic concepts to formulate hypotheses on the psychic functioning of nation-states as very large families.
Focusing on... (more)