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Yoga and Psychoanalysis: Perspectives on the Psychology of Regression
This book discusses the relevance of tracing back the course of individual development noted in psychoanalysis (regression) and in Patañjali’s Yoga (prati-prasava).
Although Freud found the... (more)
Freud and the Changing World: Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Its Troubles
A highly original, convivial dialogue between two leading psychoanalysts invites the reader to pause and reflect on current transformations and emotional affects in a changing world. Two analysts of... (more)
Unconscious Politics: Alienation, Social Science and Psychoanalysis
R. D. Hinshelwood brings together social science and psychoanalysis which are often held to be opposing schools of thought. His creation of a psychosocial model to develop new insights into politics... (more)
The “Here and Now” of French Psychoanalysis: Conversations with Contemporary Psychoanalysts
The “Here and Now” of French Psychoanalysis provides an overview of the living psychoanalytic landscape in France through the voice of experienced psychoanalysts who continue and transform Freud,... (more)
The Political Clinic: Psychoanalysis and Social Change in the Twentieth Century
For decades, psychoanalysis has provided essential concepts and methodologies for critical theory and the humanities and social sciences. But it is also, inseparably, a clinical practice and... (more)
Psychoanalysis as Radical Hospitality: Six Perspectives on Turning-to versus Turning-Away
This book focuses on different forms of turning toward versus turning away from speech across a range of experiences in clinical treatment and general life.
The chapters of this volume deal with... (more)
Translating the Jewish Freud: Psychoanalysis in Hebrew and Yiddish
There is an academic cottage industry on the "Jewish Freud," aiming to detect Jewish influences on Freud, his own feelings about being Jewish, and suppressed traces of Jewishness in his thought. This... (more)
The Sense and Non-Sense of Revolt: The Powers and Limits of Psychoanalysis
Linguist, psychoanalyst, and cultural theorist, Julia Kristeva is one of the most influential and prolific thinkers of our time. Her writings have broken new ground in the study of the self, the... (more)
The Story of Original Loss: Grieving Existential Trauma in the Arts and the Art of Psychoanalysis
This book explores the universal human existential trauma of "original loss," a trauma the author describes as arising from our primal, human evolutionary loss of experiencing ourselves as innately... (more)
Case Studies in Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis: Treating Trauma, Anxiety and Aggression
Case Studies in Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis presents a wide range of full case presentations of children and adolescents undergoing psychoanalytic treatment, covering key issues such as... (more)
Miss-Ing: Psychoanalysis 2.0
A collection of essays and pensées from a noted psychoanalyst and Lacanian thinker.
Inspired by Jacques Lacan's idea in his Seminar VI that "Human beings cannot help but consider themselves to... (more)
Explorations Between Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience: At the Edge of Mind and Brain
Explorations Between Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience brings together the life's work of David Olds, pioneering psychoanalyst, psychiatrist, philosopher, and key figure in... (more)
The Indian Jungle: Psychoanalysis and Non-Western Civilizations
For more than a century, the cultural imagination of psychoanalysis has been assumed and largely continues to be assumed as Western. Although the terroirs of psychoanalysis in South America, France,... (more)
Film Psychoanalysis: Relational Approaches to Film Interpretation
Through the development of psychoanalytically-informed film interpretation, Andreas Hamburger provides new insights into the experience of watching films and their influence upon our internal... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Wisdom: Encountering 'Ethics of the Fathers'
Psychoanalysis and Wisdom applies psychoanalytic insights to one of the great examples of wisdom literature, the Ethics of the Fathers, an ethical tractate of the Talmud.
Paul Marcus quotes key... (more)
The Unconscious in Neuroscience and Psychoanalysis: On Lacan and Freud
The Unconscious in Neuroscience and Psychoanalysis presents a unique and provocative approach to the assimilation of these two disciplines while offering a thorough assessment of the unconscious from... (more)
Subjective Experience: Its Fate in Psychology, Psychoanalysis and Philosophy of Mind
Morris N. Eagle explores the understanding and role of subjective experience in the disciplines of psychology, psychoanalysis, and philosophy of mind.
Elaborating how different understandings of... (more)
Space in Psychoanalysis, Psychoanalysis in Space
Space in Psychoanalysis, Psychoanalysis in Space explores the immense potential of psychoanalytic thought to questions of spatiality.
The international contributors combine the symbolic, the... (more)
Herbert Rosenfeld – Then and Now: The Significance of His Work for Contemporary Psychoanalysis
This collection presents new insights into the life and work of Herbert Rosenfeld and his continuing influence on psychoanalytic theory and practice. It includes accounts from both personal and... (more)
Developmental Ruptures: The Psychoanalysis of Breakdown and Defensive Solutions
This book questions the diagnostic categories applied to adolescents from a developmental viewpoint putting forth an alternative perspective for assessment that considers prognostic and risk... (more)
The Astonishing Adolescent Upheaval in Psychoanalysis
This book brings together international contributors to share insight from their theoretical and clinical work with adolescents, considering the different psychopathological responses they see in... (more)
Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Sergei M. Eisenstein's Work: Cinema and Psychoanalysis in Soviet Russia
In this insightful book, Alberto Angelini shows the influence of psychoanalysis and psychology on Sergei M. Eisenstein, one of the most celebrated Russian directors, and his cinematic... (more)
New Tools for Psychoanalysis: Clinical Investigation and Psychoanalytic Training in the Working Parties
Bringing together the findings from psychoanalysts across the globe, this book introduces and describes the research practices utilised by the Working Parties that were created by the European... (more)
Rethinking the Psychoanalysis of Masculinity: From Toxic to Seminal
Drawing on a broad range of psychoanalytic, cultural and social influences, the author examines the concept of toxic masculinity for how it brings into focus a widespread anxiety about toxicity... (more)
A Beam of Intense Darkness: Wilfred Bion's Legacy to Psychoanalysis
Written by pioneering analyst and creative thinker James Grotstein, A Beam of Intense Darkness offers a thorough overview and illuminating insight into the often complex work of W. R. Bion.
This... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in China: Volume 6 Number 1 & 2
This peer-reviewed journal proposes to explore the introduction of psychoanalysis, psychoanalytic therapy, and the wider application of psychoanalytic ideas into China. It aims to have articles... (more)
Testimony and Witnessing in Psychoanalysis: A Literary and Philosophical Perspective
In this fascinating volume, Zipi Rosenberg Schipper approaches the fundamental topic of testimony, seeking to recognize its value as a distinct and vital function in psychoanalytic work, separate... (more)
Negativity in Psychoanalysis: Theory and Clinic
Negativity in Psychoanalysis examines the role of negativity in psychoanalytic theory and its application in clinical settings.
While theories around negativity and death drive have become... (more)
Essays in Existential Psychoanalysis: On the Primacy of Authenticity
In this brilliant and revolutionary collection of fourteen major essays that draw from more than twenty-five years of painstaking research, M. Guy Thompson regales us with a stunning revisioning of... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Ethics: The Necessity of Perspective
Psychoanalysis and Ethics: The Necessity of Perspective is an attempt to look deeply into the relationship between psychoanalysis and ethics, and in particular into the failure of traditional... (more)