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Couple and Family Psychoanalysis: Volume 14 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)
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)
Understanding Human Life through Psychoanalysis and Ancient Greek Tragedy: Explorations of Euripides, Sophocles and Aeschylus
Drawing parallels between ancient theatre, the analytic setting and the workings of psychic life, this book examines the tragedies of Euripides, Sophocles and Aeschylus through a psychoanalytic lens,... (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)
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)
Formative Media: Psychoanalysis and Digital Media Platforms
Formative Media presents a psychoanalytic and psychosocial inquiry into the significance of the most widely used digital platforms – including Facebook, Google, YouTube, Twitter (X), and Instagram –... (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)
Sport and Psychoanalysis: What Sport Reveals about Our Unconscious Desires, Fantasies, and Fears
Sport and Psychoanalysis: What Sport Reveals about Our Unconscious Desires, Fantasies, and Fears explores the intersection of sport and psychoanalysis, emphasizing the often-overlooked psycho-social... (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)
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)
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)
Attachment: New Directions in Psychotherapy and Relational Psychoanalysis - Vol.18 No.1: Special issue – Siblings
Attachment: New Directions in Psychotherapy and Relational Psychoanalysis is a leading edge journal for clinicians working relationally with their clients. It is published in conjunction with The... (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)
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)
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)
Couple and Family Psychoanalysis: Volume 14 Number 1 – Special Issue: Turning a Blind Eye: Sexual Violence in Couple and Family Relationships
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)
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)