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Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology: An Outline of Freud's ideas & their evolution
A simple summary of major psychoanalytic concepts and ideas including the theory of neurosis. The development of Freud's theories - modified by his clinical experiences of success and failure - is... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Gender: An Introductory Reader
What is object-relations theory and what does it have to do with literary studies? How can Freud's phallocentric theories be applied by feminist critics? The book offers clear and straightforward... (more)
A Critical Dictionary of Psychoanalysis: New Edition
This dictionary provides helpful and incisive definitions which, read together, comprise a sustained commentary on psychoanalysis. The text has been thoroughly revised with an extended introduction,... (more)
The emptiness of the image: psychoanalysis and sexual differences
This study argues that psychoanalytic theory retains an overwhelming explanatory strength in relation to questions of sexual difference and representation. It seeks to show how the issue of desire... (more)
Hide and Seek: The Child Between Psychoanalysis and Fiction
Examines representations of the child in fiction, psychoanalysis and popular culture. Drawing on popular images of the child from the 19th century to the present, it raises provocative questions... (more)
Identification Papers: Readings on psychoanalysis, sexuality and culture
The notion of identification, especially in the discourse of feminist theory, has come sharply into focus alongside interest in topics such as 'queer performativity', cross-dressing and 'racial... (more)
The Supervisory Encounter: A guide for teachers of psychodynamic psychotherapy and psychoanalysis
This text offers a theoretical and technical framework for understanding and deepening the supervisory process in therapist training. It includes descriptions of: the phases of supervision; its... (more)
The Castration of Oedipus: Psychoanalysis, Postmodernism and Feminism
The authors combine the disparate traditions of psychoanalysis, postmodernism and feminism the create a provocative, unified and tightly woven perspective that transcends the misogyny implicit in... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Catholicism
This is an exploration of the similarities and differences between these two, often feuding, perspectives on living: psychoanalysis and Catholicism.
Modern Psychoanalysis: New Directions and Perspective
A definitive exploration of the expanding horizons of this still controversial approach to and treatment of human behaviour. Thirty-five contributors explore new approaches to psychonalytic theory... (more)
The Problem of the Passions: Feminism, Psychoanalysis and Social Theory
This book addresses what is often missing from discussions of women's psychology in feminist social theory: an account of women as ambivalent, both empathic and engaged, both loving and hating.
Concerning the Rites of Psychoanalysis: Or the Villa of the Mysteries
Looks at Lacanian psychoanlaysis in a clinical context and how the ancient mysteries of the phallus, prefigure concepts of the symbol, the feminine and the sacred. (more)
Psychoanalysis in Contexts: Paths Between Theory and Modern Culture
Explores the changes in psychoanalytic theory over the last century, and the relationship between psychoanalysis and contemporary culture. Contributors include Jessica Benjamin, Cornelius... (more)
Handbook of Interpersonal Psychoanalysis
A decade in the making, the Handbook is the definitive contemporary exposition of interpersonal psychoanalysis. It provides an authoritative overview of development, psychopathology, and treatment as... (more)
Pioneers of Interpersonal Psychoanalysis
This volume brings together 14 papers by interpersonal pioneers. Collectively, they demonstrate the coherence and explanatory richness of interpersonal psychoanalysis, emphasizing relational patterns... (more)
The Letter 4: Lacanian Perspectives on Psychoanalysis: Summer 1995
THE OBJECT a - Guy Le Gaufey; THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS - Helena Texier; IS THE CONCEPT OF THE DEATH DRIVE ESSENTIAL WHEN SPEAKING OF TRAUMA? - Aisling Campbell; THE PURLOINED TONGUE - Claus-Dieter... (more)
The Letter 5: Lacanian Perspectives on Psychoanalysis: Autumn 1995
Lacan 's summary of Seminar XL - Cormac Gallagher; THE FOUR FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS OF PSYCHOANALYSIS* - Charles Melman; SOME SHORT ODDS ON GAMBLING: A PSYCHOANALYTIC APPROACH* - Rik Loose; SOME REMARKS... (more)
Centres and Peripheries of Psychoanalysis: An Introduction to Psychoanalytic Studies
This book is designed to meet the needs of students who seek,
Psychoanalysis in Transition: A Personal View
Examines the nature of psychological therapy informed by psychoanalytical concepts. The book is laced with clinical examples and informed by classical psychoanalysis, object-relations and self... (more)
The Rhetorical Voice of Psychoanalysis: Displacement of Evidence by Theory
By challenging psychoanalytic traditions and diminishing the power of rhetoric, this text aims to show how psychoanalysis can remain a creative enterprise with a scientific base (more)
Crises and Special Problems in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy
This text focuses on the special problems and situations which can affect the course of treatment of patients. These include: acting out, panic states, experiences of illness, pregnancy and abortion,... (more)
The Shell and the Kernel: Renewals of Psychoanalysis, Volume 1
A collection of essays showing the richness and originality of Abraham's and Torok's approach to psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic literature . Central to their approach is a theory of psychic... (more)
The Essentials of Psychoanalysis
Lost Angels: Psychoanalysis and cinema
This study takes Freud's preoccupation with femininity and feminine fantasy as a starting point and goes on to explore his differentiation between masculine and feminine forms of fantasy through... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Ethics
Reinterprets Freud's ideas on the various psychological issues relevant to morality and examines their ethical implications.
Universals of Psychoanalysis: In the Treatment of Psychotic and Borderline States
An original synthesis of Kleinian and Piagetian ideas, applied to the treatment of psychotic and borderline states, by a psychoanalyst working at the Maudsley Hospital. The book examines both the... (more)
Psychoanalysis at 100
This volume brings together eminent U.S. analysts, looking at the theory and practice of psychoanalysis, comparing past and present. The contributors attempt to extend their analytical explorations... (more)
Self and Other: Object Relations in Psychoanalysis and Literature
This text argues for the adoption of a theory of object relations, combining traditional psychoanalytic theory with contemporary views on attachment behaviour and intersubjectivity. Rogers provides a... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Development: Representations and Narratives
Explores the relationship between 'representation' and 'narration' and how they have developed the language of therapy and theories of psychoanalysis and development.
The Spoils of Freedom: Psychoanalysis, Feminism and Ideology after the Fall of Socialism
Presents the difficulties of post-socialist Eastern Europe as a symptom, in which the inherent contradictions of liberal democracy become visible. The author also explores how psychoanalytic theories... (more)