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The Practice of Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Theories and Principles
The Practice of Lacanian Psychoanalysis lays out an Aristotelian framework to account for the different types of knowing and not-knowing operative in the theory and practice of... (more)
Psychoanalysis of Aging and Maturity: The Concept of Maturescence
As developing countries increasingly confront the issues of an aging population, this important book identifies the key period in the life cycle in which changes to the body, as well as concomitant... (more)
Social Aspects Of Sexual Boundary Trouble In Psychoanalysis: Responses to the Work of Muriel Dimen
Inspired by the clinical and ethical contributions of Muriel Dimen, Social Aspects of Sexual Boundary Trouble goes beyond the established consensus that sexual boundary violations (SBV) constitute a... (more)
Sexual Boundary Trouble in Psychoanalysis: Clinical Perspectives on Muriel Dimen’s Concept of the “Primal Crime”
Inspired by the clinical and ethical contributions of Muriel Dimen (1942-2016), a prominent feminist anthropologist and relational psychoanalyst, Sexual Boundary Trouble in Psychoanalysis challenges... (more)
Couple and Family Psychoanalysis: Volume 10 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)
Winnicott and Kohut on Intersubjectivity and Complex Disorders: New Perspectives for Psychoanalysis, Psychotherapy and Psychiatry
Given the complexity of scientific developments inside and outside the psychoanalytic field, traditional definitions of basic psychoanalytic notions are no longer sufficiently comprehensive. We need... (more)
The Psychoanalysis of the Absurd: Existentialism and Phenomenology in Contemporary Psychoanalysis
The Psychoanalysis of the Absurd offers an interdisciplinary study of Existentialism and Phenomenology and their importance to the clinical work of Contemporary Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. The... (more)
The Unconscious: Contemporary Refractions In Psychoanalysis
This book explores the unconscious in psychoanalysisusing cross-disciplinary input from the cultural, social and linguistic perspectives. This book is the first contemporary collection applying the... (more)
Psychoanalysis from the Inside Out: Developing and Sustaining an Analytic Identity and Practice
In the face of considerable scepticism over the function and effectiveness of psychoanalysis, Lena Ehrlich demonstrates how analysis is unique in its potential to transform patients at an emotionally... (more)
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)
The New Sexual Landscape and Contemporary Psychoanalysis
The sexual landscape has changed dramatically in the past few decades, with the meaning of gender and sexuality now being parsed within the realms of gender fluidity, nonheteronormative sexuality,... (more)
Attachment: New Directions in Psychotherapy and Relational Psychoanalysis - Vol.14 No.1
CONTENTS
EDITORIAL
Attachment to Australia as it burns: a personal reflection by Jewel Jones
ARTICLES
– Thalassa, Confusion of Tongues, The Unwelcome Child and his Death Drive: Sandor... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in China: Volume 3 Number 1
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)
Poetry and Psychoanalysis
Poetry and Psychoanalysis: The Opening of the Field provides a guide to applying a poet's imagination and precision of language to the healing endeavours of psychoanalysis while making a lucid... (more)
The Independent Mind in British Psychoanalysis
Arguably the most informative and readable account of the development of British independent psychoanalysis, Eric Rayner’s The Independent Mind in British Psychoanalysis offers a coherent account of... (more)
Debating Relational Psychoanalysis: Jon Mills and his Critics
In Debating Relational Psychoanalysis, Jon Mills provides an historical record of the debates that had taken place for nearly two decades on his critique of the relational school, including responses... (more)
In the Event of Laughter: Psychoanalysis, Literature and Comedy
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)
Illusion, Disillusion, and Irony in Psychoanalysis
Illusion, Disillusion, and Irony in Psychoanalysis explores and develops the role of illusion and daydream in everyday life, and in psychoanalysis. Using both clinical examples and literary works,... (more)
The Role of the Patient-Analyst Match in the Process and Outcome of Psychoanalysis
The Role of the Patient-Analyst Match in the Process and Outcome of Psychoanalysis is a compilation of Judy Kantrowitz’s previously published papers on the patient-analyst "match" and its effect on... (more)
The Arabic Freud: Psychoanalysis and Islam in Modern Egypt
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
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
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
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)
Couple and Family Psychoanalysis: Volume 10 Number 1 – Special Issue: Musical Connections
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)
A Short Introduction to Psychoanalysis
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
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)
Credo?: Religion and Psychoanalysis
What is it that lies beyond our knowing, beyond our imagination and beyond our understanding: beyond the reach of either science or philosophy? Might there be some unimaginable energy, some... (more)
The Jewish Thought and Psychoanalysis Lectures
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
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
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)