Psychoanalysis category: 1976 books
The Quiet Revolution in American Psychoanalysis
Selected Papers of Arnold M. Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2004
This book brings together for the first time in one volume selected papers by one of the leading contemporary intellectual figures in the field of psychoanalysis, Arnold M. Cooper M.D.
Cooper has addressed every aspect of American psychoanalytic life: theory, clinical work, education, research,...
Research on the Couch
Single-case studies, subjectivity and psychoanalytic knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
Is psychoanalysis knowledge? Is psychoanalysis a science, or is it hermeneutics? Can clinical material be considered research data?
Psychoanalysis is ambiguous about whether it is about meaning or about truth, and the relations between these two compelling experiences. Psychoanalysts often...
Transitional Subjects
Critical Theory and Object Relations
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2019
Critical social theory has long been marked by a deep, creative, and productive relationship with psychoanalysis. Whereas Freud and Fromm were important cornerstones for the early Frankfurt School, recent thinkers have drawn on the object-relations school of psychoanalysis. Transitional Subjects is...
Shame and Sexuality
Psychoanalysis and Visual Culture
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Why do human beings feel shame? What is the cultural dimension of shame and sexuality? Can theory understand the power of affect? How is psychoanalysis integral to cultural theory?
The experience of shame is a profound, painful and universal emotion with lasting effects on many aspects of public...
Psychoanalysis and the Unrepresentable
From culture to the clinic
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
Psychoanalysis and the Unrepresentable opens a space for meaningful debate about translating psychoanalytic concepts from the work of clinicians to that of academics and back again. Focusing on the idea of the unrepresentable, this collection of essays by psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, counsellors,...
Wrestling with Destiny
The promise of psychoanalysis
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
Can psychoanalysis help people control their destinies?
Using empirical evidence from neuroscience, Lucy Holmes makes a powerful argument that it can. This book considers the various ways in which destiny is linked to the repetition compulsion, and how free association in psychoanalysis can...
Mindfulness-Informed Relational Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis
Inquiring Deeply
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
Mindfulness-Informed Relational Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis: Inquiring Deeply provides a refreshing new look at the emerging field of Buddhist-informed psychotherapy.Marjorie Schuman presents a cogent framework which engages the patient at the levels ofnarrative, affective regulation, and psychodynamic...
The One and the Many
Relational Approaches to Group Psychotherapy
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
The One and the Many: Relational Approaches to Group Psychotherapy applies advances in relational psychoanalysis to the theory and practice of group psychotherapy. In this volume Robert Grossmark and Fred Wright bring together leading writers in the group psychotherapy field, both psychoanalysts and...
What Is Psychoanalysis?
100 Years after Freud's 'Secret Committee'
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
In a radically powerful interpretation of the human condition, this book redefines the discipline of psychoanalysis by examining its fundamental assumptions about the unconscious mind, the nature of personal history, our sexualities, and the significance of the "Oedipus Complex". With striking...
Elizabeth Severn
The "Evil Genius" of Psychoanalysis
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
Elizabeth Severn: The ‘Evil Genius’ of Psychoanalysis chronicles the life and work of Elizabeth Severn, both as one of the most controversial analysands in the history of psychoanalysis, and as a psychoanalyst in her own right. Condemned by Freud as "an evil genius", Freud disapproved...
Emotional Presence in Psychoanalysis
Theory and Clinical Applications
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Emotional Presence in Psychoanalysis provides a detailed look at the intricacies of attaining emotional presence in psychoanalytic work. John Madonna and a distinguished group of contributors draw on both the relational and modern psychoanalytic schools of thought to examine a variety of different...
Changing Conceptions of Psychoanalysis
The Legacy of Merton M. Gill
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
This outstanding memorial volume records and reassesses the contributions of Merton M. Gill (1914-1994), a principal architect of psychoanalytic theory and a principled exemplar of the modern psychoanalytic sensibility throughout the second half of the 20th century. Critical evaluations of Gill's...
Relational Freedom
Emergent Properties of the Interpersonal Field
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2015
Relational Freedom: Emergent Properties of the Interpersonal Field addresses the interpersonal field in clinical psychoanalysis and psychotherapy, especially the emergent qualities of the field. The book builds on the foundation of unformulated experience, dissociation, and enactment defined and explored...
by Paul Roazen
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
Today Sigmund Freud's legacy seems as hotly contested as ever. He continues to attract fanaticism of one kind or another. If Freud might be disappointed at the failure of his successors to confirm many of his so-called discoveries he would be gratified by the transforming impact of his ideas in contemporary...