Psychoanalysis category: 1976 books
by Paul Roazen
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
Over one hundred years have passed since Sigmund Freud first created psychoanalysis. The new profession flourished within the increasing secularization of Western culture, and it is almost impossible to overestimate its influence. Despite its traditional aloofness from ethical questions, psychoanalysis...
On Psychoanalysis, Disillusion, and Death
Dead certainties
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
For some years now, psychoanalysts have been trying to understand the implications of neuroscientific findings for psychoanalytic theory and practice. In On Psychoanalysis, Disillusion, and Death: Dead certainties Antonie Ladan looks at how findings from neuroscience and memory research can inform...
Intersubjectivity in Psychoanalysis
A Model for Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2017
In this book, Lewis Kirshner explains and illustrates the concept of intersubjectivity and its application to psychoanalysis. By drawing on findings from neuroscience, infant research, cognitive psychology, Lacanian theory, and philosophy, Kirshner argues that the analytic relationship is best understood...
Freud
Political and Social Thought
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
Sigmund Freud had broad ambitions about what psychoanalysis could add to human thought. But Freutfs own writings have rarely been assessed within the perspective of political philosophy. Political theorists will find in the school Freud established a rich storehouse of ideas. For us to link up with...
The Oedipus Complex
Focus of the Psychoanalysis-Anthropology Debate
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
This book examines the contentious relationship between psychoanalysis and anthropology as it has played out in disputes surrounding the Oedipus complex. Here, Éric Smadja explores the complicated historical and epistemological conditions leading up to the emergence of the conflict between the two...
Six Moments in Lacan
Communication and identification in psychology and psychoanalysis
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2017
Many first-time readers of Jacques Lacan come to his work via psychology, a discipline that Lacan was notoriously antagonistic toward. Six Moments in Lacan takes up the dual challenge of introducing Lacanian psychoanalysis to an audience interested in psychology, while also stressing the fundamental...
Psychoanalysis from the Indian Terroir
Emerging Themes in Culture, Family, and Childhood
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2018
In Psychoanalysis from the Indian Terroir, Manasi Kumar, Anup Dhar, and Anurag Mishra discuss the synergies and diachronic thought that is emblematic of the current psychoanalytic narrative in India and examine what psychoanalysis in India could become. The contributors to this edited collection connect...
Sabina Spielrein:
Forgotten Pioneer of Psychoanalysis, Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2015
Sabina Spielrein is perhaps best known for her love affair with her doctor, Carl Gustav Jung. Their intense therapeutic relationship led to a mutual fascination that lasted, for Spielrein, for the rest of her life. It is debatable whether Spielrein and Jung’s relationship was consummated, but it...
by
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
When Posthumanism displaces the traditional human subject, what does psychoanalysis add to contemporary conversations about subject/object relations, systems, perspectives, and values? This book discusses whether Posthumanism itself is a cultural indication of a shift in thinking that is moving from...
Idiomatic Expressions and Somatic Experience in Psychoanalysis
Relational and Inter-Subjective Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
Idiomatic Expressions and Somatic Experience in Psychoanalysis examines how verbal and non-verbal language is used in the consulting room, and how those different modes of communication interact to provide a more comprehensive picture of the patient's relational world. It is the product of a comprehensive...
Psychoanalysis and the Nuclear Threat
Clinial and Theoretical Studies
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
The analytic literature has heretofore been silent about the issues inherent in the nuclear threat. As a groundbreaking exploration of new psychological terrain, Psychoanalysis and the Nuclear Threat will function as a source book for what, it is hoped, will be the continuing effort of analysts and...
Holding and Psychoanalysis, 2nd edition
A Relational Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
Is there a baby in the relational consulting room? How and when can/should we try to hold our patients? What happens to the analyst's subjectivity when she tries to hold?
In Holding and Psychoanalysis: A Relational Perspective (second Edition), **Joyce Slochower **brings a contemporary...
“Two Butterflies on My Head...”
Psychoanalysis in the Interdisciplinary Scientific Dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
In psychoanalysis as in most other fields of science, English is the in ternationallanguage. Not being a native speaker of English, one is confronted with much higher barriers when communicating clinical observations and theoretical reflections. Thus, in the early 1960s, Ulrich Moser raised (in...
Re-Encountering Jung
Analytical psychology and contemporary psychoanalysis
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2017
Since the split between Freud and Jung, psychoanalysis and analytical psychology have largely developed in an atmosphere of mutual disregard. Only in recent years have both discourses shown signs of an increasing willingness to engage. Re-Encountering Jung: Analytical Psychology and Contemporary Psychoanalysis...