Psychoanalysis category: 1976 books

Failure is a theme of great importance in most clinical conditions, and in everyday life, from birth until death. Its impact can be destabilizing, even disastrous. In spite of these facts, there has been no comprehensive psychoanalytic exploration of this topic. Understanding and Coping with Failure:...

Reedição do clássico ensaio sobre o tratamento de psicóticos no Brasil publicado em 1976, “O Psicótico e seu tratamento” surpreende por sua atualidade e pela qualidade de vanguarda terapêutica de Carmem Dametto, figura marcante no cenário psicanalítico no Brasil da ditadura.

Acadêmicos das mais variadas procedências — filosofia, literatura, psiquiatria, psicanálise, ciências jurídicas, criminologia, cinema — provocam os mais diversos e inusitados encontros, que atravessam dois dos maiores campos de força do pensamento contemporâneo: psicanálise e literatura.

Dark Psychology tactics are used by people around us every day to manipulate, coerce, and influence us to get what they want. Are you using them? Dark Psychology is the art and science of manipulation and mind control. While Psychology is the study of human behavior and is central to our thoughts,...

Learning how to analyze people and their personalities can do wonders for your relationships. Whether it's your coworker, your significant, your family, or even a complete stranger, you will always know exactly how to respond in the best possible way. This book contains proven steps and strategies...

First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

In the past four decades or so, the so-called psychology of religion – after having been deemed extinct, impossible or unlikely – has risen to prominence again: the number of publications is rapidly growing, an impressive secondary literature (handbooks, introductions, etc.) is available already,...

"Glickauf-Hughes and Wells present a clear and well-organized review of personality development according to object relations theorists. They offer an explanation and critique of each major theorist, note issues on which there is disagreement (along with areas of investigation not fully explored),...

Cathy Caruth juxtaposes the writings of psychoanalysts, literary and political theorists, and literary authors who write in a century faced by a new kind of history, one that is made up of events that seem to undo, rather than produce, their own remembrance. At the heart of each chapter is the enigma...

Sexual boundary violations are considered the most serious ethical infractions in the mental health profession, as well as in higher education and pastoral counseling. Recognized as unethical due to the power imbalance inherent in the structure of the therapist-patient and teacher-student dyads, erotic...

What makes a person Jewish? Why do some people feel they have physically inherited the memories of their ancestors? Is there any way to think about race without reducing it to racism or to physical differences? These questions are at the heart of Racial Fever: Freud and the Jewish Question....

This book reveals the workings of the bourgeois passion for submission in a variety of contemporary contexts. By (re)introducing the concept ‘bourgeois’ as an analytical term and describing this contemporary subject as a psychic economy rather than just as a social class, Panu shows the intractability...

Ever since Plato expelled the poets from his ideal state, the ethics of art has had to confront philosophy’s denial of art’s morality. In Art before the Law, Ruth Ronen proposes a new outlook on the ethics of art by arguing that art insists on this tradition of denial, affirming its singular ethics...

This book applies historicised psychoanalytic thinking in a non-reductive way to better understand the dominant emotional trends in contemporary cultural and socio-political life, with a specific focus on the relationship between social dislocation, narcissism, and "post truth". Rapid...