Psychoanalysis category: 1976 books
Psychoanalysis and Motivational Systems
A New Look
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2011
Introduced in Psychoanalysis and Motivation (1989) and further developed in Self and Motivational Systems (1992), The Clinical Exchange (1996), and A Spirit of Inquiry (2002), motivational systems theory aims to identify the components and organization of mental states and the process by which affects,...
On the Frontiers of Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience
Essays in Honor of Eric R. Kandel
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
Building crucial bridges between psychoanalysis and the neurosciences, this compelling volume brings together prominent authorities from multiple disciplines. The volume highlights the contributions of Eric R. Kandel, whose seminal articles helped launch the fledgling field of neuropsychoanalysis....
by Elisabeth Roudinesco
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2004
Why do some people still choose psychoanalysis-Freud's so-called talking cure-when numerous medications are available that treat the symptoms of psychic distress so much faster? Elisabeth Roudinesco tackles this difficult question, exploring what she sees as a "depressive society": an epidemic...
Whose Freud?
The Place of Psychoanalysis in Contemporary Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
One hundred years after the publication of The Interpretation of Dreams, Freud remains the most frequently cited author of our culture-and one of the most controversial. To some he is the presiding genius of modernity, to others the author of its symptomatic illnesses. The current position of psychoanalysis...
After Freud Left
A Century of Psychoanalysis in America
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2012
From August 29 to September 21, 1909, Sigmund Freud visited the United States, where he gave five lectures at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. This volume brings together a stunning gallery of leading historians of psychoanalysis and of American culture to consider the broad history of...
History Flows through Us
Germany, the Holocaust, and the Importance of Empathy
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
History Flows through Us introduces a new dialogue between leading historians and psychoanalysts and provides essential insights into the nature of historical trauma. The contributors – German historians, historians of the Holocaust and psychoanalysts of different disciplinary backgrounds – address...
Insight
Essays on Psychoanalytic Knowing
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
This book explores the clinical processes of psychoanalysis by charting modern developments in logic and applying them to the study of insight. Offering an epistemic approach to clinical psychoanalysis this book places value on the clinical interpretations of both the analysand and analyst and engages...
Attachment and Psychoanalysis
Theory, Research, and Clinical Implications
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2012
Although attachment theory was originally rooted in psychoanalysis, the two areas have since developed quite independently. This incisive book explores ways in which attachment theory and psychoanalysis have each contributed to understanding key aspects of psychological functioning--including infantile...
Psychoanalysis and Creativity in Everyday Life
Ordinary Genius
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
Psychoanalysis and Creativity in Everyday Life: Ordinary Genius is an attempt to create a psychoanalytic space for the quest and questions of our everyday creativity. Official creativity is normally applauded to the point of obscuring all other types of creativity, with detrimental consequences for...
by Sigmund Freud
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
If I were asked how one could become a psychoanalyst, I should answer, through the study of his own dreams. - Freud. Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) is known around the world as the Father of Psychoanalysis, and for good reason. If anything, Freuds first patient was himself. A sufferer of psychosomatic symptoms,...
The Capitalist Unconscious
Marx and Lacan
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
A major systematic study of the connection between Marx and Lacan’s work
Finalist for the American Board and Academy of Psychoanalysis Book Prize
Despite a resurgence of interest in Lacanian psychoanalysis, particularly in terms of the light it casts on capitalist ideology—as witnessed...
Nourishing the Inner Life of Clinicians and Humanitarians
The Ethical Turn in Psychoanalysis
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Winner of the Clinical catergory of the American Board & Academy of Psychoanalysis Book Prize for best books published in 2016
Nourishing the Inner Life of Clinicians and Humanitarians: The Ethical Turn in Psychoanalysis, demonstrates the demanding, clinical and humanitarian work that psychotherapists...
Knowing Nothing, Staying Stupid
Elements for a Psychoanalytic Epistemology
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Why is stupidity sublime?
What is the value of a 'dialectics of ignorance' for analysts and academics?
Knowing Nothing, Staying Stupid draws on recent research to provide a thorough and illuminating evaluation of the status of knowledge and truth in psychoanalysis. Adopting a Lacanian...
Supervision in Psychoanalysis
The São Paulo Seminars
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
This book originates from a series of clinical supervisions that were held at the Sao Paulo Institute of Psychoanalysis by Antonino Ferro. Supervision in Psychoanalysis: The Sao Paulo Seminars reproduces the dialogues in the seminars that followed these supervisions in their entirety.
The transcripts...