Psychoanalysis category: 1976 books
Off the Couch
Contemporary Psychoanalytic Applications
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2010
Alessandra Lemma - Winner of the Levy-Goldfarb Award for Child Psychoanalysis!
The contemporary relevance of psychoanalysis is being increasingly questioned; Off the Couch challenges this view, demonstrating that psychoanalytic thinking and its applications are both innovative and relevant,...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
Since its inception, and throughout its history, psychoanalysis has been defined as a psychology of conflict. Freud’s tripartite structure of id, ego and superego, and then modern conflict theory, placed conflict at the center of mental life and its understanding at the heart of therapeutic action.As...
The Ontology of Psychology
Questioning Foundations in the Philosophy of Mind
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
In this volume, Brakel raises questions about conventions in the study of mind in three disciplines—psychoanalysis, philosophy of mind, and experimental philosophy. She illuminates new understandings of the mind through interdisciplinary challenges to views long-accepted.
Here she proposes...
Relatedness, Self-Definition and Mental Representation
Essays in honor of Sidney J. Blatt
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2005
Over the course of a long and distinguished career, psychologist and psychoanalyst Sidney J. Blatt has made major contributions to cognitive-developmental theory, psychoanalytic object relations theory, applied psychoanalysis, and current research in the areas of psychopathology and psychotherapy....
Relationships in Development
Infancy, Intersubjectivity, and Attachment
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
The recent explosion of new research about infants, parental care, and infant-parent relationships has shown conclusively that human relationships are central motivators and organizers in development. Relationships in Development examines the practical implications for dynamic psychotherapy with both...
Coparticipant Psychoanalysis
Toward a New Theory of Clinical Inquiry
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2007
Traditionally, two clinical models have been dominant in psychoanalysis: the classical paradigm, which views the analyst as an objective mirror, and the participant-observation paradigm, which views the analyst as an intersubjective participant-observer. According to John Fiscalini, an evolutionary...
Understanding and Treating Patients in Clinical Psychoanalysis
Lessons from Literature
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
Understanding and Treating Patients in Clinical Psychoanalysis: Lessons from Literature describes the problematic ways people learn to cope with life’s fundamental challenges, such as maintaining self-esteem, bearing loss, and growing old. People tend to deal with the challenges of being human in...
The Brain, the Mind and the Self
A psychoanalytic road map
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Psychoanalysis enjoyed an enormous popularity at one time, but has recently fallen out of favor as new psychiatric medications have dominated the treatment of mental illness and a new interest in the brain and neuroscience begins to dominate the theory as to the cause and cure of mental illness.
How...
Body-Mind Dissociation in Psychoanalysis
Development after Bion
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
The conflict and dissociation between the Body and the Mind have determinant implications in the context of our current clinical practice, and are an important source of internal and relational disturbances. Body-Mind Dissociation in Psychoanalysis proposes the concept as a new hypothesis, different...
The Psychoanalysis of Overcoming Suffering
Flourishing Despite Pain
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2018
The Psychoanalysis of Overcoming Suffering: Flourishing Despite Pain offers a guide to understanding and working with a range of everyday causes of suffering from a psychoanalytic perspective.
The book delineates some of the underappreciated, everyday facets of the troubling and challenging...
Permanent Disquiet
Psychoanalysis and the Transitional Subject
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2019
Permanent Disquiet: Psychoanalysis and the Transitional Subject comprises the first English language translation of some of Michel Émile deM’Uzan’s key writings, alongside an invaluable glossary by Murielle Gagnebin of M’Uzan’s work. Together, they give a thorough overview of his key thinking.
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by Warren S. Poland
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Clinical psychoanalysis serves as our best laboratory for exploring the riddle of what it is to be a person, and how a person is at once singularly unique while always a piece of the interpersonal fabric of humanity. In Intimacy and Separateness in Psychoanalysis, Warren Poland casts a freshly erudite...
For the Love of Psychoanalysis
The Play of Chance in Freud and Derrida
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2019
For the Love of Psychoanalysis is a book about what exceeds or resists calculation—in life and in death. Rottenberg examines what emerges from the difference between psychoanalysis and philosophy.
Part I, “Freuderrida,” announces a non-traditional Freud: a Freud associated not with sexuality,...
Journeys in Psychoanalysis
The selected works of Elizabeth Spillius
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
Spanning six decades, this collection, Journeys in Psychoanalysis: The selected works of Elizabeth Spillius, traces the arc of her career from anthropology and entering psychoanalysis ‘almost by accident’, to becoming one of her generation’s leading scholars of Melanie Klein.
Born in...