Psychoanalysis category: 1976 books
by Sigmund Freud
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
When it comes to the world of psychiatry, one name has long stood out among the rest. Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) was an Austrian neurologist who came to be known as the Father of Psychoanalysis. Freud himself suffered from psychosomatic symptoms yet would go on to develop groundbreaking theories on...
Jung contra Freud
The 1912 New York Lectures on the Theory of Psychoanalysis
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2011
In the autumn of 1912, C. G. Jung, then president of the International Psychoanalytic Association, set out his critique and reformulation of the theory of psychoanalysis in a series of lectures in New York, ideas that were to prove unacceptable to Freud, thus creating a schism in the Freudian school....
The Crisis of Psychoanalysis
Essays on Freud, Marx and Social Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
This book brings together Erich Fromm’s basic statements on the application of psychoanalytic theory to social dynamics. At the same time it offers an image of man consonant with the hopes of radical humanism.
The Crisis of Psychoanalysis is a collection of nine brilliant essays. Although his...
Sites of the Unconscious
Hypnosis and the Emergence of the Psychoanalytic Setting
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
In the late nineteenth century, scientists, psychiatrists, and medical practitioners began employing a new experimental technique for the study of neuroses: hypnotism. Though the efforts of the famous French neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot to transform hypnosis into a laboratory science failed, his...
Psychoanalytic Education at the Crossroads
Reformation, change and the future of psychoanalytic training
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
Training in psychoanalysis is a long and demanding process. However, the quality of education available is hugely variable across the world. The structure of psychoanalytic education, centered on the hierarchical "training analysis" system, reflected a concerted effort to maintain a stable...
Contemporary Psychoanalytic Foundations
Postmodernism, Complexity, and Neuroscience
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2011
Past scholars have tried to classify psychoanalysis as an intrinsically positivist science, with varying degrees of success. Their critics have fared little better with narrow applications of postmodern thought, which focus on smaller areas within psychoanalysis and, as a result, neglect the evolution...
The Psychic Home
Psychoanalysis, consciousness and the human soul
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2014
The Psychic Home: Psychoanalysis of Consciousness and the Human Soul develops, from a number of different viewpoints, the significance of home in our lives. Roger Kennedy puts forward the central role of what he has termed a ‘psychic home’ as a vital psychic structure, which gathers together a...
by Patrick Mahony
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
After a detailed discussion of the significance of translation as a critical concept in psychoanalysis, Patrick Mahony proceeds to a comprehensive examination of 'free association', the cornerstone of psychoanalytic method.
Next follows the consideration of free association in its relation...
Read My Desire
Lacan Against the Historicists
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
In Read My Desire, Joan Copjec stages a confrontation between the theories of Jacques Lacan and those of Michel Foucault, protagonists of two powerful modern disciplines—psychoanalysis and historicism. Ordinarily, these modes of thinking only cross paths long enough for historicists to charge psychoanalysis...
Ferenczi’s Influence on Contemporary Psychoanalytic Traditions
Lines of Development—-Evolution of Theory and Practice over the Decades
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2018
This collection covers all the topics relevant for understanding the importance of Sándor Ferenczi and his influence on contemporary psychoanalysis. Pre-eminent Ferenczi scholars were solicited to contribute succint reviews of their fields of expertise.
The book is divided in five sections....
The Melancholy of Race
Psychoanalysis, Assimilation, and Hidden Grief
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2000
In this groundbreaking, interdisciplinary study Anne Anlin Cheng argues that we have to understand racial grief not only as the result of racism but also as a foundation for racial identity. The Melancholy of Race proposes that racial identification is itself already a melancholic act--a social category...
Bloody Mary in the Mirror
Essays in Psychoanalytic Folkloristics
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2002
Bloody Mary in the Mirror mixes Sigmund Freud with vampires and The Little Mermaid to see what new light psychoanalysis can bring to folklore techniques and forms. Ever since Freud published his analysis of Jewish jokes in 1905 and his disciple Otto Rank followed with his groundbreaking The Myth of...
Witnessing Psychoanalysis
From Vienna back to Vienna via Buchenwald and the USA
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2018
This book contains a collection of articles on social psychology, the psychology of terror and violence, psychoanalytic psychotherapy, and the history of psychoanalysis. It also includes Federn's moving memoir of his encounter with Bruno Bettelheim in Buchenwald.
by Peter Fonagy
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
A Bestseller
Attachment Theory shows scientifically how our earliest relationships with our mothers influence our later relationships in life. This book offers an excellent introduction to the findings of attachment theory and the major schools of psychoanalytic thought.
"The book...