Psychoanalysis category: 1976 books
Hamlet on the Couch
What Shakespeare Taught Freud
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Hamlet on the Couch weaves a close reading of Shakespeare’s Hamlet with a large variety of contemporary psychoanalytic and psychological theory, looking at the interplay of ideas between the two.
Hamlet can be read almost as a psychoanalytic case study and be used to understand and illustrate...
The Embodied Subject
Minding the Body in Psychoanalysis
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2007
This volume addresses the topic of embodiment in psychoanalysis from both theoretical and clinical points of view. Freud's development of a psychoanalytic theory and treatment originated from his consideration of neurology, aphasia, and the great range of embodied signs constituting the hysterical...
NeuroAnalysis
Bridging the Gap between Neuroscience, Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
NeuroAnalysis investigates using the neural network and neural computation models to bridge the divide between psychology, psychoanalysis, and neuroscience when diagnosing mental health disorders and prescribing treatment.
Avi Peled builds on Freud's early attempts to explain the neural basis...
Relational Psychoanalysis, Volume 4
Expansion of Theory
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
Building on the success and importance of three previous volumes, Relational Psychoanalysis continues to expand and develop the relational turn. Under the keen editorship of Lewis Aron and Adrienne Harris, and comprised of the contributions of many of the leading voices in the relational world, Volume...
by Christopher Bollas
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012
In this exploration of a radical approach to the psychoanalytical treatment of people on the verge of mental breakdown, Christopher Bollas offers a new and courageous clinical paradigm.
He suggests that the unconscious purpose of breakdown is to present the self to the other for transformative...
Forces of Destiny
Psychoanalysis and Human Idiom
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2018
Christopher Bollas is one of the most expressive and eloquent exponents of the ideas, meanings and experience of psychoanalysis currently writing. He has a real gift for taking the reader into the fine texture of the psychoanalytic process. Forces of Destiny examines and reflects on one of the most...
Why Things Matter
The Place of Values in Science, Psychoanalysis and Religion
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2011
In this book, David M. Black asks questions such as 'why do we care?' and 'what gives our values power?' using ideas from psychoanalysis and its adjacent sciences such as neuroscience and evolutionary biology in order to do so.
Why Things Matter explores how the comparatively new scientific...
The Ethical Turn
Otherness and Subjectivity in Contemporary Psychoanalysis
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
Levinas (1969) claims that "morality is not a branch of philosophy, but first philosophy" and if he is right about this, might ethics also serve as a first psychology?This possibility is explored by the authors in this volume who seek to bring the "ethical turn" into the world...
Toward a Psychology of Uncertainty
Trauma-Centered Psychoanalysis
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
Since trauma is a thoroughly relational phenomenon, it is highly unpredictable, and cannot be made to fit within the scientific framework Freud so admired. In Toward a Psychology of Uncertainty: Trauma-Centered Psychoanalysis, Doris Brothers urges a return to a trauma-centered psychoanalysis. Making...
Race, Colour and the Processes of Racialization
New Perspectives from Group Analysis, Psychoanalysis and Sociology
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Is racial conflict determined by biology or society?
So many conflicts appear to be caused by racial and ethnic differences; for example, the cities of Britain and America are regularly affected by race riots. It is argued by socio-biologists and some schools of psychoanalysis that our instincts are...
From Classical to Contemporary Psychoanalysis
A Critique and Integration
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
The landscape of psychoanalysis has changed, at times dramatically, in the hundred or so years since Freud first began to think and write about it. Freudian theory and concepts have risen, fallen, evolved, mutated, and otherwise reworked themselves in the hands and minds of analysts the world over,...
Rosenfeld in Retrospect
Essays on his Clinical Influence
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2009
How has Herbert Rosenfeld contributed to psychoanalysis today?
Rosenfeld in Retrospect presents original psychoanalytic papers showing the influence of Herbert Rosenfeld on psychoanalysis today, and reproduces some of Rosenfeld's most important clinical writings.
In the first part of...
by Otto F. Kernberg
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1995
Object Relations Theory and Clinical Psychoanalysis is a collection of Kernberg's papers published or presented during the period from 1966 to 1975, with some new material included as well.
Selected Papers of Joseph Lichtenberg
The World Book of Psychoanalysis
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
The World Library of Mental Health celebrates the important contributions to mental health made by leading experts in their individual fields. Each author has compiled a career-long collection of what they consider to be their finest pieces: extracts from books, journals, articles, major theoretical...