Psychoanalysis category: 1976 books
Psychoanalysis and the Artistic Endeavor
Conversations with literary and visual artists
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
Psychoanalysis and the Artistic Endeavor offers an intriguing window onto the creative thinking of several well-known and highly creative individuals. Internationally renowned writers, painters, choreographers, and others converse with the author about their work and how it has been informed by...
Knot of the Soul
Madness, Psychoanalysis, Islam
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2018
Through a dual engagement with the unconscious in psychoanalysis and Islamic theological-medical reasoning, Stefania Pandolfo’s unsettling and innovative book reflects on the maladies of the soul at a time of tremendous global upheaval. Drawing on in-depth historical research and testimonies of...
Conundrums and Predicaments in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis
The Clinical Moments Project
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2018
From time to time therapists find themselves in a bind—faced with a challenging situation, unsure how to proceed. Such a conundrum leaves the therapist on edge, concerned that the success of treatment might rest on how he or she responds to the circumstance. The situation seems to call for more...
Psychoanalytic Method in Motion
Controversies and evolution in clinical theory and practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Psychoanalytic Method in Motion identifies and examines varied controversies about how psychoanalysts believe treatment should best be conducted. Irrespective of their particular school of thought, every analyst builds up a repertoire of his favored ways of working, which some analysts come to see...
Relational Psychoanalysis, Volume 5
Evolution of Process
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...
Ghosts in the Consulting Room
Echoes of Trauma in Psychoanalysis
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
Ghosts in the Consulting Room: Echoes of Trauma in Psychoanalysis is the first of two volumes that delves into the overwhelming, often unmetabolizable feelings related to mourning. The book uses clinical examples of people living in a state of liminality or ongoing melancholia. The authors reflect...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
The Écrits was Jacques Lacan’s single most important text, a landmark in psychoanalysis which epitomized his aim of returning to Freud via structural linguistics, philosophy and literature. Reading Lacan’s Écrits is the first extensive set of commentaries on the complete edition of Lacan’s...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
Developmental Perspectives in Child Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy incorporates recent innovations in developmental theory and research into our understanding of the nature of change in child psychotherapy. Diverse psychoanalytic ideas and individual styles are represented, challenging the historical...
Taking the Group Seriously
Towards a Post-Foulkesian Group Analytic Theory
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1998
In this critique and extension of the work of S.H.Foulkes, Farhad Dalal presents a thorough contemporary appraisal of the theory of group analysis and its relevance to psychoanalysis as a whole. The author argues that Foulkes failed to develop a specific set of group concepts, relying instead on the...
How We Became Human
A Challenge to Psychoanalysis
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2014
How We Became Human: A Challenge to Psychoanalysis tackles the question of what distinguishes human beings from other animals. By interweaving psychoanalysis, biology, physics, anthropology, and philosophy, Julio Moreno advances a novel thesis: human beings are faulty animals in their understanding...
Resonance and Reciprocity
Selected Papers by Dennis Brown
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
This collection of papers, published between 1976 and 2003, traces the innovative connections which the eminent group analyst Dennis Brown made between medicine and psychoanalysis. They reveal his important insights into how the principles of group analysis can improve our understanding of philosophy...
Working with Mystical Experiences in Psychoanalysis
Opening to the Numinous
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
A mystical experience, no matter what else, is a subjective occurrence in the psyche. However, when it appears in the psychoanalytic consulting room, its origin, content, and meaning are unknowable. Yet it is there in the room, and it must be addressed. It is not a minor illusion but rather one that...
Transformational Processes in Clinical Psychoanalysis
Dreaming, Emotions and the Present Moment
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
In this book, Lawrence J. Brown offers a contemporary perspective on how the mind transforms, and gives meaning to, emotional experience that arises unconsciously in the here-and-now of the clinical hour. Brown surveys the developments in theory and practice that follow from Freud’s original observations...
The Interpersonal Tradition
The origins of psychoanalytic subjectivity
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
In* The Interpersonal Tradition: The Origins of Psychoanalytic Subjectivity*, Irwin Hirsch offers an overview of psychoanalytic history and in particular the evolution of Interpersonal thinking, which has become central to much contemporary psychoanalytic theory and practice. This book of Hirsch’s...