Psychoanalysis category: 1976 books
Mourning, Spirituality and Psychic Change
A New Object Relations View of Psychoanalysis
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2004
In her earlier books, Susan Kavaler-Adler identified healthy mourning for traumas and life changes as an essential aspect of successful analysis, and drew the distinction between a healthy acceptance of mourning as part of development and pathological mourning, which 'fixes' a patient at an unhealthy...
Myths of Termination
What patients can teach psychoanalysts about endings
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
Psychoanalysis can make a huge difference in the lives of patients, their families and others they encounter. Myths have developed, however, about how psychoanalysis should end – what patients experience and what analysts do. These expectations come primarily from accounts by analysts in the analytic...
On Symbolism and Symbolisation
The Work of Freud, Durkheim and Mauss
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
In On Symbolism and Symbolisation: The Work of Freud, Durkheim and Mauss, ÉricSmadja returns to the end of the 19th century and explores how the concepts of symbolism and symbolisation have been discussed among theorists, and how this discussion has developed and revolutionised the human sciences...
Rediscovering Pierre Janet
Trauma, Dissociation, and a New Context for Psychoanalysis
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2019
Rediscovering Pierre Janet explores the legacy left by the pioneering French psychologist, philosopher and psychotherapist (1859–1947), from the relationship of between Janet and Freud, to the influence of his dissociation theory on contemporary psychotraumatology.
Divided into three parts,...
Researching the Unconscious
Principles of Psychoanalytic Method
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2019
Researching the Unconscious provides an exposition of key issues in the philosophy and methods of the social sciences that are relevant to psychoanalysis, both as a clinical practice and as a human science.
These include the debates initiated by Thomas Kuhn’s theory of scientific revolutions,...
Toward an Emancipatory Psychoanalysis
Brandchaft's Intersubjective Vision
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2011
Best known for his contributions to the development of contemporary intersubjectivity theory, Bernard Brandchaft has dedicated a career to the advancement of psychoanalytic theory and practice. Continually searching for a theoretical viewpoint that would satisfactorily explain the clinical phenomena...
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...
Leonardo da Vinci
A Psychosexual Study of an Infantile Reminiscence
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2018
Freud has boldly attempted to enter the field of biography from the standpoint of psychoanalytic interpretation, and has chosen as his victim the great Leonardo. Freud does not mince words in this discussion but unearths the driving forces which he deems responsible for the peculiarities of character...
by Sigmund Freud
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2018
Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex, is a work by Sigmund Freud which advanced his theory of sexuality, in particular its relation to childhood. Freud's book covered three main areas: sexual perversions; childhood sexuality; and puberty.
Sigmund Freud was an Austrian neurologist, now known...
Missing Us
Re-Visioning Psychoanalysis from the Perspective of Community
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2013
In Missing Us: Re-Visioning Psychoanalysis from the Perspective of Community, Ryan LaMothe questions the ways in which psychoanalytic and psychodynamic theorists and clinicians have historically relied principally on a two-person psychology to understand psychosocial development and practice. While...
The Life and Work of Joan Riviere
Freud, Klein and Female Sexuality
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2018
The Life and Work of Joan Riviere traces her journey from dressmaker’s apprentice, and member of the Society for Psychical Research, to Sigmund Freud’s patient and his favourite translator. Marion Bower examines Riviere’s important legacy and contribution to the early development of psychoanalysis.
Riviere...
At War with the Obvious
Disruptive Thinking in Psychoanalysis
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
Psychoanalytic thought has already transformed our basic assumptions about the psychic life of individuals and cultures. Those assumptions often take on the valence of common sense. However, this can mean that their original and important meanings often become obscured. Disruptive ideas become domesticated....
The Analyst's Experience of the Depressive Position
The melancholic errand of psychoanalysis
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
In The Analyst’s Experience of the Depressive Position: The Melancholic Errand of Psychoanalysis, Steven Cooper explores a subject matter previously applied more exclusively to patients, but rarely to psychoanalysts. Cooper probes the analyst’s experience of the depressive position in the analytic...
by Philosophical Library
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2010
An invaluable guide to Freud’s terminology and work.
Repression, ego, analysis, neurosis—the language of psychology permeates our modern vocabulary. The brilliant observations of Sigmund Freud form not only the basis for psychoanalysis but also much of our current understanding of the human...