Psychoanalysis category: 1976 books
The Academic Face of Psychoanalysis
Papers in Philosophy, the Humanities, and the British Clinical Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Ever since Freud, psychoanalysts have explored the connections between psychoanalysis and literature and psychoanalysis and philosophy, while literary criticism, social science and philosophy have all reflected on and made use of ideas from psychoanalytic theory. The Academic Face of Psychoanalysis...
For Love of the Imagination
Interdisciplinary Applications of Jungian Psychoanalysis
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
"I have entitled this book For Love of the Imagination. Long ago, I fell in love with the imagination. It was love at first sight. I have had a lifelong love affair with the imagination. I would love for others, through this book, to fall in love, as I once did, with the imagination." Michael...
by Laurence Kahn
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
The postmodern turn underlies a new development in psychoanalysis, which has theoretical and practical implications. Psychoanalysis, Apathy, and the Postmodern Patient involves a detailed reading of the main psychoanalytic texts that mark out this extended development, along with a critical examination...
The Work of Psychoanalysis
Sexuality, Time and the Psychoanalytic Mind
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2016
Psychoanalysts working in clinical situations are constantly confronted with the struggle between conservative forces and those which enable something new to develop. Continuity and change, stasis and transformation, are the major themes discussed in The Work of Psychoanalysis, and address the fundamental...
Psychoanalysis on the Move
The Work of Joseph Sandler
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Peter Fonagy Winner of the 2010 Sigourney Award!
Joseph Sandler has been an important influence in psychoanalysis throughout the world during the latter part of the twentieth century, contributing to changing views on both psychoanalytic theory and technique. He has also been a bridging force...
by Roger Kennedy
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
The Many Voices of Psychoanalysis spans over thirty years of Roger Kennedy's work as a practicing psychoanalyst, providing a fascinating insight into the process of development of psychoanalytic identity.
The introduction puts the papers into context, charting the development of the author’s...
Cultural Psychology and Psychoanalysis
Pathways to Synthesis
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
This book explores how psychoanalysis can enrich and complement sociocultural psychology. It presents theoretical integrations of psychoanalytical notions in the sociocultural framework, analyzes the historical similarities, if not intricacies, of the two fields, and presents papers that have tried...
Further Developments in Interpersonal Psychoanalysis, 1980s-2010s
Evolving Interest in the Analyst’s Subjectivity
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
Further Developments in Interpersonal Psychoanalysis, 1980s-2010s is the second collection of selected classic articles of the modern era by psychoanalysts identified with the interpersonal perspective. The first, The Interpersonal Perspective in Psychoanalysis, 1960s-1990s presented articles by second...
Positive Psychoanalysis
Meaning, Aesthetics and Subjective Well-Being
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy have, in one way or another, focused on the amelioration of the negative. This has only done half the job; the other half being to actively bring Positive Experience into patients’ lives. Positive Psychoanalysis moves away from this traditional focus on negative...
The Unconscious
A bridge between psychoanalysis and cognitive neuroscience
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
The Unconscious explores the critical interdisciplinary dialogue between psychoanalysis and contemporary cognitive neuroscience. Characterised by Freud as ‘the science of the unconscious mind’, psychoanalysis has traditionally been viewed as a solely psychological discipline. However recent developments...
The Organizational Life of Psychoanalysis
Conflicts, Dilemmas, and the Future of the Profession
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
The Organizational Life of Psychoanalysis is a wide-ranging exploration and examination of the organizational conflicts and dilemmas that have troubled psychoanalysis since its inception. Kenneth Eisold provides a unique, detailed, and closely reasoned account of the systems needed to carry out the...
An Evidence-Based Critique of Contemporary Psychoanalysis
Research, Theory, and Clinical Practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2019
An Evidence-Based Critique of Contemporary Psychoanalysis assesses the state of psychoanalysis in the 21st century. Joel Paris examines areas where analysis needs to develop a stronger scientific and clinical base, and to integrate its ideas with modern clinical psychology and psychiatry.
While...
Psychoanalysis in the Barrios
Race, Class, and the Unconscious
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2018
Psychoanalysis in the Barrios: Race, Class, and the Unconscious demonstrates that psychoanalytic principles can be applied successfully in disenfranchised Latino populations, refuting the misguided idea that psychoanalysis is an expensive luxury only for the wealthy.
As opposed to most Latin...
by Edgar A. Levenson
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Edgar A. Levenson is a key figure in the development of interpersonal psychoanalysis whose ideas remain influential. Interpersonal Psychoanalysis and the Enigma of Consciousness builds on his previously published work in his key areas of expertise such as interpersonal psychoanalysis, transference...