Psychoanalysis category: 1976 books
Secret Passages
The Theory and Technique of Interpsychic Relations
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
Secret Passages provides a theoretical and clinical exploration of the field of psychoanalysis. It looks at the pivotal relationship between analyst and client and its importance to the psychoanalytic process. Offering a uniquely global perspective, Bolognini considers the different trends in contemporary...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Lacan, Discourse, Event: New Psychoanalytic Approaches to Textual Indeterminacy is an introduction to the emerging field of Lacanian Discourse Analysis. It includes key papers that lay the foundations for this research, and worked examples from analysts working with a range of different texts. The...
A Primer of the Psychoanalytic Theory of Herbert Silberer
What Silberer Said
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Herbert Silberer was an early member of Freud’s Vienna Group whose work was unique and prodigious; yet, owing to his expulsion from the psychoanalytic community, his contributions have been dismissed for close to a century. Based on original documents and primary sources, A Primer of the Psychoanalytic...
Fair Sex, Savage Dreams
Race, Psychoanalysis, Sexual Difference
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2001
In Fair Sex, Savage Dreams Jean Walton examines the work of early feminist psychoanalytic writing to decipher in it the unacknowledged yet foundational role of race. Focusing on the 1920s and 1930s, a time when white women were actively refashioning Freud’s problematic accounts of sexual subjectivity,...
Between Couch and Piano
Psychoanalysis, Music, Art and Neuroscience
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Why and how do music and abstract art pack such universal appeal? Why do they often have 'therapeutic' efficacy?
Between Couch and Piano links well-established psychoanalytic ideas with historical and neurological theory to help us begin to understand some of the reasons behind music's ubiquity...
Lacanian Affects
The function of affect in Lacan's work
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Affect is a high-stakes topic in psychoanalysis, but there has long been a misperception that Lacan neglected affect in his writings. We encounter affect at the beginning of any analysis in the form of subjective suffering that the patient hopes to alleviate. How can psychoanalysis alleviate such...
by Salomon Resnik
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2005
The Theatre of the Dream is a profound study of our dream world and its place in everyday life.
The author grounds his ideas in Freud and psychoanalysis authors such as Klein, Bion, Rosenfeld and Matte Blanco, but also draws on the approach to dream phenomena in the work of philosophers, artists...
Heinz Kohut
The Chicago Institute Lectures
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Delivered to advanced candidates at The Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis in 1974-75, The Chicago Institute Lectures reveal a Kohut in transition, a Kohut wrestling with the creative tension in psychoanalysis between tradition and innovation, between continuity and change, even as he worked toward...
by Sigmund Freud
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Whether one accepts Freud's teachings in toto or rejects a great part of them as unsubstantiated and untenable, one must admit that his influence on modern thought has been tremendous, incalculable-and on the whole beneficial. Many shams and hypocrisies have been uncovered and exploded by the ruthless...
Moving Images
Psychoanalytic reflections on film
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
The experience of watching films – entertaining, moving, instructive, frightening or exciting as they may be – can be enriched by the opportunity to reflect upon them from unconventional perspectives.Psychoanalytic Reflections on Film: Moving Images offers its readers in an accessible language...
Uncertainties, Mysteries, Doubts
Romanticism and the analytic attitude
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
What is it to listen? How do we hear? How do we allow meanings to emerge between each other?
'This book is about what Freud called "freely" or "evenly suspended attention", a form of listening, a kind of receptive incomprehension, which is fundamental and mandatory for the...
by Gohar Homayounpour
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
A Western-trained psychoanalyst returns to her homeland and tells stories of displacement, nostalgia, love, and pain.
Psychoanalytic Thinking
A Dialectical Critique of Contemporary Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
A video of Don Carveth discussing the book and its subject matter can be accessed using the following web URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yW7tGq0uEtU
Since the classical Freudian and ego psychology paradigms lost their position of dominance in the late 1950s, psychoanalysis became a multi-paradigm...
Dreams That Turn Over a Page
Paradoxical Dreams in Psychoanalysis
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2005
Winner of the 2010 Sigourney Award!
In Dreams That Turn Over a Page, the author discusses a particular type of dream that comes after a phase in analysis where integration has taken place. Accompanied by anxiety and fear, which seem surprising as the dream follows a phase of integrative work...