Psychoanalysis category: 1976 books
Sublime Subjects
Aesthetic Experience and Intersubjectivity in Psychoanalysis
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Sublime Subjects explores two fundamental questions: what is the start of humanity? When and how does a newborn child become a subject? These are relevant to psychoanalysis not only theoretically, but also in clinical practice, where the issue at stake is how to help the analysand’s mind to grow...
The Consulting Room and Beyond
Psychoanalytic Work and Its Reverberations in the Analyst's Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2010
The Consulting Room and Beyond is not a typical example of clinical writing in the field of psychoanalysis. Therese Ragen, pushing the boundaries of the genre, thoughtfully explores in a very immediate way the intersubjective nature of psychoanalysis, particularly looking at the role of the psychoanalyst’s...
The Age of Perversion
Desire and Technology in Psychoanalysis and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
American Board and Academy of Psychoanalysis Book Prize Winner for 2018 (Theoretical Category)
We have entered the age of perversion, an era in which we are becoming more like machines and they more like us.The Age of Perversion explores the sea changes occurring in sexual and social life,...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Is play only a children’s activity? How is the spontaneous play of adults expressed? What is the difference between “play” and “game”? What function does play have during war?
Play:Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Survival and Human Development explores the importance of play in the life...
Lectures on Technique by Melanie Klein
Edited with Critical Review by John Steiner
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Lectures on Technique by Melanie Klein is based on a series of six lectures given by Melanie Klein to students at the British Psychoanalytical Society in 1936 and repeated several times in subsequent years. They were discovered in the Melanie Klein Archives housed in the Wellcome Medical Library and...
Psychoanalysis, Literature and War
Papers 1972-1995
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2005
Many of the themes which were elaborated in Hanna Segal's earlier work return in this volume of her most recent papers. Two act as connecting strands and give the book its unity: the clinical usefulness of the concept of the death instinct and the relationship between fantasy and reality.
A...
Torment Me, But Don't Abandon Me
Psychoanalysis of the Severe Neuroses in a New Key
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2007
Torment Me, But Don't Abandon Me: Psychoanalysis of the Severe Neuroses in a New Key offers analysts and psychodynamic therapists an innovative way of understanding the theoretical intersection of masochism, perversion, shame, guilt, narcissism substance abuse. This constellation of psychopathology...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 1977
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 1977
Dr. Robert Langs collects the most important and creative work ever published on how to do psychotherapy and psychoanalysis in Classics in Psychoanalytic Technique. Practioners should base their studies upon. This revised edition builds upon his previous volume of works, The Therapeutic Interaction,...
Primitive Mental States
A Psychoanalytic Exploration of the Origins of Meaning
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Traditional psychoanalysis relies on the presence of certain meaning-making capacities in the patient for its effectiveness. Primitive Mental States examines how particular capacities including those for symbolising, fantasising, dreaming, experiencing and finding meanings in those experiences, can...
Clinical Implications of the Psychoanalyst's Life Experience
When the Personal Becomes Professional
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
2015 Gradiva Award Winner
Clinical Implications of the Psychoanalyst’s Life Experience explores how leaders in the fields of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy address the phenomena of the psychoanalyst’s personal life and psychology. In this edited book, each author describes pivotal childhood...
The Enigma of Desire
Sex, Longing, and Belonging in Psychoanalysis
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
The Enigma of Desire: Sex, Longing and Belonging in Psychoanalysis, introduces new perspectives on desire and longing, in and outside of the analytic relationship.This exciting volume explores the known and unknown, ghosts and demons, sexuality and lust. Galit Atlas discusses the subjects of sex and...
Please Select Your Gender
From the Invention of Hysteria to the Democratizing of Transgenderism
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2011
"I have the worst birth defect a woman can have: I was born with a penis and a pair of testicles."
Thus we meet Hera, who shares her reason for starting psychoanalysis and whose statement embodies the debate over transgenderism, rigorously dissected in Please Select Your Gender. Is...
by Philip A. Ringstrom
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
Winner of the 2014 Goethe Award for Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic Scholarship!
A Relational Psychoanalytic Approach to Couples Psychotherapy presents an original model of couples treatment integrating ideas from a host of authors in relational psychoanalysis. It also includes other psychoanalytic...
Betweenity
A Discussion of the Concept of Borderline
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
From its inception psychoanalysis has sought to effect a cure through the therapeutic relationship between analyst and analysand. Betweenity looks at what happens when the established framework of the psychoanalytic process is challenged by those with borderline personalities.
In this book...