Psychoanalysis category: 1976 books
Jacques Lacan and the Logic of Structure
Topology and language in psychoanalysis
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2015
Lacan postulated that the psyche can be understood by means of certain structures, which control our lives and our desires, and which operate differently at different logical moments or stages of formation. Jacques Lacan and the Logic of Structure offers us a reading of the major concepts of Lacan...
Transsexuality and the Art of Transitioning
A Lacanian approach
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
Winner of The American Board and Academy of Psychoanalysis (ABAPsa) Book Prize for 2015
Transsexuality and the Art of Transitioning: A Lacanian approach presents a startling new way to consider psychoanalytic dilemmas of sexual difference and gender through the meeting of arts and the clinic....
New Discoveries in Child Psychotherapy
Findings from Qualitative Research
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2019
New Discoveries in Child Psychotherapy presents eleven new contributions to child psychoanalytic research, most of them based on the experience of the clinical consulting room. Each chapter is the work of an experienced child psychotherapist or child analyst, vivid in their description of the children...
Sabert Basescu
Selected Papers on Human Nature and Psychoanalysis
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2011
An influential part of the New York psychoanalytic scene for more than 50 years, Sabert "Sabe" Basescu is regarded as an outstanding analyst and a significant proponent of the integration of existentialism and phenomenology into psychoanalytic theory and practice. Existential themes serve as a central...
Beyond Psychotherapy
On Becoming a (Radical) Psychoanalyst
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2019
In Beyond Psychotherapy: On Becoming a (Radical) Psychoanalyst, Barnaby B. Barratt illuminates a new perspective on what it means to open our awareness to the depths of psychic life and restores the radicality of genuinely psychoanalytic discourse as the unique science of healing.
Starting...
Impossible Training
A Relational View of Psychoanalytic Education
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Over the past century psychoanalysis has gone on to establish training institutes, professional societies, accreditation procedures, and models of education, thus bringing into uneasy alliance all three impossible pursuits. In Impossible Training: A Relational View of Psychoanalytic Education, Emanuel...
Fear of Breakdown
Politics and Psychoanalysis
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2019
What is behind the upsurge of virulent nationalism and intransigent politics across the globe today? In Fear of Breakdown, Noëlle McAfee uses psychoanalytic theory to explore the subterranean anxieties behind current crises and the ways in which democratic practices can help work through seemingly...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2017
A Psychoanalytic Exploration of the Body in Today's World: On the Body examines the importance of the body in everyday psychoanalytic practice and beyond. Written by world leading clinicians and international scholars, this important book aims to relocate the psychoanalytic body in the modern, more...
by John Forrester
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2016
What exactly is involved in using particular case histories to think systematically about social, psychological and historical processes? Can one move from a textured particularity, like that in Freud's famous cases, to a level of reliable generality? In this book, Forrester teases out the meanings...
Psychoanalytic Studies of the Work of Adam Smith
Towards a Theory of Moral Development and Social Relations
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Psychoanalytic Studies of the Work of Adam Smith blends the rich intellectual heritage of the hermeneutic tradition with the methods and concepts of psychoanalysis, in order to examine the seminal works of Adam Smith. This is the first book on Smith to analyse the works of the groundbreaking moral...
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Man
Psychoanalysis and Masculinity
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
Images and ideas associated with masculinity are forever in flux. In this book, Donald Moss addresses the never-ending effort of men—regardless of sexual orientation—to shape themselves in relation to the unstable notion of masculinity.
Part 1 looks at the lifelong labor faced by boys and...
Nameless
Understanding Learning Disability
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2004
Is learning disability determined from birth?
Psychoanalysis has always striven to reconstruct damaged human subjectivity. However, with a few exceptions, people with learning disabilities have long been excluded from this enterprise as a matter of course. It has been taken for granted that learning...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2019
Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Women and Their Experience of Desire, Ambition and Leadership considers how these factors can be understood, nurtured, or thwarted and the subsequent impact on women’s identity, authority and satisfaction.
Psychoanalysis has long struggled with its ideas about...
Learning Along the Way
Further Reflections on Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2018
Learning Along the Way sees Patrick Casement trace the development and application of his earlier key contributions to psychoanalytic technique. These include his observations about internal supervision, trial identification with the patient, and monitoring how the analytic space is either preserved...