Psychoanalysis category: 1976 books
by Sigmund Freud
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2012
This classic edition of The Basic Writings of Sigmund Freud includes complete texts of six works that have profoundly influenced our understanding of human behavior, presented here in the translation by Dr. A. A. Brill, who for almost forty years was the standard-bearer of Freudian theories in America.
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by Sigmund Freud, Joseph Breuer
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2004
Hysteria—the tormenting of the body by the troubled mind—is among the most pervasive of human disorders; yet, at the same time, it is the most elusive. Freud’s recognition that hysteria stemmed from traumas in the patient’s past transformed the way we think about sexuality. Studies in Hysteria...
Experiences in Groups
and Other Papers
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
A classic study which, by synthesizing the approaches of psychoanalysis and group dynamics, has added a new dimension to the understanding of group phenomena.
Reich Speaks of Freud
Wilhelm Reich Discusses His Work and His Relationship with Sigmund Freud
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
The core of this book is a tape-recorded interview of Wilhelm Reich, conducted by a representative of the Sigmund Freud Archives, Inc. Published here for the first time, it is a profoundly human and an unusually candid document that supplies a long-awaited clarification of the relationship between...
Dream Life
A Re-examination of the Psychoanalytic Theory and Technique
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2009
"Dreams are my landscape", said Meltzer. In this book he re-establishes psychoanalysis as the art of reading dreams, and dream-life as the core of mental processes. Dreams are not just puzzles to be decoded, the effluence of past trauma or future wish-fulfilment; they are the psyche's attempt...
Money Talks
in Therapy, Society, and Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Sometimes referred to as "the last taboo," money has remained something of a secret within psychoanalysis. Ironically, while it is an ingredient in almost every encounter between analyst and patient, the analyst's personal feelings about money are rarely discussed openly or in any great...
Psychology After the Crisis
Scientific paradigms and political debate
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014
Ian Parker has been a leading light in the fields of critical and discursive psychology for over 25 years. The Psychology After Critique series brings together for the first time his most important papers. Each volume in the series has been prepared by Ian Parker, features a newly written introduction...
The Puppet and the Dwarf
The Perverse Core of Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2003
One of our most daring intellectuals offers a Lacanian interpretation of religion, finding that early Christianity was the first revolutionary collective.
Slavoj Žižek has been called "an academic rock star" and "the wild man of theory"; his writing mixes astonishing erudition and references...
The Beast in the Nursery
On Curiosity and Other Appetites
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2010
If you are disturbed by the idea that to grow up is to learn to live with disillusionment, if you are fascinated by the perplexity of child-rearing, or if you fear you were more creative as a child, The Beast in the Nursery offers an illuminating and possibly life-changing experience.
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Being a Character
Psychoanalysis and Self Experience
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Each person invests many of the objects in his life with his or her own unconscious meaning, each person subsequently voyages through an environment that constantly evokes the self's psychic history. Taking Freud's model of dreamwork as a model for all unconscious thinking, Christopher Bollas argues...
Mixing Minds
The Power of Relationship in Psychoanalysis and Buddhism
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2010
"We cannot find ourselves, or be ourselves, alone." - from Mixing Minds
Mixing Minds explores the interpersonal relationships between psychoanalysts and their patients, and Buddhist teachers and their students. Through the author's own personal journey in both traditions, she sheds light on...
by Sigmund Freud
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2002
'Psychoanalytic treatment utilised the patient's capacity to love and desire as a means to an end. The stuff of romance became the stuff of cure. When Freud is writing about technique in psychoanalysis - and these papers [in Wild Analysis] represent his most significant contributions to the subject...
Freud: Bullet Guide
Bullet Guide
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2011
Open this book and you will
Grasp psychoanalysis
Master Freudian theories
Explore key concepts
Understand his influence
Traversals of Affect
On Jean-François Lyotard
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
This volume traces the topic of affect across Lyotard's corpus and accounts for Lyotard's crucial and original contribution to the thinking of affect. Highlighting the importance of affect in Lyotard's philosophy, this work offers a unique contribution to both affect theory and the reception of Lyotard.
Affect...