Psychoanalysis category: 1976 books
The Mother in Psychoanalysis and Beyond
Matricide and Maternal Subjectivity
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
The question of what it means to be a mother is a very contentious topic in psychoanalysis and in wider society. The Mother in Psychoanalysis and Beyond explores our relationship to the maternal through psychoanalysis, philosophy, art and political and gender studies.
Over two years, a group...
Relational Psychoanalysis and Temporality
Time Out of Mind
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2019
In Relational Psychoanalysis and Temporality, Neil J. Skolnick takes us on a journey that traces his personal evolution from a graduate student through to his career as a relational psychoanalyst. Skolnick uniquely shares his publications and presentations that span his professional career, weaving...
The Budapest School of Psychoanalysis
The Origin of a Two-Person Psychology and Emphatic Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
The Budapest School of Psychoanalysis brings together a collection of expertly written pieces on the influence of the Budapest (Ferenczi) conception of analytic theory and practice on the evolution of psychoanalysis. It touches on major figures Sándor Ferenczi and Michael Balint whilst concurrently...
Psychoanalysis and the Time of Life
Durations of the Unconscious Self
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2007
Is psychoanalysis a narrative of self-knowledge, or a movement of lived time and the body?
Psychoanalysis and the Time of Life examines the relationship between therapy and the time of life, presenting an original and thought-provoking re-reading of psychoanalysis in relation to questions of...
by Giuseppe Civitarese
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
What is the truth of the unconscious? Truth and the Unconscious in Psychoanalysis explores the intersection of these two concepts within a Bionian framework. Giuseppe Civitarese maps out the unconscious in psychoanalysis, and focuses on the differences between the Freudian, Kleinian, Bionian and Lacanian...
by
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Psychoanalysis in the Age of Totalitarianism provides rich new insights into the history of political thought and clinical knowledge. In these chapters, internationally renowned historians and cultural theorists discuss landmark debates about the uses and abuses of ‘the talking cure’ and map the...
Psychoanalysis and Religion in the 21st Century
Competitors or Collaborators?
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
What can be gained from a dialogue between psychoanalysis and religion?
Freud described religion as the universal obsessional neurosis, and uncompromisingly rejected it in favour of "science." Ever since, there has been the assumption that psychoanalysts are hostile to religion. Yet,...
by Donna M. Orange
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Psychoanalysis engages with the difficult subjects in life, but it has been slow to address climate change. Climate Crisis, Psychoanalysis, and Radical Ethics draws on the latest scientific evidence to set out the likely effects of climate change on politics, economics and society more generally,...
by
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Originally published in 1990, Psychoanalysis and… brings together essays by critics whose work demonstrates the lively interpenetration of psychoanalysis and other disciplines. Andrew Ross investigates psychoanalysis and Marxist thought; Joel Fineman reads the "sound of O" in Othello;...
Key Ideas for a Contemporary Psychoanalysis
Misrecognition and Recognition of the Unconscious
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
André Green attempts the complex task of identifying and examining the key ideas for a contemporary psychoanalytic practice.
This undertaking is motivated both by the need for an outline of the evolution of psychoanalysis since Freud's death, and by the hope of tackling the fragmentation which...
Psychoanalysis and the Postmodern Impulse
Knowing and Being since Freud's Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
According to the author, psychoanalytic theory and practice – which discloses ‘the interminable falsity of the human subject’s belief in the mastery of its own mental life’ – is in part responsible for the coming of the postmodern era. In this title, originally published in 1993, Barratt...
Listening to Hanna Segal
Her Contribution to Psychoanalysis
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2007
Winner of the 2010 Sigourney Award!
How has Hanna Segal influenced psychoanalysis today?
Jean-Michel Quinodoz provides the reader with a comprehensive overview of Segal's life, her clinical and theoretical work, and her contribution to psychoanalysis over the past sixty years by combining...
British Psychoanalysis
New Perspectives in the Independent Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
British Psychoanalysis: New Perspectives in the Independent Tradition is a new and extended edition of The British School of Psychoanalysis: The Independent Tradition, which explored the successes and failures of the early environment; transference and counter-transference in the psychoanalytic encounter;...
Psychoanalysis Beyond the End of Metaphysics
Thinking Towards the Post-Relational
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
Winner of the Theoretical Category of the American Board & Academy of Psychoanalysis Book Prize for best books published in 2016
Psychoanalysis Beyond the End of Metaphysics offers a new paradigm approach which advocates reengaging the importance of metaphysics in psychoanalytic theorizing....