Psychoanalysis category: 1976 books
Memory, Trauma, and History
Essays on Living with the Past
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
In these essays, Michael S. Roth uses psychoanalysis to build a richer understanding of history, and then takes a more expansive conception of history to decode the cultural construction of memory. He first examines the development in nineteenth-century France of medical criteria for diagnosing memory...
Lacan
In Spite Of Everything
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
Jacques Lacan continues to be subject to the most extravagant interpretations. Angelic to some, he is demonic to others. To recall Lacan’s career, now that the heroic age of psychoanalysis is over, is to remember an intellectual and literary adventure that occupies a founding place in our modernity....
Freud
The Theory of the Unconscious
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
A clearly written and highly organized introduction of the work of one of the twentieth century’s greatest thinkers
Octave Mannoni worked in France, Madagascar and Africa throughout the twentieth century to extend Lacanian psychoanalytical methods into the field of ethnology. He is best known...
Hermeneutics for Clinicians
Hermeneutics for Everyday Clinical Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2011
Utilizing the hermeneutics of Hans-Georg Gadamer and the ethics of Emmanuel Lévinas, The Suffering Stranger invigorates the conversation between psychoanalysis and philosophy, demonstrating how each is informed by the other and how both are strengthened in unison. Orange turns her critical (and clinical)...
by Wilhelm Reich
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
This volume marks the beginning of the publication in English of Reich's early writings. Volume One and the collections to follow will trace his scientific development from the psycho-analytical study of Ibsen's Peer Gynt, presented for membership in the Viennese Psychoanalytic Society (1920), to...
Love and Hate
Psychoanalytic Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Love and hate seem to be the dominant emotions that make the world go round and are a central theme in psychotherapy. Love and Hate seeks to answer some important questions about these all consuming passions. Many patients seeking psychotherapy feel unlovable or full of rage and hate. What is it that...
by Sigmund Freud
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
Sigmund Freud is known around the world as the Father of Psychoanalysis, and for good reason. If anything, Freuds first patient was himself. A sufferer of psychosomatic symptoms, Freud diagnosed himself as having a repressed antagonism against his father. From there, Freud began to build on his now famous...
by Sigmund Freud
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
"A state at war makes free use of every injustice, every act of violence, that would dishonor the individual. - Freud. Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) is known around the world as the Father of Psychoanalysis, and for good reason. If anything, Freuds first patient was himself. A sufferer of psychosomatic symptoms,...
by Sigmund Freud
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
Very soon it was discovered that the dreams invented by writers stand in the same relation to analysis as do genuine dreams. - Freud. Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) is known around the world as the Father of Psychoanalysis, and for good reason. If anything, Freuds first patient was himself. A sufferer of...
by Sigmund Freud
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
Individual hysterical symptoms immediately disappeared without returning if we succeeded in thoroughly awakening the memories of the causal process with its accompanying affect. - Freud. Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) is known around the world as the Father of Psychoanalysis, and for good reason. If anything,...
by Sigmund Freud
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2014
"Perfect for students on a tight budget wanting a copy they can mark up with their own notes, or for anyone interested in just reading the text." — University of St. Andrews
This controversial 1920 publication marks a turning point in the celebrated philosopher's theoretical approach....
Psychoanalytic Treatment of Eating Disorders
When Words Fail and Bodies Speak
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
Psychoanalytic Treatment of Eating Disorders: When Words Fail and Bodies Speakoffers a compilation of some of the most innovative thinking on psychoanalytic approaches to the treatment of eating disorders available today. In its recognition of the multiple meanings of food, weight, and body shape,...
Losing Your Head
Abjection, Aesthetic Conflict, and Psychoanalytic Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
Losing Your Head: Abjection, Aesthetic Conflict, and Psychoanalytic Criticism looks at the subject of beheading in art as a trope of the destruction of the mind. This book discusses both psychoanalytic theory and art criticism. It addresses critics, readers, and spectators interested in the keys of...
Thinking for Clinicians
Philosophical Resources for Contemporary Psychoanalysis and the Humanistic Psychotherapies
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2009
Thinking for Clinicians provides analysts of all orientations with the tools and context for working critically within psychoanalytic theory and practice. It does this through detailed chapters on some of the philosophers whose work is especially relevant for contemporary theory and clinical writing:...