Psychoanalysis category: 1976 books
Against Understanding, Volume 2
Cases and Commentary in a Lacanian Key
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Against Understanding, Volume 2, casts a spotlight on the status of case studies in psychoanalysis, which are commonly used to illustrate clinicians’ expertise and mastery rather than patients’ actual itineraries. When a case is presented, the complex, unwieldy, and often self-contradictory material...
Perversion
A Lacanian Psychoanalytic Approach to the Subject
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Lacan's psychoanalytic take on what makes a pervert perverse is not the fact of habitually engaging in specific "abnormal" or transgressive sexual acts, but of occupying a particular structural position in relation to the Other. Perversion is one of Lacan's three main ontological diagnostic...
by Sigmund Freud
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
When it comes to the world of psychiatry, one name has long stood out among the rest. Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) was an Austrian neurologist who came to be known as the Father of Psychoanalysis. Freud himself suffered from psychosomatic symptoms yet would go on to develop groundbreaking theories on...
Re-reading Derrida
Perspectives on Mourning and Its Hospitalities
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2013
Re-reading Derrida: Perspectives on Mourning and its Hospitalities, edited by Tony Thwaites and Judith Seaboyer, is a unique collaborative exploration of the legacies of the late philosopher, Jacques Derrida, across a wide variety of fields.
Anchoring the book are two major essays on mourning by two...
by Slavoj Zizek
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
What is the basis of belief in an era when globalization, multiculturalism and big business are the new religion? Slavoj Zizek, renowned philosopher and irrepressible cultural critic takes on all comers in this compelling and breathless new book.
From 'cyberspace reason' to the paradox that is 'Western...
Consciousness, Language, and Self
Psychoanalytic, Linguistic, and Anthropological Explorations of the Dual Nature of Mind
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
Consciousness, Language, and Self proposes that the human self is innately bilingual. Conscious mind includes two qualitatively distinct mental processes, each of which uses the same formal elements of language differently. The "mother tongue," the language of primordial consciousness, begins in utero...
Freud in 60 Minutes
Great Thinkers in 60 Minutes
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2016
The Viennese physician and psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud moved from hypnotizing his patients to interpreting their dreams and discovered thereby the hitherto unexplored dimension of the unconscious mind. Each of us, argued Freud, has hidden wishes, desires, and drives which influence our actions below...
Young Child Observation
A Development in the Theory and Method of Infant Observation
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
Observing young children at play is an everyday and often fascinating and pleasurable experience for many of us. It also has a great pedigree in the development of psychoanalysis from Freud's observation of his grandson's game with the cotton-reel onwards. This book describes the practice of observing...
Wearing My Tutu to Analysis and Other Stories
Learning Psychodynamic Concepts from Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
There couldn't be a more appropriate method for illustrating the dynamics of psychoanalysis than the vehicle of story. In this book, Kerry L. Malawista, Anne J. Adelman, and Catherine L. Anderson share amusing, poignant, and sometimes difficult stories from their personal and professional lives, inviting...
by Nancy McWilliams, PhD
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 1999
What kinds of questions do experienced therapists ask themselves when facing a new client? How can clinical expertise be taught? From the author of the landmark Psychoanalytic Diagnosis, this book takes clinicians step-by- step through developing an understanding of each client's unique psychology...
by Joseph D. Lichtenberg
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2011
Placed in a historical context, sexuality was once so prominent in psychoanalytic writing that sexual drive and psychoanalysis were synonymous. The exciting discovery of childhood sexuality filled the literature. Then other discoveries came to the fore until sexuality slipped far in the background....
The Group as an Object of Desire
Exploring Sexuality in Group Therapy
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Why do people find it so difficult to talk openly about sex?
In this original and ground-breaking book, Morris Nitsun argues that desire and sexuality are key components of human experience that have been marginalized in the group psychotherapy literature.
Drawing on theory from psychoanalysis,...
Cyclical Psychodynamics and the Contextual Self
The Inner World, the Intimate World, and the World of Culture and Society
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
Cyclical Psychodynamics and the Contextual Self articulates in new ways the essential features and most recent extensions of Paul Wachtel's powerfully integrative theory of cyclical psychodynamics. Wachtel is widely regarded as the leading advocate for integrative thinking in personality theory and...
The Fascist State of Mind and the Manufacturing of Masculinity
A psychoanalytic approach
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
The Fascist State of Mind and the Manufacturing of Masculinity: A psychoanalytic approach attempts to describe in psychoanalytic terms the psychological consequences of massive social trauma and national humiliation, and the regression that takes place within the individual under these circumstances....