Psychoanalysis category: 1976 books
Spontaneity
A Psychoanalytic Inquiry
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2009
Psychoanalytic theory frequently explains psychopathology from the perspective of either inadequate early care or as the result of environmental factors. In this book the author suggests that poor mental health can be a result of our incapacity to respond to internal and external stimuli, and indicates...
Dream Psychology
Psychoanalysis for Beginners
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2015
Not a few serious-minded students, […], have been discouraged from attempting a study of Freud’s dream psychology. The book in which he originally offered to the world his interpretation of dreams was as circumstantial as a legal record to be pondered over by scientists at their leisure, not to...
Invasive Objects
Minds Under Siege
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
The "Director" controls Ms. B’s life. He flatters her, beguiles her, derides her. His instructions pervade each aspect of her life, including her analytic sessions, during which he suggests promiscuous and dangerous things for Ms. B to say and do, when he suspects that her isolated state...
Disciplining Freud on Religion
Perspectives from the Humanities and Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2010
It is well known that in formulating his general theoretical framework and views on religion Freud drew on multiple disciplines within the natural and social sciences, as well as from the humanities. This edited collection adds to the continued multidisciplinary interest in Freud by focusing on his...
The End of Gender
A Psychological Autopsy
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Gender isn't what it used to be. Categories are collapsing. What was deviant for baby boomers has become mainstream for their offspring: like the coed who realizes she's bisexual but, after a period of adjustment, shrugs her shoulders and gets on with her otherwise mundane life. Gender as we once...
The Perversion of Loss
Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Trauma
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Alessandra Lemma - Winner of the Levy-Goldfarb Award for Child Psychoanalysis!
The Perversion of Loss is an edited collection of psychoanalytic papers written by clinicians in the field of trauma. The text offers a psychoanalytic perspective on trauma and its effects on psychic functioning....
The Power of Witnessing
Reflections, Reverberations, and Traces of the Holocaust: Trauma, Psychoanalysis, and the Living Mind
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Witnessing comes in as many forms as the trauma that gives birth to it. The Holocaust, undeniably one of the greatest traumatic events in recent human history, still resonates into the twenty-first century. The echoes that haunt those who survived continue to reach their children and others who did...
The Hands of the Living God
An Account of a Psycho-analytic Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
At once autobiographical and psychoanalytic, The Hands of the Living God, first published in 1969, provides a detailed case study of Susan who, during a 20-year long treatment, spontaneously discovers the capacity to do doodle drawings.
An important focus of the book is the drawings themselves,...
Lacan on Love
An Exploration of Lacan's Seminar VIII, Transference
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2015
Quintessentially fascinating, love intrigues and perplexes us, and drives much of what we do in life. As wary as we may be of its illusions and disappointments, many of us fall blindly into its traps and become ensnared time and again. Deliriously mad excitement turns to disenchantment, if not deadening...
Ego Sum
Corpus, Anima, Fabula
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2016
First published in 1979 but never available in English until now, Ego Sum challenges, through a careful and unprecedented reading of Descartes’s writings, the picture of Descartes as the father of modern philosophy: the thinker who founded the edifice of knowledge on the absolute self-certainty...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
One can love and not forgive or out of love decide not to forgive. Or one can forgive but not love, or choose to forgive but not love the ones forgiven. Love and forgiveness follow parallel and largely independent paths, a truth we fail to acknowledge when we pressure others to both love and forgive....
by Sigmund Freud
Language: German
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: German
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Classic work of psychology, in the original German. According to Wikipedia: "Sigmund Freud (May 6, 1856 September 23, 1939), was an Austrian neurologist who founded the psychoanalytic school of psychology. Freud is best known for his theories of the unconscious mind and the defense mechanism of repression...
by Sigmund Freud
Language: German
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: German
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Classic book of psychology in the original German. According to Wikipedia: "Sigmund Freud (May 6, 1856 September 23, 1939), was an Austrian neurologist who founded the psychoanalytic school of psychology. Freud is best known for his theories of the unconscious mind and the defense mechanism of repression...
by Jonathan Lear
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2017
Can reason absorb the psyche’s nonrational elements into a conception of the fully realized human being? Without a good answer to that question, Jonathan Lear says, philosophy is cut from its moorings in human life. He brings into conversation psychoanalysis and moral philosophy, which together form a basis for ethical thought about how to live.