Psychoanalysis category: 1976 books
Memory, Myth, and Seduction
Unconscious Fantasy and the Interpretive Process
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Memory, Myth, and Seduction reveals the development and evolution of Jean-Georges Schimek's thinking on unconscious fantasy and the interpretive process derived from a close reading of Freud as well as contemporary psychoanalysis. Contributing richly to North American psychoanalytic thought, Schimek...
Irrepressible Truth
On Lacan’s ‘The Freudian Thing’
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
This book offers readers a uniquely detailed engagement with the ideas of legendary French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan. The Freudian Thing is one of Lacan’s most important texts, wherein he explains the significance and stakes of his “return to Freud” as a passionate defence of Freud’s disturbing,...
Psycho-Analysis (RLE: Freud)
A Brief Account of the Freudian Theory
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Originally published in 1920, this book was intended as a brief outline of psychoanalysis for those interested in the subject, but without the time to study the work of Freud and his followers first hand.
by David Dean Brockman
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
David Dean Brockman connects spirituality with psychoanalysis throughout this book as he looks at Dante’s early writings, his life story and his "polysemous" classical poem The Divine Comedy. Dante wanted to create a document that would educate the common man about his journey from brokenness...
Freud on the Couch
A Critical Introduction to the Father of Psychoanalysis
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Almost 75 years since his death, Freud remains as influential and divisive as ever. This major, new introduction argues that mistranslations, clichés, and misconceptions surround his reception. Author Beverley Clack argues that Freud was as concerned with "the death drive" as the "sex drive" and that...
by Lawrence Friedman
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2018
Freud’s Papers on Technique is usually treated as an assemblage of papers featuring a few dated rules of conduct that are either useful in some way, or merely customary, or bullying, arbitrary and presumptuous. Lawrence Friedman reveals Papers on Technique to be nothing of the sort. Freud’s book,...
You Ought To!
A Psychoanalytic Study of the Superego and Conscience
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
The superego is one of those psychoanalytic concepts that has been assimilated into ordinary language, like repression, the unconscious and the Oedipus complex. Because it has become such a familiar notion, its complexity may not always be appreciated, nor the controversy that it can inspire. Its...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
Clinical Lectures on Klein and Bion outlines the basic ideas in their thinking and shows in detail how these ideas can be used to tackle a clinical problem. The contributors correct some common misconceptions about Kleinian analysis, while demonstrating the continuity of their everyday work with seminal...
From Obstacle to Ally
The Evolution of Psychoanalytic Practice
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
From Obstacle to Ally explores the evolution of the theory and practice of psychoanalysis through an investigation of historical examples of clinical practice. Beginning with Freud's experience of the problem of transference, this book is shaped around a series of encounters in which psychoanalysts...
Sex-Pol
Essays, 1929-1934
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
This volume contains the first complete translations of Wilhelm Reich’s writings from his Marxist period. Reich, who died in 1957, had a career with a single goal: to find ways of relieving human suffering. And the same curiosity and courage that led him from medical school to join the early pioneers...
The Klein Tradition
Lines of Development—-Evolution of Theory and Practice over the Decades
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Melanie Klein's extension of Freud's ideas - in particular her explorations into the world of the infant and her emphasis on the complex interactions between the infant's internal world of powerful primitive emotions of love and hate and the mothering that the infant receives - were greeted with skepticism...
History of Countertransference
From Freud to the British Object Relations School
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
The constant and polymorphous development of the field of psychoanalysis since its inception has led to the evolution of a wide variety of psychoanalytic ‘schools’. In seeking to find common ground between them, Alberto Stefana examines the history of countertransference, a concept which has developed...
Partners in Thought
Working with Unformulated Experience, Dissociation, and Enactment
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2010
Building on the innovative work of Unformulated Experience, Donnel B. Stern continues his exploration of the creation of meaning in clinical psychoanalysis with Partners in Thought.
The chapters in this fascinating book are undergirded by the concept that the meanings which arise from unformulated...
The Psychoanalytic Vision
The Experiencing Subject, Transcendence, and the Therapeutic Process
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
Psychoanalytic therapy is distinguished by its immersion in the world of the experiencing subject. In The Psychoanalytic Vision, Frank Summers argues that analytic therapy and its unique epistemology is a worldview that stands in clear opposition to the hegemonic cultural value system of objectification,...