Psychoanalysis category: 1976 books
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Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014
Originally published in 1970, this volume describes in condensed but detailed form Freud’s development of the theory of instincts. As is well known, Freud reformulated and amplified his theory of instincts at several points during his lifetime. Such periodical amplifications and reformulations were...
The Taming of Solitude
Separation Anxiety in Psychoanalysis
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Winner of the 2010 Sigourney Award!
Psychoanalysts would argue that at the root of anxiety about loneliness, which commonly brings people into analysis, lies anxiety about separation, unresolved since childhood.
When re-experienced in analysis, the painful awareness of solitude - the...
by Jean-Michel Quinodoz
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
Melanie Klein and Marcelle Spira: Their Correspondence and Contextincludes 45 letters Melanie Klein wrote to the Swiss psychoanalyst Marcelle Spira between 1955 and 1960, as well as six rough drafts from Spira. They were discovered in Spira’s library after her death in 2006. As only a few of the...
by Kelly Noel-Smith
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Time and timelessness are fundamental principles of psychoanalysis yet Freud does not present a consolidated theory of temporality. In this book Kelly Noel-Smith pieces together Freud's scattered 'hints' and 'suspicions' about time and its negative, timelessness. She traces a careful temporal...
From Philosophy to Psychotherapy
A Phenomenological Model for Psychology, Psychiatry, and Psychoanalysis
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2003
Presenting a highly innovative exploration of the relationship between philosophical and psychological issues, Edwin L. Hersch argues that psychological theories and practices inescapably rest upon a series of philosophical positions – whether they are acknowledged and reflected upon or not. To...
An Accident of Hope
The Therapy Tapes of Anne Sexton
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
In 1956, Anne Sexton was admitted into a mental hospital for post-partum depression, where she met Dr. Martin Orne, a young psychiatrist who treated her for the next eight years. In that time Sexton would blossom into a world-famous poet, best known for her "confessional" poems dealing with...
Common Complaints in Couple Therapy
New Approaches to Treating Marital Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
Marriage and couple therapists see clients with broken relationships and bonds all the time; those who were once madly in love can grow indifferent, people change, and couples go into sessions feeling depressed, traumatized, and sometimes abused by their partners. Joan Lachkar examines the vicissitudes...
Countertransference and Psychotherapeutic Technique
Teaching Seminars
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Published in 1986, Countertransference and Psychotherapeutic Technique is a valuable contribution to the field of Psychoanalysis.
The Power of Specificity in Psychotherapy
When Therapy Works-And When It Doesn't
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2010
In The Power of Specificity in Psychotherapy: When Therapy Works_And When It Doesn't Howard Bacal presents specificity theory, a contemporary process theory of psychotherapy that holds that therapy happens at the fit between the patient's particular therapeutic needs and the therapist's capacity to...
by Leo Rangell M.D.
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2006
The theory of psychoanalysis was the breakthrough that defined the intellectual ambience of the 20th century. Two-thirds of the way into the century, the new science peaked and started a steep decline. While many look to external factors, or more recently to internal organizational ones, Dr. Leo Rangell...
Contemporary Psychodrama
New Approaches to Theory and Technique
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
Contemporary Psychodrama weaves together psychodrama and psychoanalysis with illustrative clinical examples, whilst preserving the essence of psychodramatic philosophy and methodology. Previously unavailable in the English language, this book presents José Fonseca's diverse new approaches to psychodrama...
Glacial Times
A Journey through the World of Madness
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
In Glacial Times, Salomon Resnik brings together various facets of his work as a psychoanalyst and psychiatrist, working in both the private sector and in institutional settings and in a wide range of cultural contexts, to provide a careful summary of a lifetime of clinical work.
Drawing on...
Trauma and Transcendence
Suffering and the Limits of Theory
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
Trauma theory has become a burgeoning site of research in recent decades, often demanding interdisciplinary reflections on trauma as a phenomenon that defies disciplinary ownership. While this research has always been challenged by the temporal, affective, and corporeal dimensions of trauma itself,...
by Ann Casement
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
This book has a similar, though not identical, format to Who Owns Psychoanalysis? in being divided into sections as follows: academic, clinical, history, philosophy, science. Who Owns Jung aims to be a celebration of the diversity and interdisciplinary thinking that is a feature of the international...