Psychoanalysis category: 1976 books
Exploring in Security
Towards an Attachment-Informed Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2009
Winner of the 2010 Goethe Award for Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic Scholarship!
This book builds a key clinical bridge between attachment theory and psychoanalysis, deploying Holmes' unique capacity to weld empirical evidence, psychoanalytic theory and consulting room experience into a coherent...
The Legacy of Fairbairn and Sutherland
Psychotherapeutic Applications
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2005
The Legacy of Fairbairn and Sutherland provides the first comprehensive review of W.R.D. Fairbairn and John Sutherland's theories on psycho-social development. It reviews Fairbairn and Sutherland's ideas, traces the philosophical roots of their thinking, explores their legacy, and demonstrates their...
God, Freud and Religion
The origins of faith, fear and fundamentalism
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
Choice Essential Read
Did God create man or did man create God? In this book, Dianna Kenny examines religious belief through a variety of perspectives – psychoanalytic, cognitive, neuropsychological, sociological, historical and psychiatric – to provide a coherent account of why people...
by Mark Leffert
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Extending the themes of Contemporary Psychoanalytic Foundations, The Therapeutic Situation in the 21st Century is a systematic reformulation of fundamental psychoanalytic concepts, such as transference, therapeutic action, and the uses of psychotropic drugs, in the light of recent developments in...
The Infinity of the Unsaid
Unformulated Experience, Language, and the Nonverbal
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2018
The theory of unformulated experience is an interpersonal/relational conception of unconscious process. The idea is that unconscious content is not fully formed, merely awaiting discovery, but is instead better understood as potential experience—a vaguely organized, primitive, global, non-ideational,...
Learning from Life
Becoming a Psychoanalyst
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
All of life can be a resource for our learning. In his fourth and most personal book, Patrick Casement attempts to understand what he has learned from life, sharing a wide range of those experiences that have helped shape the analyst he has become.
Patrick Casement shares various incidents...
The Maternal Lineage
Identification, Desire and Transgenerational Issues
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Why do women want to have children? How does one ‘learn’ to be a mother? Does having babies have anything to do with sex?
At a time when mothers are bombarded by prescriptive and contradicting advice on how to behave with their children, The Maternal Lineage highlights various psychological...
Psychotherapy and the Treatment of Cancer Patients
Bearing Cancer in Mind
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Psychotherapy and the Treatment of Cancer Patients addresses the need for a more integrated care of cancer patients within hospitals which pays attention to the mental anguish as well as physical distress caused by the disease. This book is based on Lawrence Goldie's own research with cancer patients,...
Understanding and Treating Chronic Shame
A Relational/Neurobiological Approach
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
Chronic shame is painful, corrosive, and elusive. It resists self-help and undermines even intensive psychoanalysis. Patricia A. DeYoung’s cutting-edge book gives chronic shame the serious attention it deserves, integrating new brain science with an inclusive tradition of relational psychotherapy....
Dimensions of Psychotherapy, Dimensions of Experience
Time, Space, Number and State of Mind
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2005
How do the fundamental elements of experience impact on the practice of psychotherapy?
Dimensions of Psychotherapy, Dimensions of Experience explores the three basic elements of psychotherapy - time, space and number - summarising theory, setting it in context and bringing concepts to life...
Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Women and Power in Contemporary Fiction
Malice, the Victim and the Couple
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Women and Power in Contemporary Fiction psychoanalytically examines contemporary fiction portraying the female in a reversal of the stereotyped victim role. The recent popularity of powerful female characters suggests that literature is ahead in its understanding the...
by Pauline Watson
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
The ways in which people change and grow, and learn to become good, are not only about conscious decisions to behave well, but about internal change which allows a loving and compassionate response to others. Such change can take place in psychotherapy; this book explores whether similar processes...
The Self Psychology of Addiction and its Treatment
Narcissus in Wonderland
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
In the time of Freud, the typical psychoanalytic patient was afflicted with neurotic disorders; however, the modern-day psychotherapy patient often suffers instead from a variety of addictive disorders. As the treatment of neurotic disorders based on unconscious conflicts cannot be applied to treatment...
Environmental Melancholia
Psychoanalytic dimensions of engagement
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2015
In this groundbreaking book, Renee Lertzman applies psychoanalytic theory and psychosocial research to the issue of public engagement and public apathy in response to chronic ecological threats. By highlighting unconscious and affective dimensions of contemporary ecological issues, Lertzman deconstructs...