Psychoanalysis category: 1976 books
In Pursuit of Psychic Change
The Betty Joseph Workshop
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
The members of the Betty Joseph Workshop have provided major contributions to psychoanalytic thinking since the meeting's inception in 1962. This book is a celebration of Betty Joseph's work, and the work of a group of analysts who have joined her to discuss obstacles to psychic change in psychoanalytic...
Creative Analysis
Art, creativity and clinical process
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Creative Analysis: Art, Creativity and Clinical Process explores the dynamics of creativity in psychoanalytic treatment. It argues that the creative process of the analytic interaction is characterized by specific forms of feeling, thinking and most importantly, relating that result in the emergence...
There Are Two Sexes
Essays in Feminology
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
Antoinette Fouque cofounded the Mouvement de Libération des Femmes (MLF) in France in 1968 and spearheaded its celebrated Psychanalyse et Politique, a research group that informed the cultural and intellectual heart of French feminism. Rather than reject Freud's discoveries on the pretext of their...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2005
Following Freud's death in 1939, the radical theories of Melanie Klein were the subject of prolonged controversy and fierce debate within the British Psychoanalytical Society. At the time, individuals fought passionately in support of their positions.
In the midst of, or as a result of, the...
Methods of Research into the Unconscious
Applying Psychoanalytic Ideas to Social Science
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
The psychoanalytic unconscious is a slippery set of phenomena to pin down. There is not an accepted standard form of research, outside of the clinical practice of psychoanalysis. In this book a number of non-clinical methods for collecting data and analysing it are described. It represents the current...
Anxiety Between Desire and the Body
What Lacan Says in Seminar X
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2019
This book provides a unique analysis of Lacan’s conception of anxiety as presented in one of his most fascinating seminars, Seminar X. The seminar took place in the lead up to Lacan’s infamous excommunication from the IPA.
Revisiting Freud’s work on the topic, Lacan conceives anxiety...
Feeling the Words
Neuropsychoanalytic Understanding of Memory and the Unconscious
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
How are the implicit memory and the unrepressed unconscious related?
Feeling the Words incorporates a thorough review of essential psychoanalytic concepts, a clear critical history of analytical ideas and an assessment of the contribution neuroscience has to offer.
Mauro Mancia uses...
The Therapeutic Imagination
Using literature to deepen psychodynamic understanding and enhance empathy
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014
Use of the imagination is a key aspect of successful psychotherapeutic treatments. Psychotherapy helps clients get in touch with, awaken, and learn to trust their creative inner life, while therapists use their imaginations to mentalise the suffering other and to trace the unconscious stirrings evoked...
Psychoanalytic Studies of Creativity, Greed, and Fine Art
Making Contact with the Self
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Throughout the history of psychoanalysis, the study of creativity and fine art has been a special concern. Psychoanalytic Studies of Creativity, Greed and Fine Art: Making Contact with the Self makes a distinct contribution to the psychoanalytic study of art by focusing attention on the relationship...
Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation
On the Social and Psychic Lives of Asian Americans
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2019
In Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation critic David L. Eng and psychotherapist Shinhee Han draw on case histories from the mid-1990s to the present to explore the social and psychic predicaments of Asian American young adults from Generation X to Generation Y. Combining critical race theory with...
The Practice of Psychoanalytic Parent-Infant Psychotherapy
Claiming the Baby
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2016
The Practice of Psychoanalytic Parent-Infant Psychotherapy is a comprehensive handbook, addressing the provision of therapeutic help for babies and their parents when their attachment relationship is troubled and a risk is posed to the baby's development. Drawing on clinical and research data from...
Unconscious Incarnations
Psychoanalytic and Philosophical Perspectives on the Body
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
Unconscious Incarnations considers the status of the body in psychoanalytic theory and practice, bringing Freud and Lacan into conversation with continental philosophy to explore the heterogeneity of embodied life. By doing so, the body is no longer merely an object of scientific inquiry but also...
What Holds Us Together
Popular Culture and Social Cohesion
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Faced by the increasing divisiveness and volatility of electoral politics, and the rise of illiberal fundamentalisms, the social sciences may seem to lack the imagination necessary to make sense of the world. In this unusual book of political psychology, based on the idea that we hold ourselves together...
Healing after Parent Loss in Childhood and Adolescence
Therapeutic Interventions and Theoretical Considerations
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014
InHealing after Parent Loss in Childhood and Adolescence: Therapeutic Interventions and Theoretical Considerations, experts explore the varied, often complex, and always tragic circumstances under which young people face losing a parent. Profound grief and feelings of powerlessness may accompany loss...