Psychoanalysis category: 1976 books
The Embedded Self
An Integrative Psychodynamic and Systemic Perspective on Couples and Family Therapy
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2009
First published in 1996, The Embedded Self was lauded as "a brilliant and long overdue rapprochement between psychoanalysis and family therapy conceived by a practitioner trained and experienced in both modalities of treatment." Mary-Joan Gerson’s integrated presentation of psychodynamic and family...
The Search for a Relational Home
An intersubjective view of therapeutic action
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
In The Search for a Relational Home, Chris Jaenicke gives the reader an inside view of what actually happens in psychotherapy and how change occurs. He describes how both participants – the patient and the therapist – feel, and how they affect each other. The reader is encouraged to vicariously...
The Misuse of Persons
Analysing Pathological Dependency
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
In this major contribution to contemporary psychoanalysis, Stanley Coen illuminates a heretofore undescribed character structure especially resistant to analytic process. Pathologically dependent patients, for Coen, are identified not by surface character traits, but by their response to the intrapsychic...
The Legacy of Sandor Ferenczi
From ghost to ancestor
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2015
Winner of the 2016 Gradiva Award for Edited Book
The Legacy of Sándor Ferenczi, first published in 1993 & edited by Lewis Aron & Adrienne Harris, was one of the first books to examine Ferenczi’s invaluable contributions to psychoanalysis and his continuing influence on contemporary...
Laws of Inheritance
A post-Jungian study of twins and the relationship between the first and other(s)
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2015
Instilled in interdisciplinary cross-cultural perspectives of mythical, socio-economic, literary, pedagogic and psychoanalytic representations, two archetypal, creative inheritance laws interact as ‘twins’: Eros (fusion/containment/safety) and Thanatos (division/separation/risk). Hypothesising...
Phenomenology in Action in Psychotherapy
On Pure Psychology and its Applications in Psychotherapy and Mental Health Care
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015
This book takes Edmund Husserl’s phenomenology and applies it to help psychotherapy practitioners formulate complex psychological problems. The reader will learn about Husserl’s system of understanding and its concepts that can point to first-person lived experience, and about the work of Husserl...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
This book provides a comprehensive insight into the ways in which psychoanalysts think and work. Mary Brownescombe Heller and Sheena Pollet bring together internationally known contributors trained at the Institute of Psychoanalysis to explore the broad range of clinical work, thinking, and teaching...
Celebrating the Wounded Healer Psychotherapist
Pain, Post-Traumatic Growth and Self-Disclosure
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Why would someone decide to become a psychotherapist? It is well-known within the field that psychoanalysts and psychotherapists are often drawn to their future professions as a result of early traumatic experiences and being helped by their own psychoanalytic treatment. While dedicating their lives...
The Mindbrain and Dreams
An Exploration of Dreaming, Thinking, and Artistic Creation
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
In The Mindbrain and Dreams: An Exploration of Dreaming, Thinking, and Artistic Creation, Mark J. Blechner argues that the mind and brain should be understood as a single unit – the "mindbrain" – which manipulates our raw perceptions of the world and reshapes that world through dreams, thoughts,...
No way out?
A book about crisis
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
Tihamér Bakó’s book shows that over the one-hundred year history of psychoanalysis, as a condensation of countless observations made during analyses lasting years, a body of knowledge about the working of the human psyche has gathered which can be a tool for help even outside the analyst’s room....
Uprooted Minds
Surviving the Politics of Terror in the Americas
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
In our post-9/11 environment, our sense of relative security and stability as privileged subjects living in the heart of Empire has been profoundly shaken. Hollander explores the forces that have brought us to this critical juncture, analyzing the role played by the neoliberal economic paradigm and...
Ghosts in the Human Psyche
The Story of a "Muslim Armenian"
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2019
Vamik Volkan examines the impact of past and present historical events, cultural elements, political movements and their mental images on the psyche of individuals. Beginning with the history of the debates concerning the relevance of external events to the human psyche, Volkan moves on to look at...
Torments of the Soul
Psychoanalytic transformations in dreaming and narration
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
In Torments of the Soul, Antonino Ferro revisits and expands on a theme that has long been at the heart of his work: the study of dreams during sleep and in the waking state, and the psychoanalytic narrative. Following Bion, he focuses on the importance of what he sees as the task of contemporary...
A Casebook of Psychotherapy Practice with Challenging Patients
A modern Kleinian approach
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Most contemporary psychoanalysts and psychotherapists see each patient once or twice a week at most. As many patients have reached a marked state of distress before seeking treatment, this gives the analyst a difficult task to accomplish in what is a limited amount of time. A Casebook of Psychotherapy...