Psychoanalysis category: 1976 books
Ethics and Attachment
How We Make Moral Judgments
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2018
Why are we disgusted when an elderly woman is robbed but sympathize with the actions of a Robin Hood? Why do acts of cruelty against a helpless kitten bother us more than does the trampling of ants?* *
In Ethics and Attachment: How We Make Moral Judgments, psychoanalyst and philosopher Aner...
Creative Listening and the Psychoanalytic Process
Sensibility, Engagement and Envisioning
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
Contemporary psychoanalytic thinking about the interdependence of subjectivity and intersubjectivity has reenvisioned the analytic process, and with it the very nature of creative and engaged psychoanalytic listening. Yet few systematic writings on psychoanalytic listening or technique provide comprehensive...
by Paul Kline
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Originally published in 1972, this second edition in 1981 was fully revised and updated to cover recent developments in the field at the time. Fact and Fantasy in Freudian Theory was written to answer many questions and criticisms surrounding psychoanalysis.
How much, if any, of Freudian theory...
A Disturbance in the Field
Essays in Transference-Countertransference Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2011
The field, as Steven Cooper describes it, is comprised of the inextricably related worlds of internalized object relations and interpersonal interaction. Furthermore, the analytic dyad is neither static nor smooth sailing. Eventually, the rigorous work of psychoanalysis will offer a fraught opportunity...
by Roy Schafer
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2019
The analytic attitude" ranks as one of Freud's greatest creations. Both the findings of psychoanalysis as a method of investigation and its results as a method of treatment depend on its being consistent to a high degree. Yet Freud offered no concise, complex, generally acceptable formulation...
When the Body Displaces the Mind
Stress, Trauma and Somatic Disease
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2018
Can the mind really generate a physical disease? Conversely, can the body cause mental illness? What do we know today about their interaction? The relations between body and mind are the source of many problems that are currently treated separately by psychoanalysts and doctors because of the compartmentalisation...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
For much of its history, psychoanalysis has been strangely silent about sudden ruptures in the analytic relationship and their immediate and far-reaching effects for those involved. Such issues of betrayal and abandonment – the death of an analyst, a patient’s suicide, an ethical violation –...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
Psychoanalytic Case Studies from an Interpersonal-Relational Perspective contains reports of long-term treatments, including many dialogues and dreams, with commentaries following each one. Drawing from theories that have been developed since Freud, the analysts focus on problems in living as opposed...
Forced Migration and Social Trauma
Interdisciplinary Perspectives from Psychoanalysis, Psychology, Sociology and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2018
Forced Migration and Social Trauma addresses the topic of social trauma and migration by bringing together a broad range of interdisciplinary and international contributors, comprising refugee care practitioners, trauma researchers, sociologists and specialists in public policy from all along the...
The Psychodynamic Image
John D. Sutherland on Self in Society
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
The Psychodynamic Image is the first selection of John D. Sutherland’s major papers. It provides an overview of the development of his thought on self and society and reveals the extent of his contribution to the field of mental health.
Jill Savege Scharff introduces Sutherland’s most important...
Wild Desires and Mistaken Identities
Lesbianism and Psychoanalysis
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
This groundbreaking book provides a challenging exploration of psychoanalytic ideas about lesbians and lesbianism. Based on the authors' clinical experience as psychoanalytic psychotherapists, it offers a new and thoughtful framework that does not inevitably pathologise or universalise all lesbianism....
by Manu Bazzano
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
Drawing on over a century of international Nietzschean scholarship, this groundbreaking book discusses some of the unexplored psychological reaches of Nietzsche’s thought, as well as their implications for psychotherapeutic practice.
Nietzsche’s philosophy anticipated some of the most innovative...
Dare to Be Human
A Contemporary Psychoanalytic Journey
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Daniel is 35, successful, a high level professional and an accomplished academic - yet he is also a virgin, who fears that he will spend the rest of his life alone. More importantly, Daniel has existed in an emotional bubble all of his life, and has had no intimate friendships. In other words, he...
Kohut's Twinship Across Cultures
The Psychology of Being Human
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
Kohut's Twinship Across Cultures: The Psychology of Being Human chronicles a 10-year-voyage in which the authors struggled, initially independently, to make sense of Kohut‘s intentions when he radically re-defined the twinship experience to one of "being human among other human beings".
Commencing...