Psychoanalysis category: 1976 books
by Erich Fromm
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
Bestselling author Erich Fromm revisits Sigmund Freud’s work, ushering psychoanalysis into the modern age
In The Revision of Psychoanalysis, renowned psychoanalyst and social psychologist Erich Fromm applies his innovative, humanist approach to Freud’s often contradictory ideas. Fromm pays...
The Dissociative Mind in Psychoanalysis
Understanding and Working With Trauma
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2016
The Dissociative Mind in Psychoanalysis: Understanding and Working With Trauma is an invaluable and cutting edge resource providing the current theory, practice, and research on trauma and dissociation within psychoanalysis. Elizabeth Howell and Sheldon Itzkowitz bring together experts in the field...
Informed Consent to Psychoanalysis
The Law, the Theory, and the Data
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
The goal of this book is to shed psychoanalytic light on a concept—informed consent—that has transformed the delivery of health care in the United States.
Examining the concept of informed consent in the context of psychoanalysis, the book first summarizes the law and literature on this...
Metapsychology for Contemporary Psychoanalysis
Mind, World, and Self
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
Metapsychology for Contemporary Psychoanalysis is a complete revision of the theoretical underpinnings of psychoanalysis and psychodynamic psychotherapy. It seeks to replace the traditional drive–defence model of Freudian tradition with an information processing model of the mind. This book argues...
Psychoanalysis Meets Psychosis
Attachment, Separation, and the Undifferentiated Unintegrated Mind
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2019
Psychoanalysis Meets Psychosis proposes a major revision of the psychoanalytic theory of the most severe mental illnesses including schizophrenia. Freud believed that psychosis is the consequence of a biologically determined inability to attain and sustain a normal or neurotic mental organization....
Relating to God
Clinical Psychoanalysis, Spirituality, and Theism
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
In Relating to God: Clinical Psychoanalysis, Spirituality, and Theism, Dan Merkur conceptualizes religious discourse within psychoanalysis. He proposes that God be treated as a transferential figure whose analysis leads to a reduction of the parental content that is projected onto God. Merkur notes...
by Jose Brunner
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
Freud and the Politics of Psychoanalysis is a sympathetic critique of Freud's work, tracing its political content and context from his early writings on hysteria to his late essays on civilization and religion. Brunner's central claim is that politics is a pervasive and essential component of all...
Psychoanalysis in Context
Paths between Theory and Modern Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
During the last decade and a half there have been dramatic changes in psychoanalytic theory, as well as in cultural, social and political theory. Psychoanalysis in Contexts examines these changes and explores the relationship between psychoanalysis and theory.
The volume brings together leading scholars...
by Jane Milton, Caroline Polmear, Ms Julia Fabricius
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2011
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"The best simply got better. The first edition of this book was already quite simply the best introduction to psychoanalysis ever written and has been appropriately extremely popular with teachers and students alike. The thoroughly updated second...
The Arabic Freud
Psychoanalysis and Islam in Modern Egypt
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
The first in-depth look at how postwar thinkers in Egypt mapped the intersections between Islamic discourses and psychoanalytic thought
In 1945, psychologist Yusuf Murad introduced an Arabic term borrowed from the medieval Sufi philosopher and mystic Ibn ‘Arabi—al-la-shu‘ur—as a translation...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
The recent upsurge of fresh historical research concerning the early years of psychoanalysis has left many professional readers struggling to keep abreast of the latest findings and more than a little perplexed as to what it all adds up to. Freud and the History of Psychoanalysis addresses this state...
Psychoanalysis, History and Subjectivity
Now of the Past
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Clinical psychoanalysis since Freud has put reconstruction of the patient's history at the forefront of its task but in recent years, this approach has not been so prominent. This book aims to explore and re-evaluate the relationship between history and psychoanalysis.
Roger Kennedy develops new perspectives...
by Louis Althusser
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
What can psychoanalysis, a psychological approach developed more than a century ago, offer us in an age of rapidly evolving, hard-to-categorize ideas of sexuality and the self? Should we abandon Freud's theories completely or adapt them to new findings and the new relationships taking shape in modern...
First Do No Harm
The Paradoxical Encounters of Psychoanalysis, Warmaking, and Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2011
At the outset of World War I - the "Great War" - Freud supported the Austro-Hungarian Empire for which his sons fought. But the cruel truths of that bloody conflict, wrought on the psyches as much as the bodies of the soldiers returning from the battlefield, caused him to rethink his stance and subsequently...