Psychoanalysis category: 1976 books
The Work of Psychic Figurability
Mental States Without Representation
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2004
The majority of psychoanalysts today agree that the analytic setting faces them daily with certain aspects of their work for which the answers provided by an analytic theory centred exclusively on the notion of representation prove insufficient.
On the basis of their experience of analytic...
Dreaming in Dark Times
Six Exercises in Political Thought
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
What do dreams manage to say—or indeed, show—about human experience that is not legible otherwise? Can the disclosure of our dream-life be understood as a form of political avowal? To what does a dream attest? And to whom?
Blending psychoanalytic theory with the work of such political...
by Joel Dor
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
About this Book...
This companion text to Introduction the Reading of Lacan focuses on the concept of the psychic structures of desire. Using case examples, Dor explains the crucial difference between symptomsówhich can be phenomenologically graspedóand the actual psychic structure of the...
Psychic Retreats
Pathological Organizations in Psychotic, Neurotic and Borderline Patients
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Essentially clinical in its approach, Psychic Retreats discusses the problem of patients who are 'stuck' and with whom it is difficult to make meaningful contact. John Steiner, an experienced psychoanalyst, uses new developments in Kleinian theory to explain how this happens.
He examines the...
Answer to Job
(From Vol. 11 of the Collected Works of C. G. Jung) (New in Paper)
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2012
Considered one of Jung's most controversial works, Answer to Job also stands as Jung's most extensive commentary on a biblical text. Here, he confronts the story of the man who challenged God, the man who experienced hell on earth and still did not reject his faith. Job's journey parallels Jung's...
Blue Dreams
The Science and the Story of the Drugs that Changed Our Minds
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
"Capacious and rigorous . . . Blue Dreams, like all good histories of medicine, reveals healing to be art as much as science." --Parul Sehgal, New York Times
"Terrific." --@MichaelPollan
"Ambitious...Slater's depictions of madness are terrifying and fascinating."...
by David Devonis, PhD, David Devonis
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
"This bookís great strength is the way it weaves psychology between events and trends in society. It shows that psychology isnít separate, watching through a one-way mirror, but that psychology and society are threads woven together in the same tapestry. Key theories and ëbig namesí fit into a...
Sigmund Freud (RLE: Freud)
His Personality, his Teaching and his School
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Originally published in 1924, this biography of Freud looks at his early life as well as the development of his theories and his relationships with other well-known physicians of the time.
by Phyllis Grosskurth
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
Until recently underestimated in America, Melanie Klein was a leading figure in psychoanalytic circles from the 1920s until her death in 1960. Parent of object-relations theory, she saw the development of children, and of the female in particular, in a way that was both an extension of and a challenge...
Freud
El crepúsculo de un ídolo
Language: Spanish
Release Date: July 22, 2011
El prestigioso filósofo francés Michel Onfray, autor del best seller Tratado de ateología, ha escrito un ataque virulento contra el psicoanálisis, y en particular contra el freudismo, vehementemente argumentado y que ha creado una gran polémica en Francia.
Onfray parte en este libro de...
Freud, Alder, and Jung
Discovering the Mind
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Walter Kaufmann completed this, the third and final volume of his landmark trilogy, shortly before his death in 1980. The trilogy is the crowning achievement of a lifetime of study, writing, and teaching. This final volume contains Kaufmann's tribute to Sigmund Freud, the man he thought had done as...
The Jungians
A Comparative and Historical Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
The Jungians: A Comparative and Historical Perspective is the first book to trace the history of the profession of analytical psychology from its origins in 1913 until the present.
As someone who has been personally involved in many aspects of Jungian history, Thomas Kirsch is well equipped to take...
Freud's 'Outstanding' Colleague/Jung's 'Twin Brother'
The suppressed psychoanalytic and political significance of Otto Gross
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2016
Otto Gross was the first analyst to link his work with radical politics, connecting inner, personal transformation with outer, collective change. Since his death in 1920 his work has been suppressed, despite his seminal influence on the developing analytic discipline and on the fields of sociology,...
Phantom Narratives
The Unseen Contributions of Culture to Psyche
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2014
In Phantom Narratives: The Unseen Contributions of Culture to Psyche, Samuel Kimbles explores collective shadow processes, intergenerational transmission of group traumas, and social suffering as examples of how culture contributes to the formation of unseen, or phantom, narratives. These unseen narratives...