Psychoanalysis category: 1976 books
Psychotherapy After Kohut
A Textbook of Self Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Hailed as "a superb textbook aimed at introducing psychoanalytic self psychology to students of psychotherapy" (Robert D. Stolorow), Psychotherapy After Kohut is unique in its grasp of the theoretical, clinical, and historical grounds of the emergence of this new psychotherapy paradigm....
The Freud Encyclopedia
Theory, Therapy, and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2003
The first in-depth Encyclopedia on the life, work, and theories of Sigmund Freud, this A-Z reference includes the most recent debates on such topics as the theory of dreams and the Oedipus complex, as well as biographical sketches of leading figures in the Freudian movement. Coverage also includes...
Capitalism and Desire
The Psychic Cost of Free Markets
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
Despite creating vast inequalities and propping up reactionary world regimes, capitalism has many passionate defenders—but not because of what it withholds from some and gives to others. Capitalism dominates, Todd McGowan argues, because it mimics the structure of our desire while hiding the trauma...
by Michel Onfray
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 14, 2011
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 14, 2011
Michel Onfray, coerente con sé stesso, prende di mira in questo libro una religione che, ancor più dei monoteismi del suo Trattato di ateologia, sembra dover ancora avere vita lunga e felice. Questa religione è la psicoanalisi, e più in particolare il freudismo. L’idea di Onfray è semplice e radicale:...
The Schreber Case
Psychoanalytic Profile of A Paranoid Personality
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
First published in 1984. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
I'm Working On It in Therapy
How to Get the Most Out of Psychotherapy
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
Learn to get the most out of therapy to unlock your best self.
Learn to get the most out of therapy to unlock your best self.
Millions of Americans will go to therapy this year, but veteran psychotherapist Gary Trosclair believes the vast majority of them will start the process with...
Writing and Personality
Finding Your Voice, Your Style, Your Way
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
'We cannot separate the writer from the writing. Nor should we try. Both our writing process and our writing products need to carry our unique signature, a bit of our personality.' - From Writing and Personality How you write - what works for you and what makes sense to you - depends on who you are,...
Why It Is Good to Be Good
Ethics, Kohut's Self Psychology, and Modern Society
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2010
In Why It Is Good to be Good, John H. Riker argues that modernity, by undermining traditional religious and metaphysical grounds for moral belief, has left itself no way to explain why it is personally good to be a morally good person. Furthermore, modernity's regnant concept of the self as an independent...
Working Below the Surface
The Emotional Life of Contemporary Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
The chapters contributed to this book have been written by the staff and associates of The Tavistock Consultancy Service, whose distinctive competence is in the human dimension of enterprise and the dynamics of the workplace. The intention is to identify and explore some of the key themes that have...
Love's Executioner
& Other Tales of Psychotherapy
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
In his classic, bestselling work, the masterful therapist and novelist Irvin Yalom describes his sometimes tragic, sometimes inspiring, and always absorbing encounters with patients
In this classic book, master psychotherapist Irvin D. Yalom uncovers the mysteries, frustrations, pathos, and...
by David Kavanagh
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
In 1994, to beat the blues, David Kavanagh started a journal that became a series of open letters to then U.S. President Bill Clinton. For almost three months, up to the mid-term congressional elections, he compared their day-to-day lives, selecting snippets of poetry that seemed appropriate for...
The Couch and the Silver Screen
Psychoanalytic Reflections on European Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2005
The Couch and the Silver Screen is a collection of original contributions which explore European cinema from psychoanalytic perspectives. Both classic and contemporary films are presented and analysed by a variety of authors, including leading cinema historians and theorists, psychoanalysts with a...
Winnicott and the Psychoanalytic Tradition
Interpretation and Other Psychoanalytic Issues
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
This book focuses on two themes: the first theme is the true self and the resonance of Winnicott's thinking with the contributions of other major psychoanalysts of the past half century; the second theme emerges from the first: the pursuit of authenticity, whether by patient or analyst.
by Thomas H. Ogden
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 1977
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 1977
Subjects of Analysis, the fourth of Thomas Ogden's books, explores the frontier of contemporary psychoanalytic thinking: the experience of analyst and analysand in the dynamic interplay of subjectivity (the individual 'I-ness' of each participant) and intersubjectivity (the 'shared' experience of...