Psychoanalysis category: 1976 books
by Efrat Biberman, Shirley Sharon-Zisser
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Art, Death and Lacanian Psychoanalysis examines the relationship between art and death from the perspective of Lacanian psychoanalysis. It takes a unique approach to the topic by making explicit reference to the death drive as manifest in theories of art and in artworks.
Freud’s treatment...
Reflections on the Aesthetic Experience
Psychoanalysis and the uncanny
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
Interest in the relationship between psychoanalysis and art - and other disciplines - is growing. In his new book Reflections on the Aesthetic: Psychoanalysis and the uncanny,Gregorio Kohon examines and reflects upon psychoanalytic understandings of estrangement, the Freudian notions of the uncanny...
Conundrums
A Critique of Contemporary Psychoanalysis
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
2013 Goethe Award Winner! This is the first book of its kind to offer a sustained critique of contemporary psychoanalytic thought favoring relational, postmodern, and intersubjective perspectives, which largely define American psychoanalysis today. Conundrums turns an eye toward the philosophical...
Conservative and Radical Perspectives on Psychoanalytic Knowledge
The Fascinated and the Disenchanted
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Psychoanalysis really should not exist today. Until a few years ago, most of the evidence suggested that its time was drawing to a close, and yet psychoanalysis demonstrated remarkable resilience in the face of criticism, alongside significant resurgence over the course of the last years. In "Conservative...
Islamic Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Islam
Cultural and Clinical Dialogues
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2018
This pioneering volume brings together scholars and clinicians working at the intersection of Islam and psychoanalysis to explore both the connections that link these two traditions, as well as the tensions that exist between them.
Uniting authors from a diverse range of traditions and perspectives,...
by Angie Voela
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2017
This book examines the use of myth in contemporary popular and high culture, and proposes that the aporetic subject, the individual that ‘does not know’, is the ideal contemporary subject. Using several contemporary novels, films and theatrical plays that illustrate aporia – such as Percy Jackson...
Dreams, Neuroscience, and Psychoanalysis
Mind, Body, and the Question of Time
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
Dreams, Neuroscience, and Psychoanalysis sets out to give a scientific consistency to the question of time and find out how time determines brain functioning. Neurological investigations into dreams and sleep since the mid-20th century have challenged our scientific conception of living beings. On...
Introduction to Contemporary Psychoanalysis
Defining terms and building bridges
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2017
This book provides a clear introduction to the main contemporary psychoanalytic theoretical perspectives. Psychoanalysis is often thought of as an obscure and outdated method, and yet those familiar with it recognize the profound value of psychoanalytic theory and technique. Part of the obscurity...
by Antonino Ferro
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
Is psychoanalysis a type of literature? Can telling 'stories' help us to get at the truth?
Psychoanalysis as Therapy and Storytelling examines psychoanalysis from two perspectives - as a cure for psychic suffering, and as a series of stories told between patient and analyst.
Antonino...
Relational Psychoanalysis, Volume 2
Innovation and Expansion
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
The "relational turn" has transformed the field of psychoanalysis, with an impact that cuts across different schools of thought and clinical modalities.
In the six years following publication of Volume 1, Relational Psychoanalysis: The Emergence of a Tradition, relational theorizing...
Metapsychology and the Foundations of Psychoanalysis
Attachment, neuropsychoanalysis and integration
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
Metapsychology and the Foundations of Psychoanalysis redresses faults in Freud’s original conception to develop a coherent theoretical basis for psychodynamic theory. Simon Boag demonstrates that Freud’s much maligned ‘metapsychology’, once revised, can provide a foundation for evaluating...
Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy Integration
An evolving synergy
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy Integration traces the history of efforts to integrate psychoanalysis with other psychotherapeutic modalities, beginning with the early analysts, including Ferenczi and Rank, and continuing on to the present day. It explores the potential for integration...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
Psychoanalytic theory has developed very rapidly in recent years across many schools of thought. One of the most popular builds on the work of Wilfred Bion. Contemporary Bionian Theory and Technique in Psychoanalysis provides a concise and comprehensive introductory overview of the latest thinking...
Sexualities
Contemporary Psychoanalytic Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
Sexualities: Contemporary Psychoanalytic Perspectives presents a broad selection of contemporary psychoanalytic thinking on sexuality from a wide range of psychoanalytic traditions. Sexuality remains at the heart of much psychoanalytic theory and practice but it is a complex and controversial...