Psychoanalysis category: 1976 books
by Norman A. Clemens, Marcia Kraft Goin, Mee Ling Khoo
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2006
This book focuses on the role of individual and group psychotherapy supervision in clinical practice. Specific examples of the utility of supervision are given in chapters by psychiatrists in private practice, hospital and community centers, and administration. A psychoanalyst discusses his supervision...
by Georg Simmel
Language: German
Release Date: July 21, 2012
Language: German
Release Date: July 21, 2012
Dieser Essay erschien 1890 in der Zeitschrift für Völkerpsychologie und Sprachwissenschaft.
A New German Idealism
Hegel, Žižek, and Dialectical Materialism
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
In 2012, philosopher and public intellectual Slavoj Žižek published what arguably is his magnum opus, the one-thousand-page tome Less Than Nothing: Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism. A sizable sequel appeared in 2014, Absolute Recoil: Towards a New Foundation of Dialectical Materialism....
by Elizabeth Lunbeck
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
American social critics in the 1970s seized on narcissism as the sickness of the age. But they missed the psychoanalytic breakthrough that championed it as the wellspring of ambition, creativity, and empathy. Elizabeth Lunbeck's history opens a new view on the central questions faced by the self struggling amid the crosscurrents of modernity.
Mother Folly
A Tale — Enhanced Ebook Edition
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
If your mentally ill patient dies, are you to blame? For Dr. Françoise Davoine, a Parisian psychoanalyst, this question becomes disturbingly real as one of her patients commits suicide on the eve of All Saints' Day. She herself has a crisis, as she reflects on her thirty-year career and questions...
Mindfulness, Acceptance, and the Psychodynamic Evolution
Bringing Values into Treatment Planning and Enhancing Psychodynamic Work with Buddhist Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
If you are a psychodynamic therapist interested in the growing mindfulness movement, you may be looking for resources to help you enhance your practice. More and more, professionals in the psychodynamic tradition are finding that mindfulness exercises help their patients connect with the moment and...
The Criminal Personality
The Drug User
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2000
'The third in a series explicating the criminal mind, this volume summarizes observations, interpretations, and conclusions derived from a study of 121 criminal men who used drugs and/or alcohol to excess. Originally set in writing by Yochelson before his death in 1976, the materials were edited and...
Complexity and Group Processes
A Radically Social Understanding of Individuals
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2003
The increasing complexity of interdependence between people in modern life makes it more important than ever to understand processes of human relating. In the West we tend to base our understanding of relating on the individual.
Complexity and Group Processes suggests an alternative way of...
The Matrix and Meaning of Character
An Archetypal and Developmental Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
Character structures underlie everyone’s personality. When rigidly defended, they limit us; yet as they become more flexible, they can reveal sources of animation, renewal and authenticity.
The Matrix and Meaning of Character guides the reader into an awareness of the archetypal depths...
The African American Experience
Psychoanalytic Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2012
The African American Experience: Psychoanalytic Perspectives edited by Salman Akhtar brings together the contributions of distinguished mental health professionals and scholars of humanities to offer a multifaceted perspective on the transgenerational trauma of slavery, the hardship of single parent...
Doubt, Conviction and the Analytic Process
Selected Papers of Michael Feldman
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
In this profound and subtle study, a practising psychoanalyst explores the dynamics of the interaction between the patient and the analyst. Michael Feldman draws the reader into experiencing how the clinical interaction unfolds within a session. In doing so, he develops some of the implications of...
Gene Worship
Moving Beyond the Nature/ Nurture Debate Over Genes, Brain and Gender
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2010
"A wonderful antidote to the gene hysteria that is now so dominant! . . . What is most exciting about this book is the authors' ability to move seamlessly from research on how the brain works, to sociology, history, and philosophy. And that, I believe, is exactly how we need to understand gender--neither...
by Ilany Kogan
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2007
The main questions raised in this book are: How does the analyst help the patient to be in touch with pain and mourning? Is the relinquishment of defenses always desirable? And what is the analyst's role in the mourning process—should the analyst struggle to help patients relinquish defenses against...
by Dina Wardi
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
As the children of the Holocaust reach adulthood, they often need professional help in establishing a new identity and self-esteem. During their childhood their parents have unconsciously transmitted to them much of their own trauma, investing them with all their memories and hopes, so that they become...