Psychoanalysis category: 1976 books
The Therapist in Mourning
From the Faraway Nearby
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
The unexpected loss of a client can be a lonely and isolating experience for therapists. While family and friends can ritually mourn the deceased, the nature of the therapeutic relationship prohibits therapists from engaging in such activities. Practitioners can only share memories of a client in...
What is This Thing Called Love?
A Guide to Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Couples
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
What is This Thing Called Love? provides a clear how-to guide for carrying out psychotherapy with couples from a psychoanalytic perspective. The book draws on both early and contemporary psychoanalytic knowledge, explaining how each theory described is useful in formulating couple dynamics and in...
The Dead Mother
The Work of Andre Green
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2005
The Dead Mother brings together original essays in honour of André Green. Written by distinguished psychoanalysts, the collection develops the theme of his most famous paper of the same title, and describes the value of the dead mother to other areas of clinical interest: psychic reality, borderline...
by Liliane Abensour
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
How can we understand the pull towards that which we fear: psychosis?
In this thought provoking book, Abensour proposes the idea of a temptation towards psychosis rather than a regression, as a response to the hatred or denial of the subject’s origins. She shares her reflections on her psychoanalytic...
by Thomas H. Ogden
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1998
In his fifth book Thomas Ogden, widely regarded as the most profound and original psychoanalytic writer of this decade, explores the frontier of contemporary psychoanalytic thinking: the experience of the analyst and patient in the dynamic interplay of subjectivity and intersubjectivity. A Jason Aronson Book
Against Adaptation
Lacan's Subversion of the Subject
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
"Van Haute's exegesis of Lacan's essay is as lucid as it is cogent--an admirable (and very illuminating) achievement."
-William Richardson
On The Pleasure Principle In Culture
Illusions Without Owners
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
For many illusions, it is easy to find owners – people who proudly declare that they believe in things such as life after death, human reason, and self-regulation of financial markets. Yet there are also different kinds of illusions at work, for example, in art: trompe l’oeil-painting pleases...
A Beholder's Share
Essays on Winnicott and the Psychoanalytic Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2017
A Beholder's Share demonstrates how a sense of reality is evoked in the unpredictable space between imagination and adaptation. The world calls forth something in each of us—a beholder’s share—which in turn calls forth something in the world. Though usually viewed as opposites, imagination and...
Multicultural/Multiracial Psychology
Mestizo Perspectives in Personality and Mental Health
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1998
This book presents a cognitive styles framework that explores the relationship between traditionalism/modernism and cognitive styles and offers a method for multiculturalism assessment and psychotherapy that promotes the development of pluralistic perspectives and lifestyles.
Acting, Spectating and the Unconscious
A psychoanalytic perspective on unconscious mechanisms of identification in spectating and acting in the theatre.
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
From Aristotle’s theory of tragic katharsis onwards, theorists of the theatre have long engaged with the question of what spectatorship entails. This question has, directly or indirectly, often been extended to the investigation of acting.
Acting, Spectating, and the Unconscious approaches...
by Richard Kradin
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011
Placebo responses are automatic and unconscious and cannot be predicted based on conscious volition. Instead, they reflect complex interactions between the innate reward system of the nervous system and encoded procedural memories and imaginal fantasies. The placebo response contributes inextricably...
Chronicle of Separation
On Deconstruction’s Disillusioned Love
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
A unique feminist approach to the legacy of Jacques Derrida, Chronicle of Separation is a disparate yet beautifully interwoven series of distinct readings, genres, and themes, offering a powerful reflection of love in—and as—deconstruction. Looking especially at relationships between women, Ben-Naftali...
Structure and Spontaneity in Clinical Prose
A writer's guide for psychoanalysts and psychotherapists
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
Structure and Spontaneity in Clinical Prose will teach you to read gifted writers for inspiration and practical lessons in the craft of writing; apply the principles and techniques of the paradigmatic, narrative, lyric narrative, evocative, and enactive modes of clinical prose; and put what you learn...
by Patrick Degramont
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1992
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1992
Patrick de Gramont draws upon evidence from infant observaton and linguistics as well as from information theory in order to make two related points. First, he demonstrates how our prevailing theories of meaning have failed to account for how we distort meaning.