Psychoanalysis category: 1976 books
Electra vs Oedipus
The Drama of the Mother–Daughter Relationship
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2010
Electra vs Oedipus explores the deeply complex and often turbulent relationship between mothers and daughters. In contrast to Sigmund Freud’s conviction that the father is the central figure, the book puts forward the notion that women are in fact far more (pre)occupied with their mother.
Drawing...
Good Enough Endings
Breaks, Interruptions, and Terminations from Contemporary Relational Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2011
In the relational literature, the subject of termination - the ending of an analysis - has received scant attention, and traditional Freudian or ego-psychological criteria are not always enough to assess the readiness to terminate therapy in the coconstructed, intersubjective analytic relationship....
Dire Emotions and Lethal Behaviours
Eclipse of the Life Instinct
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2007
Dire Emotions and Lethal Behaviours explores the primary motivational system in human beings. Based on the work of C. G. Jung, James Hillman, Louis Stewart and Silvan Tomkins, Charles Stewart investigates the psychology of the innate affects, with a focus towards the emotional motivation of adolescents...
Nothing Good Is Allowed to Stand
An Integrative View of the Negative Therapeutic Reaction
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Work with patients with severe neuroses very often has to cope with the phenomenon that every progress in the analytic or therapeutic work is followed paradoxically by a clinical deterioration. There are a number of dynamic factors that converge to bring about this negative therapeutic reaction, including...
Sex, Drugs and Creativity
Searching for Magic in a Disenchanted World
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
In Sex, Drugs, and Creativity: The Search for Magic in a Disenchanted World, Kahoud and Knafo take a close look at omnipotent fantasies in three domains: sex, drugs, and creativity. They demonstrate how these fantasies emerge and how artists draw on them both to create and destroy—sometimes simultaneously...
Projective Identification in the Clinical Setting
A Kleinian Interpretation
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
How do Kleinians work with projective identification?
The concept of projective identification, first introduced by Melanie Klein in 1946, has been widely studied by psychoanalysts of different persuasions. However, these explorations have neglected to show what Kleinians actually do with the...
Authenticity in the Psychoanalytic Encounter
The Work of Irma Brenman Pick
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
Authenticity in the Psychoanalytic Encounter brings together Irma Brenman Pick’s original contributions to psychoanalytic technique. Working within the Kleinian tradition, she produces vivid clinical narratives that succeed in shedding a humane light on the struggles that patients – and, indeed,...
Aggression and Destructiveness
Psychoanalytic Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Why, when and how does aggression go wrong?
How can we make sense of apparently meaningless destructiveness and violence
Aggression is a part of human nature that energises our relationships, acts as an impetus for psychic development, and enables us to master our world. More often,...
Recent Developments
Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 11.3
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
First published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Global Perspectives in Family Therapy
Development, Practice, Trends
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2004
Global Perspectives in Family Therapy: Development, Practice, Trends provides an overview of the development of the family and the issues and concerns they are faced with in different cultural contexts. Contributions from experts in the field expand on the different aspects on the historical beginnings,...
by Charles Baudouin
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2015
First published in 1950, this is a late work by Charles Baudouin, world-famous French psychologist, and takes its title from the opening chapter which examines the transformation of the myth of Progress, characteristic of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, into the myth of Modernity, characteristic...
Psychotherapy in the Wake of War
Discovering Multiple Psychoanalytic Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Psychotherapy in the Wake of War presents the ways in which differing views of various psychoanalytic schools and traditions—spanning developments for more than one hundred years—may affect theoretical and technical issues in psychoanalytic treatments. Colleagues representing different traditions...
Suggestion and Autosuggestion
A Psychological and Pedagogical Study Based Upon the Investigations Made by the New Nancy School
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2015
This title, originally published in 1920, second edition in 1924, has been largely forgotten in the history of hypnosis. Charles Baudouin’s first book, it is an important account of the early theories of the New Nancy School, widely recognised as the founding school of modern day hypnosis. The author...
by Sigmund Freud
Language: German
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Language: German
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Der Witz und seine Beziehung zum Unbewußten ist der Titel einer Studie, in welcher der Psychoanalytiker Sigmund Freud 1905 die Funktionsweise und Bedeutung des Witzes untersuchte. Freud präsentiert frühere Untersuchungen, um dann an konkreten Beispielen spezifische Merkmale des Witzes mit seiner...