Psychoanalysis category: 1976 books
Against Understanding, Volume 1
Commentary and Critique in a Lacanian Key
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
2014 American Board & Academy of Psychoanalysis Book Prize winner for Best Anthology
Against Understanding, Volume 1, explores how the process of understanding (which can be seen to be part and parcel of the Lacanian dimension of the imaginary) reduces the unfamiliar to the familiar, transforms...
In Freud's Shadow
Adler in Context
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
In its detailed, interpretive reconsideration of Adler's involvement with Freud and psychoanalysis, In Freud's Shadow constitutes a seminal contribution to our historical understanding of the early psychoanalytic movement. Making extensive use of the Minutes of the Vienna Psycho-Analytic Society,...
Finding Unconscious Fantasy in Narrative, Trauma, and Body Pain
A Clinical Guide
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
Finding Unconscious Fantasy in Narrative, Trauma, and Body Pain: A Clinical Guide demonstrates that the concept of the unconscious is profoundly relevant for understanding the mind, psychic pain, and traumatic human suffering. Editors Paula L. Ellman and Nancy R. Goodman established this book to...
by Stephen Frosh
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
This book explores how the present is troubled by the past and the future. It uses the idea of haunting to explore how identities, beliefs, intimacies and hatreds are transmitted across generations and between people and how these things structure psychosocial and psychopolitical life.
by Martha Stark
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2000
How do we position ourselves, moment by moment, in relation to our patients and how do these positions inform both what we come to know about our patients and how we intervene? Do we participate as neutral object, as empathic self-object, or as authentic subject? Do we strive to enhance the patient's...
Re(con)figuring Psychoanalysis
Critical Juxtapositions of the Philosophical, the Sociohistorical and the Political
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
Leading international scholars present novel dialogues between different psychoanalytic orientations as well as between the particularities of diverse socio-cultural and historical contexts in order to offer critical insights which are highly relevant to the current intellectual debates and social praxis.
Arrogance
Developmental, Cultural, and Clinical Realms
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2018
Arrogance as a specific constellation of affect, fantasy, and behavior has received little attention in psychoanalysis. This is striking in light of the enormous amount of literature accumulated on the related phenomenon of narcissism. Rectifying this omission, the book in your hands addresses arrogance...
Unconscious Contracts
A Psychoanalytical Theory of Society
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Originally published in 1987 this highly original work explores how the nature and institutions of society are determined by our unconscious as well as our conscious aims – how individuals join together in ‘unconscious contracts’. The author does this by integrating psychoanalysis and social...
Behind The Facade
A Psychiatrist's View
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
A diverse and fascinating survey of the author's 50 years' work in psychoanalysis
This collection can be seen as the culmination of Dennis Friedman's 50 years' experience and success in the fields of psychoanalysis and writing. The cases portrayed here are some of the most fascinating and...
by Hanna Segal
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2007
What is the role of psychoanalysis in today's world?
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow presents a selection of papers written by Hanna Segal. The collection introduces the reader to a wide spectrum of insights into psychoanalysis, ranging from current thoughts on the nature of dreaming to new ideas...
The Anti-Oedipus Complex
Lacan, Postmodernism and Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
The Anti-Oedipus Complex critically explores the post ‘68 dramatic developments in Freudo-Lacanian psychoanalysis and cultural theory. Beginning with the decline of patriarchy and the master, exemplified by Freud’s paean for the Father, the revolutionary path was blown wide open by anti-psychiatry,...
Talking about Evil
Psychoanalytic, Social, and Cultural Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
How can we talk about evil? How can we make sense of its presence all around us? How can we come to terms with the sad fact that our involvement in doing or enabling evil is an interminable aspect of our lives in the world? This book is an attempt to engage these questions in a new way.
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by John Fletcher
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
“This book will reward scholars across a number of disciplines: literary studies, trauma studies, psychoanalysis and psychology, and philosophy.” —Choice
This book argues that Freud’s mapping of trauma as a scene is central to both his clinical interpretation of his patients’ symptoms...
Psychoanalysis in Transition
A Personal View
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.