Psychoanalysis category: 1976 books
Converting Psychoanalysis
Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 10.1
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
First published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
by Herbert S. Strean
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
First published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Body Experience
The Subjective Dimension of Psyche and Soma Contributions to Psychosomatic Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
In this book body experience is seen as the subjective expression of psyche and soma and is discussed in relation to its significance in modern medical practice and psychoanalysis. The authors relate how the patient's subjective expression of his or her body frequently plays only a marginal role in...
by Ellen Pinsky
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2017
Death and Fallibility in the Psychoanalytic Encounter considers psychoanalysis from a fresh perspective: the therapist’s mortality—in at least two senses of the word. That the therapist can die, and is also fallible, can be seen as necessary or even defining components of the therapeutic process....
Inventing God
Psychology of Belief and the Rise of Secular Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016
In this controversial book, philosopher and psychoanalyst Jon Mills argues that God does not exist; and more provocatively, that God cannot exist as anything but an idea. Put concisely, God is a psychological creation signifying ultimate ideality. Mills argues that the idea or conception of God is...
The Metapsychology of Christopher Bollas
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
The Metapsychology of Christopher Bollas: An Introduction explores Bollas’s extraordinarily wide contribution to contemporary psychoanalysis. The book aims to introduce and explain the fundamentals of Bollas’s theory of the mind in a systematic way, addressing many of the questions that commonly...
The Empty Couch
The taboo of ageing and retirement in psychoanalysis
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
The Empty Couch is an introduction to the challenges and obstacles inherent in ageing as a psychoanalyst. It addresses the previously neglected issue of ill health, as well as the significance of ageing for psychoanalysts, exploring the analyst’s attitude towards getting older, impermanence and...
by Carlo Strenger
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Freud’s Legacy in the Global Era presents a radically new perspective on Freud’s relevance today as a forerunner of the contemporary evolutionary neurosciences also steeped in the tradition of humanistic thought. Carlo Strenger shows how globalisation has produced new theoretical, practical and...
The Social Unconscious
Selected Papers
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2002
In this text, Earl Hopper has made a major contribution to the understanding of the depth and breadth of individuals and how we might help them to know more of their patterns of relatedness with others, inter-personally, socially and culturally. Of particular note is the open honest manner of his...
The Leader
Psychological Essays
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2011
Behind every leader is an instructive life story. It often promotes a public image that inspires others to live by it. And, sometimes, even to live or to die for it. As leadership qualities and image issues gain significance in the public discourse, the psychological study of leadership is a critical...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Reading Winnicott brings together a selection of papers by the psychoanalyst and paediatrician Donald Winnicott, providing an insight into his work and charting its impact on the well-being of mothers, babies, children and families.
With individual introductions summarising the key features...
The Gender Conundrum
Contemporary Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Femininity and Masculinity
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
In The Gender Conundrum Dana Birksted-Breen brings together for the first time key psychoanalytic papers on the subject of femininity and masculinity from the very different British, French, and American perspectives.
The papers are gathered around the central issue of the interplay of body...
by Wulf Sachs
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2016
First published in 1937, "Black Hamlet" is a chronicle of physician Wulf Sachs' experiences psychoanalysing a man from a Johannesburg slum for two-and-a-half years. Originally an attempt to learn whether psychoanalysis was applicable across different cultures, Sachs' findings became so much more....
by Various
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
This book contains classic material dating back to the 1900s and before. The content has been carefully selected for its interest and relevance to a modern audience. Carefully selecting the best articles from our collection we have compiled a series of historical and informative publications on the...