Psychoanalysis category: 1976 books
Psychology After Psychoanalysis
Psychosocial studies and beyond
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014
Ian Parker has been a leading light in the fields of critical and discursive psychology for over 25 years. The Psychology After Critique series brings together for the first time his most important papers. Each volume in the series has been prepared by Ian Parker and presents a newly written introduction...
Psychoanalysis in Hong Kong
The Absent, the Present, and the Reinvented
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
How is it possible that a phenomenon like psychoanalysis, which has dominated the cultural and intellectual life of the last century in Europe, North and South America, has seemingly had little-to-no resonance in Hong Kong? This book attempts to explain this phenomenon. Addressing the subject from...
Progress in Psychoanalysis
Envisioning the future of the profession
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
Is psychoanalysis in decline? Has its understanding of the human condition been marginalized? Have its clinical methods been eclipsed by more short-term, problem-oriented approaches? Is psychoanalysis unable (or unwilling) to address key contemporary issues and concerns?
With contributors internationally...
by Stephen Frosh
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Psychoanalysis has always been a source of controversy throughout academic and popular culture. This controversy relates to questions of its true value, its scientific status, its politics and its therapeutic effectiveness. Psychoanalysis' defenders regard it as a body of knowledge built on careful...
The Freud Wars
An Introduction to the Philosophy of Psychoanalysis
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2005
The Freud Wars offers a comprehensive introduction to the crucial question of the justification of psychoanalysis.
Part I examines three powerful critiques of psychoanalysis in the context of a recent controversy about its nature and legitimacy: is it a bankrupt science, an innovative science,...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
Winner of the American Board & Academy of Psychoanalysis Prize for best Edited book published in 2016
Psychoanalysis in Italy is a particularly diverse and vibrant profession, embracing a number of influences and schools of thought, connecting together new thinking, and producing theorists...
The Heart of Man's Destiny
Lacanian Psychoanalysis and Early Reformation Thought
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
Can Luther's writings inform us on the fundamental questions of Freudian psychoanalysis? Does an intellectual filiation between early Reformation thought and psychoanalysis exist? Does Lacanian psychoanalysis offer an instrument for analysing theological writings?
In The Heart of Man's Destiny,...
Class and Psychoanalysis
Landscapes of Inequality
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
Does psychoanalysis have anything to say about the emotional landscapes of class? How can class-inclusive psychoanalytic projects, historic and contemporary, inform theory and practice? Class and psychoanalysis are unusual bedfellows, but this original book shows how much is to be gained by exploring...
A Psychotherapy for the People
Toward a Progressive Psychoanalysis
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
How did psychoanalysis come to define itself as being different from psychotherapy? How have racism, homophobia, misogyny and anti-Semitism converged in the creation of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis? Is psychoanalysis psychotherapy? Is psychoanalysis a "Jewish science"?
Inspired...
Rediscovering Psychoanalysis
Thinking and Dreaming, Learning and Forgetting
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
Winner of the 2010 Haskell Norman Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Psychoanalysis!
Rediscovering Psychoanalysis demonstrates how, by attending to one’s own idiosyncratic ways of thinking, feeling, and responding to patients, the psychoanalyst can develop a "style" of his or...
Future Psychoanalysis
Toward a Psychology of the Human Subject
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
Future Psychoanalysis: Toward a Psychology of the Human Subject focuses on the future of psychoanalysis considering its current critical condition. The informative theory of psychoanalysis has reached its limits, but its structural base offers a comprehensive theory, promising fruitful future psychoanalysis....
Modern Psychoanalysis
New Directions and Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Modern Psychoanalys is is a definitive exploration of the expanding horizons of this still controversial approach to and treatment of human behavior. In the first paperback release of a work sponsored by the American Academy of Psychoanalysis, thirty-five authorities explore new approaches to psychoanalytic...
The Interpersonal Perspective in Psychoanalysis, 1960s-1990s
Rethinking transference and countertransference
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
North American psychoanalysis has long been deeply influenced and substantially changed by clinical and theoretical perspectives first introduced by interpersonal psychoanalysis. Yet even today, despite its origin in the 1930s, many otherwise well-read psychoanalysts and psychotherapists are not well...
Introducing Psychoanalysis
A Graphic Guide
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
INTRODUCING guide to the history and theory of the still controversial 'speaking cure'. The ideas of psychoanalysis have permeated Western culture. It is the dominant paradigm through which we understand our emotional lives, and Freud still finds himself an iconic figure. Yet despite the constant...