Psychoanalysis category: 1976 books
by Edna O'Shaughnessy
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
The papers of Edna O’Shaughnessy are among the finest to be found in psychoanalytic writing. Her work is unified not so much by its subject matter, which is diverse, but by her underlying preoccupations, including the nature of psychic reality and subjectivity, and the psychic limits of endurance...
by Janice S. Lieberman
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
Patients in psychoanalytic treatment present with a variety of problems that reflect contemporary cultural issues and values. Clinical Evolutions on the Superego, Body, and Gender in Psychoanalysis explores the effects of such societal changes on psychoanalytic theory and clinical practice, covering...
Psychoanalysis Online 4
Teleanalytic Practice, Teaching, and Clinical Research
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2018
Psychoanalysis Online 4: Teleanalytic Practice, Teaching, and Clinical Research brings a systematic, qualitative research perspective to the question of the effectiveness of teletherapy, teleanalysis, and teleteaching. It suggests that, contrary to some traditional arguments, effective treatment,...
Studies in Psychoanalysis
An Account of Twenty-Seven Concrete Cases Preceded by a Theoretical Exposition
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2015
Originally published in 1922, this title was intended for the expert and for the general reader. The original blurb states: "As far as the general reader is concerned, there does not yet exist a volume which gives a straightforward and thoroughly comprehensible explanation of the leading methods...
Forced Endings in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis
Attachment and loss in retirement
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
Forced Endings in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis:Attachment and Loss in Retirement explores the ambivalence the therapist may feel about letting go of a professional role which has sustained them. Anne Power explores the process of closing a private practice, from the first ethical decision-making,...
Psychoanalytic Treatment in Adults
A longitudinal study of change
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2016
The outcomes of psychoanalysis, as with other psychotherapies, vary considerably. Psychoanalytic Treatment in Adults examines the results of a longitudinal study of change during psychoanalysis, illuminating the characteristics of patients, analysts and analyses which can help to predict outcomes...
Psychoanalysis of the Psychoses
Current Developments in Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2019
Psychoanalysis of the Psychoses brings together a distinguished international set of contributors, offering a range of views and approaches, to explore the latest thinking in the psychoanalytic treatment of psychosis and related disorders.
Drawing on findings from neuroscience, theory and clinical...
Fictional Clinical Narratives in Relational Psychoanalysis
Stories from Adolescence to the Consulting Room
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2018
Fictional Clinical Narratives in Relational Psychoanalysis explores the therapeutic space between the patient and therapist in psychoanalysis and the transformative effect of the therapeutic relationship through a collection of twenty-two short stories beginning at a moment of trauma in adolescence....
by Erich Fromm
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
An exploration of what religion and spirituality mean to us as humans, by the New York Times–bestselling author and social psychologist.
In 1950, Erich Fromm attempted to free religion from its social function and to develop a new understanding of religious phenomena. Rather than analyzing...
The Trouble with Pleasure
Deleuze and Psychoanalysis
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
An investigation into the strange and troublesome relationship to pleasure that defines the human being, drawing on the disparate perspectives of Deleuze and Lacan.
Is pleasure a rotten idea, mired in negativity and lack, which should be abandoned in favor of a new concept of desire? Or is...
by Moustafa Safouan
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
In this delightfully readable and clearly written volume, the world renowned psychoanalyst Moustafa Safouan considers the works of Freud and Lacan. When Safouan met Lacan in 1949, he was all but ready to abandon the field due to the many contradictions and obscurities he found in Freud. Yet thanks...
The Sense and Non-Sense of Revolt
The Powers and Limits of Psychoanalysis
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2001
Linguist, psychoanalyst, and cultural theorist, Julia Kristeva is one of the most influential and prolific thinkers of our time. Her writings have broken new ground in the study of the self, the mind, and the ways in which we communicate through language. Her work is unique in that it skillfully brings...
Philosophy in Turbulent Times
Canguilhem, Sartre, Foucault, Althusser, Deleuze, Derrida
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2008
For Elisabeth Roudinesco, a historian of psychoanalysis and one of France's leading intellectuals, Canguilhem, Sartre, Foucault, Althusser, Deleuze, and Derrida represent a "great generation" of French philosophers who accomplished remarkable work and lived incredible lives. These troubled...
The Ethics of Psychoanalysis 1959-1960
The Seminar of Jacques Lacan
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
In his famous seminar on ethics, Jacques Lacan uses this question as his departure point for a re-examination of Freud's work and the experience of psychoanalysis in relation to ethics. Delving into the psychoanalyst's inevitable involvement with ethical questions, Lacan clarifies many of his key...