Psychoanalysis category: 1976 books
Radical Psychoanalysis
An essay on free-associative praxis
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Only by the method of free-association could Sigmund Freud have demonstrated how human consciousness is formed by the repression of thoughts and feelings that we consider dangerous. Yet today most therapists ignore this truth about our psychic life. This book offers a critique of the many brands of...
Lacanian Psychoanalysis
Revolutions in Subjectivity
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2010
Jacques Lacan's impact upon the theory and practice of psychoanalysis worldwide cannot be underestimated. Lacanian Psychoanalysis looks at the current debates surrounding Lacanian practice and explores its place within historical, social and political contexts.
The book argues that Lacan’s...
Sabina Spielrein and the Beginnings of Psychoanalysis
Image, Thought, and Language
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2019
Sabina Spielrein stands as both an important and tragic figure—misunderstood or underestimated by her fellow analysts (including Jung and Freud) and often erased in the annals of psychoanalytic history. Her story has not only been largely forgotten, but actively (though unconsciously) repressed...
A Curious Intimacy
Art and Neuro-psychoanalysis
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
What can neuroscience contribute to the psychodynamic understanding of creativity and the imagination?
A Curious Intimacy is an innovative study into the interrelation between art and neuro-psychoanalysis which significantly narrows the divide between the humanities and the sciences.
Situating...
by Giuseppe Civitarese
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2019
An Apocryphal Dictionary of Psychoanalysis is a book of transpositions, collecting together the author’s clinical vignettes, enigmatic objects, stray thoughts, projects, images, notes from readings, and musings; but also remarks on films and exhibitions, memories, episodes from daily life, summaries...
Psychoanalysis and the Birth of the Self
A Radical Interdisciplinary Approach
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2018
This book draws psychoanalysis out of unsubstantiated, hermeneutic speculation and into the science and philosophy of the Self. Mark Leffert offers a survey of where we as human beings come from, going back into prehistory and our development as individuals. Psychoanalysis and the Birth of the Self...
by Monica Luci
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
Torture, Psychoanalysis and Human Rights contributes to the development of that field of study called ‘psycho-social’ that is presently more and more committed to providing understanding of social phenomena, making use of the explicative perspective of psychoanalysis. The book seeks to develop...
Transgender Psychoanalysis
A Lacanian Perspective on Sexual Difference
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Drawing on the author’s clinical work with gender-variant patients, Transgender Psychoanalysis: A Lacanian Perspective on Sexual Difference argues for a depathologizing of the transgender experience, while offering an original analysis of sexual difference. We are living in a "trans" moment...
On Psychoanalysis and Violence
Contemporary Lacanian Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2018
Psychoanalysis has not examined violence as such since it is a sociological and criminological concept; psychoanalysis is concerned with speech. On Psychoanalysis and Violence brings together noted Lacanian psychoanalysts and scholars to fill an important gap in psychoanalytic scholarship that addresses...
Sabina Spielrein and the Poetry of Psychoanalysis
Writing and the End of Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
Sabina Spielrein, who has been mostly known for her relation with her analyst Carl Jung, came to the attention of the wider public following the discovery and publication of some of her diaries and personal letters some 40 years ago. The focus on her relationship with Jung and her personal story have...
Integrating Relational Psychoanalysis and EMDR
Embodied Experience and Clinical Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
Integrating Relational Psychoanalysis and EMDR: Embodied Experience and Clinical Practice provides contemporary theoretical and clinical links between Relational Psychoanalysis, attachment theory, neuroscience, and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, all of which bring both the patient’s...
by Sylvia O'Neill
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
Process Facilitation in Psychoanalysis, Psychotherapy and Social Work elaborates a differential theory of therapeutic engagement with full reference not only to psychoanalysis and to psychotherapy but also – surprisingly – to social work. When contemporary social work with the marginalised achieves...
by Sigmund Freud
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
There exists, of course, few more famous figures in the field of psychology than Sigmund Freud. As the founding father of psychoanalysis, or the clinical method for treating psychopathology through dialogue between a patient and a psychoanalyst, his impact on the field of psychology cannot be understated....
This Art of Psychoanalysis
Dreaming Undreamt Dreams and Interrupted Cries
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2007
Winner of the 2010 Haskell Norman Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Psychoanalysis!
Why is dreaming the mind's single most important psychoanalytic activity?
This Art of Psychoanalysis offers a unique perspective on psychoanalysis that features a new way of conceptualizing the role...