Psychoanalysis category: 1976 books
Freud
From Individual Psychology to Group Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2012
Freud: From Individual Psychology to Group Psychology, by M. Andrew Holowchak, explores Freudian psychoanalysis as a full-fledged science, as it relates psychoanalytically to issues of individual psychology (Individualpsychologie) and group psychology (Massenpsychologie). It answers questions such...
The Dove in the Consulting Room
Hysteria and the Anima in Bollas and Jung
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2004
Psychoanalysis began as a treatment for hysteria over a century ago, and recently has returned to hysteria as a focus, most notably in the works of Christopher Bollas and Juliet Mitchell. This provocative and original book critically engages with psychoanalysis and in particular the phenomenon of...
Sigmund Freud's Discovery of Psychoanalysis
Conquistador and thinker
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Sigmund Freud’s discovery of psychoanalysis explores links between Freud’s development of his thinking and theory and his personal emotional journey. It follows his early career as a medical student, researcher and neurologist, and then as a psychotherapist, to focus on the critical period 1895-1900....
What Shakespeare Teaches Us About Psychoanalysis
A Local Habitation and a Name
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Using Shakespeare's work to expand our understanding of what it is to be human, this book of applied psychoanalysis furthers the study of Shakespeare, literary theory, dramatic arts, and psychoanalytic theory. It is also accessible to readers, theatre-goers and those who have an interest in the human...
The Cut and the Building of Psychoanalysis, Volume I
Sigmund Freud and Emma Eckstein
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
This volume presents a fresh perspective and new narrative of the origins of psychoanalysis, taking into account social, cultural and contemporary relational views. Exploring Freud’s unconscious communication and identification with his patients, Emma Eckstein in particular, the book sheds new light...
Fetishism, Psychoanalysis, and Philosophy
The Iridescent Thing
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
Fetishism, Psychoanalysis, and Philosophy explores how and why Freud’s late work on fetishism led to the beginnings of a re-formulation of the theory and practice of psychoanalysis. Freud himself, however, was unaware of the long history of the concept of fetishism, a history crucial to understanding...
Core Concepts in Contemporary Psychoanalysis
Clinical, Research Evidence and Conceptual Critiques
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2017
In Core Concepts in Contemporary Psychoanalysis, alongside its companionpiece Core Concepts in Classical Psychoanalysis, Morris N. Eagle asks: of the core concepts and formulations of psychoanalytic theory, which ones should be retained, which should be modified and in what ways, and which should...
Habermas and Ricoeur’s Depth Hermeneutics
From Psychoanalysis to a Critical Human Science
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
This book presents a critical and systematic study of the possibility to consider and practice Freud’s psychoanalysis as a form of depth hermeneutics. It contributes to a screening of the possibility of a hermeneutical interpretation of psychoanalysis, particularly with respect to the therapeutic...
Psychoanalysis and Theism
Critical Reflections on the GrYnbaum Thesis
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2010
How should we approach the psychological study of religion, and how relevant is classical psychoanalysis, identified with the writings of Sigmund Freud, to the understanding of religion? Freud's writings on religion have been discussed often and continue to attract attention and debate. Psychoanalysis...
Geographies of Psychoanalysis
Encounters between Cultures in Tehran
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
Can psychoanalytical hypotheses have a universal value? Can they describe the same – or a similar – psychic dynamic for any human, regardless of the historical, social and cultural context? Can psychoanalysis help with mental suffering in different realities? In our times, the questions psychoanalysis...
Contemporary Psychoanalysis and the Legacy of the Third Reich
History, Memory, Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
For most of the twentieth century, Jewish and/or politically leftist European psychoanalysts rarely linked their personal trauma history to their professional lives, for they hoped their theory—their Truth—would transcend subjectivity and achieve a universality not unlike the advances in the "hard"...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2015
The book presents an overview of the term neuropsychoanalysis and traces its historical and scientific foundations as well as its cultural implications. It also turns its attention to some blind spots, open questions, and to what the future may hold. It examines the cooperative and conflicted relationship...
by Agnieszka Piotrowska
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
This distinctively interdisciplinary approach to the subject encompasses filmmaking, psychoanalysis, philosophy and popular culture and offers a unique insight into documentary film practice from a psychoanalytic perspective. At the heart of the enquiry is belief that ‘transference-love’ is present...
Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Modern Jewish Philosophy
Two Languages of Love
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Relational psychoanalysis and modern Jewish philosophy have much to say about the dynamics of human relationships, but there has been no detailed, thorough, and constructive examination that brings together these two incisive discourses. Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Modern Jewish Philosophy: Two...