Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy

The Suffering Stranger: Hermeneutics for Everyday Clinical Practice
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‘The Suffering Stranger’ invigorates the conversation between psychoanalysis and philosophy, demonstrating how each is informed by the other and how both are strengthened in unison.

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A Short Introduction to Psychoanalysis

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This fully updated and revised Second Edition explains what psychoanalysis really is and provides the reader with an overview of its basic concepts, historical development, critiques and research base.

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Internal Racism: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Race and Difference

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This book explores the inner relationship between the self and the socially stereotyped ‘racial’ other, providing a clinically derived model of how racist dynamics play out in the mind.

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Fostering Independence: Helping and Caring in Psychodynamic Therapies
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The papers in this book consider some of the important issues surrounding psychodynamic therapies and stress the importance of considering analysis/therapy/counselling as means of enabling the patient to lead an independent life.

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A Guide to Assessment for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists
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Psychoanalytic psychotherapists and psychoanalysts inevitably find themselves doing assessment in their work, both in private practice and in a clinical setting such as the NHS. The authors felt a need for a book that covers this vital aspect of their work, which would be of benefit both to students in training and to practitioners.

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What Do Patients Want. Psychoanalytic Perspectives from the Couch
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What do Patients Want? provides readers with an insight into patients’ psychoanalytic experiences ‘from the couch. Outcome studies have usually privileged the practitioner or researcher’s voice, whilst underutilizing the rich published accounts of patients’ own stories.

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Transference and Countertransference: A Unifying Focus of Psychoanalysis
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Transference and countertransference, the essence of the patient/analyst relationship, are concepts so central to psychoanalysis that, to our minds, they transcend theoretical orientation and, thus, can be seen as the unifying focus of psychoanalysis.

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Bion Today

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Bion Today explores how Bion’s work is used in contemporary settings; how his ideas have been applied at the level of the individual, the group and the organisation; and which phenomena have been made more comprehensible through the lenses of his concepts. The book introduces distinctive psychoanalytic contributions to show the ways in which distinguished analysts have explored and developed the ideas of Wilfred Bion.

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Telling Stories?: Attachment-Based Approaches to the Treatment of Psychosis

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Telling Stories? explores the contemporary state of affairs in the understanding and treatment of psychosis.

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The Early Years of Life: Psychoanalytical Development Theory According to Freud, Klein and Bion
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This book provides a powerfully argued and beautifully constructed account of the early development of the child in the family context from a psychoanalytic perspective.

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Mental Handicap and the Human Condition: An Analytic Approach to Intellectual Disability

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Based on more than 30 years’ of practice in the field, this stimulating, innovative, and very moving revised edition examines questions of loss, bereavement, sexual abuse, and the process and meaning of thinking. Many people wondered what actually happened in a therapy session. This landmark book was one of the first to provide verbatim accounts of therapy sessions.

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Off the Couch
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The contemporary relevance of psychoanalysis is being increasingly questioned; Off the Couch challenges this view, demonstrating that psychoanalytic thinking and its applications are both innovative and relevant, in particular to the management and treatment of more disturbed and difficult to engage patient groups.

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The Use of Psychoanalytic Concepts in Therapy with Families: For All Professionals Working With Families
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This book aims to be a readable and user-friendly adjunct for therapists working with families who are interested in incorporating into their thinking and practice some ideas from psychoanalytic theory and practice.

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The Groups Book: Psychoanalytic Group Therapy – Principles and Practice
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Exploring in Security
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This book builds a key clinical bridge between attachment theory and psychoanalysis, deploying Holmes’ unique capacity to weld empirical evidence, psychoanalytic theory and consulting room experience into a coherent and convincing whole.

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Thinking for Clinicians: Philosophical Resources for Contemporary Psychoanalysis and the Humanistic Psychotherapies
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“Thinking for Clinicians” rewards as it challenges and will be a valuable reference for clinicians who seek a better understanding of the philosophical bases of contemporary psychoanalytic theory.

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Systems and Psychoanalysis: Contemporary Integrations in Family Therapy
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This intellectually rigorous and generative collection of papers, positioned at the intersection of systemic and psychoanalytic therapy, captures the potential synergy of bringing these two honoured traditions back into dialogue, on new terms.

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Trauma and Attachment

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‘This monograph contains a rich variety of material that is not usually included in traditional writings on trauma. In addition to the theoretical and clinical perspectives, poetry and storytelling join in to weave a vivid tapestry of multifaceted approaches to trauma.

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Shakespeare on the Couch

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Drawing upon a vast literature in psychoanalytic journals and either upon Shakespeare’s characters themselves or alluding to those characters in the course of other topics, this book in the UK Council for Psychotherapy series, discusses eight of Shakespeare’s plays and the relationships between the main characters in them.

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Lectures on Violence, Perversion and Delinquency

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This volume is of relevance to all those working with people with a range of personality disorders and those working with individuals who present with these types of problems in the mental health services and in private practice.

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Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

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Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow presents a selection of papers written by Hanna Segal. The collection introduces the reader to a wide spectrum of insights into psychoanalysis, ranging from current thoughts on the nature of dreaming to new ideas about vision and disillusionment. Her long interest in factors affecting war is pursued in her examination of the psychotic factors, symbolic significance and psychological impact of the events of September the 11th, and the ensuing war on Iraq.

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On Aggression and Violence: An Analytic Perspective

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Aggressive and violent patients are an increasing concern for mental health professionals. Mizen and Morris critically review psychoanalytic literature and present their own coherent and practical new model. The clear clinical focus and emphasis on managing violence in therapy, makes this book essential reading for practitioners and trainees.

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Psychoanalysis and Religion in the 21st Century: Competitors or Collaborators?
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Knowing Nothing, Staying Stupid: Elements for a Psychoanalytic Epistemology

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Knowing Nothing, Staying Stupid draws on recent research to provide a thorough and illuminating evaluation of the status of knowledge and truth in psychoanalysis. Adopting a Lacanian framework, Dany Nobus and Malcolm Quinn question the basic assumption that knowledge is universally good and describe how psychoanalysis is in a position to place forms of knowledge in a dialectical relationship with non-knowledge, blindness, ignorance and stupidity. The book draws out the implications of a psychoanalytic theory of knowledge for the practices of knowledge construction, acquisition and transmission across the humanities and social sciences.

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