Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
Asexuality and Freudian-Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Towards a Theory of an Enigma
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Asexuality and Freudian-Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Towards a Theory of an Enigma proposes that asexuality is a libidinally founded desire for no sexual desire, a concept not included in psychoanalytic theory up to now.
The Deconstruction of Narcissism and the Function of the Object : Explorations in Psychoanalysis
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The Deconstruction of Narcissism and the Function of the Object addresses the topic of narcissistic suffering and presents an innovative take on its psychoanalytic treatment through the deconstruction of its solipsism.
The Infinite Infantile and the Psychoanalytic Task: Psychoanalysis with Children, Adolescents and their Families
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The Infinite Infantile and the Psychoanalytic Task is a fascinating collection of essays that proposes to restore and elaborate original conceptions of the complexity of mental processes in the early years of life until the onset of adolescence, and from then until adulthood.
Lessons in Psychoanalysis: Psychopathology and Clinical Psychoanalysis for Trainee Analysts
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Inspired by many successful years of teaching to analysts in training, Franco De Masi has selected the most significant lessons and added a few new ones to provide an enriching discussion of psychopathology and psychoanalytic clinical work
Psychoanalysis, Culture and Contemporary Discontents: A Time of Technology, Fanaticism and Pandemics
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Ricardo Rubinstein explores the contemporary culture and its discontents – including subjectivity, fanaticism, panic attacks, technology, and pandemics – through a psychoanalytic lens.
Experiencing Endings and Beginnings: From Birth to Old Age (2nd Edition)
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Experiencing Endings and Beginnings highlights the emotional turmoil which, to a greater or lesser extent, accompanies the changes we experience throughout life. It considers the nature of the anxieties aroused by a new situation, changes in our circumstances, beginnings and endings of relationships, gains and losses, and the ending of a previous state throughout the lifespan.
Living and Containing Psychoanalysis in Institutions: Psychoanalysts Working Together
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Encompassing diverse perspectives on the psychoanalyst as individual, social being, and member of psychoanalytic institutions, this book provides practical and informed answers to the question of how psychoanalysts can take care of their psychoanalytic institutions.
Psychoanalysis and the Act of Artistic Creation: A Look at the Unconscious Dynamics of Creativity
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This book explores the phenomenon of creativity and creation from a psychoanalytic point of view, focusing on understanding the psycho-emotional dynamics underlying the artistic creative activities, such as theatre, literature, and painting.
Psychoanalysis and Colonialism: A Contemporary Introduction – Routledge Introductions to Contemporary Psychoanalysis
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Within this important and insightful book, Sally Swartz introduces readers to early entanglements of psychoanalytic theory with colonialism and how it has led to significant and long-lasting implications for psychoanalysis.
The Analyst’s Torment: Unbearable Mental States in Countertransference
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In this exceptional debut work, Shah demonstrates that what analysts feel, in their affects, bodies, and reveries with patients, is vital in helping them to understand and metabolise the patients’ emotional experiences. This is a must-read for all practising clinicians.
On Being One’s Self: Clinical Explorations in Identity from John Steiner’s Workshop
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On Being One’s Self emerges from discussions in John Steiner’s Workshop and investigates the meanings of self and identity, including the many ways in which the development of personal identity can be subverted, interrogating what can facilitate the development of a reasonably stable identity.
Quietly Subversive: The Selected Works of Dilys Daws
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This book gathers together selected papers and book chapters by Dilys Daws, covering her 50 years of pioneering work as a child psychotherapist.
Enriching Psychoanalysis: Integrating Concepts from Contemporary Science and Philosophy
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This compelling collection illuminates new models and metaphors taken from the contemporary sciences and philosophical thought to revitalize and recontextualize psychoanalysis for the 21st century..
Femininity, Desire and Sublimation in Psychoanalysis: From the Melancholic to the Erotic
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Femininity, Desire and Sublimation in Psychoanalysis explores female subjectivity and examines the complexities inherent in psychoanalytic work realized by women analysts with women.
Physical Touch in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: Transforming Trauma through Embodied Practice
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This groundbreaking book presents a new model for incorporating the human body, and specifically physical touch, into psychoanalysis and psychotherapy, particularly for patients who have experienced trauma.
From the Abyss of Loneliness to the Bliss of Solitude: Cultural, Social and Psychoanalytic Perspectives
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From the Abyss of Loneliness to the Bliss of Solitude is essential reading for mental health professionals and those searching for a better understanding of what it means to be lonely and how the lonely can better voice their loneliness and step out of it.
Playing and Becoming in Psychoanalysis
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Equally informed by existing psychoanalytic theories, such as those by Winnicott, Bion and Mitchell, and rich clinical material, this book defines the concept of play from the perspective of clinical practice to elaborate on its application to clinical problems.
How the Mind Works: Concepts and Cases in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy
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Volkan and Volkan draw upon their decades of experience of psychoanalysis, biculturalism, and supervision of colleagues in various countries and cultures to create an exceptional textbook to explain psychoanalytic theory clearly. They present compelling case examples to illustrate technical issues that never lose sight of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy as living professions that continue to develop. This is a must-read for all who want to learn more about psychoanalytic practice and theory.
Towards Happiness ― A Psychoanalytic Approach to Finding Your Way
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Drawing on a range of clinical cases, Towards Happiness presents an engaging, insightful look at how we define and achieve happiness in core aspects of our lives: work and money, wellness and personal growth, sex and love, family and friendship, and aging.
Addiction, Accommodation, and Vulnerability in Psychoanalysis: Circles without a Center
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This book explores the compulsions and trauma that underlie addiction, using an intersubjective approach in seeking to understand the inspirations and challenges arising from the psychoanalytic treatment of addiction, compulsivity, and related dissociative conditions.
Mothering Alone: A Plea for Opportunity
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The study this book is based upon was of a pioneering facilitating programme enabling low-income mothers with little to no outside support to attend college or university. The women’s stories are told in their own words and are used to explore the importance of education as a way to improve their and their children’s lives.
Identity Politics: Where Did It All Go Wrong?
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Pilgrim re-establishes a realist objection to strong social constructivist arguments within social science about gender, sexualities, and putative moral panics.
The Omnipotent State of Mind: Psychoanalytic Perspectives
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This book presents an examination and exploration of the concept of omnipotence, its qualities and expression as a psychic state, its origins in the psyche and its appearance in the psychoanalytic process and in society.
Early Relational Trauma and the Development of the Self: A Model of Therapeutic Accompaniment
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By giving form to the resilience of both patient and clinician, their mutual strength through “tears of change”, this book expounds the behavioral consequences and treatment of psychopathologies associated with early relational trauma. In this way, the book will prove essential for all psychoanalysts and psychotherapists working with traumatized children and adolescents.