Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
Psychosomatics Today: A Psychoanalytic Perspective
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This revised edition of Psychosomatics Today presents a thorough introduction to the different international schools of psychosomatics, written by leading professionals, and includes three new chapters on current practice.
Misogyny in Psychoanalysis
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Misogyny in Psychoanalysis highlights what’s at risk for the practice of psychoanalysis / psychotherapy and, most importantly, for those seeking help when institutionalised misogyny goes by unchallenged.
Playing at Work: Clinical Essays in a Contemporary Winnicottian Perspective on Technique
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Playing at Work offers a thorough guide to the innovative psychoanalytic practices of Vincenzo Bonaminio, as he draws on the work of Winnicott, Bollas, and Tustin to demonstrate an effective method for working with adults, adolescents, and children in clinical settings.
Psychoanalysis and the Mind-Body Problem
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Given that disciplines from the humanities and the social sciences to neuroscience cannot agree upon the nature of consciousness―from what constitutes psychic reality to mental properties, psychoanalysis has a unique perspective that is largely ignored by mainstream paradigms. This book provides a comprehensive exploration of the mind-body problem in various psychoanalytic schools of thought, including philosophical and metapsychological points of view.
Critique of Psychoanalytic Reason: Studies in Lacanian Theory and Practice
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The highly arcane “wisdom” produced by the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan is either endlessly regurgitated and recited as holy writ by his numerous acolytes, or radically dismissed as unpalatable nonsense by his equally countless detractors. Contrary to these common, strictly antagonistic yet uniformly uncritical practices, this book offers a meticulous critique of some key theoretical and clinical aspects of Lacan’s expansive oeuvre, testing their consistency, examining their implications, and investigating their significance.
Yoga and Psychoanalysis: Perspectives on the Psychology of Regression
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This book discusses the relevance of tracing back the course of individual development noted in psychoanalysis (regression) and in Patañjali’s Yoga (prati-prasava).
Psychoanalysis and Ecology: The Unconscious and the Environment
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This book presents the psychoanalyst with the question of how our enormously modified environmental conditions determine our subjective mental changes and vice versa.
Psychoanalysis and the Politics of the Family: The Crisis of Initiation
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Psychoanalysis and the Politics of Family aims to raise a sophisticated and highly accessible debate around the family, self-making and the political and cultural implications of liberation.
The Evolution of Freud: His Theoretical Development of the Mind–Body Relationship and the Role of Sexuality
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This is the perfect book for students and trainees wanting to learn more about the development of Freud’s ideas, as well as for established psychoanalysts and psychotherapists interested in expanding their knowledge of Freud’s theories.
Sándor Ferenczi: A Contemporary Introduction
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This book aims to present an up-to-date introduction and critical study of one of the most important psychoanalysts of all times, Sándor Ferenczi.
Analysis and Exile: Boyhood, Loss, and the Lessons of Anna Freud
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Vivian Heller draws on a wealth of primary sources, including her father’s case history and his internment diary, using novelistic techniques to bring the past alive.
Psychoanalytic Credos: Personal and Professional Journeys of Psychoanalysts
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This book serves to provide companionship to analysts in training, as part of reading lists in institutes as well as analysts post-training and yet still evolving in their psychoanalytic journey.
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Traveling through Time: How Trauma Plays Itself out in Families, Organizations and Society
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Organized in the midst of the Covid-19 crisis, this book is a collection of stories and reflections on the way traumatic experiences play out over time: the conditions that lead to trauma, the forms it takes, the ways it affects a person’s life and the lives of others.
Building Bridges: The Negotiation of Paradox in Psychoanalysis
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Enlivened by numerous clinical vignettes and a richly detailed chronicle of an analytic case from its earliest negotiations to termination, Building Bridges adds a significant dimension to theoretical understanding and clinical practice. It is altogether a psychoanalytic work of our time.
Psychoanalytic Diaries of the COVID-19 Pandemic: There Is a Virus Among Us
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This intimate book explores the experiences of two psychoanalysts during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Complex Trauma: The Tavistock Model
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The editors bring together chapters that will be of interest to those working with traumatized individuals in a variety of settings and using different modalities. The central importance of relationships, as understood within the psychoanalytic model, is depicted throughout as being at the heart of understanding and working with traumatic experience.
Coaching Self-Organising Teams: Helping Teams Flourish
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Coaching teams is more than just applying coaching skills. It requires a deep understanding of how people behave and an adaptive approach to coaching. This book provides both research references and practical tools to help team coaches start their team coaching journey.
Projective Identification: A Contemporary Introduction
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This clear and thoughtful book by Robert Waska provides an accessible introduction to Projective Identification and the role it plays in internal and external life.
First Thoughts: A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Beginnings
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Full of penetrating insight into the quest for ‘truth’ and the meaning of life, Jayne Hankinson applies psychoanalytic theory to enable a deeper understanding of the creation myths that exist for each and every one of us. First Thoughts builds on the traditions established by the visionary W. R. Bion to present a philosophical and spiritual odyssey to inspire and enjoy.
Plato’s Ghost: Minus Links and Liminality in Psychoanalytic Practice
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Taking its inspiration from Freud’s The Uncanny and building on Bion’s idea of vertices, this book brings together psychoanalytic and literary theory, case vignettes, fiction, history of ideas, and science and culture to expand commonly used terms such as regret, candour, autonomy, and parasitism and further the conversation between disciplines.
Autonomy, Relatedness and Oedipus: Psychoanalytic Perspectives
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Development is about being related to the other without losing yourself and being with yourself without losing the other. Through his examination of the psychoanalytic discipline and the Oedipus complex in particular, Thijs de Wolf demonstrates the power of psychoanalysis to create new perspectives by making the unconscious known.
Wild Analysis: From the Couch to Cultural and Political Life
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This book argues that the notion of ‘wild’ analysis, a term coined by Freud to denote the use of would-be psychoanalytic notions, diagnoses, and treatment by an individual who has not undergone psychoanalytic training, also provides us with a striking new way of exploring the limits of psychoanalysis.
Tales of Transformation: A Life in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis
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A truly magnificent accomplishment – Salman Akhtar has achieved his century! Tales of Transformation: A Life in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis is Dr Akhtar’s one hundredth book and contains one hundred inspirational stories taken from throughout his working life. Written in his inimitable style, the book is a treasure trove for anyone with an interest in psychoanalysis.
Freud’s Pandemics: Surviving Global War, Spanish Flu and the Nazis
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In this compelling book, the first in the new Freud Museum London series, Professor Brett Kahr describes how Sigmund Freud endured innumerable emotional pandemics during his eighty-three years of life, ranging from unsubstantiated accusations by medical colleagues to anti-Semitic abuse, the loss of one daughter to Spanish flu and the arrest of another child by the Gestapo, to his own painful cancer treatments and his final flight from Adolf Hitler’s Austria.