Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology

Our sense of identity begins (our psychological birth sometime in the first year of life) with the feeling that we are the centre of the universe, protected by godlike benevolent parents who will enable us to live happily ever after.

Wish-fulfilment as a singular means of satisfying ineluctable desire is a pivotal concept in classical psychoanalysis.

Author, psychiatrist and scholar, painter, world traveler, and above all visionary dreamer, Carl Jung was one of the great figures of the twentieth century.

In Vitalization in Psychoanalysis, Schwartz Cooney and Sopher develop and explore the concept of vitalization, generating new ways of approaching and conceptualizing the psychoanalytic project.

A mystical experience, no matter what else, is a subjective occurrence in the psyche.

Das Sichkümmern um Menschen ist kulturell verankert – welche Umstände bedingen welche Formen?

This book explores the private thoughts of the therapist in response to the patient's inner expressions and how each affects the other over the course of treatment.

Placed in a historical context, sexuality was once so prominent in psychoanalytic writing that sexual drive and psychoanalysis were synonymous.

In der Umgangssprache wird das Wort »hysterisch« abwertend für alles Unechte, Theatralische, haltlos Übertriebene benutzt.

Das Buch beschäftigt sich mit den besonderen Merkmalen der neu entdeckten Entwicklungsphase "emerging adulthood", zeigt auf, was sich in den letzten Jahren verändert hat in Bezug auf Identitäts- und Beziehungsentwicklung und welche Konsequenzen sich daraus für die Behandlungstechnik ergeben.

Gesammelte Werke in Einzelbänden, Band IV:Zur Psychopathologie des Alltagslebens- Vergessen von Eigennamen- Vergessen von fremdsprachigen Worten- Vergessen von Namen und Wortfolgen- Über Kindheits- und Deckerinnerungen- Das Versprechen- Verlesen und Verschreiben- Vergessen von Eindrücken und Vorsätzen- Das Vergreifen- Symptom- und Zufallshandlungen- Irrtümer- Kombinierte Fehlleistungen- Determinismus- Zufalls- und Aberglauben- Gesichtspunkte

Winner of the 2010 Sigourney Award!

Lectures on Technique by Melanie Klein is based on a series of six lectures given by Melanie Klein to students at the British Psychoanalytical Society in 1936 and repeated several times in subsequent years.

For some years now, psychoanalysts have been trying to understand the implications of neuroscientific findings for psychoanalytic theory and practice.

This book provides a contemporary exploration of psychoanalytic theory and its application to therapy with lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer relationships, challenging heteronormative practice and introducing new perspectives on working with gender and sexual diversity.

In einer Welt, in der wir täglich unterschiedliche Rollen einnehmen müssen, stellt sich die Frage: Wer sind wir wirklich hinter den Masken, die wir tragen?

Critical Theory Between Klein and Lacan explores convergences and divergences in the psychoanalytic theories of Melanie Klein and Jacques Lacan, with a special focus on the implications of their work for critical theory, broadly construed.

Originally published in 1990, this volume had two purposes.

Archetype: A Natural History of the Self, first published in 1982, was a ground-breaking book; the first to explore the connections between Jung's archetypes and evolutionary disciplines such as ethology and sociobiology, and an excellent introduction to the archetypes in theory and practical application as well.

This book details a five-phase model of the process of forgiveness and reconciliation, exploring how it can be understood as a threshold experience with the potential to offer profound emotional renewal.

This book presents unique insights into the experiences of frontline medical workers during the COVID-19 pandemic, psychoanalytic work with trauma and perspectives from literature.

Psychoanalysis is an intimate clinical experience and the concepts that it explores aim to grapple with the specific phenomena that unfold when a patient speaks and an analyst listens.

Psychoanalysis, Neuroscience and the Stories of Our Lives: The Relational Roots of Mental Health offers a new understanding of identity and mental health, shining the light of twenty-first century neurobiology on the core tenets of psychoanalysis.

Despite the burgeoning literature on the role of the father in child development and on fathering as a developmental stage, surprisingly little has been written about the psychiatrically impaired father.

There is an academic cottage industry on the "e;Jewish Freud,"e; aiming to detect Jewish influences on Freud, his own feelings about being Jewish, and suppressed traces of Jewishness in his thought.

In this compelling text, choreographer and psychotherapist Beatrice Allegranti invites the reader into the transdisciplinary Moving Kinship project.

This book examines the so-called War on Obesity as an example of a cultural complex, how that complex shapes the way fat is treated in psychotherapy, including the classical Jungian approach to fat, as written by Marion Woodman.

This groundbreaking book was seeded by the first-ever joint Jung-Lacan conference on the notion of the sublime held at Cambridge, England, against the backdrop of the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the Great War.

Slap and Slap-Shelton proffer the schema as the basis of an internally consistent and clinically relevant model of the mind.

Psychoanalysis has moved a long way from the techniques of classical psychoanalysis but these changes have not been understood or disseminated to the wider community.

Wilfred Bion's theories of dreaming, of the analytic situation, of reality and everyday life, and even of the contact between the body and the mind offer very different, and highly fruitful, perspectives on lived experience.

Michael Fordham was a friend of Jung, made many major contributions to analytical psychology.

Die Psychoanalyse nach Jacques Lacan ist im deutschsprachigen Raum zwar in verschiedenen geisteswissenschaftlichen Kontexten präsent, ihre klinische Relevanz ist demgegenüber jedoch viel weniger klar und wird kaum diskutiert.

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Die in diesem Band dokumentierten Beiträge, die sich auf die Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Individualpsychologie (DGIP) 2009 in Mainz beziehen, reflektieren intersubjektives Geschehen in zwischenmenschlichen Konflikten und im psychotherapeutischen Beziehungskontext.

Ann D'Ercole tells the story of Clara M.

Die Klimakrise läuft allen Verleugnungen und aller Ignoranz zum Trotz auf eine ökologische, ökonomische und soziale Katastrophe zu.

This book presents a critical and systematic study of the possibility to consider and practice Freud's psychoanalysis as a form of depth hermeneutics.

Critical appreciations of George A.

This book provides an account of how the "e;Theory of Attachment-Based Exploratory Interest Sharing"e; (TABEIS) and the practise of Goal Corrected Empathic Attunement (GCEA) was used in a university setting to support staff.

Psychoanalytic theory has been the critical instrument of choice for colonial critics.

Systems-centered therapy (SCT) brings an innovative approach to clinical practice.

The Life of Gregory Zilboorg, 1940-1959: Mind, Medicine, and Man is the second volume of a meticulously researched two-part biography of the Russian-American psychoanalyst Gregory Zilboorg and chronicles the impact of the Second World War on his work and thinking as well as his divorce, remarriage, and conversion to Catholicism.

Although there is a vast literature on aggression, comparatively little has been written on the issue of violence and even fewer clinical discussions have been published on the violent patient.

The concept of anxiety has long held a central place in psychoanalytic theories of mind and treatment.

Sigmund Freud hat sich schon 1913 Gedanken darüber gemacht, welche Wissenschaften ein besonderes Interesse an der Psychoanalyse haben könnten.

'This book is based on twenty-five years of intensive study of patients in psychotherapeutic groups.

Each one of us has to be born "e;inter urinas et faeces"e;, as St.

This book explores the intertwining of myth, dream, and everyday reality, which mark the prose and poetry of both.

'Fuelled by agitation and panic about paedophilia, child abuse, violence and neglect on the one side, and by children as violent murderers and killers on the other, there has been an explosion of concern regarding the place, care, treatment and life of Children, in Europe and beyond.