Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology

This text focuses on the interweaving psychic realities and unconscious dynamics between family members in the context of changing patterns of socio-cultural expectations, ethical considerations and biological realities.

This book aims at making explicit the scientific theories, termed paradigms, that the author has found useful in psychoanalysis.

This book is intended for anyone with either an interest in suicide or suicidal behaviour.

This book analyses the disturbance that HIV/AIDS causes in society and in the individual and shows how it can activate the destructive power of groups, if nothing is done to stem these effects.

Knowledge is never static.

This book shows the underlying thinking of experienced consultants deciding how to position themselves in organizations, seeking to enable organizational change to occur and redefining their relationships with their clients over time and according to organizational need using a systemic lens.

David Armstrong has been a leading figure internationally in the fields of organizational consultancy and group relations for many years.

Literature was present at the birth of psychoanalysis.

This book comprises papers on the theory and practice of supervision, all written by experienced psychoanalytic psychotherapists and Jungian analytic psychotherapists.

This book explores and revisits the concept of sublimation, in its various aspects and implications that it has in theory and clinical psychoanalysis, and also in its broader socio-cultural aspects.

The author occupies a unique position in psychoanalysis today, and his work represents a synthesis of the traditions of Lacan, Winnicott and Bion.

This book deepens the communicative dynamics by which even through the mass media the paedophile has become the plague-spreader.

On Minding and Being Minded explores links between depictions of lived experience written by Samuel Beckett and the experience of psychoanalytic psychotherapy pioneered in the writings of W.

This book represents some of Wilfred Bion's basic concepts, which are reconsidered from the perspective of mental growth.

The author, was perhaps psychoanalysis's most gifted and eloquent spokesperson.

Latency is a developmental period that plays a transitional role, like "e;a bridge"e;, between early childhood and adolescence (the beginning of early adulthood).

Incest is a universal taboo that is found throughout the history and mythology of the majority of societies.

How are ideas of genetics, 'blood', the family, and relatedness created and consumed?

By extending the views of Foulkes, Bion, Freud, and Klein, this book draws the outline of a group analytic theory and meta-theory by studying the paternal and maternal functions as expressed by the conductor and the group analytic group respectively and extrapolating them to the psychoanalytic aspects of Lacan and the structuralism of Levi-Strauss's anthropological views.

The sixth volume in the series "e;Contemporary Freud: Turning Points and Critical Issues,"e; published with the International Psychoanalytic Association, turns to Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego (1921).

If there ever was one word that could represent the essence of Freud's work, that word would be 'unconscious'.

"e;The Future of an Illusion"e; reveals Freud's reflections about religion as well as his hope that in the future science will go beyond religion, and reason will replace faith in God.

This book includes the development of the concept of "e;splitting"e; from both metapsychological and clinical perspectives, emphasizing the great importance of this topic for contemporary psychoanalysis.

The concept of "e;screen memories"e; was introduced by Freud for the first time in his 1899 paper, reprinted here in its entirety.

Like his other papers on technique, Freud's 1913 essay "e;On beginning the treatment"e; had an enduring influence on psychoanalysts for generations to come, providing them with a solid and worldwide-accepted conceptual basis on how to initiate psychoanalytic treatments.

This is the third volume in the series Contemporary Freud: Turning Points and Critical Issues, published for the International Psychoanalytical Association.

Ever since Freud proposed that certain ideas can be permitted to become conscious only in their inverted and negative forms, interest has grown into the entire realm of the presence of absence, so to speak.

Both melancholia and mourning are triggered by the same thing, that is, by loss.

Besides constituting a fundamental milestone in contemporary Western thought, Sigmund Freud's monumental corpus of work laid the theoretical-technical foundations on which psychoanalysts based the construction and development of the comprehensive edifice in which they abide today.

In this book a group of contemporary psychoanalytic authors dedicated to studies on women and the feminine have been assembled with the objective of displaying points of concordance and discordance in relation to Freudian proposals.

This volume contains Freud's essay 'Creative Writers and Daydreaming' which explores the origins of daydreaming, and its relation to the play of children and the creative process.

In Constructions in Analysis Freud introduces the notion of constructions, different from interpretation, and considers it necessary - under certain conditions - to reconstruct a part of the infantile history of the subject.

Freud's Beyond the Pleasure Principle constitutes a major landmark and a real turning point in the evolution of psychoanalytic theory.

A discussion by several analysts on the length of treatment, based upon Freud's paper, which is also included.

Presents a classic essay by Sigmund Freud, followed by discussions that set Freud's work in context and demonstrate its contemporary relevance.

The central argument of On Being Normal and Other Disorders is that psychic identity is acquired through one's primary intersubjective relationships.

Attachment theory occupies an integrative position between psychodynamic therapy and various perspectives within empirical psychology.

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This collection of the author's last essays are writings that he was working on from 2006 up to and during his final illness.

This book presents a practical comparative study of models of interpretation in different schools of psychoanalytic thought through a series of amusing cartoon drawings.

Dr James Grotstein (1925-2015) was the foremost Bion scholar, and one of the most noted and honoured psychoanalysts in the world.

In contemporary psychoanalytic thought, Freud's concept of the Oedipus complex is inclined to overshadow the interpretation of the myths surrounding Oedipus.

This title consists of a diverse series of contributions and reflections on couples and the Oedipus complex from leading psychotherapists and psychoanalysts in the couples field.

This book explores the interrelatedness between obsessive compulsive disorders, thinking disorders, and depression.

This book focuses on the psychoanalytic theory of object relations in order to integrate certain pertinent elements of Fairbairn's theory of object relations, to achieve the proposed revision by Perls et al.

This book has two essential aims.

For well over half a century, since the first credible warnings of petroleum depletion were raised in the 1950s, contemporary industrial civilization has been caught in a remarkable paradox: a culture more focused on problem solving than any other has repeatedly failed to deal with, or even consider, the problem most likely to bring its own history to a full stop.

Good relationships depend, above all, on our skills in conversation.

The author's book deals with a most neglected aspect of psychoanalysis - normality.

The author had a deep impact on psychoanalysis, combining a deep knowledge thereof with an avid interest in social psychology, to the benefit of both.