Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology

This is the first book of its kind that attempts to distill Lacan's views on psychosis for both a specialized and non-specialized audience.

Drawing on Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis, this book intervenes into debates concerning the relation between jealousy and envy on the one hand, and sexual difference on the other.

This book has contributions, largely related to group analysis, from an international selection of well-known group analysts, psychologists, psychiatrists and academics.

Originally published in 1973, this book is about people and psychiatry.

Does a dying child understand death?

Sandor Ferenczi's mutual analysis with Elizabeth Severn-the patient known as R.

Mothers and Daughters and the Origins of Female Subjectivity challenges the theory of the Oedipus complex, which permeates psychoanalytic theory, psychology, semiotics and cultural studies.

'Perversion is a challenge for theory and psychoanalytic practice that Juan Pablo Jimenez and Rodolfo Moguillansky, American psychoanalysts known for the originality of their contributions, have managed successfully.

Research in Analytical Psychology: Applications from Scientific, Historical, and Cross-Cultural Research is a unique collection of chapters from an international selection of contributors, reflecting the contemporary field of research in Analytical Psychology with a focus on qualitative and mixed-methods research.

Semiotic Subjectivity in Education and Counseling demonstrates the importance of addressing the concept of the unconscious in learning.

This book is about the therapist's professional matrix, both visible and invisible.

Childbearing seems eternal, primordial and universal.

The Ecocritical Psyche unites literary studies, ecocriticism, Jungian ideas, mythology and complexity evolution theory for the first time, developing the aesthetic aspect of psychology and science as deeply as it explores evolution in Shakespeare and Jane Austen.

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.

Ricardo Rubinstein explores the contemporary culture and its discontents - including subjectivity, fanaticism, panic attacks, technology, and pandemics - through a psychoanalytic lens.

This book explores the role of chaos and control in the creative process as well as the difference between talent and creativity.

Psychoanalytic Reflections on Parenting Teens and Young Adults explores the rich, multi-layered parent-child interactions that unfold during the period of separation and launching.

This book is concerned with an enigmatic set of experiences which theorists in the Object Relations tradition have characterised as regression to dependence, a return to a primitive, pre-verbal relational process presenting in some clients in psychotherapy.

In The Riddle of Freud Estelle Roith argues that certain important elements of Judaic culture were so integral a part of Freud's personality that they became visible in his work and especially in his attitudes to and theories of femininity.

From the early 1970s, the author worked on the neglected theory of C.

All of life can be a resource for our learning.

To Jung, synchonicity is a meaningful coincidence in time, a psychic factor which is independant of space and time.

Wild/lives draws on myth, popular culture and analytical psychology to trace the machinations of 'trickster' in contemporary film and television.

Sailing into New York Harbor, Sigmund Freud stood on the deck and gazed upon a statue that was meant to symbolize someone else's vague notion of freedom.

This book applies psychoanalytic insight to work with children and adolescents in a changing, often traumatic, world.

Launched in 1971, Adolescent Psychiatry, in the words of founding coeditors Sherman C.

In May 1956, in his eighty-second year, Jung first discussed with Gerhard Adler the question of the publication of his letters.

Collaborative Writing and Psychotherapy delves into the relationship that develops between client and therapist as they embark on a collaborative autoethnographic writing practice.

Nebenwirkungen lassen sich in Psychotherapien nicht vermeiden und sind auch nicht per se negativ.

This book offers a way of understanding and making use of a critical dimension of the analytic experience that is rarely spoken about by psychotherapists and analysts: the ordinary, moment-to-moment experience of the analyst in the analytic setting.

Jacques Lacan and Michel Foucault are often cast as intellectual adversaries, their legacies marked by differences in method, lineages, and analytical priorities.

This book collates and clarifies psychoanalytic theories on affect, and how they relate to the clinical process.

This book compiles papers presented at the European Federation of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy's 2011 Conference, which attempts to find the place of sibling relationships in psychoanalytic practice.

What role does ethics play in the practice of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy?

'Jung's Philosophy' explores some of the controversial philosophical ideas that are both explicit and implicit within Jung's psychology, comparing the philosophical assumptions between this and other psychotherapeutic traditions.

The result of three decades of psychoanalytic work with children and adolescents, this book takes a fresh and empathic look on the pervasive developmental disorders in childhood and adolescence, describing their many manifestations through the presentation of particularly representative clinical cases, in pages of high scientific rigour but also of simple and poetic language.

In 1911 Jung published a book of which he says: '.

This book provides an accessible introduction to spiritually sensitive psychoanalysis, an analytic tradition characterized by sensitivity to the spiritual and religious dimensions of human life and oriented towards spiritual growth.

Manualisation of psychodynamic psychotherapy poses a formidable challenge, but may prove indispensable in the effort to disseminate short-term psychodynamic treatments to a wider patient community.

This important text not only brings together a synthesis of Robert Langs' most important ideas and the latest developments in his thinking - many of them of utmost importance to all manner of therapists - it also presents them in a form that is accessible to the reader new to the communicative approach, as well as those with more experience.

The Child That Haunts Us focuses on the symbolic use of the child archetype through the exploration of miniature characters from the realms of children's literature.

The Group Dimension presents a thorough exploration of the history and theory of the group dimension, particularly in the context of modern capitalist society.

Relational and Body-Centered Practices for Healing Trauma provides psychotherapists and other helping professionals with a new body-based clinical model for the treatment of trauma.

In this chapter Anne Alvarez describes how supervision with Sydney Klein played a decisive part in transforming her understanding of the importance of the grammar of interpretation-that not all interpretations have to unmask hidden desires on the negative side but, rather, can help the evolving process of growth and understanding.

The Heart of the Matter invites therapists from all disciplines to consider the use of music and art in their work with families.

In Derrida and the Legacy of Psychoanalysis, Paul Earlie offers a detailed account of the importance of psychoanalysis in Derrida's thought.

More than a mere overview, the book offers readers a strong grounding in the basic principles of Jung's analytical psychology in addition to illuminating insights.

This volume focuses on treatment issues pertaining to patients with borderline psychopathology.

Is psychoanalysis knowledge?

At the time of publication our understanding of sexuality relied heavily on biology, and also on morality, as was particularly evident when homosexuality and bisexuality were discussed.