Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology

Taking a novel approach that adapts Freud's theory of the Primal Crime, this book examines a wealth of ethnographic data on the Gimi of the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea, focusing on women's lives, myths, and rituals.

This book analyses a cultural phenomenon that goes to the very roots of Western civilization: the centrality of death in our sense of human existence.

This book explores the intersection of clinical and social aspects of traumatic experiences in postdictatorial and post-war societies, forced migration, and other circumstances of collective violence.

This book sets out to determine the validity of an accusation made against Jacques Lacan by Noam Chomsky in an interview in 1989.

This book explores how philosophical realisms relate to psychoanalytical conceptions of the Real, and in turn how the Lacanian framework challenges basic philosophical notions of object and reality.

Systemic psychotherapy has long been conceptualised and practiced as brief psychotherapy, in both the public sector and in independent practice, but it is now increasingly becoming a longer term practice.

This book turns our search for intimacy on its head, suggesting that our way to creativity in love may be through idiocy.

Veiled women in the West appear menacing.

Psychosocial studies in the UK is a diverse area of work characterised by innovation in theory and empirical research.

This book provides 18 lively commentaries on Lacan's Seminar VIII, Transference (1960-61) that explore its theoretical and philosophical consequences in the clinic, the classroom, and society.

This book introduces a new theory on the substantial comorbidity that exists between many illnesses and disorders and concurrent symptoms such as pain, impaired sleep and fatigue.

This volume explores themes originating from the work of Jean Amery (1912-1978), a Holocaust survivor and essayist-mainly, ethics and the past, torture and its implications, death and suicide.

This book analyses the conceptualization of psychopathic personality disorder for criminal/forensic populations and examines in depth the emerging phenomenon of the 'corporate psychopath'.

This book directly explores the question of why contemporary society is so fascinated with violence and crime.

This book is the first to systematically investigate how the notion of time is conceptualised in Jacques Lacan's work.

This book places Freud's theory of the reality principle in relation to both everyday experience and global issues of the 21st century and illustrates how it may be practically applied.

The films of Lars von Trier offer unique opportunities for thinking deeply about how Philosophy and Cinema speak to one another.

This book explores how philosophical realisms relate to psychoanalytical conceptions of the Real, and in turn how the Lacanian framework challenges basic philosophical notions of object and reality.

This book argues that the story of the orphan girl Pollyanna (namely, her strategy of playing the "e;glad games"e; to manage loss, abuse, and social prejudice) serves as a framework for critiquing historical forms of Western scientific Pollyannaism.

This book builds on the works of Artaud and Deleuze, setting forth a different way of thinking on the body through the use of a whole new set of conceptual tools.

This book explores the themes within, and limits of, a dialogue between Martin Heidegger's philosophy of being and Jacques Lacan's post-Freudian metapsychology.

Hypnosystemische Therapie, Beratung, Supervision, Coaching - interessante einführende Artikel und Erfahrungsberichte von Experten zum Thema Konzepte und Methoden aus dem Bereich hypnotherapeutischer und systemischer Methoden.

This book is a psychoanalytic observation of five children's existential encounters in their ordinary life at the nursery.

This book addresses organ transplantation from a psychoanalytical  perspective.

This book engages the topic of xenophobia from both psychological and socio-political approaches.

Dedicated to Daniela Eulert-Fuchs, this important volume offers a broad and in-depth overview of how to understand and treat trauma from a Jungian perspective, written by internationally recognized experts in the field of Jungian and traditional psychoanalysis.

Depuis la conception vitaliste de l’« économie animale » en biologie et le travail spécifiquement philosophique de Sigmund Freud, l’« économie psychique » désigne les tensions qui s’observent entre l’affirmation pulsionnelle et les impératifs sociaux, moraux et anthropologiques qui s’interposent pour la censurer.

Primatology, Ethics and Trauma offers an analytical re-examination of the research conducted into the linguistic abilities of the Oklahoma chimpanzees, uncovering the historical reality of the research.

Primatology, Ethics and Trauma offers an analytical re-examination of the research conducted into the linguistic abilities of the Oklahoma chimpanzees, uncovering the historical reality of the research.

This book directly explores the question of why contemporary society is so fascinated with violence and crime.

Taking a novel approach that adapts Freud's theory of the Primal Crime, this book examines a wealth of ethnographic data on the Gimi of the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea, focusing on women's lives, myths, and rituals.

« Je vous invite dans ce livre à une nouvelle odyssée, placée sous les auspices des neurosciences de l’esprit.

D’où vient le désir d’enfant entre une femme et un homme ?

Dans ce livre, Mères majuscules, il ne s’agit pas d’une figuration de la mère en majesté avec son enfant, mais plutôt d’une représentation contrastée d’elle-même où se lit la nostalgie.

Daniel Widlöcher est l’un des derniers « grands » de la psychanalyse française, réputé et respecté dans le monde entier.

Pourquoi un enfant met-il, soudain, une telle ardeur à échouer à l'école ?

Il arrive à un moment de leur vie où une mère et sa fille ont besoin de comprendre la nature des relations qui les lient l’une à l’autre, d’une façon le plus souvent passionnelle, entre rapprochements et éloignements.

Nos souvenirs nous attirent vers le passé.

Non, la psychanalyse n’est pas un dogme figé !

L’important, en matière de différence sexuelle, n’est pas la réalité des sexes, qui est incontestable, mais le choix par le sujet d’un désir conforme ou non à son sexe.

Difficiles à déchiffrer, nos rêves ?

« La psychanalyse met en cause notre façon même de construire nos idées et nos systèmes de pensée.

Comment se libérer du passé quand il pèse trop lourd ?

L’amour peut-il permettre à un couple de durer ?

Plus que jamais la psychanalyse est malmenée.

Sept patients racontent leur histoire, sous la plume de leur psychiatre.

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