Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology

Lacan: A Genealogy provides a genealogical account of Lacan's work as a whole, from his early writings on paranoid psychosis to his later work on the real and surplus enjoyment.

Psychoanalytic work with socially traumatised patients is an increasingly popular vocation, but remains extremely demanding and little covered in the literature.

This book explores the trace of the emotional undercurrent stirred by money from its beginnings in childhood to its consolidation into adult life, through love and work, for individuals and society alike, and with an emphasis on ordinary development, rather than on pathology.

This book combines attachment theory and research with clinical experience to provide practitioners with tools for engaging with individuals who are indifferent, avoidant, highly defensive, and who struggle to make and maintain intimate connections with others.

Among the many elementary expositions of psychoanalysis, "e;The Talking Cure"e; is unique in focusing on the actual analytic experience.

This book is about teleanalysis, an exploration of teletherapy-psychotherapy by telephone, Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), or videoteleconference (VTC).

This new edition of Roger Money-Kyrle's classic work is published together with three of his late papers, 'Cognitive development', 'The aim of psychoanalysis', and 'On being a psychoanalyst'.

'In this magisterial work, the author almost encyclopaedically reviews all of Bion's works and does so from the perspective (vertex) of the aesthetic dimension.

By inviting a 'conversation' between them, this book offers a nuanced introduction both to Cezanne-the 'father of modern art'-and perhaps the most vital body of theory in contemporary psychoanalysis, 'post-Bionian field theory', as it has been evolving in Italy in the hands of Antonino Ferro, Giuseppe Civitarese, and others.

The field, as Steven Cooper describes it, is comprised of the inextricably related worlds of internalized object relations and interpersonal interaction.

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Desire, Self, Mind, and the Psychotherapies unifies psychological science with contemporary relational psychoanalysis, arguing that the disciplines can be integrated if the concept of repression is understood as motivated forgetting, creative aspects of unconscious processes are taken into account in cognitive science, and a "e;new experiences"e; model of change is acknowledged by psychoanalysts.

Originally published in 1932, Adolescent Girlhood set out to give a general view of the more everyday problems a girl might encounter during adolescence.

This collection, written by leading Lacanian psychoanalytic theorists and practitioners, explores the impact of shifts in contemporary culture, politics and society on the notion of 'perversion', which has undergone numerous profound changes in recent years.

Siblings play an integral and essential part in our psychic development.

A figurative and free-ranging psychoanalytic novel was not something Bion would have felt free to write and - more to the point - to publish had he and his wife, Francesca, not moved to Los Angeles, which they did in 1968.

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.

Essential reading for anyone interested in contemporary psychotherapy, Contemporary Jungian Analysis, written by members of the Society of Analytical Psychology in London, covers the key concepts of Jungian analysis and therapy as it is practised today.

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In this compact volume, British psychiatrist and writer Anthony Storr has selected extracts from Jung's writings that pinpoint his many original contributions and relate the development of his thought to his biography.

Trivial, d'usage quotidien, instrument économique, l'argent est sans doute ce qui déclenche l'avidité la plus aigue et le rejet le plus violent.

From the unfaithful husband to the binge eater, from the secret cross-dresser to the pilferer of worthless items, there are those who seem to live two lives, to be divided selves, to be literally of two minds.

How can we talk about evil?

Recent scholarship has inquired into the socio-historical, discursive genesis of trauma.

Freud said that "e;love and work"e; are the central therapeutic goals of psychoanalysis; the twin pillars for a sound mind and for living the "e;good life.

Understanding 8-9-Year-Olds describes how children grow and change as they move further away from reliance on home and family, out into the world of school and community.

In this opening chapter, Gwen Adshead provides a careful overview of the research literature concerning the main issues in this debate.

Melanie Klein: The Basics provides an accessible and concise introduction to the life and work of Melanie Klein, whose discoveries advanced those of Freud and other analysts, deepening our insight into the unconscious domain of psychology in human beings.

Of all the books of the Bible few have had more resonance for modern readers than the Book of Job.

Originally published in 1990, Psychoanalysis and.

In this book, David M.

These lectures have been edited to suit them to the printed, rather than the spoken word.

Recent contributions to the psychoanalytic and psychotherapeutic literature have moved beyond traditional views of lesbianism, but they have tended to address lesbian identity from one theoretical vantage point or another.

Karin Lebersorgers Arbeit mit Menschen mit Down-Syndrom ist vom Bemühen geleitet, ihre seelischen Nöte zu verstehen­ und eine psychisch unbelastete Entwicklung zu unter­stützen.

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.

At the Interface of Transactional Analysis, Psychoanalysis, and Body Psychotherapy revolves around two intertwined themes: that of the critique and expansion of the theory and practice of transactional analysis and that of the generative richness discovered at the intersection of transactional analysis, psychoanalysis, and somatic psychotherapy.

Wittgenstein's Folly: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis and Language Games presents a dialogue between the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, the author Francoise Davoine and Davoine's patients with extreme lived experience.

How do cultural complexes affect the collective psyche?

This comprehensive yet accessible book analyses the clinical and historical experiences that led to the radical, complex and fundamental psychoanalytic concept of the death drive.

Die Erfahrungen des Lebens, frühere Traumatisierungen und Identifizierungen mit Bezugspersonen prägen den Umgang mit dem eigenen Altern.

First published in 1950, La nevrose d'abandon was and still is a ground-breaking work.

Thomas Kirsch is one of the foremost architects of the contemporary Jungian scene and has influenced the evolution and organization of analytical psychology worldwide.

Die Psychoanalyse trug schon immer auch jenseits der Couch zum gesellschaftspolitischen und kulturellen Diskurs bei und tut dies auch heute noch.

This book offers a unique combination of an in-depth examination of attachment, a refined and tested model of Needs Assessment and Therapeutic Treatment plans and applies it to specific contexts including those of children in residential/foster care, young offenders, and unaccompanied asylum-seeking minors.

'At last we have a book that provides a comprehensive overview and assessment of the intersubjective turn in psychoanalysis, showing its logical and clinical limitations and exploring its social and cultural determinants.