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Pavilion Publishing and Media Ltd Talking with a Map: A Cognitive Analytic Approach
Book SynopsisThis book explores the interplay between how we talk and how we relate. We learn to relate before we learn to talk, and every conversation depends on making sense of our interactions as much as our language. Conversation has the potential to bring us a deeper and clearer perspective, but we are also capable of getting lost or into a mess. Tackling this and offering a means to improve conversational skill for those who depend on it (e.g. teachers, nurses, managers) as well as anyone seeking the courage, compassion and curiosity to have better conversations and relationships, Talking with a Map presents a series of simple steps for making word maps of discussions as they develop. These maps track the hidden patterns in what we say and how we relate to each other while speaking, making visible the links and gaps in our discussions and helping us to achieve a shared understanding of conversations.Table of ContentsPreface Foreword by Elizabeth Wilde McCormack 1: Setting the scene 2: Mapping what we are doing and feeling 3: Mapping roles and relationships 4: Conversational story telling 5: Managing a session of talking with a map 6: Conversational awareness 7: Writing, mapping and voicing words 8: Mara, the mother of tongues 9: Conversational poverty 10: Therapeutic conversations with a map 11: Conversational awareness at work, at school, in love or in the arts 12: Talking politics with a map 13: Conclusion Appendices References
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Karnac Books Symbol Formation in Psychoanalysis: Clinical and
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For Beginners Jung for Beginners
Book SynopsisCarl Gustav Jung merged Eastern mysticism with Western psychology, brought scientific respectability to religion, laid the foundation for ''the New Age,'' and is second only to Freud in influence and importance in the world of psychoanalysis. Many consider him a genius, but many others disagree.Scholar and clinical psychologist Jon Platania, PhD, presents Jung as a somewhat opportunistic and dissociated character whose most famous historical events were his break with Freud and his questionable sojourn with the psychological elite of the German Third Reich. On the other side of Jung''s complex genius, there is a deeply spiritual man who laid the groundwork for a more optimistic approach to our modern understanding of the human psyche in both theology and psychology. He is remembered by many as the Swiss Doctor of the Soul.Dr. Platania then takes us on a tour of the work that made Jung one of the pillars of modern psychology. And what a body of work it is. Jung''s open-mindedness was astonishing. Wherever he went-Calcutta, Egypt, Palestine, Kenya-Jung learned something that expanded his views. His open-ended psychology incorporated Yoga, meditation, prayer, alchemy, mythology, astrology, numerology, the I Ching-even flying saucers! He taught us that psychology and religion can not only coexist peacefully together, but that they can enhance us, inspire us, and help us complete ourselves.Freud, for all of his brilliance, reduced us to little more than vessels of hormones with high IQs. Jung, for all of his flaws, gave us back our souls.
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Austin Macauley Publishers LLC Consideraciones psicoanalíticas sobre diarios de Marion Milner
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Tell It Slant Press A Certain Gesture: Evnine's Batman Meme Project and Its Parerga!
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Ibidem Press What We Truly Need
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Guilford Publications Perfectionism
Book SynopsisGrounded in decades of influential research, this book thoroughly examines perfectionism: how it develops, its underlying mechanisms and psychological costs, and how to target it effectively in psychotherapy. The authors describe how perfectionistic tendencies--rooted in early relational and developmental experiences--make people vulnerable to a wide range of clinical problems. They present an integrative treatment approach and demonstrate ways to tailor interventions to the needs of individual clients. A group treatment model is also detailed. State-of-the-art assessment tools are discussed (and provided at the companion website). Throughout the book, vivid clinical illustrations make the core ideas and techniques concrete.Trade Review"This book could be a career saver for narrowly trained recent graduates who have discovered they need a greatly expanded repertoire to cope with clinical reality. Steeped in research and rich with clear examples from clinical practice, the book shows how the destructive 'trait' of perfectionism can be better understood in interpersonal and intrapsychic terms that are directly related to family history, social context, and more. It includes very informative discussions of how to use the authors' integrative approach in individual and group therapy."--Lorna Smith Benjamin, PhD, Department of Psychology (Emeritus), University of Utah "The authors have made enormous contributions to our understanding of perfectionism, an affliction that permeates our culture and is implicated in a plethora of mental disorders. This definitive volume lays out their transdiagnostic model of perfectionistic behavior and how to treat it. The best and most comprehensive volume on perfectionism, this is a 'must read' for scholars and clinicians who study and treat all forms of psychopathology."--Randy O. Frost, PhD, Harold and Elsa Siipola Israel Professor of Psychology, Smith College "A near-perfect overview of the scope and dangers of perfectionism. The authors define the problem and carefully review the development of major concepts and models. They present creative ways of helping patients burdened with pathological perfectionism, illustrated with clinical vignettes. I recommend this important book."--J. Scott Rutan, PhD, private practice, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts "Hewitt et al. are world leaders in the field who have pioneered our understanding of the demands of self-perfection, the perfection of others, and fear that others expect perfection from us. As this book brilliantly highlights, the cost of these mental struggles can be enormous, driving people to severe depression, other mental health problems, and even suicide. It is also well known that perfectionists can be difficult to help, making the authors' compassionate insights for therapeutic engagement immensely useful. This is an outstanding book for its scholarship, clarity, and clinical wisdom--I learned a lot from it, and others will, too."--Paul Gilbert, PhD, FBPsS, OBE, Centre for Compassion Research and Training, University of Derby, United Kingdom "An excellent contribution. This book has special relevance for the field of eating disorders, as sufferers are driven by perfectionism about their weight and appearance. Clinical illustrations give a vivid impression of the development of perfectionism and the different functions of perfectionistic behavior, and make the book well suited for training."--Susanne Lunn, MSc, Associate Professor of Psychology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark -Very comprehensive…including research findings, case examples, and the history of literature on perfectionism….The authors make the important point that people who suffer from perfectionistic standards often do not get help with this specific problem….One very positive aspect of the book is that it integrates theoretical approaches without trying to push only one orientation….The authors do an excellent job of showing the heterogeneity of perfectionists--etiologies can be very different, although not surprisingly, they share a background of unmet needs….The authors have succeeded in demonstrating that perfectionism is a fundamental personality construct and cannot be minimized by reducing it to neurotic conscientiousness of the five-factor model of personality.--PsycCRITIQUES, 9/18/2017Table of Contents1. Introduction to Perfectionism 2. The Comprehensive Model of Perfectionistic Behavior 3. Evidence for the Clinical Relevance of Perfectionism 4. The Perfectionism Social Disconnection Model: Development of Perfectionism 5. The Perfectionism Social Disconnection Model: Perfectionism and Maladjustment 6. A Theoretical Model for Treatment of Perfectionistic Behavior 7. Psychodiagnostic Assessment of Perfectionism 8. Clinical Cases and Common Themes 9. Individual Psychotherapy of Perfectionism 10. Group Psychotherapy of Perfectionistic Behavior Epilogue. Overview and Future Considerations References Index
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University of California Press The Reproduction of Mothering
Book SynopsisWhen this text was published two decades ago, it put the mother-daughter relationship and female psychology on the map. The text was recently chosen by "Contemporary Sociology" as one of the ten most influential books of the 25 years between 1974 and 1999.Table of ContentsPreface to the Second Edition Preface to the Original Edition PART I: SETTING THE PROBLEM: MOTHERING AND THE SOCIAL ORGANIZATION OF GENDER 1. Introduction 2. Why Women Mother 3. Psychoanalysis and Sociological Inquiry PART II: THE PSYCHOANALYTIC STORY 4. Early Psychological Development 5. The Relation to the Mother and the Mothering Relation 6. Gender Differences in the Preoedipal Period 7. Object-Relations and the Female Oedipal Configuration 8. Oedipal Resolution and Adolescent Replay 9. Freud: Ideology and Evidence 10. Conclusions on Post-Oedipal Gender Personality PART III: GENDER PERSONALITY AND THE REPRODUCTION OF MOTHERING 11. The Sexual Sociology of Adult Life 12. The Psychodynamics of the Family AFTERWORD: WOMEN'S MOTHERING AND WOMEN'S LIBERATION NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX
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University of Minnesota Press The Matrixial Borderspace
Book SynopsisAn intertwining of the philosophy of art and psychoanalytic theory. This book presents a theoretical exploration of shared affect and emergent expression, across the thresholds of identity and memory. The author replaces the phallic structure with a dimension of emergence, where objects, images, and meanings are glimpsed in their incipiency.
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Taylor & Francis Learning From Experience
Book SynopsisWilfred R. Bion was one of the foremost psychoanalysts of his generation, whose work has shaped and enriched psychoanalysis and psychotherapy indelibly. Renowned for some highly original and sometimes cryptic ideas, such as the alpha function and theory of the grid, Learning from Experience is arguably his most important and enduring work. Bion brings knowledge into the psychoanalytic spotlight. What forces, he asks, interfere with knowledge? Crucially, Bion doesn't mean knowing only facts, but the lifelong process of understanding and coming to know things that is a consequence of the development of knowledge. However, Learning From Experience is perhaps best-known for its emphasis on the way emotion and knowledge are interwoven. Bion links the emotional capacity to develop and know to the capacity to tolerate frustration: if we can hold ourselves in check whilst we endure frustration, then we can come to know things. A remarkable and brilliant work by aTable of ContentsForeword to the Routledge Classics Edition Robert Hinshelwood Acknowledgements Introduction Summary of Contents 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. Index
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Karnac Books Explorations in Autism: A Psychoanalytical Study
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Sex and the Failed Absolute
Book SynopsisIn the most rigorous articulation of his philosophical system to date, Slavoj Žižek provides nothing short of a new definition of dialectical materialism.In forging this new materialism, Žižek critiques and challenges not only the work of Alain Badiou, Robert Brandom, Joan Copjec, Quentin Meillassoux, and Julia Kristeva (to name but a few), but everything from popular science and quantum mechanics to sexual difference and analytic philosophy. Alongside striking images of the Möbius strip, the cross-cap, and the Klein bottle, Žižek brings alive the Hegelian triad of being-essence-notion. Radical new readings of Hegel, and Kant, sit side by side with characteristically lively commentaries on film, politics, and culture.Here is Žižek at his interrogative best.Trade Review[This] is certainly the best organized and clearly structured of the author's “big” books … Žižek's writing style is much clearer (relatively speaking) than it was in earlier works and thus reflects the fact that many careless readers have (mis)read him simplistically … Summing Up: Highly recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty. * CHOICE *Few thinkers illustrate the contradictions of contemporary capitalism better than Slavoj Žižek. * John Gray, New York Review of Books *Like Socrates on steroids ... breathtakingly perceptive. The most formidably brilliant exponent of psychoanalysis, indeed of cultural theory in general, to have emerged in many decades * Terry Eagleton *The excitable fluency, ursine congeniality and gleeful readiness to provoke and offend all feed the sense of authentic sponanaeity and energy that has made Žižek somethig like European philosophy’s punk icon, packing out auditoriums around the world. * Josh Cohen, New Statesman *A gifted speaker—tumultuous, emphatic, direct—he writes as he speaks. * Jonathan Rée, Guardian *The most dangerous philosopher in the West * Adam Kirsch, New Republic *Žižek leaves no social or cultural phenomenon untheorized, and is master of the counterintuitive observation * New Yorker *A penetrating new study that redefines a term that most would be wary of returning to: dialectical materialism. What the feeling of déjà vu in reading Sex and the Failed Absolute does come from is the re-experiencing of the excitement that characterised reading his first book back in 1989. * Scottish Left Review *a relentless iconoclast, a restless wordsmith, an inventive thinker with a hatred of received wisdom, an underminer of conventionally acknowledged truths. * Bookforum *Sex and the Failed Absolute is to Žižek’s corpus what Malevich’s Black Square was to his artistic oeuvre. In this watershed book, interweaving the odd couple of quantum physics and sexuality, Žižek offers readers the distilled essence of a new dialectical materialism. This reinvents the very foundations of Žižekian ontology * Adrian Johnston, Professor and Chair of Philosophy, University of New Mexico, U.S.A *Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION: THE UNORIENTABLE SURFACE OF DIALECTICAL MATERIALISM THEOREM I: THE PARALLAX OF ONTOLOGY Modalities of the Absolute—Reality and Its Transcendental Supplement – Varieties of the Transcendental in Western Marxism - The Margin of Radical Uncertainty COROLLARY 1: INTELLECTUAL INTUITION AND INTELLECTUS ARCHETYPUS: REFLEXIVITY IN KANT AND HEGEL Intellectual Intuition from Kant to Hegel—From Intellectus Ectypus to Intellectus Archetypus SCHOLIUM 1.1: BUDDHA, KANT, HUSSERL SCHOLIUM 1.2: HEGEL’S PARALLAX SCHOLIUM 1.3: THE “DEATH OF TRUTH” THEOREM II: SEX AS OUR BRUSH WITH THE ABSOLUTE Antinomies of Pure Sexuation—Sexual Parallax and Knowledge—The Sexed Subject - Plants, Animals, Humans, Posthumans COROLLARY 2: SINUOSITIES OF SEXUALIZED TIME Days of the Living Dead – Cracks in Circular Time SCHOLIUM 2.1: SCHEMATISM IN KANT, HEGEL… AND SEX SCHOLIUM 2.2: MARX, BRECHT, AND SEXUAL CONTRACTS SCHOLIUM 2.3: THE HEGELIAN REPETITION SCHOLIUM 2.4: SEVEN DEADLY SINS THEOREM III: THE THREE UNORIENTABLES Möbius Strip, or, the Convolutions of Concrete Universality—The “Inner Eight”—(((Suture Redoubled)))—Cross-Capping Class Struggle—From Cross-Cap to Klein Bottle—A Snout in Plato’s Cave COROLLARY 3: THE RETARDED GOD OF QUANTUM ONTOLOGY The Implications of Quantum Gravity—The Two Vacuums: From Less than Nothing to Nothing – Is the Collapse of a Quantum Wave Like a Throw of Dice? SCHOLIUM 3.1: THE ETHICAL MOEBIUS STRIP SCHOLIUM 3.2: THE DARK TOWER OF SUTURE SCHOLIUM 3.3: SUTURE AND HEGEMONY SCHOLIUM 3.4: THE WORLD WITH(OUT) A SNOUT SCHOLIUM 3.5: TOWARDS A QUANTUM PLATONISM THEOREM IV: THE PERSISTENCE OF ABSTRACTION Madness, Sex, War— How to Do Words with Things—The Inhuman View – The All-Too-Close In-Itself COROLLARY 4: IBI RHODUS IBI SALTUS! The Protestant Freedom—Jumping Here and Jumping There—Four Ethical Gestures SCHOLIUM 4.1: LANGUAGE, LALANGUE SCHOLIUM 4.2 - PROKOFIEV’S TRAVELS SCHOLIUM 4.3: BECKETT AS THE WRITER OF ABSTRACTION
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Inner City Books Archetypal Patterns in Fairy Tales Studies in
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Language of Winnicott: A Dictionary of
Book SynopsisJan Abram's lexicon - The Language of Winnicott - has proved to be the definitive comprehensive guide to Winnicott's thought since it was first published in 1996, Winnicott's centenary Year. The twenty-two entries represent the major conceptualisations in Winnicott's theories and take the reader on a journey through his writings that span from 1931 to 1971. Thus the volume is an anthology of Winnicott's writings. This new edition expands on each original entry predicated on Abram's research discoveries, including archival material, over the past decade.Trade Review'I can thoroughly recommend this excellent account of Winnicott's multi-layered thought. Jan Abram takes us through the many facets of his thought with lucidity and obvious pleasure. It will remain a constant source of reference for anyone who wishes to understand Winnicott.'- Dr Roger Kennedy, President of the British Psychoanalytical Society'This book is more than a dictionary; it is a guide that can be read from cover to cover. Jan Abram beautifullyreveals Winnicott's extraordinary creativity and charts his revolutionary perspective that is still urgently needed today. Congratulations all round on this second edition.'- Juliet Mitchell, Professor of Psychoanalysis and Gender Studies, University of Cambridge'The Language of Winnicott is an intelligent and useful reference book for readers and students of Winnicott. Such a guide has been very welcome as an alternative to a "dictionary" of concepts. The structuring and grouping of Winnicott's main ideas, the effective use of quotations, and Abram's own comments makes this book (originally published in 1996) indispensable for anyone wanting to understand the elusive quality of Winnicott's papers.'- Gregorio Kohon, Psychoanalyst, Training Analyst of the British Psychoanalytical SocietyTable of ContentsIntroduction, AGGRESSION, ALONE (THE CAPACITY TO BE), ANTISOCIAL TENDENCY, BEING (CONTINUITY OF), COMMUNICATION, CONCERN (STAGE OF), CREATIVITY, DEPENDENCE, DEPRESSION, EGO, ENVIRONMENT, HATE, ILLUSION (OF OMNIPOTENCE), MOTHER, PLAYING, PRIMARY MATERNAL PREOCCUPATION, REGRESSION, SELF, SPATULA GAME, SQUIGGLE GAME, TRANSITIONAL PHENOMENA
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Taylor & Francis A Clinicianâs Guide to Dream Therapy
Book SynopsisA Clinicianâs Guide to Dream Therapy demystifies the process of working with dreams by providing both a grounding in the current science of dreaming as well as a simple, practical approach to clinical dream work.In addition to a survey of the current science and neuroscience of dreaming, this book includes clinical examples of specific techniques with detailed transcripts and follow-up commentary. Chapters cover how to work with PTSD nightmares and its relationship to the nervous system and polyvagal theory, and how to use experiential dreamwork techniques to produce lasting change. This second edition has been thoroughly updated throughout, including new case studies, and a new, detailed clinical example of embodied experiential dreamwork.Readers will be able to discuss their clientsâ dream material with confidence, armed with an approach that helps them collaboratively tap into the inherent power for change found in every dream.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Reverie and Interpretation: Sensing Something
Book SynopsisA text exploring the frontiers of contemporary psychoanalytic thinking: the experience of the analyst and patient in the dynamic interplay of subjectivity and intersubjectivity. The author shows how the development of sensitivity to the use of language is a necessary part of an analyst's development.Trade Review'This book is a masterpiece that captures what is most important about psychoanalysis.'- L. Bryce Boyer'A new work by Thomas Ogden is always an event, and this, his fifth book, continues the sensitive and perennially creative spirit of his earlier writings. He has a brilliantly originally way of communicating the heart of the psychoanalytic partnership - a journey without maps in which two people share a unique experience to which both contribute, thanks to the myriad aspects of the jointly generated "analytic third". Of prime importance to the analytic partnership is the understanding and use of "reverie", which includes the daydreams, sexual fantasies, bodily sensations, and worries that assail every analyst during every session. These preoccupations, cast off as extraneous in the literature, are presented as a vital contribution to the psychoanalytic quest ("reverie is an emotional compass. that helps me gain my bearings in the analytic situation"). As always, Ogden's theoretical concepts are richly illustrated clinically, allowing insight into his way of using the overlapping reverie states of analyst and analysand in the course of the analytic voyage.'- Joyce McDougall'In a growing series of remarkable works by Thomas Ogden, this is undoubtedly the finest. His conceptions of the use of transference/countertransference is raised to a newer, higher level - and his chapter "On the Use of Language in Psychoanalysis" itself justifies the book.'- James S. GrotsteinTable of ContentsOn the Art of Psychoanalysis -- Analyzing Forms of Aliveness and Deadness -- The Perverse Subject of Analysis -- Privacy, Reverie, and Analytic Technique -- Dream Associations -- Reverie and Interpretation -- On the Use of Language in Psychoanalysis -- Listening: Three Frost Poems
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Healing the Unimaginable: Treating Ritual Abuse
Book SynopsisHealing the Unimaginable: Treating Ritual Abuse and Mind Control is a practical, task-oriented, instructional manual designed to help therapists provide effective treatment for survivors of these most extreme forms of child abuse and mental manipulation.Trade Review'If you do not have a patient who has gone through these experiences, this is initially a deeply frightening book, as well as a crucial book. It is not a book that soft-soaps the reader along the grades of obscene hierarchy between "mild" trauma and major. It goes straight to the jugular of the worst realities that exist, and is not trying to apologize for, or justify, their existence. Enough research has been carried out; enough survivors have come forward with their unique constellations of physical and mental pain. Alison Miller is writing for those who know what exists and want and need help in understanding it further.'- Valerie Sinason, Director of the Clinic for Dissociative Studies, from the Foreword'In Healing the Unimaginable, Dr Alison Miller provides you with the information, tools, and reassurance that you need in order to treat this challenging population with confidence and skill. She demystifies the methods used by perpetrator groups to create programming and to ensure the victims' belief in their abusers' omnipotence. She breaks down this complicated topic into its manageable parts, and, most importantly, provides what therapists always really want in their training manuals: a step by step "how-to" guide. Dr Miller has been doing this work for many years, and it shows. This is the book we all have been waiting for. It shines a much needed, long overdue, and perfectly designed light on a form of abuse that has been protected by darkness for too long.'- E. Sue Blume, LCSW, author of Secret Survivors: Uncovering Incest and its Aftereffects in Women'At last, a much needed contemporary exposition of the treatment of the sequelae of ritualabuse and mind control. Dr Miller has provided a systematic and demystifying guide for therapists who work with this challenging population.'- Sandra Paulsen, PhD, author of Looking Through the Eyes: An Illustrated Guide for EMDR Therapists and Their Clients'A perfect balance between depth, readability, and extensive hands-on experience, Healing the Unimaginable gently leads the reader through the darkest and largely unexplored areas of man-made trauma: Ritual Abuse and Mind Control. While many therapists think it unlikely that they will ever come across a survivor of such trauma, these cases are, in fact, less rare than one would like to believe; and recognizing the language of such survivors is thus our duty of care. This is an excellent handbook, to be read, re-read, and consulted many times over.'- Adah Sachs, Consultant Psychotherapist, Clinic for Dissociative Studies, co-author of Forensic Aspects of Dissociative Identity DisorderTable of ContentsAbout the Author , Preface , Foreword , Introduction , A therapist’s first experience with ritual abuse and mind control , Ritual abuse and mind control: the definition evolves , The basics of therapy , Markers of mind control and ritual abuse , Ritual abuse: religious and creed-based abuses , Military, political, and commercial uses of mind control , A reversed Kabbalah trainer speaks , The programming: indoctrination, lies, and tricks , Understanding and working with alters’ jobs and hierarchies , Dealing with programming: alternative strategies , “Stabilization” takes on a new meaning , “Maybe I made it up” , Boundaries and bonds: the therapeutic relationship , Treating programmed pedophilia , The unimaginable , Working with the traumatic memories , Successful resolution: co-consciousness or integration , Ritual abuse and mind control treatment: greater than the sum of its parts , Resources , Satanic calendar 1
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Duckworth Books Revolution in Mind The Creation of Psychoanalysis
Book SynopsisBased on new archival materials and a decade of research, Revolution in Mind is a radically new history of psychoanalysis. It tells the story of the birth, development, and death of psychoanalysis in Europe between 1870 and 1945, integrating these chapters into a coherent narrative for the first time.Trade Review'Brilliant... A magisterial study that moves beyond the heated disputes of past decades to gives us a detailed, deeply reflective history... The book will serve historians of the field, as well as undaunted readers, for many years to come' Financial Times'Gripping... At last: a history of psychoanalysis without partisanship or rancour. This neutral and thorough account of one of the most controversial intellectual movements to sweet Europe and the world... is greatly needed today... An impressive achievement' Literary Review'Rich and even-handed enough for partisans on both sides of the divide to find ammunition for their cause... Makari's lucid and thoroughly researched book is an indispensable guide' TLS'This history of psychoanalysis aims to display, as they bubble up, ideas that are hardly ideas any longer, more part of our psychic landscape. George Makari... lets us in on the stage where what has since hardened into dogma is still in flux, showing us how Freud took on and discarded theories, tinkering and patching. Similarly fluid, as Makari shows, is the ownership of idea' Guardian'Not only of high scientific value but also enjoyable to read... Makari has succeeded in writing an important, even brilliant book... An immensely joyful experience' International Journal of Psychoanalysis'Freud's context is more fully elaborated by Makari than ever before. I admire in particular the sanity and balance of this work, since it shows that Freud's value transcends his scientism' Harold Bloom'George Makari has written nothing less than a history of the modern mind... an astounding breadth of knowledge and an unprecedented gift for synthesis' Paul Auster
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Necessary Dream: New Theories and Techniques
Book SynopsisAfter a hundred years of psychoanalysis, what has the psychoanalytic interpretation of dreams now become? Are what Simic calls "the films of our lives" still the royal road to the unconscious or do we now have a different concept both of dreams and of the unconscious? What is the meaning of dreams in the analytic dialogue? Do they still have a key role to play in clinical practice or not? These are just some of the questions that this book seeks to answer.Nowadays psychoanalysts and psychotherapists do not work so much on dreams as with dreams, preferring to emphasise their function of transformation and symbolic creation, rather than decipher their obscure messages. Dreaming is the way in which we give personal meaning to experience and expand our unconscious. As such, it is a necessary activity which, as Bion says, takes place both in sleep and in waking. But the space of the dream is an inaccessible sanctuary, which can make this task quite frustrating. For this reason the author weaves the dream discourse with that of cinema - according to a famous definition, a "dream factory" - and cites a number of films to evoke the magic of their images. In this way he explores a new way of approaching the vibrant, exciting, intriguing or distressing material of dreams.Table of ContentsABOUT THE AUTHORINTRODUCTIONCHAPTER ONE Dark contemplationCHAPTER TWO Dream fictionsCHAPTER THREE The Cell and the cruel/painful world of Carl StargherCHAPTER FOUR The inability to dream in They and Dark CityCHAPTER FIVE The dream as an aesthetic objectCHAPTER SIX Losing your mind, finding your mindCHAPTER SEVEN Reverie, or how to capture a killer (-content)CHAPTER EIGHT Dreams of dreamsCHAPTER NINE Are dreams still the guardians of sleep?FILMOGRAPHYREFERENCESINDEX
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Nietzsches Zarathustra
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1989. As a young man growing up near Basel, Jung was fascinated and disturbed by tales of Nietzsche''s brilliance, eccentricity, and eventual decline into permanent psychosis. These volumes, the transcript of a previously unpublished private seminar, reveal the fruits of his initial curiosity: Nietzsche''s works, which he read as a student at the University of Basel, had moved him profoundly and had a life-long influence on his thought. During the sessions the mature Jung spoke informally to members of his inner circle about a thinker whose works had not only overwhelmed him with the depth of their understanding of human nature but also provided the philosophical sources of many of his own psychological and metapsychological ideas. Above all, he demonstrated how the remarkable book Thus Spake Zarathustra illustrates both Nietzsche''s genius and his neurotic and prepsychotic tendencies. Since there was at that time no thought of the seminar notes being published, Ju
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Guilford Publications Practicing Psychodynamic Therapy
Book SynopsisThis volume presents 12 highly instructive case studies grounded in the evidence-based psychodynamic therapy model developed by Richard F. Summers and Jacques P. Barber. Bringing clinical concepts vividly to life, each case describes the patient's history and presenting problems and takes the reader through psychodynamic formulation, treatment planning, and the entire course of therapy, including the challenges of termination. The cases address a variety of core psychodynamic problems, with outcomes ranging from very successful to equivocal. The emotional experience of the therapist is explored throughout. Commentary from Summers and Barber on every case highlights important points and key clinical dilemmas. See also the authored book Psychodynamic Therapy, Second Edition: A Guide to Evidence-Based Practice, in which Summers and Barber comprehensively describe their therapeutic model.Trade Review"Practicing Psychodynamic Therapy is an excellent complement to Summers and Barber’s earlier evidence-based guide, Psychodynamic Therapy. The psychodynamically formulated case studies are fascinating, and beautifully demonstrate the struggles and learning curve of novice therapists, describing in a refreshingly honest way their successful--and less-than-successful--interventions with patients who suffer from obsessionality, depression, trauma, and more. The down-to-earth and clear exposition of both theory and clinical cases makes this an exceptionally valuable book for beginning therapists, as well as undergraduate and graduate students being exposed to psychodynamic concepts and practice for the first time. This volume convincingly dispels any myths about the relevance of psychodynamic therapy for the practice of psychotherapy today."--Stanley B. Messer, PhD, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey "This compelling, clearly written book addresses important for clinicians starting out in the world of mental health: What is psychodynamic psychotherapy? Why should a well-informed clinician learn it? How does it work? Jargon-free clinical cases--written by clinicians from varied training backgrounds who utilize a wide range of psychodynamic techniques--depict treatment with patients who suffer from panic disorder, major depression, combinations of depression and anxiety, and personality disorders. A 'must read' for clinicians of all orientations, this book will help to solidify psychodynamic therapy and techniques in the contemporary psychotherapeutic landscape."--Barbara Milrod, MD, Department of Psychiatry, Weill Cornell Medical College "Referencing the emerging body of research on the efficaciousness of psychodynamic theory, this volume is organized around 12 cases presented by early-career psychiatrists, psychologists, and social workers. The diverse cases bring to light the unique relationship between psychotherapist and client and offer an in-depth look at individual approaches taken within a psychodynamic framework. Each of six core psychodynamic problems identified by Summers and Barber is covered in the cases. With its evidence-based focus, carefully selected cases, and emphasis on creating a change-oriented therapeutic alliance, this casebook will be an invaluable resource for mental health professionals for years to come."--Aaron T. Beck, MD, University Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania “This accessible clinical casebook illustrates how patients and therapists can work together to address and resolve the most common core problems encountered in therapeutic practice. Twelve refreshingly candid treatment narratives demonstrate specific techniques for working through these problems at different stages of therapy, offering useful strategies for catalyzing and assessing change. Both novice and experienced clinicians will find much of use in this book.”--Diana Diamond, PhD, Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology (Emerita), City University of New York, and Senior Fellow, Personality Disorders Institute, Weill Medical College of Cornell University “Summers and Barber have gathered a series of eloquent and detailed cases that illustrate and enrich the approach elaborated in their earlier book, Psychodynamic Therapy: A Guide to Evidence-Based Practice. In this casebook, contributing authors openly share their clinical experience in a personal and candid fashion, offering a window into the very private relationships that develop between therapists and their patients. Indispensable for students of psychotherapy and their teachers, the book provides a rich opportunity for clinical learning and reflection.”--Eve Caligor, MD, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons "Therapists searching for psychodynamic concepts and techniques that will help them better conceptualize their patients’ problems will benefit greatly from this book. The book begins with a summary of the authors' framework and then follows with 12 extensive case studies in which their model is carefully applied, assisting clinicians in identifying and working with each patient's core psychodynamic patterns. This is an outstanding, essential book for all dynamically oriented clinicians."--Walter N. Stone, MD, Department of Psychiatry (Emeritus), University of Cincinnati School of Medicine -The chapters are well written….While reading the case, the reader can see therapists using a mixture of therapies at the beginning and gradually transferring to pragmatic psychodynamic psychotherapy….This is a very useful and enjoyable book that one would like to use in teaching psychodynamic psychotherapy.--Academic Psychiatry, 01/01/2016Table of ContentsIntroduction, Richard F. Summers and Jacques P. Barber 1. Pragmatic Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: The Therapeutic Alliance and the Core Psychodynamic Problem, Richard F. Summers and Jacques P. Barber 2. Pragmatic Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: Formulation, Therapeutic Change, and Termination, Richard F. Summers and Jacques P. Barber 3. Permission to Take a Breath: A Case of Depression, Holly Valerio 4. The Lonely Freshman: A Case of Depression, Bianca Previdi 5. Drifting Away: A Case of Depression and Obsessionality, Kevin McCarthy 6. “She’s Just Trying to Help”: A Case of Obsessionality, Lauren Elliott 7. Serial Killers, Movie Stars, and Eruptions: A Case of Obsessionality, Brian Sharpless 8. Skating in Circles: A Case of Fear of Abandonment, Dana A. Satir, Patricia Harney, and Kimberlyn Leary 9. “I Can’t Leave Him, I Think He Loves Me”: A Case of Fear of Abandonment, Robert Schweitzer and Alix Vann 10. The Uncertain Father: A Case of Low Self-Esteem, Samuel J. Collier 11. The Real Elmer Fudd: A Case of Low Self-Esteem, C. Pace Duckett 12. Horrified and Guilty: A Case of Panic Anxiety, Dhwani Shah 13. Our Therapeutic Journey: A Case of Trauma, Karla Campanella 14. Slaying the Dragon: A Case of Trauma, Margot Montgomery O’Donnell Index
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Taylor & Francis A Jungian Analysis of Toxic Modern Society
Book SynopsisUsing evidence from anthropology, neuroscience, psychiatry, analytical psychology, and evolutionary biology, within this book Dr. Erik Goodwyn explores the current cultural psyche, and how elements of modern society are contributing to the current loneliness epidemic.Despite tremendous advances in technology, developed countries are more anxious, depressed, suicidal, and addicted today than we were 100 years ago. Why? Research from many fields of study show that loneliness has become an epidemic in the industrialized world, causing very real medical consequences such as addiction, depression, anxiety, and suicide: all things which have been on the rise for decades. And yet, because of various historical, philosophical, and economic reasons, we do not nurture traditional cultural ways of satisfying these instincts. This book will explore the idea that stopping the rising misery will not only require socioeconomic changes, but will require a profound cultural change. Only then
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Affect Representation and Language
Book SynopsisThis book presents and elaborates on the rationale and implications of the transformational dimension of psychoanalysis. In so doing, it attempts to extend psychoanalytic theory and practice beyond neurosis and beyond what were formerly thought to be the limits of analytic understanding. Its theoretical vision sits at the crossroads of the thinking of Freud, Bion, Winnicott, Green and the Paris Psycho-Somatic School. Other sources include the contributions of contemporary French psychoanalysts such as Laplanche, Donnet, L. Kahn, P. Miller and the Botellas, along with the work of Alvarez, Scarfone, Ferro, Ogden, and more. In re-examining the very epistemological foundations of psychoanalysis and their implications for a theory of psychic functioning, it follows upon and extends the radical implications of Freud's 1937 Constructions paper, the thoughts of Bion on intuition and Winnicott's understanding of the working through of the consequences of early pre-verbal environmentalTrade Review"In this very important book about psychoanalytic process and the functioning of the analyst-patient dyad, Howard Levine offers an original synthesis of Freud’s metapsychology with the theories of authors such as Bion, Winnicott, Green and the Psychosomaticians of the Paris School. The result is a clinical approach to non-neurotic phenomena and unrepresented mental states that emphasizes representation, not as a given but as ‘a developmental achievement through which previously unbound or inchoate forces become bound and contained in the psyche." – Evelyne Sechaud, former president of the European Psychoanalytic Federation; former president, training and supervising analyst of the APF (French Psychoanalytic Association)"Howard B. Levine’s book rests on the idea that psychoanalysis is ultimately about the patient’s (and the analyst’s) thinking capacity and the psyche’s limitations in responding to the demands for work made by the clash between external and psychic reality. As every analyst knows, the task is complex, sometimes close to impossible. Psychoanalysts, therefore, need to resort to as many luminaries in their field as they can, granted that no single author, no matter how great, can be credited with possessing the final truth. But then another problem arises: the multiple analytic idioms represent a challenge of their own. Levine brilliantly meets that challenge by displaying an exemplary capacity to navigate between many exponents of the British, French, North- and Latin-American analytic traditions and offering a personal synthesis rich with original ideas and clinical illustrations." – Dominique Scarfone, training and supervising analyst, Canadian Psychoanalytic Society Institute, Montreal French Branch"What are the contents of the conscious and unconscious mind? The stuff that our inner worlds are made out of, the raw materials of our innermost selves? What happens when lacunae, lapses or failures occur, when we observe modalities of unstructured functioning, of unrepresented states of mind? Since Freud, psychoanalysis has acutely explored these issues offering a number of different accounts of the architecture, dynamics and texture of psychic life: the logic and logistics of the soul.Howard Levine is at the forefront of thinkers who are currently examining these issues in a contemporary framework. He expertly sums up decades of thinking deeply about these issues and presents his reflections in crystal clear prose and with all the exciting commitment and enthusiasm of the best psychoanalytic thinkers at work today. This is a book to be read, re-read and closely studied." – Elias M. da Rocha Barros, São Paulo Society and fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society"This is a refreshing and vitalizing way of considering the clinical work of psychoanalysis: as exploring the intermixing of the somatic, affective and representational components of the human experience in the context of relating to another in the analytic space. In this meditation on psychoanalytic theory and practice, Levine leaves the reader with much to digest." - Review by Endre Koritar, The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, (2023). Int. J. Psychoanal., (104)(4):804-807Table of Contents1. Psychoanalysis and Subjectivity. A Personal Note 2. Freud’s Theory of Representation and the Expansion of Analytic Technique 3. Clinical Implications of Unrepresented States: Effacement, Discourse and Construction 4. The Fundamental Epistemological Situation 5. Psychoanalysis and the Problem of Truth 6. The Analyst’s Authority. Suggestion, Seduction, Compliance and Influence 7. Trauma and Representation 8. Making the Unthinkable Thinkable: Autism, ASD and Representation 9. Word, Body, Thing: On the Movement From Soma to Psyche 10. Psychosomatics and Unrepresented States
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Taylor & Francis How Does Analysis Work
Book SynopsisHow Does Analysis Work? uses short, compelling vignettes from people in Lacanian analysis to explore how analytic interpretation works.Insights, revelations, connections, meanings and non-meanings all feature in these anonymous accounts of crucial moments in analysis, providing a sense of what it is all about. Drawn from a wide range of analysands, some seasoned analysts and others just starting out, these vignettes show how change takes place. The short pieces are drawn from Lacanian analysis, but many go against cliched views of what Lacanians do in their work, spanning both the classical and the radically innovative and showing the use of humour and theatre in psychoanalytic practice.How Does Analysis Work? will be of great interest to psychoanalysts and Lacanian analysts in practice and in training, as well as anyone who is curious about the analytic process.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Gaia Psyche and Deep Ecology
Book SynopsisWinner of the Scientific & Medical Network Book Prize 2019!In Gaia, Psyche and Deep Ecology: Navigating Climate Change in the Anthropocene, Andrew Fellows uniquely connects Earth systems, Jungian and philosophical approaches to the existential threats that we face today. He elucidates the psychological basis of our dysfunctional relationship with nature, thereby offering a coherent framework for transforming this in our personal and professional lives. Demonstrating the imperative for new ideas that transcend the status quo, Fellows tackles unprecedented 21st century challenges such as climate change through his interdisciplinary approach.Fellows proposes a worldview, informed by depth psychology, which radically contradicts the prevailing shibboleths of unlimited economic growth, dominion over outer nature and negation of our inner nature. To accommodate a broad readership, he first introduces the Anthropocene and sufficient basics Trade Review"If we want to understand the causes of our present crisis and our disastrous alienation from nature, both within and without, we could learn much from this brilliantly perceptive and comprehensive book. Connecting a profound understanding of Jung’s concept of Individuation with the Deep Ecology of Arne Næss, Fellows demolishes the dangerous concept of ‘limitless growth’ and shows how we need urgently to abandon our hubristic and exploitive will to power over planetary life. Truly, a clarion call to us all!" - Anne Baring Ph.D., author of The Dream of the Cosmos: A Quest for the Soul"Andrew Fellows is passionate about the urgent need to address the damage we are doing to our planet. His combined professional background in both applied science and depth psychology offers an all too rare perspective that is in the best traditions of Jungian thought - erudite, multi-disciplinary and concerned with the most profound and pressing problems of our time. His book makes valuable food for thought and I share his hope that it will make even better fuel for action. It deserves to be widely read." - Warren Colman, Jungian psychoanalyst; former editor of Journal of Analytical Psychology; author of Act and Image: The Emergence of Symbolic Imagination"This book written by heart and head, reminds us that 'we may not be able to save what we do not love.' A fine scientific mind gathers fact and technical theory to plead this love’s cause. Analogies (between psyche’s individuation process and Earth’s Gaia theory) are compelling. The "uncanny" parallel between ego’s domination of the western psyche and civilization’s domination of the planet challenges our inertia, nostalgia and hubris, responses Fellows identifies as leaving us traumatized by the task of halting imminent ecological disaster. Fruit of years of scientific and psychological commitment, this new approach excites reverence for the 'panorama of stratified living beings'." - Rev. Josephine Evetts-Secker, Assoc. Prof. Emerita, University of Calgary, CA; Jungian Analyst; author of At Home in the Language of the Soul"We all live in thought bubbles. Fellows clearly declares his bubble as Jungian and he forced me to think about my own, which I suppose must be Newtonian. These two bubbles are unlikely companions and it is therefore unusual to find an author who has occupied both. He has successfully used his wide spectrum of experience to encourage new thoughts, which so often occur when different disciplines are interwoven. I did find that looking at deep ecology from a Jungian point of view both novel and stimulating. This is a well-researched and highly unusual book and will be of interest to the occupants of all bubbles." - Andrew Garrad, CBE FREng; past president of the European Wind Energy Association"This richly detailed book will delight you, inform you and transform you with its fine writing, profound insight and its detailed, original synthesis of ecological science and philosophy with Jung’s depth psychology. A vital and important contribution to the development of the Gaian consciousness so badly needed in these darkening times." - Dr Stephan Harding, coordinator of Holistic Science at Schumacher College, Dartington, UK; author of Animate Earth: Science, Intuition and Gaia"Andrew Fellows, in this remarkable book offers deep and compelling insight into the nature of this transformative moment in Earth’s history, while also bringing to bear equally compelling insights into how human beings will have to respond to the crisis. Ranging from the analytical psychology of C. G. Jung to the most recent insights of quantum mechanics, the Gaia hypothesis of Lovelock and the deep ecology of Arne Naess, Fellows, with his own background in alternative energy engineering and training as a Jungian analyst, achieves a level to synthesis in his approach to the environment that is otherwise unmatched in the literature. This book should be read not only by concerned individuals but also by policy makers at all levels of government and industry." - George B. Hogenson, Ph.D., Jungian psychoanalyst, Vice President of the International Association for Analytical PsychologyGaia, Psyche and Deep Ecology is a work of sweeping scope that explores our rich, multifaceted relatedness to the natural world. Fellows provides a concise, insightful summary of the issues related to climate change and our role in causing this great disruption. At the core of the work, Fellows unveils the Psyche-Gaia Conjecture which illustrates the deep, interconnectedness between human and non-human worlds. This is an important work for all, given the challenges we face at this time of great climatic disruption." - Jeffrey T Kiehl, climate scientist and Jungian analyst; author of Facing Climate Change: An Integrated Path to the Future"Andrew Fellows looks squarely at the painful data on climate change and related environmental issues and the poor record of our collective attempts to address them. What is needed, he argues, is nothing less than a metanoia and a new worldview. As knowledgeable as he is urgent, Fellows outlines a potential contribution to bringing about such changes of heart and perspective with this book’s bold transdisciplinary synthesis of Gaia theory, analytical psychology, deep ecology, dual-aspect monism, and panentheism. This is a profound, challenging and inspiring work, and to my mind is on the right track." - Professor Roderick Main, Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex, UK"Andrew Fellows’ book addresses many important questions in clear language. His open-minded and erudite argument will inspire those who are concerned about the future of the biosphere." - Jeremy Narby, Ph.D., Amazonian Projects Director at Nouvelle Planète; author of The Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the Origins of Knowledge, and Intelligence in Nature: An Inquiry into Knowledge"Andrew Fellows’s Gaia, Psyche and Deep Ecology is a remarkable synthesis of ecology, general systems, earth science, Jungian psychology, and deep ecology, all by way of constructing a case for the profound change of consciousness that is the only true solution for the host of interlocking problems confronting late industrial civilization. Valuable for its extensive sources alone." - William Ophuls, author of Plato’s Revenge: Politics in the Age of Ecology and Immoderate Greatness: Why Civilizations Fail"Andrew Fellows, with his encompassing knowledge and deep insight into the realms of applied physics (PhD Dunelm) and analytical psychology (diplomate Jungian Analyst) is more suited than anyone else I know to show and lead us into this complex area that is vital for our global future. It is his sense for the whole of the world, and his ability to bridge or close the gap between the cognitive thinking of natural science and the deep-running insights of the psyche that will make his book an essential contribution in the discussion of deep ecology." - Christa Robinson MA, Jungian analyst and supervisor, published in America and China"Supported by thorough scholarly research and passionate argumentation, this book looks at deep ecology from a psyche-oriented perspective and at analytical psychology from an ecological world-soul perspective. It is a treasure chest of inspiration, carefully chosen quotes and clear directives to engage in what is arguably the prime challenge confronting us at this stage of our evolution as a species: moving beyond destructive anthropocentrism to the recognition that we are part of a larger organism." - Shantena Augusto Sabbadini, Director of the Pari Center for New Learning; author of Pilgrimages to Emptiness"This is a big book that demands our serious attention. On the major threat of our times—climate change—Andrew Fellows marshals all of his considerable faculties in science, philosophy, psychology and spirituality to give us a truly integrative account of this multi-layered catastrophe that demands a complete change in our relationship to ourselves, to the societies around us, and to Mother Earth herself if we are to survive. Fellows invites the reader to join with him and all of humanity in trying to confront this all too real apocalypse." - Thomas Singer M.D., San Francisco Jung Institute"As humans living on credit on this exceptional planet Earth, we must change our wanton ways, urgently! Andrew Fellows argues the case intelligently and with compassion for such a dramatic reversal of attitude and behaviour. And, even more extraordinary and impressive, he shows the way to do it. I only hope many people will read this timely work and accept the challenge it presents so convincingly —before it’s too late." - Murray Stein, Ph.D., Past President of IAAP; author of Minding the SelfTable of ContentsPreface. Chapter 1: Start Here; Chapter 2: The Anthropocene; Chapter 3: Gaia and Science; Chapter 4: Psyche and Beyond; Chapter 5: A Psyche-Gaia Conjecture; Chapter 6: Heroic Development; Chapter 7: Frugal Individuation; Chapter 8: End Here?; Appendix: Resources
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Fordham University Press In Praise of Risk
Book SynopsisThis book, whose original French edition achieved worldwide attention when its author died trying to save two children caught in a riptide, challenges the psychic work the modern world devotes to avoiding risk. Weaving psychoanalytic case studies together with philosophical reflections, Dufourmantelle shows how risk is an essential property of life, one that requires our embrace.Table of ContentsTranslator’s Introduction: The Risk of Reading | ix To Risk One’s Life | 1 Eurydice Saved | 4 Minuscule Magical Dependencies | 8 Voluntary Servitude and Disobedience | 11 In Suspense | 13 At the Risk of Passion | 17 Leaving the Family | 22 Forgetting, Anamnesis, Deliverance | 24 Incurable (In)fidelities | 29 Zero Risk? | 33 How (Not) to Become Oneself . . . | 36 Being in Secret | 39 Befriending Our Fears | 41 At the Risk of Being Sad | 46 At the Risk of Being Free | 49 The Time They Call Lost | 52 Dead Alive | 55 Of a Perception Infinitely Vaster . . . | 59 Anxiety, Lack—Spiritual Hunger? | 63 Farewell Magic World: Beyond Disappointment | 67 Life—Mine, Yours | 70 At the Risk of the Unknown | 72 At the Risk of Being Carnal | 74 May There Be an End to Our Torment . . . | 79 Breaking Up | 82 At the Risk of Speech | 86 Solitudes | 89 Laughter, Dreaming—Beyond the Impasse | 93 Hope No More | 101 Once Upon a Time, the “Athenaeum” . . . or, Why Risk Romanticism? | 106 Risking Belief | 111 Risking Variation | 114 The Event: Hyperpresence | 119 Intimate Prophecy | 122 At the Risk of Bedazzlement | 127 Desire, Body, Writing | 130 Healing? | 139 An Other Language | 142 Risking Scandal | 145 Taking the Risk of Childhood | 148 Assiduity | 151 Risking the Future | 154 At the Risk of Beauty | 158 At the Risk of Spirit | 162 Risking the Universal? | 164 Hauntings | 167 Spirals, Ellipses, Metaphors, Anamorphoses | 170 Envisaging Night | 173 Revolutions | 176 At the Risk of Going Through Hell (Eurydice) | 180 Notes | 187
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Penguin Books Ltd Side Effects
From the author of Missing Out and On Kindness, Britain''s pre-eminent psychoanalyst examines how the things we don''t mean, or mean perhaps to forget, prove to be those that are often most telling about our unconscious lives. Side effects are things we do not intend. Phillips intends for us to question our conscious pursuit of happiness, explaining that, in refusing to admit and explore life''s down sides, we can only be living half lives. And through his unique and incisive exploration of literature, Phillips also demonstrates what the great novelists have to tell us about ourselves. Both illuminating and fascinating on literature as well as life, Side Effects maps our edges as human beings, and, in doing so, goes some way to helping give shape to our lives.
£14.39
Penguin Books Ltd Freud S Wolfman and Other Cases
Book SynopsisThe new Penguin Freud, under Adam Phillips'' general editorship, offers a fantastic opportunity to see Freud in a fresh light. This endlessly beguiling, suggestive, thought-provoking writer can be appreciated nowhere more vividly than in The Case Histories: ''Little Hans'', ''The Rat Man'', ''The Wolf Man'' and ''Some Character Types Met within Psychoanalytic Work.''Table of ContentsAnalysis of a phobia in a five-year-old boy ("Little Hans"): introduction; case history and analysis; epicrisis; postscript to the analysis of Little Hans. Some remarks on a case of obsessive-compulsive neurosis (the "Ratman"): case history; theoretical remarks. From the history of an infantile neurosis (the "Wolfman"): preliminary remarks; survey of the patient's milieu and medical history; seduction and its immediate consequences; the dream and the primal scene; some matters for discussion; obsessive-compulsive neurosis; anal eroticism and the castration complex; supplementary material from earliest childhood - solution; recapitulations and problems. Some character types encountered in psychoanalytic work: exceptions; those who founder on success; criminals who act out of a consciousness of guilt.
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University of Chicago Press The Burdens of Intimacy Psychoanalysis and
Book SynopsisShowing why Victorian fiction conveys both the pleasure and anguish of intimacy, this text examines works by Bulwer-Lytton, Swinburne, Schreiner, Hardy, James, Santayana, and Forster, he argues that these writers struggled with aspects of psychology that undermined the utilitarian ethos of the age.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Preface Introduction: Victorian Asymmetry: The Study of Repression and Desire 1: The Specter of Effeminacy in Bulwer-Lytton's Pelham 2: Love's Vicissitudes in Swinburne's Lesbia Brandon 3: "Gregory's Womanhood" in Schreiner's The Story of an African Farm 4: Hardy and the Claims of Friendship 5: The Impossibility of Seduction in James's Roderick Hudson and The Tragic Muse 6: Santayana and the Problem of Beauty 7: Betrayal and Its Consolations in Forster's Writing Afterword: The Homosexual in the Text Notes Works Cited Index
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Columbia University Press Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAn exhaustive and fascinating account... As a glimpse into a remarkable period in French intellectual history where politics, philosophy, and literary brilliance coalesced, it is captivating. Publishers Weekly Dosse makes Deleuze and Guattari mysterious again. -- Scott McLemee Bookforum Dosse has produced a magnificently well-researched double biography. -- Terry Eagleton Artforum This is a massively researched and rewarding book that will attract the attention of all students of Deleuze and Guattari. Choice A comprehensive and polyvocal biography on the lives and work of Deleuze and Guattari. -- Thomas Nail Foucault Studies An impressively comprehensive examination of the lives and times of Deleuze and Guattari... Richly filled with biographical and historical detail (and with amusing and often poignant anecdote), Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari: Intersecting Lives represents an inmmense scholarly achievement... Essential reading. European LegacyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Betwixt or Between Part I. Folds: Parallel Biographies 1. Felix Guattari: The Psychopolitical Itinerary, 1930-1964 2. La Borde: Between Myth and Reality 3. Daily Life at La Borde 4. Testing Critical Research Empirically 5. Gilles Deleuze: The Hero's Brother 6. The Art of the Portrait 7. Nietzsche, Bergson, Spinoza: A Trio for a Vitalist Philosophy 8. An Ontology of Difference 9. The Founding Rupture: May 1968 Part II. Unfolding: Intersecting Lives 10. "Psychoanalysm" Under Attack 11. Anti-Oedipus 12. Machine Against Structure 13. "Minor" Literature as Seen by Deleuze and Guattari 14. A Thousand Plateaus : A Geophilosophy of Politics 15. The CERFI at Work 16. The "Molecular Revolution": Italy, Germany, France 17. Deleuze and Foucault: A Philosophical Friendship 18. An Alternative to Psychiatry? 19. Deleuze at Vincennes 20. The Year of Combat: 1977 Part III. Surplices: 1980-2007 21. Guattari Between Culture and Ecology 22. Deleuze Goes to the Movies 23. Guattari and Aesthetics: Consolation During the Winter Years 24. Deleuze Dialogues with Creation 25. An Artist Philosophy 26. Winning Over the West 27. Around the World 28. Two Deaths 29. Their Work at Work 30. Conclusion Notes Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Psychodynamic Approaches for Treatment of Drug
Book SynopsisThis book provides clinicians and students with insights on the use of psychodynamic therapy to treat drug abuse and addiction, combining theory with clinical case material.The perspectives of analysts such as Abraham, Rado, Zimmel, Tibout, Wurmser, Khanzian, Krystal and McDougall are reviewed alongside original and more recent conceptualizations of drug addiction and recovery based on Kleinian, Winnicottian and Kohutian ideas. The case material deals with clinical phenomena that characterize working with this complex population, such as intense projective identification, countertransference difficulties and relapses. The theoretical analysis covers a range of concepts, such as John Steiner's psychic shelters and Betty Joseph's near-death-addiction, which are yet to be fully explored in the context of addiction. Prevalent topics in the addiction field, such as the reward system, the cycle of change and the 12-step program, are also discussed in relation to psychodynamic theory and practice.Written by an experienced therapist, Psychodynamic Approaches for Treatment of Drug Abuse and Addiction is useful reading for anyone looking to understand how psychodynamic thought is applicable in the treatment of drug abuse and addiction. It may also be of some relevance to those working on treating alcohol use disorders and behavioral addictions.Trade Review"David Potik’s Psychodynamic Approaches for Treatment of Drug Abuse and Addiction is an excellent introduction to the psychoanalytic literature on addiction theory and treatment. His specific application of object relation’s theory to a broad range of treatment settings is an invaluable contribution that many will find enlightening as well as useful."George Hagman, LCSW, former Clinical Director of the Montefiore Substance Abuse Treatment Program, NYTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. An historical overview of psychoanalytic perspectives on drug abuse and addiction – Part 1; 2. An historical overview of psychoanalytic perspectives on drug abuse and addiction – Part 2; 3. Drug addiction ≈ the paranoid-schizoid position; 4. Recovery and reparation ≈ the depressive position; 5. Lapses and relapses; 6. Therapeutic issues: internal destructiveness, countertransference and projective identification; 7. Methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) as transitional phenomena (David Potik, Miriam Adelson and Shaul Schreiber); 8. Towards independence: detoxification during opioid maintenance treatment; 9. Drug abuse and addiction in the view of self psychology; 10. The 12-step program
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) ParentInfant Psychotherapy for Sleep Problems
Book SynopsisSleep problems are among the most common, urgent and undermining troubles parents meet. This book describes Dilys Daws' pioneering method of therapy for sleep problems, honed over 40 years of work with families: brief psychoanalytic therapy with parents and infants together.Offering tried and tested ways of helping parents work things out better with their babies when such problems arise, this new edition of Dilys Dawsâ classic work, updated with expert help from Sarah Sutton, frees professionals from the burden of feeling they need to rush to give advice to families, showing instead how to begin the challenging journey of discovering new emotions that every baby brings. It sheds light on the sleep problem in the context of a whole range of aspects of the early world: the regulation of babiesâ physiological states; dreams and nightmares; the development of separateness; separation and attachment problems; and connections with feeding and weaning.This much-needed, compassionate and well-informed guide to helping parents and babies with sleep problems draws on twenty-first century development research and rich clinical wisdom to offer ways of understanding sleep problems in each individual family context, with all its particular pressures and possibilities. It will be treasured by new parents struggling with sleeplessness and is enormously valuable for anyone working with parents and their babies. Trade Review'This rewarding book provides a fundamental contribution to the literature on parent infant psychotherapy. Dilys Daws' compassionate understanding creates an accepting emotional climate which is the necessary foundation for successful work. The experience of reading it can itself feel therapeutic. It is indeed a masterpiece in its field.'- Juliet Hopkins, Hon Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist, Tavistock Clinic'I am delighted that a new generation of practitioners will benefit from this updated edition of Dilys Daws’ thoroughly professional and practical book of wisdom. It is like a calm, reliable friend who is always there to help those supporting families with sleep problems. I have used Through the Night successfully over many years to inform and guide my health visitor practice and can highly recommend it.' - Maggie Harris, Specialist Health Visitor for Infant Mental Health (Retired), Former Hon Sec of AIMH UK'This book by Dilys Daws is an essential resource for any clinician working with distressed infants and their families. The author has woven an amazing tapestry from clinical wisdom, psychoanalytic understandings and infancy research to create a thoughtful and practical guide to working with infants with sleep difficulties. Drawing on the knowledge of relationship-based neurophysiology of infancy, psychoanalysis, attachment theory and infancy research we are given a powerfully rich picture of the baby as a person within her intimate relationships. Through this book we see how brief psychoanalytic therapy can be used to help sleep disrupted infants and parents seen in the family medical practice through to the psychotherapist’s clinic. Through exploring the meaning of the infant’s behaviour, we learn how to support parents to ensure that the baby falling asleep feels safe and loved from the very beginning of life.'- Associate Prof Campbell Paul, Consultant Infant Psychiatrist, The Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne and the University of Melbourne, President-Elect, World Association for Infant Mental Health'This book still remains so completely relevant, essential and interesting to anyone working with babies and their families. The combination of clear explanations behind sleep problems and case studies, written with such compassion and understanding, make it very accessible to exhausted parents with their sleepless infants, and professionals trying to support them. I just wish I had known about this book sooner both as a parent and as a GP.'- Dr Jane Sackville-West, GP and Trainer at the James Wigg PracticePraise for Through the Night: Helping Parents with Sleepless Infants:'Through the Night is the most interesting, readable and memorable book on human infant development I have ever read. Almost effortlessly, the reader learns about some of the most important theories of human development and infant psychiatry. Daws manages to teach both lay person and professional alike, equally well, by introducing us to a particular problem: how and why infants sleep, or fail to sleep, as their parents wish them to. Parent-infant sleep struggles are discussed beautifully within a context that deals simultaneously with the psychological landscapes of the parents and the larger cultural context within which they intersect. Students, parents, psychologists and psychiatrists will be captivated and enthralled.'- James McKenna, PhD, Professor of Anthropology, Pomona College and Department of Psychiatry, University of California Irvine School of Medicine'In Through the Night Dilys Daws demonstrates her firm grasp of the two interacting sides of sleeplessness in children: the one that reflects the biological basis of children’s sleep, and the other that reflects the psychological factors which impact upon sleepless children and their parents. Daws clearly recognizes that to help families with sleepless children it is necessary to take both of these into consideration. And – which others often fail to do – she helps parents first recognize the specific nature of their child’s problem before deciding upon a treatment programme to deal with it. She does all this with warmth, reason, understanding and compassion. This is a welcome addition to a limited literature dealing with a major problem.'- Richard Ferber, MD, Center for Pediatric Sleep Disorders, Children’s Hospital, Boston, Mass., and author of Solve Your Child’s Sleep Problems: A Practical and Comprehensive Guide for Parents'The writing on the therapy provides the highlights of the book. Lively case vignettes are followed by some beautiful writing on therapeutic process … as a powerful and sensitive way of working with parents in the context of young families, her clinical descriptions will be absorbing and instructive reading for many professionals.'- British Journal of Psychiatry'… a beautifully recounted and carefully conceptualized account of sleeping difficulties in small children … It is clear that Dilys Daws’ sensitive and empathetic handling of the parents’ problem creates a space of security within which new ways of thinking, not only about each parent’s relationship to the perturbed infant, but also about their relationship with one another and with the significant figures of their personal past, can for the first time come into existence. As the author puts it, she "listens and takes seriously the ‘cries’ of the family as a whole".'- Joyce McDougall, International Review of Psycho-Analysis'As a family doctor I need to be able to offer realistic and helpful advice to distressed parents. This book has it all. Written with real authority, Through the Night is an essential guide to understanding the basis of sleep problems. Dilys Daws’ depth and range of experience make her uniquely qualified to help all parents. At last her wisdom can be shared, bringing calm to shattered nerves. Everyone can benefit from the simple, often dramatic, exposure to sleep problems so brilliantly revealed in this penetrating and absorbing résumé of many years’ commitment to parents and infants. Unequalled, unrivalled and unsurpassed, this book stands alone as a masterpiece in its field.'- Dr Roy Macgregor, GP, presenter of ITB’s The Full Treatment and family doctor appearing regularly on Sky TB and ITNTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements 01. What is a Sleep Problem? PART I 02. Brief Psychoanalytic Therapy for Sleep Problems 03. A Case Study: The Armitage Family PART II 04. The Physiology of Sleep States 05. Babies’ Physiological States and Parenting 06. Dreams and Nightmares 07. The Development of Separateness of Self 08. Separation and Attachment Problems 09. The Connections of Sleep Problems with Feeding and Weaning 10. Parents’ Own Childhood Experiences 11. Father’s Role, the Parents’ Relationship, Single Parents and Returning to Work 12. Disturbed Sleep as a Psychosomatic Problem 13. Mother’s mental health and wellbeing 14. Children with particulat needs and abilities CONCLUSION Bibliography Index
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Taylor & Francis The MonstrousFeminine
Book SynopsisThis is a timely update of a seminal text which re-interprets key films of the horror genre, including Carrie, The Exorcist, The Brood and Psycho.In the first edition, Creed draws on Julia Kristevaâs theory of abjection to challenge the popular view that women in horror are almost always victims, and argues that patriarchal ideology constructs women as monstrous in relation to her sexuality and reproductive body to justify her subjugation. Although a projection of male fears and paranoid fantasies, the monstrous-feminine is nonetheless a terrifying figure. Creedâs argument contests Freudian and Lacanian theories of sexual difference to offer a provocative rereading of classical and contemporary horror. This updated edition includes a new section examining contemporary feminist horror films in relation to nonhuman theory. Creed proposes a new concept of radical abjection to reinterpret the monstrous-feminine as a figure who embraces abTrade Review"Barbara Creed’s The Monstrous-Feminine is one of the most influential books to emerge in the early 90s. The Monstrous-Feminine defined how our generation and our discipline viewed the horror genre. In this new edition, Creed does it again, recontextualizing the conception of the monstrous-feminine to track many of the evolutions in the horror genre and this revised edition will continue to shape our understanding of the horror genre in the new millennium."Aaron Kramer, Professor, and Director of the SFSU School of Cinema, San Francisco State University"Creed’s The Monstrous-Feminine radically changed the logic of abjection and how it is linked with women. In her profoundly original analysis of horror films, Creed upended a concept emanating from psychoanalysis, traditionally perceived as scaffolding supporting patriarchy, to demonstrate how women could be seen as the agents of abjection rather than as its passive victims. In this new edition Creed expands and updates the filmography to include horror films created by women to augment the ways in which the monstrous-feminine functions deliciously as patriarchy’s retribution."Sneja Gunew, Professor Emerita (English/Social Justice Institute), University of British Columbia, Canada"In this new and expanded edition of the classic The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis, Barbara Creed adds a crucial monstrous-feminine register: the nonhuman. With the nonhuman, female horror touches the profound source of abjection. Twenty-first Century feminist horror, Creed shows, introduces a series of startling tropes: the metamorphizing adolescent girl, the female zombie, and the creatrix. Together these female monsters question the stability and uniqueness of the human. In an age at which anthropogenic and patriarchal harms threaten the very survival of the planet, embracing the nonhuman becomes a remedial, even liberating gesture."Anat Pick, Reader in Film, Queen Mary University of London"Thirty years after the publication of Barbara Creed’s classic text, which revolutionised approaches to the analysis of women in horror films, the monstrous- feminine looms large. This updated edition, which includes entirely new chapters, interrogates the concept in contemporary contexts through a range of diverse films directed by women, and through the exploration of recent progressive social movements. What emerges are newer "faces", more nuanced forms of horror that speak to a global audience and that revitalise the force of the abject in more expanded ways that continue to revolt against patriarchal order."Rina Arya, Professor of Visual Culture and Theory, University of HuddersfieldTable of ContentsPreface to the Second EditionPart I Faces of the Monstrous-Feminine: Abjection and the MaternalIntroduction1 Kristeva, Femininity, Abjection2 Horror and the Archaic Mother: Alien3 Woman as Possessed Monster: The Exorcist4 Woman as Monstrous Womb: The Brood5 Woman as Vampire: The Hunger6 Woman as Witch: CarriePart II Medusa’s Head: Psychoanalytic Theory and theFemme CastratricePreface7 ‘Little Hans’ Reconsidered: or ‘The Tale of Mother’s Terrifying Widdler’8 Medusa’s Head: the Vagina Dentata and Freudian theory9 The femme castratrice: I spit on your grave, sisters10 The Castrating Mother: Psycho11 The Medusa’s GazePart III Revolt of the Monstrous-Feminine: Embracing the NonhumanIntroduction: The Nonhuman Turn an Women’s Horror of the New Millennium12 Coming of Age: The Monstrous-Feminine as Virginal Dentata: Ginger Snaps: (2000), Teeth (2007), Jennifer’s Body (2009).13 The Monstrous-Feminine as Avenging Zombie: The Girl With All The Gifts (2016), The Dark (2018), Atlantics (2019). 14 The Monstrous-Feminine as Uncanny Creatrix: Border (2018), Little Joe (2019), Titane (2021). BibliographyFilmographyIndex
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Taylor & Francis The Work of Whiteness
Book SynopsisâWhitenessâ is a politically constructed category which needs to be understood and dismantled because the system of racism so embedded within our society harms us all. It has profound implications for human psychology, an understanding of which is essential for supporting the movement for change. This book explores these implications from a psychoanalytic and Jungian analytic perspective.The âfragilityâ of whiteness, the colour-blind approach and the silencing process of disavowal as they develop in the childhood of white liberal families are considered as means of maintaining white privilege and racism. A critique of the colonial roots of psychoanalytic theories of Freud and Jung leads to questioning the de-linking of the individual from society in modern day analytic thinking. The concept of the cultural complex is suggested as a useful means of connecting the individual and the social. Examples from the authorâs clinical practice as well as from public life are used to illTrade Review'Helen Morgan in The Work of Whiteness brilliantly takes to task the role of white privilege within social and psychoanalytical communities. Through her writing she reaches across the Atlantic to include the consciousness raising works of American authors such as Robin DiAngelo who have sought to turn our gaze to the essential, necessary engagement of whites in a collective self-reflective motion. This motion allows author Morgan as well as other whites in the field of psychoanalysis to adhere to the long-overdue necessity of admitting social and political influences into the psychological realm. This white inward gaze also relieves Africanist individuals of remaining the problem of racism of which Du Bois spoke. Morgan’s book adds much to our sparse collection of those white authors within the field of psychoanalysis who endeavour to bring hope to the challenges of racism. We welcome her unique, rich, powerful voice that calls for us to be awake to the increasing global demands for racial equity.'Fanny Brewster, Ph.D., M.F.A., LP, Author of The Racial Complex: A Jungian Perspective on Culture and Race'Helen Morgan has written a challenging, compassionate, thoughtful, erudite and profoundly incisive book which directs our gaze to the largely hidden and uncomfortable phenomenon of whiteness. Her thinking crosses boundaries and disciplines in a fluid but always coherent way. This is not just a book about psychoanalysis and racism, but engages us all to reflect on deep and often damaging assumptions and preconceptions shaping and driving our personal, clinical and social lives. Her work is the culmination of many years of therapeutic, organisational and leadership experience, from which she extrapolates and translates so that we can all learn. In this area there are only a few genuinely probing and creatively disruptive texts, but this is another and I encourage our institutions, trainings and clinical communities to promote and disseminate it.'Andrew Cooper, Professor of Social Work at the Tavistock Centre and University of East London, Adult Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist, Author of Conjunctions: Social Work, Psychoanalysis and Society'The Work of Whiteness is a major addition to the psychoanalytic literature on race, racism and colonialism. Writing from personal and professional experience as a leading Jungian analyst, and fully acknowledging the tarnished history of her profession, Helen Morgan shows how we might understand white privilege and the defences around "white fragility" that perpetuate racism even in apparently liberal contexts. This is a vital book for all of us who want to better understand how whiteness does its work.'Stephen Frosh, Professor in the Department of Psychosocial Studies, Birkbeck, University of London, Author of Those Who Come After: Postmemory, Acknowledgement and Forgiveness'This book is a gift to all of us, because whiteness is an under-examined notion that distorts humanity. European colonisation of the Americas, Africa, India, the Middle East, Australia among other parts of the world, has led to an entrenched and unconscious assumption that white is superior. With a psychoanalytic lens, Helen Morgan’s book goes beneath the surface of whiteness to explore its nature and provide truths that should be faced by all of us, especially those who work in the helping professions.'Frank Lowe, Consultant Social Worker and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist, Tavistock Clinic, Editor of Thinking Space: Promoting Thinking About Race, Culture, and Diversity in Psychotherapy and Beyond"Morgan offers us a trenchant critique of the difficulties the psychoanalytic profession has in addressing racist bias in its theory, training and practice. The discipline has much to offer overall, but risks being sidelined if it does not address its whiteness and the shame, guilt and ‘guiltiness’ inherent in this. Token conversations about diversity are called out and suggestions offered as to ways forward. Alongside new theorising on the development and perpetuation of racist psychic and social structures, Morgan calls on white people - white counsellors and psychotherapists in particular - to reexamine their certainties, check their privilege, face up to their discomfort and denial around race and get on with the work that urgently needs to be done."Clea McEnery West, Psychodynamic PracticeTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Whiteness 2. The legacy of slavery 3. Race and racism 4. The disavowal of whiteness 5. Freud and Jung 6. The racial complex 7. Racism and the psychoanalytic profession 8. Race and supervision Epilogue: the work of whiteness
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) The Matrix of the Mind
Book SynopsisThis book contributes to the retrieval of the alienated through the author's own acts of interpretation of ideas introduced by Melanie Klein, Donald Winnicott, Ronald Fairbairn, and Wilfred Bion. It is offered as an act of interpretation.Table of ContentsPreface -- The Psychoanalytic Dialogue -- Instinct, Phantasy and Psychological Deep Structure in the Work of Melanie Klein -- The Paranoid-Schizoid Position: Self as Object -- The Depressive Position and the Birth of the Historical Subject -- Between the Paranoid-Schizoid and the Depressive Position -- Internal Object Relations -- The Mother, the Infant, and the Matrix in the Work of Donald Winnicott -- Potential Space -- Dream Space and Analytic Space
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Mirror Crackd
Book SynopsisRevised edition. This title is as a wake-up call to take seriously the climate in which mental health professionals practice in which complaints and civil actions against psychotherapists and counsellors are on the increase and to sharpen assessment skills accordingly. It is also designed to help professionals to think about the therapeutic frameTable of ContentsPreface -- The mirror crack’d -- The therapeutic frame: “Good fences make good neighbours” (Robert Frost) -- Assessment and risk-management -- Love and hate in the in-between -- Working through an impasse -- Where there’s smoke there’s fire -- The courage to be human: A humanistic approach to conflict resolution -- “Everything’s fine here”—or is it? A mirror on our training institutions -- Intimacy, risk, and reciprocity in psychotherapy: Intricate ethical challenges -- Appendix
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Towards Identity in the Psychoanalytic Encounter
Book SynopsisTowards Identity in the Psychoanalytic Encounter addresses the theme of identification and identity in the psychoanalytic clinic as elaborated by Jacques Lacan over the course of his teaching.In psychoanalysis, the subject who is summoned to speak himself is by definition lacking in identity. His question is What am I? but, as he is only represented by his words, his being is always elsewhere, within other words that are yet to come. Thus a paradox: one seeks via speech the identity of a being who, through his speech, is not identifiable. Yet the fact remains, he has a body, and he is riveted to sufferings that psychoanalysis, from Freud to Lacan, identified, which are not accidental, which we call repetition and symptom, and which shift the question of identity because a One, real, is at play in them.Towards Identity in the Psychoanalytic Encounter will be key reading for the study and research of Lacanian psychoanalysis and all practitioners interested Table of ContentsDedication Preface I. November 12, 2014 Analytic context Consciousness of identity Identity called into question Towards identityII. November 26, 2014 “Apparolé” to capitalism Identity and the Social Link The segregative option “Not all apparolé” to capitalismIII. December 17, 2015 Identity put into question The subject represented The entrance of the subject into the real The function of identificationsIV. January 7, 2015 The order of identifications Two primordial identifications “The imaginary path” An absenceV. January 21, 2015 Phallus, are you there? Genealogy of the phallus The phallocentric clinicVI. February 4, 2015 Socialising phallus Two lacks And the Name-of-the-Father?VII. March 11, 2015 The primordial identification Subversion Copulatory function of the phallusVIII. March 25, 2015 Maternal castration The phallic supplement The collective and the individual ContextIX. April 8, 2015 Our context In the footsteps of Freud A single psychology “Civilizing” love The three identifications X. May 6, 2015 The principle of cohesion The Freudian group is not a discourse Links between peers? XI. May 20, 2015 Dialectic of phallic identifications Unconscious desire and genitality Jouissance of the body… What body? The unlikely body XII. June 3, 2015 Identification with the symptom Non extimate jouissance Of the real Ones To identify oneself without identifying?
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Studying Lacans Seminar VII
Book SynopsisStudying Lacan's Seminar VII offers a contemporary, critically informed set of analyses of Lacan's ethics seminar and astute reflections about what Lacan's ethics offer to the field of psychoanalytic thought today. The volume interrogates the seminar with fresh voices and situated curiosities and perspectives, making for a compellingly exciting range of explorations of the crucial matters related to an ethics of psychoanalysis. The chapters question and tease out the paradoxes Lacan draws attention to in his seminar of 19591960, and in addition, they offer radical engagements with the seminar in light of theories of racism, inequality, capitalism, education, and subjectivity. The key elements in Lacan's seminar are explained, debated, and reconsidered with Antigone, das Ding, and the inevitable ne céder pas sur son désir duly unpacked, examined, and ruminated upon.Studying Lacan's Seminar VII will be of interest to psychoanalytic scholaTrade ReviewLacan’s promotion of desire as the crucial concept of an ethics for psychoanalysis, has transformed scholarly inquiry on ethics tout court. This exciting and indispensable volume brings together contributions by major theorists to offer a wealth of original approaches to the most challenging questions raised by Lacan’s seventh seminar. Far from a compilation of received wisdom on Lacan, this volume approaches the seminar with fresh perspectives and invigorating explorations of crucial matters for an ethics of psychoanalysis. Can there be an ethics without positing a sovereign good or a categorical imperative? Can an ethics of desire be anything other than hedonism? How does a theory of jouissance elucidate the relationship between good and evil? What can Lacan’s ideas on courtly love teach us about racism or the concept of das Ding help us understand about our investment in commodity fetishism? Is Antigone’s fidelity to her desire an example of a psychoanalytic ethics or a cautionary tale about the death drive? In astute and rigorously argued discussion, these essays offer both superb guidance to the seminar’s arguments and a rich demonstration of the value of psychoanalysis for contemporary thinking on ethics. - Molly Anne Rothenberg, Professor Emeritus of English, Tulane UniversityWhat are the ethics of psychoanalysis, and what is its relation to the desire to do good? This impressive and illuminating collection of essays provides not only careful readings of Lacan’s challenging seminar but also brilliant interpretations of how concepts as enigmatic and provocative as das Ding and ‘not giving ground relative to desire’ can be applied to the practice of psychoanalysis and to political problems. The authors in this book do not stop at pointing out key ways in which the desire to do good actually enacts harm, but shed fresh new light on ways ‘The Ethics of Psychoanalysis’ can illuminate radical ethical stances within psychoanalytic praxis and with respect to racism, social inequalities, and capitalist relations of production. The price to pay for following your desire to read this book is well worth it! - Stephanie Swales, Psychoanalyst, and Associate Professor University of DallasLacan’s Seminar VII is without any doubt one of his richest and most intriguing seminars. From the commentaries on Heidegger, das Ding, de Sade, Kant, courtly love, to the extensive commentary on Antigone, the seminar virtually bristles with unexpected, audacious and groundbreaking ideas that have irrevocably changed the way we look at these authors and notions. This volume not only lives up to the challenge of commenting on such a work, but also retains its exciting appeal and conceptual boldness. It is not merely an academic discussion of Lacan's ideas and concepts, but effectively brings these ideas to life in our contemporary context. What is a “Supreme-Being-in-Evil”? Why is ethics different from morality? Could courtly love be related to hysteria? Could it be related to racism and “the sublimation of race”? How does das Ding relate to the origin of value? What are the persistent paradoxes of desire? And what about the price of freedom? This panoramic overview of the contributions cannot do them justice, of course, but it can certainly alert us to the fact that something truly significant and thought-provoking is happening here. - Alenka Zupančič, Professor of philosophy and psychoanalysis at the Institute for Philosophy in Ljubljana and the European Graduate School, SwitzerlandIs it even possible to imagine a better team of commentators to tackle Lacan’s Seminar VII afresh? Studying Lacan’s Seminar VII comprises the top echelon of Lacan scholars, offering not only definitive but also highly original perspectives on those topics - evil, morality, courtly love, tragedy, sublimation, freedom, desire - that makes The Ethics of Psychoanalysis amongst the most impactful of all Lacan’s seminars. The retroactive influence of these essays - which traverse the domains of philosophy, culture, politics and the clinic - is such that the seminar is made newly vital, newly essential to any questioning of the ethical in the 21st century. - Derek Hook, Clinical Supervisor and Professor, Duquesne UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsNote on the EditorNotes on ContributorsEditor’s Introduction1 Supreme Being-in-Evil, Criminal Good, and Criminal Desire: Lacan After Antigone, After Sade, After KantLorenzo Chiesa2 Ethics Contra Morality in Lacan’s Seminar VII (and Implications for Contemporary Education)Jones Irwin3 Courtly Love, the Hommosexuelle , and the Hysteric in The Ethics of LacanSheila L. Cavanagh4 The Sublimation of Race: From the Courtly Lady to the Derelict White BodySheldon George5 Ethics Amid Commodities: Das Ding and the Origin of ValueTODD Mcgowan6 On Tragedy and Desire in the Ethics of PsychoanalysisDany Nobus7 The Price of Freedom: On Not Giving Ground Relative to DesireSarah Meehan O’Callaghan8 While Not Having the Last Word . . .Calum Neill
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Sex Death and the Superego
Book SynopsisThis second edition of Ronald Britton's personal reappraisal of psychoanalytic theories is based on further clinical experience, further study of current neuroscience and continued reflection on the relationship of brain and mind, selfhood and self-awareness, belief and knowledge, and certainty and uncertainty. Divided into three parts Hysteria, The ego and superego, and Narcissism this new edition adds content on brain, mind and self, the death instinct and a discussion on the biological, psychological and sociological basis of gender. It suggests that our increasing knowledge necessarily produces a dissolution of our coherent concepts of mind and brain, and that during this phase of creative dissolution we need to reassess what we know and what we don't know. Fundamental to the book is the notion that human beings have to live with probability but that we long for certainty, and create it for ourselves.This book will be of great interest to psychoanalTrade Review"As always, reading Ronald Britton is a mental treat. In this new edition he updates his views with more clinical evidence and reflection and his current interest in neuroscience. As he puts it, ‘It is clearer to me now that the scientific context from which psychoanalysis first emerged has changed radically and that it needs to take account of it.’ The book is packed with clinical insight, his superbly articulate way of making theory relevant and his mastery of language and turns of phrase. It’s essential reading for anyone who wants to practice real psychoanalysis." Professor David Tuckett, Department of Science, Technology and Public Policy, University College London, Fellow, Institute of Psychoanalysis, London"Ronald Britton’s papers over the past 30 years have been beacons of clarity and creativity. He has reformulated Kleinian thinking in the same paradigm shift way that Bion did 60 years ago. I have learnt more from his writings than any other member of our Society writing today." Professor Peter Fonagy, Fellow, Institute of Psychoanalysis, Professor of Psychoanalysis, and Director, Mental Health Programme, University College London"Ronald Britton’s work demonstrates an independence of thought that to me exemplifies one of his finest ideas, namely the emancipation of the ego from the dominance of the super-ego. The ego judges what ‘is’ while the super-ego is concerned with what ‘should be.’ As a leading thinker of his generation Britton exemplifies his own emancipation as he escapes from the tyranny of conventional thinking to break new ground. This is shown in abundance in this important book, now skilfully updated." Dr. John Steiner, Distinguished Fellow, British Psychoanalytical Society"As always, reading Ronald Britton is a mental treat. In this new edition he updates his views with more clinical evidence and reflection and his current interest in neuroscience. As he puts it, ‘It is clearer to me now that the scientific context from which psychoanalysis first emerged has changed radically and that it needs to take account of it.’ The book is packed with clinical insight, his superbly articulate way of making theory relevant and his mastery of language and turns of phrase. It’s essential reading for anyone who wants to practice real psychoanalysis." Professor David Tuckett, Department of Science, Technology and Public Policy, University College London, Fellow, Institute of Psychoanalysis, London"Ronald Britton’s papers over the past 30 years have been beacons of clarity and creativity. He has reformulated Kleinian thinking in the same paradigm shift way that Bion did 60 years ago. I have learnt more from his writings than any other member of our Society writing today." Professor Peter Fonagy, Fellow, Institute of Psychoanalysis, Professor of Psychoanalysis, and Director, Mental Health Programme, University College London"Ronald Britton’s work demonstrates an independence of thought that to me exemplifies one of his finest ideas, namely the emancipation of the ego from the dominance of the super-ego. The ego judges what ‘is’ while the super-ego is concerned with what ‘should be.’ As a leading thinker of his generation Britton exemplifies his own emancipation as he escapes from the tyranny of conventional thinking to break new ground. This is shown in abundance in this important book, now skilfully updated." Dr. John Steiner, Distinguished Fellow, British Psychoanalytical Society"The importance of Ronald Britton’s original contributions to the development of psychoanalytic thinking - both theoretical and clinical, and also as applied to artistic creativity through his studies of literature - is beyond question. This new edition brings back the excellence of the first, further enriched by the result of a continuous process of lively rethinking..." - Ignês Sodré, The International Journal of PsychoanalysisTable of ContentsIntroduction PS(n+1); Part 1: Hysteria; 1. Hysteria I: Anna O: getting in on the act; 2. Hysteria II: Sabina Spielrein, sex, death and psychoanalysis; Afterthoughts: on the concept of the death instinct; 3. The erotic counter-transference; 4. Phallic idealisation in women; Afterthoughts: on sex and gender; Part 2: The ego and the superego; 5. The concept of the ego; 6. Emancipation of the superego; 7. An "internal saboteur" masquerading as a superego; 8. Humour and the superego; Part 3: Narcissism; 9. Libidinal and destructive narcissism; 10. Narcissistic problems in sharing space; 11. PS(n+1): Brain, mind and self
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Illusion Disillusion and Irony in Psychoanalysis
Book SynopsisIllusion, Disillusion, and Irony in Psychoanalysis explores and develops the role of illusion and daydream in everyday life, and in psychoanalysis. Using both clinical examples and literary works, idealised illusions and the inevitable disillusion that is met when reality makes an impact, are carefully explored. Idealised phantasies which involve a timeless universe inevitably lead to disillusion in the face of reality which introduces an awareness of time, ageing, and eventually death. If the illusions are recognised as phantasy rather than treated as fact, the ideal can be internalised as a symbol and serve as a measure of excellence. Steiner shows that the cruelty of truth needs to be recognised, as well as the deceptive nature of illusion, and that relinquishing omnipotence is a critical and difficult developmental task that is relived in analysis. Illusion, Disillusion, and Irony in Psychoanalysis will be of great use to the psychoanalyst or psychotherapist seeking to understand the patientâs withdrawal into a phantasy world, and the struggle to allow the impact of reality.Trade Review"This latest book of John Steiner is a rich collection of essays on themes that he has developed since his ground-breaking concepts of pathological organisations and psychic retreats. He has, in this book, enlarged on the emergence in the course of development, of an awareness of the loss of an ideal world. He draws on great clinical experience and wide and deep reading of literary sources, which makes his complex thinking, engaging, entertaining and a pleasure to read."Ronald Britton FRCPsych, Distinguished Fellow British Psychoanalytical Society. "The need to withdraw into a world of illusion, to create our own personal Garden of Eden is, Steiner shows us, ‘precisely what many of our patients do and the same is true of course for all of us since we are all patients and all have serious problems with reality.’ Nothing is both one thing and another in Steiner’s vision and this is best appreciated by those of us who are capable of embracing an ironic vision. It is irony that allows us simultaneously to empathize with our analysands and to observe them from our perspective as outsiders.Steiner moves gracefully from Sophocles to Milton to Ibsen, Keats, Cervantes, Shakespeare, and many others. At each stop we find ourselves surprised and enlightened by the way he develops his theme in the context of works that are long familiar to us." From the forward by Jay Greenberg, Training and Supervising Analyst, William Alanson White Institute; Editor, The Psychoanalytic Quarterly"This latest book of John Steiner is a rich collection of essays on themes that he has developed since his ground-breaking concepts of pathological organisations and psychic retreats. He has, in this book, enlarged on the emergence in the course of development, of an awareness of the loss of an ideal world. He draws on great clinical experience and wide and deep reading of literary sources, which makes his complex thinking, engaging, entertaining and a pleasure to read."Ronald Britton, Distinguished Fellow British Psychoanalytical Society "The need to withdraw into a world of illusion, to create our own personal Garden of Eden is, Steiner shows us, ‘precisely what many of our patients do and the same is true of course for all of us since we are all patients and all have serious problems with reality.’ Nothing is simply Lineas in Steiner’s vision; everything is both one thing and another, best appreciated by those of us who are capable of embracing an ironic vision. It is irony that allows us simultaneously to empathise with our analysands and to observe them from our perspective as outsiders. Steiner moves gracefully from Sophocles to Milton to Ibsen, Keats, Cervantes, Shakespeare, and many others. At each stop we find ourselves surprised and enlightened by the way he develops his theme in the context of works that are long familiar to us."Jay Greenberg, Training and Supervising Analyst, William Alanson White Institute; Editor, The Psychoanalytic Quarterly"Arguably the core of this book is Steiner’s discussion of Milton’s epic poem Paradise Lost, which is the subject of the first two chapters and is woven throughout many of the others. Its importance lies in its poetic rendering of what Steiner views as one of the fundamental psychological (recurrent) events of human life: the loss of an ideal state brought on through sometimes painful recognition of reality. One of the chief virtues of Steiner’s book is his illumination of some essential Kleinian motifs at the core of Milton’s text, which, in his discussion, renders them readily understandable to the uninitiated while also demonstrating their universality."Neal Vorus is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst New York City who specializes in adults, adolescents, and children, and has been in private practice since 1998. To read this review in full, please see the following: Vorus, N. (2021) Illusion, disillusion, and irony in psychoanalysis, by John Steiner, London, England, Routledge, 2020, 180 pp, $39.95, 9780367467012. International Journal of Psychoanalysis 102:826-831Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Credit lines Foreword by Jay Greenberg Introduction 1. The Garden of Eden Illusion: Finding and Losing Paradise 2. Learning from Milton: The Dangerous Gap Between the Real and the Ideal 3. The Brutality of Truth and the Importance of Kindness 4. The Use and Abuse of Omnipotence in the Journey of the Hero 5. Disillusion, Humiliation, and Perversion of the Facts of Life 6. The Unbearability of Being Feminine 7. The Sympathetic Imagination: Keats and the Movement in and out of Projective Identification 8. The Impact of Trauma on the Ability to Face Disillusion 9. Learning from Don Quixote 10. Reconciling Phantasy and Reality: The Redeeming Nature of Irony References Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Science and Art of Dreaming
Book SynopsisThe Science and Art of Dreaming is an innovative text that reviews the neuroscience and psychology of how dreams are produced, how they are recalled and their relationship to waking life events and concerns of the dreamer. Featuring beautiful original artwork based on dream representations, the book delves deeply into what happens when we dream, the works of art we produce when asleep and the relevance of dreaming to science, art and film. The book examines the biological, psychological and social causes of dreaming, and includes recent advances in the study of nightmares and lucid dreaming. It shows how sleep can process memories and that dreams may reflect these processes, but also that dreams can elicit self-disclosure and empathy when they are shared after waking. The playfulness, originality and metaphorical content of dreams also link them to art, and especially to the cultural movement that has most valued dreams Surrealism. The book details the historTrade Review'This unique collaboration between a dream researcher and an artist provides a comprehensive summary of decades of dream research and a novel idea for a function of dreaming, while at the same time celebrating the creativity and uniqueness of our dreams, along with beautiful artworks.' - Katja Valli, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Skövde, Sweden'Why we dream is a major question in neuroscience and psychology. Blagrove and Lockheart provide novel and compelling insights into this debate and extend it to the realms of our social world, art and evolution.' - Antonio Zadra, PhD, co-author of When Brains Dream 'Each chapter of this book presents major research findings while maintaining the personal touch of a dream relevant to each topic and Julia Lockheart’s evocative paintings to remind us how predominantly visual dreams are.' - Deirdre Barrett, PhD, Harvard Medical School, author of The Committee of Sleep and Pandemic Dreams'An innovative multidimensional work that dovetails highly creative artistic renderings of dreams with an authoritative account of current trends in dream research and theory.' - Tore Nielsen, PhD, Dream and Nightmare Laboratory, Montreal, Canada'This book accomplishes the rare feat of being delightful, informative, and provocative all at the same time. As one small example of its many insights, it argues that dreams may not have a function during sleep, but nonetheless may have been important in human evolution because our ancestors increasingly shared and discussed their dreams when they gathered around their nightly fires.' - G. William Domhoff, PhD, University of California Santa Cruz, author of The Neurocognitive Theory of Dreaming: The Where, How, When, What, and Why of Dreams"The Science and Art of Dreaming constitutes an utterly unique project. For centuries, poets and philosophers have explored how art functions like dreams; psychologists have analyzed how dreams resemble art. But has anyone till now both methodically and creatively responded to the universal phenomenon of dreaming by marrying art to research and theory, and putting science to the service of creative expression? Blagrove and Lockheart’s work literally illustrates our most common questions about dreams and dreaming with a selection of 22 dreams, accompanied by artworks that in their own way address the same issues as the explanatory text: Why are dreams so often bizarre? Why do they transport us to the past, and in such detail? Is Freud’s view still relevant? This book vividly justifies the appreciation of art associated with dreaming—Surrealism and oneiric cinema, for example—as intellectually on a par with the theoretical contributions and empirical research of science, and convincingly demonstrates the benefits of recalling and sharing dreams, especially for people in creative endeavors.Bernard Welt, PhD. Professor Emeritus, The Corcoran School of the Arts and Design, George Washington University. Author of Mythomania: Fantasies, Fables, and Sheer Lies in Contemporary American Popular Art; Co-author of Dreaming in the Classroom: Practices, Methods, and Resources in Dream Education Table of Contents1. What are Dreams and What Affects Dream Content? 2. Why do Some People Recall Dreams More than Others? 3. Nightmares. 4. Sleep. 5. Sleep and Memory. 6. Dreaming and the Brain. 7. Lucid Dreams. 8. Freud, Psychoanalysis and Dreams. 9. Freud and Dora. 10. How to Find Meaning in Dreams: the Montague Ullman Dream Appreciation Technique. 11. Dreaming and Insight. 12. Functions and Theories of Dreams. 13. Dream-Sharing and Empathy, a New Theory of Dream Function. 14. The DreamsID Science and Art Collaboration: Surrealism and the Socialising of Dreams. 15. Sleep and Dreaming During the Covid-19 Pandemic: Exploring and Painting Covid-19 and Lockdown Dreams. 16. Dreaming, Films and Surrealism. 17. Dream-Sharing, Evolution and Human Self-Domestication. 18. Conclusions and Summary. 19. References.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Gestalt Therapy Practice
Book SynopsisThis essential new book gives the reader an introduction to the fundamental concepts of gestalt therapy in a stimulating and accessible style. It supports the study and practice of gestalt therapy for clinicians of all backgrounds, reflecting a practice-based pedagogy that emphasises experiential learning.The content in this book builds on the curriculum taught at the Norwegian Gestalt Institute University College (NGI). The material is divided into four main sections. In the first section, the theoretical basis for gestalt therapy is presented with references to gestalt psychology, field theory, phenomenology, and existential philosophy. In the later parts, central theoretical terms and practical models are discussed, such as the paradoxical theory of change, creative adjustment, self, contact, contact forms, awareness, polarities, and process models. Clinical examples illustrate the therapy form's emphasis on the relational meeting between therapist and client.DetailTrade Review"The task of a good textbook is to provide the student with the most important information to support them to find access to their field of interest. Gro Skottun and Åshild Krüger´s book does more than just that. In a pleasantly readable and comprehensive way they introduce the Gestalt therapy trainee to the fundamental concepts of this approach. And – what is even more valuable – they do a wonderful job in presenting the various topics in an understandable manner without simplifying them, but by stimulating the interest of their readers so that they want to learn more about this lively and efficient form of psychotherapy. On each page it becomes obvious that this book was written by two experienced trainers, who love what they teach and who know how to captivate their students."Frank Staemmler, Psychologist and Gestalt therapist, Würzburg"In this important text, Gro Skottun and Åshild Krüger explore Gestalt’s revolutionary core concepts and historical underpinnings as well as its practical applications. Gracefully interweaving case vignettes within each chapter, readers discover the how of Gestalt therapy as they assimilate information not only through thinking, but also through feeling. The book will have a wide and receptive audience: Gestalt training institutes, graduate classes for mental health, masters and doctoral students, and practitioners from a variety of modalities. I highly recommend it."Ruella Frank, Founder and Director of the Center for Somatic Studies, New York"I have great respect for this book, both for the huge amount of serious work that the authors have put in on it and for the didactic style that allows even non-specialists to understand what gestalt therapy is. This work is a testament to the true dialogical attitude that the Norwegian institute has always had, through their exchange with many international teachers (including myself). And I particularly appreciate that it begins with a description of gestalt theory as a main root of gestalt therapy, since this is for the most part neglected. I consider this book a very good tool for all gestalt therapy students."Margherita Spagnuolo Lobb, Director Istituto di Gestalt HCC, ItalyTable of ContentsIntroduction Part 1: The Basis of Gestalt Therapy 01. Gestalt Psychology and Field Theory 02. Phenomenology and Existentialism 03. The Founders of Gestalt Therapy Part 2: Fundamental Terminology and Concepts 04. The Field in Practice 05. The Theory of Change 06. Creative Adjustment 07. The Theory of Self in Gestalt Therapy 08. Awareness 09. Contact and Contact Functions 10. Polarities 11. Experimenting Part 3: Contact Forms 12. Confluence 13. Introjection 14. Projection 15. Retroflection 16. Self-Monitoring 17. Deflection Part 4: Process Models 18. The Process of Contact 19. The Process of Experience 20. The Process of Change
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Blooming in December Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
Book SynopsisThis book covers the essentials of psychotherapeutic work with older adults, discussing how contemporary psychodynamic thought can be applied clinically to engage the older patient in psychotherapeutic work of depth and meaning, work that not only relieves suffering but also promotes growth.It describes the way the difficulties accompanying older age can affect psychological functioning and it examines the unique psychotherapeutic needs of this age group. Using clinical vignettes for illustrative purposes, it explores the psychotherapeutic challenges, tasks, techniques and accomplishments involved in the treatment of older adults. Topics discussed include the reemergence of earlier developmental challenges; the concurrent treatment of late life and revived early trauma; transference and countertransference; the functions of developing an enriched life narrative in restoring the self; existential issues; and mourning. Throughout, the focus is on what psychotherapy can do to help.The demand for mental health services for older adults is growing alongside increasing life spans, but the psychodynamic literature has neglected this population. Blooming in December: Psychodynamic Psychotherapy with Older Adults fills this gap, offering a clear guide to effective work with older adults for all psychotherapists and psychoanalysts.Trade Review"This wise, readable book finally rectifies the psychoanalytic community’s shameful inattention to – and devaluation of – psychotherapy with aging patients. As we boomers confront a life phase for which neither the dominant culture nor our countercultural ideologies prepared us, we look to psychotherapists for help (after all, one of our generation’s achievements was to destigmatize therapy). But before Schaffer’s contribution, otherwise well-trained psychoanalytic clinicians were ill-equipped to help us face the challenges, losses, and insults of getting old – not to mention its gratifications and rewards. All therapists should read this scholarly, insightful, clinically invaluable work." - Nancy McWilliams, PhD, ABPP, Rutgers University Graduate School of Applied & Professional Psychology"Amy Schaffer’s new book is a distinctive contribution to a frequently overlooked area—working psychoanalytically with the older adult. Schaffer convincingly challenges the agism inherent in the assumption that older patients are unable to engage in deep psychoanalytic work. She points to the limitations inherent in aging—choices have been made and cannot be un-made—yet reminds us of how much can nevertheless be done. Addressing a range of issues relevant to clinical work in general and aging in particular, Schaffer’s book is book in rich with clinical experience and wisdom. A must-read for all of us." - Joyce Slochower, PhD, NYU Postdoctoral Program "This seminal book is a welcome arrival that counters the psychoanalytic bias against the elderly concerning their potential for growth and change. Schaffer does not minimize the pain of aging. In fact, she deepens our appreciation for the ways in which physical, cognitive and emotional losses of later life impact the self. What is remarkable is her ability to acknowledge the reality of her patients’ experience while also helping them to know themselves better and find ways to grow. Her clinical illustrations expose the false dichotomy between supportive therapy and deep work, reflecting a humanity that is inspiring. Schaffer’s voice has the potential to empower the therapist of aging patients who encounters their plight with a sense of helplessness and despair." - Martin Stephen Frommer, PhD, Faculty, Stephen Mitchell Relational Study Center, Associate Editor, Psychoanalytic Dialogues"This wise, readable book finally rectifies the psychoanalytic community’s shameful inattention to – and devaluation of – psychotherapy with aging patients. As we boomers confront a life phase for which neither the dominant culture nor our countercultural ideologies prepared us, we look to psychotherapists for help (after all, one of our generation’s achievements was to destigmatize therapy). But before Schaffer’s contribution, otherwise well-trained psychoanalytic clinicians were ill-equipped to help us face the challenges, losses, and insults of getting old – not to mention its gratifications and rewards. All therapists should read this scholarly, insightful, clinically invaluable work." - Nancy McWilliams, PhD, ABPP, Rutgers University Graduate School of Applied & Professional Psychology"Amy Schaffer’s new book is a distinctive contribution to a frequently overlooked area—working psychoanalytically with the older adult. Schaffer convincingly challenges the agism inherent in the assumption that older patients are unable to engage in deep psychoanalytic work. She points to the limitations inherent in aging—choices have been made and cannot be un-made—yet reminds us of how much can nevertheless be done. Addressing a range of issues relevant to clinical work in general and aging in particular, Schaffer’s book is book in rich with clinical experience and wisdom. A must-read for all of us." - Joyce Slochower, NYU Postdoctoral Program "This seminal book is a welcome arrival that counters the psychoanalytic bias against the elderly concerning their potential for growth and change. Schaffer does not minimize the pain of aging. In fact, she deepens our appreciation for the ways in which physical, cognitive and emotional losses of later life impact the self. What is remarkable is her ability to acknowledge the reality of her patients’ experience while also helping them to know themselves better and find ways to grow. Her clinical illustrations expose the false dichotomy between supportive therapy and deep work, reflecting a humanity that is inspiring. Schaffer’s voice has the potential to empower the therapist of aging patients who encounters their plight with a sense of helplessness and despair." - Martin Stephen Frommer, Ph.D. Faculty, Stephen Mitchell Relational Study Center, Associate Editor, Psychoanalytic Dialogues Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Developmental Tasks of Later Life and the Resurrection of "Ghosts" 3. Trauma and Trauma Redux 4. Transference, Countertransference and the Therapist’s Personal Equation 5. The Narration of Life Stories and the Self 6. Existential Anxieties 7. Endings
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The PostBionian Field Theory of Antonino Ferro
Book SynopsisThis exciting and original collection explores Antonino Ferro's post-Bionian Field Theory, expanding upon the analytic work of Wilfred Bion to focus on the intersubjective development of psychic regulatory processes. Written by members of the Boston Group for Psychoanalytic Studies who have maintained a close and fruitful collaboration with Ferro and his colleagues, the book centers on understanding, engaging and treating primitive mental states. Ferro''s Field Theory operationalizes Bion's concept of an analyst who is not the repository of the truth', but is instead one who has the capacity to listen, to dwell in doubt, to utilize reverie, humor and play, and facilitate the transformation of previously unthinkable aspects of the patient's experience into articulatable mental elements such as pictorial images, thoughts and dreams. Ferro's contributions and their analysis are especially relevant to working with primitive character disorders, the difficulties of Trade Review"Howard Levine and his Boston group were among the first outside of Italy to become interested in the study of post-Bionian Field Theory. Marked by innovative theoretical elaborations and abundant clinical examples, this book is an important testimony to their many fruitful exchanges with Antonino Ferro and the Pavia school. I warmly recommend it to psychotherapists and psychoanalysts at all levels, who are in search of new and versatile working tools to devote to the treatment of psychic suffering." – Giuseppe Civitarese, author of Sublime Subjects: Aesthetic Experience and Intersubjectivity in Psychoanalysis (Routledge)."Ferro’s integration of Baranger’s field theory, Bion’s theory of transformations and his own concept of co-narratives has had a profound effect on psychoanalysis worldwide. This book shows experienced analysts at work offering readers a clear history, conceptual description elaboration and clinical application of Ferro’s seminal ideas, as it plunges us into zones that are the core of our analytic interactions and psychic life. Levine and the other authors’ success in integrating fundamental European, American and South-American concepts in their approach makes this book truly unique." – Rudi Vermote, author of Reading Bion (Routledge), training and supervising analyst, Belgian Psychoanalytic Society.'Howard Levine and his Boston Group were among the first outside of Italy to become interested in the study of post-Bionian Field Theory. Marked by innovative theoretical elaborations and abundant clinical examples, this book is an important testimony to their many fruitful exchanges with Antonino Ferro and the Pavia School. I warmly recommend it to psychotherapists and psychoanalysts at all levels, who are in search of new and versatile working tools to devote to the treatment of psychic suffering.'– Giuseppe Civitarese, author of Sublime Subjects: Aesthetic Experience and Intersubjectivity in Psychoanalysis (Routledge)'Ferro’s integration of Baranger’s Field Theory, Bion’s theory of transformations and his own concept of co-narratives has had a profound effect on psychoanalysis worldwide. This book shows experienced analysts at work offering readers a clear history, conceptual description, elaboration and clinical application of Ferro’s seminal ideas, as it plunges us into zones that are the core of our analytic interactions and psychic life. Levine and the other authors’ success in integrating fundamental European, American and South American concepts in their approach makes this book truly unique.'– Rudi Vermote, author of Reading Bion (Routledge), training and supervising analyst, Belgian Psychoanalytic SocietyTable of Contents1. The Transformational Vision of Antonino Ferro 2. The Logic of the Field 3. Post-Bionian Field Theory: An Illustration 4. Dreaming Upstream: Pictograms and the Field 5. An Invitation to Think: Trauma, Aporia and the Intersubjective Field – A Clinical Example 6. The Hallucinated Field 7. E Pluribus Unum: Origins of the Analytic Field 8. Field Theory and Child Work: Playing on Separate and Overlapping Fields 9. Coda: The Field of the Future, the Future of the Field
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Traumatic Narcissism and Recovery
This book looks at the trauma suffered by those in relationships with narcissists, covering topics such as surviving a cult, dysfunctional families, political dysfunction, and imbalances of power in places of work and education.This new volume by author and psychoanalyst Daniel Shaw revisits themes from his first book, Traumatic Narcissism: Relational Systems of Subjugation. Shaw offers further reflections on the character and behavior of the traumatizing narcissist, the impact such persons have on those they abuse and exploit and the specific ways in which they instill shame and fear in those they seek to control. In addition, this volume explores, with detailed clinical material, many of the challenges mental health professionals face in finding effective ways of helping those who have suffered narcissistic abuse. From within a trauma informed, relational psychoanalytic perspective, Shaw explores themes of attachment to internalized perpetrators, self-alienation, int
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Accessing the Clinical Genius of Winnicott A
Book SynopsisDonald Winnicott, psychoanalyst and pediatrician, is viewed by many in the psychodynamic field as the âœother geniusâ in the history of psychodynamic theory and practice, along with Freud. This book selects and explores twelve of his most infl uential clinical papers.Winnicottâs works have been highly valued in the decades since they were first published, and are still relevant today. Winnicottâs writings on the goals and techniques of psychodynamic psychotherapy have been foundational, in that he recast Freudian- and Kleinian-infl uenced thinking in the direction of the more relational schools of psychotherapy that define current 21st-century psychodynamic practice. Winnicottâs writings help us to understand the maturational processes of children, certainly. But more than that, they help us to understand how best to intervene when the enterprise of childhood leads to compromises of psychological health in later years. Yet, despite Winnicottâs influence and continuing relevance, his writings, while at some level simple, are elusive to modern readers. For one thing, he writes in the psychoanalytic genre of the 1930s-1960s, whose underlying theoretical assumptions and vocabulary are obscure in the present day and, for another, his writing often reflects primary process thinking, which is suggestive, but not declarative. In this work, Teri Quatman provides explanations and insight, in an interlocution with Winnicottâs most significant papers, exploring both his language and concepts, and enabling the clinician to emerge with a deep and reflective understanding of his thoughts, perspectives, and techniques.Engaging and accessible, Accessing the Clinical Genius of Winnicott will be of great use to anyone encountering Winnicott for the first time, particularly in psychodynamic psychotherapeutic training, and in the teaching of relational psychotherapies.Table of Contents1. Mind and its Relation to the Psyche-Soma [1949] 2. Primitive Emotional Development [1945] 3. Hate in the Counter-Transference [1949] 4. Transitional Objects and Transitional Phenomena: A Study of the First Not-Me Possession [1953] 5. The Antisocial Tendency [1956] 6. Primary Maternal Preoccupation [1956] 7. Ego Distortion in Terms of True and False Self [1960] 8. The Aims of Psycho-Analytical Treatment [1962] 9. Notes on Ego Integration in Child Development [1962] 10. Mirror-role of Mother and Family in Child Development [1967] 11. The Use of an Object [1969] 12. Fear of Breakdown [1974]
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Impasse and Interpretation
Book SynopsisHerbert Rosenfeld makes a powerful case both for the intelligibility of psychotic symptoms and the potential benefits of their treatment by psychoanalytic means. Trade Review"This book is as valuable to the author's critics as it is to the many people who have followed his approach and who have tried to model their own clinical practice on some of his leading ideas. Its expository value has been greatly enhanced by careful editing, with the result that the author's ideas are available in a form that can be readily assimilated ... Rosenfeld's approach to the treatment of psychoses is an individual one, and this book is a valuable and coherent contribution to its understanding." - British Journal of Medical PsychologyTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. Part One: Introduction. A Psychoanalytic Approach to the Treatment of Psychosis. Part Two: The Analyst's Contribution to Successful and Unsuccessful Treatment. Some Therapeutic and Anti-therapeutic Factors in the Functioning of the Analyst. Breakdown of Communication between Patient and Analyst. Part Three: The Influence of Narcissism on the Analyst's Task. The Narcissistic Omnipotent Character Structure: A Case of Chronic Nypochondriasis. Narcissistic Patients with Negative Therapeutic Reactions. Destructive Narcissism and the Death Instinct. The Problem of Impasse in Psychoanalytic Treatment. Part Four: The Influence of Projective Identification on the Analyst's Task. Projective Identification in Clinical Practice. Projective Identification and the Problem of Containment in a Borderline Psychotic Patient. Further Difficulties in Containing Projective Identification. Projective Identification and the Psychotic Transference in Schizophrenia. Projective Identification and Counter-transference Difficulties in the Course of an Analysis with a Schizophrenic Patient. Part Five: Conclusion. Afterthought: Changing Theories and Changing Techniques in Psychoanalysis. Appendix: on the Treatment of Psychotic States by Psychoanalysis - An Historical Approach. References. Indexes.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) PsychoAnalytic Insight and Relationships A
Book SynopsisIn this classic text, Isca Salzberger-Wittenberg demonstates through theoretical exposition and the use of case material the ways in which Melanie Klein's main concepts and theories illuminate the practice of social casework.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements. Introduction. Part I:Aspects of a Relationship. Feelings the Caseworker Brings to the Relationship with the Client. Feelings the Client Brings to the Relationship. Transference and Counter-transference. Phantasy. Love, Hate and Conflict. Interaction. Part II:Conflict Anxieties and Defences. Persecutary Anxieties and Defences Against Them in the Adult, Child and Infant. Depressive Anxieties and Defences Against them in Adult, Child and Infant. Anxieties Related to Loss and Mourning. Admiration and Envy. Part III:Gaining Insight and Applying it in the Casework Relationship. Gaining Insight. Therapeutic Interaction. Some Thoughts on the Responsibility and Burden of Casework. Suggestions for Further Reading. Bibliography.
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