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Taylor & Francis Ltd Psychology and Alchemy
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Taylor & Francis THE COLLECTED WORKS OF C. G. JUNG Symbols of Transformation Volume 5
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Carl Jung and the Evolutionary Sciences
Book SynopsisThis book revaluates Carl Jung's ideas in the context of contemporary research in the evolutionary sciences.Recent work in developmental biology, as well as experimental and psychedelic neuroscience, have provided empirical evidence that supports some of Jung's central claims about the nature and evolution of consciousness. Beginning with a historical contextualisation of the genesis of Jung's evolutionary thought and its roots in the work of the 19th century Naturphilosophen, the book then outlines a model of analytical psychology grounded in modern theories of brain development and life history theory. The book also explores research on evolved sex based differences and their relevance to Jung's concept of the anima and animus.Seeking to build bridges between analytical psychology and contemporary evolutionary studies and associated fields, this book will appeal to scholars of analytical and depth psychology, as well as researchers in the evolutiona
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Taylor & Francis Ltd A Psychoanalytic Reflection on Narcissistic
Book SynopsisA Psychoanalytic Reflection on Narcissistic Parenthood and its Ramifications: The Forgotten Echo proposes a new perspective on narcissism, focusing on its destructive impact within relationships.Hila Yahalom discusses the patterns and ramifications of traumatizing upbringing by narcissistic parents, exploring the resulting development of a defensive-behavioral pattern and personality structures in the child which constitutes a mirror image of narcissism. Yahalom assesses a wide range of psychoanalytic theories in presenting a broad outlook on narcissism, its roots, and the manner by which pathological narcissism may manifest in interpersonal relationships as narcissistic abuse'. This book considers the narcissist's perverted occupation of the psychic space of others, with both participants usually blind to the phenomenon a blindness that is reenacted in therapy, affecting its course. This book contains clinical vignettes from the author's work as well as examples from
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Pregnancy Assisted Reproduction and
Book SynopsisPregnancy, Assisted Reproduction, and Psychoanalysis reflects on contemporary views on pregnancy, while offering guidance on how to work with women and couples experiencing infertility as well as the unique issues raised by having a child through assisted reproduction technologies.Comprised of chapters written by eminent analysts working with infertile couples and women, and parents who have a child born from assisted reproduction, this book offers insightful ways to better understand the challenges these patients undertake and the various issues this might bring into the analytic room. The contributors examine the myriad psychic problems subjects are confronted with which could impact their ability to bond with children born through ART: the mourning processes infertility entails, the identification with the fertile parental couple, the unconscious representation of origin, the representation of the primal scene, and the process of symbolic affiliation. They consider
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Trauma and Pain Without a Subject
Book SynopsisTrauma and Pain Without a Subject explores the necessity of the subject of trauma emerging, particularly when a victim has experienced but not worked through disruptive situations, in order for unconscious pain to finally be experienced.The book is presented in three parts, with the first, Transgression and Crime, uncovering silence around the topic of incest and sexual violence within the clinic. The second part, Between Completeness and Nothingness, develops the topic of sexual violence and considers the construction of femininities and masculinities within the paradigm of a heteronormative patriarchal society, with reference to Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing. The third part, Yes, We See, But What? What We Hear, explores the intimate relation between the visual and the auditory, especially in relation to hysteria.Trauma and Pain Without a Subject will be of great interest to psychoanalysts in practice and in training, and to all psychoanaly
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Taylor & Francis Ltd New Tools for Psychoanalysis
Book SynopsisBringing together the findings from psychoanalysts across the globe, this book introduces and describes the research practices utilised by the Working Parties that were created by the European Psychoanalytical Federation and later supported by the International Psychoanalytical Association.The book opens with a discussion of the epistemology of research in psychoanalysis, then the various Working Parties describe their methodology and findings, and finally, in the last chapter, an assessment is made of what contributions this oxygenating movement has made to psychoanalysis. It examines topics including individual and group work, supervision, clinical interpretation, erotic transference and psychosomatics, and contains contributions from many distinguished analysts.Providing a wealth of information on the place of research in evaluating new clinical methods and tools, this book is key reading for psychoanalysts both in practice and in training.Trade Review'New Tools for Psychoanalysis is a remarkable book that describes the history, development and the different forms of one of the most creative achievements of psychoanalysis supported and stimulated by IPA: the working parties. The editors and contributors are the analysts who developed and currently chair the working parties; each chapter is a true masterclass richly illustrated with clinical material. I strongly recommend the reading of this comprehensive and scholarly-written new book, which shows the vitality of contemporary psychoanalysis. As someone who took part in the collective effort to develop this fascinating new psychoanalytic tool, I am sure that the readers will enjoy the symbiosis of scientific method and aesthetic experience that the book provides.'Cláudio Laks Eizirik, former president of the IPA'The Working Parties were and are the most courageous, innovative and creative experiment of mutual knowledge and theoretical-clinical fertilisation in the psychoanalytic community. By periodically confronting live clinical material provided by analysts from all over the world, groups of geographically and culturally heterogenous colleagues have been able to evolve individually and at the same time have contributed to substantial collective progress in our scientific field. This book, written by yesterday's and today's protagonists of this wonderful adventure, is absolutely recommendable as a fundamental text for understanding contemporary psychoanalysis.'Stefano Bolognini, former president of the IPA, founder of the Inter-Regional Encyclopedic Dictionary of Psychoanalysis'Twenty years ago, the European Psychoanalytic Federation initiated a series of working parties to study psychoanalysis psychoanalytically. They were to focus on psychoanalytic data such as case presentations and employ psychoanalytic methods such as free associative listening. The project has since been taken over by the International Psychoanalytic Association, has expanded around the world, and has become a dominant theme in the intellectual life of the profession. This volume, the creation of 31 leading psychoanalysts, presents a valuable summary of ten of these working parties and provides the foundation for the next stage of inquiry in psychoanalysis.' Robert Michels, MD, Walsh McDermott University professor of Medicine and Psychiatry, Weill Cornell Medicine; president, Board of Directors, The Psychoanalytic Quarterly; former joint editor-in-chief, The International Journal of PsychoanalysisTable of Contents1. Introduction: New Tools of Psychoanalysis 2. End of Training Project/Mind of the Supervisor: Situations with Institutional Impingement 3. The Specificity of Psychoanalytic Treatment Today: Research by the Paris Group 4. The Comparative Clinical Methods Working Party - Passion in the Consulting Room: Analysts' Approaches to Erotic Transferences 5. Working Party on Initiating Psychoanalysis: Understanding the Research Method as Providing a Container for Developing Thinking 6. Working Party on Faimberg's Method for the Group Discussion of Clinical Material: Listening to Listening 7. The Working Party "Microscopy of the Analytic Session: Developing the Capacity for Clinical Investigation (Dreaming, Interpreting, Validating and Theorising) 8. Free Clinical Groups - A Peer Group-Centred Method for Evaluating: Options of Interpretation 9. Working Party on Psychosomatics - EPF: "A Journey of Exploration" (2012-2020) 10. The Three-Level Model: History, Mandate, Rationale and an Extended Case Study Exploring Change in a Patient in Psychoanalysis with the Three-Level Model (3-LM) 11. In its More Than 10 Years of Existence, What Contributions have Working Parties Brought to Psychoanalsis and Psychoanalytic Research?
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Taylor & Francis Freudâs Principal Case Studies Revisited
Book SynopsisFreudâs Principal Case Studies Revisited explores Freudâs six principal case studies studies - Dora, Little Hans, Schreber, Wolf Man, Rat Man and Young Homosexual Girl - through the lens of contemporary psychoanalytic practice.Thirteen leading Freudian-Lacanian psychoanalysts reassess these cases in light of their significance to psychoanalytic theory and practice and consider their relevance in the twenty-first century. With new case material, theory, and analysis, the cases are critically re-invigorated and restored to a privileged place within psychoanalysis. Each of the cases is approached via a pairing of two psychoanalysts who engage with the clinical material, as well as with each other, in addressing their contributions to an assembled audience of clinicians, trainees and scholars. Freudâs Principal Case Studies Revisited will be of great interest to psychoanalysts in practice and in training as well as psychologists, psychotherapists and psychiat
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Youth Mental Health Crises and the Broken Social
Book SynopsisThis book critically examines the circumstances surrounding the failure of rites of passage in U.S. society and its relationship with the mental health crisis overtaking youth in America today.The book develops a Freudian understanding of rites of initiation and the larger social link, based on Freud's psychoanalytic myths read through a Lacanian lens. It further surveys the deterioration of common civil identifications in the United States, the advancement of consumer capitalism in the late 20th century, and the development of social media in the 21st century as each composing a tectonic shift destabilizing the traditional function of the rite of initiation. As a result, adolescents today have no reliable method of entering the social link through symbolic identification, nor the ability to use it to bind their libido. The book traces the clinical consequences of this failure to the recent waves of mass psychogenic illness in adolescents, the rocketing increase in psychiatri
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Taylor & Francis The Art of Jungian Couples Therapy
Book SynopsisWithin this accessible volume, Nelson and Delmedico apply a Jungian approach to provide fresh ways of thinking about couples therapy, and the profound unconscious forces at play when couples create a life together.The Art of Jungian Couples Therapy offers new perspectives into thinking about what is happening in the consulting room, which the authors re-imagine as a sacred space or 'temenos' guiding partners toward psychological wholeness, or what Jung termed the Self. The book offers welcome insights into how therapists can work with the complex and often intense energies that arise when two people cross the threshold of the clinical space. As âœartâ in the title suggests, it draws the therapist's attention to the souls of the partners and the soul of the relationship itself.Firmly grounded in Jungian thought yet intimate, approachable, and up to date, the book will be an indispensable guide for professional marriage and family therapists, psychoanalysts from both Jungian and Freudian schools, counseling psychologists, and licensed social workers who already practice couples therapy or have considered working with couples.
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Taylor & Francis Problems of Psychoanalytic Technique in Freud and
Book SynopsisProblems of Psychoanalytic Technique in Freud and Lacan contributes to the everyday work of contemporary psychoanalysts through a critical examination of psychoanalytic technique.Bruno Bonoris revisits and questions key concepts, including free association, evenly suspended attention, transference, interpretation, and construction, with reference to Freud, Lacan, and the work of contemporary philosophers, psychologists, and psychoanalysts. The book considers four fundamental questions about the notion of text in order to rethink psychoanalytic technique, elucidating essential technical concepts while also introducing important modifications. Bonoris recovers the pragmatic spirit of early literature on psychoanalytic technique, oriented toward everyday clinical problems, using simple but powerful language with the added conceptual rigor of Lacan''s ideas.Problems of Psychoanalytic Technique in Freud and Lacan is essential reading for stu
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Taylor & Francis Exploring Eating Disorders Through Psychoanalysis
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Taylor & Francis Bions Transformations Revisited and Expanded
Book SynopsisIn this illuminating volume, Arnaldo Chuster provides a thorough critique of Wilfred Bion's seminal 1965 work, Transformations. Offering a rich and nuanced opportunity to enhance one's understanding of this pivotal psychoanalytic text, Chuster establishes a link between the practice of psychoanalysis and Bion's advanced theory, including the key challenges he encountered in the clinical setting with patients. Working through Transformations, Chuster embarks on a courageous journey to follow Bion's path in creating a dialogue between multiple disciplines, explicating and expanding upon the core concepts of different types of transformation. Chuster recognizes Transformations as a pivotal point in Bion's publications, highlighting the profound manifestations of complex thinking it exhibits. Following the complexities of Bion's ideas, the book offers invaluable insights and expansions on topics such as ethics, aesthetics, and their application in imagina
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Taylor & Francis The Hour of Birth
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Taylor & Francis The Subversive Edge of Psychoanalysis
Book SynopsisThe Subversive Edge of Psychoanalysis examines the radical and non-conformist perspectives of both classical and contemporary psychoanalysis. The chapters included in this book span the course of David James Fisher's career. They contextualize significant cases from the recent history of psychoanalysis, critically analyse key aspects of psychoanalytic work, consider the role of psychoanalysis in the history of the twentieth century, and provide biographical sketches of major figures in the field. The book concludes with a cogent interview of the author by a distinguished psychohistorian, depicting how subjectivity, family themes, politics, and cultural affinities marked his choice of subject matter and methodology, his identifications, and antipathies.The Subversive Edge of Psychoanalysis will appeal to mental health professionals and students with an interest in psychoanalytic practice and theory and academics and researchers who are fascinated by t
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Taylor & Francis Against Catastrophism
Book SynopsisAgainst Catastrophism explores catastrophism from multiple vantage points and considers the impact of ongoing crisis on individuals.Bringing together contributors from psychoanalysis, economics, anthropology, and gastroenterology, this book explores themes including fossil fuel culture, social movements like Extinction Rebellion, the COVID-19 pandemic, media messaging, and the future of food supply chains. By assessing the value of a constant barrage of information about catastrophes and considering the need for a containing environment, the chapters explore how we can avoid endorsing a closed-off vision of the future and instead unlock possibilities. The book concludes with a discussion of optimism, radical hope, and how we can put forward a new narrative on nature.Against Catastrophism will be of great interest to psychoanalysts, psychologists, psychiatrists, economists, anthropologists, sociologists, food scientists, environmentalists, ecologists, poli
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Taylor & Francis Inside Psychosis
Book SynopsisThis book offers an introductory overview of treatment of psychosis in in-patient acute ward settings, looking at both male and female wards. Taking a broadly psychoanalytic perspective, the book explores the organizational dynamics on male and female acute wards, exploring both patient and staff dynamics. Containing detailed case studies from across male and female psychiatric wards in London, the author sets out how psychoanalytic concepts such as transference, questions of trauma, and issues of gender can shape both the presentation of psychosis and our understanding and treatment of it. The book then explores the part played by religion in psychosis and equips readers with ideas for future practice and training on psychosis. With clear guidance on how to understand and work with psychosis in an inpatient setting, and how many unconscious factors can affect patients and staff, this is key reading for psychiatrists, psychoanalysts and therapists, clinical psychologists, and other mental health professionals working in inpatient acute care and community settings.
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Taylor & Francis The Concept of the Individual in Psychoanalysis
Book SynopsisThe Concept of the Individual in Psychoanalysis considers the different conceptions of the individual that are found in psychoanalysis according to the culture in which it operates, and its political structure.Considering the origins and use of concepts including the Ego, the Self, the Subject, and the Person, Raul Moncayo integrates Lacanian analysis with Freudian and Jungian theory, philosophy, and religion. Moncayo expands on the concepts in different cultures and political structures, including English, French, German, and Chinese. The book also considers the concept of the self as used by Winnicott, Kohut, and Lacan.The Concept of the Individual in Psychoanalysis will be of great interest to psychoanalysts in practice and in training, and to academics and students of Lacanian and psychoanalytic studies.
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Taylor & Francis The Psychoanalysis of Aesthetic Experience
Book SynopsisIn The Psychoanalysis of Aesthetic Experience: Self, Relationship and Culture, George Hagman eloquently provides an overview of ideas regarding the aesthetic foundation of human experience and the way in which this aesthetic perspective can shed light on human development, culture, and analytic clinical process. The book discusses the relationship between the psychology of art and the aesthetics of psychoanalytic treatment. Hagman presents a comprehensive psychoanalytic model of the psychology of aesthetics, creativity, beauty, ugliness and the sublime, as well as a theory of aesthetics across the dimensions of subjectivity, self, intersubjectivity and culture. Starting from the point of early childhood development, he argues for the importance of exploring the implications of this important psychological phenomenon for clinical practice, highlighting how aesthetics can shed light on a dimension of the psychotherapeutic process which has thus been neglected.This book is an illuminating and informative read for all psychoanalysts, and anyone interested in the intersection of psychoanalytic practice, aesthetics, creativity and culture.
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Taylor & Francis Compassionate Relational Therapy
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Taylor & Francis A Phenomenology of the Alien
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Taylor & Francis Psychoanalysis for Children with ADHD
Book SynopsisIn Psychoanalysis for Children with ADHD, a group of eminent analysts highlight the positive impact that psychoanalytic work and the clinical space can have on children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. Thoroughly researched and informed by decades of work in the field, this volume includes contributions from well-known scientists and analysts such as FranÃois Gonon and Patrick Landman. Each contribution addresses sensitive and complex issues, including diagnostic criteria, behavioural problems and patterns, pharmacological intervention, ethical implications and the involvement of parents in treatment. Based on empirical data, the contributors offer a well-balanced critique of standardised approaches to ADHD, and make a case for psychoanalysis as an indispensable tool for both the child with ADHD and their caregivers. Throughout, the book shares the importance of the child having a safe space to explain, in their own words, their mind-body experience.
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Taylor & Francis Putting the Psychoanalytic Frame to Work
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Taylor & Francis Human Subjectivity Selfhood and Selfscapes
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Taylor & Francis Learning and Unlearning through the Clinical
Book SynopsisThis book examines the learning process of becoming a psychoanalytic practitioner and presents training experiences at the Tavistock Clinic through the lens of both teachers and trainees.The book describes the relevant history at the Tavistock Clinic and how psychoanalytic knowledge is acquired through a process of learning from experience and the fostering of a culture of enquiry. The contributors also present their interpretations of what is meant by analytic learning and how this is acquired so that a psychoanalytic attitude becomes possible. The book includes a mix of chapters by more experienced clinicians setting out what can be useful in training, balanced by other chapters from more recent trainees who reflect on their development and experience of that training. Other vitally important sections focus on the experience and importance of supervision, and on how to respond to clinical challenges in training and practice, specifically public sector-b
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Taylor & Francis Jungian and Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Christmas
Book SynopsisBy examining its history, traditions, symbols, and representation in the arts through the lens of three major schools of depth psychology, Kendrick L. Norris, a Jungian Analyst and minister, shows how better understanding of the promise of Christmas can allow us to discover what it is we long for most.Why does the winter celebration of Christmas have such a deep-rooted resonance, individually and collectively? This extensively researched book clearly and engagingly articulates the soul reasons why this holiday has such a significant impact on the human psyche. The work begins with an explanation about how depth psychology can be used to understand the Christmas phenomenon, followed by an investigation into the origins and symbols of Christmas. The book closes by delving into the soul meaning of Christmas through the perspectives of Freud, Kohut, and Jung.This volume will appeal to Jungian Analysts, psychoanalysts, and psychotherapists, as well as those interested in religion and its relation to depth psychology.
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Taylor & Francis Why Read Klein The Importance of Melanie Kleins
Book SynopsisWhy Read Klein? explores the importance of Melanie Kleinâs work to contemporary psychoanalysis, her contributions as a key early psychoanalyst and continued influence on contemporary psychoanalysts.Why read Melanie Klein? And why today? These are the questions that illuminate this book. Thinking about the transmission of Kleinâs legacy leads directly to the effects which her writings have been producing and to the infinity of authors that have followed her around the world. It is, therefore, a seminal work, whose conceptions contain seeds of future thoughts, arousing, nourishing, and creating a living posterity. There is no doubt that the reach of an author is measured in their posterity, in their ability to nourish thought and arouse new forms of therapeutic action and conceptual understandings. Driven by all this fecundity of Klein, we present, in this book, the reverberations of her work in various authors, classic and contemporary.This book is essential reading for both practicing and in training psychoanalysts and psychotherapists seeking a comprehensive understanding of Kleinâs work and its relevance to contemporary clinical thought.
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Taylor & Francis From Biology to Psychology in Jungian and
Book SynopsisThis ground-breaking book re-positions C.G. Jung's legacy, and the field of analytical psychology, within the panorama of contemporary knowledge in biology, psychology and anthropology, on the grounds of the role of affects and emotion as the foundation of all psychic activity.Within this new volume, Stefano Carta aims to provide a new, up-to-date way of understanding Jung's work and to show the effect his central positions can be understood much better in relation to topics such as the nature of the psyche, of the self, of the collective unconscious, and of archetypal theory. From an evolutionary and biological perspective, this book describes, with extensive substantiations and an original discussion, the transformation of the biological processes into psychological ones. Additionally, the book aims to identify current tendencies which view analytical psychology in increasingly reductionistic ways and reaffirm the dynamism of Jungâs paradigm.With international appeal
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Taylor & Francis A Jungian and Evolutionary Approach to Psychology
Book SynopsisThis ground-breaking book re-positions C.G. Jung's legacy, and the field of analytical psychology, within the panorama of contemporary knowledge in neurobiology, psychology, culture and anthropology.Within this new volume, Stefano Carta aims to provide a new, up-to-date way of understanding Jung's work and to show the effect his central positions can be understood much better in relation to topics such as the nature of the psyche, of the self, of the collective unconscious, and of archetypal theory. This book describes, with extensive substantiations and an original discussion, the transformation of psychological processes into cultural ones, leading to the formation of various forms of symbolic institutions.With international appeal and original and interdisciplinary in scope, this will be of great interest to Jungian scholars and analysts, as well as students and those on Jungian-oriented training courses.
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Taylor & Francis Old Before Their Time
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Taylor & Francis Coaching Approaches Compared
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Taylor & Francis Understanding Lacans Objet a
Understanding Lacanâs Objet a proposes that we modify the accepted approach to Lacan's ideas and strive to make Lacanian concepts accessible.Juan Pablo Lucchelli gradually introduces conceptual tools, following the emergence of this 'object of objects' step by step. The book makes clear the impact of the social in the genesis of objet a as a concept, with the inevitable sharing of the subject's being with others at its core. Lucchelli demonstrates that there can be no true autonomy of the individual without recognizing the dependence on the other; thus, like Winnicott's transitional object, Lacan's objet a is what connects us to others, despite the individualistic pretensions that emerge from the ego.This book will be essential reading both for Lacanian analysts in practice and in training, who wish to deepen their knowledge of the concept of the objet a, and for students of psychoanalysis, philosophy and psychology.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd War Trauma
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Taylor & Francis The Limits of Interpretation
Book SynopsisThe Limits of Interpretation opens a window onto unexplored dimensions of Wilfred Bionâs thought, presenting essays that illuminate both familiar and lesser-known facets of his work. It guides readers through complex notions such as visible-invisible hallucinations, bizarre objects, and a radical reframing of the Oedipus complexâshifted from incest and parricide to arrogance and the desire for knowledge. Taking various of Bion's key works in turn, Civitarese explores what is unique about Bion's thinking on essential topics such as projective identification, infantile development and intuition, to shed light on the continued importance of Bion's early work in particular for contemporary psychoanalysis. By focusing on Bionâs Kleinian-phase essays, this volume highlights their pivotal role in comprehending his entire theoretical landscape and how far they extend beyond traditional Freudian and Kleinian frameworks. It even poses the question: was Bion ever truly a Kleinian?Offering a close reading and clear interpretation of Bion's sometimes dense writing, this is essential reading for any psychoanalysts or psychotherapist wanting to understand Bion's work better.
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Taylor & Francis The Origins of SingleSession Therapy
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Cambridge University Press The Late Sigmund Freud
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Commitment and Compassion in Psychoanalysis
Book SynopsisOver the course of his distinguished career, Edward Weinshel has been a moral and intellectual force in contemporary psychoanalysis and an outspoken opponent of current trends in and out of the field toward dehumanization and deindividualization. Commitment and Compassion in Psychoanalysis, under the editorship of Robert Wallerstein, brings together 14 of Weinshel''s major papers. The six clinical papers reprinted in this collection address the kaleidoscope of common personality organizations and propensities which, in their extreme variants, motivate individuals to seek psychoanalytic assistance, covering topics that include neurotic equivalents of necrophilia, negation, lying, gaslighting (brainwashing), perceptual distortion during analysis, and inconsolability. These clinical expositions are supplemented by eight theoretical papers in which Weinshel gives expression to the metapsychological paradigm of ego pyschology as it existed in tTable of ContentsShengold, Edward M. Weinshel: A Mensch for All Seasons. Part I: Clinical Papers. On Certain Neurotic Equivalents of Necrophilia (1972, with Victor Calef). "I Didn't Mean It": Negation as a Character Trait (1977). Some Observations on Not Telling the Truth (1979). Some Clinical Consquences of Introjection: Gaslighting (1981, with Victor Calef). Perceptual Distortions During Analysis: Some Observations on the Role of the Superego in Reality Testing (1986). On Inconsolability (1989). Part II: Theoretical Papers. The Ego in Health and Normality (1970). The Transference Neurosis: A Survey of the Literature (1971). Reporting, Nonreporting, and Assessment in the Training Analysis (1973, with Victor Calef). The Analyst as the Conscience of the Analysis (1980, with Victor Calef). Some Observations on the Psychoanalytic Process (1984). Further Observations on the Psychoanalytic Process (1990). How Wide is the Widening Scope of Psychoanalysis and How Solid Is Its Structural Model? Some Concerns and Observations (1990). Therapeutic Technique in Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (1992).
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Getting From Here to There
Book SynopsisIt is clinical work with the most difficult patients - those with severe narcissistic, sadomasochistic, and borderline disorders - that poses the greatest challenge to the therapist''s guiding assumptions about clinical process; indeed, such work often leads therapists to question beliefs and expectations that formerly seemed self-evident. In Getting From Here to There: Analytic Love, Analytic Process, Sheldon Bach elaborates the holistic vision that guides him in work with just such patients. He dwells especially on the attentive presence through which the analyst effects a meeting with patients that invites the latter''s trust in the analyst and in the therapeutic process. And he writes of love - of patient for analyst and of analyst for patient - that grows out of this mutual trust and sustains therapeutic process. For Bach, analytic therapy aims at understanding the person as a mind-body unity that manifests particular states of consciousness.ThiTrade Review"Like a sculptor who can see the form hidden within the block of stone, Sheldon Bach—most recently in his third book on narcissism…opens our eyes to the underlying structure and dynamics of narcissistic disorders. Bach’s observations and formulations are presented in an accessible, engaging and deceptively simple way, but they reflect precision of observation, clarity and sophistication of thought, deep empathy for patients, and genuine clinical wisdom. He is clearly gifted as a healer, scientist, and teacher." ---Jay Frankel, PhD“Sheldon Bach lays bare the deep structure of psychoanalytic work, the process of developing awareness in the context of affective mutuality. His beautifully precise analysis provides an ecumenical and humane perspective on our psychic struggles and grants the essential analytic action of holding the other in mind its true significance. Presented with effortless lucidity, Getting From Here to There is a profound and practically useful integration of many strands in psychoanalytic history with contemporary understandings of attachment, regulation, and trauma.” - Jessica Benjamin, Ph.D., New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy“Bach explores the complexities, the ambiguities, and the importance of love in and out of the analytic situation. Getting From Here to There is full of clinical wisdom; more importantly, it uncovers the center of the analyst's emotional life.” - Steven J. Ellman, Ph.D., President, Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research"Reading Sheldon Bach's Getting From Here to There: Analytic Love, Analytic Process is an immersion into this master clinician and teacher's personal relationship with pscyhoanalysis. The gentle, rocking quality of his writing allows him to present new and far-reaching conceptualizations like a psychoanalytic lullaby, permitting the reader to relax and settle in, much as Bach's patients must. I recommend it to those in the first glow of love for psychoanalysis as well as to those who have loved it for a long, long time."- Gemma M. Ainslie, in PsycCRITIQUES, Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of BooksTable of ContentsPreface. Introduction. On Being Forgotten and Forgetting Oneself. Narcissism Revisited. Working With the Challenging Patient. A Mind of One's Own. On Getting From Here to There. Confusion in the Analytic Hour. Sadomasochism in Clinical Practice and Everyday Life. Two Ways of Being. Psychoanalysis and Love.
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Taylor & Francis Jungian Art Therapy
Book SynopsisJungian Art Therapy aims to provide a clear, introductory manual for art therapists on how to navigate Jungâs model of working with the psyche. This exciting new text circumambulates Jungâs map of the mind so as to reinforce the theoretical foundations of analytical psychology while simultaneously defining key concepts to help orient practitioners, students, and teachers alike. The book provides several methods, which illustrate how to work with the numerous images originating from the unconscious and glean understanding from them. Throughout the text readers will enjoy clinical vignettes to support each chapter and illuminate important lessons.Trade ReviewJungian Art Therapy carefully lays out Jung’s model of the psyche for the art therapist seeking to enrich their work through an integration of Jungian theory. Jungian analysts and psychotherapists will find a valuable introduction to the integration of expressive art therapy techniques with Jungian psychotherapy. Grounding theory in image, Swan-Foster effectively provides clinical examples throughout to forge a bridge between Analytical Psychology and art therapy. Well-conceived and actualized.Mark Winborn, PhD, Jungian psychoanalyst and author of Deep Blues: Human Soundscapes for the Archetypal Journey and Shared Realities: Participation Mystique and Beyond."This book actively imagines into the layers of transformation patiently waiting for those longing to awaken the innate forces of creative expression. Readers will feel gratitude for Swan-Foster’s generosity to competently synthesize the alchemical strands of art therapy with Jungian studies."Michael Franklin, PhD, ATR-BC, Naropa University"Nora Swan-Foster’s new book, Jungian Art Therapy, brings the concepts of Jungian thought combined with the principles of art therapy to the cutting edge. It will be appreciated by students, teachers and clinicians alike who are interested in learning how Jungian theory and art therapy together form a dynamic psychotherapeutic discipline. The book is timely in the field. A must read."Sondra Geller, Jungian Analyst, Art Therapist, Clinician, Lecturer"Nora Swan-Foster is a Jungian analyst, talented writer and a thoughtful clinician who has produced an excellent book summarizing analytical psychology as it relates to art therapy. This text will be especially helpful to new clinicians and students who will find her easy style and clear descriptions of theory well integrated with engaging case studies. This accessible volume will be essential reading in graduate training programs and analytic institutes. I will recommend it highly to my students." Linda Carter, MSN, CS, Jungian Analyst, Chair Art and Psyche Working Group, Past US Editor for Journal of Analytical Psychology. Table of ContentsTable of ContentsIntroductionMy Journey into Jungian PsychologyWhy this book?Navigation: Two Centuries, Two ParadigmsCircumambulating the StagesGatewayAttendingPassageThe Map of the BookJungian Art TherapyImages and the Interpretation of ImagesAffect, Emotion, and FeelingClient/patient/analysandEgoHe/SheMasculine and Feminine PrinciplesGenius Loci: Sacred SpaceEndnotesSection I: Gateway: Preparing to EngageChapter 1: A Jungian Landscape for Theory and PracticeLandmarks: Conscious, Unconscious, and the SymbolicJung, Signs, and SymbolsCircumambulation: An attitude for the Inner JourneyMandalasJung’s Structure of the PsycheThe Psyche as CircleConsciousnessEgoPersonaUnconsciousShadowComplexArchetypeAnima/AnimusThe Self: The Numinous PsychePsychoidPsychic EnergyEndnotesChapter 2: Jungian Art Psychotherapy: Creating Bridges to the PastJung’s Contributions: Analytical Psychology as a Framework for Jungian Art TherapyOrigins of Analytical PsychologyJung’s Separation from FreudJung’s Creative Descent and the Liber Novus—The Red Book—1913-1930A Journey into Art TherapyJung’s Influence on Art Therapy—American and BritishAmerican Art TherapyMargaret Naumburg: The Mother of Art TherapyNaumburg’s Academic AccomplishmentsFlorence CaneBritish Jungian Art Therapy and WithymeadChamperowne’s Early DaysEndnotesChapter 3: Psychic Energy: The Psyche’s Life ForceTwo Kinds of Thinking and Psychic EnergyPsychic EnergyTension of OppositesBody and the OppositesMovement of Psychic EnergyProgressive and Regressive EnergyAdaptationPrinciples of Constancy and EquivalenceIntensityJungian Art Therapy ExampleTransference/CountertransferencePsychic Energy and TeleologyEndnotesChapter 4: Synthetic Method and Transcendent Function and Art TherapyJung’s Synthetic MethodSubjectiveObjectiveAmplificationsArt Therapy and the Synthetic MethodTranscendent FunctionThe Role of the Transcendent FunctionConstellation of the Transcendent FunctionTranscendent Function and Restoration of PersonaFlorence Cane: Transcendent Function, OppositesTranscendent Function, Symbols, and Art TherapyThe Transcendent Function in Action: Jungian Art Therapy ExamplesStudentsArt and IndividuationJung’s Two Approaches Towards Images: Creative Formulation and meaningFacilitating the Transcendent FunctionEndnotesSection II: Attending: Engaging with the unconsciousChapter 5: Imagination: Creating Imaginal SpaceThe ImaginationHistory of ImaginationImagination and Symbolic ThinkingSymbolic Thinking—A Developmental ProcessProductive ImaginationDestructive Forces and ImaginationClinical Example of Destructive ImaginationLucinda’s Story: Imagination and Amor FatiEndnotesChapter 6: Complex Theory: The Material for TransformationThe Basic Nature of a ComplexImageAutonomousSplittingThe Structure of the ComplexCluster of ComplexesComplexes as Expression of EnergyComplexes, Emotions, and ImagesTina’s StoryComplexes, Emotions, and the BodyCarol’s StoryThe Purpose of ComplexesProgressive and Regressive ComplexesComplexes and MultiplicityComplexes and TraumaComplexes and Transference/CountertransferenceComplexes and Art MaterialsJungian Art Therapy ExampleEndnotesChapter 7: Archetypes: Anchors of the Mythic PatternDefinition of ArchetypesThe Structure of ArchetypesJung and ArchetypesHistoryJung’s Three Developments of the ArchetypeYears 1912-1934Years 1935-1945Years 1945-1961The Psychological Development of the ArchetypeHow Archetypes Influence ConsciousnessRebecca’s ImageThe Bipolar Archetype: Instinctual and Spiritual PolesMyth of Psyche: Instinctual and SpiritualInstinctualSpiritClaire’s StorySelf: Archetype as the Spiritual PoleThe Relationship Between Ego, Complexes, and ArchetypesHow Do We Recognize an Archetype?The Archetype of IndividuationJungian Art Therapy: John and EmergenceImportant Summary Points About ArchetypesEndnotesSection III: Passage: Engaging with ImagesChapter 8: Dreams and Art TherapyThe Importance of DreamsFreud and DreamsJung’s Approach to DreamsHow to Catch a DreamThe Structure of a DreamTypes of DreamsBasic Notes on DreamsDreams and ArtDreams Carry Energy and EmotionAnna’s Dream: Instinctual and SpiritualThe Story of Dawn: The Castle and The BridgeThe Bridge DreamAlternative Approaches to the Bridge DreamDreams of the PastDreams that SingNaomi and the Boy AnimusEllen and the FatherEndnotesChapter 9: Active Imagination and Art TherapyActive Imagination and the Pregnant SymbolActive Imagination—Experiencing the PsycheJung’s Red Book: The Discovery of Active ImaginationJung’s Method of Active ImaginationExample Dialogue with ArtVon Franz’s Method of Active ImaginationPost-Jungian Reflections and MethodsActive Imagination and Transitional SpaceActive Imagination and Transference/CountertransferenceCreating a Personal "Red Book" ProcessAn Example of Creating a "Red Book"ConclusionEndnotes
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Sigmund Freud
Book SynopsisJean-Michel Quinodoz introduces the essential life and work of Sigmund Freud, from the beginning of his clinical experiences in Vienna in the 1880s to his final years in London in the 1930s. Freud's discoveries, including universally-influential concepts like the Oedipus complex and the interpretation of dreams, continue to be applied in many disciplines today. Elegantly and clearly written, each chapter leaves the reader with a solid framework for understanding key Freudian concepts, and an appetite for further knowledge. Accessible for readers inside and outside the field of psychoanalysis, there is nothing at all equivalent in English.The book starts with Freud's life before the discovery of psychoanalysis, spanning from 1856 to 1900, when The Interpretation of Dreams was published. The subsequent chapters are devoted to the presentation of the key notions of psychoanalysis. A chronological perspective shows how Freud''s work has been constantly enriched by theTrade ReviewSigmund Freud is a book in which each chapter is a gem—a concise, very accessible rendering of the essence of Freud’s psychoanalytic thinking, accessible by readers within and outside of the field of psychotherapy. This is not a textbook or primer; it is an insightful discussion of some of the most important ideas to be launched in the twentieth century.Dr. Thomas Ogden (Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California)In his new, quite brief, book on Freud, Jean-Michel Quinodoz captures both the breadth and the depth of Freud’s work. It is not a superficial summary of Freud’s work, but rather a remarkable re-presentation and exploration of Freud's central psychoanalytic tenets that continue to underlie and inform our work today as psychoanalysts and psychotherapists.William F. Cornell (author of Explorations in Transactional Analysis)Jean Michel Quinodoz is able to distil complex ideas into something easily available to a wide audience without talking down to his readers. He has managed to cover in this small book the main lines of Freud’s oeuvre.Dr. Dana Birksted-Breen (British Psychoanalytical Society and The Institute of Psychoanalysis)Sigmund Freud is a book in which each chapter is a gem—a concise, very accessible rendering of the essence of Freud’s psychoanalytic thinking, accessible by readers within and outside of the field of psychotherapy. This is not a textbook or primer; it is an insightful discussion of some of the most important ideas to be launched in the twentieth century.Dr. Thomas Ogden (Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California)In his new, quite brief, book on Freud, Jean-Michel Quinodoz captures both the breadth and the depth of Freud’s work. It is not a superficial summary of Freud’s work, but rather a remarkable re-presentation and exploration of Freud's central psychoanalytic tenets that continue to underlie and inform our work today as psychoanalysts and psychotherapists.William F. Cornell (author of Explorations in Transactional Analysis)Jean Michel Quinodoz is able to distil complex ideas into something easily available to a wide audience without talking down to his readers. He has managed to cover in this small book the main lines of Freud’s oeuvre.Dr. Dana Birksted-Breen (British Psychoanalytical Society and The Institute of Psychoanalysis)Table of ContentsACKNOWLEDGEMENTSINTRODUCTIONA constantly evolving system of thought CHAPTER ONESigmund Freud from 1856 to 1900CHAPTER TWOHysteria and the discovery of psychoanalysisCHAPTER THREESelf-analysisCHAPTER FOURThe interpretation of dreamsCHAPTER FIVEManifestations of the unconscious in everyday lifeCHAPTER SIXInfantile sexualityCHAPTER SEVENThe Oedipus complex and the unconsciousCHAPTER EIGHTThe transference, the psychoanalytic setting and techniqueCHAPTER NINEFour of Freud's clinical observationsCHAPTER TENMetapsychology (Freud, 1915-1917)CHAPTER ELEVENThe fundamental conflict between the life drive and the death driveCHAPTER TWELVEThe ego, the id and the superegoCHAPTER THIRTEENThe fear of losing the loved, desired personCHAPTER FOURTEENPsychosis, disavowal of reality and ego-splittingCHAPTER FIFTEENReligion and civilization: pessimism or lucidity?CHAPTER SIXTEENSigmund Freud from 1900 to 1939BIBLIOGRAPHY
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Taylor & Francis Black Mirror
Book SynopsisGreg Singh presents the first academic book to explore Charlie Brookerâs dystopian television series Black Mirror. It explores the primary themes of the series - memory, surveillance, and consumer culture - through varied philosophical and psychological lenses, including post-Jungian thought. Linking Black Mirror to classic science fiction including Blade Runner and the Terminator franchise and modern phenomena such as trolling, this unique interdisciplinary examination of the cult series will appeal to scholars, students and fans alike.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Trauma and Primitive Mental States An Object
Book SynopsisTrauma and Primitive Mental States: An Object Relations Perspective offers a clinically based framework through which adult survivors of early childhood trauma can re-engage with painful past events to create meaningful futures for themselves.The book highlights the use of the body and the mind in working with these early unmentalized and unrepresented states, illustrating the value of finding language that embodies emotions, and working in the here and now of transference and counter-transference. Including a range of examples of how early trauma can thus be re-presented and clinically understood, the book illustrates how patients can discover themselves and leave their repetitive patterns of suffering behind.Written by a clinician with over 30 yearsâ experience, this will be fascinating reading for psychoanalysts and psychotherapists as well as any mental health professional working with childhood trauma. Trade Review"Vindicating Ferenczi’s contributions on the importance of early trauma, or what I have referred as "pre-conceptual trauma", Dr. Eekhoff has produced an insightful book much needed for the psychoanalytical understanding of psychopathology. This generous and well documented contribution, also proves using clinical material, how pre-conceptual traumas could induce with time, alexithymic reactions as well as somatic pathology, as if the body attempts to dream a repetitious undreamed dream. I highly recommend this book to all professionals in the field of mental health who are interested in the comprehension of psychic trauma." --Rafael E. López-Corvo, MD, Training and supervising psychoanalyst of the IPA, Venezuelan (ASOVEP), Canadian (CPS) and American (APsA) Psychoanalytical Associations."Dr Eekhoff presents us with her view that mental representations are not a given. The outcome relies – she argues - on the meeting of the baby’s innate dispositions and the parental function. Through the chapters of this valuable book we are invited to follow her study of a variety of clinical experiences and pathologies, from autism to trauma, where the function of representation went awry or was arrested and how she treated them. The reader will be met with a talented writer and psychoanalyst, which Eekhoff certainly is." --Dr. Robert Oelsner, Training and Supervising Analyst, Northwestern Psychoanalytic Society & Institute and the Psychoanalytic Training Institute of Northern California, Author & Editor, Transference and Countertransference Today."This book is a jewel that should be studied in all psychoanalytic seminars. It is a wonderful description of clinical experience with detailed theoretical explanations. Dr. Eekhoff describes severe pathologies from the moment of birth to adulthood. Her book provides clinical examples of object relations analytic work with patients whose representations of experience have been inadequate for emotional meaning making. Throughout the book, the excellent examples of countertransference and its use in the here and now are instructive. The patient obliges the psychoanalyst to feel, without words, what happened in the first months of life. Dr. Eekhoff has the courage to write that we all have somatic reactions, but that anything is possible to be analyzed and put into words. She is courageous when dealing with what is called non-analyzables when she says "this is not impossible to treat"."--Dr. David Rosenfeld, Ex-vice-president International Psychoanalytic Association - London, Consultant Professor of Psychiatry - Buenos Aires University, Training Analyst - Buenos Aires Psychoanalytic Society.Table of ContentsForeword Howard D. Levine, MDIntroductionChapter 1: Between Body and Mind: Transforming Physical Experience into Psychic Development in the Clinical SituationChapter 2: Affective Bridges Between Body and MindChapter 3: The Silent Transference: Clinical Reflections on Ferenczi, Klein, and BionChapter 4: Somatic CountertransferenceChapter 5: Finding a Center of Gravity via Proximity to the AnalystChapter 6: Infantile Trauma, Therapeutic Impasse, and RecoveryChapter 7: Finding the Impulse: Healing from Infantile TraumaChapter 8: The Body as a Mode of RepresentationBibliographyIndex
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Freud for Architects
Book SynopsisFreud for Architects explains what Freud offers to the understanding of architectural creativity and architectural experience, with case examples from early modern architecture to the present. Freud's observations on the human psyche and its influence on culture and social behavior have generated a great deal of discussion since the 19th century. Yet, what Freud's key ideas offer to the understanding of architectural creativity and experience has received little direct attention. That is partly because Freud opened the door to a place where conventional research in architecture has little traction, the unconscious. Adding to the difficulties, Freud's collection of work is vast and daunting. Freud for Architects navigates Freud's key ideas and bridges a chasm between architecture and psychoanalytic theory. The book highlights Freud's ideas on the foundational developments of childhood, developments on which the adult psyche is based. It explaiTable of Contents1. Introduction. The psyche, aesthetic experience, and architecture Reading Freud, psychoanalytic theory, and clinical practice. Social influence, psychotherapeutic design, wild analysis, and architectural "aeffects". Outline of the book. 2. Freud and modernity: selfhood and emancipatory self-determination. Freud and Vienna: modernity and culture. Contrasting architectural preferences in fin-de-siècle Vienna. The Interpretation of Dreams, 1900. Psychical selfhood and self-determination. Trauma, repression, architecture of screen memories, remembering, repeating, and working through. Cultural screens, disconnection, negation, and affirmation. Conclusion. 3. Aesthetic experience: the object, empathy, the unconscious, and architectural design. Unconsciously projecting oneself and intuiting the shape or form of an art object: Semper, Vischer, Schmarsow, Wölfflin, Giedion, and Moholy-Nagy. Stone and phantasy, smooth and rough. Inside-outside corners, birth trauma, and character armor. The turbulent section and the Paranoid Critical Method. Asymmetric blur zones and the uncanny. Conclusion. 4. Open form, the formless, and "that oceanic feeling". Architectural formlessness, not literal formlessness. Freud and the spatialities of the psychical apparatus. Phases of psychical development in childhood. The oral phase. Repression. Blurred zones and architectural empathy for formlessness. Conclusion. 5. Closed-form, rule-based composition and control of the architectural gift. The second phase of development, the anal phase, and struggles over control of a gift. Threshold practices: isolation, repetition, procedures for handling objects, and diverting impulses. A brief history of closed-form, rule-based composition and control of the architectural gift. House II. Conclusion. 6. Architectural simulation: wishful phantasy and the real. The third phase of development, the phallic phase: a wish and overcoming prohibitions against the wish. Simulation, wishes, and world views. "Vertical Horizon" and the plot of phallic phantasy. Conclusion. 7. Spaces of social encounter: freedoms and constraints. The last phase of development in childhood, the genital phase, and the search for obtainable objects. Open slab versus regime room: empathy for freedom versus constraint in spaces of social encounter. Conclusion. Conclusion. Further Reading. References. Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Containment Organisations and the Working Task
Book SynopsisWith close attention to Wilfred Bion''s influence on the literature about groups and organisations, this book explores how containment has been transposed from the clinical setting to enlighten the work being carried out by psychodynamic practitioners and researchers, especially within organisations.In the first part, contributors explore the origins of containment, comparing and contrasting it with similar concepts such as holding. A second part is devoted to addressing the implications of utilising psychoanalytic ideas beyond the couch and bringing them to the social field of groups and organisations. The early days of such ideas, as well as the wide range of methods applied, are also addressed in this section with the aim of giving the reader a more comprehensive base for the application of psychoanalytic knowledge. Finally, the third part provides a detailed view of the different applications of containment in consulting, leadership, therapeutic communities and group
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Psychology of Politics
Book SynopsisHow do some political leaders capture popular support? What is the appeal of belonging to a nation? Can democracy thrive?The Psychology of Politics explores how the emotions which underpin everyday life are also vital in what happens on the political stage. It draws on psychoanalytic ideas to show how fear and passion shape the political sphere in our changing societies and cultures, and examines topical social issues and events including Brexit, the changing nature of democracy, activism, and Trump in America.In a changing global political climate, The Psychology of Politics shows us how we can make sense of what drives human conduct in relation to political ideas and action.Trade Review"Richards (Bournemouth Univ.) has developed an interesting short book that examines the many facets of political activity through the psychoanalytic lens, explaining how such a perspective illuminates the behavior of people acting within a political community."- D. J. Winchester, Columbia University, CHOICE Reviews, Highly RecommendedTable of Contents1. The heart of politics 2. Leaders 3. Nations 4. Ideologies 5. Prospect Further Reading Notes References
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Psychoanalysis and the Birth of the Self
Book SynopsisThis book draws psychoanalysis out of unsubstantiated, hermeneutic speculation and into the science and philosophy of the Self. Mark Leffert offers a survey of where we as human beings come from, going back into prehistory and our development as individuals. Psychoanalysis and the Birth of the Self is written to provide psychoanalysts with interdisciplinary information drawn from fields that they may have had little access to. Leffert undertakes a novel integration of topics not frequently discussed together, resulting in a radical critique of the theorization of psychoanalysis. The book begins by setting the story with a short analysis of the history of psychoanalysis. A new science has been founded on the recognition of the impossibility of separating evolution from development; it is called Evo-Devo. Applied to the human condition, it integrates development with palaeoanthropology and forms the basis for exploring such topics as the neurophilosophy of conscioTable of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: Psychoanalysis’s Yesterdays, Todays, and Tomorrows: A Brief History of Being With PatientsChapter 2: The Neurophilosophy of ConsciousnessChapter 3: Psychoanalytic Theories of Development and the New Science of Evo-DevoChapter 4: The Origins of the Self and its Consciousness: The Evo-Devo of Human BeingChapter 5: Being and Nothingness or To Be or Not to BeChapter 6: Common Ground
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Narrative and Meaning
Book SynopsisNarrative and Meaning examines the role of both in contemporary psychoanalytic practice, bringing together a distinguished group of contributors from across the intersubjective, relational, and interpersonal schools of psychoanalytic thought. The contributions propose that narratives or stories in a variety of non-verbal and verbal forms are the foundation of mind, creativity, and the clinical dialogue. From the beginning of life, human experience gains expression through the integration of perception, cognition, memory and affect into mini or complex narratives. This core proposal is illustrated in chapters referencing creativity, psychoanalytic process, gesture, and sensory-motor activity, dreams, music, conflicting narratives in couples, imaginative stories of adopted children, identity, and individuality.Including a major revision in theory based upon an expanded definition of narrative, this book is an essential read for any contemporary psyTrade Review"This book is surely among the most important and innovative contributions to psychoanalysis this year. The chapters range in topic, but share in common a focus on the capacity of narrative in whatever form to create a more holistic lived experience from infancy on, for the individual, for the couple, and for the therapeutic dyad. The contributions are wonderfully diverse, beginning with the clinical situation, and moving on to encompass such subjects as music as narrative; the dream narrative; the narrative of the adoptee; the broader context from which clinical narratives emerge; types of clinical narrative; and the science-based narrative. The beginning and ending chapters by Joe Lichtenberg are superb. I would love to describe and elaborate on the multiple merits of each, but must be content with recommending as strongly as I can: do not miss this significant collection!"-Estelle Shane, training and supervising analyst and faculty at ICP and NCP; founding member, Past president and board member of ICP; adjunct faculty, UCLA School of Medicine.Table of ContentsChapter 1 Narrative & Meaning Joseph D. Lichtenberg, MDChapter 2 The Dialogic Nature of Narrative in Creativity and the Clinical Exchange Joseph D. Lichtenberg, MDChapter 3 Resilience, Seeking, and Narratives about the Self Joseph D. Lichtenberg, MDChapter 4 Music as Narrative Frank M. Lachmann, Ph.D.Chapter 5 The Dream Narrative James L. Fosshage, Ph.D.Chapter 6 Narrative Tradition: Placing the Clinical Narrative within a Broader Narrative Tradition Daniel GoldinChapter 7 Storying Suffering of Every Conceivable Sort Richard Tuch and J. Mark ThompsonChapter 8 The Ghost Kingdom: The Secret Narrative of the Adoptee’s Birth and Origins Linda Gunsberg, Ph.D.Chapter 9 At the Edge of the Knowable: Personal Reflections on How Far Narrative Takes Us Joseph D. Lichtenberg, MDChapter 10 Narrative Contributions to the Core Sense of Self, Identity, and Individuality Joseph D. Lichtenberg, MD
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Taylor & Francis Ltd C.G. Jungs Collected Works
Book SynopsisThis new introduction to Jung's Collected Workswritten in lively and accessible styleprovides a comprehensive guide to key concepts in analytical (Jungian) psychology while charting the creative evolution of Jung's thought through his own words.Invaluable to both beginners and those more experienced with Jungian theory, this book provides tables listing key readings for further study of the Collected Works, clear explication of fundamental principles, chapter summaries, prompts for deepening a critical engagement with Jung's texts, a glossary of key terms, and suggestions for further reading.This text will be an invaluable introduction for those coming to the Collected Works for the first time as well as a useful reference for readers familiar with the collection.
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