Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology Books

Book SynopsisPsychoanalytic and Psychometric Perspectives on Religion suggests to combine perspectives from psychoanalysis and academic psychology, from nomothetic and idiothetic research, for more depth of vision for the current psychology of religion. In this interdisciplinary study, Barbara Keller demonstrates the potential of integrative perspectives by analysing topics such as religious development, religion and personality, and the process of working with religious issues in psychotherapy. Options for the study of lived “religion” are discussed, taking into consideration North American and European contexts of religious experience and of psychological and psychoanalytic discussion.Table of ContentsTaking Psychoanalytic and Psychometric Perspectives toward a Binocular Vision of Religion  Barbara Keller Abstract Keywords  1 Toward a Binocular Vision of Religion  2 What Develops in Religious Development?  3 Differential Perspectives  4 Religion and Faith “in Treatment”  5 Conclusions: The Value of Complementary Perspectives  Acknowledgements  References

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Book SynopsisThis book focuses the collective attention of psychotherapists, the legal community, social scientists, and ethicists on the moral, legal, and clinical problems of confidentiality in psychotherapeutic practice. By providing timely and important interdisciplinary contributions, the book opens the way to understanding, if not resolving, the conflicting interests and values at stake in the debate on confidentiality.Trade Review"Nearly every essay in the dozen that make up this collection sheds genuinely fresh light on some aspect of the “confidential relationships” referred to in the volume’s title, namely, the confidential relationships between psychotherapist and patient (or client). With sometimes complementary, sometimes contradictory perspectives, the contributing psychoanalysts, philosophers, and law professors engage the reader and each other in a fascinating and thought-provoking conversation on the meaning, scope, and significance of psychotherapist-patient confidentiality. … At a time when confidential relationships (at least in North America), including but not limited to therapist-patient relationships, are under attack from the legal system, the health-care-industrial complex, and perhaps our confessional “therapeutic culture” itself, this book comes as a needed antidote - a multifaceted, multidisciplinary exploration of the value, meaning, and even the cost of confidentiality. … nearly every essay in the book contains some fact or theoretical insight about confidential relationships - psychotherapeutic and otherwise - for which professionals and non-professionals alike will be grateful." - in: Metapsychology (online book review), 2004Table of ContentsEditorial Foreword Preface Acknowledgments Part One INTRODUCTION ONE Charles LEVIN, Christine M. KOGGEL, and Allannah FURLONG: Questions and Themes Part Two PSYCHOANALYSIS Allannah FURLONG: The Questionable Contribution of Psychotherapeutic and Psychoanalytic Records to the Truth-Seeking Process THREE R.D. HINSHELWOOD: A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Confidentiality: The Divided Mind in Treatment FOUR Jacques MAUGER: Public, Private … FIVE Charles LEVIN and Christine URY : Welcoming Big Brother : The Malaise of Confidentiality in the Therapeutic Culture Part Three ETHICS SIX Michael YEO and Andrew BROOK: The Moral Framework of Confidentiality and the Electronic Panopticon SEVEN Christine M. KOGGEL: Confidentiality in the Liberal Tradition: A Relational Critique EIGHT Margaret DENIKE: Sexual Inequality and the Crisis of Confidentiality: The Myth and the Law on Personal Records NINE Sue CAMPBELL: Relational Remembering: Suggestibility and Women’s Confidential Records Part Four LAW TEN Paul W. MOSHER: Psychotherapist-Patient Privilege: The History and Significance of the United States Supreme Court’s Decision in the Case of Jaffee v. Redmond ELEVEN Karen BUSBY: Responding to Defense Demands for Clients’ Records in Sexual Violence Cases: Some Guidance for Record Keepers TWELVE Nathalie des ROSIERS: confidentiality, Human Relationships, and Law Reform About the Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisThis memoir is a story of loss and gain, of alienation and reconciliation, and of how such experiences go into the making of a psychoanalyst. In sharing his own very troubled family history, his decade as a Carmelite monk, his marriage and career as a psychoanalyst, Gargiulo shows how the diverse pieces of one’s life can fit together into something that is meaningful and real. This is one person’s life - but it relates to us all. “We are bound together, each of us,” the author writes, “in our living, our troubles and our joys. As we hear another's story, we are, simultaneously, writing our own autobiography.”Trade Review"After reading this potent, poignant and moving, beautifully written memoir, we appreciate what the meaning is of the psychoanalytic idea of placing emphasis on remembering." – in: The Psychoanalytic Review 96/5 (October 2009) "Broken Fathers/Broken Sons is a rare combination of memoir and musing. Playful and wise, it is an ode to what is broken inside all of us, as well as to what seeks healing....it allows us to put back together both questions and quests, as we journey out of a decade of looking for a better father in God in a Carmelite monastery, into psychoanalytic practice. Out of one man’s coming to terms with the damage of a painful father/son relationship, comes a poignant and fierce cry against inequality, be it between parent and child, or analyst and patient." – Erika Duncan, novelist, founder of Herstory Writers Workshop "In this intensely personal and humane memoir Dr. Gargiulo plumbs the depths of relationships between a father and a son. Not since Turgenev’s Fathers and Sons have these issues been so keenly examined and so directly held up to scrutiny. The precepts of psychoanalytic thought brought forward by Gargiulo speak to everyman in this book that merits a place on one’s bookshelf next to the work of the great Russian novelist." – Norman Itzkowitz, Professor Emeritus, Princeton UniversityTable of ContentsPreface Remembering Humpty Carmelite Passage Finding A Voice Mother Earth Talking Memories Running Interlude (Of Elephants and Kings) Bridges Holding Dreams Dancing with God The Dreaming Knight Grieving Lilacs Finding My Father Memory and Time End Thoughts Epilogue Appendix (Poems For Late Night Reading)

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Book SynopsisThis book psychoanalyzes a small Mexican city to figure out how the city makes sense of both herself and her many Others in the face of constant change. It puts the city on the couch and works through her past and present relationships, analyzing issues surrounding sexuality, the compulsion to repeat, transferences and desires.Trade Review"In this fascinating case study, Karen Rodríguez places the provincial city of Guanajuato on the couch and leads us though a fascinating tour of the town’s back alleys, repressed drives, destructive impulses, and tales of love. Along the way, the author engages in a fascinating discussion of Julia Kristeva’s work and its relation to Mexican culture. A must read for those interested in contemporary Mexico." – Rubén Gallo, Princeton University "In the heart of Mexico lies the small city of Guanajuato. The city is unruly, constantly thwarting attempts to impose order upon her. In part, this has to do with the physical form of the city and with its awkward topography. In part, it has to do with a painful colonial past and a difficult economic present. Yet, by putting the city on the couch, Karen Rodríguez discovers how Guanajuato’s desires, joys and anxieties are experienced and expressed. On the couch, Guanajuato offers Rodríguez a vast array of fascinating material to interpret: from saints to the Virgin Mary, from posters to painters, from novels to t-shirts, from local legend to opera. Against the common trend to see the global city as “the place to be”, Rodríguez argues that it is very far from misplaced to take another look at small cities. This book is by turns, surprising, thought-provoking, funny, inventive and deeply serious. A real treat that will last long in the mind." – Steve Pile, Open University, UKTable of ContentsForeword Acknowledgments Small City on a Big Couch The Presenting Problem: Digestive Issues in the Contact Zone Deeper Desires: The Colonial Present, a Don Quijote Fetish, and Maternal Issues Calladita, te ves más bonita: Analyzing Silences and Erasures Releases and Returns: Sex and the (Provincial) City Transferences: Of Cities and Analysts Revolt, They Said: Two Virgins, One Indian Princess, and the T-shirt Girl Tales of Love and Life After Analysis: Of Art, Opera, and Halloween Conclusions: The Small City Succeeds Where the Global City Might Not Epilogue About the Author Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisFreud’s 1927 essay on the acquisition of a screen memory, or fetish, allows the subject to come to terms with the traumatic truth that, for him, dominates the present moment (in Freud’s scenario, the truth of mother’s sexuality) by maintaining, alongside and not in place of it, a parallel story of the past (the myth of the phallic mother). In this book Freud’s theory of the fetish, and in particular this way of allowing two opposed and ostensibly mutually exclusive narratives to co-exist, is used to provide a number of Parisian crime texts with radical new solutions. The fetishistic world-view of Charles Baudelaire’s poetics will be shown to provide the template for all overvalued instances of women passing by; notably, it will be seen how the famous assault on one of Christian Dior’s models as she displayed the New Look for the first time in Montmartre in 1947 depends on a fetish erected in the poem “À une passante”. The same Paris streets allow red herrings to be raised to the status of truth in novels by Fred Vargas, Léo Malet and Frédéric Cathala. In these texts the discovery of a primal scene allows doubt to be cast over authorial solutions and new murderers or victims to be found. In the case of Jean-Paul Sartre’s La Nausée, the fetishism at work is shown to have harboured a serial killer where no crime was previously considered to have taken place. In these analyses, fetishism is mapped onto prose poetics, intertextuality and deconstruction in order to challenge the way we read text. More importantly, rereading these texts allows us to see fetishism in a new light as a force for positive, creative acts of meaning-making.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Paris, Capital of Fetishism: The Fashion of Looking (Again and Again) at the Woman Passing By Deciphering the Hieroglyphic in Frédéric Cathala’s L’Arbalète: La vraie vie commence Not Seeing (and Seeing) the Wolves for the Trees: Unrepresenting Hyperclarity in Fred Vargas’s L’Homme à l’envers Roquentin’s Primal Scene, Or What is and What is Not Seen in La Nausée Léo Malet’s Troubled Waters, Or How to Have Your Femme Fatale and Kill Her Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis work attempts a psychoanalytic listening to the ‘oral’ Homeric epics in an effort to extract, as it were, from the ancient text certain elements of psychoanalytic understanding that are of relevance to contemporary psychoanalysis. There is, in addition, a consideration of related philosophical and linguistic issues that are linked to the basic psychoanalytic concepts that emerge from such a listening.Table of ContentsPrologue One. From Wrath to Truth Two. Homer’s Theory of Poetry: Psychoanalytic Notes on the Primal Metaphor Three. The Return of Odysseus: Questions of Time, Space, and Creative Discovery Four. The Other Journey: Nekyia Five. The Tragic in the Iliad Epilogue: ον φωνήεν Bibliography

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