Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology Books

Book SynopsisAt his death in 1971, Donald Winnicott left unpublished a large number of papers, lectures and other writings which spanned his career of over forty years as a psychoanalyst and pediatrician. Since then, these have been published in several volumes, initially with guidance from Winnicott's widow Clare, who died in 1984.Thinking About Children was published to coincide with the centenary of Winnicott's birth in 1896. It collects thirty-one papers, of which twenty-eight have never previously been published in volume form, together with three papers from The Child and the Outside World which were not published in the omnibus volume The Child, The Family and the Outside World. As might be expected, they range widely in tone and content from concise clinical observations to more general meditations including the landmark paper "Towards an objective study of human nature". Of particular interest are sections on autism and psychosomatics, where Winnicott's thinking can be seen to foreshadow more recent developments, such as Frances Tustin's work on autism. He also discusses adoption, starting school and the child's relation to the family - topics which are relevant now as they were during his lifetime.Also included is a comprehensive bibliography of Winnicott's writings compiled by Harry Karnac. This marks the first occasion on which this invaluable resource has been made available to a wider public. Together with a substantial introduction by the editors, it makes this book indispensable for those acquainted with Winnicott's work, and an ideal introduction for those who have not yet encountered the extraordinary clarity and depth of his thought.Trade Review'A striking feature of Winnicott's work was his great power of observation and description so that what he writes has an air of extraordinary familiarity-one feels that one has known what he reports all along.'- From the Editors' IntroductionTable of ContentsPART ONE Observation, intuition, and empathy PART TWO Early infant development PART THREE The family PART FOUR Starting school PART FIVE Case studies and observations PART SIX Adoption PART SEVEN Psychosomatic problems PART EIGHT Autism and schizophrenia PART NINE Professional care of the growing child

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Book SynopsisThe Squiggle Foundation has for many years produced Winnicott Studies, a journal which celebrates and reconsiders the work of Donald Winnicott, the groundbreaking pediatrician and psychoanalyst. This is the first time that a monograph has been produced by Winnicott Studies, with the aim of concentrating on just one aspect of his thought. It focuses on one of Winnicott's most enduring and resonant formulations, the True and False Self.Winnicott's classic paper "Ego distortion in terms of True and False Self" is reprinted here together with contributions from some of the most eminent figures in psychotherapy. Val Richards presents some implications for clinical work and thinking; Katherine Cameron discusses the worth of Winnicott's formulation to Lacanians; Francis Tustin relates it to her work with autistic patients; Ken Wright considers its impact on one's personal selfhood; and Nina Coltart uses the insights from philosophy and Buddhism to put our ideas of the self in an entirely new light. Together, these papers make this book indispensable for anyone interested in Winnicott's work.Trade ReviewThe Squiggle Foundation has for many years produced Winnicott Studies, a journal which celebrates and reconsiders the work of Donald Winnicott, the groundbreaking pediatrician and psychoanalyst. This is the first time that a monograph has been produced by Winnicott Studies, with the aim of concentrating on just one aspect of his thought. It focuses on one of Winnicott's most enduring and resonant formulations, the True and False Self.Winnicott's classic paper "Ego distortion in terms of True and False Self" is reprinted here together with contributions from some of the most eminent figures in psychotherapy. Val Richards presents some implications for clinical work and thinking; Katherine Cameron discusses the worth of Winnicott's formulation to Lacanians; Francis Tustin relates it to her work with autistic patients; Ken Wright considers its impact on one's personal selfhood; and Nina Coltart uses the insights from philosophy and Buddhism to put our ideas of the self in an entirely new light. Together, these papers make this book indispensable for anyone interested in Winnicott's work.Table of ContentsIntroduction -- Ego distortion in terms of True and False Self -- Hunt the slipper -- Winnicott and Lacan: selfhood versus subjecthood -- The emergence of a sense of Self, or, The development of “I-ness” -- Looking after the Self -- The Self: what is it?

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Book SynopsisThese papers - from a conference with the same title - includes work by Lawrence Weiskrant (highlighting the concerns around false memories), John Morton (outlining contemporary models of memory), and Valerie Sinason (on detecting abuse in child psychotherapy). The second half presents a psychoanalytic theory of false memory syndrome, by Joseph Sandler and Anne-Marie Sandler. Peter Fonagy and Mary Taget then offer a final overview.Trade Review'This excellent book retains the freshness of spontaneous debate at a Conference at University College, London, combined with the measured and scholarly quality of the main papers. Lawrence Weiskrantz (who chaired the advisory Board of the British False Memory Society) sets the scene, highlighting some of the concerns of those representing the falsely accused and drawing attention to misleading assumptions that may lie behind evaluations of recovered memories. John Morton (who Chaired the British Psychological Society Working Party on Recovered Memories) then outlines various contemporary models of memory, indicating possible mechanisms whereby some recovered memories could be false and some genuine. Next, Valerie Sinason displays her gift for hearing the unbearable in a rich account of the emergence of communications of abuse in child psychotherapy.The second half of the book contains a carefully argued chapter by Joseph and Anne-Marie Sandler crucially revising core psychoanalytic concepts in relation to memory and repression. Finally, Peter Fonagy and Mary Target present an overview, offering some of the most sophisticated thinking to be found in discussions of recovered memory and clinical technique. There is much to learn and think about in these pages.'- Phil Mollon, from his ForewordTable of ContentsPreface -- Foreword -- Memories of abuse, or abuse of memories? -- Cognitive perspectives on recovered memories -- Remembering in therapy -- Panel discussion -- A psychoanalytic theory of repression and the unconscious -- Perspectives on the recovered memories debate

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Book SynopsisAndre Green occupies a unique position in psychoanalysis today, and his work represents a synthesis of the traditions of Lacan, Winnicott and Bion. This volume collects fourteen of his papers together with a substantial introduction. The papers range widely across clinical and theoretical issues including borderline states, the true and false self, and narcissism. On Private Madness has achieved the status of a modern psychoanalytic classic, and this new impression will be welcomed by all those admirers of Dr Green who wish to have these seminal papers collected together.Trade Review'The book's strength lies in the quality and breadth of insights and experience offered by Green. As such, it gives the reader a method to conceptualise and create a language to describe the phenomenology observed.'...Green's main contribution lies in the clarification and conceptualisation of psychoanalytic findings and in developing a language that contributes greatly to psychoanalytic thought and its metapsychology. At the same time, he also helps to bridge the gap in understanding between the Anglo-Saxon and French analytic traditions. I highly recommend this book to both experienced practitioners and students alike.'- Ricardo Stramer, The Journal of the British Association of Psychotherapists'Andre Green's On Private Madness presents a rich assortment of the author's psychoanalytic contributions. His fluency in English is matched by an extraordinary familiarity with American and English contributions, especially those of Winnicott, Bion, Klein, Khan, Hartmann, Kernberg and Kohut, all of which he ably integrates with those of Lacan, Bouvet, McDougall and other French sources to give an integrated treatise on object relations and its dialectical interface with structuralism, a problem that has concerned Dr. Green for some time...'- James Grotstein, M.D.Table of ContentsIntroduction , Psychoanalysis and Ordinary Modes of Thought , The Analyst, Symbolization and Absence in the Analytic Setting , The Borderline Concept , Projection , Aggression, Femininity, Paranoia and Reality , Moral Narcissism , The Dead Mother , Conceptions of Affect , Passions and their Vicissitudes , Negation and Contradiction , Potential Space in Psychoanalysis , Surface Analysis, Deep Analysis , The Double and the Absent , The Unbinding Process

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Book SynopsisThe ground-breaking book which attempts to bridge the gap between the psychoanalytic and cognitive psychological theories of child development.Trade Review'This book is essential reading for everyone interested in psychoanalysis and for every therapist who has the responsibility for helping a patient to understand and alter his or her life.'- Arnold M. Cooper, M.D., The New York Hospital Cornell Medical Center'Dan Stern - scientist, psychoanalyst, and first-rate science writer - takes us on an enchanted journey to those magical years when the sense of self emerges. He puts subjectivity and intersubjectivity where they belong, at the center of psychological inquiry. On the way, he synthesizes a bold new theory outlining an emergent self, a core self, a subjective self, and a verbal self, and relates this theory to important therapeutic questions. This is a landmark volume that is essential reading for clinicians, researchers and anyone else interested in an original and provocative perspective on human development.'- Ethel Person, M.D., Columbia University'This enormously important book explores in rich and fascinating detail the relationships between the psychoanalytic and the experimental traditions. What emerges is not merely a piecing together of insights but a radically new and fresh way of looking at the social and emotional world of infants. We have here the core of a powerful new theory that can inform our understanding for years to come. The book blends the subtlety of observation with the rigor of experimentation and excites the reader at almost every page.'- Joseph Glick, Ph.D., Graduate Center, City University of New York'An important book by a leading clinician and researcher. Daniel Stern combines a clinical and experimental approach in exploring whether early experience is critical in setting the stage for optimal development or in endangering the child's future. And in doing this he brings up-to-date the threads of thinking in infancy research, psychoanalysis, and child development.'- T. Berry Brazelton, M.D., Harvard Medical School'As both a clinician and an imaginative researcher with infants and mothers, Daniel Stern has been in the forefront of these advances. His splendid book will be welcomed by every thinking clinician.'- John Bowlby M.D.Table of ContentsPreface -- Introduction to the Paperback Edition -- The Questions and Their Background -- Exploring the Infant's Subjective Experience: A Central Role for the Sense of Self -- Perspectives and Approaches to Infancy -- The Four Senses of Self -- The Sense of an Emergent Self -- The Sense of a Core Self: I. Self versus Other -- The Sense of a Core Self: II. Self with Other -- The Sense of a Subjective Self: I. Overview -- The Sense of a Subjective Self: II. Affect Attunement -- The Sense of a Verbal Self -- Some Clinical Implications -- The “Observed Infant” as Seen with a Clinical Eye -- Some Implications for the Theories Behind Therapeutic Reconstructions -- Implications for the Therapeutic Process of Reconstructing a Developmental Past -- Epilogue

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Book SynopsisThe author addresses the field of infant mental health. He draws on his experience - in both the lab and the clinic - to present an integrated model of treatment for both infants and their parents.Trade Review'This wonderful book will be of enormous value to all those that are helping families... Stern's analytic approach to each of the different kinds of therapeutic family intervention gives us all an insight and choices as we work with parents in difficulty. This is a positive, supportive guide for all professionals who work with young families.'- T. Terry Brazelton, M.D., Harvard Medical School'In this groundbreaking book, Daniel Stern has synthesized diverse empirical, clinical, and theoretical perspectives on mother infant therapies. What emerges from this creative synthesis is a compelling and clinically useful new construct. This book is destined to become an enduring classic. I look forward to the debates and discussions it will inspire.'- Charles H. Zeanah, M.D., Louisiana State University Medical Center'This fascinating book builds and crosses bridges between psychoanalysis and interpersonal systems. Daniel Stern's novel ideas, derived from work with parents and infants, ultimately will inform our thinking about psychotherapy across the lifespan.'- Lee Combrinck-Graham, M.D.'Daniel Stern once again breaks new ground in this wonderfully perceptive book. He combines the scientist's gift for analysis with the clinician's well-developed intuition. The result is a book that transcends narrow theoretical models and challenges the reader to do the same.'- Alicia F. Lieberman, PhD., University of California, San Francisco'Daniel Stern's earlier book The Interpersonal World of the Infant was a classic, and I predict that this book will be another.'- Ethel Person, M.d., Columbia UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction -- The Clinical System in Parent-Infant Psychotherapy -- An Overview of the Clinical Situation -- The Parents' Representational World -- The Parents' Representations Enacted -- The Parent-Infant Interaction -- The Nature and Formation of the Infant's Representations -- The Infant's Representations Viewed Clinically -- The Therapist -- Therapeutic Approaches in Parent-Infant Psychotherapy and Their Commonalities -- Approaches That Aim to Change the Parents' Representations -- Approaches That Aim to Change the Interactive Behaviors -- Commonalities Among the Different Approaches -- Synthesis -- The Motherhood Constellation -- Some Wider Implications for Other Clinical Situations

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Book SynopsisThe line that separates those who kill from those who only think about it, and from those who injure themselves, is often thinner than we imagine. Convicted murderers serving life-sentences in England are among the subjects of this in-depth psychological study of what makes people kill.Trade Review'This book addresses some of the most destructive elements of human behaviour, whether manifested in intra-psychic struggle, inter personal acting out or societal madness. It is based on Arthur Hyatt Williams' lifetime of experience working in this field as a psychoanalyst. It weaves together a great richness of clinical and institutional material with a depth of psychoanalytic understanding, and is essential reading for anyone working in this field, or concerned with such phenomena in our society.'- Dr Anton Obholzer, Consultant Psychiatrist and Psychoanalyst, and Chief Executive, Tavistock and Portman Clinics'Arthur Hyatt Williams' book on restoring the balance between life and death brings continual surprise that anyone can write so beautifully about humanity's blackest features. His love of life is evident as he explores the death constellation - the encapsulated mental structure that attacks life - in its protean manifestations, everywhere challenging our compassion. He explores its symbolic and mediated forms throughout human experience, and clearly describes conditions in which it is likely to be enacted in homicide or suicide.'Hyatt Williams tells compelling tales of his unique experience treating murderers and criminals by drawing equally on poetry and science. This book stands alone as the contemporary masterpiece on treating murderousness, not only in the actual murderer but, more importantly, in the larger group of patients who need our help in their struggle to contain destructiveness. It will be invaluable to all who which to understand and treat patients who struggle with the darkness in their hearts.'- David Scharff, MD, Co-Director, International Institute of Object Relations TherapyTable of ContentsForeword -- Part I -- Aggression and Death -- The Death Constellation (I) -- The Indigestible Idea of Death -- The Death Constellation (II) -- Other Manifestations of the Death Constellation -- Part II -- The Nature of Aggression -- Violence and Psychic Indigestion -- Escalating Violence -- Cruelty and Cruel Behavior -- Brutalization and Recivilization, or Wildness and Civilizing for the First Time -- Latent Murderousness -- Part III -- Assessment and Risk -- Engagement and Treatment -- From Fantasy to Impulse Action: Is This Reversible with Psychotherapy? -- Reparation -- The Micro-Environment -- Part IV -- The Individual and Organized Crime -- Victims and Victimology (I) -- Victims and Victimology (II) -- Drugs: Dependence on an Unreliable Container -- Countertransference in the Psychotherapy of Violent Prisoners -- Criminality and the Claustrum -- Part V -- Antidevelopmental Processes in Adolescents -- Antidevelopmental Sexuality in Adolescents -- Othello -- Life-Threatening Illness -- Restoring the Balance

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Book SynopsisFew topics elicit greater controversy within psychoanalysis today than the role of research in justifying or expanding upon analytic theory. The text collects papers from a London conference, along with additional material, to explore the work of discussants Daniel Stern and Andre Green. Stern, whose work and psychoanalysis and infant observation is world-renowned, and Green, the French psychoanalyst whose trenchant views on the limitations of research are equally well known, each focus on the issue of infant research and its long history within the psychoanalytic movement.Additional discussions by three prominent British psychoanalysts, Anne Alvarez, Irma Brenman Pick, and Rozine Jozef Perelberg, expose a different point of view from that of green and Stern. Also included is a previous debate on this topic between Andre Green and Robert S. Wallerstein, former president of the International Psychoanalytic Association. An illuminating introductory chapter by Riccardo Steiner further describes the main points of the debate with marvelous clarity. This book will be invaluable for all those who wish to involve themselves with contemporary views on this important topic.Trade ReviewFew topics elicit greater controversy within psychoanalysis today than the role of research in justifying or expanding upon analytic theory. The text collects papers from a London conference, along with additional material, to explore the work of discussants Daniel Stern and Andre Green. Stern, whose work and psychoanalysis and infant observation is world-renowned, and Green, the French psychoanalyst whose trenchant views on the limitations of research are equally well known, each focus on the issue of infant research and its long history within the psychoanalytic movement.Additional discussions by three prominent British psychoanalysts, Anne Alvarez, Irma Brenman Pick, and Rozine Jozef Perelberg, expose a different point of view from that of green and Stern.Also Included is a previous debate on this topic between Andre Green and Robert S. Wallerstein, former president of the International Psychoanalytic Association. An illuminating introductory chapter by Riccardo Steiner describes the main points of the debate with marvelous clarity. This book will be invaluable for all those who wish to involve themselves with contemporary views on this important topic.

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Book SynopsisOur learning in infancy, and for a considerable period afterwards, takes place in a dependent relationship to another human being. The quality of this relationship is vitally important for our development, since it deeply influences the hopefulness required to remain curious and open to new experiences, and the capacity to perceive connections and to discover their meanings.This book examines the relationship between student and teacher in a way that will be of help to teachers at every level of the education system, from infant school through to university. It heightens the reader's awareness of the emotional factors that enter into the process of learning and teaching, and aims at a better understanding of the nature of the interactions between student and teacher. The authors examine the hopes and fears with which teachers confront their task and consider how these affect their role of facilitators of the pupils' development. Based on the work done with groups of teachers attending the Tavistock Clinic, the book demonstrates how insights derived from the psychoanalytic study of the mind can heighten the understanding of the learning relationship and help teachers to bear stressful situations and find deeper satisfaction in their roles as educators.Trade Review'The re-printing of The Emotional Experience of Learning and Teaching is a most welcome event. The book's insight and wisdom are quite as relevant now as when it first came out in 1983 - perhaps even more so, in that the standards, values and attitudes towards children's development which are represented in this volume are becoming harder for teachers to maintain rather than easier. this book goes to the heart of the teaching/learning relationship. It constitutes a bench-mark of insight and good practice and provides a model for that which it advocates. After sixteen years, there is still nothing comparable in the field. It is to be hoped that this fine new edition will make such valuable ideas more widely accessible in areas that belong in the educational setting but also extend far beyond it.'- Margot Waddell, from her ForewordTable of ContentsForeword -- Introduction -- Beginnings -- Hopeful and fearful expectations -- Learning to understand the nature of relationships -- Aspects of the student’s relationship to the teacher -- Aspects of the teacher’s relationship to the student -- Emotional aspects of learning -- Understanding the individual child in the classroom -- Idealised relationships -- Denigratory relationships -- Helpful relationships -- Work with families and professional colleagues -- The teacher’s relationship with the pupils’ families -- The teacher’s relationship with other professional workers -- Endings -- Different kinds of endings

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Book SynopsisKenneth Sanders' book combines a historical approach to the literature of Freud, Klein and the Post Kleinian development, with demonstrations of the central role of dream analysis. Students and practitioners of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy, educationalists, social scientists, doctors, and alll those who value the endeavour to enrich their work with imagination will find fine food for thought in these seminars, both in the survay of the literature, the case histories described, and in the concluding question and answer debates.Trade Review'The chapters in this book not only contain fascinating clinical accounts but in Dr. Sander's exposition cover the wide range of ideas of extended metapsychology as they pertain to children, adolescents, and adults...Clear, precise and rising to poetic heights at times, it makes rich reading.'- Donald Meltzer, from his ForewordTable of ContentsForeword -- Preface -- Prologue and a consultation -- An adolescent emerges from confusion -- Dreams: who writes the script? -- Identification and the toileting of the mind -- The mermaid and the sirens -- The combined part-object: from "the woman with a penis" to "the breast-and-nipple" -- The combined part-object in infant observation and practice -- The Oedipus complex and introjective identification -- Psychosomatic and somapsychotic -- Epilogue: claustrophilia and the "perennial philosophy"

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Book SynopsisBetween 1978 and 1985 Dr Herbert Rosenfeld was one of a number of British analysts invited by a group of Societa di Psicoanalisi Italiani members to conduct a series of seminars and supervisions for the purpose of deepening and refining that group's clinical skills and theoretical understanding. This book is an illuminating record of that encounter, and a warm tribute to the significant influence of Rosenfeld's contribution.It is divided into two parts - 'Theoretical' and 'Clinical', and based on a selection of verbatim transcripts recorded at the time. These transcripts, with their dialogical form, succeed in capturing much of the specificity of oral exchange, and thus convey a strong impression of Rosenfeld the man as much as clinician or theoretician.Rosenfeld remained to the end a continuously creative analyst and these 'last thoughts' provide the reader with ample evidence of his undimmed gifts. His subtle intuitions, meticulously close attention to both patient's and analyst's interpretations, and fine appreciation of the intricacies of the analytic encounter, are abundantly present.Trade Review'Rosenfeld's particular theoretical approach is a combination of his clinical experience and his capacity for- or, one should say, art of observation and interpretation. He has the gift of an astonishing capacity for identification with psychotic sufferance, defenses, and ways of thinking.'- Riccardo Steiner from the Preface

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Book SynopsisDrugs and drug use are an integral part of human culture. Yet we know hardly anything about drugs, at least not the kind of knowledge that would help us to understand how drugs affect people and how people beome addicted to drugs. This is most surprising in the light of the vast amount of knowledge accumulated in the sciences. Psychoanalysis might not be an obvious choice for the treatment of addiction. Nevertheless, it is in an excellent position to make a contribution to a problem that has so far defied much of our understanding. By inviting people to speak about themselves, psychoanalysis has established a unique way of collecting clinical material, a material that surely must be immediately relevant coming as it does from the horse's mouth. With addiction on the increase, this fact alone justifies the necessity for a different approach.Providing a theoretical foundation for the argument that psychoanalysis should be seriously considered, and where possible incorporated into the treament of addicts, this thoughtful and innovative book can serve as an orientation in the ongoing front-line battle with addicts and addiction.Divided into three parts, the first part deals with Freud's writings on addicton including an in-depth examination of his so called 'cocaine papers', the second part examines how various strands of Freud's work on addiction were continued by his followers, while the last part formulates a Lacanian theory of addiction. This book is indispensible for anyone interested in addiction, the evolution of Freud's work, or contemporary psychoanalysis.Trade ReviewDrugs and drug use are an integral part of human culture. Yet we know hardly anything about drugs, at least not the kind of knowledge that would help us to understand how drugs affect people and how people beome addicted to drugs. This is most surprising in the light of the vast amount of knowledge accumulated in the sciences. Psychoanalysis might not be an obvious choice for the treatment of addiction. Nevertheless, it is in an excellent position to make a contribution to a problem that has so far defied much of our understanding. By inviting people to speak about themselves, psychoanalysis has established a unique way of collecting clinical material, a material that surely must be immediately relevant coming as it does from the horse's mouth. With addiction on the increase, this fact alone justifies the necessity for a different approach. Providing a theoretical foundation for the argument that psychoanalysis should be seriously considered, and where possible incorporated into the treament of addicts, this thoughtful and innovative book can serve as an orientation in the ongoing front-line battle with addicts and addiction.Divided into three parts, the first part deals with Freud's writings on addicton including an in-depth examination of his so called 'cocaine papers', the second part examines how various strands of Freud's work on addiction were continued by his followers, while the last part formulates a Lacanian theory of addiction. This book is indispensible for anyone interested in Addiction, the evolution of Freud's work, or contemporary psychoanalysis.Table of ContentsForeword -- Preface -- Classical Foundations for a Theory on Addiction: The Energetics of Libido and the Economics of Desire -- Introduction -- The place of cocaine in the work of Freud -- Freud's pre-analytical period -- A limit to Freud's dream -- Freud’s war during the “inter-bellum”: the death-drive and the extermination of happiness -- Conclusion -- The Post-Freudian Reduction of a Field and the Fruits of a Confrontation -- Introduction -- Between drive and ego: the ascent of the subject -- Elements for a Lacanian Theory (and Treatment) of Addiction: The Administration of Toxicity -- Introduction -- The pleasure before death: the symbolic, the imaginary and jouissance -- The death of pleasure: the real, the body and jouissance -- Science, addiction and diagnosis: a question of administration -- Addiction and discourse: a moral question and the ethics of treatment -- Conclusion

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Book SynopsisA welcome reissue of the collected papers of John Rickman, originally published in 1957, with a new preface by Pearl King. It spans 30 years of Rickman's rapidly-expanding psychoanalytic research in fields including crime, individual and group dynamics, psychopathology, hysteria, communication and general medicine. This work will be of interest to all those in the psychoanalytic community and those interested in the history of psychoanalysis, and is a first rate anthology into the pioneering early years of psychoanalysis. This book acts as a partner to Pearl King's other edited collection, No Ordinary Psychoanalyst: The Exceptional Contributions of John Rickman.Table of ContentsPreface -- Foreword -- Editorial Note -- An Unanalysed Case: Anal Erotism, Occupation and Illness (1921) -- A Psychological Factor in the Aetiology of Descensus Uteri, Laceration of the Perineum and Vaginismus (1926) -- Discussion on Lay-Analysis (1927) -- On Some of the Standpoints of Freud and Jung (1928) -- On Quotations (1929) -- The Psychology of Crime (1932) -- On ‘Unbearable’ Ideas and Impulses (1937) -- Sigmund Freud: A Personal Impression (1939) -- The General Practitioner and Psycho-Analysis (1939) -- On the Nature of Ugliness and the Creative Impulse (Marginalia Psychoanalytica. II) (1940) -- A Case of Hysteria—Theory and Practice in the Two Wars (1941) -- Sigmund Freud 1856–1939: An Appreciation (1941) -- Psychology in Medical Education (1947) -- The Application of Psycho-Analytical Principles to Hospital In-Patients (1948) -- Guilt and the Dynamics of Psychological Disorder in the Individual (1948) -- On the Criteria for the Termination of an Analysis (1950) -- The Rôle and Future of Psychotherapy within Psychiatry (1950) -- The Development of Psychological Medicine (1950) -- The Factor of Number in Individual- and Group-Dynamics (1950) -- Reflections on the Function and Organization of a Psycho-Analytical Society (1951) -- Methodology and Research in Psycho-Pathology (1951) -- Number and the Human Sciences (1951) -- A Survey: The Development of the Psychoanalytical Theory of the Psychoses 1 . 1894–1926 (1926–1927) -- Need for Belief in God (1938)

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Book SynopsisThis book is a thought-provoking read that sets out a framework for thinking about the way we interact with one another. It helps us make sense of the feelings we have when we are successful and not successful in providing help for other people. The author looks at the early research in psychotherapy on this subject and also at attachment theory and how this relates to adults. A series of experiments also explores the role of empathic attunement in effective caregiving.Trade Review'This book takes you to the heart of what one needs to learn in order to be able to help those who seek care in social work, medicine or psychotherapy. Una McCluskey takes us a step further in understanding the interaction between careseekers and caregivers. Through her concept of "goal-corrected empathic attunement", based on recent research and empirically grounded theory, she teaches us how clinicians can be trained to become empathically attuned. This book is one of the best examples of clinically relevant research that I have encountered. It deserves to become a classic.'- Christer Sandahl, Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; President of the International Association of Group Psychotherapy'This important and accessible book unravels what lies at the heart of human attachment and the therapeutic process. A "must-read" for caregivers of all persuasions, and for anyone interested in psychotherapy research.'- Christopher Clulow, Director of the Tavistock Centre for Couple Relationships'Una McCluskey's work is much needed and very welcome! Building on her vast experience of clinical practice in social work, family therapy, and individual psychodynamic psychotherapy, she has produced a book of enormous importance and relevance for all of us in the caring professions.'- Susan Vas Dias, Attachment-based Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist (UKCP) & Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist (ACP)'Founded on an in-depth knowledge of her own and related fields, competently, rigorously and impressively researched, Dr McCluskey introduces her goal-corrected, empathic attunement. A "must-read" for all who wish to understand the connection between the dynamics of the systems of interactions now to early infant attachment experiences with their caregivers.'- Yvonne M. Agazarian, Ed.D., Systems-centered Training and Research Institute, Philadelphia, USA'This book should be of serious interest not only to psychotherapists and counsellors and those who train them but also to any professional who would want to meet a help-seeking person in a sensitive and responsive way.'- P.O. Svanberg, Consultant Clinical Psychologist; Head of Psychology Services (Sunderland)Table of ContentsForeword -- Preface -- The dynamics of careseeking and caregiving -- Research on the process of interaction in adult psychotherapy -- Infant/caregiver interactions: the process of affect identification, communication, and regulation -- Patterns of careseeking/caregiving relationships: research into attachment behaviour in infants and young children -- Presenting the concept of goal-corrected empathic attunement: effective caregiving within psychotherapy -- First experiment: the identification of affect attunement in adult psychotherapy -- Second experiment: is empathic attunement interactive? -- Third experiment: an experiment designed to test whether secure attachment style correlates with empathic attunement and whether empathic attunement can be improved with training -- The process of obtaining a reliable measure for goal-corrected empathic attunement -- Results of the Third Experiment -- Patterns of functional and dysfunctional careseeking-caregiving partnerships -- Interactions between therapists and patients and their roots in infancy -- Role play scenarios for day one -- Measure of student attunement to be completed by the actor after each interview -- Measure of student attunement to be completed by the actor after each interview -- Role play scenarios for day two

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Book SynopsisIllusions and Disillusions of Psychoanalytic Work recounts and explores the disappointing and sometimes tragic evolutions of the treatments of certain patients who are resistant to the effects of analytic work. In this book Andre Green reports cases taken from his own experience and that of his collaborators. He points out moreover, that such cases have never been absent from the series of analysands that he has treated, from the early days of his practice up until today, without minimizing his counter-transference reactions or their possible impact on these disappointing evolutions.Trade Review'Andre Green's lucidity . combined with his rigorous approach, underlies the elaboration of this book as well as that of his work in general, but it does not lead him to radical pessimism. On the contrary, it opens out on to a note of hope, for, after giving a lucid account of these disappointing and sometimes tragic evolutions, the author seeks to account for their causes. This also attests to the depth of his psychoanalytic and human commitment to these difficult patients, a commitment that he does not regret in spite of these evolutions of which he has "recollections of disappointing experiences,but not bad memories".'- Christine Delourmel, from the PrefaceTable of ContentsPsychoanalytic Ideas and Applications Series , Preface , Introduction , Presentation , Theoretical Study , From the treatment of neuroses to the crisis of psychoanalysis , Lacanian thinking on language , The setting and its interpretation , Die Entstellung , The metaphorization of analytic speech , The negative therapeutic reaction , The notion of failure , Variety of traumas , Some effects of the primitive superego , The ego prior to repression , Libidinal styles , Drive fusion and defusion , The modifications of the ego and the work of the negative , Diverse critical situations and acute somatizations , Causes and remedies , Recent suggestions concerning the treatment of cases resistant to the therapeutic effect of analysis , Methodological principles of psychoanalysis and the psychotherapies , Conclusions , Clinical Study , (A) Some examples drawn from the experience of collaborators , (B) Personal memories of some case histories , Illusions and Disillusions of Psychoanalytic Work , The internalization of the negative , Hypotheses concerning the negative beyond clinical findings , An encounter at the end of the journey , Postscript

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Book SynopsisThis book undertakes to demontrate that the relationship between attachment theory and psychoanalysis is more complex than adherants of either community generally recognize. Beginning with a brief overview of attachment theory and some key findings of attachment research, and continuing through psychoanalytic approaches from Freud to Daniel Stern, this book offers a unique contribution to our understanding of our the subject.Trade Review'To be a world leader in one discipline is impressive enough; to be at the cutting edge of two is nothing short of extraordinary. Fonagy straddles the worlds of psychoanalysis and attachment theory like a colossus; this is the book every student, colleague and even rival theoreticians has been waiting for. With characteristic wit, philosophical sophistication, scholarship, humanity, incisiveness and creativity, Fonagy succinctly describes the links, differences, and future directions of his twin themes.'Central to the book is his influential theory about the origins of the capacity for mentalization: that secure attachment is a pre-condition for the development of a sense of self and other. Fonagy links this to psychoanalytic ideas about symbolization, reality testing, and play in normal development, and the childhood origins of concrete thinking, delusion, and pathological defences in borderline personality disorder.'Attachment Theory and Psychoanalysis is destined to take its place as one of a select list of essential psychology books of the decade.'- Jeremy Holmes, Senior Lecturer in Psychotherapy, University of Exeter'[Fonagy's] magisterial scholarship should ensure that the book remains a key psychological reference book for many years to come.'- Ann Casement, The Journal of Analytical Psychology'An extraordinary analysis. Peter Fonagy's book offers a unique and remarkable contribution to our understanding of the meaningful relationship that has evolved between psychoanalytic and attachment theories...The volume will become an invaluable resource for developmental psychoanalysis.'- Joy D. Osofsky, Professor at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Centre, Coeditor of WAIMH Handbook of Infant Mental HealthTable of ContentsPreamble -- Introduction to Attachment Theory -- Key Findings of Attachment Research -- Freud's Models and Attachment Theory -- Structural Approaches: The North American Structural Approach -- Modifications of the Structural Model -- The Klein—Bion Model -- The Independent School of British Psychoanalysis and Its Relation to Attachment Theory -- North American Object Relations Theorists and Attachment Theory -- Modern Psychoanalytic Infant Psychiatry: The Work of Daniel Stern -- The Interpersonal-Relational Approach: From Sullivan to Mitchell -- Psychoanalytic Attachment Theorists -- Summary: What Do Psychoanalytic Theories and Attachment Theory Have in Common? -- How Can Attachment Theory Benefit from Psychoanalytic Insights? -- Conclusion

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Book SynopsisIn a brilliant examination of the frontiers of human emotion and cognition, four prominent psychoanalysts combine the perspectives of developmental psychology, attachment theory and psychoanalytic technique. The result of this marriage of disciplines is a bold, energetic and ultimately encouraging vision for the psychoanalytic treatment.Trade Review'A remarkable synthesis of developmental theory and research on the evolution of the child's capacity for metallization (reflective functioning), affect regulation, and the sense of the self, and the contributions of the development of these functions to the understanding and treatment of psychological disturbances in children and adults. An intellectual and clinical tour de force, integrating diverse theory and data from neurobiology, behavioural genetics, the philosophy of the mind, and psychosocial development, always with the focus on understanding the nature of severe psychological disturbances and their treatment in the psychotherapeutic context. This volume will have a profound impact on both clinical practice and clinical research.'- Sidney J. Blatt, Ph.D, Professor, Psychiatry and Psychology, Yale University'This book is already a classic. It puts psychoanalysis on the contemporary scientific map and permits a thoughtful combination of the different psychoanalytic schools. On top of that, it has huge implications for clinical practice. What more could one want?'- Paul Verhaeghe, Ph.D., Professor of Clinical Psychology, Department of Psychoanalysis, University of Ghent, Belgium'This is a book worth savoring, not just reading. The authors' breadth is truly staggering, traversing terrain from philosophy of mind, to developmental research on children's capacity to represent their own and others' mental states, to research on severe personality disorders, to clinical observations of infants, children and adults - all within a framework grounded in attachment theory. It is one of the first truly convincing efforts to show how the body of attachment research can actually influence the way we practice with many of our patients.' - Drew Westen'The four co-authors write in a clear single voice. Their collaboration makes the book stunning in its scope, powerfully reasoned, clinically rich in telling cases, and historically sophisticated...What an intellectual delight to have a book that stays in your mind, continues to challenge, and offers new directions for understanding.'- Ed Tronick, Ph.D., Chief of the Child Development Unit; Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical SchoolTable of ContentsIntroduction -- Theoretical Perspectives -- Attachment and Reflective Function: Their Role in Self-Organization -- Historical and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Affects and Affect Regulation -- The Behavior Geneticist's Challenge to a Psychosocial Model of the Development of Mentalization -- Developmental Perspectives -- The Social Biofeedback Theory of Affect-Mirroring: The Development of Emotional Self-Awareness and Self-Control in Infancy -- The Development of an Understanding of Self and Agency -- "Playing with Reality": Developmental Research and a Psychoanalytic Model for the Development of Subjectivity -- Marked Affect-Mirroring and the Development of Affect-Regulative Use of Pretend Play -- Developmental Issues in Normal Adolescence and Adolescent Breakdown -- Clinical Perspectives -- The Roots of Borderline Personality Disorder in Disorganized Attachment -- Psychic Reality in Borderline States -- Mentalized Affectivity in the Clinical Setting -- Epilogue

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Book SynopsisDr Lacan's writings, and especially the seminars for which he has become famous, have provoked intense controversies in French analytic circles, requiring as they do a radical reappraisal of the legacy bequeathed by Freud. This volume is based on a year's seminar, which is of particular importance because he was addressing a larger, less specialist audience than ever before, amongst whom he could not assume familiarity with his work. For his listeners then, and for his readers now, he wanted "to introduce a certain coherence into the major concepts on which psycho-analysis is based", namely the unconscious, repetition, the transference and the drive.In re-defining these four concepts he explores the question that, as he puts it, moves from "Is psycho-analysis a science?" to "What is a science that includes psycho-analysis?" Dr Lacan argues in particular that there is a structural affinity between psycho-analysis, construed as the science of the unconscious, and language - the science of linguistics being one of the significant discoveries of our time. He also discusses the relation of psycho-analysis to religion, and reveals his particular stance on a wide range of topics, such as sexuality and death, love and libido, alienation, interpretation, repression and desire.This book constitutes the essence of Dr Lacan's sensibility. There is no clearer statement of the ideas and issues which have aroused such passionate reactions in France, and which can now gain the hearing they deserve in the English-speaking world.Trade ReviewDr Lacan's writings, and especially the seminars for which he has become famous, have provoked intense controversies in French analytic circles, requiring as they do a radical reappraisal of the legacy bequeathed by Freud. This volume is based on a year's seminar, which is of particular importance because he was addressing a larger, less specialist audience than ever before, amongst whom he could not assume familiarity with his work. For his listeners then, and for his readers now, he wanted "to introduce a certain coherence into the major concepts on which psycho-analysis is based", namely the unconscious, repetition, the transference and the drive.In re-defining these four concepts he explores the question that, as he puts it, moves from "Is psycho-analysis a science?" to "What is a science that includes psycho-analysis?" Dr Lacan argues in particular that there is a structural affinity between psycho-analysis, construed as the science of the unconscious, and language - the science of linguistics being one of the significant discoveries of our time. He also discusses the relation of psycho-analysis to religion, and reveals his particular stance on a wide range of topics, such as sexuality and death, love and libido, alienation, interpretation, repression and desire.This book constitutes the essence of Dr Lacan's sensibility. There is no clearer statement of the ideas and issues which have aroused such passionate reactions in France, and which can now gain the hearing they deserve in the English-speaking world.Table of ContentsPreface to the English-Language Edition -- Editor's Note -- Excommunication -- The Unconscious and Repetition -- The Freudian Unconscious and Ours -- Of the Subject of Certainty -- Of the Network of Signifiers -- Tuché and Automaton -- Of The Gaze as Objet Petit a -- The Split between the Eye and the Gaze -- Anamorphosis -- The Line and Light -- What is a Picture? -- The Transference and the Drive -- Presence of the Analyst -- Analysis and Truth or the Closure of the Unconscious -- Sexuality in the Defiles of the Signifier -- The Deconstruction of the Drive -- The Partial Drive and its Circuit -- From Love to the Libido -- The Field of the Other and back to the Transference -- The Subject and the Other: Alienation -- The Subject and the Other: Aphanisis -- Of the Subject Who is Supposed to Know, of the First Dyad, and of the Good -- From Interpretation to the Transference -- To Conclude -- In You More than You -- Translator's Note

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Book SynopsisHow is it that someone can be healed of mental illness through talking with another person? This is what Neville Symington examines in this book. He believes that a person in their innermost being registers the essential character of the other person. The senses detect the outer contours of the personality but a deeper form of knowledge connects directly to the other person's inner being. Healing comes about if the inner world of the one is guided by principles that transcend the particular and this fosters a giving-ness in the one and the other. The egoism in each is then subsumed into a higher unity which results in a new subjective understanding. Personal understanding is a sign that a new ordering of the inner ingredients of the personality has taken place; that the form of being in the one has the capacity to generate in the other this new way of being.The author explores this fundamental reality that underlies human communication and teases out how this brings about healing. He believes that this has existed wherever there has been true friendship within civilization, and that psychotherapy and psychoanalysis attempts to distil this essence and apply it in a clinical setting.Trade Review'The question is this: how is it that a person who has a problem is able to resolve it through conversation with another? Symington's answer rests upon Einstein's insight: some relations are of the essence of the things related. Symington's relational account of persons challenges our conventional understanding to the breaking point: by reconceptualizing emotions, persons and human relations, we break through to a brilliant new way of understanding the work of psychiatrists and psychotherapists. One must expect that Symington's relational account of persons will affect our psychiatry as deeply as Einstein's work affected our physics.'- Dr Peter March, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Nova Scotia'Neville Symington's ideas of how a dialogue can heal are radical and profound. Written without jargon or portentousness, this book learnedly, yet clearly, explores the ways in which honest and open human interaction can be deeply restorative. It is above all a humane book, intelligent, well-written, and credible and yet its theme is a very simple one, without ever being simple-minded. It deserves to become a classic in the evolving story of how words spoken between two people can enlighten and cure.'- Salley Vickers, Author of Miss Garnet's AngelTable of Contents1 The question: an intellectual solution 2 The meaning of emotion 3 Emotional development 4 Communication and emotion 5 Communication and representation 6 The case of pseudo-maturity

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Book SynopsisThe papers in this book focus on many different aspects of the therapeutic relationship, including the self of the therapist, working cross-culturally and with language difference, impasse, risk taking, the place of research, and the influence of theory. Clinical examples illustrate successful as well as less succssful outcomes in therapy, and these clinical explorations make the book accessible to both systemic and non-systemic practitioners alike.Part of the Systemic Thinking and Practice Series.Contributors:Rhonda Brown; John Burnham; John Byng-Hall; Alan Carr; Carmel Flaskas; Jo Howard; Alfred Hurst; Ellie Kavner; Sebastian Kraemer; Inga-Britt Krause; Rabia Malik; Maeve Malley; Michael Maltby; Barry Mason; Sue McNab; Amaryll Perlesz; David Pocock; Hitesh Raval; Justin Schlicht; and Lennox K. Thomas.Trade Review'This book, which comprises contributions from many well-known authors, takes an important step in the field of family therapy towards linking many fruitful approaches. Sheila McNamee (2004) recently suggested that we have reached the point when we should be promiscuous rather than remaining faithful to one pure approach. This allows us to enrich our skills rather than confining them. Nevertheless, we still need a shared focus. What better place to start than by exploring the space between the therapist and client. So much of our thinking has centred on both what therapists do, or what families are . However, there is now an increasing interest in how family and therapists mutually influence each other in the therapeutic relationship.'- John Byng-Hall, from the ForewordTable of ContentsSeries Editors’ Foreword -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Relational reflexivity: a tool for socially constructing therapeutic relationships -- From system to psyche -- “Alice and Alice not through the looking glass”: therapeutic transparency and the therapeutic and supervisory relationship -- Working with men who use violence and control -- Not getting lost in translation: establishing a working alliance with co-workers and interpreters -- Intercultural: where the systemic meets the psychoanalytic in the therapeutic relationship -- Before and beyond words: embodiment and intercultural therapeutic relationships in family therapy -- Sticky situations, therapy mess: on impasse and the therapist’s position -- Systems of the heart: evoking the feeling self in family therapy -- Shame and the therapeutic relationship -- Relational risk-taking and the therapeutic relationship -- Adopting a research lens in family therapy: a means to therapeutic collaboration -- Research on the therapeutic alliance in family therapy

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Book SynopsisA collection of papers from the International Journal of Psychoanalysis that were originally published in the 1920s. The papers are divided into their subject matter and contextualised through comprehensive and clear introductions. This is an essential anthology of classic papers. The editor has chosen papers for this volume that deal with substantial issues in the development of psychoanalysis that still have profound echoes in psychoanalytic discussion today. His broad selection includes significant papers on: child analysis, sublimation, female sexuality, active technique, character and libidinal development, super-ego, the reality principle, and lay analysis. This essential anthology contains classic papers by Karl Abraham, Sandor Ferenczi, Anna Freud, Edward Glover, Karen Horney, Ernest Jones, Melanie Klein, Joan Riviere, and Hermine von Hug-Helmuth.Trade ReviewThe editor has chosen papers for this volume that deal with substantial issues in the development of psychoanalysis that still have profound echoes in psychoanalytic discussion today. His broad selection includes significant papers on: child analysis, sublimation, female sexuality, active technique, character and libidinal development, super-ego, the reality principle, and lay analysis. This essential anthology contains classic papers by Karl Abraham, Sandor Ferenczi, Anna Freud, Edward Glover, Karen Horney, Ernest Jones, Melanie Klein, Joan Riviere, and Hermine von Hug-Helmuth.Table of ContentsSERIES PREFACE The International Journal of Psychoanalysis Key Papers Series -- Introduction to the journal in the 1920s -- Child analysis -- Phantasy and sublimation -- Female sexuality -- Active technique -- Character formation -- Super-ego -- The sense of reality -- Lay analysis

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Book SynopsisUnderstanding the psychodynamics of madness is essential to the therapy of most patients, including those who are not diagnosed as mad in the literal sense. This volume draws on Freud, Jung, recent object relation and self psychologies, and, particularly, the work of Winnicott, Bion and Elkin. It describes and critiques the basic ideas on the dynamics of psychoses and provides a framework for interpretation.Trade Review'This book is a rich phenomenological and psychodynamic exploration of "the mad dimension of life", a discussion which has both breadth and depth. Eigen must certainly rank amongst the foremost of contemporary analytic therapists and theorists who are making significant steps in furthering our understanding of madness. Any clinician who has ever attempted to understand the thoughts and experiences of psychotic patients will find much that is illuminating and well described in this book.'- Phil Mollon in British Journal of Psychiatry'An extraordinary book. Reading The Psychotic Core not only becomes an excursion through the (universal) elements of psychosis, but evolves into an encounter with the psychotic process itself. Eigen is, however, fundamentally a psychoanalyst in his approach and method, and his analytic view constitutes both a framework for interpretation and a mode of knowing. By listening to psychosis, by understanding its presence, by looking at (and interpreting) its symbolizations, we enhance our knowledge of what it means to live in a historical project that finds itself affected by periodic eruptions of a cultural and political madness.'- James M. Glass in The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease'The Psychotic Core is one of the finest treatises I have ever read on the subject. It is solidly clinical and pragmatic on one hand, and yet it is a piece of exquisite, artistic phenomenology on the other. Eigen's concept of madness elegantly spans what we ordinarily mean by borderline states as well as the formal psychotic states. The work is a very creatively integrative one. The pigments on his palette include Freud, Jung, Bion, Winnicott, and many others.'- James Grotstein in Psychotherapy & Social Science ReviewTable of ContentsPreface -- The Core of Psychosis -- Hallucination -- Mindlessness -- Boundaries -- Hate -- Epistemology and Reversal -- Schreber and Rena -- The Psychotic Self -- Epilogue

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Book SynopsisThe author surveys Bion's publications and elaborates on his key contributions in depth while also critiquing them. The scope of this work is to synopsize, synthesize, and extend Bion's works in a reader-friendly manner. The book presents his legacy - his most important ideas for psychoanalysis. These ideas need to be known by the mental health profession at large. This work highlights and defines the broader and deeper implications of his works.It presents his ideas faithfully and also uses his ideas as "launching pads" for the author's conjectures about where his ideas point. This includes such ideas as "the Language of Achievement", "reverie," "truth," "O," and "transformations"- in, of, and from it, but also " L," "H," and "K" linkages (to show how Bion rerouted Freud's instinctual drives to emotions), "container/contained, Bion's ideas on "dreaming," "becoming," "thoughts without a thinker," "the Grid," his erasure of the distinction between Freud's, "primary and secondary processes " and the "pleasure" and "reality principles," "reversible perspective," "shifting vertices," "binocular vision," "contact-barrier," the replacement of "consciousness" and "unconsciousness" with infinity and finiteness, Bion's use of models, his distinction between "mentalization" and "thinking," as well as many other items.Trade Review'...this is a book that I had been waiting to have for a long time - a book that was in my 'memoirs of the future'. This book is a hologram of Bion's thought that can be deconstructed in its constituent parts and then reconstructed again and again. It is Grotstein's dream about Bion, but a dream that enriches his thought, transforms it and makes it more readily available.It is a book that I will certainly use with my students in seminars on Bion's thought, and I will encourage others to do the same. It is a book, in my opinion, that all analysts, including those of a different orientation, should take most seriously. It is abook that dares to disturb that universe of knowledge that any reader had before reading it. It is a book which is 'thought for thinking', but also reverie, as well as representing the closest we can get, for the time being at least, to the global 'O' of Bion's thought.' - Antonino Ferro, International Journal of Psychoanalysis, (2008).Table of ContentsContentsCHAPTER 1. The Scope Of This BookCHAPTER 2. What Kind Of Analyst Was Bion?CHAPTER 3. What Kind Of Person Was Bion?CHAPTER 4. Bion's visionCHAPTER 5 Bion's LegacyCHAPTER 6. A Brief Summary Of Bion's MetatheoryCHAPTER 7. Bion On TechniqueCHAPTER 8. Clinical Case Encompassing Bion's Technical IdeasCHAPTER 9. Bion, The Mathematician, Bion, The MysticCHAPTER 10. The Language Of AchievementCHAPTER 11. Bion's Discovery Of O CHAPTER 12. The Concept Of The "Transcendent Position"CHAPTER 13. The "Quest For The Truth": Part A: The "Truth Drive" As The Hidden Order Of Bion's Metatheory For PsychoanalysisCHAPTER 14. Part B: "The Truth Drive" Curiosity About The Truth As The "Seventh Servant"CHAPTER 15. Lies, "Lies," And FalsehoodsCHAPTER 16. The Container And The ContainedCHAPTER 17. "Projective Transidentification": An Extension Of The Concept Of Projective IdentificationCHAPTER 18. Bion's Work With Groups CHAPTER 19. Bion's Studies In PsychosisCHAPTER 20. TransformationsCHAPTER 21. Learning From ExperienceCHAPTER 22. The Breast, The "No-breast," And The PointCHAPTER 23. The GridCHAPTER 24. The Question Of Fetal Mental Life And Its Caesura With Post-natal Mental LifeCHAPTER 25. What Does It Mean To Dream?" A Preliminary Note On Bion's Theory Of DreamingCHAPTER 26. "...perchance To Dream...": The Profounder Mission Of DreamingCHAPTER 27. "Become" CHAPTER 28. P-s To DCHAPTER 29. L, H, And PassionCHAPTER 30. Faith CHAPTER 31. The Importance Of Bion's Discovery Of Zero ('No-thing") CHAPTER 32. A Pot Pourri Of Selected Contributions By Bion CHAPTER 33. A Reading Of Bion's A Memoir Of The FutureCHAPTER 34. Epilogue For The Book

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Book SynopsisA revised and updated edition of this recent classic, including new material on insight and early development, amongst others. Within each subject, the author presents the theories and observations of each major contributor to the particular topic, from Freud to contemporary thinking, and in the process shows the advantages and disadvantages of the various theoretical positions and orientations.Trade Review'R. Horacio Etchegoyen has written a splendid textbook on psychoanalytic technique- thoughtful, extensive in its coverage, authoritative without being polemical, deep in insights that refl ect the author's clinical experience... Both beginners and experienced analysts should fi nd this book of interest and value. The former for its overview and as a guide to original sources, the latter for being introduced to a seasoned analyst's experience and wisdom... Above all, psychoanalytic technique is presented throughout as a scientifi c inquiry in progress, and the interchange of communication across alternative approaches it proposes is a creative, productive way of stimulating understanding and fostering the eff ectiveness of our interventions with patients. I believe this book will be recognized as a major milestone in the growing literature on psychoanalytic technique and a major crossroad facilitating the communication and mutual enrichment of alternative schools and approaches.'- Otto F. Kernberg, MD'In the preface, the author writes: "My one aspiration is that this book may help my colleagues to discover in themselves the analysts that they really are." To that end, I think it will surely succeed. It will be of inestimable value to all teachers and students of psychoanalysis, however experienced. There is no other book like it.'- Patrick Casement'[The Fundamentals of Psychoanalytic Technique] is encyclopaedic in its consideration of the various theories of psychoanalytic technique... It is catholic in its inclusiveness, but at the same time, the panorama it presents has been distilled through the author's intelligence so that it has the mark of personal scholarship... These topics are covered in a thoughtful and critical way, with numerous cross-references between them. Etchegoyen is a gentleman; always thoughtful and respectful, he considers each point of view with an impressive even-handedness and objectivity. When he disagrees or criticizes, he is straightforward and direct, never pulling punches or mincing words, but at the same time he manages never to be polemical. For instance, although he has serious criticisms of many of Lacan's ideas, I found his exposition of them to be no less respectful, and more lucid, than any I have read by Lacan's adherents. This alone is worth the price of the book.'- Robert Caper, MDTable of ContentsPreface to the 1999 Edition -- Preface -- Foreword -- Introduction to the Problems of Technique -- Psychoanalytic technique -- Indications and contraindications according to the diagnosis and other particulars -- Analysability -- The psychoanalytic interview: structure and objectives -- The psychoanalytic interview: development -- The psychoanalytic contract -- On Transference and Countertransference -- History and concept of the transference -- The dynamics of transference -- Transference and repetition -- The dialectics of the transference according to Lacan -- The theory of the sujet supposé savoir— the subject supposed to know -- The forms of transference -- Transference psychosis -- Transference perversion -- Early transference -- Early transference -- On the spontaneity of the transference phenomenon -- The therapeutic alliance: from Wiesbaden to Geneva -- The non-transference analytic relationship -- Therapeutic alliance: discussion, controversy and polemics -- Countertransference: discovery and rediscovery -- Countertransference and object relationship -- Countertransference and psychoanalytic process -- On Interpretation and Other Instruments -- Materials and instruments of psychotherapy -- The concept of interpretation -- Interpretation in psychoanalysis -- Constructions -- Constructions of early development -- Metapsychology of interpretation -- Interpretation and the ego -- Melanie Klein and the theory of interpretation -- Types of interpretation -- Mutative interpretation -- Interpretative styles -- Epistemological aspects of psychoanalytic interpretation -- On the Nature of the Psychoanalytic Process -- The analytic situation -- Analytic situation and analytic process -- The analytic setting -- The analytic process -- Regression and setting -- Regression as a curative process -- Separation anxiety and psychoanalytic process -- The setting and the container/contained theory -- On the Stages of Analysis -- The initial stage -- The middle stage of analysis -- Theories of termination -- Clinical aspects of termination -- The technique of termination of analysis -- On the Vicissitudes of the Psychoanalytic Process -- Insight and its defining characteristics -- Insight and working-through -- The metapsychology of insight -- Acting Out [1] -- Acting out [2] -- Acting out [3] -- Negative therapeutic reaction [1] -- Negative therapeutic reaction [2] -- Reversible perspective [1] -- Reversible perspective [2] -- The theory of misunderstanding -- Impasse -- Epilogue

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Book SynopsisDaniel Defoe (1660-1731) is known to many only by his first novel, "Robinson Crusoe", astonishingly written as he approached his sixtieth year. Acknowledged as the first of English novelists, he has also been awarded accolades for being the 'Father of Journalism', the most successful spy in British history, the precursor to contemporary depth psychologists, the most daring of early feminists, the most devious of confidence tricksters and fraudulent entrepreneurs, the unsurpassed travelogue presenter, the first spin-doctor and speech-writer to a king. Hurling his defiances against the Established Church and Roman Catholicism, he was also the intrepid upholder of dissenting beliefs. Leo Abse deploys his forensic skills as a distinguished criminal lawyer and reforming parliamentarian to present an intriguing and novel Freudian overview of all Defoe's major works. Weaving the anecdotal and the personal with profound revelatory explorations of the psychodynamics and psychopathology of Defoe, his conclusions, strikingly relevant to today's political dilemmas, will precipitate debate in university English departments, startle many literary critics and be of absorbing interest to psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, criminologists and all working in the field of mental health.Trade Review'Don't miss Leo Abse's Daniel Defoe. He's as original as Defoe himself.' - Michael Foot 'Leo Abse is always brave, always perceptive and usually right; doubters will be wise to hesitate before pronouncing; over the last half-century, time has been in the habit of vindicating his judgement.' - Matthew Parris 'This book presents its subject in an entirelyfresh light, making it an exhilarating and enthralling read. I was gripped from beginning to end.' - Anthony Howard 'With wit, insight and erudition, Leo Abse illuminates hidden corners of the too-often overlooked Defoe, and casts a contemporary eye on Defoe's prodigious achievement, not least his bold eighteenth-century view of marriage as licensed whoredom. A riveting read.' - Brenda Maddox 'Leo Abse, perhaps the most humane and significant back-bench MP from any political party in the twentieth century, civilised Britain by forcing through a series of historic changes on the laws on homosexuality and divorce... now, ever indefatigable, his latest book gives a new dimension to the understanding of Defoe. Abse shows how Defoe transcended his private agonies to become a great public man.' - Peter OborneTable of ContentsThe genius of Daniel Defoe -- The Historical Collections -- The negative Oedipus complex -- The thrills of risk-taking -- Cannibalism -- The plague: defying Thanatos -- The storm -- The voyeur -- The spy -- Coprophilia and creativity -- Captain Singleton: the ablation of Alice Defoe -- The birth traumas of Sheppard, Wild and Defoe -- The preacher -- The feminist -- Crusoe's island -- Moll Flanders -- Roxana -- Apocalypse: The Political History of the Devil -- Epilogue

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Book SynopsisThe aim of Freudian Unconscious and Cognitive Neuroscience is to create a conception of the Freudian things around the unconscious that takes seriously both the clinical data gathered in the scope of psychoanalytic clinical practice during the past 110 years, and the empirical and theoretical achievements of cognitive science and evolutionary theory. Tensions between the psychoanalytic and other views give a hint that the task is anything but easy.Trade Review'Vesa Talvitie's sophisticated, yet accessible, analysis of the relationship between the Freudian unconscious and cognitive neuroscience should be required reading for both doctrinaire Freudians and those psychologists who are all too eager to consign the Freudian project to the dustbin of history. His philosophical astuteness, impressive grasp of the relevant literatures, and willingness to engage creatively with both psychoanalysts' and cognitivists' thinking make this indispensable reading for anyone seriously interested in understanding the architecture of the human mind and the place of psychoanalysis on the contemporary intellectual landscape.'- David Livingstone Smith, PhD, author of Approaching Psychoanalysis: An Introductory Course, Why We Lie: The Evolutionary Roots of Deception and The Unconscious Mind and The Most Dangerous Animal: Human Nature and the Origins of WarTable of ContentsIntroduction -- The unconscious and the mysteries of human life -- Historical context of the tension between the cognitive and the psychoanalytic unconscious -- The mind and the unconscious of the post-Freudian era -- On the competencies of the neural unconscious -- Repression and becoming conscious of the repressed reframed: the four-level model -- Psychotherapy, neuroscience, and the levels of explanation -- Epilogue: history of the future of psychoanalysis

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Book SynopsisHarry Karnac began to specialise in psychoanalytic bookselling at the suggestion of Donald Winnicott, a customer at Karnac's bookshop in Gloucester Road during the late 1950s. The two became good friends and Harry's interest in Winnicott and his works has remained strong ever since. This bibliography of over 1200 books, articles and reviews of works by, about, or relating to Winnicott and his work is the result of many years of research, and represents the most complete listing available to date. It is an essential reference work and will be an invaluable aid for scholars, clinicians, analysts, therapists, researchers and anyone interested in the life and work of one of the leading figures in the fields of paediatrics and psychoanalysis.Trade Review'I am delighted to welcome and introduce Harry Karnac's careful bibliography of works to date that have made use of the plethora of ideas introduced into the psychoanalytic lexicon by Donald Woods Winnicott. This is the core work. All serious Winnicott scholars will find it essential as a starting point for reference. Since Winnicott's ideas tangle with many other fields, this compilation of references is the touchstone for many others in whatever areas they are engaged. Just as in his lifetime Winnicott regularly and frequently spoke to enormous numbers of different, not only professional audiences, so, after his death, his writings continue to engage all manner of people. 'Winnicott's work, no less than Freud's, has applications in, spans and influences "Nothing Short of Everything" as he wanted to title his autobiography. Accordingly, his work has been discovered and influenced people in many fields of human endeavour. Everything is not yet available of the work of a man who is undoubtedly amongst the most significant heirs to the mantle of Freud [but] already Harry Karnac has listed more than 1200 articles, books and reviews of relevant derivative scholarship interest. Until the unopened archives become available no final evaluation of Winnicott's work will be possible ... There is no intention here to annotate or provide a critical bibliography, nor to reproduce summaries or abstracts of articles, nor to analyse the items in any depth ... This bibliography has been fascinating reading for me for whom it is essential, as I am confident it will be for many, many others now and in years to come.'- Judith Issroff, from the ForewordTable of ContentsForeword -- Complete alphabetical listing -- Complete listing in three sections

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Book Synopsis'Did Melanie Klein ever think that 50 years after her death her ideas would be spreading world-wide in such a fruitful and productive way? In one sense she would be surprised, but in another, I think she might have regarded it as just to be expected. She had a very high regard for her own work, and enormous confidence that she was on to something new. At the same time she was fatefully resigned to being misunderstood and rejected - just as Freud had been, of course. But now, here is the evidence of her success: two thousand plus references, and climbing. Klein's ideas are truly international now, and perhaps wherever Freud is there Klein shall be, to adapt a well-known phrase. Of course this is in the context of other schools which also spread slipperily across the globe, thanks now to the web. But Harry Karnac's bibliography is a proper published document, and is of immense potential use for clinicians, students, and researchers. Its embrace is much wider than Kleinian texts on PEPWeb, and it is a natural companion to that database. It is also a companion to Harry's previous bibliographies of Winnicott and Bion.' - Bob Hinshelwood, from the ForewordTrade Review'Uniquely, its success is in directing us comprehensively, not just to core Kleinian writings, but also to works that critique the core. This is a great strength since any burgeoning school must eventually break out fully from an enclave of supporters and allow itself an exposure to proper critical appraisal by others. Klein's discoveries of the depressive position, splitting mechanisms, projective identification, and primary envy, and the later developments of these ideas are, still, such radical advances on Freud's energic metapsychology that they deserve and need continuing study, clinically and theoretically. The body of writing comprising those critiques as well as the core writings is now collected together for us. We are fortunate to have such an aide de recherche.' - Bob Hinshelwood, from the ForewordContentsIntroduction - R. D. HinshelwoodPreface - Harry KarnacPart 1 The Writings of Melanie Klein- Chronological- AlphabeticalPart 2 Secondary SourcesAlphabetical by author- Articles- Books including articles from books- ReviewsTable of ContentsForeword -- Introduction -- The writings of Melanie Klein -- Chronological -- Alphabetical -- Secondary sources -- Alphabetical by author -- Articles -- Books including articles from books -- Reviews

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Book SynopsisIt is well known that Freud laid great emphasis on sexual matters. In the years that followed, a distinction was drawn between sex and gender, and the idea of gender identity was introduced. Human beings do not spend every minute of their lives copulating, but at every minute of their lives their gender identity is present. Sex Makes the World Go Round implies that sex is everywhere, provided that we take into account both sexuality and gender identity. This book continues to develop Colette Chiland's work concerning sexuality and gender identity. There are two main themes which run through the whole of this book. The first is the distinction, established by Freud and based on clinical data, between the two currents of sexuality: tenderness and sensuality. The other is that women have always been treated as inferior beings. They have always lost out whenever sexual wanderings have been uppermost.Trade Review'With Sex Makes The World Go Round, Chiland, with her unique style of succinct lucidity, has provided answers for all we ever wanted to know, not only about sex, but also about love, tenderness, perversion, pornography, prostitution and gender and all its variations, with her unmistakable intelligence and vigour. Once again Chiland proves that she is not afraid to examine paradoxes and contradictions in her quest to understand these difficult issues in an honest and open manner. She challenges and provokes us to leave aside prejudices borne from fear and ignorance. Her thoughts and revelations are critical to our understanding of the complexities of shame and guilt. I could not put this book down: finally the definitive wisdom and truly unmissable.' - Dr Estela V. Welldon, MD DSc(Hon) F.R.C.Psych. Founder and Honorary President for life of the International Association for Forensic Psychotherapy, Author of Mother, Madonna, WhoreTable of ContentsPreface -- The heart of the matter -- Freud and the importance of sexuality -- Gender identity -- From difference to equality -- Choice of partner -- Sexual wanderings -- Love -- Sex makes the world go round

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Book SynopsisThis book is an attempt to look at creativity from a female perspective. By looking at artistic endeavour, mothering and psychotherapeutic relationships, Juliet Miller considers how a patriarchal world distorts the channels through which women discover their own creative voices. She argues that the dynamics of female creativity are more multi- layered and conflicted for women for a variety of historical, cultural and archetypal reasons and suggests that an attack on the creative feminine has been exacerbated by the history and teaching of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy. Miller looks to the artistic community to discover new ways for the creative feminine to grow and assesses how ideas of destruction and anarchy are crucial for the expression of a feminine self. The work of two contemporary sculptors, Cornelia Parker and Louise Bourgeois, is explored to show how there can be authentic relationships to creativity through the ideas of deconstruction and reconstruction in their work. This book will interest psychotherapists and analysts and both women and men interested in their own relationship to their creativity.Trade Review'Juliet Miller's book makes a vital contribution to the important but neglected area of the female creative process. She explores with strength and sensitivity those issues and taboos that often challenge or frustrate women's creativity within relationships, motherhood, infertility, the workplace, therapeutic and psychoanalytic communities and the wider artistic world. By examining the ways in which female creative drives and their repressed emotions of aggression and destructiveness transform matter - that most feminine material - into images and works of art that are subversive and spiritual, Miller provides new insight into the art of leading female artists Louise Bourgeois and Cornelia Parker. A must for readers interested in the creative feminine.' - Diane Finiello Zervas, Jungian Analyst, Art Historian 'This passionate yet lucid account includes critical insights into the ways feminine creativity is under attack in the arts, motherhood and the shadow side of the psychoanalytic enterprise. Miller holds up a looking glass to the latter which reflects the pathological face of psychoanalysis where it is contaminated by unconscious power drives. The book is recommended reading for all those seeking to realise their creative potential.' - Ann Casement, Licensed Psychoanalyst, Fellow of the Royal Anthropological InstituteTable of ContentsContents1 The search for a voice2 Using a voice3 The dilemma of motherhood4 The problem of infertility5 History, Gender and Relating6 Patriarchy and Hate in Training Institutes7 Power and Vulnerability in the Work of Louise Bourgeois 8 Creative Destruction in the Work of Cornelia Parker

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Book SynopsisThis is a book about cognition, emotion, memory, and learning. Along the way it examines exactly how implicit memory ("knowing how") and explicit memory ("knowing that") are connected with each other via the cerebellum. Since emotion is also related to memory, and most likely, one of its organising features, many fields of human endeavour have attempted to clarify its fundamental nature, including its relationship to metaphor, problem-solving, learning, and many other variables. This is an attempt to pull together the various strands relating to emotions, so that clinicians and researchers alike can identify precisely, and ultimately agree, upon what emotion is and how it contributes to the other known activities of mind and brain.Trade ReviewIt is hoped this book will help our understanding of emotion psychoanalytically, if we patiently delineate the complex picture of the human experience of emotion and integrate this with the efforts of brain scientists and psychoanalysts to understand how the mind-view of emotion and the brain-view of emotion connect. In the belief that the cerebellum plays a decisive role in emotion, this book tries to convey this newest part of the story of emotion and the cerebellum with the utmost clarity and accuracy.'More than a backup system for brain programs, the cerebellum creates shadow models of other parts of the brain, opening possibilities of its managing the interweaving of explicit and implicit memory, parsing the domains and structures of Freud's topographic and structural systems, and deciding to bring limbic emotion towards action meaning. An introductory critique of the neuropsychoanalytic movement thus far progresses in the patient and stately exposition of a master bridge builder.'- David V. Forrest, MD, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons'As one of the pioneers of neuro-psychoanalysis, Fred Levin shows the immense importance of this new perspective in elucidating the special integrative role of the cerebellum. In its enterprise, neuroscience has mainly focused on higher cortical functions. It is time to correct the 150-year bias, and Levin does it splendidly, taking into account cognition, emotion, memory, learning and action in relation to the "psychodynamics of the cerebellum." He also encourages his readers to proceed in the exploration of knowledge, anticipating surprises in further research.'- Professor Juhani Ihanus, PhD'By focusing upon the cerebellum, Levin has connected psychoanalytic perspectives, such as the Freudian unconscious, and neuroscientific perspectives on conscious and non-conscious neural networking. Attention is given to both explicit and implicit memory systems, and the need for their integration as well. And credit is properly given to Ito Masao for his brilliant appreciation and elaborations of how the cerebellum becomes for each of us a decisive part of our emotions, our adaptive learning, and our very self.'- Professor Hans-Dieter Klein, Austrian Academy of Sciences'Levin's careful consideration of the cerebellum offers a new insight in correlating and comprehending mind and brain and its perplexing byproduct-emotion.' - Shawn Lee, Resources'The specialist who is willing to take the time and effort to unpack Levin's complex neuro-psychoanalytic thinking will be rewarded by his bold and creative work. His view of the cerebellum and emotion, if supported by further evidence, ought to have an important impact on the field.'- Charles P. Fisher, International Journal of PsychoanalysisContents 1. Sleep and Dreaming, Part 12. Sleep and Dreaming, Part 2 3. A neuro-psychoanalytic theory of emotion, Part 1 4. A neuro-psychoanalytic theory of emotion, Part 2 5. Synapses, cytokines and long-term memory network 6. Recent neuroscience discoveries, and protein pathway7. Introduction to the Cerebellum (CB)8. When might the CB be Involved inModeling the Limbic system, the SEEKING system, and other systems?9. The CB Contribution to Affect, and the Affect Contribution to the CB 10. Review, Summary, and ConclusionsTable of Contents1. Sleep and Dreaming, Part 1 2. Sleep and Dreaming, Part 2 3. A neuro-psychoanalytic theory of emotion, Part 1 4. A neuro-psychoanalytic theory of emotion, Part 2 5. Synapses, cytokines and long-term memory network 6. Recent neuroscience discoveries, and protein pathway 7. Introduction to the Cerebellum (CB) 8. When might the CB be Involved in Modeling the Limbic system, the SEEKING system, and other systems? 9. The CB Contribution to Affect, and the Affect Contribution to the CB 10. Review, Summary, and Conclusions

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Book SynopsisEach one of us has to be born "inter urinas et faeces", as St. Augustine so strikingly put it. More recently, Freud's 1915 discovery of 'instincts' - that is, 'drives' - and their 'viscitudes' leads us further to envision a human subjectivity that would have nothing mataphysical about it. The baby's "feeling of himself" first arises in the midst of the earliest interactions with his parental partner, establishing his 'drive monatges' whose acomplishment forms a circuit latching on to something in the first other.In the course of these early interactions, the 'new subject' evoked by Freud will gradually take on its own qualities, accoridng to the signifcations that it can grasp in the primordial partner's messages, responding to the baby's manifestation of needs. One of Lacan's key ideas is that 'signifiers' are percieved first of all in the Other. The Freudian subject may then be defined as 'an agent of corporeal energy caught up in a signifying relation with his parental other (already a subject)'. As a conseqeuence of the newborn's 'prematurity and subjection', the incomparable development of human subjectivity occurs through a sort of passion - the same passion that must be revisited in every psychoanalytic treatment. And what could be more 'passionately'engaging than the precariousness of this complex function? The preconditions for it appear most clearly when the psychoanalysis runs up against its own limits - for example, when dealing with grave problems of 'subjectivisation' in the adolescent.Trade Review'This book's novel approach, which blends Lacan's thinking with traditional psychoanalysis, will throw a new light on the controversy of drives versus the relational point of view.'- Gunther Perdigao, Training Analyst, New OrleansTable of ContentsIntroduction -- The drive circuit as generator of subjectivation -- Oral drive functioning and subjection -- "A Child Is Being Beaten": the three stages of the subjectivation of fantasy -- The misfortunes of Sophie, or the bad subject to come -- Adolescence of the Freudian subject -- Foreclosure of signification and the suffering subject -- The key role of the phallus signifier in the subjectivation of sexuality -- Sublimation, latency, and subjectivation -- Unexpected drive subjects in the session -- The logical stages of subjectivation

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Book SynopsisMost research in the field of attachment is on the experiences of attachment, separation and loss, and their developmental course and effects. This book widens our vision to the public domain, to consider the ways in which social institutions, culture and social policy may diminish our ability to make and maintain secure attachments. It argues that collective human security depends in part on the quality of attachments amongst individuals, a quality which, in turn, is conditioned by the structures of public life. The book invites its readers to reflect on those social processes that put our security at risk and to explore the prospects for enabling change.Trade Review'Risking Human Security is an important book. Written for both a professional and wide lay audience, this volume seeks to bring the issues of attachment into the public domain. What makes it unique, is its exploration of how policy decisions, culture and politics can undermine - or support - the conditions on which human survival and security depend. Using case studies written by scholars and by activists with anthropological and psychological insights, Green demonstrates that our abilities to bond with others can be weakened or shattered by more than what is popularly understood as "trauma". Contributors demonstrate that like all structural violence, consumer and industrial cultures can be as destructive of attachments as are wars and forced migration. Embracing,and going beyond, traditional academic analysis, "Risking Human Security" provides corrective and necessarily subversive lenses to make the human condition more visible. Green's book makes a valuable contribution to all who are working to alleviate human suffering and to create a more life-affirming world.'- Joseph Gerson, PhD, Director of Programs, Director of Peace and Economic Security Program, American Friends Service Committee, New England'This is a book we have been waiting for. Within a framework of proposing that threats to attachment are threats to human security, Marci Green has assembled a team of contributors analysing the risks to secure attachments that arise from both the extraordinary and routine conditions of everyday life. Contributions from clinicians, researchers, political activists and educators enable Green's book to explore the direct effects of political conflict, forced migration, and the aftermath of environmental disaster. In addition the book makes valuable contributions to our understanding of the indirect damage done to attachments by our social arrangements, by considering the organisation of our workplaces, the effects of aggressive marketing practice on children's capacity to empathise with others, and the disastrous undermining of communities caused by the U.S. 'War on Drugs' and imprisonment practices. This is a fine book and essential reading.'- Joseph Schwartz, Training Therapist and Director of research at the Centre for Attachment-based Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, London; Editor of "Attachment: New Directions in Psychotherapy and Relational Psychoanalysis"'Timely, interesting and valuable, the book has a wide appeal.'- Andrew Barley, Therapy TodayTable of ContentsIntroduction -- The Basic Principles of Attachment Theory -- The social construction of the human brain -- The Connections between Public Life and Personal Attachment -- Attachment and loss of community -- Labour to love -- Unsettling policies: unanticipated consequences for migrant Afro-Caribbean families -- Seeking asylum: the struggle for a new secure base -- Compassion deficit disorder? The impact of consuming culture on children’s relationships -- Primitive justice: who pays the price? -- Strategies for Enabling Change -- Human security and conflict -- Enabling change

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Book SynopsisContemporary versions of evil demonise modern "fascists", "totalitarian threats", and "Hitlers". As if not obscure enough, fascist evil has been equivocally linked with perversion. This book reveals that both fascism and perversion implicate the non-symbolisable kernel in politics, which becomes the source of their mystification. It argues that the fascist does not take the same discursive position as the pervert does, regarding this symbolic gap.Antonio Vadolas develops a new rhetoric, de-pathologised and de-ideologised, regarding the structure of the so-called pervert, introducing new vocabularies and directions for psychoanalytic research that further distance the pervert, or whom he calls the "extra-ordinary subject", from fascist politics and, instead, exposes his diachronic "fascist" isolation from the social edifice. This reveals the fruitful alternatives that can stem from a "return to Freud cum Lacan", which supports a flexible on-going reformulation of psychoanalytic knowledge.Trade Review'Fascism has often been regarded as a perverse ideology and perversion may easily appear as a fascist form of sexuality, yet in this brilliant book Vadolas demonstrates that these associations obfuscate rather than elucidate the eroticisation of power as one of the most fundamental and controversial aspects of the human condition. Lacanian psychoanalysis underpins many of the author's arguments, but insofar as theorising is also exercising power Lacan is as much the method as he is the object of study. Drawing on a vast range of sources and broadly conceived as a critical reflection on philosophical, ethical and psychoanalytic discourses of domination, this is the kind of book that no contemporary social scientist can ignore.'- Professor Dany Nobus, Chair of Psychology and Psychoanalysis, Head of Social Sciences, Brunel University.ContentsPART I: Fascism and PerversionPART II: DiscoursePART III: EthicsPart IV: ConclusionTable of ContentsPreface -- Fascism and Perversion -- Introduction -- 1930s–1940s: The Frankfurt School and the Freudian left -- 1940s–1970s: The authoritarian and evil profile of fascism -- 1970s–1980s: Neo-Freudian perspectives -- 1990s: The surfeit of fascist jouissance -- Part I: Conclusion -- Discourse -- Introduction: The domination of the fascist and the Sadean master -- Power and mastery through the Lacanian prism -- The Lacanian discourse -- Three masters, three systems of domination -- Part II: Conclusion -- Ethics -- Introduction -- Sade with Kant and Eichmann -- Ethics and guilt -- From imaginary to democratic ethics -- Part III: Conclusion -- Politics -- Introduction: Politics and the embodiment of jouissance -- Beyond the fascist Utopia -- Exfra-ordinary anxiety -- Negating disavowal -- Part IV: Conclusion -- Conclusion: Love the object of your anxiety

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Book Synopsis'Few people would be better qualified than Meg Harris Williams to write this innovative and eagerly anticipated post-Kleinian book. Deeply versed in the opus of Bion and Meltzer, Harris Williams enhances the concept of "catastrophic change". The analyst who "eschews memory and desire" observes the subtle interplay of transference and countertransference (Meltzer's "counter dreaming") as it works through aesthetic conflicts. The ensuing reciprocity of the patients and analysts unconscious is revealed as the aesthetical and ethical basis of psychoanalysis. In that sense the psychoanalytical process parallels that of poetic and artistic inspiration. They are all generated by creative internal objects. Harris Williams' intellectual tour de force demonstrates convincingly the human capacity for symbolic thinking that underlies literary, artistic and psychoanalytic creativity. Her encyclopaedic understanding of literature, art and psychoanalysis contributes to this book's virtuosity.'- Irene Freeden, Senior Member of the British Association of PsychotherapistsTrade Review'This book points ahead into the future of psychoanalysis. Meg Harris Williams has done what few in our field are qualified to do. Her intimate knowledge of the thinking of Donald Meltzer, combined with her deep understanding of the arts, enables her to use Bion's three great vertices - of art, of science and of religion - as the basis for a work of extraordinary integration. Beyond the many insights we are given into the aesthetic dimension of our science, we continually glimpse the "O" - the truth that cannot be spoken, but whose beauty can be known. There are whole realms of understanding ahead of us yet to be entered, and no one who reads this book can remain unaware of them.'- Dorothy Hamilton, Training therapist and supervisor, Association for Group and Individual PsychotherapyTable of ContentsIntroduction , Psychoanalysis: an art or a science? , Aesthetic concepts of Bion and Meltzer , The domain of the aesthetic object , Sleeping beauty , Moving beauty , Psychoanalysis as an art form , Afterword

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Book SynopsisIn this volume an inquiry into the nature of the creative process is attempted by paying close attention to the lives of various artists, poets, novelists and playwrights, and selected works of each in order to demonstrate an essential relationship between the two, and that it is most difficult to delineate the nuances of the creative act by treating them as separate entitites. Emphasis is placed upon the effect of early trauma, such as object loss and various forms of deprivation, as a powerful unconscious motivating factor and upon the dream and transitional object as facilitators of the creative effort.Trade ReviewThe plight of the artist was one of great interest within the field of applied psychoanalysis from its earliest days. In the meetings of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society, considerable time was devoted to the discussion of this issue, Freud having relied so much upon literature and art for evidence to support his ideas about the unconscious. Ultimately, he became sceptical as to how thoroughly the creative process could ever be understood and reached the conclusion that "Before the artist, the analyst must lay down his arms."The subjects of this study are allowed to speak for themselves through their works, autobiographical commentary and personal declarations wherever possible. These quotations and excerpts are meant to serve in a manner similar to that of a basic science to its clinical counterpart by furnishing a broader foundation for the derivation of further hypotheses.Contents1 Object Loss, Dreaming and Creativity: The Poetry of John Keats2 Joseph Conrad: 1880-1910, His Development as a Writer3 The Doppelganger Element in the Relationship Between Bertrand Russell and Joseph Conrad4 Pre-oedipal Considerations in the Works of Eugene O'Neill5 The Effect of Early Trauma upon Thomas Hardy's Literary Career6 The Significance fo Transitional Phenomena and Sublimation in the Life and Writings of Vladimir Nabokov7 Orwell's 1984 and the Creative Transformation of Intrapsychic Conflict8 Thomas Wolfe's The Lost Boy: Sequelae of Childhood Sibling Loss9 Heinrich Von Kleist and the Quest for Perfection and Immortality10 The Plays of Peter Shaffer and the Vicissitudes of Twinship RivalryTable of ContentsIntroduction -- John Keats -- Joseph Conrad -- Eugene O’Neill -- Thomas Hardy -- Vladimir Nabokov -- George Orwell -- Heinrich von Kleist -- Thomas Wolfe -- Peter Shaffer

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Book SynopsisThis book aims to present a study on the actuality and empirical value of Freuds dream theory, even if through the analysis of a specific part of it - the hypotheses about childrens dreams. It provides a systematic description of Freuds observations on child dreaming and presents the results obtained from four empirical studies on childrens dreams that the author conducted during the span of a decade. These studies (two conducted in school settings, one in a home setting, and one based on a questionnaire completed by parents) allow an empirical judgment on Freuds main hypotheses on child dreaming: the hypotheses on formal aspect of childrens dreams, the relationship between dream bizarreness and development of the superego functions, and the issue of wish-fulfilment dreams. The author concludes that it is possible to test empirically Freuds hypothesis on the early forms of dreaming and that this test is not irrelevant for an empirical judgment of certain more general statements of Freuds dream theory (e.g. the dream censorship hypothesis). Finally, the implications of the studies on childrens dreams for modern dream research and theory are discussed.Trade Review'OK, psychoanalytic ideas are too complicated to test, right? Claudio Colace is a member of the vanguard of neuropsychoanalysts who are establishing metapsychology's scientific base. In a brilliantly conceived and executed series of studies Colace shows how superego development between ages three and eight changes the nature of dreams from clear wish fulfillment to bizarrely disguised expressions of motivation.'- Brian Johnson, Department of Psychiatry, State University of New York Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY, USA'The study of dreams poses intriguing problems about relations between philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience. Claudio Colace's book is one of the most original and significant works in recent dream science. Colace has undertaken a sophisticated programme of research on young children's dreams over a period of ten years: he argues convincingly that central psychoanalytic hypotheses, on topics such as narrative complexity, bizarreness, and motivation in dreams, can thus be rigorously tested. This rich and provocative book will interest historians and philosophers of science, developmental psychologists, affect theorists, neuropsychoanalysts, and all students of dreaming.'- John Sutton, Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.ContentsPart One: An Attempt of Systematic Description of Freud's Observations on Children's Dreams1 An Overview of Freud's Writings on Children's Dreams2 How Freud Studies Child Dreams: Methodology and Samples3 The Characteristics of Children's Dreams Described by Freud4 Are Freud's Hypotheses on Child Dreams Empirically Controllable?Part Two: Actuality and Empirical Evaluation of Freud's Observations on Children's Dreams5 Modern Dream Research in a Developmental Age: Methodological and General Aspects6 Studies on Dreams in The Developmental Age: 1989-19997 Formal Characteristics of Children's Dreams8 Bizarreness in Children's Dreams and the Development of Superego Functions9 Wish Fulfilment in Children's Dreams10 Child Dream Evolution: a Longtitudinal Observation11 ConclusionsAbout the AuthorTable of ContentsIntroduction: Freud’s dream theory and modern dream research -- An Attempt to Systematically Describe Freud’s Observations on Children’s Dreams -- An overview of Freud’s writings on children’s dreams -- How Freud studied children’s dreams: method and samples -- The characteristics of children’s dreams described by Freud -- Are Freud’s hypotheses on children’s dreams empirically testable? -- Empirical Evaluation of Freud’s Observations on Children’s Dreams -- Dream research in children: general and methodological aspects -- Four studies on children’s dreams -- Formal characteristics of children’s dreams -- Bizarreness in children’s dreams and the development of superego functions -- Wish-fulfilment in children’s dreams -- Child dream development: a longitudinal observation -- Implications for dream research and theory

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Book SynopsisThis book provides a detailed examination of the historical roots of psychoanalysis from ancient Greece to the late nineteenth century, focusing on social practices that were related to the founders of psychoanalytic theory and maintained within contemporary treatment. Alongside the reconstruction of an evolutionary accumulation of healing practices, the book includes linked discussions of current issues pertaining to psychoanalytic treatment and its working structure as elaborated by Freud and Lacan.There are vital political consequences for psychoanalytic practice - here articulated with an acknowledgement of these practical derivations of early pre-psychoanalytic treatments of the soul. The book demonstrates that these are neither mere techniques nor concepts of the world and the human subject, but they concern the way the problem of power is articulated.The historical establishment of psychoanalytical practice becomes legible through analysis of the traces of the elements of a political ontology, an account of the roots of those traces and the elaboration of the conceptual structure of psychoanalysis as theory and treatment, a praxis which maintains its own distinctive identity.Trade Review'Never before has the history of the psychoanalytic clinic been covered so comprehensively and with so much critical insight. In this landmark volume, Christian Ingo Lenz Dunker demonstrates how the emergence and development of psychoanalysis as a clinical practice cannot be understood without taking account of the detailed and extensive philosophical debates on subjectivity and mental healing that preceded it. The Constitution of the Psychoanalytic Clinic does for the principles of psychoanalytic treatment what Henri Ellenberger did for dynamic psychiatry in The Discovery of the Unconscious: encyclopaedic yet critical, the author offers the defining historical account of a clinical discipline, which is sufficiently polemical so as to be not definitive and, thus, give psychoanalysts, sociologists, and cultural historians a new object of study for generations to come.'- Professor Dany Nobus, Brunel University 'If we are interested at all in what constitutes the proper study of the historical evolution of the practices that characterize psychoanalysis, then we take a couple of things seriously: Freud's remark that we should study the history of civilization, mythology, the psychology of religion, literary history, and literary criticism, and Lacan's idea that we add rhetoric, dialectics, grammar, and poetics to that list. With this giant of a book, Chris Dunker ticks all those boxes in this beautifully sketched archaeology of the types of knowledge that make possible the emergence of psychoanalysis on the one hand and genealogy of its practise on the other.'- Carol Owens, Psychoanalyst, Dublin'Why has psychoanalysis been exempt, until now, from any sustained archaeological and genealogical enquiry? What are the fissures, "the zones of instability", in the discourse of psychoanalysis? Are ethics and power always constitutively separated? What power and influence do psychoanalysts have over their analysands? What of psychoanalysis' "counter-power"? And what of the possibility of freeing ourselves from ourselves? Dunker's scholarly analysis of the structure and constitution of the clinic is a welcome contribution to the discourse of psychoanalysis. It is a work of considerable depth, and essential reading for anyone who has any engagement with psychoanalysis and is concerned with the consequences and possibilities of its power.' - Simona Revelli, Psychoanalyst, LondonTable of ContentsPreface , Note on References , Introduction , The doubt of Ulysses , The return of Empedocles , The act of Antigone , Rhetoric of space, rhetoric of time: paradox and interpretation , Taking care of oneself , Montaigne, the most sceptical of the hysterics , The meditation of Descartes , The structure of psychoanalytic treatment , Kant and the pathological , The rebirth of the clinic as structure and as experience , Hegel: the real and its negative , Logic and politics in psychoanalytic healing , Conclusion

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Book SynopsisFor some years, there has been an unfortunate tendency in the UK for psychiatry and psychoanalysis to be perceived as in opposition to one another, to the detriment of both disciplines. Rather than see 'organic' psychiatry on one side and 'dynamic' psychiatry on the other, the British Psychoanalytical Society now wishes to try to foster closer links between psychoanalysis and psychiatry. To this end, psychoanalysts have been going out to give presentations of their work to various psychiatric departments, in the hope of building up increasing understanding both of current developments in analytic thinking, and of how analysts can learn from psychiatric colleagues. The authors learned, from their experience of putting on a number of Freud events, that there is a great hunger to know more about psychoanalysis, particularly among young people, both those in psychiatric training and in the wider community. In parts of the academic world, there is a particular interest in psychoanalysis; indeed the most subscribed courses in some of our most prestigious universities are those where psychoanalysis is involved. This book is the result of a conference that was held at the Institute of Psychoanalysis entitled 'The Organic and the Inner World'. It was organised by the NHS Liaison committee of the British Psychoanalytical Society. Its aim was to consider the place for analytic thinking in the world of psychiatry with its emphasis on an organic approach to major psychiatric disorders.Trade Review'We are moving into a new epoch in which it is becoming possible to scientifically explore the relationship between subjectivity and objectivity and the reciprocal influences of brain and mind, nature and nurture. For those interested, this book is a 'must read'. It contains four brilliant essays with commentaries. Britton is at his best in giving a psychoanalytic and historical perspective; Fonagy and Bateman show how far things have progressed in their chapter on modern understandings of the borderline mind and brain. There are then two fascinating chapters on the unconscious in manic-depression and dementia.'- Brian Martindale, Honorary President of the European Federation of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy; Member of the World Psychiatric Association Education Committee'This is an important book. It addresses an area of crucial significance for both psychoanalysis and psychiatry, namely the relationship between the two and what each can learn from the other. Increasingly, research evidence highlights the extensive nature of this overlap, and texts such as this, with contributions of exceptional quality, are essential in shedding light on such complex terrain.'- Dr Mathew Patrick, Training and Supervising Analyst, British Psychoanalytical Society; Chief Executive, Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation TrustTable of ContentsContentsABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS PREFACE by Roger KennedyINTRODUCTION by Richard Lucas and Ronald DoctorCHAPTER ONEMind and matter: a psychoanalytic perspective - Ronald BrittonCHAPTER TWODiscussion of Ronald Britton's chapter on mind and matter - Leon KleimbergCHAPTER THREEMechanisms of change in mentalization-based treatment of borderline personality disorder - Peter Fonagy & Anthony W. BatemanCHAPTER FOURDiscussion of "Mechanisms of change in mentalization-based treatment of borderline personality disorder"by Peter Fonagy & Anthony Bateman - Robin AndersonCHAPTER FIVEExploring the inner world in a patient suffering from manic-depression - Trudie RossouwCHAPTER SIXResponse to the chapter by Trudie Rossouw on manic-depression - Richard LucasCHAPTER SEVENWhere is the unconscious in dementia? - Sandra EvansCHAPTER EIGHTDiscussion of Sandra Evans' chapter "Where is the unconscious in dementia?" - Margot WaddellINDEX

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Book SynopsisWithout falling into unwarranted enthusiasm or naive optimism, the book examines how positivity operates, and goes on to investigate the concept of the construction of an internal framework, the reversal of repetition, and the problematic issues raised by impasse and trauma. Just as psychoanalytic treatment without tears does not exist the book argues that neither does psychoanalytic treatment without joyfulness. Tears and laughter are part of the universe of the analysts consulting roomand in the clinical fluctuation between distress and satisfaction, pleasure and displeasure, the analyst accepts both extremes. Humour becomes therapeutic, as do outbreaks of joyfulness in sessions, when the mind is fleetingly freed from the burden of illness.Trade ReviewContents1 Positivity in Psychoanalysis2 Theoretical Fundamentals 3 Clinical Work and Positivity4 Psychoanalysis and Mental Health5 Repetition and its Reversal6 Trauma and Positivity7 The Internal Setting8 Re-analysis and Impasse9 Clinical Vignettes10 An Essay on JoyTable of ContentsA Few Words about the English Version -- Introductory Remarks -- Positivity in psychoanalysis -- Theoretical fundamentals -- Clinical work and positivity -- Psychoanalysis and mental health -- Repetition and its reversal -- Trauma and positivity -- The internal setting -- Reanalysis and impasse -- Clinical vignettes -- An essay on joy -- Closing Words

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Book Synopsis'Although it is quite possible that many will consider this book irreverent or disrespectful of ideas or institutions, I am certain that they will also perceive it as a defender of women and their unquestionable transcendence throughout history. The main ideas I now share publicly, are ones I have considered for many years: the classification of the 'Eves', the masochistic character of women, the concept of giraffe women, etc.. Other ideas appeared afterwards, some at the last moment, as I enjoyed the company of friends, who frequently and generously lend their time to discuss with me their own opinions... I believe that there is a universal feminine principle just as there is a masculine one, the difference remains in the fact that, from the very beginning of creation, everything about man has already been said and nothing continues to be undisclosed, whereas woman, is an untold story yet to be discovered.' - From the Foreword.'Such feminine principle must be related with the socio-biological power of imprinting, with the guilt that such fatalistic puissance of imprinting induces, together with the apparent complication of an anatomically hidden sexuality. This essay will attempt to define aforementioned feminine principle, to evaluate the obstacles that obstruct woman's road towards self-illumination and to likewise consider, the real course woman ought to take in order to finally find her proper identity, the idiosyncrasy and authenticity that will define women of the future, perhaps many years from now: the "Vindicated Eve"'.- From the author's ForewordTrade Review'This scholarly and superbly written book provides an original analysis of the forces that have determined feminine identity from ancient to contemporary times. Exploring the influence of biological, psychological, religious, and cultural forces, Dr Lόpez-Corvo identifies imprinting as the primary determinant of the power of women which also underlies the defensive devaluation of femininity by men, and women's confused search for an identity by competing with or imitating men. Offering a bold suggestion that benefits both men and women and allows each to be unique in their own way, Dr Lόpez-Corvo proposes that women could discover their true identity by undertaking an inner, albeit difficult, quest in which they accept and transcend the power of imprinting, realize the mystery of their femininity, and achieve the force of intellectual and artistic creativity. This is an insightful, refreshing, and much needed work with far-reaching implications for all human relationships.' - Graeme J. Taylor, MD, Professor of Psychiatry, University of TorontoTable of ContentsContentsA PROPHECY IN FAVOR OF WOMENTHE THREE PHASES OF EVETHE POWER OF WOMENS BODIESTHE CLOACA THEORYANAL SPACE, UTERINE SPACETHE POWER OF MAGICALCHEMYTOTEM AND TABU: FROM GOD-MAN TO GOD-WOMANFEMININITYCONFUSED EVEADAMVINDICATED EVE

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Book SynopsisFreud wrote to Binswanger on the anniversary of his daughter's death, "We will remain inconsolable. I don't care for my grandchildren anymore, but find no joy in life anymore."The author poses the question in this book; what legacy does grief, loss, trauma have upon the second and third generations? When Freud wrote "I don't care for my grandchildren anymore', what impact did his agonised grief have upon them?This book is a meditation on the ideas that have evolved in response to this question over the author's thirty years as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist. Her central thesis is that we must not ignore, in our psychoanalytic practice, the impact of our ancestral history, especially if our ancestors have suffered, for their anguish can return and haunt us. It is the anguished return of traumatic experience that repeats itself across the generations and affects the way the next generation is perceived.Trade Review'As with her studies on the importance of siblings, in this new book Prophecy Coles similarly explores other neglected areas of clinical practice, focussing here upon the ongoing emotional presence of significant absences and other traumas in the child's early life. She highlights the continuing impact of such experiences as that of dead siblings, forgotten grandparents, abandoning parents and unrembered nannies and nurses. This book will be of interest and value to anyone with clinical responsibility for patients, and for those whose traumatic past is still echoing - often unrecognised - in the present lives.' - Patrick Casement, author of On Learning from the Patient'Prophecy Coles invites us to meet the uninvited guests from our unremembered past. To reject her invitation would be to remain blind - blind to intergenerational traumas involving love, loss, cruelty, terror, hope and helplessness, and courage which influence our present way of interacting with others. Narratives drawn from Shakespeare, Aeschylus and Sophocles, and biographical sketches of Gorky, Primo Levy, Churchill and others, awaken our appreciation for understanding our transgenerational stories. Written in an engaging and accessible style, this book provides an opportunity for parents, psychotherapists and people in many other walks of life to be curious about unattended-to blind spots in family stories and family experiences, such as the impact of the nanny, grandparents, the dead baby or dead sibling, and momentary or longer term abandonment or trauma on our developing personality structures. Coles makes us aware of how essential it is to create discourses within ourselves, our families, and our clients, to give thought and meaning to the legacy of our past intergenerational patterns of relationships in order not to re-enact past traumatic dramas in interactions with others, at home or at work.' - Dr Jeanne Magagna, former Head of Psychotherapy Services, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, LondonTable of ContentsPreface -- Introduction -- Aeschylus and ancestral history -- Sophocles and the fate of adoption -- Sibling ghosts -- Grandmother’s footsteps -- The nurse -- The trauma of war -- Brain development and trauma

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Book SynopsisWhat do Patients Want? provides readers with an insight into patients' psychoanalytic experiences "from the couch".Outcome studies have usually privileged the practitioner or researcher's voice, whilst underutilizing the rich published accounts of patients' own stories. Thus very little is understood or valued as to what actually takes place between patient and analyst, from the patient's perspective. This book sets out to tell the stories of eighteen ex-patients who, in interviews, reflected upon their experiences and described the factors which they believed were helpful - or not - in their analytic treatment. Free associating to an open question about how they understood and gave meaning to their personal journeys, these patients provided very vivid accounts of their analyses, demonstrated with clinical material. Their stories generally indicate a sophisticated understanding of the analytic process.Significant findings are discussed in each chapter, and then key conceptual issues are brought together at the end. The book is written in a journey format with each chapter related to a specific theme. The patients describe how the whole process began, and then bring up issues linked with working through the transference/ counter-transference relationship in its multi-faceted aspects, and finally reflect upon the termination period and its aftermath.Trade ReviewThis is one of few published books which presents psychoanalysis from the patient's experiences. This study has far-reaching implications for both theory and clinical practice in psychoanalysis.'Most accounts of a patients' experience in analysis are autobiographical and therefore highly selective for good and bad. Finally, here is a level-headed account from sensitive interviews that explore the patients' experiences on the couch. This is a beautiful report of a qualitative study, conducted with great respect and compassion, which moves the field forward by presenting this unique process through the patients' narratives rather than via the sometimes rose-tinted spectacles of the clinician. We should be indebted to Hill for the clarity and integrity of her representation and to the patients for the sometimes painfully honest and fascinating accounts of what they encountered along the analytic journey. This is a remarkable opportunity for all clinicians to take a look at themselves at work. It should be compulsory reading for all those in training and for all those who practise psychoanalytic therapy.' - Peter Fonagy'Christine Hill's book is a novel edition to the literature on the outcome of psychoanalysis. Reading the detailed, often poignant and only rarely cynical, comments by these ex-analysands is deeply gratifying to the salesman, the consumer, the voyeur, the student, and the researcher within all of us. Hill's comprehensive treatment of the subject leaves us with insights that can only enhance the grasp and praxis of our enterprise.'- Salman Akhtar, MD, Professor of Psychiatry, Jefferson Medical College, Training and Supervising Analyst, Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia 'The considerable strength of this book is its intelligent and original review of the basics of technique like transference and countertransference, with respect to patients' grasp of what psychoanalysis is; comments on the remarkable paucity of literature of any type from patients' perspectives; with a concluding chapter on the network of findings useful to the clinician. I was particularly struck by the findings regarding power dynamics in the section on patient-partner not patient-victim; the orientation of the patients as part of establishing a working alliance; comments on the rigidity or flexibility of the analyst's personality vis a vis theoretical school; and the role of the patient in setting outcomes. Dr Hill has produced a gem that will linger for a long time in the minds of its readers.'- Stuart W.Twemlow MD, Professor of Psychiatry, Menninger Department of Psychiatry, Baylor College Medicine, Houston, Texas Teaching Faculty, Houston Galveston Psychoanalytic Institute, Senior Psychiatrist, The Menninger Clinic HospitalTable of ContentsPreface -- Introduction: central conceptual issues -- Meeting the challenge -- Beginning the analytic journey -- Working with the transference -- The quality of engagement -- The paternal transference -- Ending the analysis -- Post analytic reflections -- A difficult question: to recommend analysis or not? -- Drawing together key findings -- Clinical implications for psychoanalytic practice

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Book SynopsisBy way of a new reading of The Complete Works of Sigmund Freud, this book introduces the notion of a theory of practice to the psychoanalytic endeavour. Spelled out in terms of interdependent components, namely; aim, technique and theoretical premises, the author takes the reader through Freud's oeuvre so that he emerges as a relentless, theoretically grounded, practitioner.Frances Moran argues that the nub of the Freudian inheritance is the concept of human subjectivity. In the light of this finding and her reading of Freud, she presents the work of Paul Verhaeghe (On Being Normal and Other Disorders), anew and calls on Marie Cardinal, (The Words to Say It), to provide telling evidence of what it means to be a freudian subject. Given the objectifying processes at work in the contemporary culture, the relevance of Freud for our times becomes compelling.Here practitioners will find a clearly presented framework within which to operate and a way of organizing the material that informs their clinical pursuits. The exploration of an underpinning structure to the Complete Works will be of the utmost assistance to those who wish to embark upon a search for knowledge of the human condition through the highways and byways of the legacy of Sigmund Freud.Trade Review'The Western world has tired of Freud. His propositions and methods are deemed outdated. I reject such sentiments and this book is an attempt to explain why. I will do this in two stages. First, I want to introduce a new reading of Freud and second, I want to expose the paradox that lies at the kernel of his life's endeavour.Once I have established Freud as a practitioner rather than a scientist I will explain the notion of a theory of practice with its tripartite components of theoretical premises, technique and aim.Freud's psychoanalytic theory of practice has as its kernel the etching out of the dimensions of human subjectivity. This I will explore through a brief presentation of the work of the contemporary academic and practitioner Paul Verhaeghe whose project I will show to be a direct inheritance of the Freudian theory of practice.Finally I propose that while the scientific enterprise may be seen to offer much to the contemporary way of life it nevertheless necessarily excludes the very notion of the human subject. Its focus is none other than the human object. Paradoxically, what many see as Freud's failure - to make psychoanalysis a science - is nothing less than his greatest success. He offers us a possible route to repositioning ourselves today.'- From the Author's IntroductionSelection from the Contents:Much Ado About ScienceEstablishing the Freudian FieldThe Fundamental Hypothesis of the Split PsycheThe Fulcrum of DiagnosisTechniqueSubject to ExclusionTelling EvidenceThe Paradoxical Legacy of Sigmund FreudTable of ContentsForeword -- Much ado about science -- Establishing the freudian field -- The Masterplan -- The fundamental hypothesis of the split psyche -- The fulcrum of diagnosis part 1: Aetiology -- The fulcrum of diagnosis part 2: Mechanisms -- Aim -- Technique -- Subject to exclusion -- The Inheritance -- To be or not to be? -- Telling evidence -- The paradoxical legacy of Sigmund Freud

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Book SynopsisThis book demonstrates the clinical value of "making Freud more Freudian". The theoretical contributions of Charles Brenner are summarized and emphasized. They are built on an elaboration of Arlow's "fantasy function" and Freud's "compromise formation". The author applies this theoretical perspective in elaboration of the concepts of narcissism, masochism, shame and guilt to the distinction between psychiatric and psychoanalytic diagnoses, as well as to a variety of specific clinical topics. Finally, the author emphasizes that the ubiquity of unconscious conflict demonstrates that all perceptions are subjective and relationships intersubjective.Trade Review'In Making Freud More Freudian Rothstein undertakes the crucial task that psychoanalysts have tended to avoid, to the detriment of the field. He identifies which of Freud's ideas have enduring value, which are in need of revision, and which must be discarded. The motivational concept of compromise formation is the fundamental platform upon which Rothstein builds. His orientation is consistently clinical. Using the work of Brenner and others, as well as his own contributions concerning narcissism, shame and guilt, sadomasochism, diagnosis, and establishing the treatment, Rothsteinconstructs a guide to successful contemporary analytic practice. As the title of his book indicates, Rothstein has done Freud's legacy a great service.'- Owen Renik, MD, Former Editor-in-Chief, The Psychoanalytic Quarterly'Arnold Rothstein has constructed a volume that is both simultaneously evolutionary and revolutionary. He expertly blazes new pathways for Freudian thought and shows how this theoretical position is both a powerful explicator of human experience and a useful way of viewing clinical interactions. This volume is extraordinarily important on a number of levels while being amazingly concise and extremely well written. I found myself reading and rereading this amazing and engrossing clinical-theoretical narrative.'- Steven J. Ellman, PhD, Professor Emeritus City University of New York, author of When Theories Touch: A Historical and Theoretical Integration of Psychoanalytic Thought'For those who have wondered what, exactly, compromise formation theory is, how it developed from older ego psychology, and how it differs from other current teachings, Rothstein's book is the perfect resource. Clearly and concisely written by a foremost student of Charles Brenner, and generously illustrated by clinical examples, Rothstein's book shows how this optimistic, patient-oriented, specifically psychoanalytic way of working can also be extended to the "tough" areas of analytic practice - narcissism, masochism, dismal diagnoses, and reluctant analysands.'- Lawrence Friedman, MD, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Weill Cornell Medical Center, New YorkTable of ContentsAbout The Author , Introduction , Theoretical Considerations , Making Freud more Freudian: a reading , Narcissism , Sadomasochism , Shame and guilt , Clinical Implications , The seduction of money , On beginning analysis with patients who are reluctant to pay the analyst’s fee , On diagnosing , The failure of an illusion , Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThese stimulating essays are evidence that 50 years after its publication Melanie Klein's Envy and Gratitude is still a rich source of psychoanalytic inspiration. Sixteen highly regarded analysts, representing a wide range of psychoanalytic thinking, provide new insights and highlight current developments without avoiding the controversies that surround the original publication. The clinical and literary material is engaging and illustrates the effect of theory on practice and the influence of practice on the evolution of theory.Contents:Foreword - R. Horacio EtchegoyenIntroduction - Priscilla Roth1) "Even now, now, very now . . ." On envy and the hatred of love - Ignes Sodre2) Envy, narcissism, and the destructive instinct - Robert Caper3) Envy and Gratitude: some current reflections - H. Shmuel Erlich4) An independent response to Envy and Gratitude - Caroline Polmear5) On gratitude - Edna O'Shaughnessy6) Keeping envy in mind: the vicissitudes of envy in adolescent motherhood - Alessandra Lemma7) Envy in Western society: today and tomorrow - Florence Guignard8) He thinks himself impaired: the pathologically envious personality - Ronald Britton9) The repetition compulsion, envy, and the death instinct - John Steiner10) Romantic perversion: the role of envy in the creation of a timeless universe - Heinz Weiss11) Envy and the negative therapeutic reaction - Michael Feldman12) Reflections on Envy and Gratitude - Irma Brenman-Pick13) Being envious of envy and gratitude - Peter Fonagy14) Vicious circles of envy and punishment - Henry F. SmithTrade Review'I strongly recommend Envy and Gratitude Revisited, which, I believe, will make an important contribution in its own right to the advancement of psychoanalytic theory and practice.'- Donald CampbellTable of ContentsForeword - R. Horacio Etchegoyen Introduction - Priscilla Roth 1 A"Even now, now, very now ...A" On envy and the hatred of love. - Ignes Sodre 2 Envy, narcissism, and the destructive instinct. - Robert Caper 3 "Envy and Gratitude": some current reflections. - H. Shmuel Erlich 4 An independent response to "Envy and Gratitude". - Caroline Polmear 5 On gratitude. - Edna O'Shaughnessy 6 Keeping envy in mind: the vicissitudes of envy in adolescent motherhood. - Alessandra Lemma 7 Envy in Western society: today and tomorrow. - Florence Guignard 8 He thinks himself impaired: the pathologically envious personality. - Ronald Britton 9 The repetition compulsion, envy, and the death instinct. - John Steiner 10 Romantic perversion: the role of envy in the creation of a timeless universe. - Heinz WeiA 11 Envy and the negative therapeutic reaction. - Michael Feldman 12 Reflections on "Envy and Gratitude". - Irma Brenman-Pick 13 Being envious of envy and gratitude. - Peter Fonagy 14 Vicious circles of envy and punishment. - Henry F. Smith

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Book SynopsisIndependent Psychoanalysis Today is a book that shows how contemporary Independent psychoanalysts think and work. There are three themes to the book: Independent thinking including the theory of technique; exploration of clinical concepts and demonstrations of ways of working by some of the most prominent Independent clinicians practicing today; finally, the evolution and enduring impact of Independent ideas and the influence of past Independents on present ways of working.Trade ReviewContributors: Bernard Barnett, Susan Budd, Sira Dermen, Ann Horne, John Keene, Roger Kennedy, Leon Kleimberg, Gregorio Kohon, Michael Parsons, Rosine Jozef Perelberg, Caroline Polmear, Joan Raphael-Leff, Paul Williams, Kenneth Wright.'This rich new volume of essays arrives at an auspicious moment in the history of British psychoanalytic thought. The Independent tradition in the British Psychoanalytic Society has unfortunately been linked to a time in the past when the "giants" walked the earth. This splendid collection is a clarion call to the psychoanalytic clinician, a rousing reminder that the Independents are alive and thriving. Indeed, the superb papers in this volume reflect the cutting edge of British thinking. I would highly recommend it to analysts throughout the world who seek an understanding of the current status of the Independent tradition. It will also serve as a stimulating teaching text for students.'- Glen O. Gabbard, former Joint Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Psychoanalysis'This book adds a new, stimulating chapter to the fascinating story of Independent psychoanalysis: a very particular phenomenon in the landscape of the psychoanalytic adventure, where love of and closeness to tradition and freedom of innovative investigation are creatively intertwined. Acknowledging the common roots of their psychoanalytic culture allows these authors to look ahead, each of them in their own personal way: the result is comparable to a luxuriant tree with many branches, exploring a variety of topics with the unmistakable attitude, style, and atmosphere of the British Middle Group. My sincere congratulations to the authors of this really wonderful book.'- Stefano Bolognini, President of the Italian Psychoanalytic Society and President-Elect of the Intrernational Psychoanalytic Association

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Book SynopsisAn ambitious trainee therapist, determined to make her mark in the therapy world, seeks supervision and guidance. In her meetings with the 3-Point Therapist she gains much more than she had bargained for. The 3-Point Therapist is the charming story of one trainee's journey in search of professional success and recognition. What she learns is unexpected and changes her predicted path. The characters and situations in this book are purely fictional but the principles, the learning and the practice points are drawn from the author's thirty years' experience working with families in different paediatric and mental health settings. The books style is light, readable and at times humorous - but the messages are strong with far-reaching effect. The trainee and her professional practice are profoundly changed for ever.Trade Review'A quirky book and a wonderfully enjoyable read, one that packs a punch. It may seem at first that the lessons are in one sense simple but in fact they are more subtle than that, and the way these '3 points' are handled is skilfully done. I found this enchanting!'- Professor Michael Jacobs, author and psychotherapist'I found this book delightfully idiosyncratic, ostensibly simplistic but actually a very useful read for people on clinical family therapy training. The underlying teaching points which some may consider basic are nonetheless essential and too often ignored in practice. It is short, very user-friendly and far less daunting early in training than some of the required reading often to be found on introductory course lists. An enjoyable read structured around the conversations between an experienced therapist and a confident supervisor; the latter demonstrates the importance of encouraging her supervisee to think more about her client family's experiences, responses and strengths rather than focussing on extending her own systemic reading and writing. In this practical approach to clinical work the supervisor listened more and intervened less, a process which served as an excellent model of both supervision and therapy. I recommend this warmly.'- Judy Hildebrand, Consultant Family Therapist and former Clinical Director, Institute of Family Therapy, LondonTable of ContentsBeginning -- First Visit to the 3-Point Therapist -- Work of which you are Proud -- Starting to Focus -- Congratulations on Beginning -- I Listened -- We have a Choice -- Tell me your Story -- I’ll Tell you a Story -- Only if they’ll Meet with you -- Simply Respect -- Just Think the Right Language -- In an Unexpected Way -- Funny that/Funny this -- Catch them Unawares -- My Cat … -- … And the Balls -- Practice Writes Theory -- Mad with my Client -- Trust those Seeds -- A Specific Painting in a Specific Way -- The Families’ Curators -- Last Visit to the 3-Point Therapist -- Ending

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