Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology Books
Taylor & Francis Ltd Affect Representation and Language
Book SynopsisThis book presents and elaborates on the rationale and implications of the transformational dimension of psychoanalysis. In so doing, it attempts to extend psychoanalytic theory and practice beyond neurosis and beyond what were formerly thought to be the limits of analytic understanding. Its theoretical vision sits at the crossroads of the thinking of Freud, Bion, Winnicott, Green and the Paris Psycho-Somatic School. Other sources include the contributions of contemporary French psychoanalysts such as Laplanche, Donnet, L. Kahn, P. Miller and the Botellas, along with the work of Alvarez, Scarfone, Ferro, Ogden, and more. In re-examining the very epistemological foundations of psychoanalysis and their implications for a theory of psychic functioning, it follows upon and extends the radical implications of Freud's 1937 Constructions paper, the thoughts of Bion on intuition and Winnicott's understanding of the working through of the consequences of early pre-verbal environmentalTrade Review"In this very important book about psychoanalytic process and the functioning of the analyst-patient dyad, Howard Levine offers an original synthesis of Freud’s metapsychology with the theories of authors such as Bion, Winnicott, Green and the Psychosomaticians of the Paris School. The result is a clinical approach to non-neurotic phenomena and unrepresented mental states that emphasizes representation, not as a given but as ‘a developmental achievement through which previously unbound or inchoate forces become bound and contained in the psyche." – Evelyne Sechaud, former president of the European Psychoanalytic Federation; former president, training and supervising analyst of the APF (French Psychoanalytic Association)"Howard B. Levine’s book rests on the idea that psychoanalysis is ultimately about the patient’s (and the analyst’s) thinking capacity and the psyche’s limitations in responding to the demands for work made by the clash between external and psychic reality. As every analyst knows, the task is complex, sometimes close to impossible. Psychoanalysts, therefore, need to resort to as many luminaries in their field as they can, granted that no single author, no matter how great, can be credited with possessing the final truth. But then another problem arises: the multiple analytic idioms represent a challenge of their own. Levine brilliantly meets that challenge by displaying an exemplary capacity to navigate between many exponents of the British, French, North- and Latin-American analytic traditions and offering a personal synthesis rich with original ideas and clinical illustrations." – Dominique Scarfone, training and supervising analyst, Canadian Psychoanalytic Society Institute, Montreal French Branch"What are the contents of the conscious and unconscious mind? The stuff that our inner worlds are made out of, the raw materials of our innermost selves? What happens when lacunae, lapses or failures occur, when we observe modalities of unstructured functioning, of unrepresented states of mind? Since Freud, psychoanalysis has acutely explored these issues offering a number of different accounts of the architecture, dynamics and texture of psychic life: the logic and logistics of the soul.Howard Levine is at the forefront of thinkers who are currently examining these issues in a contemporary framework. He expertly sums up decades of thinking deeply about these issues and presents his reflections in crystal clear prose and with all the exciting commitment and enthusiasm of the best psychoanalytic thinkers at work today. This is a book to be read, re-read and closely studied." – Elias M. da Rocha Barros, São Paulo Society and fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society"This is a refreshing and vitalizing way of considering the clinical work of psychoanalysis: as exploring the intermixing of the somatic, affective and representational components of the human experience in the context of relating to another in the analytic space. In this meditation on psychoanalytic theory and practice, Levine leaves the reader with much to digest." - Review by Endre Koritar, The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, (2023). Int. J. Psychoanal., (104)(4):804-807Table of Contents1. Psychoanalysis and Subjectivity. A Personal Note 2. Freud’s Theory of Representation and the Expansion of Analytic Technique 3. Clinical Implications of Unrepresented States: Effacement, Discourse and Construction 4. The Fundamental Epistemological Situation 5. Psychoanalysis and the Problem of Truth 6. The Analyst’s Authority. Suggestion, Seduction, Compliance and Influence 7. Trauma and Representation 8. Making the Unthinkable Thinkable: Autism, ASD and Representation 9. Word, Body, Thing: On the Movement From Soma to Psyche 10. Psychosomatics and Unrepresented States
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ME - Fordham University Press From Life to Survival
Book SynopsisThe book argues for deconstruction’s ongoing relevance, showing how Jacques Derrida’s deep engagement with Freud across the full trajectory of his work, in particular his engagement with Freud’s notion of life and death drives, supplies the key way into Derrida’s recasting of life as life death and, in turn, survival.Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations | ix Introduction: Derrida, Freud, and the Future of Deconstruction | 1 1 From Grammatology to Life Death | 11 2 Interrogating the Death Drive | 35 3 Survival as Autoimmunity | 68 4 Mortality and Normativity | 97 5 Sovereignty, Cruelty, and the Death Penalty | 127 Acknowledgments | 155 Notes | 157 Bibliography | 185 Index | 195
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Free Association Books Theatres of the Mind Illusion and Truth on the
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Oneworld Publications Lacan: A Beginner's Guide
Book SynopsisJacques Lacan was one of the most important psychoanalysts ever to have lived. Building upon the work of Sigmund Freud, he sought to refine Freudian insights with the use of linguistics, arguing that “the structure of unconscious is like a language”. Controversial throughout his lifetime both for adopting mathematical concepts in his psychoanalytic framework and for advocating therapy sessions of varying length, he is widely misunderstood and often unfairly dismissed as impenetrable. In this clear, wide-ranging primer, Lionel Bailly demonstrates how Lacan’s ideas are still vitally relevant to contemporary issues of mental health treatment. Defending Lacan from his numerous detractors, past and present, Bailly guides the reader through Lacan’s canon, from “l'objet petit a” to “The Mirror Stage” and beyond. Including coverage of developments in Lacanian psychoanalysis since his death, this is the perfect introduction to the great modern theorist.
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Taylor & Francis How Does Analysis Work
Book SynopsisHow Does Analysis Work? uses short, compelling vignettes from people in Lacanian analysis to explore how analytic interpretation works.Insights, revelations, connections, meanings and non-meanings all feature in these anonymous accounts of crucial moments in analysis, providing a sense of what it is all about. Drawn from a wide range of analysands, some seasoned analysts and others just starting out, these vignettes show how change takes place. The short pieces are drawn from Lacanian analysis, but many go against cliched views of what Lacanians do in their work, spanning both the classical and the radically innovative and showing the use of humour and theatre in psychoanalytic practice.How Does Analysis Work? will be of great interest to psychoanalysts and Lacanian analysts in practice and in training, as well as anyone who is curious about the analytic process.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Gaia Psyche and Deep Ecology
Book SynopsisWinner of the Scientific & Medical Network Book Prize 2019!In Gaia, Psyche and Deep Ecology: Navigating Climate Change in the Anthropocene, Andrew Fellows uniquely connects Earth systems, Jungian and philosophical approaches to the existential threats that we face today. He elucidates the psychological basis of our dysfunctional relationship with nature, thereby offering a coherent framework for transforming this in our personal and professional lives. Demonstrating the imperative for new ideas that transcend the status quo, Fellows tackles unprecedented 21st century challenges such as climate change through his interdisciplinary approach.Fellows proposes a worldview, informed by depth psychology, which radically contradicts the prevailing shibboleths of unlimited economic growth, dominion over outer nature and negation of our inner nature. To accommodate a broad readership, he first introduces the Anthropocene and sufficient basics Trade Review"If we want to understand the causes of our present crisis and our disastrous alienation from nature, both within and without, we could learn much from this brilliantly perceptive and comprehensive book. Connecting a profound understanding of Jung’s concept of Individuation with the Deep Ecology of Arne Næss, Fellows demolishes the dangerous concept of ‘limitless growth’ and shows how we need urgently to abandon our hubristic and exploitive will to power over planetary life. Truly, a clarion call to us all!" - Anne Baring Ph.D., author of The Dream of the Cosmos: A Quest for the Soul"Andrew Fellows is passionate about the urgent need to address the damage we are doing to our planet. His combined professional background in both applied science and depth psychology offers an all too rare perspective that is in the best traditions of Jungian thought - erudite, multi-disciplinary and concerned with the most profound and pressing problems of our time. His book makes valuable food for thought and I share his hope that it will make even better fuel for action. It deserves to be widely read." - Warren Colman, Jungian psychoanalyst; former editor of Journal of Analytical Psychology; author of Act and Image: The Emergence of Symbolic Imagination"This book written by heart and head, reminds us that 'we may not be able to save what we do not love.' A fine scientific mind gathers fact and technical theory to plead this love’s cause. Analogies (between psyche’s individuation process and Earth’s Gaia theory) are compelling. The "uncanny" parallel between ego’s domination of the western psyche and civilization’s domination of the planet challenges our inertia, nostalgia and hubris, responses Fellows identifies as leaving us traumatized by the task of halting imminent ecological disaster. Fruit of years of scientific and psychological commitment, this new approach excites reverence for the 'panorama of stratified living beings'." - Rev. Josephine Evetts-Secker, Assoc. Prof. Emerita, University of Calgary, CA; Jungian Analyst; author of At Home in the Language of the Soul"We all live in thought bubbles. Fellows clearly declares his bubble as Jungian and he forced me to think about my own, which I suppose must be Newtonian. These two bubbles are unlikely companions and it is therefore unusual to find an author who has occupied both. He has successfully used his wide spectrum of experience to encourage new thoughts, which so often occur when different disciplines are interwoven. I did find that looking at deep ecology from a Jungian point of view both novel and stimulating. This is a well-researched and highly unusual book and will be of interest to the occupants of all bubbles." - Andrew Garrad, CBE FREng; past president of the European Wind Energy Association"This richly detailed book will delight you, inform you and transform you with its fine writing, profound insight and its detailed, original synthesis of ecological science and philosophy with Jung’s depth psychology. A vital and important contribution to the development of the Gaian consciousness so badly needed in these darkening times." - Dr Stephan Harding, coordinator of Holistic Science at Schumacher College, Dartington, UK; author of Animate Earth: Science, Intuition and Gaia"Andrew Fellows, in this remarkable book offers deep and compelling insight into the nature of this transformative moment in Earth’s history, while also bringing to bear equally compelling insights into how human beings will have to respond to the crisis. Ranging from the analytical psychology of C. G. Jung to the most recent insights of quantum mechanics, the Gaia hypothesis of Lovelock and the deep ecology of Arne Naess, Fellows, with his own background in alternative energy engineering and training as a Jungian analyst, achieves a level to synthesis in his approach to the environment that is otherwise unmatched in the literature. This book should be read not only by concerned individuals but also by policy makers at all levels of government and industry." - George B. Hogenson, Ph.D., Jungian psychoanalyst, Vice President of the International Association for Analytical PsychologyGaia, Psyche and Deep Ecology is a work of sweeping scope that explores our rich, multifaceted relatedness to the natural world. Fellows provides a concise, insightful summary of the issues related to climate change and our role in causing this great disruption. At the core of the work, Fellows unveils the Psyche-Gaia Conjecture which illustrates the deep, interconnectedness between human and non-human worlds. This is an important work for all, given the challenges we face at this time of great climatic disruption." - Jeffrey T Kiehl, climate scientist and Jungian analyst; author of Facing Climate Change: An Integrated Path to the Future"Andrew Fellows looks squarely at the painful data on climate change and related environmental issues and the poor record of our collective attempts to address them. What is needed, he argues, is nothing less than a metanoia and a new worldview. As knowledgeable as he is urgent, Fellows outlines a potential contribution to bringing about such changes of heart and perspective with this book’s bold transdisciplinary synthesis of Gaia theory, analytical psychology, deep ecology, dual-aspect monism, and panentheism. This is a profound, challenging and inspiring work, and to my mind is on the right track." - Professor Roderick Main, Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex, UK"Andrew Fellows’ book addresses many important questions in clear language. His open-minded and erudite argument will inspire those who are concerned about the future of the biosphere." - Jeremy Narby, Ph.D., Amazonian Projects Director at Nouvelle Planète; author of The Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the Origins of Knowledge, and Intelligence in Nature: An Inquiry into Knowledge"Andrew Fellows’s Gaia, Psyche and Deep Ecology is a remarkable synthesis of ecology, general systems, earth science, Jungian psychology, and deep ecology, all by way of constructing a case for the profound change of consciousness that is the only true solution for the host of interlocking problems confronting late industrial civilization. Valuable for its extensive sources alone." - William Ophuls, author of Plato’s Revenge: Politics in the Age of Ecology and Immoderate Greatness: Why Civilizations Fail"Andrew Fellows, with his encompassing knowledge and deep insight into the realms of applied physics (PhD Dunelm) and analytical psychology (diplomate Jungian Analyst) is more suited than anyone else I know to show and lead us into this complex area that is vital for our global future. It is his sense for the whole of the world, and his ability to bridge or close the gap between the cognitive thinking of natural science and the deep-running insights of the psyche that will make his book an essential contribution in the discussion of deep ecology." - Christa Robinson MA, Jungian analyst and supervisor, published in America and China"Supported by thorough scholarly research and passionate argumentation, this book looks at deep ecology from a psyche-oriented perspective and at analytical psychology from an ecological world-soul perspective. It is a treasure chest of inspiration, carefully chosen quotes and clear directives to engage in what is arguably the prime challenge confronting us at this stage of our evolution as a species: moving beyond destructive anthropocentrism to the recognition that we are part of a larger organism." - Shantena Augusto Sabbadini, Director of the Pari Center for New Learning; author of Pilgrimages to Emptiness"This is a big book that demands our serious attention. On the major threat of our times—climate change—Andrew Fellows marshals all of his considerable faculties in science, philosophy, psychology and spirituality to give us a truly integrative account of this multi-layered catastrophe that demands a complete change in our relationship to ourselves, to the societies around us, and to Mother Earth herself if we are to survive. Fellows invites the reader to join with him and all of humanity in trying to confront this all too real apocalypse." - Thomas Singer M.D., San Francisco Jung Institute"As humans living on credit on this exceptional planet Earth, we must change our wanton ways, urgently! Andrew Fellows argues the case intelligently and with compassion for such a dramatic reversal of attitude and behaviour. And, even more extraordinary and impressive, he shows the way to do it. I only hope many people will read this timely work and accept the challenge it presents so convincingly —before it’s too late." - Murray Stein, Ph.D., Past President of IAAP; author of Minding the SelfTable of ContentsPreface. Chapter 1: Start Here; Chapter 2: The Anthropocene; Chapter 3: Gaia and Science; Chapter 4: Psyche and Beyond; Chapter 5: A Psyche-Gaia Conjecture; Chapter 6: Heroic Development; Chapter 7: Frugal Individuation; Chapter 8: End Here?; Appendix: Resources
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Taylor & Francis Dissociative Identities
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Taylor & Francis Jungian and Interdisciplinary Analyses of
Book SynopsisThis comprehensive collection of chapters concentrates on the multifaceted theme of emotions, and deepens our understanding of the role emotions play within the psyche.Leading international psychoanalysts and academics offer broad interdisciplinary dimensions using their own unique perspectives on the topic of emotions. Delineating into five parts, this volume focuses on key themes such as emotions, imagination, and method; the emotional basis of archetypes and complexes; relational trauma; mapping contagion across cultures; the contribution from neuroscience; and, finally, dreams and the transcendent. Clinical cases presented underline the important role unconscious, disassociated emotions play in the formation of symptomatology and how wholeness is facilitated through their acceptance.This collection offers a timely contribution to the interdisciplinary study of emotions placing Jungian psychology firmly within that framework. It will be of great interest to Jungian analysts, trainees, and psychotherapists, as well as interdisciplinary academic researchers interested in methodology, unconscious processes, transference, and dreams.
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Fordham University Press In Praise of Risk
Book SynopsisThis book, whose original French edition achieved worldwide attention when its author died trying to save two children caught in a riptide, challenges the psychic work the modern world devotes to avoiding risk. Weaving psychoanalytic case studies together with philosophical reflections, Dufourmantelle shows how risk is an essential property of life, one that requires our embrace.Table of ContentsTranslator’s Introduction: The Risk of Reading | ix To Risk One’s Life | 1 Eurydice Saved | 4 Minuscule Magical Dependencies | 8 Voluntary Servitude and Disobedience | 11 In Suspense | 13 At the Risk of Passion | 17 Leaving the Family | 22 Forgetting, Anamnesis, Deliverance | 24 Incurable (In)fidelities | 29 Zero Risk? | 33 How (Not) to Become Oneself . . . | 36 Being in Secret | 39 Befriending Our Fears | 41 At the Risk of Being Sad | 46 At the Risk of Being Free | 49 The Time They Call Lost | 52 Dead Alive | 55 Of a Perception Infinitely Vaster . . . | 59 Anxiety, Lack—Spiritual Hunger? | 63 Farewell Magic World: Beyond Disappointment | 67 Life—Mine, Yours | 70 At the Risk of the Unknown | 72 At the Risk of Being Carnal | 74 May There Be an End to Our Torment . . . | 79 Breaking Up | 82 At the Risk of Speech | 86 Solitudes | 89 Laughter, Dreaming—Beyond the Impasse | 93 Hope No More | 101 Once Upon a Time, the “Athenaeum” . . . or, Why Risk Romanticism? | 106 Risking Belief | 111 Risking Variation | 114 The Event: Hyperpresence | 119 Intimate Prophecy | 122 At the Risk of Bedazzlement | 127 Desire, Body, Writing | 130 Healing? | 139 An Other Language | 142 Risking Scandal | 145 Taking the Risk of Childhood | 148 Assiduity | 151 Risking the Future | 154 At the Risk of Beauty | 158 At the Risk of Spirit | 162 Risking the Universal? | 164 Hauntings | 167 Spirals, Ellipses, Metaphors, Anamorphoses | 170 Envisaging Night | 173 Revolutions | 176 At the Risk of Going Through Hell (Eurydice) | 180 Notes | 187
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Object Relation
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsContentsFigures, Tables and IllustrationsTHEORISING THE LACK OF OBJECT I. Introduction II. The Three Forms of the Lack of Object III. The Signifier and the Holy Spirit IV. The Dialectic of Frustration V. On Analysis as Bundling, and the Consequences Thereof THE PERVERSE WAYS OF DESIRE VI. The Primacy of the Phallus and the Young Homosexual Woman VII. A Child is Being Beaten and the Young Homosexual Woman VIII. Dora and the Young Homosexual Woman THE FETISH OBJECT IX. The Function of the Veil X. Identification with the Phallus XI. The Phallus and the Unfulfilled MotherMYTHICAL STRUCTURE IN THEOBSERVATION ON LITTLE HANS’S PHOBIA XII. On the Oedipus Complex XIII. On the Castration Complex XIV. The Signifier in the Real XV. What Myth is For XVI. How Myth is Analysed XVII. The Signifier and Der Witz XVIII. Circuits XIX. Permutations XX. Transformations XXI. The Mother’s Drawers and the Father’s Shortcoming XXII. An Essay in Rubber-Sheet Logic .XXIII. ‘Me donnera sans femme une progéniture’ENVOYXXIV. From Hans-the-Fetish to Leonardo-in-the-Mirror*Map of Vienna (Baedeker 1905) NoteTranslator’s Notes
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Quercus Publishing Sigmund Freud: Essays and Papers (riverrun
Book Synopsis'Freud the writer is what Joan Riviere so elegantly presents to the English-Language reader'Lisa Appignanesi from her preface to Sigmund Freud: Essays and PapersThis collection focuses in on the set of Riviere's translations that made up the first library of Freud in English. Including his papers on metapsychology, applied psychoanalysis and technique, and within those broader categories are subjects as diverse as narcissism, love, paranoia and homosexuality. Riviere's great understanding of Freud's work is evident as we see his engrossingly direct arguments - the style that distinguished him from academics of his day - take shape in her talented translations. We are presented with Freud's various guises, both an essayist and master storyteller he brings to life the vagaries of his patients. Riviere was a major player in disseminating psychoanalysis into English, 'no less than the man she translated is she a figure to be hidden from history', in this collection the translator and the scientist come together in a rich, engrossing brew.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Revolution in Mind
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc On Disobedience
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Little, Brown Book Group The Art Of Listening
Book SynopsisIntrospective and insightful writings from Erich Fromm, the first and foremost psychoanalyst of our time.Trade ReviewIt is a beautiful book to read; it is not about psychoanalytic technique, but evidence of his warm empathy and humanistic view of his patients -- Betty Gould, Self & Society
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Vintage Publishing The Essentials of PsychoAnalysis
Book SynopsisSigmund Freud (1856-1939) was born in Moravia; between the ages of four and eighty-two his home was in Vienna: in 1938 Hitler's invasion of Austria forced him to seek asylum in London, where he died in the following year. His career began with several years of brilliant work on the anatomy and physiology of the nervous system. He was almost thirty when, after a period of study under Charcot in Paris, his interests first turned to psychology, and another ten years of clinical work in Vienna (at first in collaboration with Breuer, an older colleague) saw the birth of his creation, psychoanalysis. Freud's life was uneventful, but his ideas have shaped not only many specialist disciplines, but the whole intellectual climate of the twentieth century.Anna Freud (1895-1982), the youngest daughter of Sigmund Freud, not only became a leading authority on child analysis, in both its theoretical and clinical aspects, but also a principle exponent of her father's work. During her lifetiTrade ReviewHe was possessed of exceptional literary gifts. There can be no question that he was a great writer: to read him is to be beguiled by him... his influence on all of us was enormous, and it would be as impossible to return to a pre-Freudian way of thinking as to return to a pre-heliocentric theory of the solar system * The Times *The great founder of psychoanalysis * The Times *
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Vintage Publishing The Freud Reader
Book SynopsisPeter Gay's first volume of his two-volume work, The Enlightenment: An Interpretation, won a National Book Award, and his bestselling Freud: A Life for Our Time was finalist for the National Book Award. His other numerous works include studies on the eighteenth century, Voltaire's Politics and The Party of Humanity, and essays on the writing of history, Style in History and Art and Act. The recipient of Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundation Fellowships, and Overseas fellowship at Churchill College, Cambridge, and the Heineken Prize for Historical Study, Peter Gay is Sterling Professor of History at Yale University.Trade Review[Freud] was possessed of exceptional literary gifts. There can be no question that he was a great writer: to read him is to be beguiled by him... His influence on all of us was enormous, and it would be as impossible to return to a pre-Freudian way of thinking as to return to a pre-heliocentric theory of the solar system * The Times *
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Vintage Publishing Narrative of a Child Analysis
Book SynopsisMelanie Klein gives a detailed account of the analysis of a ten year old boy, Richard. Klein describes the day to day course of the analysis interpreting Richard`s drawing, play, verbal associations and reports of dreams. Also included is the reproduction of the drawings made by the patient, the analysis of which is elaborated in this text. This fascinating and deeply instructive case study shows the fluctuations which characterise a psycho-analysis and reveals the dynamics of the steps which eventually lead to progress in treatment. In a series of notes accompanying the clinical description, Melanie Klein comments upon the clinical material, linking the actual instances to more theoretical conclusions. In doing so, she has provided an invaluable guide to the technique of psycho-analysing children.Trade ReviewKlein's ideas about children, along with her many innovations in adult therapy, placed her in the top ranks of a group of 20th-century psychoanalysts who pioneered the study of early childhood psychology * Boston Globe *[A] seminal psychoanalytic thinker * New York Times *
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Vintage Publishing The PsychoAnalysis of Children
Book SynopsisThe Psycho-Analysis of Children, first published in 1932, is a classic in its subject, and revolutionised child analysis. Melanie Klein had already proved, by the special technique she devised, that she was a pioneer in that branch of analysis. She made possible the extension of psycho-analysis to the field of early childhood, and in this way not only made the treatment of young children possible but also threw new light on psychological development in childhood and on the roots of adult neuroses and psychoses.Trade ReviewKlein's ideas about children, along with her many innovations in adult therapy, placed her in the top ranks of a group of 20th-century psychoanalysts who pioneered the study of early childhood psychology * Boston Globe *[A] seminal psychoanalytic thinker * New York Times *
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Penguin Books Ltd The Piggle
Book SynopsisBetween the age of two and five, a little girl nicknamed the Piggle' seriously disturbed by the birth of a younger sister visited Dr Winnicott on sixteen occasions. A verbatim account of her visits is accompanied by illuminating excerpts from letters written to the analyst by the child's parents and an invaluable commentary by Dr Winnicott. This allows the reader to experience in detail the growth of a relationship between child and therapist and the gradual unfolding of the child's inner world. This classic piece of writing gives the reader the rare opportunity of being admitted to the intimacy of the consulting room and of studying the child and therapist at work. Of special value to professionals working with children, it will also fascinate anyone interested in how psychoanalysis works in practice.
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Penguin Books Ltd Going Sane
Book SynopsisAdam Phillips, formerly Principal Child Psychotherapist at Charing Cross Hospital, London, is a practising psychoanalyst and a visiting professor in the English department at the University of York. He is the author of numerous works of psychoanalysis and literary criticism, including most recently Attention Seeking, In Writing and Unforbidden Pleasures. He is General Editor of the Penguin Modern Classics Freud translations, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.Trade ReviewThe best living essayist writing in EnglishReading Phillips, you may be amused, vexed, dazzled. But the one thing you will never be is bored * Observer *He's brilliantCharacteristically brilliantElegant and lucid... This erudite and absorbing book oozes intelligence and charm * Independent *Brave, idiosyncratic and refreshing... Innovative and eclectic... Profound... It is heartening to read anyone, let alone a psychoanalyst, who writes so well * The Times *Exceptional... Irresistable, both as a guide to living and an exploration of the links between behaviour and mortality * Times Educational Supplement *
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Penguin Books Ltd Civilization and its Discontents
Book SynopsisThroughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization, and helped make us who we are.
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Penguin Books Ltd Freud S Future of an Illusion
Book SynopsisThis investigation of religion by greatest psychoanalyst of the twentieth-century explores the role faith can take in the life of man, what it can mean to us and why as a species we are inclined towards it. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are.
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Penguin Books Ltd The Uncanny
Book SynopsisAn extraordinary collection of thematically linked essays, including THE UNCANNY, SCREEN MEMORIES and FAMILY ROMANCES.Leonardo da Vinci fascinated Freud primarily because he was keen to know why his personality was so incomprehensible to his contemporaries. In this probing biographical essay he deconstructs both da Vinci''s character and the nature of his genius. As ever, many of his exploratory avenues lead to the subject''s sexuality - why did da Vinci depict the naked human body the way hedid? What of his tendency to surround himself with handsome young boys that he took on as his pupils? Intriguing, thought-provoking and often contentious, this volume contains some of Freud''s best writing.
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Penguin Books Ltd Mass Psychology
Book SynopsisFreud''s religious unbeliefs are too easily dismissed as the standard scientific rationalism of the twentieth-century intellectual, yet he scorned the high-minded humanism of his contemporaries. In Mass Psychology and Analysis of the ''I'' he explores the notion of ''mass-psychology'' - his findings would prove all too prophetic in the years that followed. Writings such as A Religious Experience and The Future of an Illusion continue earlier work on the essential savagery of the civilized mind, and Moses the Man and Monotheistic Religion excavates the roots of religion and racism, which he concludes are inextricably intertwined.This remarkable collection reveals Freud not only at his most radically pessimistic, but also at his most personally courageous - engaging with his own adherences, his own antecedents, his own identity.
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Penguin Books Ltd Wild Analysis
Book SynopsisAdam Phillips (External Editor) Adam Phillips, formerly Principal Child Psychotherapist at Charing Cross Hospital, London, is a practising psychoanalyst and a visiting professor in the English department at the University of York. He is the author of numerous works of psychoanalysis and literary criticism, including most recently Attention Seeking, In Writing and Unforbidden Pleasures. He is General Editor of the Penguin Modern Classics Freud translations, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.Table of ContentsOn "wild" psychoanalysis; on the uses of dream interpretation in psychoanalysis; on the dynamics of transference; advice to doctors on psychoanalytic treatment; on initiating treatment; observations on love in transference; resistance to psychoanalysis; the question of lay analysis; postscript to "the question of lay analysis"; analysis terminable and interminable; constructions in analysis.
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Penguin Books Ltd Freud S Wolfman and Other Cases
Book SynopsisThe new Penguin Freud, under Adam Phillips'' general editorship, offers a fantastic opportunity to see Freud in a fresh light. This endlessly beguiling, suggestive, thought-provoking writer can be appreciated nowhere more vividly than in The Case Histories: ''Little Hans'', ''The Rat Man'', ''The Wolf Man'' and ''Some Character Types Met within Psychoanalytic Work.''Table of ContentsAnalysis of a phobia in a five-year-old boy ("Little Hans"): introduction; case history and analysis; epicrisis; postscript to the analysis of Little Hans. Some remarks on a case of obsessive-compulsive neurosis (the "Ratman"): case history; theoretical remarks. From the history of an infantile neurosis (the "Wolfman"): preliminary remarks; survey of the patient's milieu and medical history; seduction and its immediate consequences; the dream and the primal scene; some matters for discussion; obsessive-compulsive neurosis; anal eroticism and the castration complex; supplementary material from earliest childhood - solution; recapitulations and problems. Some character types encountered in psychoanalytic work: exceptions; those who founder on success; criminals who act out of a consciousness of guilt.
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Penguin Books Ltd The Unconscious
Book SynopsisOne of Freud''s central achievements was to demonstrate how unacceptable thoughts and feelings are repressed into the unconscious, from where they continue to exert a decisive influence over our lives.This volume contains a key statement about evidence for the unconscious, and how it works, as well as major essays on all the fundamentals of mental functioning. Freud explores how we are torn between the pleasure principle and the reality principle, how we often find ways both to express and to deny what we most fear, and why certain men need fetishes for their sexual satisfaction. His study of our most basic drives, and how they are transformed, brilliantly illuminates the nature of sadism, masochism, exhibitionism and voyeurism.
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Penguin Books Ltd Beyond the Pleasure Principle
Book SynopsisA collection of some of Freud''s most famous essays, including ON THE INTRODUCTION OF NARCISSISM; REMEMBERING, REPEATING AND WORKING THROUGH; BEYOND THE PLEASURE PRINCIPLE; THE EGO AND THE ID and INHIBITION, SYMPTOM AND FEAR.
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Penguin Books Ltd The Joke and Its Relation to the Unconscious
Book SynopsisBuilding on the crucial insight that jokes use many of the same mechanisms he had already discovered in dreams, Freud developed one of the richest and most comprehensive theories of humour that has ever been produced.Jokes, he argues, provide immense pleasure by allowing us to express many of our deepest sexual, aggressive and cynical thoughts and feelings which would otherwise remain repressed. In elaborating this central thesis, he brings together a dazzling set of puns, anecdotes, snappyone-liners, spoonerisms and beloved stories of Jewish beggars and marriage-brokers. Many remain highly amusing, while others throw a vivid light on the lost world of early twentieth-century Vienna.
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Penguin Books Ltd Interpreting Dreams
Book SynopsisSigmund Freud was born in 1856 and died in exile in London in 1939. As a writer and doctor he remains one of the great voices of the twentieth century.
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Penguin Books Ltd Civilization and Its Discontents
Book SynopsisFreud''s epoch-making insights revolutionized our perception of who we are, forming the foundation for psychoanalysis. In Civilization and its Discontents he considers the incompatibility of civilization and individual happiness. Focusing on what he perceives to be one of society''s greatest dangers; ''civilized'' sexual morality, he asks, does repression compromise our chances of happiness?Sigmund Freud was born in 1856 and died in exile in London in 1939. As a writer and doctor he remains one of the informing voices of the twentieth century.
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Penguin Books Ltd Selected Writings
Book Synopsis''There are few situations in life which are more difficult to cope with than an adolescent son or daughter during the attempt to liberate themselves'' Anna Freud was one of the most creative and innovative thinkers in the history of psychoanalysis, whose pioneering work in child analysis and development revolutionized the treatment of the young. This essential anthology of her writings includes extracts from her classic The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defence, as well as papers on normal and pathological child development, on adolescence, trauma, aggression and analytical technique. Together they offer a definitive overview of her entire career, displaying the richness, variety and originality of her thinking.''An achievement of the first importance ... underlines the clarity and cogency of Anna Freud''s thinking, [and] makes it accessible to a wide audience'' Clifford Yorke, former Medical Director, the Anna Freud Centre, LondonTrade ReviewAn achievement of the first importance ... The authors are to be congratulated on producing a work that not only underlines the clarity and cogency of Anna Freud's thinking, but makes it accessible to a wide audience that will include not only psychoanalysts, but all those with a serious concern for children and the way they become adults. -- Clifford Yorke, former Medical Director, the Anna Freud Centre, London
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Penguin Putnam Inc The Uncanny
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Oxford University Press Shrinking History On Freud and the Failure of Psychohistory
Book SynopsisStudies the burgeoning field of psychohistory - from Freud, its primogenitor, to its present-day academic practitioners - and argues that little, if any, psychohistory is good histor. The author systematically points out the pitfalls, sheer irrationality, and ultimately ahistorical nature of this mode of historical inquiry.
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Oxford University Press, USA Psychoanalysis and Black Novels Desire and the Protocols of Race Race and American Culture
Book SynopsisPsychoanalytic theory is one of the most important tools in contemporary literary criticism, and this text argues that psychoanalytic paradigms can produce rich readings of African-American desire, alienation and subjectivity. It examines figures such as Freud and Lacan.Trade Review...intriguing....Tate's study raises crucial questions about the way African American subjectivity is addressed within literary studies....she inspires a reevaluation of how texts produce that black subjectivity. * Modernism/Modernity *
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Oxford University Press Inc The Neuropsychology of Emotion
Book SynopsisThis book is a comprehensive review of the neuropsychology of emotion and the neural mechanisms underlying emotional processing. It is divided into four sections, preceded by an introductin summarizing each chapter and presenting future research directions. Sections include: Background and General Techniques, Theoretical Perspectives, Emotional Disorders, and Clinical Implications. The book draws on studies using behavioural paradigms, the brain lesion method, neurologic and psychiatric disorders, and neuroimaging.Trade Review"Each chapter of this book is well written and provides precise and complete information on the state of current knowledge in the field of emotions without omission of the historical perspective . . . This book, written by authors who are all recognized for their competence and their contributions in the field of emotions, is an excellent reference text for anyone who is interested in the neuropsychology of emotion." * European Neurology *Table of ContentsPart I: Introduction 1: Joan C. Borod and Nancy K. Madigan: Neuropsychology of Emotion and Emotional Disorders: An Overview and Research Directions Part II: Background and General Techniques 2: Ross W. Buck: The Epistemology of Reason and Affect 3: Don M. Tucker, Douglas Derryberry, and Phan Luu: Anatomy and Physiology of Human Emotion: Vertical Integration of Brainstem, Limbic, and Cortical Systems 4: Joan C. Borod, Matthias H. Tabert, Cornelia Santschi, and Esther H. Strauss: Neuropsychological Assessment of Emotional Processing in Brain-Damaged Patients 5: Mark S. George, Terrence A. Ketter, Tim A. Kimbrell, Andrew M. Speer, Jeff Lorberbaum, Christopher C. Liberatos, Ziad Nahas, and Robert M. Post: Neuroimaging Approaches to the Study of Emotion Part III: Theoretical Perspectives 6: Klaus R. Scherer: Psychological Models of Emotion 7: Kevin N. Ochsner and Daniel L. Schacter: A Social Cognitive Neuroscience Approach to Emotion and Memory 8: Ralph Adolphs and Antonio R. Damasio: Neurobiology of Emotion at a Systems Level 9: Guido Gainotti: Neuropsychological Theories of Emotion Part IV: Emotional Disorders 10: Robert G. Robinson and Facundo Manes: Elation, Mania, and Mood Disorders: Evidence from Neurological Disease 11: Richard J. Davidson and Jeffrey Henriques: Regional Brain Function in Sadness and Depression 12: Jack B. Nitschke, Wendy Heller, and Gregory A. Miller: Anxiety, Stress, and Cortical Brain Function 13: Angela Scarpa and Adrian Raine: Violence Associated with Anger and Impulsivity 14: Donald T. Stuss, Robert van Reekum, and Kelly J. Murphy: Differentiation of States and Causes of Apathy Part V: Clinical Implications 15: Kenneth M. Heilman, Lee X. Blonder, Dawn Bowers, and Gregory P. Crucian: Neurological Disorders and Emotional Dysfunction 16: Sarah A. Raskin, Ronald L. Bloom, and Joan C. Borod: Rehabilitation of Emotional Deficits in Neurological Populations: A Multidisciplinary Perspective 17: Christian G. Kohler, Ruben C. Gur, and Raquel E. Gur: Emotional Processes in Schizophrenia: A Focus on Affective States 18: Sarah H. Lisanby and Harold A. Sackeim: Therapeutic Brain Interventions in Mood Disorders and the Nature of Emotion Index
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Clarendon Press States of Fantasy
Book SynopsisStates of Fantasy is Jacqueline Rose''s much-praised contribution to the current controversy over the limits of English Studies. Arguing for an expansion of the new boundaries of `English'', and for the importance of psychoanalysis to the understanding of our literary and historical lives, Rose looks at Israel/Palestine and South Africa, and their place in the English literary and cultural imagination.Jacqueline Rose''s fundamental question is the place of fantasy in public and private identities, and in these pages she pushes her investigation further into what might at first glance seem unlikely places. In September 1993, Israel and the PLO signed their first peace treaty; in April 1994, South Africa held its first non-racial democratic elections. States of Fantasy persuasively puts the case that nowhere demonstrates more clearly than these two arenas of historic conflict the need for a psychoanalytically informed understanding of historical process. In so doing, this book shows how Trade ReviewJacqueline Rose, with verve, imagination and ingenuity, argues that fantasy is central to modern politics: it is the psychic glue that holds together our social reality. Rose writes with engaging directness. * New Statesman and Society *The governing metaphor in Rose's study, deployed with splendid resourcefulness, is of unconscious histories, buried affiliations, broken and rejoined lines of influence...this is a work intimate with the detail of Israeli politics as it is with Jacques Lacan. Rose is an intellectual of the diaspora who, after a long detour through theory, has turned back to base in order to know the place for the first time, in all of its embracing, excluding the difference. * London Review of Books *It is the great virtue of Jacqueline Rose's new book ... that in it the reader is bracingly confronted with a genuinely innovative and adventurous style of investigating literary texts. Although she writes with in a recognizable psychoanalytic tradition solidly based in Freud, there is no jargon to get past. Rose's argument is both daring and convincing. Above all, I think it is her critical intelligence that impresses one the most. This isn't a mawkish kind of "personal criticism" - autobiographical meanderings through one's soul - but a capably expressed energy that takes her reader through the moral, cultural and psychological experiences that matter most to her. That we, too, feel them as important and consequential is a mark of her achievement. * Times Literary Supplement *a good and important read, politically engaged, personal and intellectual all in one. * Radical Philosophy 84, July/August 1997 *States of Fantasy is a brilliant, stimulating book, which exhibits a refreshing disregard for literary canon ... more provocative is its terminological novelty: the book's title heralds a departure from the more conventional 'culture and identity' approach. * Alasdair Pettinger, New Formations, 30 Winter 96/97 *Table of ContentsPART I. THE CLARENDON LECTURES ; PART II. THE LIMITS OF CULTURE
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Oxford University Press Mentalizing and Epistemic Trust The work of Peter
Book SynopsisMentalizing and Epistemic Trust offers a critical overview of MBT, exploring its roots in attachment theory, and more broadly. The main theories and concepts in the work of Fonagy and colleagues are placed in an historical and social context, and changes occurring in the present moment are thoroughly appraised.Trade ReviewThe authors convey an impression of the extremely significant and far-reaching influence of the ideas behind mentalization and the relevance of these. This book is likely to appeal to those interested in the considered and nuanced detail of the evolution and modifications of these ideas. * Martin Smith, Journal of Social Work Practice *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1: Biographical context 2: Work at the Anna Freud Centre 3: Mentalizing in development 4: Mentalization in transition 5: Forms of non-mentalizing 6: Conceptualising the 'self' 7: Adaptation and mental health 8: Mentalization-based therapies 9: The wider social system Conclusions
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Oxford University Press A Case of Hysteria Dora Oxford Worlds Classics
Book SynopsisA Case of Hysteria reveals how Freud dealt with patients and interpreted their statements. A crucial text in the development of his theories, it is famous for its literary qualities, and the story of 'Dora' and her unhappy family is as dramatic as a modern novel. This new translation includes a fascinating introduction to the work.Trade ReviewDora remains shocking, infuriating, enthralling, and inspiring. It is an indispensable text for anyone wanting to get to grips with psychiatry. * The Lancet, Niall Boyce *
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Oxford University Press, USA Introduction to Psychological Theories and Psychotherapy
Book SynopsisThis introductory text on psychotherapy emphasizes the details of major treatment models and also the theory and research findings that inform the field of psychotherapy in general. A specific learning sequence is laid out that permits the student to develop beginning competence as a psychotherapist.Table of Contents1. Introduction ; 2. Psychological theories: Key concepts ; 3. Toward an integrated understanding of psychotherapy: Useful perspectives ; 4. Learning psychotherapy ; 5. Current psychotherapies ; 6. Conclusions
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University of Chicago Press Sites of the Unconscious Hypnosis and the
Book SynopsisExamines the relationship between hypnosis and psychoanalysis, showing how the theories and experimental techniques of hypnosis paved the way for the familiar psychoanalytic setting established by Freud. This title addresses the distinctive features of Freud's psychoanalytic setting.Trade Review"There are few people with such deep knowledge of the early career of Sigmund Freud as Andreas Mayer, and probably no Freud scholar with his grasp of the history of science and medicine in late nineteenth-century France, Austria, and Germany. Here Mayer couples great erudition with methodological innovations drawn from recent science studies to skillfully reexamine the key sites and experimental cultures of hysteria, hypnosis, and early psychoanalysis. Sites of the Unconscious is a tour de force that marks an important advance in our understanding of the origins of psychoanalysis." (Robert M. Brain, University of British Columbia)"
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University of Chicago Press Beyond Sexuality
Book SynopsisCombining psychoanalytic emphasis on the unconscious with a respect for the variability of sexual identities, this work of queer theory makes the case for viewing erotic desire as fundamentally impersonal. Dean develops a reading of Lacan that brings out queer tensions and productive incoherencies.
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The University of Chicago Press Psychoanalysis A Theory in Crisis
Book SynopsisMarshall Edelson identifies the core theory of psychoanalysis and shows how free association and the case study method can provide rational grounds for believing its clinical inferences about the causal role of unconscious sexual fantasies. Dr. Edelson has committed himself with gusto, persistence and intelligence [to] a spirited defense of psychoanalysis as sciencenot necessarily as it is, but as it can be in the best of hands as it should be. . . . It is a defense that I hope can resonate strongly in psychoanalytic ranks. It is also a message that I hope would receive a warm reception in that wider intellectual world where ideas matter and where enlightened social policy and cultural cachet are fostered.Robert Wallerstein, New York Times Book Review
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The University of Chicago Press Language and Interpretation in Psychoanalysis
Book SynopsisConsider a poem as the literary critic reads it; consider the language of an analysand as the psychoanalyst hears it. The tasks of the professionals are similar: to interpret the linguistic, symbolic data at hand. In Language and Interpretation in Psychoanalysis, Marshall Edelson explores the linguistics of Chomsky, showing the congruence between Chomsky and Freud, and comparing linguistic interpretations in the psychoanalytic situation with interpretations of a Bach prelude and Wallace Stevens's poem The Snow Man.
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The University of Chicago Press Towards Reading Freud
Book SynopsisPresents the psychoanalyst's therapeutic directives against his more visionary impulses in a magisterial comparative study of such writers as Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Emerson, and Keats. Cross-fertilizing psychological doctrine with the literary canon, this volume offers an understanding of Freud's writings on the self.Trade Review"Marvelous.... Edmundson's book offers an extraordinary challenge both to practicing analysts and to a scholarly community which all too uncomplainingly inhabits and reinforces the Freudian paradigm of interpretation. Edmundson reinvents an adventurous and dissident Freud as an antidote to... weary psychoanalytic common-places." - Malcolm Bowie, Raritan "This book takes a distinguished place in the ongoing effort to recontextualize Freud by stressing the literary, rather than the scientific roots and character of his theory." - Virginia Quarterly Review "A great book.... Wherever Freud is taught, this should be among the key secondary texts students should be advised to consult. Those in psychoanalytic training now realize they must read Freud's writings historically as literature, and Edmundson's approach will be particularly helpful." - Adam Phillips"
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The University of Chicago Press After Freud Left A Century of Psychoanalysis in
Book SynopsisFrom August 29 to September 21, 1909, Sigmund Freud visited the United States, where he gave five lectures at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. This volume brings together leading historians of psychoanalysis and of American culture to consider the broad history of psychoanalysis in America.Trade Review"After Freud Left makes a much needed intervention into the historical record, revealing the eclectic and incongruous ways in which Freud's ideas migrated stateside." (Brooklyn Rail)"
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The University of Chicago Press Models of the Mind A Psychoanalytic Theory
Book SynopsisIn an effort to expand the clinical theory of psychoanalysis, John E. Gedo and Arnold Goldberg delineate and order the various generally accepted systems of psychological functioning, considered here as models of the mind. The authors provide a historical review of four major models of the mind: the topographic model, the reflex arc model, the tripartite model, and an object relations model. They then investigate the possible hierarchical interrelationships of such models. Each model is shown to represent a different facet of mental functioning and is thus employable on an ad hoc basis. The models are shown not to cancel on another out but to allow for theoretical complementarity. Gedo and Goldberg apply their theory to four classic psychoanalytic case studies to demonstrate its effectiveness: Freud's Rat Man, his Wolf Man, the case of Daniel Paul Schreber, and a case of arrested development. For each of these cases the authors show how it would have been both possible and advantageous
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The University of Chicago Press Jung in Context Modernity and the Making of a
Book SynopsisThis ia an account of the origins, influences and legacy of Jungian psychology. By delineating the social, personal, religious and cultural contexts of Jung's system of psychology, the author identifies the central role of depth psychology in the culture of modernity.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Preface Reading the Depth Psychologies at Century's End: Review and Prospects 1: Introduction 2: How to Read Jung 3: Psychological Factors in the Formation of Jung's Thought: The First Three Phases, 1900-1913 4: Psychological Factors in the Formation of Jung's Thought: The Fourth Phase, 1913-18 5: The Role of the Experience of Religion in the Formation of Jung's Thought 6: Sociological Factors in the Formation of Jung's Thought 7: The Structure of Jung's Mature Thought: Its Three Themes 8: Conclusion: Jung, Psychological Man, and Modernization References Index
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