Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology Books

Book SynopsisThis book introduces the clinical concept of analytic contact. This is a term that describes the therapeutic method of investigation that makes up psychoanalytic treatment. The field has been in debate for decades regarding what constitutes psychoanalysis. This usually centers on theoretical ideals regarding analyzability, goals, or procedure and external criteria such as frequency or use of couch. Instead, the concept of analytic contact looks at what takes place with a patient in the clinical situation. Each chapter in this book follows a wide spectrum of cases and clinical situations where hard to reach patients are provided the best opportunity for health and healing through the establishment of analytic contact. This case material closely tracks each patient's phantasies, and transference mechanisms which work to either increase, oppose, embrace, or neutralize, analytic contact. In addition, the fundamental internal conflicts all patients struggle with between love, hate, and knowledge are represented by extensive case reports.Table of ContentsIntroduction -- Analytic Contact -- The self-imposed crisis in psychoanalysis: Analytic contact and the goal of psychological healing -- A return to healing -- The technical value of analytic contact -- Redefining psychoanalysis -- Knowledge, Repetition and Resolution -- Conflicts with knowledge -- Analytic contact and the creation of knowledge -- Fear of knowing and the desire for knowledge -- Transference ↔ Counter-Transference Struggles -- Projective identification and reactions to analytic contact -- Separation, idealization and enactments -- The evolution of projective identification -- Summary -- Conclusion

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Book SynopsisBased on a two-year research project funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), this book explores why many of those involved in racially motivated crime seem to be struggling to cope with economic, cultural and emotional losses in their own lives. Drawing on in-depth biographical interviews with perpetrators of racist crimes and focus group discussions with ordinary people living in the same communities, the book explores why it is that some people, and not others, feel inclined to attack immigrants and minority ethnic groups. The relationships between ordinary racism, racial harassment and the politics of the British National Party are also explored, as are the enduring impacts of deindustrialisation, economic failure and immigration on white working class communities.The book assesses the legacy of New Labour policy on community cohesion, hate crime and respect in terms of its impact on racist attitudes and racist incidents, and explores how it is that racist attacks, including racist murders, continue to happen. The book concludes by using psychoanalytically informed psychosocial concepts to explore examples of how and why race-thinking can be put aside and what it is that needs to happen to get perpetrators to loosen or shed their emotional investments in hatred and violence.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Race, racism, and racially motivated offenders -- Posing the "why?" question -- Recovering the contradictory racist subject -- Understanding the "racially motivated offender" -- Racially aggravated offenders and the punishment of hate -- The unconscious attractions of far right politics -- Rethinking community cohesion -- Zahid Mubarek's murderer: the case of Robert Stewart -- Racism, respect, and recognition -- Conclusion: losing the race

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Book SynopsisThis book introduces a theoretical framework for studying the mind. Specifically, an attempt is made to frame ideas from psychoanalysis and cognitive-social psychology so that they can be taken readily into a realm of neurobiology. Psychoanalytic Theory still represents a very comprehensive theory of the human mind. It includes cognitive, emotional and behavioral variables, plus the idea of unconscious mental operations. The 'pleasure principle and 'repetition compulsion' were Freud's most general concepts of mental functioning. These concepts are renovated to get them "on the same page" with ideas from social cognition and neurobiology.Trade Review'Bernstein's book may be the most sophisticated text currently available for understanding the nature of psychopathology and its treatment through psychotherapy and pharmacotherapy, integrating data from neurobiology, psychoanalysis, and developmental psychology. Practitioners of psychoanalysis, cognitive therapy, EMDR - and indeed, psychotherapists of all persuasions - will find much that is transformational in these pages. Bernstein manages to show with greater precision and clarity than has ever been possible before, how the fundamental self-related concepts, formed in early childhood, impact on neurobiology, mood, thought, and behaviour. All of this remains rooted in core principles observed by Freud. I read this with mounting excitement.'- Phil Mollon, PhD, Clinical Psychologist and Psychoanalyst, Member of the British Psychoanalytical Society'W. M. Bernstein is one of the smartest and most divergent thinkers in psychology. In this thoughtful book, Bernstein weaves an intricate argument linking the basic tenets of psychoanalysis, cognitive and social psychology, and neurobiology. The result is a novel model of how the mind works, much of which hinges on the fundamental concepts of the pleasure principle and repetition compulsion. For the serious scholar interested in Freud's impact on modern social and biological processes, this book will be monumentally important. For the more general reader, it will be a valuable introduction to some of the most interesting developments in current psychology.'- James W. Pennebaker, University of Texas at Austin'Like large bureaucratic organizations, scientific disciplines operate in silos. Integration happens in organizations, if at all, at the top by the CEO. With this book, Bernstein has served as CEO of fundamental yet nonintegrated scientific fields that are critical to the human healing process. By wrapping his mind-brain around an enormous amount of disparate knowledge, he has created a new, useful theory that will influence relevant application of neuroscience, psychology, and psychoanalysis for years to come.'- W. Warner Burke, PhD, Edward Lee Thorndike Professor of Psychology and Education, Teachers College, Columbia University, USATable of ContentsPreface , About the Author , Introduction , Historical foundations , Cognitive and motivational theories , Concepts, feelings, and expectations , Decisions and time , Approach-avoidance conflict , Developmental sources of psychopathology , Sex and aggression , Guilt, dread, and heroism , Eye movement therapy , Memory processes and mind-brain change , Cognitive load and defence , Diagnosing mental illness , Epilogue , Initial diagnostic exam , Pharmacological treatments for six valid categories of functional psychopathology , Four types of testable hypotheses from the theory

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Book SynopsisCreating and sustaining a vibrant relationship is one of the most difficult challenges we come across in our lives. But when we do succeed, it is the source of a truly deep and lasting happiness. To succeed, we need some tools to help us on our way.The subject of this book is the Dialogue of Acknowledgement, an extremely efficient and loving tool that can help people come to grips with problems as well as form the basis for a new way of living and ethical practice, both within the couple and in all other relationships in life.This book hopes to introduce the reader to a way to a shared life of openness, curiosity, acknowledgement, appreciation, and recognition and help them to learn how to converse and listen so that it will be possible for you to explore yourselves and each other in new ways.Trade ReviewThere is no quick and easy way to a mature, strong, and mindful relationship. The journey consists of small steps towards creating increasing confidence for each other as you learn to counter your old habits, survival strategies, and seemingly uncontrollable emotions. Experiencing the way differences can be enriching and not just threatening for your relationship is also part of the processes described in this book. The Vibrant Relationship is not just a book that promotes marriage or relationship per se. It is an optimistic book about new opportunities which are just within our reach - if we make a little effort.Table of ContentsSeries Editor’s Foreword -- Part -- Introduction -- It is Never Too Late to Have a Good Relationship -- Why Do We Get Lost in Love? -- The Evolutionary Spiral of Relationships -- What are You Carrying in Your Baggage? -- The Ability to Love is Formed During Infancy -- Exercises -- Your Brain is a Partner as Well as an Opponent -- How about Tonight, Darling? -- Part 2 -- Pathways to the Vibrant Relationship -- Conflicts are Pure Gold -- Before the Dialogue of Acknowledgement -- The Dialogue of Acknowledgement Step by Step -- New Ways of Being -- New Steps – For the Rest of Our Lives -- Our Life Together -- The Realtionship Therapy Centre

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Book SynopsisWhy does someone resolve to take his own life in order to murder other people? What is the state of mind which allows him to commit such a monstrous act?This book explores the mental state that compels certain individuals to perform murderous, suicidal acts and emphasizes that, whereas a suicidal terrorist attack can be described as a crime against humanity, its protagonists cannot necessarily be classified as criminal or insane. There is no such a thing as a "typical" suicide terrorist - each attacker differs in age, sex, family status, culture, and even religion. Indeed, the common elements in suicide terrorism should perhaps be sought not so much in the individuals concerned as in the dynamics rooted in their group, family history or country. It may be extreme situations experienced by the group situations that are either objectively extreme or perceived as such that give rise to paradoxical behaviour at individual level. Psychoanalysis is well placed to consider this terrain. Freud, after all, soon disabused his reader of the belief that the less palatable aspects of psychic life were the exclusive preserve of some aberrant sub-category of people.Trade Review'While De Masi is a committed psychoanalyst, his work is not that of the one-track missionary. His approach, on the contrary, is a humane antidote to zealotry. In keeping with this spirit, he is mindful of the risk that psychoanalysis may claim too much and too fervently, not least in applying itself to politics. I commend this perturbing, challenging, and highly contemporary book: it is a far cry from the twenty-four-hour cycle of rolling news sound bites, a culture to which we become too easily inured.'- Daniel Pick, fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society and professor of history at Birkbeck College, University of London; from the Preface'Can psychoanalysts concern themselves with momentous social and political phenomena such as terrorism? What instruments do analysts have at their disposal to respond to the myriad questions which they pose? In this book, Franco De Masi implicitly sets himself this challenge and bravely confronts it, offering us a forceful, eloquent, and at the same time fascinating account. He presents us with an initial exploration of a difficult terrain whose features are both unknown and contradictory; there is never a moment of tedium, and the narrative unfolds like a novel or thriller that is impossible to put down, as we anticipate the final outcome page after page.'- Anna Maria Nicolo, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst; from the ForewordTable of ContentsForeword , Preface , Introduction , A strategic aim , Psychoanalytic contributions , Origins and profile , Martyrdom and the sadomasochistic link , Murder–suicide , The network and filicide , The female suicide bomber , Trauma , Dehumanization , Dissociating emotions , Unique identity and omnipotence , A cannibal God , Terrorism: reversible or irreversible? , Conclusions

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Book SynopsisIn a series of papers, the author addresses the needs of students, patients, and practitioners of psychodynamic therapies. The work of these professionals with children and with adults is discussed from a pragmatic point of view, stressing the importance of recognizing the needs and capacities of each individual patient. At the same time, the author focuses on the professional's role in the clinical interaction, emphasizing the need to identify and respect what leads him to the consulting room, and what he expects to obtain from this strenuous and demanding type of work.The evolution of psychodynamic theories has led to its being often defined as a new version of the patient's earliest relationship of dependence on a maternal figure. The author discusses the implications of such a formulation and argues that, however correct it may be when referring to a small number of patients, it is important that, for the majority of cases, the professional should aim to help the patient to find and develop his or her independence and self-sufficiency.Trade Review'For more than half a century, Dr A. H. Brafman has worked tirelessly to improve the lives of children and their families. Though modest and tolerant in his thinking - like all good intellectuals - Brafman could never be described as bland. He holds many strong opinions, some highly challenging to orthodoxy; and he shares his theories generously. His collection of papers represents the very best of the independent tradition in contemporary psychological work; and no student can claim to have completed his or her education without having engaged seriously with Dr A. H. Brafman and with his numerous enriching contributions.'- Professor Brett Kahr, Senior Clinical Research Fellow in Psychotherapy and Mental Health, Centre for Child Mental Health, London, and Honorary Visiting Professor, School of Arts, Roehampton University, LondonTable of ContentsIntroduction -- Introductory Note to Chapter One Dogma vs. doubt -- Infant observation -- Introductory Note to Chapter Two The role of intuition -- Winnicott's therapeutic consultations revisited -- Introductory Note to Chapter Three and Four Who should ask? -- Increase or not increase? -- Touching and affective closeness -- Introductory Note to Chapters Five and Six Flexibility -- Child analysis: when? -- Tailor-made therapy for the child: new developments in Winnicottian work with young people -- Introductory Note to Chapters Seven and Eight Feet on the ground -- Letter to a young psychotherapy trainee -- Memorizing vs. understanding -- Introductory Note to Chapters Nine and Ten Helping? Yes, but how? -- Holding, containing, interpretations: a question of timing? -- The setting: what makes therapy work? -- Introductory Note to Chapter Eleven Adolescents -- Working with adolescents: a pragmatic view*

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Book SynopsisThis book provides easy to read, concise, and clinically useful explanations of over 1800 terms and concepts from the field of psychoanalysis. A history of each term is included in its definition and so is the name of its originator. The attempt is made to demonstrate how the meanings of the term under consideration might have changed, with new connotations accruing with the passage of time and with growth of knowledge. Where indicated and possible, the glossary includes diverse perspectives on a given idea and highlights how different analysts have used the same term for different purposes and with different theoretical aims in mind.Trade ReviewRanging from 'abreaction' and 'abstinence' , 'basic rule' and 'beta elements', and 'clarification' and 'conflict' through ' metapsychology' and 'malignant narcissism' to ' xenophobia' and 'zoophilia' , the terms and ideas covered in the book make for a panoramic view of the psychoanalytic universe. The collection is wide-ranging, eclectic, and fundamentally generous: it includes old, new, controversial, odd-sounding, familiar, unfamiliar, all sorts of terms and phrases from the one hundredyears history of psychoanalysis. While generally crisp and pithy, a definition here and there also includes an enderaing anecdote, a wry remark regarding the hidden ironies in the concept at hand, and a deliciously surprising linkage with another idea in the book.The book differs from the psychoanalytic glossaries published so far in five important ways: First and foremost, with the exception of Charles Rycroft's 1976 book , all these glossaries are edited volumes. Second, none of the previous glossaries are as inclusive of analytic ideas from diverse 'schools' and from an internationally representative group of analytic theorists and innovators. Third, there is a steadfastly clinical undertone to this book, something that the other books in this genre lack. Fourth, the list of terms included is much more comprehensive and up-to-date. Finally, the deft admixture of scholarly attitude with an occasional playfulness, even impishness, marks this book as a truly unique contribution."Wearing his erudition with the lightness of a Renaissance humanist and spanning the psychoanalytic universe from 'Abreaction' to 'Zone of proximal development'in beutifully crafted essays, Salman Akhtar proves himself to the lineal descendant of Erasmus and Montaigne. We shall not look uon his like again".-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN PSYCHOANALYTIC ASSOCIATION"AKHTAR HAS ASSEMBLED A WONDERFUL ARRAY OF TERMS, MANY OF THEM QUITE EXOTIC, SUPPORTED BY AN EXTRAORDINARY BIBLIOGRAPHY.wE ARE VERY GRATEFUL TO HIM FOR THE MASSIVE AMOUNT OF WORK HE HAS DONE, AND---LET'S JUST ADMIT IT--WE HAVE BORROWED FROM HIS BOOK DOZENS AND DOZENS OF TIME"-Elsee Samburg & Elizabeth AuchinclossEditors of the Forthcoming Psychoanalytic Glossary of the American Psychoanalytic Association.'...destined to become a classic reference book for psychoanalysis and an indispensable part of the library of psychoanalysts, academics and anyone seriously interested in psychoanalysis. This encyclopaedic and accessible work takes a significant step forward in the crucial task of building a common vocabulary for the relatively young discipline of psychoanalysis. Akhtar defines each of the over 1800 concepts, sub-concepts and colloquial words, describes its history from the origin of each term to its current usage, identifies the outstanding issues, cites the relevant literature associated with each entry, synthesizes the views of differing psychoanalytic orientations, and comments on its clinical usefulness. He also includes concepts from "applied" psychoanalysis such as the Holocaust studies, immigration literature, psychoanalytically informed political writing, and culture-specific psychoanalytic ideas from non-Western societies. In addition, Akhtar reviews twenty-six psychoanalytic glossaries, dictionaries, encyclopaedias, and the concordance of the Standard Edition. This is a monumental achievement, a resource to enhance communication worldwide, which sets the standard by which all future dictionaries of psychoanalysis will be judged.'- Donald Campbell (UK)'Salman Akhtar's magisterial compendium of terms and concepts is an extremely useful addition to the world-wide library of psychoanalysis. It offers an extensive view of the field and opens windows to wide-ranging conceptual landscapes. As a result, it will be of great appeal to the academic and the clinician alike.'- Leopold Nosek (Brazil)'...a highly impressive, clear, and objective review of psychoanalytic concepts, controversies, and new developments. The richness of entries, covering authors from the broadest spectrum of psychoanalytic theories, facilitates the reader's orientation through the complex world of well-accepted terminology, as well as through the historically relevant and even idiosyncratic formulations that are scattered throughout the psychoanalytic literature. Akhtar's stance is fair in comparing the use of the same terms by different authors and in summarizing the controversies in a particular realm. His book is easy and enjoyable to read and an occasional subtle, but always respectful, ironic comment conveys the author's view regarding a particular point in an honest yet unintrusive way. The inclusion of an appendix on the previously published glossaries and of an extensive and up-to-date bibliography gives this dictionary a truly scholarly dimension.'- Otto Kernberg (USA)'This well-researched and extremely informative dictionary is not only a dictionary; it is a historical account of our field, a treasure trove of useful references, and a handbook of technical guidelines. Consulting it yields instant knowledge; reading it gives pleasure. It should be in the possession of every psychoanalyst and psychotherapist.'- Henk-Jan Dalewijk (Holland)'In the specific case of dictionaries, the scarce relevance of typology is well known. Specialists point out that the inevitably imprecise limitations in the definition of types render all typologies unsatisfactory. This is not so in the case of the Comprehensive Dictionary of Psychoanalysis by Salman Akhtar. Here, the word 'comprehensive' indicates what distinguishes this work from other, apparently similar, efforts. Besides noting the originality, clarity, and authority of the entries, the reader will find that the themes confronted by the author cover an unusual range of conceptual extension and topical relevance. From a methodological viewpoint, Akhtar creates a new model that deserves the specialist's full attention. He is an author who is well known for the variety of his interests and this, surely, has been the source of inspiration for this important contribution.'- Jorge Canestri (Italy)'The work is of high quality, and will be interesting and useful to those studying or researching in the field of psychoanalysis.'- T.L. Stout, ChoiceTable of ContentsINTRODUCTION, DEFINITIONS OF PSYCHOANALYTIC TERMS AND CONCEPTS, AN ANNOTATED LIST OF PSYCHOANALYTIC GLOSSARIES, REFERENCES

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Book Synopsis'The re-issuing of the four volumes of Heinz Kohut's writings is a major publishing event for psychoanalysts who are interested in both the theoretical and the therapeutic aspects of psychoanalysis. These volumes contain Kohut's pre-self psychology essays as well as those he wrote in order to continue to expand on his groundbreaking ideas, which he presented in The Analysis of the Self; the Restoration of the Self; and in How Does Analysis Cure?These volumes of The Search for the Self permit the reader to understand not only the above three basic texts of psychoanalytic self psychology more profoundly, but also to appreciate Kohut's sustained openness to further changes - to dare to present his self psychology as in continued flux, influenced by newly emerging empirical data of actual clinical practice.The current re-issue of the four volumes of The Search for the Self would assure that the younger generation of psychoanalysts would be exposed to a clinical theory that could contribute greatly to solving the therapeutic dilemmas facing psychoanalysis today'- Paul Ornstein, EditorVolumes 1 and 2 of The Search for the Self encompass Heinz Kohut's selected writings and letters from 1950 to 1978. Volumes 3 and 4 continue with the further collection of his selected writings and letters (published as well as previously unpublished) from 1978 until his untimely death in 1981.Table of ContentsForeword -- Introduction -- Death in Venice by Thomas Mann: A Story About the Disintegration of Artistic Sublimation -- August Aichhorn—Remarks After His Death -- On the Enjoyment of Listening to Music -- “The Function of the Analyst in the Therapeutic Process” -- Psychanalyse de la Musique (1951) -- “Natural Science and Humanism as Fundamental Elements in the Education of Physicians and Especially Psychiatrists” -- “‘Eros and Thanatos’: A Critique and Elaboration of Freud’s Death Wish” -- The Haunting Melody: Psychoanalytic Experiences in Life and Music (1953) -- Beethoven and His Nephew: A Psychoanalytic Study of Their Relationship (1954) -- “Modern Casework: The Contribution of Ego Psychology” -- “The Role of the Counterphobic Mechanism in Addiction” -- Introspection, Empathy, and Psychoanalysis -- Observations on the Psychological Functions of Music -- The Arrow and the Lyre: A Study of the Role of Love in the Works of Thomas Mann (1955) -- “Some Comments on the Origin of the Influencing Machine” -- “A Note on Beating Fantasies” -- “Looking Over the Shoulder” -- Childhood Experience and Creative Imagination -- Beyond the Bounds of the Basic Rule -- “Further Data and Documents in the Schreber Case” -- “The Unconscious Fantasy” -- The Psychoanalytic Curriculum -- Concepts and Theories of Psychoanalysis -- The Position of Fantasy in Psychoanalytic Psychology -- Some Problems of a Metapsychological Formulation of Fantasy -- Franz Alexander: In Memoriam -- Values and Objectives -- Autonomy and Integration -- “Correlation of a Childhood and Adult Neurosis: Based on the Adult Analysis of a Reported Childhood Case” -- “Termination of Training Analysis” -- “Some Additional ‘Day Residues’ of ‘The Specimen Dream of Psychoanalysis’” -- Forms and Transformations of Narcissism -- The Evaluation of Applicants for Psychoanalytic Training -- The Psychoanalytic Treatment of Narcissistic Personality Disorders

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Book SynopsisIn his latest groundbreaking book, Peter L. Rudnytsky examines the history of psychoanalysis from a resolutely independent perspective. At once spellbinding case histories and meticulously crafted gems of scholarship, Rudnytsky's essays are "re-visions" in that each sheds fresh light on its subject but they are also avowedly "revisionist" in their scepticism towards all forms of psychoanalytic orthodoxy. Beginning with a judicious reappraisal of Freud and ranging in scope from King Lear to contemporary neuroscience, Rudnytsky treats in depth the lives and work of Ferenczi, Jung, Stekel, Winnicott, Coltart, and Little, each of whom sought to "rescue psychoanalysis" by summoning it to live up to its highest ideals.Trade ReviewWhy has psychoanalysis, beginning with Freud, so often betrayed its own ideals? Who has represented the best in psychoanalysis by refusing to place undue deference to authority - or loyalty to a movement - above the search for truth and concern for the welfare of patients? What are the connections between an analyst's life and work? How can a reconciliation of its claims to be both an art and a science help to ensure the future of psychoanalysis? These are the questions that inspire Gradiva Award winner Peter L. Rudnytsky's latest groundbreaking book. At once spellbinding case histories and meticulously crafted gems of scholarship, Rudnytsky's essays are re-visions in that each sheds fresh light on its subject, but they are also avowedly revisionist in their skepticism toward all forms of psychoanalytic orthodoxy. The result is a synthesis that brilliantly illuminates the history - and essence - of psychoanalysis from a resolutely independent perspective.'Peter Rudnytsky is one of the best - if not the best - scholars in our field today.'- Rosemary H. Balsam, Western New England Institute of Psychoanalysis'Peter Rudnytsky writes with an incomparable blend of academic erudition, narrative mastery, and passionate engagement. If you are honest enough to regret what psychoanalysis has too often been, but have not lost hope for what it might yet become, you have been looking for this book.'- Carlo Bonomi, Harry Stack Sullivan Institute of Psychoanalysis, FlorenceContents- An Independent Perspective on the History of Psychoanalysis- Inventing Freud- "Infantile Thoughts": Reading Ferenczi's Clinical Diary as a Commentary on Freud's Relationship to Minna Bernays- Rescuing Psychoanalysis from Freud: The Common Project of Stekel, Jung, and Ferenczi- In Praise of Nina Coltart- Rethinking King Lear: From Incestuous Fantasy to Primitive Anxieties- The Bridge across Clifton Road: Emory University and the Future of Psychoanalytic StudiesTable of ContentsForeword -- Introduction -- Inventing Freud -- "Infantile thoughts": reading Ferenczi's Clinical Diary as a commentary on Freud's relationship with Minna Bernays -- Rescuing psychoanalysis from Freud: the common project of Stekel, Jung, and Ferenczi -- "I'm just being horrid": D. W. Winnicott and the strains of psychoanalysis -- In praise of Nina Coltart -- Rethinking King Lear: from incestuous fantasy to primitive anxieties -- The bridge across Clifton Road: Emory University and the future of psychoanalytic studies -- "Nitty-gritty issues": an interview with Eric R. Kandel

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Book SynopsisTelling Stories? explores the contemporary state of affairs in the understanding and treatment of psychosis. An inclusive approach to mental distress requires that in order to truly understand psychosis we must begin by listening to those who know this from the inside out; the voices and narrative of those who have been condemned as "unanalysable" and mad. Far from being fantastical, the complex stories that are being articulated communicate painful truths and the myriad ways in which the human psyche survives overwhelming trauma. This book is the culmination of an integrated and creative alliance between those on the cutting edge, experientially, in research, diagnosis, and treatment; this multidisciplinary dialogue proposes a new relational and attachment orientated paradigm for the 21st century. In contrast to the containment model that is currently favoured, this advocates listening and talking therapies, and the healing power of a loving relationship, offering those with psychosis the possibility of more nourishing engagement with the world.Table of ContentsCHAPTER ONE Telling stories? Attachment-based approaches to the treatment of psychosis CHAPTER TWO A brief history of psychosis, its politics and why genetics is a cop-out CHAPTER THREE Never let the truth get in the way of a good story, CHAPTER FOUR The personal is political CHAPTER FIVE Can attachment theory help explain the relationship between childhood adversity and psychosis? CHAPTER SIX Truth is stranger than fiction—what happens to the story when no-one wants to know CHAPTER SEVEN In bits: Hearing the fragmented narratives of people who experience psychosis CHAPTER EIGHT Interprofessional collaboration: Achieving integrated care in mental health services

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Book SynopsisThis book investigates what was distinctive about the predisposition to psychosis Freud posited in Daniel Paul Schreber, a presiding judge in Saxony's highest court. It argues that Freud's 1911 Schreber text reversed the order of priority in late nineteenth-century conceptions of the disposing causes of psychosis - the objective-biological and subjective-biographical - to privilege subjective disposition to psychosis, but without returning to the paradigms of early nineteenth-century Romantic psychiatry and without obviating the legitimate claims of biological psychiatry in relation to hereditary disposition. While Schreber is the book's reference point, this is not a general treatment of Schreber, or of Freud's reading of the Schreber case. It focuses rather on what was new in Freud's thinking on the disposition to psychosis, what he learned from his psychiatrist contemporaries and what he did not, and whether or not psychoanalysts have fully received his aetiology.Trade Review'Thomas Dalzell studies with precision the position of the best of classical psychiatry, as well as that of Freud and finally of Lacan. At the same time he does homage to a remarkable opus which was the object of these labours, that of a madman who, in his delirium and suffering, had enough humanism to leave to the savants a unique document made for their enlightenment.'- Dr Charles Melman, psychoanalyst and psychiatrist, director of teaching in Lacan's Ecole freudienne de Paris, and founder of L'Association Lacanienne Internationale, from the Preface'This work is novel, original, and exciting. Dr Dalzell's writing presents a balanced, eclectic, and logical exposition. It makes a unique contribution to the field of psychoanalytic research and is to be commended to all students intent on research in this field.'- Professor Kevin M. Malone, MD, FRCPI, FRCPsych, professor of psychiatry, School of Medicine and Medical Science, University College Dublin'In a remarkable work that joins scientific rigour to the art of the story teller, Thomas Dalzell tells the tale of the missed encounter between Freud's discovery of the crucial place of the speaking subject in the understanding of psychosis and the biological objectifications of the makers of modern psychiatry, which still dominate current theory and treatment.'- Dr Cormac Gallagher, Lacanian psychoanalyst and founder of the School of Psychotherapy at St Vincent's University Hospital, DublinTable of ContentsPreface , Introduction , Freud's exemplary case of psychosis: Daniel Paul Schreber , Disposition to psychosis in Freud's Schreber text , Psychosis in Freud's papers before and after his Schreber text , Freud and Emil Kraepelin , Freud and the Viennese psychiatrists , Freud and Eugen Bleuler , Hereditary disposition in Freud's aetiological chain , The reception of Freud's 1911 aetiology by psychoanalysts , Jacques Lacan on Freud's Schreber , Conclusion

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Book Synopsis'The re-issuing of the four volumes of Heinz Kohut's writings is a major publishing event for psychoanalysts who are interested in both the theoretical and the therapeutic aspects of psychoanalysis. These volumes contain Kohut's pre-self psychology essays as well as those he wrote in order to continue to expand on his groundbreaking ideas, which he presented in The Analysis of the Self; the Restoration of the Self; and in How Does Analysis Cure?These volumes of The Search for the Self permit the reader to understand not only the above three basic texts of psychoanalytic self psychology more profoundly, but also to appreciate Kohut's sustained openness to further changes - to dare to present his self psychology as in continued flux, influenced by newly emerging empirical data of actual clinical practice.The current re-issue of the four volumes of The Search for the Self would assure that the younger generation of psychoanalysts would be exposed to a clinical theory that could contribute greatly to solving the therapeutic dilemmas facing psychoanalysis today'- Paul Ornstein, EditorVolumes 1 and 2 of The Search for the Self encompass Heinz Kohut's selected writings and letters from 1950 to 1978. Volumes 3 and 4 continue with the further collection of his selected writings and letters (published as well as previously unpublished) from 1978 until his untimely death in 1981.Table of Contents35. Psychoanalysis in a Troubled World, 36. Narcissism as a Resistance and as a Driving Force in Psychoanalysis, 37. Peace Prize 1969: Laudation, 38. Discussion of "The Self: A Contribution to Its Place in Theory and Technique" by D. C. Levin, 39. Scientific Activities of the American Psychoanalytic Association: An Inquiry, 40. Thoughts on Narcissism and Narcissistic Rage, 41. Discussion of "On the Adolescent Process as a Transformation of the Self" by Ernest S. Wolf, John E. Gedo, and David M. Terman, 42. The Future of Psychoanalysis, 43. The Psychoanalyst in the Community of Scholars, 44. Letter to the Author: Preface to Lehrjahre auf der Couch by Tilmann Moser, 45. Remarks About the Formation of the Self- Letter to a Student Regarding Some Principles of Psychoanalytic Research, 46. The Self in History, 47. A Note on Female Sexuality, 48. Creativeness, Charisma, Group Psychology: Reflections on the Self-Analysis of Freud, 49. Preface to Der Jalsche Weg zum SelbstJ Studien , zur Drogenkarriere by Jiirgen vom Scheidt, Letters-1961-1978, Conclusion: The Search for the Analyst's Self

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Book SynopsisThis is a book that grew out of the many practical "how-to" questions that the author's psychotherapy students have asked him over the years. It is neither an evidence-based compendium nor an attempt to summarize general practice or the viewpoints of others, but rather a handbook of practical answers to many of the questions that may puzzle students of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. Some of the short chapters include:How to choose a personal psychoanalystHow to do an initial interviewHow to listen to a patientHow to recognize and understand self-states, multiple identities, true and false selves, etc.How to tell what the transference isHow to deal with the sadomasochistic transferenceHow to understand the need for recognitionHow to think about analytic processHow to practice holistic healingHow to refer a patient for medicationHow to get paid for your workHow to manage vacations, weekends, illnesses, no-shows and other disturbances of continuityWhile trying to give simple answers to sometimes very difficult questions, it is written at a level of sophistication that may make it of interest even to experienced practitioners.Trade Review'This book is a little gem; words of practical wisdom by a master clinician. Sheldon Bach has long been regarded as an analyst's analyst, a voice of experience that transcends categorization into singular schools of thought. Here is his advice for the beginner, the fundamentals of clinical practice, of holistic healing, and of the therapist's own self-care.'- Lewis Aron, PhD, Director, New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis'Dr Bach's book is perhaps the quintessential volume on how to proceed as a psychoanalytic therapist. It is, however, much more than that; it is a book that contains the wisdom of a master clinician delivered in a manner that is readily accessible at many different levels. On a first reading, one might think that, yes, this is very helpful and I am glad to have received this guidance. On a second reading, one begins to realize that a view of psychoanalysis is subtlyinculcated in the text and that the depth and scope of the material stirs one to consider some of the basic concepts in our field in a new light. It is a book for the young clinician to help them begin to find their way, and a book for older clinicians to help them more fully understand the pathways that they have traversed.'- Steven J. Ellman, Professor Emeritus, City University of New YorkFaculty and Supervisor, Post-Doctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, New York UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction -- How to choose a psychoanalytic theory -- How to do an initial interview -- How to choose your personal psychoanalyst -- How to listen to a patient -- How to frame and change perspectives -- How to recognize and understand self-states, alternate states, true and false selves, multiple identities, etc -- How to manage the telephone -- How to get paid for your work -- How to understand and manage the transference -- How to tell what the transference is -- How to deal with the sadomasochistic transference -- How to manage narcissistic disequilibrium -- How to understand the need for recognition -- How to make a careful referral -- How to refer a patient for medication -- How to manage vacations, weekends, illnesses, no-shows, and other disturbances of continuity -- How to think about analytic process -- How to maintain your physical health and mental equilibrium -- How to practise holistic healing

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Book SynopsisIn this important new collection of essays, Jonathan Sklar argues that the founding tension between Freud's commitment to interpretation and Ferenczi's extra parameter of 'being in the experience' has a central place/key role to play in contemporary psychoanalytic debate, and that this tension can best be understood by returning to the place of trauma in psychoanalysis. Taking this debate into the heart of the clinical setting, a set of extensive, penetrating and often disturbing case studies examine the evocation of the real as early trauma for many patients and its subsequent mental development - a case of schizophrenia, a man with a severe Tic (spasmodic Torticollis), and a neurotic with a somatic resistance to ending a long analysis.Trade ReviewWith an introduction by Christopher Bollas and contributions by Michael Parsons.'In this marvellous work, Jonathan Sklar achieves the rare feat of integrating a highly sophisticated and scholarly treatment of key concepts of clinical psychoanalytic theory, as argued by many contributors to the field including Freud, Ferenczi, and Sklar himself, with the most elegant clinical vignettes, demonstrating the arduous work of everyday clinical practice. Many of the theoretical arguments are based on the work of European (primarily British) thinkers, and analysts not as familiar with them will find a superb synthesis of their positions. It is hard to imagine, however, that every psychoanalyst - from the most seasoned to the beginner - would not benefit from the study of this book. Beautifully written and richly textured, I would advise savouring a few pages at a time, not only for the sheer pleasure of enjoying the material, but also in order to be able to assimilate the wealth of insights contained in each paragraph. This is a book to come back to over and over again.'- Edward Nersessian, MD, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Weil-Cornell Medical College, Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst, The New York Psychoanalytic Institute'Landscapes of the Dark is a meditation on the meanings and practice of psychoanalysis which reaffirms free association and history in the clinical encounter and beyond. Jonathan Sklar's concern is trauma in the individual as it makes itself felt in psychotic moments or "enactments", in "flitting thoughts" or silence; manifestations of the transfer of thought from unconscious to unconscious in the consulting room, which shape and determine the patient's movement through daily life and which stem from the tension between real event and trauma in the mind of the analysand. The analyst listens, pays patient attention to several temporal dimensions at once, and his capacity to bear the powerful emotion which fills the room - like a symphony, a poem, or sometimes a dark, cold, landscape - are his contribution to the arduous work of analysis. Here are insights to cherish: who can forget the woman who left the scarlet handkerchief pinched between two doors; the child alone downstairs in the lounge while her mother continually "took to her bed"; or, indeed, the analyst enduring despair? Sklar reflects on real events that scar modern history. His work in the European Psychoanalytic Federation (which now includes the Middle East, parts of Africa and more) demonstrates the ways in which inner and outer worlds are indissoluably linked. Everyone interested in how the mind works should read Landscapes of the Dark; Sklar breathes new life into its tensions, faultlines, and sources of creativity.'- Sally Alexander, Emeritus Professor of Modern History, Goldsmiths, University of LondonTable of ContentsPrologue , Introduction , The rebirth of history and trauma in psychoanalysis , Formulation of interpretations in clinical practice , Hysteria and mourning—a psychosomatic case , Trauma, psychosis, and regression: the psychoanalytic treatment of a schizophrenic patient , Daydreams, dreams, and trauma , Psychosomatics and technique , Somatic resistance to termination: the contemporary use of “active” technique , The life cycle of the psychoanalyst: reflections on a seminar for newly qualified analysts 1 , Epilogue

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Book SynopsisFace-to-face with differences in the analytical relationship analysts frequently confront the limitations of their theories. In this new book Mary Lynne Ellis and Noreen O'Connor move to the heart of 21st century intertwining of psychoanalytical and philosophical critical reflections. They highlight how philosophical perspectives on language, embodiment, time, history, and conscious/unconscious experiences can contribute to clinical interpretations of gender, sexuality, race, age, culture, and class. Vital to Questioning Identities: Philosophy in Psychoanalytic Practice is its emphasis on clinical material, and on attentiveness to the uniqueness of individuals' articulations of their desires and identities.Trade Review'This welcome book shows up some of the mistaken beliefs about identities and particularly sexual minorities held in the psychoanalytic profession... When engaging with the reality of racism in patients' lives is seen as delving into sociology and beyond the remit of psychoanalytic psychotherapy, there is cause for concern. Ellis and O'Connor's work is lively and well referenced. Unusually, the case examples are diverse, drawn from a variety of class and ethnic backgrounds... The authors have positioned themselves in such a way that they can think about people's lived experiences as clinicians and also rigorously use both philosophical and psychoanalytic work to examine the therapeutic process. Like Wild Desires and Mistaken Identities it will provoke a great deal of thought and discussion.' - Lennox K. Thomas, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist, BAP, Nafsiyat, UK. 'This excellent book offers a revision of psychoanalytic theory. In a compassionate account of individual human experience Ellis and O'Connor locate their inspiring insights within the context of 20th century philosophy. They propose appreciation of individual identities within culture. Gender, sexuality, sexual orientation, as well as attitudes to race, are perceived as potentially fluid. The discourse challenges fixed notions and is animated with lively clinical examples. This is an innovative contribution and will appeal to a wide range of readers including clinicians and theorists, students and experienced practitioners; indeed all who are interested in psychoanalysis.' - Professor Joy Schaverien, Ph.D., Jungian Psychoanalyst in private practice. Author of Desire and the Female Therapist and The Dying Patient in Psychotherapy'In this original book Ellis and O'Connor argue for the critical importance of an encounter between psychoanalytic and contemporary European philosophical texts such as those of Merleau-Ponty, Levinas, and Foucault, as well as of race and cultural theory. Their sensitive and engaging case illustrations show how this encounter can help us to generate more nuanced interpretations of an individual's sense of identity and difference in the analytical relationship. They offer a dynamic portrait of the socio-historical specificity of a person's lived embodiment in the co-created space of the analytic dyad. I believe this work will be an important contribution to the growing integration of psychoanalysis with the socio-cultural field.' - Jessica Benjamin, Psychoanalyst, Professor, NYU Postdoctoral Psychology Program. Author of Shadow of the Other: Intersubjectivity and Gender in Psychoanalysis'This is an intellectually brilliant work for it powerfully questions the psychoanalytic tradition that held philosophical thinking suspect... Ellis and O'Connor emphasize attentiveness to the singularity of psychic suffering, but also take it as the suffering of an embodied being in the world... This new practice challenges the deep-seated belief that "we need to know who we really are in order to be able to live". I hope that it can be translated into all the languages of the world... The task of relating a singular suffering to a context in the world is a great task, one in which psychoanalysis and philosophy must always accompany each other.' - Zeynep Direk, Ph.D., Professor of Philosophy, Galatasaray University, Istanbul. Author of Levinas and Kierkegaard: Ethics and Politics (in Kierkegaard and Levinas: Ethics, Politics and Religion, edited by Wood and Simmons). 'This book is an ethically challenging and philosophically adventurous work... Ellis and O'Connor explore how philosophical questions of time, embodiment, experience and otherness can be posed in and through psychoanalytic practice. This book is a delightful read.'- Sara Ahmed, Professor of Race and Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths College and author of Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects and Others and The Promise of Happiness'This revolutionary book represents an absolutely vital intervention. It works productively, creatively, and provocatively in the spaces between philosophy and psychoanalysis... Interdisciplinary in the best way it allows philosophy to confront psychoanalysis, and it uses psychoanalysis in new, inventive ways as a result of that encounter.'- Tina Chanter, Professor of Philosophy, DePaul University, Chicago. Author of The Picture of Abjection: Film, Fetish, and the Nature of DifferenceTable of ContentsIntroduction -- Passionate differences -- Who speaks? Who listens? Different voices and different sexualities -- Is Melanie Klein the one who knows who you really are? -- The an-arche of psychoanalysis -- Shifting the ego towards a body subject -- Subjects of perversion -- (Dis)continuous identities and the time of the other -- Images of sexualities; Language and embodiment in art therapy -- Homophobia is the patient -- Listening differently in the face-to-face

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Book SynopsisThe author believes the discovery of psychoanalysis cannot be separated from Freud's self-analysis and the foundational act of writing about his own dreams. Now that the hype, the 100 years of excitement and building up of the institution of psychoanalysis, is in decline, the time seems ripe for a return to the question of the truth of the discovery of the unconscious. This book seeks to take up this crisis and return psychoanalysis to a discourse relevant to contemporary thought as a more personal story of what it means to become a psychoanalyst. The work is divided into three sections, each organized around a major thinker whose work is defined by a definitive engagement with psychoanalysis: Adorno, Lacan and Badiou. Each section is marked by a careful reading of these thinkers, attempting to deconstruct their understanding of psychoanalysis, including how this work has shaped the author's identity as a psychoanalyst.Trade Review'Jamieson Webster's reflections on psychoanalysis have a crystal clarity. As a writer, she introduces us time and again to the moment that inaugurates desire, including the desire for psychoanalysis. Her paragraphs move in a set of careful sequences that call into question their own possibility, registering at every juncture the seriality and detours of desire itself, a desire registered in psychoanalytic theory and practice, but also, clearly, in the practice of reading itself. Although she deftly and economically recapitulates the major philosophical questions implied by psychoanalytic practice, she also shows us why and how they dawn on us, what captures our attention, and what remains enigmatic. In this way, we are solicited to read with her, to follow a set of paths with no one outcome, and so to move away from dogmatic conceptions of psychoanalysis to an embodied and relational encounter with texts and the persistent and opaque desires they register. With great conceptual lucidity and argumentative edge, Webster brings us close to that passionate knowledge that is psychoanalysis and that defies every systematization.'- Judith Butler, author of Giving an Account of Oneself and Undoing Gender'This unique book shows us how psychoanalytic writing can be reinvented. Neither traditional academic discourse nor clinical case, it pursues the question of desire through a perpetual process of unbalancing the boundary we might expect between form and content. Thought-provoking, unnerving, and spunky, it will interest anyone working in the field of psychoanalysis.'- Darian Leader, author of The New Black: Mourning, Melancholia and DepressionTable of ContentsPreface -- Fatigue and haste -- Adorno -- Angels of disenchantment -- Lacan -- Instructions on how to fell a tree -- Badiou -- Last remarks

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Book SynopsisThe chapters in this volume cover a wide range of topics that concentrate around four themes: transitional change in therapeutic communities; in working conferences for professional development or training; in organisation consulting with an emphasis on organisational learning; and in self studies of working systems in action. In all these psychic activities, "time and space" were created to allow for transitional processes to become alive. A therapist, a manager, a consultant or a layman may create conditions that facilitate or hinder human beings to become engaged in these normal, healthy processes, but the persons concerned undertake the basic psychic work.'It is encouraging to notice that more and more clinical institutions, organisations and even professional associations are becoming aware of the important and complex interactions between psychic processes and organisational realities. The engagement in transitional processes, however, demands courage. Courage that is proper to any pursuit of truth and social justice. At times, this search generates excitement, at other times we become scared by the realities we discover. Sometimes we need to cast aside certain realities to imagine and invent new things and subsequently face them again to make effective use of whatever we created. Society and human beings need such pursuits of truth and social justice for genuine development. The courage it takes to become engaged is only matched by the courage to live with the consequences.'- From the IntroductionContributors:Gilles Amado; Rina Bar-Lev Elieli; Harold Bridger; Caroline Drevon; Ernest Fruge; J. Alan Harrow; Marc Horowitz; Dominique Lhuilier; Derek N. Raffaelli; Rafael Ramirez; Dominique Rolland; Andre Sirota; Marie-Jeanne Vansina-Cobbaert; and Leopold Vansina.Trade Review'It is encouraging to notice that more and more clinical institutions, organisations and even professional associations are becoming aware of the important and complex interactions between psychic processes and organisational realities. The engagement in transitional processes, however, demands courage. Courage that is proper to any pursuit of truth and social justice. At times, this search generates excitement, at other times we become scared by the realities we discover. Sometimes we need to cast aside certain realities to imagine and invent new things and subsequently face them again to make effective use of whatever we created. Society and human beings need such pursuits of truth and social justice for genuine development. The courage it takes to become engaged is only matched by the courage to live with the consequences.'- From the IntroductionThe chapters in this volume cover a wide range of topics that concentrate around four themes: transitional change in therapeutic communities; in working conferences for professional development or training; in organisation consulting with an emphasis on organisational learning; and in self studies of working systems in action. In all these psychic activities, "time and space" were created to allow for transitional processes to become alive. A therapist, a manager, a consultant or a layman may create conditions that facilitate or hinder human beings to become engaged in these normal, healthy processes, but the persons concerned undertakethe basic psychic work.Contributors: Gilles Amado, Rina Bar-Lev Elieli, Harold Bridger, Caroline Drevon, Ernest Fruge, J. Alan Harrow, Marc Horowitz, Dominique Lhuilier, Derek N. Raffaelli, Rafael Ramirez, Dominique Rolland, Andre Sirota, Marie-Jeanne Vansina-Cobbaert, Leopold VansinaTable of ContentsIntroduction -- The discovery of the therapeutic community -- A therapeutic community: a space for multiple transitional change -- The therapeutic community: its potential for development and choice of future -- A journey towards integration -- A transitional approach to management education: the Sextant experience -- Leadership dimensions of the physician's role: a transitional approach to training in paediatric haematology/oncology -- Intermediate cultural space -- Action research and transitional processes: risk prevention in a hospital in Burundi -- The role and limits of methods in transitional change process -- The art of reviewing: a cornerstone in organizational learning -- Self action research

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Book SynopsisThe field of child and adolescent psychotherapy is still relatively young and its short history has resulted in a paucity of mental health services for this neglected group. There is a distinct lack of research, evidence and treatment facilities, and yet in order to produce mentally healthy, undamaged adults of the future, this must surely be one area to concentrate resources on.The Cassel Hospital, and this book in particular, seek to redress the balance, and consequently, the chapters in this book follow a diverse path, on subjects ranging from Munchhausen Syndrome by proxy, to abuse within the home, relations within families and borderline adolescents. Various clinical cases are described in this much-needed volume that invites the reader to experience and learn from the life in a hospital that is often seen as the "last resort" of treament for many children and adolescents.The Internal and External Worlds of Children and Adolescents provides a thoughtful perspective on mental health services for one of the most neglected groups in society - our children and adolescents.Trade Review'The Cassel Hospital offers a very different kind of treatment from that provided by "traditional" psychiatry. The stakes are high, and this can create anxiety and ambivalence about the work in staff and feelings of anger, hope, and hopelessness in the patients. The chapters in this Monograph give testimony to these feelings and also explore how they can be worked with and contained in the hospital community structures.'- Lesley Day from her IntroductionTable of ContentsIntroduction: public and private dimensions of therapeutic work with children and adolescents -- The inpatient psychotherapy of a mother and child at the Cassel Hospital: a case of Munchhausen syndrome by proxy -- Poison glue: the child's experience of Munchhausen syndrome by proxy -- Psychoanalytic aspects of inpatient treatment of abused children -- School children in the Cassel community: discovering a place in which to live and learn -- Adolescence: a transitory world -- The darkling plain: the inpatient treatment of a severely disturbed borderline adolescent -- The containment of borderline adolescents

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Book SynopsisInside Lives belongs to the heart of the thinking and working of the Tavistock Clinic. Its aim is to bring psychoanalytic theory to life, to make it accessible to a much wider range of readers, both lay and professional, than would normally be familiar with this kind of approach. In the simplest of terms it tells the most complex of stories: the story of the internal development of a person from infancy to old age. In so doing, it reflects and encompasses the generational structure of the clinic as a whole, tracing the interacting influences - between infant, child, adolescent and adult - on the nature and quality of emotional growth and development.This book provides a perspective on the relationship between psychoanalytic theory and the nature of human development, which is not currently available in written form. Following the major developmental phases from infancy to old age, the author lucidly explores those vital aspects of experience, which promote mental and emotional growth and those which impede it. In bringing together a wide range of clinical, non-clinical and literary examples it offers a detailed and accessible introduction to contemporary psychoanalytic thought and provides a personal and vivid approach to the elusive question of how the personality develops.Trade Review'A remarkable achievement.'- Edna O'Shaughnessy'...with wisdom and compassion . essential reading for any parent or caregiver.'- Sylvia Ann Hewlett'In straightforward, jargon-free language the author explores, describes and reflects on the vicissitudes of emotional life from within the womb to later adulthood and the final stages of life. writes with great humanity and wisdom, both in vignettes and the analysis of them, creating a work of lasting value.'- Journal of Social Work Practice'The difficulty I have found in reviewing is that it is hard to adequately convey the scope, the richness, depth and literary beauty of this book.'- Journal of Child PsychotherapyTable of ContentsSeries editors’ preface -- Foreword to the second edition -- Author’s note -- A historical note -- Introduction -- States of mind -- Beginnings -- Infancy: containment and reverie -- Infancy: defences against pain -- Early childhood: weaning and separation -- Latency -- Models of learning -- The family -- Puberty and early adolescence -- Mid-adolescence: a clinical example -- Late adolescence: fictional lives -- The adult world -- “The later years” -- The last years -- Appendix

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Book SynopsisCounselling and psychotherapy are effective to the extent that they promote the creativity of clients and patients. Creativity is both a lifestyle and a health resource. A creative lifestyle implies learning to be the authors of our own lives and a creative approach to our inner lives and our social environment gives us coherence and authenticity.This book derives creative principles for counselling and psychotherapy from practical modern approaches in these fields, as well as from psychoanalysis, hermeneutics, and new concepts of creativity itself. The creative attitude central to this represents an integrative basis for the differential application of various counselling and treatment techniques. Creative counselling serves to assist in coping with distress and clearly defined conflicts, and encourages personal and professional development.Creative psychotherapy is an aspect of dynamic, analytic and integrative psychotherapy. The hermeneutic principles - memory, narrative shaping, interactional experience - are activated with a view to ridding patients of psychopathological symptoms. In the modern world with all its challenges, creative counselling and psychotherapy are of outstanding importance. The Art of Counselling and Psychotherapy outlines a readily understandable, vital, and creative approach to the practice of counselling and psychotherapy in the service of the development of personal and social creativity.Trade Review'The Art of Counselling and Psychotherapy is a felicitous combination of modern concepts of counselling and psychotherapy with perspectives squarely rooted in cultural studies. While geared to the requirements of psychotherapeutic practice, the book is of major interest not only for counsellors and psychotherapists but also for a wider audience.'- Prof. Dr. Otto Dorr Zegers, Santiago de ChileTable of ContentsForeword -- Introduction and overview -- Creativity -- Three examples of counselling and psychotherapy -- Hermeneutics: the art of creative understanding and life management -- Aesthetic experience and shaping of reality -- Creative principles of psychotherapy -- Creative principles of counselling and coaching -- The creative aspect of brief dynamic psychotherapy -- The creative aspect of psychoanalysis -- Indications and counter-indications for the creative attitude -- Professional and “ordinary” relationships -- Ethical implications -- Artistic shaping and resolution of psychic conflicts -- Summary

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Book Synopsis'Human identity, sexual identity, primary and secondary identification, object choice, narcissism - all of these lie on a continuum with homosexuality, transsexualism, transvestism, heterosexuality and asexuality. Concepts on sexuality and gender are outlined anew in an interplay of theoretical and clinical networks, with the aim of increasing the efficiency of analytic praxis freed from prejudice and monolithic convention.'- Alcira Mariam Alizade, from the ForewordMasculine Scenarios is the third volume in a unique series edited by Alcira Mariam Alizade for the Committee on Women and Psychoanalysis of the International Psychoanalytical Association.Providing a forum for exploration and discussion of diverse issues relating to gender constructs, sexuality, and sexual identity, the series brings together an internationally renowned group of contributors trained in the psychoanalytic tradition.Masculine Scenarios concentrates on issues regarding the psychic world of men and male sexuality. The construction of gender identity, the battle of the sexes, transsexualism, homosexuality and masculinity are some of the topics discussed in this inspiring book.Trade ReviewMasculine Scenarios is the third volume in a unique series edited by Alcira Mariam Alizade for the Committee on Women and Psychoanalysis of the International Psychoanalytical Association.Providing a forum for exploration and discussion of diverse issues relating to gender constructs, sexuality, and sexual identity, the series brings together an internationally renowned group of contributors trained in the psychoanalytic tradition.Masculine Scenarios concentrates on issues regarding the psychic world of men and male sexuality. The construction of gender identity, the battle of the sexes, transsexualism, homosexuality and masculinity are some of the topics discussed in this inspiring book.Table of ContentsForeword -- Sex and gender: the battle between body and soul -- Men and their bedrock: “repudiation of femininity” -- What do men want? -- Male sexuality and mental void -- Offending gender—being and wanting in male same-sex desire -- The battle of the sexes -- The loneliness of the homosexual -- The presence of males in abortion discourse and practices -- The sexed body and the real—its meaning in transsexualism -- Masculinity revisited: a self-deconstruction -- Boy’s envy of mother and the consequences of this narcissistic mortification 1

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Book SynopsisKlein's model of projective and introjective processes and Bion's model of the relationship between container and contained have become increasingly significant in clinical work. In a highly imaginative development of these models of thought, the distinguished clinician Gianna Williams, one of the leading figures in the field, elucidates the psychodynamics of these processes in the context of impairment of dependent relationships and of eating disorders in both men and women. This is a timely and brilliant account of an area of psychopathology that is rapidly growing in significance. The author provides a subtle understanding of some of the obstacles, which stand in the way of patients seeking and receiving therapeutic helpInternal Landscapes and Foreign Bodies explores the problems which arise in forming and sustaining intimate relationships. This book is based on Gianna Williams' work over many years in the Tavistock Clinic, including work in the Eating Disorders Workshop of the Adolescent Department. It examines how dependency is defended against in a variety of ways, which involve refusing to take in good experiences, by keeping some relationships at bay and controlling others. These defences can take the form of eating disorders but also have an important significance in a variety of other pathologies.Trade Review'I can recommend this book wholeheartedly. It will be of use to experienced practitioners in reflecting on their own work and as a source for training in psychodynamic concepts and psychotherapy.'- Adrian Sutton, Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry'Williams certainly succeeds in making a major contribution to the sparse psychoanalytic literature on eating disorders, and in putting forward a means by which professionals from various analytic backgrounds might sustain work with the most disturbed young people.'- Rose Gallagher, The European Journal of Psychotherapy, Counselling & HealthTable of ContentsSeries Editors’ Preface -- Author’s Note -- Introduction -- The Inner World of the Child -- Thinking and Learning in Deprived Children -- Double Deprivation -- On Gang Dynamics -- Self-Esteem and Object Esteem -- On the Process of Internalisation -- Poor Feeders -- Reversal of the ‘Container/Contained’ Relationship -- The No-Entry System of Defences -- On Introjective Processes -- Foreign Bodies

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Book SynopsisThis book includes papers on the dream space and countertransference, the dream space, the analytic situation and eating disorders, dreams of borderline patients and the 'oracle' in dreams: the past and the future in the present.Trade Review'In the past decade, there has been something of a renaissance in psychoanalysis of the privileging of dreams, not only as the "royal road" to the unconscious, but as a fundamental (perhaps the fundamental) function of the unconscious. Dreaming and Thinking brings together an unusually rich set of essays which illustrate a range of approaches to dream analysis in contemporary analytic practice. This collection, drawn from public lectures delivered by members of the British Psycho-Analytical Society, is remarkable both for the clarity of thinking and the freedom from analytic jargon and ideology demonstrated by the authors.'- Thomas Ogden, M.D., Member of the International Psychoanalytical Association, Supervising and Training Analyst'Distilled in this little book is a great deal of contemporary wisdom regarding the importance of dreams in clinical practice, written and given as lectures by psychoanalysts of the British Society. The devotion and intelligence applied to deepening our understanding of the unconscious makes for rewarding reading.'- Paul Williams PhD, Joint Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Psychoanalysis'This clever and modest book about current views of dreams is striking because it manages to convey so much in just a few pages, without losing depth of thought or resorting to traditional psychoanalytical jargon. It focuses on what is really essential without being partisan to any specific school. This book is essential reading for both analysts and academics interested in present day psychoanalysis.'- Elias M. da Rocha Barros, Editor for Latin America of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis, Supervising and Training AnalystTable of ContentsIntroduction -- Non vixit: a ghost story -- The dream space and counter-transference -- The dream space, the analytic situation and the eating disorder: clinging to the concrete -- Dreams, symbolic impoverishment, and the question of the other -- Dreams of borderline patients -- The “oracle” in dreams: the past and the future in the present

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Book SynopsisDimitris Anastasopoulos and Evagelos Papanicolaou have gathered together a distinguished group of contributors to focus on the therapist's participation in therapy and the influence of personal factors on the therapeutic relationship. The majority of the papers grew out of the proceedings of the fourth EFPP Congress of the Adults Section in 2000 and explore the therapist-patient relationship with the emphasis on the influence of the therapist as opposed to that of the patient. Topics discussed in this collection include the impact of the patient on the analyst, how the analyst's clinical theory and personal philosophy affect the analytic process, the effect of the therapist's dreams on the therapeutic process, the psychoanalyst's influence on the collaborative process, and intersubjective phenomena and emotional exchange in the psychoanalytic process. Certain papers focus mainly on theory while others are more clinically-oriented.This volume presents an overview of historic and current thinking and aims to generate yet more discussion on this evolving and important issue. It will be of interest to practicing and training psychotherapists.Contributors:Dimitris Anastasopoulos; Christos Ioannidis; Judy Kantrowitz; Joachim Kuchenhoff; Gila Ofer; Evagelos Papanicolaou; Maria Ponsi; Claude Smadja; Imre Szecsod; Gisela Zelle.Part of the EFPP Monograph SeriesTrade Review'The EFPP monograph series has established itself as an important source of high- quality psychoanalytic psychotherapy papers. This volume adds to its growing reputation with a group of papers that deals with the analytic relationship from several perspectives, in particular the influence of the analyst/therapist on the evolution of the therapeutic process. This is, of course, a fundamental issue and one that is hotly debated within the analytic community.'- Paul Williams from the ForewordTable of ContentsIntroduction -- Foreword -- The analyst's clinical theory and its impact on the analytic process in psychoanalytic psychotherapy -- A different perspective on the therapeutic process: the impact of the patient on the analyst -- Knowing and being known -- How does psychoanalysis work? -- Intersubjective phenomena and emotional exchange: new considerations regarding transference and countertransference -- Constructing therapeutic alliance: the psychoanalyst's influence on the collaborative process -- The therapist is dreaming: the effect of the therapist's dreams on the therapeutic process -- The healing work of a practising psychoanalyst/psychotherapist

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Book SynopsisThis book focuses on the understanding of the epistemological roots of attachment theory, conceptualised as psychoanalytic paradigm, which highlights the movement away from a 'one-person psychology' to a multi-person psychology'. In this context, attachment theory is viewed as a theory of processes, across generations and across the dynamic interaction between the individual and his 'worlds of others' (including parental figures, offspring, the sexual partner, the group and society). This position is congenial with contemporary philosophical and developmental ideas and recent advances in the neurosciences. It is also a contribution to British Independent Psychoanalytic thinking, the so-called 'relational schools of psychoanalysis' and group analysis. This book involves: A didactic formulation of the basic principles of attachment theory as a psychoanalytic paradigm. Critical discussions of controversial issues in psychoanalysis (such as theories of intersubjectivity, thinking and motivation, the role of the historical reconstruction in psychoanalytic psychotherapy and the relation between attachment and sexuality), viewed from an attachment perspective. An exploration of the clinical implications of these concepts. This text will be of interest to individual therapists as well as group analysts, couple therapists, family therapists and academics.Trade Review"A genuine opportunity to catch up with major developments…. A helpful introduction to this complex area of work." (British Journal of Psychotherapy, 2008)Table of ContentsForeword Philip Mollon. The Authors. Acknowledgements. Chapter 1 Attachment theory as a psychoanalytic paradigm. Chapter 2 Attachment and intersubjectivity. Chapter 3 On developmental pathways. Chapter 4 On representation. Chapter 5 What it means to be securely or insecurely attached. Chapter 6 On motivation. Chapter 7 On co-thinking. Chapter 8 On memory. Chapter 9 Attachment and sexuality. Chapter 10 The sexual relationship. References. Index.

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Book SynopsisA comprehensive text for the practising psychotherapist, this is the first book to apply the communicative psychoanalytic method to the psychological treatment of children. The book is in three parts: Part 1 explains the communicative theory of psychoanalysis of Robert Langs and teaches the rudiments of communicative clinical technique and a new theory of transference. Part 2 takes place in the consultation rooms of five therapists - in four European countries and North America. The clinicians offer candid discussions of interventions with child patients of different cultural, linguistic and racial backgrounds. Part 3 is a philosophical discussion of the fundamental nature of human experience.Table of ContentsPart 1. The Communicative Technique of Psychoanalysis. Communication, the Unconscious. The Triggering Event. The Inter-personal Frame of Therapy, transference Response. Undistorted Perceptions and Trauma. Fantasy and Wishes. The Dangers of Immediacy. "Counter-transference". Validation of Interventions. Part 2. In The Consultation Room. Stories and Mysteries. Horrors in The Mirror. Seeing, Touching, Destroying. The Ghost of my Father. The Bell Rings. The terminator. Part 3. Are we Created Equal? A Faustian Tale. Empirical Ethics. The Communicative Theory of Psychological Development. Equality in Unconscious experience.

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Book SynopsisThe purpose of the Whurr series in Psychoanalysis edited by Peter Fonagy and Mary Target of University College London, is to publish clinical and research based texts of academic excellence in the field. Each title makes a significant contribution and the series is open-ended. The readership is academic and graduate students in psychoanalysis, together with clinical practitioners, in Europe, North America and indeed worldwide.This book brings together a number of international writers who are concerned with understanding and treating psychoses. The orientation of the book is psychoanalytic, but it is also cognisant of the need for a multi-disciplinary approach to these disorders for which there remains no comprehensive cure. One of the greatest obstacles clinicians and patients face lies less in our ignorance than in failure by mental health services to integrate existing knowledge into workable treatment plans. Too often clinical disciplines (psychiatry, psychoanalysis, clinical psychology, neuropsychology, nursing etc.) work separately rather than together, employing languages that are mutually incomprehensible. As a result, patients are unlikely to have their different needs properly met. At the heart of the multi-disciplinary approach lies the therapeutic relationship between patient and psychoanalyst, psychodynamically-minded psychiatrist or psychotherapist. Detailed clinical cases are presented together with contemporary conceptualisations of psychotic states.Table of ContentsA Rationale for The Psychoanalytically Informed Psychotherapy of schizophrenia and Other Psychoses. Towards The Concept of "rehabilitative psychoanalysis", James S. Grotstein. New Discoveries Concerning Psychosis and their Organizational Fate, Brian Martindale. Psychoanalysis and The Treatment of Psychosis, Murray Jackson. Treating and Studying The Schizophrenias, Thomas Freeman. The Unconsious and The Psychosis, Franco De Masi. The "living Dead" - survivors of Torture and Psychosis, Andrzej Werbart and Marika Lindbom-Jakobson. "The Parachute Project" -first Episode Psychosis - Background and Treatment, Johan Cullberg. On Autism, Schizophrenia and Paranoia in children - The Case of Little Jeremy, Luiz Educardo Prado de Oliveira. Psychotic Addiction to Video Games, David Rosenfeld. Psychotic Developments in a Sexually Abused Borderline Patient, Paul Williams.

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Book SynopsisThe ways we know, think and believe about a whole variety of key areas - different forms of discourse, psychotherapy as well as religion - have much more in common than is usually perceived. Through a series of fascinating parallels running across different disciplines, Jacobs demonstrates the possible analysis of modes of thinking and belief - from intuitive pre-thinking, through authoritative-driven thinking and belief, and personal and polymathic knowledge, to unknowing, the last concept being one that is shared by Bion, Winnicott and major mystical tradition. Using this theoretical model the book provides a map to how clients and indeed therapists might think and believe, suggesting ways in which they may be supported as they shift through different modes, with all the anxiety that disillusionment brings.Table of ContentsPreface. Author's Note. Chapter 1. Illusions of knowledge and belief. Chapter 2. World-views. Chapter 3. Intuitive pre-thinking and belief. Chapter 4. Authority-driven belief and objective knowledge. Chapter 5. Personal and polymathic thinking and belief. Chapter 6. Un-knowing. References. Index.

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Book SynopsisPsychoanalysis has been applied to the understanding of social groups,organisations and cultures for a very long time, and there have been manydifferent approaches. This book brings together the contributions to afield which could be called "psychoanalytic social psychology", from a verywide-ranging group of authors. The substantial introductory Chapters bythe Editors describe a conceptual map of psychoanalytic ideas on socialgroups that have been formed around the world. These introduce eightChapters from eminent authors on the topic, writing in Europe, the Americasand Britain.Table of Contents1. General Introduction, R D Hinshelwood and Marco Chiesa. Part One, The International Field. 2. Introduction, A Conceptual Overview of International contributions, R D Hinshelwood and Marco Chiesa. 3. Contribution From North america. (1) The Modern Project and The Feminisation of Men, Larry Hirschborn. 4. contribution From North America.. (2) The Couch at Sea, Otto Kemberg. 5. contribution From Italy, Psychoanalytical Approaches to The Study of institutions in Italy, Antonello Correale and Giuseppe Di Leone. 6. Contribution from France, Psychoanalysis and Institutions in I Rance, Rene Kaes. 7. contribution From South America, From The Group-as-jigsaw-puzzle to The incomplete Whole, Janet Puget. Part Two, British Contributions. 8. Introduction to the Span of The British Tradition, R D Hinshelwood and Marco Chiesa. 9. The tavistock Paradigm, Inside, Outside and Beyond, Barry Palmer. 10. Psychoanalysis in The Public Sphere, Some Recent British Developments in Psychoanalytic Social psychology, Karl Figlio and Barry Richards. 11. The Psychosocial Process, R D hinshelwood. 12. Conclusions, The Baby Grew Up, R D Hinshelwood.

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Book SynopsisThe purpose of the Whurr series in Psychoanalysis edited by Peter Fonagy and Mary Target of University College London, is to publish clinical and research based texts of academic excellence in the field. Each title makes a significant contribution and the series is open-ended. The readership is academic and graduate students in psychoanalysis, together with clinical practitioners, in Europe, North America and indeed worldwide. This book comprises an introduction to major psychoanalytical concepts in Kleinian theory starting with the ideas formulated by Melanie Klein and extending them to those developed by her main followers. There are chapters focusing on the Psychoanalytic play technique, unconscious phantasy, paranoid-schizoid and depressive positions,envy and gratitude, oedipus complex, projective identification, internal objects, symbolisation, models of the mind, containment and transference. Emphasis has been placed on clarity and there is ample illustration of central concepts with clinical examples. Its chapters have been written by leading psychoanalysts: David Bell, Jill Boswell, Ronald Britton, Catalina Bronstein, Marco Chiesa, Betty Joseph, Ruth Riesemberg Malcolm, Hanna Segal, Elizabeth Bott Spillius, Priscilla Roth and Jane Temperley. The book will be useful to students of Psychology, Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, and Psychoanalysis as well as to specialists who want to consolidate their knowledge.Table of ContentsSeries foreword by Peter Fonagy and Mary Target vii Acknowledgements ix List of contributors xi Introduction xv Chapter 1 Melanie Klein: beginnings 1Catalina Bronstein Chapter 2 Freud and Klein on the concept of phantasy 17Elizabeth Bott Spillius Chapter 3 The paranoid-schizoid position 32Priscilla Roth Chapter 4 The depressive position 47Jane Temperley Chapter 5 Beyond the depressive position: Ps (n +1) 63Ronald Britton Chapter 6 The Oedipus Complex 77Jill Boswell Chapter 7 Envy and gratitude 93Marco Chiesa Chapters 8 What are internal objects? 108 Catalina Bronstein Chapter 9 Projective identification 125David Bell Chapter 10 Symbolization 148Hanna Segal Chapter 11 Changing models of the mind 157Hanna Segal Chapter 12 Bion’s theory of containment 165Ruth Riesenberg-Malcolm Chapter 13 Transference 181Betty Joseph References 193 Index 203

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Book SynopsisThis book revisits in depth Kohut's own accounts of his theory and clinical work and links them with other contemporary perspectives within psychoanalysis. Contents: Rage, shame and presymbolic dread Discerning invisible structures Perversion, the vertical split and the psychoeconomic dimension The healing process in Kohut's psychoanalysis Empathy and the intersubjectivists Kohut and the internal object Impasse and Oedipus Schizophrenia and depression The fragmented self and the thwarted self The developmental neurobiology of the self object relationship Self psychology perspectives on childhood trauma Further reflections on psychoanalytic cure Table of ContentsChapter 1 - Rage, Shame and Presymbolic Dread. Chapter 2 - Discerning invisible Structures. Chapter 3 - Perversion, The Vertical Split and The psychoeconomic Dimension. Chapter 4 - The Healing Process in Kohut' s psychoanalysis. Chapter 5 - Empathy and The Intersubjectivists. Chapter 6 - kohut and The Internal Object. Chapter 7 - Impasse and Oedipus. Chapter 8 - schizophrenia and Depression. The Fragmented Self and The Thwarted Self. Chapter 9 - The Developmental Neurobiology of The Self Object Relationship. Chapter 10 - Self Psychology Perspectives on Childhood Trauma. Chapter 11 - further Reflections on Psychoanalytic Cure. Appendix. Notes on Kohut The Man references.

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Book SynopsisTo celebrate the 25th anniversary of the publication of D.W. Winnicott's "Playing and Reality", a number of organizations - including the University of Milan, the European Federation for Psychoanalysis, the Italian Association of Psychoanalysis, the Peruvian Psychoanalytic Society, together with the Squiggle Foundation and Winnicott Trust - organized a major international conference on Winnicott's work, entitled "The Psyche-Soma: from Paediatrics to Psychoanalysis". Derived from that conference, "Squiggles and Spaces" looks to update and elaborate Winnicott's theoretical insights and clinical findings.Trade Review'THIS BOOK DOES MORE THAN OFFER A REMARKABLE SURVEY OF WINNICOTT'S INNOVATIVE AND IMAGINATIVE CONCEPTIONS. THE CONTRIBUTORS THEMSELVES ARE INVENTIVE THINKERS AND WRITERS IN THEIR OWN RIGHT, AND BRING TO THE READER ENRICHED INSIGHT INTO THE INCOMPARABLE HERITAGE THAT WINNICOTT HAS GIFTED TO THE PSYCHOANALYTIC WORLD. IN ADDITION TO THIS RICHNESS THERE EMERGES A VIVID PORTRAIT OF THE MAN WHO WAS WINNICOTT WITH HIS WHIMSICAL WAYS, QUALITIES AND FRAILTIES, THAT WILL DELIGHT ALL THOSE WHO CONTINUE TO MARVEL AT HIS OUTSTANDING CREATIVITY.' Joyce McDougall 'THIS RICHNESS OF THIS COLLECTION SHOWS THE VARIETY AND QUALITY OF RESPONSE THAT WINNICOTT'S WORK CAN INSPIRE. THESE PAPERS DEEPEN OUR UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT HE WROTE, AND INDICATE AT THE SAME TIME HOW GENERATIVE HIS IDEAS CONTINUE TO BE.' Michael ParsonsTable of ContentsPart 1 - Winnicott, The Man and The Clinician. 1 Nothing so Practical as Good Theory. 2 Breakdown, Madness and Health. 3 The Presence of winnicott in me Part 2 - Bookends, two Works by D. W. Winnicott On Playing and reality. 4 The Intuition of The Negative in Playing and Reality. 5 Reflections on playing and Reality. 6 Transitional Phenomena, Potential Space and Creativity On psychoanalytic Explorations. 7 Explorations, Losing and Finding Oneself in The potential Space. 8 Through Winnicott to Winnicott. 9 Personalisation Part 3 - Theoretical and Clinical Concepts From One to Two and Back. Illusion and aloneness in D. W. W. 10 The Capacity to be Alone. 11 Between The Capacity and the Necessity of Being Alone. 12 Exploring The Pathways of Illusion On The construction of Mental Space. 13 Art in Prehistory, a Potential Space for Play. 14 On The Construction of Potential Space. 15 Reflections on Max Hernandez and andreas Giannakoulas' 'On The Construction of Potential Space' Psyche, Soma, gender. 16 The Psyche+soma Matrix, Through Paediatrics to Psychoanalysis. 17 The matrix of The Psyche-soma. 18 'had I Only Been bom a Woman...' The Feminine element in men The Fetish and The Transitional Object . 9 Reflection on Central masturbation Fantasy, The Fetish and Transitional Objects. 20 Fetish-object, transitional Object. 21 Central Masturbatory Fantasy, Fetish and The transitional Phenomenon. 22 Adolescent Resignification Part 4 Appendices. Appendix 1: Discussions. Appendix 2: Congress Introductory Remarks. Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisTo celebrate the 25th anniversary of the publication of D.W. Winnicott's "Playing and Reality", a number of organizations - including the University of Milan, the European Federation for Psychoanalysis, the Italian Association of Psychoanalysis, the Peruvian Psychoanalytic Society, together with the Squiggle Foundation and Winnicott Trust - organized a major international conference on Winnicott's work, entitled "The Psyche-Soma: from Paediatrics to Psychoanalysis". Derived from that conference, "Squiggles and Spaces" looks to update and elaborate Winnicott's theoretical insights and clinical findings. Volume two distinguishes itself from the first volume primarily in two ways. On the one hand, a significant portion of the book is dedicated to a comparative study of Winnicott s work and that of his noteworthy contemporaries (or near-contemporaries). Among these are Ferenczi, Balint, Tustin, Bion and C.G. Jung. The second feature of this volume is the wide array of essays by Italian psychoanalysts working in the tradition of Winnicott.Trade Review'IT IS HARD TO IMAGINE ANYONE READING THIS BOOK AND FAILING TO BECOME A MORE SENSITIVE THERAPIST AND PERSON. A TREASURE HOUSE OF CHAPTERS BY PEOPLE WHO KNEW WINNICOTT OR WERE TOUCHED BY HIS WORK, IT HELPS FILL OUT ONE'S SENSE OF WINNICOTT'S SIGNIFICANCE YET LEAVES ENOUGH LOOSE STRINGS TO PULL ON FOR ONE'S OWN JOURNEY.' Michael Eigen 'IT IS HEARTENING TO SEE AND EXPERIENCE SUCH INTENSIVE AND PRODUCTIVE ANALYTIC THINKING THAT TAKES AS ITS INSPIRATION WINNICOTT'S WORK. ALTHOUGH THIS VOLUME ILLUMINATES SOMETHING OF WINNICOTT'S INFLUENCE IN ITALY, IT STANDS, LIKE ITS PREDECESSOR, AS A RICH TRIBUTE TO AND EXTENSION OF HIS IMPACT ON PSYCHOANALYSTS AND PSYCHOTHERAPISTS AROUND THE WORLD.' Paul WilliamsTable of ContentsPart 1 - On Babies, Mothers and Fathers. 1. The Interface between Mother and Baby. 2. Self-states and The Maternal Integration Function. 3. reparation in Respect of Mother's Organized Defence Against Depression. 4. What about The Parents? 5. The Father as Function, Environment and Object Part 2 - Illusion, Creativity and The Self. 6. Illusion and Reality in The Work of D. W. Winnicott. 7. Interminable Illusion. 8. Psychotherapy and The Squiggle Game, a sophisticated Game of Hide-and-seek. 9. The Parent-child Relationship in Italian renaissance Painting Part 3 - Winnicott and Clinical Theory a) Trauma and psychosis. 10. Cumulative Trauma, When all Does not go Well in The Everyday Life of The Infant. 11. Psychosis and The Transitional Area, a Clinical Case Study b) empathy, Hate and Countertransference. 12. A Clinical Approach to Empathy. 13. The 'kind-hearted' Versus The Good Analyst, Empathy and Hatred in countertransference c) Acting-out. 14. Antisocial Acting-out as a Substitute for the Spontaneous Gesture in Adolescence. 15. Antisocial Acting-out as a Defence against Breakdown. Part 4 - Winnicott and The Treatment of Psychosomatic patients. 16. Winnicott and The Psyche-soma. 17. Primary Maternal Preoccupation, pregnancy and Child-rearing. 18. From The Aesthetics of External Objects to The quality of Internal Objects, on The Diagnosis of Alopecia in Childhood and adolescence. 19. Psychosomatics in Jung and Winnicott. 20. Interrupted Stories. Part 5 - Potential Spaces, Winnicott in The World of Psychoanalysis. 21. Winnicott and ferenczi, Trauma and The Maternal Analyst. 22. A Comparison of The Thought and work of Dinald Winnicott and Michale Balint. 23. The Influence of Winnicott on the Evolution of Frances Tustin's Thinking. 24. C. G. Jung's Memories, Dreams, reflections, Notes on The Review. 25. Winnicott and Bion, on Some Uncanny affinities. Part 6 - Appendix, Commentaries and Discussions. 26. Reflections on nina Farhi's 'psychotherapy and The Squiggle Game'. 27. With Downcast Eyes. 28. Empathy, Love or Skill? 29. A Discussion of Bernard Barnett's Comparison of D. W. Winnicott and Michael Balint. 30. Between C. G. Jung and D. W. Winnicott references.

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Book SynopsisPsychoanalysis and psychoanalytical psychotherapy remain unparalleled sources of insight into the unconscious determinants and dimensions of psychological suffering. However, there is a worldwide debate as to the most appropriate ways in which to carry out research into psychopathology and treatment, which remains true to the essence of the discipline. This volume presents the rationales, methods and findings of some of the main empirical studies. The methodological and scientific problems, as well as some sophisticated solutions, are illustrated with concrete research examples. The distinguished contributors to this volume share the common aim of bridging the gap between practising therapists and researchers.Table of ContentsIntroductory Remarks. Part I - Long Term Treatment in The Context of contemporary Discussions. Part II - Long-term Psychoanalytic Therapies, German studies. Part III - Follow up and Prospective Studies and Their Findings in other International Research Centres. Part IV - Concluding Reflections. Index

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Book SynopsisAttachment theory, the brainchild of child psychiatrist and psychoanalyst John Bowlby, has begun to have a worldwide impact among clinicians within the last ten years. This interest marks a departure from the early fate of attachment theory. At first shunned by the psychoanalytic community, Bowlby's brilliant and groundbreaking effort to recast basic psychoanalytic concepts within system theories and a new, ethologically based model of the importance of affectional ties across the life span was taken up by a group of gifted developmental researchers. Empirical research not only tested and confirmed many basic propositions of attachment theory, but also extended Attachment theory in unexpected and creative ways. Bowlby was surprised and gratified by this turn of events, but also disappointed that his intended clinical audience has not taken the theory and run with it. This edited book is in part a testament to the fact that clinicians are beginning to do just that; they are taking Attachment theory and research creatively to examine clinical issues. In doing so, new vistas and hypothesis are being put forward showing that Attachment theory is alive and well. In this volume the editors gathered a distinguished group of clinician-scholars from around the world (Argentina, Italy, Mexico, UK, USA and Spain) to examine and extend Bowlby's legacy.The book should be of interest to clinicians regardless of their orientation. Attachment theory cuts across boundaries of clinical modalities-individual, group or family therapy-and orientations-psychoanalytic, cognitive or behavioural. The book should also be of interest to researchers who may find the heuristic value of clinical insights a valuable addition to the legacy of Attachment theory.Trade Review"A genuine opportunity to catch up with major developments…may offer a useful resource for some time to come." (British Journal of Psychotherapy, 2008)Table of ContentsContributors. Foreword Philip Mollon. Acknowledgements. Chapter 1 Introduction: reclaiming Bowlby's contribution to psychoanalysis, Mario Marrone and Mauricio Cortina. Part 1 Clinical Dimensions. Chapter 2 Attachment theory, transference and the psychoanalytic process, Mauricio Cortina and Mario Marrone. Chapter 3 Empathy and sensitive responsiveness, Malcolm Pines and Mario Marrone. Chapter 4 Implications of attachment theory for developing a therapeutic alliance and insight in psychoanalytic psychotherapy, Tirril Harris. Chapter 5 The significance of the exploration of the patient's attachment history for psychoanlytic psychotherapy, Sandra Weiner. Chapter 6 Clinical uses of the Adult Attachment Interview, Howard Steele and Miriam Steele. Chapter 7 Patient-Therapist attachment: impact on the therapeutic process and outcome, Diana Diamond, John F Clarkin K Chase Stovall-McClough, Kenneth N Levy, Pamela A Foelsch, Hilary Levine and Frank E Yeomans. Chapter 8 Integrating attachment and social character approaches to clinical training: case studiess from a Mexican Nahuatl village, Sonia Gojman de Millan and Salvador Millan. Chapter 9 Applications of attachment theory to the treatment of latency age children, June W Sroufe. Chapter 10 Revisiting Freud in the light of attachment theory: Little Han's father - oedipal rival or attachment figure? Luis J Juri. Chapter 11 Attachment and bereavement, Luis J Juri and Mario Marrone. Part 2 Theoretical Considerations. Chapter 12 Defensive process, emotions and internal working models: a perspective from attachment theory and contemporary models of the mind, Mauricio Cortina. Chapter 13 Attachment theory as a bridge between cognitive science and psychdynamic theory, Jean Knox. Chapter 14 The psychoanalytic process in the light of attachment theory, Rafael Cristobal. Chapter 15 Disorganized attachment, motivational systems and metacognitive monitoring in the treatment of a patient with boderline syndrome, Giovanni Liotti and Bruno Intreccialagli. Chapter 16 Attachment and intimacy in adult relationships, Hugo Bleichmar. Chapter Part 3 Attachment, Sexuality and the Body. Chapter 17 Attachment, trauma and the body, Nicola Diamond. Chapter 18 Sexual disorder and attachment: a developmental systems approach, Mary Gales Shane, Morton Shane and Estelle Shane. Chapter 19 Sexuality and attachment: a passionate relationship or a marriage of convenience? Doris K Silverman. Appendix The infant and adult attachment categories, June W Sroufe. Index.

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Book SynopsisPsychoanalytic psychotherapy faces multiple challenges in the new millennium. How can it organize, teach and offer therapy in ways that are relevant to the diverse complex and social and cultural groups of people who seek psychological help? How should it adapt to demands for accountability and evidence? How can it cope in a climate of competition and market share? Should it cleave to medicine or abandon it? Define itself as a science or an art or an ethical practice? This wide-ranging work takes up some of the pressing cultural, political, organizational and ethical issues for psychoanalytic psychotherapy, placing them firmly in a clinical context. The contributors examine a range of issues from the experiences of a particular group of people in therapy (children, immigrants, gay men, short-term clients), who may challenge psychoanalytic assumptions, to the difficulties psychoanalytic psychotherapy has in organizing itself creatively in a risk-averse culture, and to the openings and connections with other disciplines that may extend and enliven critical work. The contributors write from the critical edge of psychotherapy and offer their own challenges to the profession.Table of ContentsColonizing The Heart, Shame and The Regulatory Project. "Do not dance on top of This Refrigerator", Accountability and Transparency in psychotherapy. Creativity and The Soul, Dilemmas of Training - Evidence, legitimacy and Validation. Ways of Knowing, Counter-transference, Neuroscience and The Therapy Relationship. Do you Always Listen to What Your Patients Say, the Ethics of Psychotherapy. No Place Like Utopia, The Inner Experience of migration. Blue Stockings, Boiler Suits, Business Suits, is Feminism Still necessary? Unfamiliar Sorts of People, Redescribing Sexuality. The Lure of the Norm and The Challenge of Children, Carol Dasgupta. Brief Psychoanalytic psychotherapy, a Contradiction in Terms? Jenny Corrigall. Are Words Enough? Music Therapy as an Influence in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. The Blue River of Truth. Writer, Reader and Critic in The Consulting Room. Telling it Like it is. Index.

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Book SynopsisThis much-awaited textbook makes accessible the ideas of one of the most important thinkers of our time, as well as indicating how Freud’s theories are put into clinical practice today. The collection of papers have been written by some of the most eminent psychoanalysts, both from Britain and abroad, who have made an original contribution to psychoanalysis. Each chapter introduces one of Freud’s key texts, and links it to contemporary thinking in the field of psychoanalysis. The book combines a deep understanding of Freud’s work with some of the most modern debates surrounding it. This book will be of great value across a wide spectrum of courses in psychoanalysis, as well as to the scholar interested in psychoanalytic ideas.Table of ContentsBiographies. Acknowledgements. Introduction. The Early Phase. "Anna O: the First Case, Revisited and Revised."(Studies on Hysteria - Josef Breuer and Sigmund Freud, 1893-1895.). The Second Phase: The birth of psychoanalysis. "Dora. Fragment of an analysis of Hysteria" (Fragment of an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria 1905[1901]. "The Analysis of a Phobia in a Five Year Old Boy" (Analysis of a Phobia in a Five-Year-Old Boy - 1909). "On Narcissism"(On Narcissism: An Introduction,1914). Metapsychology. Clinical Observation, Theoretical Construction, Metapsychological Thought (Metapsychology papers (1915)). The Unconsciosu (The Unconscious, 1915). "The Wound, the Bow and the Shadow of the Object - Notes on Freud's Mourning and Melancholia" Mourning and Melancholia - Sigmund Freud, 1917[1915] . "Beyond the Pleasure Principle" (Beyond the Pleasure Principle - 1920). The Structural Model of the Mind. Towards the Structural Model of the Mind (The Ego and the Id - 1923). Some further clinical cases. "Notes upon a Case of Obsessional Neurosis" (Notes Upon a Case of Obsessional Neurosis - 1909. Gaze, Dominance, and Humiliation in the Schreber Case. (Psycho-Analytic Notes on an Autobiographical Account of a Case of Paranoia Dementia Paranoides,1911). Unconscious Phantasy and Apres-Coup: From the History of an Infantile Neurosis (The Wolf Man) (From the History of an Infantile Neurosis -1918[1914]). Clinical and metapsychological reflections on "A Child is Being Beaten" ('A Child is Being Beaten': - A Contribution to the Study of the Origin of Sexual Perversions - 1919). "The Psychogenesis of a Case of Homosexuality in a Woman."(The Psychogenesis of a Case of Homosexuality in a Woman, 1920). Later Papers.. "Negation" (Negation, 1925). "Freud's Splitting of the Ego in the Process of Defence" (Splitting of the Ego in the Process of Defence - 1940[1938])

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Book SynopsisThis book is an edited collection of psychoanalytic papers written by clinicians in the field of trauma. The text offers a psychoanalytic perspective on trauma and its effects on psychic functioning. In particular, it draws on attachment theory to explain how trauma undermines psychic resilience both within individuals and also within broader communities and societies. This collection contextualises external traumatic events and addresses both individual, internal responses as well as the impact of trauma on broader social relations.Table of ContentsThe Psychic Impact of Trauma on Attachment Relationships. The breakdown of Symbolic Functioning in Response to Major Trauma. The Impact of trauma on Benign Memory. The Breakdown of Narrative Functioning as a Traumatic response. The Law of The Talion, Revenge and Forgiveness in Response to Trauma. Rape as a Symbolic Attack on The Mother's Body. Themes on Sexual Violence in South Africa. Trauma on The World Stage. Reflections on Conflict in Palestine and Israel. Trauma. A Perversion of Loss. Nowhere to run to. The Impact of trauma on Countertransference Responses. Survival. The Place of Psychotherapy in our Responses to Trauma.

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Book SynopsisSupervision is a discipline that is informed and enlivened by the theories, insights and understandings of the psychoanalytic and psychodynamic disciplines to which it is related. This book takes key theories and engages with them in relation to the supervisory process and the supervisory relationship and considers how they inform an analytic attitude and generate awareness, understanding, and meaning between supervisor and supervisee about the patient. The authors are all Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists and / or Analytical Psychologists, have worked extensively as supervisors and have experience in training supervisors. This book is aimed at all supervisors who work Psychodynamically or Psychoanalytically.Table of ContentsThe Unconscious in Relation to Supervision. Language and interpretation in Supervision. Bion's 'vertex' as a Supervisory Object. Free association in Supervision. Attachment and The Supervisory Alliance. Ego and superego in Supervision. Supervision as an Alchemical Process. Creativity in supervision. The Interface Between Supervision and Training and Supervision and the Law. Shame in Supervision. Supervision as Self-questioning.

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Book SynopsisIn this engaging introduction, Josh Cohen argues that Freud shows above all that any thought, word or action, however apparently trivial, can invite close reading. Indeed, it may be just this insight that provokes so much opposition to psychoanalysis. By reading short extracts from across Freud's work, addressing the neuroses, the unconscious, words, death and (of course) sex, How to Read Freud brings out the paradoxical core of psychoanalytic thinking: that our innermost truths only ever manifest themselves as distortions. Read attentively, our dreams, errors, jokes and symptoms - in short, our everyday lives - reveal us as masters of disguise, as unrecognizable to ourselves as to others.

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Book SynopsisThis collection of Rowan's papers draws together in one volume his ideas and observations on a variety of theoretical and practical aspects of humanistic and transpersonal psychotherapy. Throughout the text, the author has placed an emphasis on the social context within which all takes place.Table of ContentsPreface. Part I Setting the scene. Chapter 1 A late developer. Part II Humanistic psychology. Chapter 2 Is the human potential movement narcissistic? Chapter 3 On being irrational. Chapter 4 Hegel and self-actualisation. Chapter 5 Nine humanistic heresies. Chapter 6 Two humanistic psychologies or one? Chapter 7 The self: One or many. Part III Humanistic psychotherapy. Chapter 8 The concept of a breakthrough. Chapter 9 Humanistic psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. Chapter 10 Against feelings. Chapter 11 Siding with the client (abridged version). Chapter 12 Counselling and the psychology of furniture. Chapter 13 Hypnotherapy and the humanistic. Chapter 14 Early traumas: A dialectical approach. Chapter 15 Integrative encounter. Part IV Transperonal psychothrapy. Chapter 16 The real self and mystical experiences. Chapter 17 Holistic listening. Chapter 18 Medication and therapy: A quadrant approach. Chapter 19 A growth episode. Chapter 20 Spiritual aspects of primal integration. Chapter 21 Four hills of vision: Working on men's consciousness in groups. Chapter 22 The downward path to wholeness in transpersonal psychotherapy. Index.

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