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1. Soul on the Couch

   Spirituality, Religion, and Morality in Contemporary Psychoanalysis

   Edited by Charles Spezzano, Gerald J. Gargiulo

   Series: Relational Perspectives Book Series

   Ever since Freud put religion on the couch in "The Future of an Illusion," there has been an uneasy peace, with occasional skirmishes, between these two great disciplines of subjectivity. As prime meaning givers, God and the unconscious have vied for supremacy in our thinking about ourselves,...

   Published March 31st 2003 by Routledge
2. Affect in Psychoanalysis

   A Clinical Synthesis

   By Charles Spezzano

   Series: Relational Perspectives Book Series

   Drawing on the writings of Freud, Fairbairn, Klein, Sullivan, and Winnicott, Spezzano offers a radical redefinition of the analytic process as the intersubjective elaboration and regulation of affect. The plight of analytic patients, he holds, is imprisonment within crude fantasy elaborations of...

   Published January 31st 2003 by Routledge