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21. Wrestling with Destiny

    The promise of psychoanalysis

    By Lucy Holmes

    Can psychoanalysis help people control their destinies? Using empirical evidence from neuroscience, Lucy Holmes makes a powerful argument that it can. This book considers the various ways in which destiny is linked to the repetition compulsion, and how free association in psychoanalysis can...

    Published March 11th 2013 by Routledge
22. Painting and the Inner World

    Edited by Adrian Stokes

    Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences. This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of those important works which have...

    Published March 10th 2013 by Routledge
23. Growth and Turbulence in the Container/Contained: Bion's Continuing Legacy

    Edited by Howard B. Levine, Lawrence J. Brown

    Series: Psychoanalytic Inquiry Book Series

    Wilfred Bion remains the most cited author in psychoanalytic literature after Sigmund Freud. His formulation of alpha function, waking dream thoughts, his theory of thinking and of the container/contained have proven seminal for the elaboration of psychoanalytic theory and practice, as well as the...

    Published March 6th 2013 by Routledge
24. Bion's Sources

    The shaping of his paradigms

    Edited by Nuno Torres, R.D. Hinshelwood

    There are an increasing number of publications concerned with the work of Wilfred Bion (1897-1979). Many have sought new ideas from his writing however, little attention has been paid to the intellectual context in which Bion wrote. Bion’s Sources traces where Bion’s new ideas came from, what job...

    Published February 26th 2013 by Routledge
25. The Psychoanalytic Vision

    The Experiencing Subject, Transcendence, and the Therapeutic Process

    By Frank Summers

    Psychoanalytic therapy is distinguished by its immersion in the world of the experiencing subject. In The Psychoanalytic Vision, Frank Summers argues that analytic therapy and its unique epistemology is a worldview that stands in clear opposition to the hegemonic cultural value system of...

    Published February 21st 2013 by Routledge
26. Psychoanalytic Reflections on a Gender-free Case

    Into the Void

    Edited by Ellen L. K. Toronto, Gemma Ainslie, Molly Donovan, Maurine Kelly, Christine C. Kieffer, Nancy McWilliams

    The past two decades of psychoanalytic discourse have witnessed a marked transformation in the way we think about women and gender. The assignment of gender carries with it a host of assumptions, yet without it we can feel lost in a void, unmoored from the world of rationality, stability and...

    Published January 28th 2013 by Routledge
27. The Capacity for Ethical Conduct

    On psychic existence and the way we relate to others

    By David Levine

    What is the root cause of ethical failure? Why is preoccupation with ethics more a part of the problem than a part of the solution? What makes ethical conduct a natural expression of who we are? What enables us to be ourselves in our relations with others? Ethical failure has become a significant...

    Published December 19th 2012 by Routledge
28. Metaphor and Fields

    Common Ground, Common Language, and the Future of Psychoanalysis

    Edited by S. Montana Katz

    Series: Psychoanalytic Inquiry Book Series

    Metaphor and Fields is an explanation and demonstration of the value of metaphoric processes and fields in psychoanalysis. In this book, Montana Katz articulates a future direction for psychoanalysis which is progressively explored, taking into account features essential to psychoanalysts of all...

    Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge
29. Catch Them Before They Fall: The Psychoanalysis of Breakdown

    By Christopher Bollas

    In this exploration of a radical approach to the psychoanalytical treatment of people on the verge of mental breakdown, Christopher Bollas offers a new and courageous clinical paradigm. He suggests that the unconscious purpose of breakdown is to present the self to the other for transformative...

    Published December 12th 2012 by Routledge
30. Winnicott's Children

    Independent Psychoanalytic Approaches With Children and Adolescents

    Edited by Ann Horne, Monica Lanyado

    Series: Independent Psychoanalytic Approaches with Children and Adolescents

    Winnicott’s Children focuses on the use we make of the thinking and writing of DW Winnicott; how this has enhanced our understanding of children and the settings where we work, and how it has influenced the way in which we do that work. It is a volume by clinicians, concerned about how, as well as...

    Published December 5th 2012 by Routledge