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41. Core Competencies in Brief Dynamic Psychotherapy

    Becoming a Highly Effective and Competent Brief Dynamic Psychotherapist

    By Jeffrey L. Binder, Ephi J. Betan

    Series: Core Competencies in Psychotherapy Series

    This book addresses the essential clinical competencies required to conduct brief dynamic therapy. Authors Jeffrey L. Binder and Ephi J. Betan discuss the conceptual foundation of their treatment model, and the application of this framework in forming and maintaining a therapeutic alliance,...

    Published October 15th 2012 by Routledge
42. The Violence of Emotions

    Bion and Post-Bionian Psychoanalysis

    By Giuseppe Civitarese

    Series: The New Library of Psychoanalysis

    In The Violence of Emotions the author marries an ability to introduce the reader to the intimate climate of an analytic session with a passionate rereading of Bion. To emphasize both the empirical nature of psychoanalysis and its extraordinary capacity to engender illuminating hypotheses...

    Published October 4th 2012 by Routledge
43. Reading Anna Freud

    By Nick Midgley

    Series: New Library of Psychoanalysis Teaching Series

    What place do Anna Freud’s ideas have in the history of psychoanalysis? What can her writings teach us today about how to work therapeutically with children? Are her psychoanalytic ideas still relevant to those entrusted with the welfare of infants and young people? Reading Anna Freud...

    Published September 30th 2012 by Routledge
44. The Reception and Rendition of Freud in China

    China’s Freudian Slip

    Edited by Tao Jiang, Philip J. Ivanhoe

    Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series

    Although Freud makes only occasional, brief references to China and Chinese culture in his works, for almost a hundred years many leading Chinese intellectuals have studied and appropriated various Freudian theories. However, whilst some features of Freud’s views have been warmly embraced from the...

    Published September 26th 2012 by Routledge
45. Engaging with Climate Change

    Psychoanalytic and Interdisciplinary Perspectives

    Edited by Sally Weintrobe

    Series: New Library of Psychoanalysis 'Beyond the Couch' series

    How can we help and support people to face climate change? Engaging with Climate Change is one of the first books to explore in depth what climate change actually means to people. It brings members of a wide range of different disciplines in the social sciences together in discussion and to...

    Published September 19th 2012 by Routledge
46. The Therapeutic Situation in the 21st Century

    By Mark Leffert

    Extending the themes of Contemporary Psychoanalytic Foundations, The Therapeutic Situation in the 21st Century is a systematic reformulation of fundamental psychoanalytic concepts, such as transference, therapeutic action, and the uses of psychotropic drugs, in the light of recent developments in...

    Published September 4th 2012 by Routledge
47. Uncertainties, Mysteries, Doubts

    Romanticism and the analytic attitude

    By Robert Snell

    What is it to listen? How do we hear? How do we allow meanings to emerge between each other? 'This book is about what Freud called "freely" or "evenly suspended attention", a form of listening, a kind of receptive incomprehension, which is fundamental and mandatory for the practice of...

    Published September 2nd 2012 by Routledge
48. What Is Psychoanalysis?

    100 Years after Freud's 'Secret Committee'

    By Barnaby B Barratt

    In a radically powerful interpretation of the human condition, this book redefines the discipline of psychoanalysis by examining its fundamental assumptions about the unconscious mind, the nature of personal history, our sexualities, and the significance of the "Oedipus Complex". With striking...

    Published August 22nd 2012 by Routledge
49. Nothing Good Is Allowed to Stand

    An Integrative View of the Negative Therapeutic Reaction

    Edited by Léon Wurmser, Heidrun Jarass

    Series: Psychoanalytic Inquiry Book Series

    Work with patients with severe neuroses very often has to cope with the phenomenon that every progress in the analytic or therapeutic work is followed paradoxically by a clinical deterioration. There are a number of dynamic factors that converge to bring about this negative therapeutic reaction,...

    Published August 20th 2012 by Routledge
50. Serial Killers

    Psychiatry, Criminology and Responsibility

    By Francesca Biagi-Chai

    Francesca Biagi-Chai’s book - a translation from the French of Le Cas Landru - tackles the issue of criminal responsibility in the case of serial killers, and other 'mad' people who are nonetheless deemed to be answerable before the law. The author, a Lacanian psychoanalyst and senior psychiatrist...

    Published August 19th 2012 by Routledge-Cavendish