Psychoanalysis
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A Psychotherapy for the People
Toward a Progressive Psychoanalysis
Series: Relational Perspectives Book Series
How did psychoanalysis come to define itself as being different from psychotherapy? How have racism, homophobia, misogyny and anti-Semitism converged in the creation of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis? Is psychoanalysis psychotherapy? Is psychoanalysis a "Jewish science"? Inspired by the...
Published December 2nd 2012 by Routledge
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Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis
One Hundred Years After 'Little Hans'
Since Freud’s publication of 'Little Hans', advances in psychoanalytic technique and theory have transformed our clinical work with children. Individuals including Anna Freud, Melanie Klein and Donald Winnicott have influenced psychoanalytic play therapy and broadened the scope of practice with...
Published December 5th 2012 by Routledge
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China on the Mind
Several thousand years ago Indo-European culture diverged into two ways of thinking; one went West, the other East. Tracing their differences, Christopher Bollas examines how these mentalities are now converging once again, notably in the practice of psychoanalysis. Creating a freely associated...
Published October 28th 2012 by Routledge
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Emotional Communication
Countertransference analysis and the use of feeling in psychoanalytic technique
What role does animal like and infantile communication play in life and in psychoanalysis? How are painful childhood experiences recreated with people who are nothing like the original family? What are the roles of loving and horrible feelings in psychoanalytic cure? In Emotional Communication,...
Published November 4th 2012 by Routledge
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Engaging with Climate Change
Psychoanalytic and Interdisciplinary Perspectives
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
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Melodies of the Mind
Connections between psychoanalysis and music
What can psychoanalysis learn from music? What can music learn from psychoanalysis? Can the analysis of music itself provide a primary source of psychological data? Drawing on Freud's concept of the oral road to the unconscious, Melodies of the Mind invites the reader to take a journey on an aural...
Published December 2nd 2012 by Routledge
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Psychotic Temptation
Series: The New Library of Psychoanalysis
How can we understand the pull towards that which we fear: psychosis? In this thought provoking book, Abensour proposes the idea of a temptation towards psychosis rather than a regression, as a response to the hatred or denial of the subject’s origins. She shares her reflections on her...
Published November 15th 2012 by Routledge
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Reading Anna Freud
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
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Symbiosis and Ambiguity
A Psychoanalytic Study
Series: The New Library of Psychoanalysis
Symbiosis and Ambiguity is the first English edition of the classic study of early object relations by influential Argentinian psychoanalyst José Bleger (1922-1972). It is rooted in Kleinian thinking and rich in clinical material. Bleger's thesis is that starting from primitive undifferentiation,...
Published October 25th 2012 by Routledge
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The Therapeutic Situation in the 21st Century
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
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The Violence of Emotions
Bion and Post-Bionian Psychoanalysis
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
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Uncertainties, Mysteries, Doubts
Romanticism and the analytic attitude
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
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Winnicott's Children
Independent Psychoanalytic Approaches With Children and Adolescents
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