Psychoanalysis and Feminism: A Radical Reassessment of Freudian Psychoanalysis (Mitchell Juliet)(Paperback)

Psychoanalysis and Feminism: A Radical Reassessment of Freudian Psychoanalysis (Mitchell Juliet)(Paperback)

In 1974, at the height of the women's movement, Juliet Mitchell shocked her fellow feminists by challenging the entrenched belief that Freud was the enemy. She argued that a rejection of psychoanalysis as bourgeois and patriarchal was fatal for feminism. However it may have been used, she pointed

Sexuality in the Field of Vision (Rose Jacqueline)(Paperback)

A brilliantly original exploration of the interface between feminism, psychoanalysis, semiotics and film

Introducing Psychoanalysis: Essential Themes and Topics (Budd Susan)(Paperback)

Introducing Psychoanalysis brings together leading analysts to explain what psychoanalysis is and how it has developed, setting its ideas in their appropriate social and intellectual context. Based on lectures given at the British Psychoanalytic Society, the contributions capture the diversity of

Freud and Beyond: A History of Modern Psychoanalytic Thought (Mitchell Stephen A.)(Paperback)

The classic, in-depth history of psychoanalysis, presenting over a hundred years of thought and theories Sigmund Freud's concepts have become a part of our psychological vocabulary: unconscious thoughts and feelings, conflict, the meaning of dreams, the sensuality of childhood. But psychoanalytic

Illusion, Disillusion, and Irony in Psychoanalysis (Steiner John)(Paperback)

Illusion, Disillusion, and Irony in Psychoanalysis explores and develops the role of illusion and daydream in everyday life, and in psychoanalysis. Using both clinical examples and literary works, idealised illusions and the inevitable disillusion that is met when reality makes an impact, are

Core Competencies of Relational Psychoanalysis: A Guide to Practice, Study and Research (Barsness Roy E.)(Paperback)

Core Competencies of Relational Psychoanalysis provides a concise and clearly presented handbook for those who wish to study, practice, and teach the core competencies of Relational Psychoanalysis, offering primary skills in a straightforward and useable format.Roy E. Barsness offers his own

The Enigma of Desire: Sex, Longing, and Belonging in Psychoanalysis (Atlas Galit)(Paperback)

The Enigma of Desire: Sex, Longing and Belonging in Psychoanalysis, introduces new perspectives on desire and longing, in and outside of the analytic relationship. This exciting volume explores the known and unknown, ghosts and demons, sexuality and lust. Galit Atlas discusses the subjects of sex

Vitalization in Psychoanalysis: Perspectives on Being and Becoming (Cooney Amy Schwartz)(Paperback)

In Vitalization in Psychoanalysis, Schwartz Cooney and Sopher develop and explore the concept of vitalization, generating new ways of approaching and conceptualizing the psychoanalytic project.Vitalization refers to the process between two people that ignites new experiences and brings withdrawn

Secrets of the Soul: A Social and Cultural History of Psychoanalysis (Zaretsky Eli)(Paperback)

The fledgling science of psychoanalysis permanently altered the nineteenth-century worldview with its remarkable new insights into human behavior and motivation. It quickly became a benchmark for modernity in the twentieth century--though its durability in the twenty-first may now be in doubt. More

The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: The Other Side of Psychoanalysis (Lacan Jacques)(Paperback)

This new translation of Jacques Lacan's deliberation on psychoanalysis and contemporary social order offers welcome, readable access to the brilliant author's seminal thinking on Freud, Marx, and Hegel; patterns of social and sexual behavior; and the nature and function of science and knowledge in

Psychoanalysis and Anxiety: From Knowing to Being (Mawson Chris)(Paperback)

Psychoanalysis and Anxiety: From Knowing to Being combines psychoanalytic, existential and dramaturgical perspectives on the study of anxiety. The book explores the implications for psychoanalysis of including a consideration of the being of the patient, and of the analyst. The central principle

Intimacy and Separateness in Psychoanalysis (Poland Warren S.)(Paperback)

Clinical psychoanalysis serves as our best laboratory for exploring the riddle of what it is to be a person, and how a person is at once singularly unique while always a piece of the interpersonal fabric of humanity. In Intimacy and Separateness in Psychoanalysis, Warren Poland casts a freshly

Radical Feminism: A Documentary Reader (Crow Barbara A.)(Paperback)

A selection of essential writings to understand the radical feminism movement of the 1960s and 1970s The second wave of feminism was one of the most significant political and cultural developments of the 1960s and 1970s. Yet the role radical feminism played within the women's movement remains hotly

Intersectionality and Relational Psychoanalysis: New Perspectives on Race, Gender, and Sexuality (Belkin Max)(Paperback)

Intersectionality and Relational Psychoanalysis: New Perspectives on Race, Gender, and Sexuality examines the links between race, gender, and sexuality through the dual perspectives of relational psychoanalysis and the theory of intersectionality.This anthology discusses the ways in which

Process Facilitation in Psychoanalysis, Psychotherapy and Social Work (O'Neill Sylvia)(Paperback)

Process Facilitation in Psychoanalysis, Psychotherapy and Social Work elaborates a differential theory of therapeutic engagement with full reference not only to psychoanalysis and to psychotherapy but also - surprisingly - to social work. When contemporary social work with the marginalised achieves

Living Psychoanalysis: From Theory to Experience (Parsons Michael)(Paperback)

Living Psychoanalysis: From Theory to Experience represents a decade of work from one of today's leading psychoanalysts. Michael Parsons brings to life clinical psychoanalysis and its theoretical foundations, offering new developments in analytic theory and vivid examples of work in the consulting

The Language of Psychoanalysis (LaPlanche Jean)(Paperback)

Key Concepts of Lacanian Psychoanalysis (Nobus Dany)(Paperback)

Forced Endings in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis: Attachment and loss in retirement (Power Anne)(Paperback)

Forced Endings in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis: Attachment and Loss in Retirement explores the ambivalence the therapist may feel about letting go of a professional role which has sustained them. Anne Power explores the process of closing a private practice, from the first ethical

The Essential Writings of Sabina Spielrein: Pioneer of Psychoanalysis (Spielrein Sabina)(Paperback)

Sabina Spielrein's writings explore the burning topics in the early days of psychoanalysis while providing insight into the culture of the time and her own personal struggles. After a comprehensive historical and biographical introduction to Spielrein by John Launer, The Essential Writings of

Boundaries and Boundary Violations in Psychoanalysis (Gabbard Glen)(Paperback)

Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious (Lawrence D. H.)(Paperback)

'Psychoanalysis has sprung many surprises on us, performed more than one volte face before our indignant eyes. No sooner had we got used to the psychiatric quack who vehemently demonstrated the serpent of sex coiled round the root of all our actions, no sooner had we begun to feel honestly uneasy

Key Concepts in Psychoanalysis (Frosh Stephen)(Paperback)

Over 100 years since its origins, psychoanalysis continues to be a key source of insights across the humanities and social sciences. Being well-versed in psychoanalytic concepts is a crucial element in cultural literacy today. Key Concepts in Psychoanalysis accessibly introduces the core

Psychoanalysis: A Very Short Introduction (Pick Daniel)(Paperback)

Since its inception, psychoanalysis has been hailed as a revolutionary theory of how the mind works, whilst some of its ideas such as the Oedipus complex have become part of everyday conversation. In Psychoanalysis: A Very Short Introduction, Daniel Pick offers a lucid, lively, and wide-ranging