The New Library of Psychoanalysis

The Intimate Room: Theory and Technique of the Analytic Field

Sun, 27 Jun 2010 20:00:00 -0400

By Giuseppe Civitarese.

The Intimate Room provides an original exploration of psychoanalytic thought, showing how contemporary psychoanalysis seeks to answer the challenges raised by today’s post-modern culture. Offering a deeply personal and insightful reading of Bion, this book acts as a stimulating guide to the…

ISBN: 9780415575102

Published Jun 27, 2010 by Routledge Mental Health

Betweenity: A Discussion of the Concept of Borderline

Wed, 23 Jun 2010 20:00:00 -0400

By Judy Gammelgaard.

From its inception psychoanalysis has sought to effect a cure through the therapeutic relationship between analyst and analysand. Betweenity looks at what happens when the established framework of the psychoanalytic process is challenged by those with borderline personalities. In this book Judy…

ISBN: 9780415543903

Published Jun 23, 2010 by Routledge Mental Health

The Psychotic Wavelength: A Psychoanalytic Perspective for Psychiatry

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:00:00 -0400

By Richard Lucas.

The Psychotic Wavelength provides a psychoanalytical framework for clinicians to use in everyday general psychiatric practice and discusses how psychoanalytic ideas can be of great value when used in the treatment of seriously disturbed and disturbing psychiatric patients with psychoses, including…

ISBN: 9780415484695

Published Jul 02, 2009 by Routledge Mental Health

Melanie Klein in Berlin: Her First Psychoanalyses of Children

Mon, 16 Mar 2009 20:00:00 -0400

By Claudia Frank.
Edited by Elizabeth Spillius.
Translated by Sophie Leighton, and Sue Young.

In this book Claudia Frank discusses how Melanie Klein began to develop her psychoanalysis of children. Melanie Klein in Berlin: Her First Psychoanalyses of Children offers a detailed comparative analysis of both published and unpublished material from the Melanie Klein Archives. By using…

ISBN: 9780415484985

Published Mar 16, 2009 by Routledge Mental Health

Doubt, Conviction and the Analytic Process: Selected Papers of Michael Feldman

Sun, 01 Feb 2009 19:00:00 -0500

By Michael Feldman.
Edited by Betty Joseph.

In this profound and subtle study, a practising psychoanalyst explores the dynamics of the interaction between the patient and the analyst. Michael Feldman draws the reader into experiencing how the clinical interaction unfolds within a session. In doing so, he develops some of the implications of…

ISBN: 9780415479356

Published Feb 01, 2009 by Routledge Mental Health

Mind Works: Technique and Creativity in Psychoanalysis

Sun, 02 Nov 2008 19:00:00 -0500

By Antonino Ferro.

Is the analyst's mind a factor in the analytic process? In Mind Works Antonino Ferro uses clinical material such as detailed reports of sessions, together with client's analytic histories, to develop Bion’s original findings and illustrate complex concepts in the field of psychoanalytic…

ISBN: 9780415429924

Published Nov 02, 2008 by Routledge Mental Health

Rediscovering Psychoanalysis: Thinking and Dreaming, Learning and Forgetting

Sun, 26 Oct 2008 20:00:00 -0400

By Thomas H. Ogden.

Winner of the 2010 Haskell Norman Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Psychoanalysis! Rediscovering Psychoanalysis demonstrates how, by attending to one’s own idiosyncratic ways of thinking, feeling, and responding to patients, the psychoanalyst can develop a "style" of his or her own, a way of…

ISBN: 9780415468633

Published Oct 26, 2008 by Routledge Mental Health

Time, Space and Phantasy

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 20:00:00 -0400

By Rosine Jozef Perelberg.

Time, Space, and Phantasy examines the connections between time, space, phantasy and sexuality in clinical practice. It explores the subtleties of the encounter between patient and analyst, addressing how aspects of the patient’s unconscious past are actualised in the present, producing new…

ISBN: 9780415463225

Published Jun 04, 2008 by Routledge Mental Health

Psychoanalysis Comparable and Incomparable: The Evolution of a Method to Describe and Compare Psychoanalytic Approaches

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 19:00:00 -0500

By David Tuckett.

How do we know when what is happening between two people should be called psychoanalysis? What is a psychoanalytic process and how do we know when one is taking place? Psychoanalysis Comparable and Incomparable describes the rationale and ongoing development of a six year programme of highly…

ISBN: 9780415451437

Published Jan 31, 2008 by Routledge Mental Health

Constructions and the Analytic Field: History, Scenes and Destiny

Wed, 10 Oct 2007 20:00:00 -0400

By Domenico Chianese.

Constructions and the Analytic Field questions the relationship between psychoanalysis, history and literature. Does the analyst help the analysand construct a narrative, or is their task more of a historical reconstruction? In seeking to answer this question, Domenico Chianese examines Freud's…

ISBN: 9780415384056

Published Oct 10, 2007 by Routledge Mental Health

Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

Wed, 11 Jul 2007 20:00:00 -0400

By Hanna Segal.
Edited by Nicola Abel-Hirsch.

What is the role of psychoanalysis in today's world? Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow presents a selection of papers written by Hanna Segal. The collection introduces the reader to a wide spectrum of insights into psychoanalysis, ranging from current thoughts on the nature of dreaming to new ideas…

ISBN: 9780415415743

Published Jul 11, 2007 by Routledge Mental Health

Encounters with Melanie Klein: Selected Papers of Elizabeth Spillius

Wed, 20 Jun 2007 20:00:00 -0400

By Elizabeth Spillius.
Edited by Priscilla Roth, and Richard Rusbridger.
Series Edited by Dana Birksted-Breen.

In Encounters with Melanie Klein: Selected Papers of Elizabeth Spillius the author argues that her two professions, anthropology and psychoanalysis, have much in common, and explains how her background in anthropology led her on to a profound involvement in psychoanalysis and her establishment as a…

ISBN: 9780415419994

Published Jun 20, 2007 by Routledge Mental Health

Projected Shadows: Psychoanalytic Reflections on the Representation of Loss in European Cinema

Wed, 21 Mar 2007 20:00:00 -0400

Edited by Andrea Sabbadini.
Foreword by Glen O. Gabbard.

Projected Shadows presents a new collection of essays exploring films from a psychoanalytic perspective, focusing specifically on the representation of loss in European cinema. This theme is discussed in its many aspects, including: loss of hope and innocence, of youth, of consciousness, of freedom…

ISBN: 9780415428170

Published Mar 21, 2007 by Routledge Mental Health

Feeling the Words: Neuropsychoanalytic Understanding of Memory and the Unconscious

Wed, 14 Mar 2007 20:00:00 -0400

By Mauro Mancia.

How are the implicit memory and the unrepressed unconscious related? Feeling the Words incorporates a thorough review of essential psychoanalytic concepts, a clear critical history of analytical ideas and an assessment of the contribution neuroscience has to offer. Mauro Mancia uses numerous…

ISBN: 9780415390972

Published Mar 14, 2007 by Routledge Mental Health

The Many Voices of Psychoanalysis

Wed, 10 Jan 2007 19:00:00 -0500

By Roger Kennedy.

The Many Voices of Psychoanalysis spans over thirty years of Roger Kennedy's work as a practicing psychoanalyst, providing a fascinating insight into the process of development of psychoanalytic identity. The introduction puts the papers into context, charting the development of the author’s…

ISBN: 9780415411776

Published Jan 10, 2007 by Routledge Mental Health

Recovery of the Lost Good Object

Thu, 07 Sep 2006 20:00:00 -0400

By Eric Brenman.
Edited by Gigliola Fornari Spoto.

Recovery of the Lost Good Object brings together the hugely influential papers and seminars of Eric Brenman, revealing his impact on the development of psychoanalysis and allowing a better understanding of his distinctive voice amongst post-Kleinian analysts. Gathered together for the first time…

ISBN: 9780415409230

Published Sep 07, 2006 by Routledge Mental Health

Psychoanalysis and Religion in the 21st Century: Competitors or Collaborators?

Wed, 29 Mar 2006 19:00:00 -0500

Edited by David M. Black.

What can be gained from a dialogue between psychoanalysis and religion? Freud described religion as the universal obsessional neurosis, and uncompromisingly rejected it in favour of "science." Ever since, there has been the assumption that psychoanalysts are hostile to religion. Yet, from the…

ISBN: 9780415379441

Published Mar 29, 2006 by Routledge Mental Health

Psychoanalysis as Therapy and Storytelling

Wed, 01 Mar 2006 19:00:00 -0500

By Antonino Ferro.
Translated by Philip Slotkin.

Is psychoanalysis a type of literature? Can telling 'stories' help us to get at the truth? Psychoanalysis as Therapy and Storytelling examines psychoanalysis from two perspectives - as a cure for psychic suffering, and as a series of stories told between patient and analyst. Antonino Ferro uses…

ISBN: 9780415372053

Published Mar 01, 2006 by Routledge Mental Health

This Art of Psychoanalysis: Dreaming Undreamt Dreams and Interrupted Cries

Wed, 07 Sep 2005 20:00:00 -0400

By Thomas H Ogden.

Winner of the 2010 Haskell Norman Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Psychoanalysis! Why is dreaming the mind's single most important psychoanalytic activity? This Art of Psychoanalysis offers a unique perspective on psychoanalysis that features a new way of conceptualizing the role of dreaming…

ISBN: 9780415372893

Published Sep 07, 2005 by Routledge Mental Health

Glacial Times: A Journey through the World of Madness

Wed, 30 Mar 2005 19:00:00 -0500

By Salomon Resnik.

In Glacial Times, Salomon Resnik brings together various facets of his work as a psychoanalyst and psychiatrist, working in both the private sector and in institutional settings and in a wide range of cultural contexts, to provide a careful summary of a lifetime of clinical work. Drawing…

ISBN: 9781583917176

Published Mar 30, 2005 by Routledge Mental Health

The Telescoping of Generations: Listening to the Narcissistic Links Between Generations

Wed, 09 Feb 2005 19:00:00 -0500

By Haydée Faimberg.

The Telescoping of Generations is an original perspective on the transmission of narcissistic links between generations. This attention to unconscious transmission gives fresh understanding of the psychic consequences of experiences such as genocide and terrorism. Reviving classic psychoanalytical…

ISBN: 9781583917534

Published Feb 09, 2005 by Routledge Mental Health

Key Ideas for a Contemporary Psychoanalysis: Misrecognition and Recognition of the Unconscious

Wed, 19 Jan 2005 19:00:00 -0500

By Andre Green.
Translated by Andrew Weller.

André Green attempts the complex task of identifying and examining the key ideas for a contemporary psychoanalytic practice. This undertaking is motivated both by the need for an outline of the evolution of psychoanalysis since Freud's death, and by the hope of tackling the fragmentation which…

ISBN: 9781583918395

Published Jan 19, 2005 by Routledge Mental Health

Seeds of Illness, Seeds of Recovery: The Genesis of Suffering and the Role of Psychoanalysis

Wed, 22 Dec 2004 19:00:00 -0500

By Antonino Ferro.
Foreword by Thomas Ogden.

Illustrated with richly detailed clinical vignettes, Seeds of Illness, Seeds of Recovery offers a fascinating investigation into the origins, modes and treatment of psychical suffering. Antonino Ferro provides a clear account of his conception of the way the mind works, his interpretation of the…

ISBN: 9781583918296

Published Dec 22, 2004 by Routledge Mental Health

The Quiet Revolution in American Psychoanalysis: Selected Papers of Arnold M. Cooper

Wed, 27 Oct 2004 20:00:00 -0400

By Arnold M. Cooper.
Edited by Elizabeth L. Auchincloss.

This book brings together for the first time in one volume selected papers by one of the leading contemporary intellectual figures in the field of psychoanalysis, Arnold M. Cooper M.D. Cooper has addressed every aspect of American psychoanalytic life: theory, clinical work, education, research,…

ISBN: 9781583918920

Published Oct 27, 2004 by Routledge Mental Health

The Work of Psychic Figurability: Mental States Without Representation

Wed, 27 Oct 2004 20:00:00 -0400

By César Botella, and Sára Botella.

The majority of psychoanalysts today agree that the analytic setting faces them daily with certain aspects of their work for which the answers provided by an analytic theory centred exclusively on the notion of representation prove insufficient. On the basis of their experience of analytic…

ISBN: 9781583918159

Published Oct 27, 2004 by Routledge Mental Health

Thinking, Feeling, and Being

Mon, 08 Mar 2004 19:00:00 -0500

By Ignacio Matte-Blanco.

Ignacio Matte-Blanco has made one of the most original contributions to psychoanalysis since Freud. In this book, which includes an introductory chapter to his work by Eric Rayner and David Tuckett, he develops his conceptualization of the Freudian unconscious in terms of logic and mathematics,…

ISBN: 9780203358849

Published Mar 08, 2004 by Routledge Mental Health

In Pursuit of Psychic Change: The Betty Joseph Workshop

Wed, 11 Feb 2004 19:00:00 -0500

Edited by Edith Hargreaves, and Arturo Varchevker.

The members of the Betty Joseph Workshop have provided major contributions to psychoanalytic thinking since the meeting's inception in 1962. This book is a celebration of Betty Joseph's work, and the work of a group of analysts who have joined her to discuss obstacles to psychic change in…

ISBN: 9781583918234

Published Feb 11, 2004 by Routledge Mental Health

The Couch and the Silver Screen: Psychoanalytic Reflections on European Cinema

Wed, 28 May 2003 20:00:00 -0400

Edited by Andrea Sabbadini.
Foreword by Laura Mulvey.

The Couch and the Silver Screen is a collection of original contributions which explore European cinema from psychoanalytic perspectives. Both classic and contemporary films are presented and analysed by a variety of authors, including leading cinema historians and theorists, psychoanalysts with a…

ISBN: 9781583919521

Published May 28, 2003 by Routledge Mental Health

Dreams That Turn Over a Page: Paradoxical Dreams in Psychoanalysis

Wed, 27 Mar 2002 19:00:00 -0500

By Jean-Michel Quinodoz.
Translated by Philip Slotkin.
Foreword by Hanna Segal.

In Dreams That Turn Over a Page, the author discusses a particular type of dream that comes after a phase in analysis where integration has taken place. Accompanied by anxiety and fear, which seem surprising as the dream follows a phase of integrative work in the analysis, these dreams are in fact…

ISBN: 9781583912652

Published Mar 27, 2002 by Routledge Mental Health

The Importance of Fathers: A Psychoanalytic Re-evaluation

Wed, 05 Dec 2001 19:00:00 -0500

Edited by Alicia Etchegoyen, and Judith Trowell.

It is widely acknowledged that children need structure, security, stability and attachment to develop and flourish, and that the father is an important part of this. Issues such as high divorce rates, new family structures, increased mobility, women's liberation and contraception are very common…

ISBN: 9781583911747

Published Dec 05, 2001 by Routledge Mental Health

The Violence of Interpretation: From Pictogram to Statement

Wed, 07 Mar 2001 19:00:00 -0500

By Piera Aulagnier.
Translated by Alan Sheridan.
Foreword by Harold Blum.

Published in English for the first time, this is a seminal work by an original and creative analytical thinker. Piera Aulagnier's The Violence of Interpretation bridges the work of Winnicott and Lacan, putting forward a theory of psychosis based on children's early experiences. The author's…

ISBN: 9780415236768

Published Mar 07, 2001 by Routledge Mental Health

Ordinary People and Extra-ordinary Protections: A Post-Kleinian Approach to the Treatment of Primitive Mental States

Wed, 28 Feb 2001 19:00:00 -0500

By Judith L. Mitrani.
Foreword by Jim Grotstein.

Many people come to analysis appearing quite 'ordinary' on the surface. However, once below that surface, we often come into contact with something quite unexpected: 'extra-ordinary protections' created to keep at bay any awareness of deeply traumatic happenings occurring at some point in life.…

ISBN: 9780415241656

Published Feb 28, 2001 by Routledge Mental Health

The Dove that Returns, The Dove that Vanishes: Paradox and Creativity in Psychoanalysis

Wed, 10 May 2000 20:00:00 -0400

By Michael Parsons.

The nature of psychoanalysis seems contradictory - deeply personal, subjective and intuitive, yet requiring systematic theory and principles of technique. In The Dove that Returns, The Dove that Vanishes, Michael Parsons explores the tension of this paradox. As they respond to it and struggle to…

ISBN: 9780415211826

Published May 10, 2000 by Routledge Mental Health

The Fabric of Affect in the Psychoanalytic Discourse

Wed, 04 Aug 1999 20:00:00 -0400

By Andre Green.
Translated by Alan Sheridan.

The Fabric of Affect in the Psychoanalytic Discourse is a seminal work on one of the most neglected topics in psychoanalysis, that of affect. Originally published in French as Le Discours Vivant, and by one of the most distinguished living analysts, the book is structured in three parts: Affect…

ISBN: 9780415115254

Published Aug 04, 1999 by Routledge Mental Health

The Bi-Personal Field: Experiences in Child Analysis

Wed, 28 Jul 1999 20:00:00 -0400

By Antonino Ferro.
Introduction by Elizabeth Bott Spillius.

In The Bi-Personal Field Antonino Ferro sets out his new conceptual system for analysis, considering not only the inner world of the patient but the continued interaction of that world with the inner world of the analyst. The book takes a fresh look at the main aspects of theory and technique in…

ISBN: 9780415211802

Published Jul 28, 1999 by Routledge Mental Health

The Dead Mother: The Work of Andre Green

Wed, 19 May 1999 20:00:00 -0400

Edited by Gregorio Kohon.

The Dead Mother brings together original essays in honour of André Green. Written by distinguished psychoanalysts, the collection develops the theme of his most famous paper of the same title, and describes the value of the dead mother to other areas of clinical interest: psychic reality,…

ISBN: 9780415165297

Published May 19, 1999 by Routledge Mental Health

Psychoanalysis on the Move: The Work of Joseph Sandler

Wed, 03 Mar 1999 19:00:00 -0500

Edited by Arnold M. Cooper, Peter Fonagy and Robert S. Wallerstein.

Joseph Sandler has been an important influence in psychoanalysis throughout the world during the latter part of the twentieth century, contributing to changing views on both psychoanalytic theory and technique. He has also been a bridging force in psychoanalysis, helping to close the gap between…

ISBN: 9780415205498

Published Mar 03, 1999 by Routledge Mental Health

On Bearing Unbearable States of Mind

Wed, 10 Feb 1999 19:00:00 -0500

By Ruth Riesenberg-Malcolm.
Edited by Priscilla Roth.

This is a problem almost all practising psychoanalysts will face at some time in their career, yet there is very little in the existing literature which offers guidance in this important area. On Bearing Unbearable States of Mind provides clear guidance on how the analyst can encourage the patient…

ISBN: 9780415205191

Published Feb 10, 1999 by Routledge Mental Health

Psychoanalytic Understanding of Violence and Suicide

Wed, 18 Nov 1998 19:00:00 -0500

Edited by Rosine Jozef Perelberg.
Foreword by Leonard Shengold.

Although there is a vast literature on aggression, comparatively little has been written on the issue of violence and even fewer clinical discussions have been published on the violent patient. This pioneering book presents a collection of case studies on the intensive psychoanalytic treatment of…

ISBN: 9780415199322

Published Nov 18, 1998 by Routledge Mental Health

A Mind of One's Own: A Psychoanalytic View of Self and Object

Wed, 04 Nov 1998 19:00:00 -0500

By Robert A. Caper.

This collection of papers, written over the last six years by Robert Caper, focuses on the importance of distinguishing self from object in psychological development. Robert Caper demonstrates the importance this psychological disentanglement plays in the therapeutic effect of psychoanalysis. In…

ISBN: 9780415199124

Published Nov 04, 1998 by Routledge Mental Health

Belief and Imagination: Explorations in Psychoanalysis

Wed, 30 Sep 1998 20:00:00 -0400

By Ronald Britton.

Belief and Imagination brings together Ronald Britton's writing on these subjects over the last 15 years, exploring the concepts from a Kleinian perspective. The book covers: The status of phantasies in an individuals mind - are they facts or possibilities? How the notions of objectivity and…

ISBN: 9780415194389

Published Sep 30, 1998 by Routledge Mental Health

A History of Child Psychoanalysis

Wed, 17 Dec 1997 19:00:00 -0500

By the late Pierre Geissmann, and the late Pierre Geissmann.
Foreword by Serge Lebovici, Anne Marie Sandler and Hanna Segal.

Child analysis has occupied a special place in the history of psychoanalysis because of the challenges it poses to practitioners and the clashes it has provoked among its advocates. Since the early days in Vienna under Sigmund Freud child psychoanalysts have tried to comprehend and make…

ISBN: 9780415112963

Published Dec 17, 1997 by Routledge Mental Health

Emotional Vertigo: Between Anxiety and Pleasure

Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:00:00 -0500

By Danielle Quinodoz.
Translated by Arnold Pomerans.
Foreword by Alain Gibeault.

In this unique, prize-winning study Danielle Quinodoz unravels the unconscious significance of the feelings of vertigo which arise in situations where there is no immediate physical danger of falling and no organic cause. She traces the origins of such emotional vertigo to inner anxieties around…

ISBN: 9780415148368

Published Nov 12, 1997 by Routledge Mental Health

Early Freud and Late Freud: Reading Anew Studies on Hysteria and Moses and Monotheism

Wed, 05 Nov 1997 19:00:00 -0500

By Ilse Grubrich-Simitis.
Translated by Philip Slotkin.

Ilse Grubrich-Simitis, well-known as a Freud scholar and editor of Freud's works, has long advocated a return to his original texts in order to comprehend fully the power and innovative force of his theories. In Early Freud and Late Freud she examines the earliest psychoanalytic book, Studies on…

ISBN: 9780415148443

Published Nov 05, 1997 by Routledge Mental Health

Psychoanalysis, Literature and War: Papers 1972-1995

Wed, 01 Jan 1997 19:00:00 -0500

By Hanna Segal.

Many of the themes which were elaborated in Hanna Segal's earlier work return in this volume of her most recent papers. Two act as connecting strands and give the book its unity: the clinical usefulness of the concept of the death instinct and the relationship between fantasy and reality. A past…

ISBN: 9780415153294

Published Jan 01, 1997 by Routledge Mental Health

Hope: A Shield in the Economy of Borderline States

Wed, 04 Dec 1996 19:00:00 -0500

By Anna Potamianou.

In the well known myth of Pandora, hope was the last and most need gift at the bottom of a box of myriad misfortunes let loose on an unsuspecting world. For most human beings hope is a positive benefit. Anna Potamianou shows how in the 'borderline' patient hope can become a perverted and omnipotent…

ISBN: 9780415121774

Published Dec 04, 1996 by Routledge Mental Health

Michael Balint: Object Relations, Pure and Applied

Wed, 07 Aug 1996 20:00:00 -0400

By Andrew Elder, Robert Gosling and Harold Stewart.

Whilst Michael Balint's applied work is widely known, many of his theoretical contributions have been incorporated into everyday analysis without due recognition of their source. In this account of his thinking, Harold Stewart evaluates the extent of Balint's contribution to psychoanalysis and…

ISBN: 9780415144667

Published Aug 07, 1996 by Routledge Mental Health

What Do Psychoanalysts Want?: The Problem of Aims in Psychoanalytic Therapy

Wed, 27 Dec 1995 19:00:00 -0500

By Anna Ursula Dreher, and Joseph Sandler.
Introduction by Arnold M. Cooper.

Defining the aims of psychoanalysis was not initially a serious complex problem. However, when Freud began to think of the aim as being one of scientific research, and added the different formulations of aim (for example, that the aim was to make the patient's unconscious conscious) it became an…

ISBN: 9780415135153

Published Dec 27, 1995 by Routledge Mental Health

Unconscious Logic: An Introduction to Matte-Blanco's Bi-Logic and its Uses

Wed, 16 Aug 1995 20:00:00 -0400

By Eric Rayner.

While the theories of Matte-Blanco about the structure of the unconscious and the way in which it operates are generally recognised to be the most original since those of Freud, for many people the ways in which his ideas are expressed, including the use of terminology from mathematics and logic,…

ISBN: 9780415127264

Published Aug 16, 1995 by Routledge Mental Health

Understanding Mental Objects

Wed, 16 Aug 1995 20:00:00 -0400

By Meir Perlow.
Foreword by Joseph Sandler.

The ways in which an individual (the subject) relates to and perceives other people (his or her 'objects') has always been a preoccupation of psychoanalysis and in recent years a plethora of concepts has grown up in the literature. In this ground-breaking study, Meir Perlow sets out to clarify the…

ISBN: 9780415121798

Published Aug 16, 1995 by Routledge Mental Health

Life, Sex and Death: Selected Writings of William Gillespie

Wed, 09 Aug 1995 20:00:00 -0400

Edited by Michael Sinason.

A distinguished and revered elder of the British Psycho-Analytical Society, Dr William Gillespie is one of the few British psychoanalysts who began training in the Vienna of the early 1930s. Later he became well known in England for his pioneering studies of sexual perversion, and for his views on…

ISBN: 9780415128056

Published Aug 09, 1995 by Routledge Mental Health

Psychic Retreats: Pathological Organizations in Psychotic, Neurotic and Borderline Patients

Wed, 01 Dec 1993 19:00:00 -0500

By John Steiner.
Foreword by Roy Schafer.

Essentially clinical in its approach, Psychic Retreats discusses the problem of patients who are 'stuck' and with whom it is difficult to make meaningful contact. John Steiner, an experienced psychoanalyst, uses new developments in Kleinian theory to explain how this happens. He examines the way…

ISBN: 9780415099240

Published Dec 01, 1993 by Routledge Mental Health

The Taming of Solitude: Separation Anxiety in Psychoanalysis

Wed, 29 Sep 1993 20:00:00 -0400

By Jean-Michel Quinodoz.
Foreword by Hanna Segal.

Psychoanalysts would argue that at the root of anxiety about loneliness, which commonly brings people into analysis, lies anxiety about separation, unresolved since childhood. When re-experienced in analysis, the painful awareness of solitude - the sense of being a separate person - can become a…

ISBN: 9780415091541

Published Sep 29, 1993 by Routledge Mental Health

The Gender Conundrum: Contemporary Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Femininity and Masculinity

Wed, 07 Jul 1993 20:00:00 -0400

Edited by Dana Birksted-Breen.

In The Gender Conundrum Dana Birksted-Breen brings together for the first time key psychoanalytic papers on the subject of femininity and masculinity from the very different British, French, and American perspectives. The papers are gathered around the central issue of the interplay of body and…

ISBN: 9780415091640

Published Jul 07, 1993 by Routledge Mental Health

The Dream Discourse Today

Wed, 09 Jun 1993 20:00:00 -0400

By Sara Flanders.

The Dream Discourse Today offers an unrivalled synoptic view of key American, British and French papers on dream analysis in clinical practice. The purpose of the book is to show the reader different, well articulated perspectives, place them in historical context, and invite comparative reading.…

ISBN: 9780415093552

Published Jun 09, 1993 by Routledge Mental Health

A Psychoanalytic Theory of Infantile Experience: Conceptual and Clinical Reflections

Wed, 02 Sep 1992 20:00:00 -0400

By Eugenio Gaddini, and Adam Limentani.
Foreword by Robert Wallerstein.

Eugenio Gaddini, a pioneer within the Italian psychoanalytical movement, devoted a lifetime of research to the organization of infantile mental life. In this edited collection of his papers Dr Adam Limentani introduces Gaddini's key theories showing how they are closely linked to, but different…

ISBN: 9780415074353

Published Sep 02, 1992 by Routledge Mental Health

The Freud-Klein Controversies 1941-45

Wed, 26 Aug 1992 20:00:00 -0400

Edited by Pearl King, and Riccardo Steiner.

Following Freud's death in 1939, the radical theories of Melanie Klein were the subject of prolonged controversy and fierce debate within the British Psychoanalytical Society. At the time, individuals fought passionately in support of their positions. In the midst of, or as a result of, the…

ISBN: 9780415082747

Published Aug 26, 1992 by Routledge Mental Health

From Fetus to Child: An Observational and Psychoanalytic Study

Wed, 01 Apr 1992 19:00:00 -0500

By Alessandra Piontelli.

The use of ultrasonic scans in pregnancy makes it possible to observe the fetus undisturbed in the womb. Dr Alessandra Piontelli has done what no one has done before: she observed eleven fetuses (three singletons and four sets of twins) in the womb using ultrasound scans, and then observed their…

ISBN: 9780415074377

Published Apr 01, 1992 by Routledge Mental Health

Psychic Experience and Problems of Technique

Wed, 04 Dec 1991 19:00:00 -0500

By Harold Stewart.
Foreword by Pearl King.

Harold Stewart, a distinguished psychoanalyst of more than 30 years' experience, began his medical career as a general practitioner. He was drawn first towards hypnotherapy, then to psychoanalysis, as a more sensitive, productive and far-reaching method of exploring patients' problems. In this…

ISBN: 9780415059756

Published Dec 04, 1991 by Routledge Mental Health

Clinical Lectures on Klein and Bion

Wed, 06 Nov 1991 19:00:00 -0500

Edited by Robin Anderson.
Foreword by Hanna Segal.

Clinical Lectures on Klein and Bion outlines the basic ideas in their thinking and shows in detail how these ideas can be used to tackle a clinical problem. The contributors correct some common misconceptions about Kleinian analysis, while demonstrating the continuity of their everyday work with…

ISBN: 9780415069939

Published Nov 06, 1991 by Routledge Mental Health

Dream, Phantasy and Art

Wed, 31 Oct 1990 19:00:00 -0500

By Hanna Segal.
Foreword by Betty Joseph.

Hanna Segal's work, especially on symbolism, aesthetics, dreams, and the exploration of psychotic thinking, has established her as an outstanding figure in psychoanalysis, particularly in psychoanalysis of the Kleinian tradition. In Dream, Phantasy and Art she reworks her ideas on these topics and…

ISBN: 9780415017985

Published Oct 31, 1990 by Routledge Mental Health

About Children and Children-No-Longer: Collected Papers 1942-80

Wed, 03 Jan 1990 19:00:00 -0500

By Paula Heimann.
Edited by Margret Tonnesmann.

About Children and Children-no-longer is the long awaited collection of Paula Heimann's published and unpublished papers. From the published work it includes the seminal paper 'On Countertransference' (1950); 'Dynamics and Transference Interpretations' (1956); 'Some Notes on Sublimation' (1959);…

ISBN: 9780415041195

Published Jan 03, 1990 by Routledge Mental Health

Psychic Equilibrium and Psychic Change: Selected Papers of Betty Joseph

Wed, 06 Sep 1989 20:00:00 -0400

Edited by Michael Feldman, and Elizabeth Bott Spillius.
Foreword by Hanna Segal.

Betty Joseph's work has become an outstanding influence in the development and theory of psychoanalytic technique in the Kleinian tradition. This collection of her most important papers examines the development of her thought and shows why a crucial part of her theory and practice is concerned…

ISBN: 9780415041171

Published Sep 06, 1989 by Routledge Mental Health

Melanie Klein Today, Volume 2: Mainly Practice: Developments in Theory and Practice

Wed, 30 Nov 1988 19:00:00 -0500

Edited by Elizabeth Bott Spillius.

Although both Kleinian psychoanalysts and their critics take it for granted that there is a therapeutic technique distinctive to the Kleinian approach, comparatively little has been written about what it is. In Melanie Klein Today, Volume 2, Elizabeth Bott Spillius brings together classic and new…

ISBN: 9780415010450

Published Nov 30, 1988 by Routledge Mental Health

Thinking, Feeling, and Being: Clinical Reflections on the Fundamental Antinomy of Human Beings and World

Wed, 31 Aug 1988 20:00:00 -0400

By Ignacio Matte-Blanco.

ISBN: 9780415006781

Published Aug 31, 1988 by Routledge Mental Health

Melanie Klein Today, Volume 1: Mainly Theory: Developments in Theory and Practice

Wed, 27 Apr 1988 20:00:00 -0400

Edited by Elizabeth Bott Spillius.

Melanie Klein Today, Volume 1 is the first of two volumes of collected essays devoted to developments in psychoanalysis based on the work of Melanie Klein. The papers are arranged into four groups: the analysis of psychotic patients, projective identification, on thinking, and pathalogical…

ISBN: 9780415006767

Published Apr 27, 1988 by Routledge Mental Health

The Theatre of the Dream

Wed, 28 Oct 1987 19:00:00 -0500

By Salomon Resnik.
Translated by Alan Sheridan.

The Theatre of the Dream is a profound study of our dream world and its place in everyday life. The author grounds his ideas in Freud and psychoanalysis authors such as Klein, Bion, Rosenfeld and Matte Blanco, but also draws on the approach to dream phenomena in the work of philosophers, artists…

ISBN: 9780415214865

Published Oct 28, 1987 by Routledge Mental Health

The Suppressed Madness of Sane Men: Forty-Four Years of Exploring Psychoanalysis

Wed, 16 Sep 1987 20:00:00 -0400

By Marion Milner.

Marion Milner introduces this edited collection of her papers from 1942 to 1977 with a fascinating biographical account of her development in psychoanalysis. The collection includes her classic papers on symbolism. …

ISBN: 9780415036733

Published Sep 16, 1987 by Routledge Mental Health

The Riddle of Freud: Jewish Influences on his Theory of Female Sexuality

Wed, 16 Sep 1987 20:00:00 -0400

By Estelle Roith.

In The Riddle of Freud Estelle Roith argues that certain important elements of Judaic culture were so integral a part of Freud's personality that they became visible in his work and especially in his attitudes to and theories of femininity. Freud's formulation of femininity, which the author…

ISBN: 9780415214872

Published Sep 16, 1987 by Routledge Mental Health

Psychoanalysis and Discourse

Fri, 31 Jul 1987 20:00:00 -0400

By Patrick Mahony.

After a detailed discussion of the significance of translation as a critical concept in psychoanalysis, Patrick Mahony proceeds to a comprehensive examination of 'free association', the cornerstone of psychoanalytic method. Next follows the consideration of free association in its relation to…

ISBN: 9781583911853

Published Jul 31, 1987 by Routledge Mental Health

Impasse and Interpretation: Therapeutic and Anti-Therapeutic Factors in the Psychoanalytic Treatment of Psychotic, Borderline, and Neurotic Patients

Wed, 20 May 1987 20:00:00 -0400

By Herbert Rosenfeld.

Herbert Rosenfeld makes a powerful case both for the intelligibility of psychotic symptoms and the potential benefits of their treatment by psychoanalytic means. …

ISBN: 9780415010122

Published May 20, 1987 by Routledge Mental Health