The New Library of Psychoanalysis
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DR DANA BIRKSTED-BREEN became General Editor of the New Library of Psychoanalysis in 2000. Educated in Paris, Geneva and England, she is a training psychoanalyst of the British Institute of Psychoanalysis. Her main publications are The Birth of a First Child: Towards an Understanding of Femininity (Tavistock Publications,1975); Talking with Mothers (Jill Norman,1981, and Free Association Books,1989); The Gender Conundrum: Contemporary Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Femininity and Masculinity (Routledge, New Library of Psychoanalysis,1993). She won an international prize for her paper Phallus, Penis and Mental Space in 1995 (published in the International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 1996, vol.77, Part 4)
Dana Birksted-Breen is currently joint Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis. She maintains a full time private practice in London.
The Series
The New Library of Psychoanalysis is published by Routledge Mental Health in association with the Institute of Psychoanalysis, London. Its purpose is to facilitate a greater and more widespread appreciation of psychoanalysis and to provide a forum for increasing mutual understanding between psychoanalysts and those in other disciplines. The series also aims to make some of the work of continental and other non-English speaking analysts more readily available to English-speaking readers, and to increase the interchange of ideas between British and American analysts.
The Institute of Psychoanalysis has a long history of book publication, starting in 1921 in the form of joint publication with the Hogarth Press of the International Psychoanalytical Library. Under the general editorship of several distinguished psychoanalysts - Ernest Jones, John Sutherland, Masud Khan, Clifford Yorke - this memorable collection consisted of 118 books, including many of the early translations of the works of Freud and the writings of most of the leading British and Continental analysts as well. Some of these books were published not only in Britain but also in the United States.
By the mid 1980s American psychoanalysis had developed many new schools of thought and American analysts were becoming increasingly interested in British psychoanalysis; the Institute eventually decided that it would be advisable to have a publisher who was established in the United States as well as in Britain, and after considerable investigation Brunner-Routledge was selected.
The new series, the New Library of Psychoanalysis, published its first book in 1987 under the editorship of David Tuckett, later followed by Elizabeth Bott Spillius and then Susan Budd. A considerable number of Associate Editors and readers have assisted the editors. There have been 41 titles published to date by Brunner-Routledge in association with the Institute of Psychoanalysis, London. Brunner-Routledge, now Routledge, has become part of the Taylor & Francis Group.
Under the guidance of Riccardo Steiner and then Inge Wise, as Foreign Rights Editors, a considerable number of the New Library books have been published abroad, particularly in Brazil, Germany, France, Italy, Peru, Spain and Japan.
The aim of the New Library of Psychoanalysis is to maintain the high level of scholarship of the previous series, to provide a forum for increasing understanding between psychoanalysis and other disciplines and to increase the interest of the general book-reading public in psychoanalysis. The New Library of Psychoanalysis also aims to help the various schools of psychoanalysis to better understand each other. It has published books representing all three schools of thought in British psychoanalysis, including a particularly important work edited by Pearl King and Riccardo Steiner, expounding the intellectual and organisational controversies that developed in the British psychoanalytical Society between Kleinian, Viennese and ‘middle group’ analysts during the Second World War. The New Library of Psychoanalysis has also translated and published several books by Continental psychoanalysts, and it plans in the future to continue the policy of publishing books that express as clearly as possible a variety of psychoanalytic points of view.
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The Psychotic Wavelength
A Psychoanalytic Perspective for Psychiatry
By Richard Lucas
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780415484695
Published: July 1st 2009
Binding: Paperback
Price: £22.99 / $36.95
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 both schizophrenia and the affective disorders.
In this book Richard Lucas suggests that when clinicians are faced with psychotic patients, the primary concern should be to make sense of what is happening during their breakdown. He refers to this as tuning into the psychotic wavelength, a process that allows clinicians to distinguish between, and appropriately address, the psychotic and non-psychotic parts of the personality. He argues that if clinicians can find and identify the psychotic wavelength, they can more effectively help the patient to come to terms with the realities of living with a psychotic disorder.
Divided into five parts and illustrated throughout with illuminating clinical vignettes, case examples and theoretical and clinical discussions, this book covers:
- the case for a psychoanalytical perspective on psychosis
- a historical overview of psychoanalytical theories for psychosis
- clinical evidence supporting the concept of a psychotic wavelength
- the psychotic wavelength in affective disorders
- implications for management and education.
The Psychotic Wavelength is an essential resource for anyone working with disturbed psychiatric patients. It will be of particular interest to junior psychiatrists and nursing staff and will be invaluable in helping to maintain treatment aims and staff morale. It will also be useful for more experienced psychiatrists and psychoanalysts.
Contents:
Minne, Preface. Part I: Making the Case for a Psychoanalytic Perspective on Psychosis. Introduction. The Medical Model. Controversial Issues in Psychosis. Part II: Psychoanalytic Theories about Psychosis: A Selective Review. Freud's Contributions to Psychosis. The Kleinian Contribution to Psychosis. Bion and Psychosis. A Contemporary Freudian Perspective on Psychosis. The Psychoanalytic Treatment of Schizophrenia: Lessons from Chestnut Lodge . The Divided Self: Evaluating R. D. Laing's Contribution to Thinking about Psychosis. Part III: Tuning into The Psychotic Wavelength. Differentiating Psychotic Processes from Psychotic Disorders. The Psychotic Wavelength. Dreams and Delusions. Utilising the Countertransference in Psychosis. Part IV: The Psychotic Wavelength in Affective Disorders. Why the Cycle in a Clinical Psychosis? Puerperal Psychosis: Vulnerability and Aftermath. Managing Depression – Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Antidepressants or Both? Part V: Implications for Management and Education. Developing an Exoskeleton. Destructive Attacks on Reality and the Self. The Role of Psychotherapy in Reducing the Risk of Suicide in Affective Disorders: A Case Study. Education in Psychosis. Psychoanalytic Attitudes to General Psychiatry and Psychosis.
Author Biography:
Richard Lucas was a consultant psychiatrist at St Ann's Hospital, London. He was also a fellow at the Royal College of Psychiatrists and a member of the British Psychoanalytical Society. In 2003 he received an OBE for his services. This is his only book.
Melanie Klein in Berlin
Her First Psychoanalyses of Children
By Claudia Frank
Edited by Elizabeth Spillius
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780415484985
Published: March 17th 2009
Binding: Paperback
Price: £24.99 / $39.95
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 previously unpublished studies, Frank demonstrates how Klein enriched the concept of negative transference and laid the basis for the innovations on both technique and theory that eventually led not only to changes in child analysis, but also to changes in the analysis of adults. Frank also uncovers the influence that this had on Klein's later theories of the paranoid-schizoid and depressive positions, and on her understanding of psychotic anxieties.
The first seven chapters in the book provide an explanation of the essence of Klein's approach to child psychoanalysis covering topics including:
- the inevitability and usefulness of negative transference
- development of play
- early conscious and unconscious phantasies.
Part two provides a translation of Klein's unpublished notes on the treatments of four of the children she analysed in Berlin: 7-year-old Grete, 2-year-old Rita, 7-year-old Inge and 6-year-old Erna.
Melanie Klein in Berlin is the first text to make extensive use of Klein's unpublished papers, clinical notes, diaries and manuscripts. It will appeal to anyone involved in child psychoanalysis and the development of Melanie Klein's thinking.
Contents:
Part I. Introduction. Melanie Klein's Psychoanalytic Clinical Work in Berlin. Grete: One of Melanie Klein's Very First Little Girl Patients in Berlin. Rita: Klein's Youngest Patient. The Beginning of the Play Technique: Inge and, perhaps, Ernst? Erna: The Most Extensive Child Analysis of the Berlin Years. Conclusion. Part II. Notes to this Edition. Treatment Notes on Grete. Treatment Notes on Rita. Treatment Notes on Inge. Treatment Notes on Erna. Bibliography
Author Biography:
Claudia Frank is a psychoanalyst in private practice in Stuttgart. She is a training analyst of the DPV, a constituent society of the International Psychoanalytic Association. Until 2001 she was Chair of Psychoanalysis, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics in the Department for Psychoanalysis, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics of the University in Tübingen. She has published papers on the technique, theory and history of psychoanalysis as well as on applied psychoanalysis. She is co-editor of the Jahrbuch der Psychoanalyse.
Doubt, Conviction and the Analytic Process
Selected Papers of Michael Feldman
By Michael Feldman
Edited by Betty Joseph
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780415479356
Published: February 2nd 2009
Binding: Paperback
Price: £22.99 / $36.95
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 the important pioneering work of such analysts as Klein, Rosenfeld and Joseph, showing in fine detail some of the ways in which the patient feels driven to communicate to the analyst, not only in order to be understood by him, but also in order to affect him.
The author's detailed descriptions of the clinical process allow the reader to follow the actual process that enables the patient to get into contact with thoughts and feelings of which he or she was previously unconscious or only vaguely aware.
Feldman makes the reader aware of the constant dynamic interaction between the patient and the analyst, each affecting the other. He shows how the analyst has to find a balance between doubt, uncertainty and confusion in himself and through this process may arrive at an understanding of what is happening, and by formulating this understanding the analyst can make a significant contribution to the process of psychic change.
This collection of essays not only throws light on fascinating questions of technique, but also reflects on elements that are fundamental to psychoanalytic work. It is essential reading for practising psychoanalysts and those in training, as well as anyone with a general interest in the psychoanalytic relationship between the client and the therapist in the consulting room.
Contents:
Schafer, Preface. Joseph, Introduction. Feldman, The Oedipus Complex: Manifestations in the Inner World and the Therapeutic Situation. Splitting and Projective Identification. Projective Identification: The Analyst’s Involvement. The Dynamics of Reassurance. The Illumination of History. Manifestation of the Death Instinct in the Consulting Room. Envy and the Negative Therapeutic Reaction. Addressing Parts of the Self. ‘I Was Thinking….’ The Defensive Use of Compliance. Grievance: The Underlying Oedipal Configuration. Filled with Doubt. The Problem of Conviction in the Session.
Author Biography:
Michael Feldman studied psychology and medicine, and worked for many years in the Psychotherapy Unit at the Maudsley in London. He is now a training analyst of the British Psychoanalytical Society and lectures and supervises clinical work in several centres in Europe and the USA. He has published numerous psychoanalytical papers, and has co-edited, with Elizabeth Spillius, Psychic Equilibrium and Psychic Change: Selected Papers of Betty Joseph (Routledge, 1989)
Mind Works
Technique and Creativity in Psychoanalysis
By Antonino Ferro
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780415429924
Published: November 3rd 2008
Binding: Paperback
Price: £22.99 / $39.95
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 technique. These concepts include:
- interpretive modalities
- the end of analysis
- psychosomatic pathologies
- narcissism.
Mind Works: Technique and Creativity in Psychoanalysis also suggests that dreaming is a fundamental moment in analytic work, and Ferro discusses how dreams can go beyond the present to become a continuous act of the mind in the waking state, allowing internal and external stimuli to be transformed into thoughts and emotions.
Focusing on how the minds of the analyst and the analysand work in psychoanalysis, this book will appeal to psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, and psychiatrists and will be helpful in psychoanalytic and psychotherapeutic work on a day-to-day basis.
Contents:
Screenplays and Film Sets. Digressions on Interpretation. Psychosomatic Pathology or Metaphor: Problems of the Boundary. Homosexualities: A Field Ripe for Ploughing. A Model of the Mind and its Clinical Implications: How to Turn Back in Order to Move Forward. Instructions for Seafarers and the Shipwrecked: Signals from the Analytic Field and Emotional Transformations. The Patient’s Response to Interpretations and Events in the Field. Terminations Orthodox and Unorthodox. Narcissism and Frontier Areas.
Rediscovering Psychoanalysis
Thinking and Dreaming, Learning and Forgetting
By Thomas Ogden
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780415468633
Published: October 27th 2008
Binding: Paperback
Price: £22.99 / $36.95
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 practicing that is a living process originating, to a large degree, from the personality and experience of the analyst.
This book approaches rediscovering psychoanalysis from four vantage points derived from the author’s experience as a clinician, a supervisor, a teacher, and a reader of psychoanalysis. Thomas Ogden begins by presenting his experience of creating psychoanalysis freshly in the form of "talking-as-dreaming" in the analytic session; this is followed by an exploration of supervising and teaching psychoanalysis in a way that is distinctly one’s own and unique to each supervisee and seminar group. Ogden goes on to rediscover psychoanalysis in this book as he continues his series of close readings of seminal analytic works. Here, he makes original theoretical contributions through the exploration, explication, and extension of the work of Bion, Loewald, and Searles.
Throughout this text, Thomas Ogden offers ways of revitalizing and reinventing the exchange between analyst and patient in each session, making this book essential reading for psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, and other readers with an interest in psychoanalysis.
Reviews:
'Thomas Ogden is one of the most creative psychoanalysts of our time. His work, papers and books are among the most quoted in the entire world. This book will be a study text for many psychoanalysts, clinical psychologists and psychotherapists, since it reveals him as an excellent teacher. He repeats his central concepts at key points, a didactic strategy which induces readers to think and rethink them in various contexts: analysis, supervision, teaching and writing.' - Susan Rogers and David Rosenfeld, Psychoanalyst, University of Buenos Aires
Contents:
Rediscovering Psychoanalysis. On Talking-As-Dreaming. On Psychoanalytic Supervision. On Teaching Psychoanalysis. Elements of Analytic Style: Bion's Clinical Seminars. Bion's Four Principles of Mental Functioning. Reading Loewald: Oedipus Reconceived. Reading Harold Searles
Author Biography:
Thomas H. Ogden is the winner of the 2004 International Journal of Psychoanalysis Award for Outstanding Paper. He is the Director of the Center for the Advanced Study of the Psychoses and a member of the International Psychoanalytical Association. His previous publications include This Art of Psychoanalysis: Dreaming Undreamt Dreams and Interrupted Cries. His work has been published in 16 languages
Time, Space and Phantasy
By Rosine Jozef Perelberg
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780415463225
Published: June 5th 2008
Binding: Paperback
Price: £22.99 / $39.95
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 meanings that can be re-translated to the past.
Perelberg’s analysis of Freud’s Multi-dimensional model of temporality suggests that he always viewed the constitution of the individual as non-linear. In Freud’s formulations, the individual is decentred and ruled by different temporalities, most of which escape their consciousness. Perelberg identifies the similarities between this and Einstein’s theory of relativity which states that rather than being absolute, time depends on the relative position and speed of the observing individual suggesting that rather than being a reality, time is an abstraction, connecting objects and events.
Throughout this text, Perelberg draws together connections between time, mental space, and phantasy showing how time is constantly reshaped in the light of new events and experiences. This book will be of interest to psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, psychologists, and social workers.
Reviews:
"Overall, Time, Space and Phantasy is a rich and thought-provoking book that skillfully weaves metapsychological and clinical material into a challenging Freudian meditation on temporality and its role in invalidating any simplistic notions of linear causality in human experience. It forces us to critically consider what we know as practitioner-researchers, how we know what we claim to, and what the limits to this knowledge are." - Gavin Ivey, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in South Africa, Vol. 16, No. 2, 2008
"Time, Space and Phantasy is a tour de force of psychoanalytic and anthropological scholarship and clinical acumen. I highly recommend it to all those who want to deepen their understanding of the theory and practice of psychoanalysis." – Donald Campbell, Past President of the British Psycho-analytical Society
"This is a deeply intelligent and original book yet written in a clear and simple style which avoids jargon. … This exceptional book has many remarkable clinical illustrations and closes with a beautiful chapter, written with Bella Jozef… followed by thoughts on creativity in psychoanalytical research." - Marilia Aisenstein, Past President of the Société Psychanalytique de Paris,
"The breadth of Rosine Perelberg’s anthropological and cultural background makes her one of the most interesting voices in analytic writing today." - Michael Parsons, Training Analyst, Fellow of the British Institute of Psycho-Analysis
"This is an exceptional volume that establishes lines of communication between colleagues from countries that are marked by different traditions. Through this, Rosine Perelberg makes her own original and creative contribution to psychoanalysis." - From the Preface by Andre Green, Past President of the Societe Psychanalytique de Paris; International Psychoanalytic Association Outstanding Scientific Achievement Award
Contents:
Part I: Theory and Clinical Practice. Time and Space in Psychoanalysis and Anthropology. Après Coup and Unconscious Phantasy. The Oracles in Dreams: The Past and the Future in the Present. "To Be Or Not To Be" – Here: A Woman’s Denial of Time and Memory. Identity and Identification in the Analysis of a Violent Young Man. Full and Empty Spaces in the Analytic Process. Après Coup and the Controversial Discussions. Time and Space in Psychoanalytic Listening. Part II: Applications. Jozef, Time and Memory in One Hundred Years of Solitude. "What Can You Possibly Learn From Babies?" The Infant and the Infantile.
Author Biography:
Rosine Jozef Perelberg, PhD is a Training Analyst and Supervisor, Fellow of the Institute of Psychoanalysis, and Visiting Professor in the Psychoanalysis Unit, Research Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology at University College London. She undertook her PhD in Social Anthropology at the London School of Economics. Between 1989 and 1999 she was an Associate Editor New Library of Psychoanalysis and on the Editorial Board International Journal of Psychoanalysis. Amongst her publications, Psychoanalytic Understanding of Violence and Suicide (also in the NLP), Dreaming and Thinking, Time and Memory and Freud: A Modern Reader.
She won an International prize in 1991 for her paper "What can you possibly learn from babies", published in chapter 10 of this book.
Psychoanalysis Comparable and Incomparable
The Evolution of a Method to Describe and Compare Psychoanalytic Approaches
By David Tuckett
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780415451437
Published: February 1st 2008
Binding: Paperback
Price: £22.99 / $41.95
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 original meetings conducted by the European Psychoanalytic Federation Working Party on Comparative Clinical Methods. The project comprises over seventy cases discussed by more than five hundred experienced psychoanalysts over the course of sixty workshops.
Authored by a group of leading European psychoanalysts, this book explores ways for psychoanalysts using different approaches to learn from each other when they present their work to fellow psychoanalysts, and provides tools for the individual practitioner to examine and improve his or her own approach. As described in detail in its pages, sticking to the task led to some surprising experiences, raising fundamental questions about the way clinical discussion and supervision are conducted in psychoanalysis.
Well known by many in the psychoanalytic community and the object of much interest and debate, this project is described by those who have had the closest contact with it and will satisfy a widely held curiosity in psychoanalysts and psychotherapists throughout the world.
David Tuckett is winner of the 2007 Sigourney Award.
Reviews:
"This extraordinary volume describes the enormous progress made by an ongoing international scientific effort to help analysts identify a core of the psychoanalytic process that is compatible with the variety of theories and techniques that now exists in the international community...I know of no project more important than this one for the future of psychoanalysis. Each chapter is filled with ideas, and every working analyst will come away from this book stimulated to think in new and interesting ways about his or her own clinical activity." - Arnold M. Cooper, Weill Cornell Medical College, USA
Contents:
Birksted-Breen, Introductory Foreword. Tuckett, On Difference, Discussing Differences and Comparison: An Introduction. Denis, In Praise of Empiricism. Bohm, Before the Method, Underestimating the Problem and the Meeting in Prague. Jemstedt, The Sorrento Experience: Chaos Replaced by Too Much Structure. Hinz, Some Reflections on the Problems of Comparison and Difference in the Light of Doubts and Enthusiasms. Tuckett, Reflection and Evolution: Developing the 2-step Method. Birksted-Breen, Ferro, Mariotti, Work in Progress: Using the 2-step Method. Schubert, Experiences of Participating: Group Processes and Group Dynamics. Basile, Ferro, Some Surprises: A New Style for Case Discussion? Tuckett, Reflection and Comparison: Some Final Remarks. Tuckett, Appendix: The Origins of the EPF "New" Scientific Policy and Early History of the Working Party.
Author Biography:
The authors of this book are a group of leading European Psychoanalysts asked by the European Psychoanalytic Federation (EPF) to form a working party devoted to understanding and comparing the different ways psychoanalysts work. They include among their number the current and former Editor of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis and the former editor of the Revue Francaise de Psychoanalyse. Between them they have contributed numerous books and scientific articles in English and other languages.
Listening to Hanna Segal
Her Contribution to Psychoanalysis
By Jean-Michel Quinodoz
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780415440851
Published: November 8th 2007
Binding: Paperback
Price: £19.95 / $31.95
How has Hanna Segal influenced psychoanalysis today?
Jean-Michel Quinodoz provides the reader with a comprehensive overview of Segal's life, her clinical and theoretical work, and her contribution to psychoanalysis over the past sixty years by combining actual biographical and conceptual interviews with Hanna Segal herself or with colleagues who have listened to Segal in various contexts.
Listening to Hanna Segal explores both Segal's personal and professional histories, and the interaction between the two. The book opens with an autobiographical account of Segal's life, from her birth in Poland to her analysis with Melanie Klein in London where she became the youngest member of the British Psychoanalytical Society. Quinodoz goes on to explain Segal's contributions in various fields of psychoanalysis including:
- the psychoanalytic treatment of psychotic patients
- the introduction of the "symbolic equation"
- aesthetics and the creative impulse
- the analysis of elderly patients
- introducing the work of Melanie Klein.
Quinodoz concludes by examining Segal's most recent contribution to psychoanalysis - exploring nuclear terror, psychotic anxieties, and group phenomena.
Throughout the interviews Segal speaks of her close relationships with prominent colleagues such as Klein, Rosenfeld, and Bion, making this book both a valuable contribution to the history of psychoanalysis and an indication of the evolution of psychoanalytic ideas over the past six decades. This clear summary of Hanna Segal's life and her contribution to psychoanalysis will be an essential guide to anyone studying Segal and her contemporaries.
Reviews:
"...Quinodo is superb, probing, discursive and illuminating. What I was left with at the end of the book was a very clear sense of Segal as a person, an analyst and a thinker, and a sense that one had indeed encountered her in a multitude of ways." - Maggie McAlister, Journal of Analytical Psychology, Vol. 53, 2008Contents:
Introduction, Hanna Segal: The Teacher and Her Teaching. Acknowledgements. Hanna Segal: A Psychoanalytic Autobiography. Psychoanalysis and the Aesthetic Experience. The Psychoanalytic Treatment of Psychotic Patients. From Symbolic Equation to Symbolic Representation. The Fundamental Conflict Between the Life and Death Drives. Presenting the Kleinian Approach to Psychoanalysis. Interpreting the Function of Dreams Along with their Content. The Analysis of Elderly Patients. Seminars and Supervisions. Nuclear Terror, Psychotic Anxieties and Group Phenomena.
Author Biography:
Jean-Michel Quinodoz is a Psychoanalyst in private practice in Geneva. He is a member of the Swiss Psychoanalytical Society and Honorary Member of the British Psychoanalytical Society. Jean-Michel Quinodoz is author of The Taming of Solitude, Dreams That Turn Over a Page and Reading Freud.
Constructions and the Analytic Field
History, Scenes and Destiny
By Domenico Chianese
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780415384056
Published: October 11th 2007
Binding: Paperback
Price: £22.99 / $39.95
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 writing, beginning with 'Constructions in Analysis' and ending in 'Moses and Monotheism', as well as the impressions of analytic method reflected in contemporary writers such as Thomas Mann, and historical writings from both sides of the Atlantic. Drawing on vivid and persuasive clinical examples, he argues that psychoanalysis creates a 'scenic space' between analysand and analyst, a theatrical space wherein the cast of the patient's interior world enter and exit from the scene.
Drawing on the rich Italian psychoanalytic tradition, this original approach to the analytic field will be of interest to psychoanalysts, historians and literary experts.
Contents:
Chianese, Turning Over a New Leaf. Material Reality, Historical Reality, Psychic Reality. Psychoanalysis and History: An Interminable Dispute. Psychoanalysis and Narrative: A Controversial Relationship. The Crisis of History and the Creation of 'Analytical Space'. Virtual Space, Scenic Space. On the Traces of Countertransference. Italian Landscapes. A Nun. Chiasma. Leaving the Stage.
Author Biography:
Domenico Chianese is a psychiatrist and training analyst of the Italian Psychoanalytic Society, of which he is former president. He has published two books, and lives and works in Rome.
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
By Hanna Segal
Edited by Nicola Abel-Hirsch
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780415415743
Published: July 12th 2007
Binding: Paperback
Price: £22.99 / $41.95
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 about vision and disillusionment. Her long interest in factors affecting war is pursued in her examination of the psychotic factors, symbolic significance and psychological impact of the events of September the 11th, and the ensuing war on Iraq.
The second half of the book discusses Segal's presentations to conferences and symposia from 1969-2000, this material is split into six sections:
- Models of the mind and mental processes
- Psychoanalytic technique
- Segal on Klein
- Segal on Bion
- Envy and narcissism
- Interviews.
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow is a masterly contribution to the field. Segal's clarity of thought and striking clinical illustrations make the book accessible to those new to the field as well as those acquainted with her seminal work.
Reviews:
"I found this a fascinating and rewarding book to read, with a breadth, as well as depth, of content that is unusual in a psychoanalytic book, reflecting Hanna Segal's commitment to a search for truth, which is not confined to psychic reality but encompasses social and political reality and conflict. I recommend it highly." - Golshad Ghiaci, Reflections Magazine, Summer, 2008Contents:
Schafer, Foreword. Abel-Hirsch, General Introduction. Part I: Papers from 2000-2006. Introduction to Part I. Interpretation of Dreams – 100 Years On. Disillusionment: The Story of Adam and Eve and that of Lucifer. September 11. Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow. Vision. Reflections on Truth, Tradition, and the Psychoanalytic Tradition of Truth. Part II: Contributions to Symposia and Conferences and Other Occasional Writings. Introduction to Part II. Models on Mind and Mental Processes. Psychic Structure and Psychic Change – Changing Models of the Mind (1997). The Mind as Conflict and Compromise Formation: Comments on Charles Brenner’s Paper (1992). Acting on Phantasy and Acting on Desire (1992). Symbolic Equation and Symbols (1996). What is an Object? The Role of Perception (1990). Projective Identification: Comments on Ruth Riesenberg Malcolm’s Paper (1995). The End of Psychoanalysis? (1996) Psychoanalytic Technique. Model of Mental Functioning and Psychoanalytic Process (1992). What is Therapeutic and Counter Therapeutic in Psychoanalysis? (1987) ‘Corrective Emotional Experience’: Comments on the Technique of Franz Alexander (1990). The Role of Child Analysis in the General Psychoanalytic Training (1972). Segal on Klein. The Melanie Klein Plaque in Pitlochry (1987). Klein (1996). Review of Kristeva’s Le Genie Feminin Tome 11 – Melanie Klein (2000). Segal on Bion. The Significance of Psychic Pain in the Mental Equilibrium (1976). Bion’s Clinical Contributions 1950-1965 (1980). Bion’s Alpha Function and Alpha Elements (1996). Introduction to Bion (1998). Envy and Narcissism. Envy and Jealousy (1969). Narcissism: Comments on Ronald Britton’s Paper (2000). Interviews. Hanna Segal Interviewed by Jacqueline Rose (1990). Hanna Segal Interviewed by Dorrit Harazim (1998).
Author Biography:
Hanna Segal is an internationally renowned psychoanalyst. She has served as President of the British Psychoanalytical Society, Vice President of the International Psychoanalytical Association and Freud Professor of Psychoanalysis at the University of London. Her earlier publications include The Work of Hanna Segal and Psychoanalysis, Literature and War.
Nicola Abel-Hirsch is a psychoanalyst with the British Psychoanalytical Society and works in private practice in London. She teaches in the UK and Taiwan and her publications include a work on the life instinct, Eros.
Roy Schafer is a psychoanalyst in New York City. He has also served as Freud Professor of Psychoanalysis at the University of London, and as Vice president of the International Psychoanalytical Association. His many publications include the Contemporary Kleinians of London.
Encounters with Melanie Klein
Selected Papers of Elizabeth Spillius
By Elizabeth Spillius
Edited by Priscilla Roth
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780415419994
Published: June 21st 2007
Binding: Paperback
Price: £22.99 / $41.95
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 leading figure amongst Kleinian analysts.
Spillius describes what she regards as the important features of Kleinian thought and discusses the research she has carried out in Melanie Klein's unpublished archive, including Klein's views on projective identification.
Spillius's own clinical ideas make up the last part of the book with papers on envy, phantasy, technique, the negative therapeutic reaction and otherness. Her writing has a clarity which is very particular to her; she conveys complicated ideas in a most straightforward manner, well illustrated with pertinent clinical material.
This book represents fifty years of the developing thought and scholarship of a talented and dedicated psychoanalyst.
Reviews:
"This is a fine book, both as a refreshing and illuminating account of Melanie Klein’s thinking, and as an expression of Elizabeth Spillius’s own attitudes to and work in psychoanalysis" – Michael Brearley, International Journal of Psychoanalysis, (2008) 89
"This fascinating, absorbing book is as much about how Elizabeth Spillius integrates her original discipline of anthropology into her thinking and practice as an analyst as it is about the theoretical contribution of Melanie Klein... I would recommend this book to any reader interested in the original works of Melanie Klein and the development of her theory, which would seem to confirm the richness of her original model." - Karen Stobart, Journal of Analytical Psychology, 53, 2008
Contents:
Roth, Rusbridger, Preface. Spillius, General Introduction. Part 1: From Anthropology to Psychoanalysis. Anthropology and Psychoanalysis: A Personal Concordance. Kleinian Thought: Overview and Personal View. Part 2: In Melanie Klein’s Archive. Introduction: The Archive. Melanie Klein Revisited: Her Unpublished Thoughts on Technique. Melanie Klein on the Past. Projective Identification: Back to the Future. Part 3: Interaction of Ideas and Clinical Work. Clinical Reflections on the Negative Therapeutic Reaction. Varieties of Envious Experience. Freud and Klein on the Concept of Phantasy. Developments in Kleinian Technique. Recognition of Separateness and Otherness.
Author Biography:
Elizabeth Spillius trained originally in psychology and anthropology and then at the British Institute of Psychoanalysis.
Projected Shadows
Psychoanalytic Reflections on the Representation of Loss in European Cinema
Edited by Andrea Sabbadini
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780415428170
Published: March 22nd 2007
Binding: Paperback
Price: £22.99 / $36.95
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 and loss through death. Many other themes familiar to psychoanalytic discourse are explored in the process, such as:
- Establishment and resolution of Oedipal conflicts
- Representation of pathological characters on the screen
- Use of unconscious defence mechanisms
- The interplay of dreams, reality and fantasy
Projected Shadows aims to deepen the ongoing constructive dialogue between psychoanalysis and film. Andrea Sabbadini has assembled a remarkable number of internationally renowned contributors, both academic film scholars and psychoanalysts from a variety of cultural backgrounds, who use an array of contemporary methodologies to apply psychoanalytic thinking to film.
This original collection will appeal to anyone passionate about film, as well as professionals, academics and students interested in the relationship between psychoanalysis and the arts.
Contents:
Gabbard, Foreword. Sabbadini, Introduction. Kline, The Night of Melancholia and the Daylight of Mourning: Anne Fontaine’s Comment j’ai tué mon père. Goisis, Quest for a Lost Mother: Alina Marazzi’s Un’ora sola ti vorrei. Wigoder, Berman, Is There Light at the End of the Tunnel? Keren Yedaya's Or (Mon Tresor). Costantini, Golinelli, The Anorexic Paradox: Matteo Garrone’s First Love. Zwiebel, Reparation and the Empathic Other: Christian Petzold’s Wolfsburg. Sabbadini, The Talking Cure from Freud to Almodóvar: Hable con ella. Portuges, Intergenerational Transmission: The Holocaust in Central European Cinema. Webber, Cut and Laced: Traumatism and Fetishism in Luis Buñuel’s Un Chien Andalou. Taylor Robinson, Two Short Films by Jan Svankmajer: Jabberwocky and Punch and Judy. Mulvey, Compilation Film as ‘Deferred Action’: Vincent Monnikendam’s Mother Dao, the Turtle-like. Weinstein, Moving Beyond the Constraints of the Mortal Self: Universal Images of Narcissism in Jan Troell’s The Flight of the Eagle. Stein, Tricycles, Bicycles, Life Cycles: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Childhood Loss and Transgenerational Parenting in Sylvain Chômet’s Belleville Rendez-Vous. Diamond, Loss, Mourning and Desire in Midlife: François Ozon’s Under the Sand and Swimming Pool. Sabbadini, Three Sisters: Sibling Knots in Bergman's Cries and Whispers. Christie, Time Regained: The Complex Magic of Reverse Motion. Films Index.
Author Biography:
Andrea Sabbadini is a Fellow of the Institute of Psychoanalysis and honorary senior lecturer at University College London. He has published extensively in psychoanalytic journals, and edited books including Even Paranoids Have Enemies (Routledge, 1998) and The Couch and the Silver Screen: Psychoanalytic Reflections on European Cinema (Brunner-Routledge, 2003).
Feeling the Words
Neuropsychoanalytic Understanding of Memory and the Unconscious
By Mauro Mancia
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780415390972
Published: March 15th 2007
Binding: Paperback
Price: £22.99 / $41.95
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 detailed clinical examples to demonstrate how insights from neuroscience and infant development research can change how the analyst responds to his or her patient. Major topics such as the transference, the Oedipus complex, the interpretation of dreams and the nature of mental pain are reviewed and refined in the light of these recent developments. The book is divided into three parts, covering:
- Memory and the unconscious
- The dream: between neuroscience and psychoanalysis
- Further reflections on narcissism and other clinical topics
Feeling the Words offers an original perspective on the connection between memory and the unconscious. It will be welcomed by all psychoanalysts interested in investigating new ways of working with patients.
Reviews:
This book is notable for being stimulating and comprehensible to both the experienced psychoanalyst clinician as well as to anyone with an interest in the work of Freud and his followers, and the state of psychoanalytic research today.
Arnold Cooper, from the Foreword
Contents:
Cooper, Foreword. Introduction: Beyond Freud: The Twilight of Oedipus and the Neurosciences’ Contribution to Psychoanalysis. Part I: Memory and the Unconscious. Memory Between Neuroscience and Psychoanalysis. Implicit Memory and Unrepressed Unconscious: Their Role in Creativity, in the Transference and in Dreams. Therapeutic (F)actors in the Theater of Memory. Part II: The Dream: Between Neuroscience and Psychoanalysis. The Labyrinth of the Night: Biology, Poetry and Theology. The Dream: Between Neuroscience and Psychoanalysis. The Dream: A Window Onto the Transference. Part III: Further Reflections on Narcissism and Other Clinical Topics. Further Historical/Critical and Clinical Reflections on Narcissism. Being with the Patient: Four Clinical Cases. Reality and Metaphor in the Analytical Relation: Transference Love. Sexuality, Such Sweet Folly. On Happiness. On Mental Pain.
Author Biography:
Mauro Mancia is Professor Emeritus of Neurophysiology, University of Milan, Italy and Training Analyst of the Italian Psychoanalytical Society. His interest is in the link between neuroscientific knowledge and psychoanalytic theories of mind and he has written extensively on the subjects of narcissism, dreams, sleep, memory and the unconscious.The Many Voices of Psychoanalysis
By Roger Kennedy
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780415411776
Published: January 11th 2007
Binding: Paperback
Price: £22.99 / $41.95
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 practice and understanding of psychoanalysis and his position as part of the British Independent tradition. The intention of the chapters is to address the 'many voices' of psychoanalysis - the many roles and approaches a psychoanalyst may take, while adhering to the established ideas of psychoanalysis. The author takes into account the various influences which shape the psychoanalytic voice, drawing on literature, philosophy and sociology as well as analytic ideas. Subjects covered include:
- aspects of consciousness - one voice or many?
- handling the dual aspect of the transference
- bearing the unbearable - working with the abused mind
- the internal drama - psychoanalysis and the theatre
- a psychoanalyst in the family court.
This book will be of use not only to practicing psychoanalysts, but also to psychoanalytic psychotherapists and other mental health workers. It will also appeal to anyone interested in the relationship between psychoanalysis and related disciplines.
Contents:
Introduction. Part I: Theoretical Voices. Freedom to Relate. The Human Aspects of the Psychoanalytic Relationship. Aspects of Consciousness - One Voice or Many? On Subjective Organisations. Restoring History to Psychoanalysis. Part II: Clinical Voices. Handling the Dual Aspect of the Transference. A Severe Form of Breakdown in Communication in the Psychoanalysis of an Ill Adolescent. Bearing the Unbearable - Working with the Abused Mind. Becoming a Subject - Some Theoretical and Clinical Issues. Part III: Other Voices. The Internal Drama - Psychoanalysis and the Theatre. Some Aspects of Group Therapy with Psychotic Patients. Psychosis and the Family. Work of the Day. A Psychoanalyst in the Family Court.Author Biography:
Roger Kennedy is a Supervising and Training Analyst and President of the British Psychoanalytical Society. He is Consultant psychotherapist at the Family Unit, Cassell Hospital, Richmond, UK and Honorary Senior Lecturer in Psychiatry at Imperial College, London, UK. He is author of Psychoanalysis, History and Subjectivity.Recovery of the Lost Good Object
By Eric Brenman
Edited by Gigliola Fornari Spoto
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780415409230
Published: September 8th 2006
Binding: Paperback
Price: £22.99 / $36.95
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 in one volume, Eric Brenman's papers give the reader a unique insight into the development of his clinical and theoretical thinking. They highlight many issues which are relevant to the present debate about psychoanalytic technique, including:
- The Narcissism of the Analyst
- Hysteria
- The Recovery of the Good Object Relationship
- Meaning and Meaningfulness
- Cruelty and Narrowmindedness
- The Value of Reconstruction in Adult Psychoanalysis
The second half of the book documents three of the clinical seminars and covers the transgenerational transmission of trauma, the analysis of borderline pathology and the psychoanalytical approach to severely deprived patients.
This collection will be welcomed by all psychoanalysts and psychotherapists, and other members of the helping professions interested in investigating the valuable contribution that Eric Brenman has made to contemporary psychoanalysis.
Contents:
Spoto, Introduction. Preface. The Narcissism of the Analyst: Its Effect in Clinical Practice. The Value of Reconstruction in Adult Psychoanalysis. Separation: A Clinical Problem. Matters of Life and Death - Real and Assumed. Cruelty and Narrowmindedness. Hysteria. Meaning and Meaningfulness: Touching the Untouchable. The Recovery of the Good Object Relationship: The Conflict with the Superego. De Masi, Introduction to the Clinical Seminars. Unbearable Pain. Deprivation and Violence. Transgenerational Transmission of Trauma.Author Biography:
Eric Brenman trained originally in Medicine and Psychiatry, and then at the British Institute of Psychoanalysis. He is a Senior Training Analyst and Supervisor in the British Psychoanalytic Society, and a past President of the Society.
Gigliola Fornari Spoto trained in Medicine and Psychiatry in Italy and then at the British Institute of Psychoanalysis where she is now a Senior Training Analyst.
Psychoanalysis and Religion in the 21st Century
Competitors or Collaborators?
Edited by David Black
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780415379441
Published: March 30th 2006
Binding: Paperback
Price: £22.99 / $41.95
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 beginning, individual analysts have questioned Freud's blanket rejection of religion.
In this book, David Black brings together contributors from a wide range of schools and movements to discuss the issues. They bring a fresh perspective to the subject of religion and psychoanalysis, answering vital questions such as:
- How do religious stories carry (or distort) psychological truth?
- How do religions 'work', psychologically?
- What is the nature of religious experience?
- Are there parallels between psychoanalysis and particular religious traditions?
Psychoanalysis and Religion in the 21st Century will be of great interest to psychoanalysts, psychoanalytic therapists, psychodynamic counsellors, and anyone interested in the issues surrounding psychoanalysis, religion, theology and spirituality.
Reviews:
"What makes this book remarkable is the even-handed nature of the discussion and the wide variety of standpoints from which the 14 contributors approach their chosen topics ... this collection is packed with stimulating contributions." - Christopher MacKenna, British Association of Psychotherapists, London
"David Black has gathered together a selection of profound and important writings on religious faith and psychoanalysis. It is a contribution to our thinking that I warmly welcome and recommend." - Jonathan Wyatt, Psychodynamic Practice, November 2007
"David Black, the editor, has provided an excellent introduction, which also gives a brief history of the relationship between psychoanalysis and religion (…) This book should, I believe, be required reading for anyone interested in the ever-changing relationship between psychoanalysis and religion." – Mary Neave, Therapy Today, April 2008
Contents:
Black, Introduction. Part I: The Possibility of Religious Truth. Blass, Beyond Illusion: Psychoanalysis and the Question of Religious Truth. Davids, “Render Unto Caesar What is Caesar’s”: Speculations on the Interface Between Psychoanalysis and Religion. Black , “Positions” as Grades of Consciousness: The Case for a Contemplative Position. Part II: Religious Stories that Tell Psychological Truth. Britton, Emancipation from the Superego: A Clinical Study of the Book of Job. Millar, The Christmas Story: A Psychoanalytic Enquiry. Part III: The Nature and Functioning of Religious Experiences. Parsons, Ways of Transformation. Rubin, Psychoanalysis and Spirituality. Grier, Reflections on the Phenomenon of Adoration in Relationships, Both Human and Divine. Wright, Preverbal Experience and the Intuition of the Sacred. Symington, Religion: The Guarantor of Civilization. Part IV: Echoes Between Psychoanalysis and Specific Religious Traditions. Frosh, Psychoanalysis and Judaism. Epstein, The Structure of No-structure: Winnicott’s Concept of Unintegration and the Buddhist Notion of No-self. Cunningham, Vedanta and Psychoanalysis. Bomford, A Simple Question?
Author Biography:
David M. Black is a Fellow of the Institute of Psychoanalysis, London, and works as a psychoanalyst in private practice and teaches on a number of professional trainings. He has published widely on psychoanalysis in relation to religion, consciousness and values.Psychoanalysis as Therapy and Storytelling
By Antonino Ferro
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780415372053
Published: March 2nd 2006
Binding: Paperback
Price: £21.99 / $34.95
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 numerous clinical examples to investigate how narration and interpretation are interconnected in the analytic session. He draws on and develops Bion's theories to present a novel perspective on subjects such as:
- psychoanalysis as a particular form of literature
- sexuality as a narrative genre or dialect in the analyst's consulting room
- delusion and hallucination
- acting out, the countertransference and the transgenerational field
- play: characters, narrations and interpretations.
Psychoanalytic clinicians and theoreticians alike will find the innovative approach to the analytic session described here of great interest.
Winner of the 2007 Sigourney Award.
Contents:
Introduction. Narrations and Interpretations. Telling Ourselves Stories With, Perhaps, a Grain of Truth. In Praise of Row C: Psychoanalysis as a Particular Form of Literature. Sexuality as a Narrative Genre or Dialect in the Analyst’s Consulting Room. The Waking Dream: Theoretical and Clinical Aspects. Delusion and Hallucination. Characters in Literature and in the Analyst’s Consulting Room. Notes on Acting Out, the Countertransference and the Transgenerational Field. Child and Adolescent Analysis: Similarities and Differences that Mask an Underlying Unity. Play: Characters, Narrations and Interpretations.
This Art of Psychoanalysis
Dreaming Undreamt Dreams and Interrupted Cries
By Thomas Ogden
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780415372893
Published: September 8th 2005
Binding: Paperback
Price: £21.99 / $34.95
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 in human psychology.
Thomas Ogden's thinking has been at the cutting edge of psychoanalysis for more than 25 years. In this volume, he builds on the work of Freud, Klein, Winnicott, and Bion and explores the idea that human psychopathology is a manifestation of a breakdown of the individual's capacity to dream his experience. The investigation into the role of the analyst in participating psychologically in the patient's dreaming is illustrated throughout with elegant and absorbing accounts of clinical work, providing a fascinating insight into the analyst's experience. Subjects covered include:
- a new reading of the origins of object relations theory
- on holding and containing, being and dreaming
- on psychoanalytic writing.
This engaging book succeeds in conveying not just a set of techniques but a way of being with patients that is humane and compassionate. It will be of great interest to psychoanalysts, psychotherapists and other mental health professionals.
Author Biography:
Thomas H. Ogden is the winner of the 2004 International Journal of Psychoanalysis Award for Outstanding Paper. He is the Director of the Centre for the Advanced Study of the Psychoses and a full member of the International Psychoanalytical Association.
Reading Freud
A Chronological Exploration of Freud's Writings
By Jean-Michel Quinodoz
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781583917473
Published: July 14th 2005
Binding: Paperback
Price: £20.99 / $33.95
Reading Freud provides an accessible outline of the whole of Freud's work from Studies in Hysteria through to An Outline of Psycho-Analysis. It succeeds in expressing even the most complex of Freud's theories in clear and simple language whilst avoiding over-simplification.
Each chapter concentrates on an individual text and includes valuable background information, relevant biographical and historical details, descriptions of Post-Freudian developments and a chronology of Freud's concepts. By putting each text into the context of Freud's life and work as a whole, Jean-Michel Quinodoz manages to produce an overview which is chronological, correlative and interactive. Texts discussed include:
* The Interpretation of Dreams
* The 'Uncanny'
* Civilisation and its Discontents
The clear presentation, with regular summaries of the ideas raised, encourages the reader to fully engage with the texts presented and gain a thorough understanding of each text in the context of its background and impact on the development of psychoanalysis.
Drawing on his extensive experience as a clinician and a teacher of psychoanalysis, Jean-Michel Quinodoz has produced a uniquely comprehensive presentation of Freud's work which will be of great value to anyone studying Freud and Psychoanalysis.
Reviews:
'This book is both a primer and a resource for the specialist. It provides an accessible outline of the whole of Freud's work through analysis of key texts... the volume is an amazing editorial achievement for which readers of Freud should be most grateful.' - The Scientific and Medical Network Review
'Reading Freud is a significant contribution to the psychoanalytic literature. It is a work that reaffirms the continued value of Freudian thought in an era in which psychoanalytic ideas are under attack. It belongs on the bookshelf of both beginning candidates and experienced psychoanalysts.' - Glen Gabbard, Training Psychoanalyst of the American Psychoanalytic Association, Huston
'A unique aid to the teaching and to the studying of Freud's writing. This book is both imaginative and very instructive, particularly in placing Freud's work in context. A very ingenious colour coding helps the reader to differentiate between Freud's articles under discussion and various additional reflections and comments made from a variety of angles. A real must for anybody seriously interested in Psychoanalysis.' - Anne-Marie Sandler, Training Psychoanalyst of the British psychoanalytical Society, London
Contents:
Part I: The Discovery of Psychoanalysis (1895-1910). Studies on Hysteria (Freud and Breuer, 1895d). Letters to Wilhelm Fliess (1887-1902]). "Project for a Scientific Psychology" (1950c [1895]). "The Neuro-Psychoses of Defence" (1894a); "On the Grounds for Detaching a Particular. Syndrome from Neurasthenia Under the Description 'Anxiety Neurosis'" (1895b); "Further Remarks on the Neuro-Psychoses of Defence" (1896b); "Sexuality in the Aetiology of the Neuroses" (1898a); "Screen Memories" (1899a). The Interpretation of Dreams (1900a); On Dreams (1901a). The Psychopathology of Everyday Life (1901b). Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious (1905c). Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality (1905d). "Fragment of an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria" (Dora) (1905e]). Delusions and Dreams in Jensen’s ‘Gradiva’ (1907a). "Analysis of a Phobia in a Five-Year-Old Boy (‘Little Hans’)" (1909b). "Notes Upon a Case of Obsessional Neurosis" (The ‘Rat Man’) (1909d). Leonardo da Vinci and a Memory of his Childhood (1910c). Part II: The Years of Maturity (1911-1920). "Psycho-Analytic Notes on an Autobiographical Account of a Case of Paranoia (Dementia Paranoides)" (1911c). Papers on Technique Written Between 1904 and 1919. Totem and Taboo (1912-1913). "On Narcissism: An Introduction" (1914c). Papers on Metapsychology (1915-1917); Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis (1916-17). "From the History of an Infantile Neurosis" (the "Wolf-Man") (1918b). "The ‘Uncanny’" (1919h). "A Child is Being Beaten (A Contribution to the Study of the Origin of Sexual Perversions)" (1919e). "The Psychogenesis of a Case of Female Homosexuality" (1920a). Part III: Fresh Perspectives (1920-1939). Beyond the Pleasure Principle (1920g). Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego (Freud 1921c). The Ego and the Id (1923b). "The Economic Problem of Masochism" (1924c). Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety (1926d). The Future of an Illusion (1927c); The Question of Lay Analysis (1926e). Civilization and its Discontents (1930a); New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis (1933a [1932]). Papers on Denial of Rand Splitting of the Ego (1924-1938); An Outline of Psycho-Analysis (1940a [1938]). "Analysis Terminable and Interminable" (1937c); "Constructions in Analysis" (1937d). Moses and Monotheism (1939a). Reading Freud Today?
Author Biography:
Jean-Michel Quinodoz is a Psychoanalyst in private practice in Geneva. He is a member of the Swiss Psychoanalytical Society and Honorary Member of the British Psychoanalytical Society which are component Societies of the International Psychoanalytical Association founded by Freud in 1910. After ten years of activity as Editor for Europe of The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, he is now Editor in Chief of the New Annuals published in various languages by this journal. Jean-Michel Quinodoz is author of The Taming of Solitude and Dreams That Turn Over a Page.
Glacial Times
A Journey through the World of Madness
By Salomon Resnik
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781583917176
Published: March 31st 2005
Binding: Paperback
Price: £21.99 / $39.95
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 on a wide range of psychoanalytic, philosophical and literary sources, and vignettes from the author's extensive clinical experience, this book brings the subject of psychosis to life and demonstrates how the study of psychoanalysis and psychosis forces us to confront fundamental ontological questions. Subjects covered include:
- Transmission and Learning
- The role of the body in psychosis
- The Universe of Madness: Frozen words and thoughts
- The Internal world and the philosophy of the unconcsious
- Psychotic thinking and language
- The Symbolic order and its deficiencies.
This synthesis of over fifty years of experience as a psychoanalyst and psychiatrist treating psychotic patients will fascinate anyone working in these fields.
Reviews:
'...this is a very warm and human book. Resnik rightly points out that if we are going to unfreeze the patient, we have to develop warm human relationships with them, in which we are not afraid to use our countertransference associations.
In a world threatened with domination by evidence-based medicine within the field of psychosis, this book redresses the balance. It restores the centrality of a human approach with respect to the patient. It encourages those working in the field to gain confidence, in developing their own individual style, when working with patients with chronic schizophrenia.' - Richard Lucas, Int. J. Psychoanal. 2006 vol 87 part 3
Contents:
Transmission and Learning. Bodily Identification in Psychosis. The Role of the Body in Psychosis: A Group Experience. The Universe of Madness: Frozen Words and Thoughts. Glacial Times.
Author Biography:
Salomon Resnik is a psychoanalyst and psychiatrist and author of The Theatre of Dream.The Telescoping of Generations
Listening to the Narcissistic Links Between Generations
By Haydée Faimberg
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781583917534
Published: February 10th 2005
Binding: Paperback
Price: £21.99 / $34.95
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 concepts with fresh meaning, Haydee Faimberg demonstrates how narcissistic links that pass between generations can be unfolded in the intimacy of the session, through engagement with the patient's private language. The surprising clinical cases described in this book led the author to recognise the analyst's narcissistic resistances to hearing what the patient does say, and what the patient cannot say.
Psychoanalysts and psychotherapists treating adults and children, family therapists and those with an interest in cultural studies, will all find The Telescoping of Generations relevant to their work.
Haydée Faimberg has received the Haskell Norman International Award for Excellence in Psychoanalysis 2005.
Reviews:
"Can reading a scientific text directly influence the day-to-day work of a psychoanalyst? I believe so, and I think that Faimberg's is one of the few books which can really open up new perspectives and provide us with unusual tools for reading; as much in the reconstruction of patient's personal journeys as in the understanding of what happens in the analytic experience." - Stefano Bolognini, Int. J. Psychoanal. 2006, vol 87 part 3
"...I highly recommend this extraordinarily erudite, lucid and evocative text to both seasoned clinicians and students alike." - Psychoanalytic Psychology, Journal of the Division of Psychoanalysis
Contents:
The Telescoping of Generations. 'Listening to Listening'. Repetition and Surprise. The Countertransference Position and the Countertransference. The Narcissistic Dimension of the Oedipal Configuration. The Oedipus Myth Revisited. 'Listening to Listening' and Après-Coup. Misunderstanding and Psychic Truths. Narcissistic Discourse as a Resistance to Psychoanalytic Listening. Après-Coup. 'The Snark was a Boojum'.Author Biography:
Haydée Faimberg, M.D., is a Training and Supervising Analyst, Paris Psychoanalytical Society (IPA). She is in private practice in Paris, created the Conference on Intracultural and Intercultural Psychoanalytical Dialogue (IPA), chairs the Clinical Forum of the European Federation, and has co-chaired the British-French clinical meetings since 1993. Haydee Faimberg received the Haskell Norman prize 2005 for excellence in PsychoanalysisKey Ideas for a Contemporary Psychoanalysis
Misrecognition and Recognition of the Unconscious
By Andre Green
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781583918395
Published: January 20th 2005
Binding: Paperback
Price: £22.99 / $41.95
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 has led to the current 'crisis of psychoanalysis'.
In three sections covering the theoretical and practical aspects of psychoanalysis, and analysing the current state of the field, André Green provides a stimulating overview of the principal concepts that have guided his work. Subjects covered include:
- Transference and countertransference
- Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy: modalities and results
- Language-speech-discourse in psychoanalysis
- Recognition of the unconscious
This unique contemporary perspective on the psychoanalytic enterprise will fascinate all those with an interest in the problems that face the field and the opportunities for its future development.
Reviews:
"These two books, [reviewed both Key Ideas for a Contemporary Psychoanalysis & Psychoanalysis, Green 2005] based upon almost fifty years of psychoanalytic practice and thought, deserve careful study, debate, and integration into our ongoing psychoanalytic discourse. They contain a wealth of ideas derived from the author’s unique synthesis of clinical work and his close and compelling study of Freud. They are, for this reader, a powerful summation of Green’s particular distillation and vision of psychoanalysis, reminding us of what psychoanalysis has been able to achieve, the point at which it has arrived, and what remains to be addressed. Taken together, Key Ideas for a Contemporary Psychoanalysis: Misrecognition and Recognition of the Unconscious and Psychoanalysis: A Paradigm for Clinical Thinking constitute the legacy and achievement of a consummate thinker." - Howard B. Levine, The Psychoanalytic Quarterly, Vol. LXXVIII, No. 1Contents:
Prolegomena. Presentation. A Brief Subjective History of Psychoanalysis Since World War II. Part I: Practice. The Work of Psychoanalysis. Therapeutic Indications. Setting - Process - Transference. Transference and Counter-transference. Clinical Work: The Organising Axes of Pathology. Psychoanalysis (es) and Psychotherapy (ies): Modalities and Results. Part II: Theory. Freud's Epistemological Breaks. Opening the Way for a Renewal of the Theory: Subject Line and Object Line. Analysis of the Material and its Components. Space (s) and Time. Configurations of Thirdness. Language - Speech - Discourse in Psychoanalysis. The Work of the Negative. Recognition of the Unconscious. Addendum: Situating Psychoanalysis at the Dawn of the Third Millenium. Philosophical References. Scientific Knowledge. Provisional Conclusions.Seeds of Illness, Seeds of Recovery
The Genesis of Suffering and the Role of Psychoanalysis
By Antonino Ferro
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781583918296
Published: December 23rd 2004
Binding: Paperback
Price: £21.99 / $34.95
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 analytic understanding of psychopathology, his reconceptualization of the therapeutic process, and implications for analytic technique derived from his view of the therapeutic action of psychoanalysis.
Drawing on and developing the ideas of Wilfred Bion, Ferro gives a unique perspective on subjects including:
- Container Inadequacy and Violent Emotions
- The waking dream and narrations
- 'Evidence': starting again from Bion
- Self-analysis and gradients of functioning in the analyst
This highly original approach to the problem of therapeutic factors in psychoanalysis will be of interest to all practising and training psychoanalysts and psychotherapists.
Reviews:
"What gives the book its special character is its skilful weaving together of a rigorous theoretical stance with the enjoyable, communicative skills displayed in his clinical work, and which one seems to witness in person, as though crouching in a corner of the analyst's mind. It is not easy to describe Ferro's writing skills, which are like those of a great musician who can allow himself the virtuosities while never for a moment forgetting, or lessening, the technical clarity of his performance." - Anna Ferruta, International Journal of PsychoanalysisContents:
Ogden, Foreword. Seeds of Illness and the Role of Defences. The Culture of Reverie and the Culture of Evacuation. Container Inadequacy and Violent Emotions. Nachträglichkeit and the Stork: The Analytic Field and Dream Thought Clinical Illustration. The Waking Dream and Narrations. 'Evidence': Starting Again from Bion. From the Tyranny of the Superego to the Democracy of Affects: The Transformational Passage Through the Analyst's Mind. Self-analysis and Gradients of Functioning in the Analyst. Pivotal-age Crises and Pivotal-event Crises. Psychoanalysis and Narration. Bibliography.The Quiet Revolution in American Psychoanalysis
Selected Papers of Arnold M. Cooper
By Arnold Cooper
Edited by Elizabeth Auchincloss
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781583918920
Published: October 28th 2004
Binding: Paperback
Price: £22.99 / $41.95
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, the interface with neighboring disciplines, and the institutional life of the profession. In these papers, he both documents and critiques what he calls a 'Quiet Revolution' following the death of Freud, in the way psychoanalysis is conceived: as a science, as a theory of mental life, as a treatment, as a profession.
Throughout his professional life, the process of change has fascinated Cooper. His own contributions to psychoanalytic clinical theory have changed our understanding of work with patients to include a greater appreciation of narcissistic and pre-oedipal themes in development and of the human encounter embedded in the psychoanalytic situation. His progressive leadership in our educational and professional organizations has done much to promote change toward greater self-examination and tolerance of new ideas, and indeed, to create the conditions that make change possible.
Above all, Cooper's unique ability to observe and reflect upon the process of change, recorded here in papers selected from over 150 written in the years between 1947 and 2002, has helped make Cooper the guide to whom psychoanalysts repeatedly turn to understand not only where, but even what, psychoanalysis is.
Reviews:
'The clinical examples are illustrative, clear, occasionally self-critical, and modest. It is unusual for an analyst to write about his mistakes, where he has erred, and where he has done poorly. The last section of the book deals with psychoanalysis as a profession. As we have come to expect from Cooper, the emphasis here is not an analytic rules or standard technique but on the analyst’s character, particularly the capacity to resonate and be empathic with the analysands.' - Harry Trosman, Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association 2006 Vol 54 No. 2, p659
'In this book we have an excellent example of how psychoanalysis has grown primarily as a result of clinical work, though fertilized by neighboring disciplines that augment its base of knowledge. In addition to the clinical context, Cooper has benefited from literature, philosophy, infant research, and neurobiology. However, the major attraction of this work is its emphasis on the analystic situation as an empirical base for expanding the systematic body of psychoanalytic knowledge. Finally let me say that in so far as the New Library of Psychoanalysis was seeking a spokesman for the contemporary American position, its editors chose well in publishing these papers of Arnold Cooper.' - Harry Trosman, Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association 2006 Vol 54 No. 2, p600
'It follows from Cooper's stress on plurality, experiment, empirical research, the value of a psychoanalytic community, and pragmatic openness that he has an important place in contemporary psychoanalysis. To use his own language, he is a "lumper" rather than a "splitter", a force for mutual investigative collaboration, rather than a contestant against rival schools.' - Jay Martin, American Imago 2006 Vol 63 No. 1, p130
'Analysts with greatly differing convictions can learn much from Cooper's rigorous investigations of the narcissistic-masochistic character and its derivatives - in their patients, and perhaps even in themselves.' - Jay Martin, American Imago 2006 Vol 63 No. 1, p133
'With auto biographical candor and a probing attitude that permeates every page, Cooper reflects on the formative experiences and raises questions as "... part of an ongoing personal struggle to reassure myself that my thinking psychoanalytically wasn't totally eccentric. I was never certain that I did deep analysis as the socalled orthodox did... Until quite recently I wasn’t sure that they didn't know something vital that I didn't." ... He invites us to join his personal evolution - his silent revolution - to think about where we have been as a profession and where we may be headed. ... The Quiet Revolution in American Psychoanalysis is both reassuring and disquieting, ultimately deidealizing complacency and stagnation while encouraging a questioning attitude about what is considered psychoanalytic.' - Julie Jaffee Nagel, The Psychoanalytic Quarterly Vol LXXV 2006 No 4
Contents:
Cooper, Foreword. Auchincloss, Introduction. The Impact on Clinical Work of the Analyst's Idealizations and Identifications (1998). Part I: The Quiet Revolution in Psychoanalysis. Psychoanalytic Inquiry and New Knowledge (1980 [1983]). Psychoanalysis at One Hundred: Beginnings of Maturity (1982 [1984]). Psychoanalysis Today: New Wine in Old Bottles (1986). Comments on Freud's 'Analysis Terminable and Interminable' (1987). Part II: The Analyst at Work. Some Limitations on Therapeutic Effectiveness: The 'Burnout Syndrome' in Psychoanalysis (1982 [1986]). Difficulties in Beginning the Candidate's First Analytic Case (1985). Changes in Psychoanalytic Ideas: Transference Interpretation (1985 [1987]). Some Thoughts on How Therapy Does and Doesn't Work (1989 [1991]). Formulations to the Patient: Explicit and Implicit (1995 [1994]). Part III: Vicissitudes of Narcissism. The Narcissistic-Masochistic Character (1973 [1988]). The Unusually Painful Analysis: A Group of Narcissistic-Masochistic Characters (1981 [1986]). What Men Fear: The Facade of Castration Anxiety (1985 [1986]). The Unconscious Core of Perversion (1989 [1991]). Paranoia: A Part of Most Analyses (1991 [1993]). Part IV: Challenging the Boundaries of Psychoanalysis. Will Neurobiology Influence Psychoanalysis? (1984 [1985]). Infant Research and Adult Psychoanalysis (1988 [1989]). Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy: The Same or Different? (1990). Discussion on Empirical Research (1993).
Author Biography:
Arnold M. Cooper is the Stephen P. Tobin and Dr. Arnold M. Cooper Professor Emeritus in Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry at Weill-Cornell Medical Center, and Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst at Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research.Elizabeth L. Auchincloss is Vice-Chair for Graduate Medical Education and Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Weill-Cornell Medical Center and and Associate Director and Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research.
The Work of Psychic Figurability
Mental States Without Representation
By César Botella
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781583918159
Published: October 28th 2004
Binding: Paperback
Price: £22.99 / $39.95
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 practice and illustrated by fascinating clinical material, César and Sára Botella set out to address what they call the work of figurability as a way of outlining the passage from the unrepresentable to the representational. They develop a conception of psychic functioning, which is essentially grounded in the inseparability of the negative, trauma, and the emergence of intelligibility, and describe the analyst's work of figurability arising from the formal regression of his thinking during the session, which proves to be the best and perhaps the only means of access to this state beyond the mnemic trace which is memory without recollection.
The Work of Psychic Figurability argues that taking this work into consideration at the heart of the theory of practice is indispensable. Without this, the analytic process is too often in danger of slipping into interminable analyses, into negative therapeutic reactions, or indeed, into disappointing successive analyses.
Reviews:
"...the Botellas are ... astute clinicians and their book is illustrated with clinical vignettes and case examples from adult and child analyses. While they may reason at a metapsychological level of complex theoretical and philosophical abstraction, they repeatedly return to the clinical moment to illustrate their main thesis: that a theory of psychoanalysis and mental functioning that assumes the capacity for representation and an intact, symbolizing ego is insufficient to account for the clinical phenomena and therapeutic exigencies encountered in an ordinary psychoanalytic practice! What they insist is needed instead is a theory capable of addressing and accounting for what Michael Parsons, in his very helpful introduction to the English language edition, describes as "that aspect of experience which will not 'go into words' because it will not, so to speak, 'go into thought' in the first place." (p. xvii).
"Put another way, the Botellas are attempting to create language and theory to describe the action of converting proto-elements of thought and feeling into something that is mentalizable and potentially articulatable and representable." - Howard B Levine, Psychoanalytic Quarterly
Contents:
Parsons, Introduction. Part I: The Work of Figurability and the Negative. The Limits of Thought: Paris-London Back and Forth. The Negative Duality of the Psyche. Non-representation. The Geometer and the Psychoanalyst. Figurability and the Work of Figurability. Part II: The Dynamic of the Double. On the Auto-erotic Deficiency of the Paranoiac. Working as a Double. 'Only Inside - Also Outside'. Community in the Regression of Thought. Part III: The Hallucinatory. The Negative of the Trauma. The Hallucinatory. Mysticism, Knowledge and Trauma. Part IV: Outline for a Metapsychology of Perception. A Psychoanalytic Approach to Perception. 'The Lost Object of Hallucinatory Satisfaction'. Bibliography.Author Biography:
César Botella and Sára Botella are child and adult psychoanalysts in private practice. They are training analysts at the Société Psychanalytique de Paris, and in 1983 received the International Price Maurice Bouvet for their article 'On the auto-erotic deficiency of the paranoïa'.In Pursuit of Psychic Change
The Betty Joseph Workshop
Edited by Edith Hargreaves
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781583918234
Published: February 12th 2004
Binding: Paperback
Price: £22.99 / $34.95
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 psychoanalytic treatment.
A prestigious line up of contributors present clinical material for discussion on a range of topics including:
- Supporting psychic change
- Complacency in analysis and everyday life
- Containment, enactment and communication.
The history of psychoanalysis is one of an ongoing struggle to reach a new understanding of the human psyche and develop more effective methods of treatment. In Pursuit of Psychic Change reflects this tradition - discussions of each contribution by other members of the group provide an in-depth exploration of the merits and limitations of a developing analytic technique, in the hope of achieving true psychic change.
All psychoanalysts will benefit from the insights provided into the original and stimulating work of the members of the Betty Joseph Workshop.
Contents:
Feldman, Supporting Psychic Change: Betty Joseph, Discussion by Ignes Sodré. Steiner, Containment, Enactment and Communication, Discussion by Arturo Varchevker. Sodré, Who's Who? Notes on Pathological Identifications, Discussion by Betty Joseph, Priscilla Roth. Britton, Complacency in Analysis and Everyday Life, Discussion by David Taylor. Roth, Mapping the Landscape, Discussion by Michael Feldman, Arturo Varchevker. Daniel, A Phantasy of Murder and its Consequences, Discussion by Betty Joseph, Richard Lucas. Spoto, Luxuriating in Stupefaction: The Analysis of a Narcissistic Fetish, Discussion by Martha Papadakis. Taylor, Beyond Learning Theory, Discussion by Patricia Daniel, Priscilla Roth. Hughes, Talking Makes Things Happen: A Contribution to the Understanding Of Patients' Use Of Speech in the Clinical Situation, Discussion by Patricia Daniel, Jane Temperley. O'Shaughnessy, A Projective Identification with Frankenstein: Some Questions About Psychic Limits, Discussion by Irma Brenman Pick, Robin Anderson. Papadakis, To Defy the Fates; Doubt as an Expression of Envy, Discussion by Ignes Sodré. Joseph, Epilogue.Author Biography:
Edith Hargreaves is a training analyst of the British Psychoanalytic Society.Arturo Varchevker works as an adult psychotherapist in private practise and in the National Health Service.
The Couch and the Silver Screen
Psychoanalytic Reflections on European Cinema
Edited by Andrea Sabbadini
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781583919521
Published: May 29th 2003
Binding: Paperback
Price: £22.99 / $41.95
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 specific expertise in the interpretation of films, as well as the filmmakers themselves. This composite approach offers a fascinating insight into the world of cinema.
The Couch and the Silver Screen is illustrated with stills throughout and Andrea Sabbadini's introduction provides a theoretical and historical context for the current state of psychoanalytic studies of films. The book is organised into four clear sections - Set and Stage, Working Through Trauma, Horror Perspectives and Documenting Internal Worlds - which form the basis for engaging chapters including:
- easily readable and jargon-free film reviews.
- essays on specific subjects such as perspectives on the horror film genre and adolescent development.
- transcripts of live debates among film directors including Bernardo Bertolucci, actors, critics and psychoanalysts discussing films.
The cultural richness of the material presented, combined with the originality of multidisciplinary dialogues on European cinema, makes this book appealing not only to film buffs, but also to professionals, academics and students interested in the application of psychoanalytic ideas to the arts.
Reviews:
'In these days, when psychoanalysis is looking for ways to integrate itself back into the world - into cultural, political, intellectual, and emotional life - a book like this is to be cherished ... It is a gold mine for anyone interested in movies, in psychoanalysis, or in the reciprocity between them' - Anita Weinreb Katz, Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 53(2): 673-679; 2005.
Contents:
Mulvey, Foreword. Sabbadini, Introduction. Part I: Set and Stage. Bertolucci, Shaw, Mawson, The Inner and Outer Worlds of the Filmmaker's Temporary Social Structure. Christie, Stevenson, Taylor Robinson, One in the Eye From Sam - Samuel Beckett's Film (1964) and his Contribution to our Vision in Theatre, Cinema and Psychoanalysis. Part II: Working Through Trauma. Moretti, Golinelli, Bolognini, Sabbadini, Sons and Fathers: A Room of their Own - Nanni Moretti's The Son's Room (2001). Sekoff, Witness and Persecution in two Short Films: Miguel Sapochnik's The Dreamer (2001) and Lindy Heymann's Kissing Buba (2001). Annegret Mahler-Bungers, A Post-postmodern Walkyrie - Psychoanalytic Considerations on Tom Tykwer's Run, Lola, Run (1999). Pedrón de Martín, Thomas Vinterberg's Festen (1998) - An Attempt to Avoid Madness Through Denunciation. Diamond, Itsván Szabo's Sunshine (1999) - The Cinematic Representation of Historical and Familial Trauma. Part III: Horror Perspectives. Schneider, Notes on the Relevance of Psychoanalytic Theory to Euro-horror Cinema. Campbell, Dario Argento's Phenomena (1985) - A Psychoanalytic Perspective on the 'Horror Film' Genre and Adolescent Development. Aubry, Freedom Through Re-introjection: A Kleinian Perspective on Dominik Moll's Harry: He's Here to Help (2000). Grant, Cinema, Horror and the Abominations of Hell - Carl-Theodor Dreyer's Vampyr (1931) and Lucio Fulci's The Beyond (1981). Part IV: Documenting Internal Worlds. Apted, Taylor Robinson, Narratives and Documentaries - An Encounter with Michael Apted and his Films. Cowie, The Cinematic Dream-work of Ingmar Bergman's Wild Strawberries (1957). Filipovic, Film as an Abreaction of Totalitarianism - Vinko Bre an's Marshal Tito's Spirit (2000). Berman, Rosenheimer, Aviad, Documentary Directors and their Protagonists: A Transferential / Countertransferential Relationship? Timna Rosenheimer's Fortuna (2000) and Michal Aviad's Ever Shot Anyone? (1995). Brody, Brearley, Filming Psychoanalysis: Feature or Documentary? Two Contributions.Author Biography:
Andrea Sabbadini is a psychoanalyst in private practice in London and a lecturer at UCL. He is founding editor of Psychoanalysis and History and book review editor of The International Journal of Psychoanalysis. He chairs the European Psychoanalytic Film Festival and a series of film events at the ICA.Dreams That Turn Over a Page
Paradoxical Dreams in Psychoanalysis
By Jean-Michel Quinodoz
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781583912652
Published: March 28th 2002
Binding: Paperback
Price: £21.99 / $34.95
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 a mark of progression as they indicate a capacity to own anxiety.
Quinodoz describes the important technical implications of this understanding, suggesting that it is essential to interpret to the patient that the anxiety indicates not a regression, but a shift in the opposite direction. In addition to the theory and discussion of the literature, he gives many clinical examples of such dreams from patients in psychoanalysis to illustrate the concepts of dreams that turn over a page. As Freud's classical theory of dreams does not by itself suffice to interpret or explain the formation of these particular dreams, Quinodoz invokes contemporary ideas to understand the underlying transformations which bring the 'return' of split-off parts of the self during the phases of integration.
The author considers the reasons why dreams that mark this transition have a more powerful impact than others on both patient and analyst, and observes similarities between the clinical impact of such a dream and the aesthetic impact of a work of art.
Contents:
What are Dreams that Turn Over a Page? A Source of Uncanny Feelings and Anxiety. Countertransference and Containing Capacity. Progress and Retreat in Response to Progress. Retrospective Illumination. Interpreting in Two Stages. Interpretations of a Dream that Turns Over a Page. Tania's Dream. Investigations in the Psychoanalytic Literature. Classical and Post-Freudian Approaches. Formation of Dreams that Turn Over a Page. Hypotheses. Impact. Clinical and Aesthetic.Author Biography:
Jean-Michel Quinodoz is a psychoanalyst in private practice in Geneva. He is Training Analyst of the Swiss Psychoanalytic Society and is the author of The Taming of Solitude: Separation Anxiety in Psychoanalysis. He is also Editor for Europe of the International Journal of Psycho-Analysis.The Importance of Fathers
A Psychoanalytic Re-evaluation
Edited by Alicia Etchegoyen
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781583911747
Published: December 6th 2001
Binding: Paperback
Price: £22.99 / $41.95
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 in society. This book sets out to explore what has happened to men and to fathers during all these changes and transitions. Judith Trowell and Alicia Etchegoyen, along with an array of renowned contributors, consider the importance of fathers in various situations, including:
- the role of the father at different stage of children's development
- the missing father
- loss of a father
- grandfathers.
It is argued that the father is important, not only to support the main carer (usually the mother) but also to provide a caring, thinking, comfortable, confident presence.
Reviews:
'The collection of papers edited by Trowell and Etchegoyen is a timely reminder of the value and importance of fathers, after psychoanalysis' long preoccupation with mothers and mothering, and is most welcome.' - Ministry TodayContents:
Obholzer, Foreword. Trowell, Introduction: Setting the Scene. Etchegoyen, Psychoanalytic Ideas About Fathers. Mainly Theoretical. Target, Fonagy, The Role of the Father and Child Development: Fathers in Modern Psychoanalysis and Society. Davids, Fathers in the Internal World. Marks, Letting Fathers In. Britton, Forever Father's Daughter: The Athene-Antigone Complex. Brafman, Grandfathers. Mainly Clinical. Emanuel, On Becoming a Father - Reflections from Infant Observation. Youell, Missing Fathers - Hope and Disappointment.Barrows, Barrows, Fathers and the Transgenerational: Impact of Loss. Blundell, Fatherless Sons: Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Bereaved Boys. Johns, Identification and Dis-identification in the Development of Sexual Identity. Flynn, The Adoptive Father. Yorke, Fathers and Disability. Concluding Comments. Baily, English Policy Papers and Author's Comments.Author Biography:
Judith Trowell is a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist at the Tavistock Clinic, London.
Alicia Etchegoyen is a Psychoanalyst and Child Analyst at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital.
Psychoanalysis and Discourse
By Patrick Mahony
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781583911853
Published: April 26th 2001
Binding: Paperback
Price: £22.99 / $36.95
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 scientific rhetorical, expressive and literary discourse. Mahony then begins a detailed study of certain aspects of the text of Freud's Interpretation of Dreams and of issues involved in the oral reporting of dreams. Attention is subsequently turned to the analysis of Freud's own writing in general, and specifically to Totem and Taboo.
Finally, the author shows how his ideas can illuminate literary classics (by Villon, Shakespeare, Kafka, and Jonson) and the debate about whether there is anything specific to women's discourse.
Contents:
Introduction. Part One: Discourse and the Clinical Context. Towards the Understanding of Translation in Psychoanalysis. The Boundaries of Free Association. The Place of Psychoanalytic Treatment in the History of Discourse. Freud's Interpretation of Dreams, Semiology and Chomskian Linguistics. Towards a Formalist Approach to Freud's Central Dream. Imitative Elaboration in the Oral Reporting of Dreams: Another Formal Feature of Dream Interpretation. Part Two: Non-clinical Discourse and Psychoanalysis. Further Thoughts in Freud and his Writing. The Budding International Association of Psychoanalysis and its Discontents: A Feature of Freud's Discourse. Kafka's 'A Hunger Artist' and the Symbolic Nuclear Principle. Shakespeare's Sonnet 20 and its Symbolic Nuclear Principle. Ben Jonson's 'Best Pieces of Poetry' and a Comparison of their Symbolic Nuclear Princple. Villon's 'La Ballade des Pendus' and its Symbolic Nuclear Principle. Women's Discourse and Literature: The Question of Nature and Culture. Index.Author Biography:
Patrick Mahony is a practising psychoanalyst and Professor Emeritus at the Universite de Montreal, Canada.The Violence of Interpretation
From Pictogram to Statement
By Piera Aulagnier
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780415236768
Published: March 8th 2001
Binding: Paperback
Price: £22.99 / $41.95
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 analysis of the relationship between the other's communications and the infant's psychic experience. and of the pre-verbal stage of development of unconscious fantasy starting from the 'pictogram', have fundamental implications for the psychoanalytic theory of development. She developed Lacan's ideas to enable the treatment of severe psychotic states.
Containing detailed discussion of clinical material, and written in the author's precise yet provocative style, The Violence of Interpretation is a welcome addition to the New Library of Psychoanalysis.
Reviews:
'...the single most important contribution to the psychoanalytic understanding of psychosis published during the last twenty years...' - Otto F. Kernberg, President International Psychoanalytical Association
'Aulagnier's book is considered a masterpiece in the French Psychoanalytic Community.' - Dr Francis Baudry
'This book is remarkable for its depth and originality' - André Lussier
'La violence de I'interpretation by Piera Aulagnier has finally been translated into English, twenty-six years after its first publication. This work will be of interest to English-speaking readers for a variety of reasons. First, it bears witness to an essential stage in the career of a deeply individual author, who has enriched contemporary French psychoanalysis by, in particular, shedding new light on the study of psychosis. Secondly, the English-speaking reader, aware of the debates between Melanie Klein and Winnicott, will read with interest the author's elaborations on the origins of psychical life, the weight of reality in the constitution of the psyche of the subject, and the links between this reality and the maternal body and psyche. Thirdly, the central place the author gives to identification and to the 'identificatory project' will catch the reader's eye.' - Helène Troisier, Review in IJPA 83 (1), 2002.
'Aulagnier sees psychic development as balanced between drives, the need for satisfaction, and thought, the need "to make sense". In working with psychotic patients, she found that communications from the mother (or the parents), both in words and in action, had led either to painful answers to essential questions concerning how the child came to have life or to secrets that could not be spoken or thought. The problematic questions in psychosis are questions of origin: Did you desire me? How did I come to be? She describes a pattern in which the mothers of future psychotic patients did not want a child, or did not want this child. The mother imposes on the child, to an excess degree, her own idea of how the child is to behave and think. The child is not just to eat, but to eat "properly"; the child is not to sleep, but to sleep "properly". The child experiences this psychic intrusion as violence ... When analyst and patient, each firmly committed to a tradition of meaning, engage each other, they experience the violence of another’s mind imposing a distorted and alien mode of understanding. This is similar to what the patient experienced in childhood; the analyst experiences the ambiguous "psychotic feel".' - K. McKenzie - Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association Vol 51 No2, 2003
Contents:
Foreword by Harold Blum. Translators Note. Preface. Part I: From Pictogram to Statement. The Activity of Representation, it's Objects and It's Aim. General General Considerations. The State of Encounter and the Concept of Violence. The Primal Process and the Pictogram. The Postulate of Self-procreation. The Conditions Necessary for the Represntability of the Encounter. The Borrowing Made From the Senory Model by the Activity of the Primal. Pictogram and Specularisation. Pictogram and Erogenous Pleasure. The Re-production of the Same. Concerning the Activity of Thinking. The Concept of the Primal: Conclusions. The Fantasy Representaion of the Primary Process: Thing-presentation and Word-presentation. Thing-presentation and Body Fantasisation. Fantasy Representation and the Unconscious. The Postulate of the Primary and the Economic Principle that Results From it. The Prototypes of the Secondary. The Appearance of Word-presentation and the Changes that it Imposes on the Activity of the Primary. The System of Primary Meanings. The Pleasure of Hearing. From Desire to Hear to the Desire to Understand. Concerning the Perscuting Object. Signs and the Language of the Primary. Science and the Discourse of Others. The Space Where the I Can Come About. The Organisation of the Space Where the I Must Come About. The 'Word-bearer'. The Violence of Anticipation (the spoken shadow). The Effect of Repression and its Transmission. Conjunction and Syntax of A Desire. The Violence of Interpretation: the Risk of Excess. The Reduplication of Violence: the Basic Language. The Deferred Action of the Naming of the Affect. The Desire of the Father (for a Child, for that Child). The Encounter with the Father. The Narcissistic Contract. The I and the Conjugation of the Future: Concerning the Identificatory Project and the Splitting of the I Annex: What I Mean by the Concepts of Symbolic and Imaginary. Part II: The Interpretation of Violence and Primary Delusional Thinking. Concerning Schizophrenia: the Potential for Psychosis and Primary Delusional Thinking. Schizophrenia, Paranoia, Primary Delusional Thinking: General Considerations. The Space in Which Schizophrenia Can Come About. The Failure of Repression in the Mother's Discourse. Excessive Violence : The Appropriation by the Mother of the Child's Activity of Thinking. Forbidden Knowledge and Delusional Theories Concerning Origins. The Story of Mme B and Primary Delusional Theory Concerning Origins. The Necessary Factor for Psychotic Potentiality to Remain Such. The Historical Reality and the Effect of Reduplication. Concerning Paranoia: Primal Scene and Primary Delusional Thinking. The Fantasy of the Primal Scene and Infantile Sexual Theories. The Conditions Necessary for Fantasy Reelaboration. The 'heard' Scene and its representation in Paranoia. Accounts Heard. The 'Family Portrait': Failed Idealisation and the Appeal to the Persecutor. What the Child 'hears' and the 'Delusional Theory Concerning Origins'. The Theses Defended in the Trial to the Persecutor. M.R's Story. By Way of Conclusion: the Three Ordeals that Delusional Thinking Re-shapes.Author Biography:
Piera Aulagnier was a French Psychoanalyst in private practice, and a prominent member of the International Psychoanalytic Association. She died in 1991.Ordinary People and Extra-ordinary Protections
A Post-Kleinian Approach to the Treatment of Primitive Mental States
By Judith Mitrani
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780415241656
Published: March 1st 2001
Binding: Paperback
Price: £22.99 / $36.95
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.
Judith Mitrani investigates the development and the function of these protections, allowing the reader to witness the evolution of the process of transformation, wherein defensiveness steadily mutates into communication.
She lucidly and artfully weaves detailed clinical with a variety of analytic concepts, and her original notions - including 'unmentalized experience' and its expression in enactments; 'adhesive pseudo-object relations' and the way in which this contracts and compares with normal and narcissistic object relations - provide valuable tools for understanding the infantile transference/countertransference and for the refinement of our technique with primitive mental states.
Ordinary People and Extra-Ordinary Protections will prove stimulating and accessible in its style and substance to a broad analytic readership, from the serious student of psychoanalysis to the most seasoned professional.
Reviews:
'Judith Mitrani's latest work beautifully illuminates some incompletely explored areas of psychoanalytic thinking... Throughout this work we become impressed with the presence of a versatile and innovative observer, thinker, clinician, and integrator with an unusual range of knowledge. Dr Mitrani's is a new, valuable, and most welcome voice in psychoanalysis.' - James S. Grotstein, North American Vice President, International Psychoanalytical Association
'Her clinical approach is to search for the earliest trauma - postulated around containment and intrauterine and skin-to-skin organization of experience - and she will link them to the immediacy of intense clinical (that is, transferential and countertransferential) states with a conceptual language that is commensurate to that suffering. And here Mitrani doesn't flinch; she takes on the "cascading breakdown- in both analyst
and analysand .. in the face of extreme emotional turbulence".' - Alfred Margulies, JAPA vol 50 No 3, 2002
'The overriding quality of this book is its transparency, its lucid quality of discourse about the author's work, and the clear presentation of the clinical process she sets going. This leaves the reader always knowing exactly where he/she is with the author's thinking, and in a position to feel oneself there in the room with the analyst and her patients.' - R.D. Hinshelwood, IJPA 2002
Mitrani offers us an extraordinary view of an intensely gifted clinician, working at the very edge of what can be felt and thought analytically, As such, this book is remarkable - George Pidgeon, from The Journal of Critical Psychology, Counselling and Psychotherapy, (Vol 7, No 3) Autumn 2007
Contents:
Grotstein, Foreword. Transference Interpretation and the Emergence of Infantile Dependency in Ordinary People. Extra-Ordinary Protections: The Evolution of the Theory of Adhesive Identification. Ordinary People and Extra-Ordinary Protections. The Flying Dutchman and the Search for the Containing Object. Chloe: From Pre-Conception to After Birth. Unbearable Ecstasy, Reverence and Awe and the Perpetuation of an Aesthetic Conflict. Never Before and Never Again. Changes of Mind: Working Things Through in the Countertransference. Concluding Thoughts.Author Biography:
Judith L. Mitrani is a Training and Supervising analyst at both The Psychoanalytic Center of California and the Los Angeles Institute and Society for Psychoanalytic Studies. She is author of A Framework for the Imaginery: Clinical Explorations in Primitive States of Being and the co-editor (with Dr. Theodore Mitrani) of the book Encounters with Autisitic States: A Memorial Tribute to Frances Tustin.The Dove that Returns, The Dove that Vanishes
Paradox and Creativity in Psychoanalysis
By Michael Parsons
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780415211826
Published: May 11th 2000
Binding: Paperback
Price: £22.99 / $36.95
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 sustain creatively, analysts discover their individual identities. The work of outstanding clinicians such as Marion Milner and John Klauber is examined in detail. The reader also encounters oriental martial arts, greek Tragedy, the landscape painting of John Constable, a Winnicottian theory of creativity and a discussion of the significance of play in psychoanalysis. From such varied topics evolves a deepening apprehension of the nature of the clinical experience.
Illustrated throughout , The Dove that Returns, The Dove that Vanishes will prove valuable to those in the field of psychoanalysis, and to those in the arts and humanities who are interested in contemporary psychoanalytic thinking.
Reviews:
Few books that I know are a panoramic, kaleidoscopic, dialectically based and aphoristic as Michael Parson's The Dove that Returns, The Dove that Vanishes ... a book whose style is beyond question and whose message is profoundly meaningful. This is compromised of a sustained elucidation of the paradoxical nature of our clinical work, our theories and indeed our very identities as psychoanalysts. In all these realms, Parsons presents arguments to contain polarities of deliberateness and spontaneity, knowledge and surprise, credulousness and skepticism, and discipline and freedom. - Salman Akhtar, The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, Volume 83Whatever their theoretical allegiance, everyone who reads this impressive book will be enriched by the experience. - Margaret Arden, The Psychotherapy Review
... a book of clarity and poignancy... This is a very highly recommended book both because of the importance of Parsons's ideas, and because of his engaging and moving manner of telling a story. - Steven Cooper, Review in JAPA vol 50 No 3, 2002
Contents:
Introduction. Part I: Rigour and Freedom. Vocation and Martial Art. The Other in the Self. Suddenly Finding it Really Matters. Refinding Theory in Clinical Practice. Psychoanalytic and Personal Identity: The Garden of Forking Paths. Part II: Loss, Acceptance, Creativity. Self-knowledge Refused and Accepted: Euripides' Bacchae and Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus. The Oedipus Complex as a Lifelong Developmental Process: Sophocles' Trachiniae. The Logic of Play. Creativity, Psychoanalytic and Artistic. Psychic Reality, Negation and the Analytic Setting. Conclusion. The Dove That Returns, The Dove That Vanishes. Index.Author Biography:
Michael Parsons is a training analyst of the British Psycho-Analytical Society and a member of the International Psychoanalytical Association. He works in private practice in London.The Fabric of Affect in the Psychoanalytic Discourse
By Andre Green
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780415115254
Published: August 5th 1999
Binding: Paperback
Price: £29.99 / $49.95
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 within psychoanalytic literature
- Clinical practice of psychoanalysis: structure and process
- Theoretical study: affect, language and discourse; negative hallucination
Written in a clear, lucid style, connecting theory to both culture and clinical practice, this book will appeal to psychoanalysts and psychotherapists, and also to those involved in cultural studies.
Reviews:
"This book is a testament to André Green's passionate search for the truth in Freud's unanswered questions about affect." - Henri F. Smith, The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 82 (3), 2001Contents:
Introduction. Part I: Affect in the Psychoanalytic Literature. Affect in Freud's Work. An Overall View of the Psychoanalytic Literature Since Freud. Part II: Clinical Practice in Psychoanalysis: Structures and Processes. Affect in Clinical Structures. Affect, the Psychoanalytic Process and the Oedipus Complex. Part III: Theoretical Study: Affect, Language and Discourse: Negative Hallucination. Affect and the Two Topographical Models. Draft for a Theoretical Model: The Process. Conclusion.The Bi-Personal Field
Experiences in Child Analysis
By Antonino Ferro
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780415211802
Published: July 29th 1999
Binding: Paperback
Price: £21.99 / $39.95
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 psychoanalysis in the light of Kleinian developments. It reflects the drastic changes due to the thinking of Bion. Illustrated with numerous detailed clinical examples, the author claims that the basic focus of the analytic relationship is the conscious and unconscious interpersonal/ intersubjective processes going on between the analyst and patient.
Reviews:
'The author considers that the psychoanalytic dialogue is an encounter of two minds: that of the patient and that of the analyst. This encounter produces a new story that is different in Ferro's eyes from that gained from classical Freudian analyses, where he sees the emphasis on the patient's 'network of historical, factual relationships'(p2). However, Ferro's approach interprets the psychoanalytic dialogue as taking place in the 'intersubjective field', which focuses on a shared emotional experience based on the relationship between patient and analyst. The patient's emotional growth is dependent on new affective interpersonal experiences within the analytic dialogue that 'facilitates an emotional realisation thus far unknown and inaccessible to thought' (p. 113). From such interchanges transformations can take place that open new pathways towards understanding.' - Athol Hughes, IJPA 81 (2) 2000Contents:
Bott Spillius, Introduction. A Review of the Theoretical Models. Drawings. Play. Dreams. The Dialogue: Characters and Narrative. The Child and the Family Group. A Geography of the Theoretical Model in Use. The Analyst's Mind at Work: Problems, Risks, Needs.Author Biography:
Antonino Ferro is Training Analyst of the Italian Psychoanalytical Society, President of the Milanese Centre of Psychoanalysis and a Full Member of the IPA. He is Supervisor at the 'Dosso Verde' Child Psychotherapy Centre, Pavia University. He was also Visiting Professor of Child Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis at Milan University.The Dead Mother
The Work of Andre Green
Edited by Gregorio Kohon
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780415165297
Published: May 20th 1999
Binding: Paperback
Price: £22.99 / $39.95
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, borderline phenomena, passions and identification.
The concept of the 'dead mother' describes a clinical phenomenon, sometimes difficult to identify, but always present in a substantial number of patients. It describes a process by which the image of a living and loving mother is transformed into a distant figure; a toneless, practically inanimate, dead parent. In reality, the mother remains alive, but she has psychically 'died' for the child.
This produces a depression in the child, who carries these feelings within him into adult life, as the experience of the loss of the mother's love is followed by the loss of meaning in life. Nothing makes sense any more for the child, but life seems to continue under the appearance of normality.
The Dead Mother is a valuable contribution to literature on psychoanalytic and psychotheraputic approaches to grief, loss and depression.
Reviews:
"Readers will find this a valuable book - for the lively dialogue between Green and Kohon, its return to Green's major paper 'The dead mother', for the individual authors' impressive responses to it, and for the glimpse of the walls in the present psychoanalytic scene, which Green has both run up against and surmounted." - Edna O'Shaughnessy, The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 82 (3), 2001Contents:
Preface, Acknowledgements 1. Introduction 2. The Greening of psychoanalysis 3. Psychic reality, negation, and the analytic setting 4. The dead mother syndrome and the reconstruction of trauma 5. Dead Mother, dead child 6. The undead: necromancy and the innner world 7. Analysing forms of aliveness and deadness of the transference-contertransference 8. The dead mother: variations on a theme 9. Taking aims - Andre Green and the pragmatics of passion 10. The interplay of identifications: violence, hysteria, and the repudiation of femininity. 11. The dynamics of the history of psychoanalysis - Anna Freud, Leo Rangell, and Andre Green 12. The intuition of the negative in playing and reality. Biographical Notes.Author Biography:
Gregorio Kohon is a Training Analyst at the British Psychoanalytical Society. He works in private practice in London.Psychoanalysis on the Move
The Work of Joseph Sandler
Edited by Arnold Cooper
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780415205498
Published: March 4th 1999
Binding: Paperback
Price: £22.99 / $41.95
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 American ego psychologists, and British Kleinian and object relations theorists.
Psychoanalysis on the Move provides a comprehensive and accessible overview of Sandler's contribution to the development of psychoanalysis. The contributors trace the development of the main themes and achievements of Sandler's work, in particular his focus on combining psychoanalytic theory and clinical practice.
Timely and important, Psychoanalysis on the Move should make interesting reading for psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, and all those who wish to know more about one of the most creative figures in psychoanalysis of the past few decades.
Contents:
Fonagy, Cooper, Joseph Sandler's Intellectual Contributions to Theoretical and Clinical Psychoanalysis. Wallerstein, A Half-Century Perspective on Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy: The Historical Context of Joseph Sandler's Contributions. Renik, Wish Fulfilment and the Mastery of Trauma. Gampel, Between the Background of Safety and the Background of the Uncanny in the Context of Social Violence. Scafer, Some Reflections on the Concept of Enactment. Lebovici, Importance of Narcissistic Cathexes in the Earliest Aspects of the Object Relationship. Segal, What is an Object? The Role of Perception. Shapiro, The Representational World and the Linguistic Idiom. Hernández, Lemlij, Internal Objects: Theoretical Perimeter and Clinical Contour. Widlöcher, Unconscious Fantasy as an Experience of Action. Spector Person, Gender-Dichotomous Fantasies: Their Relationships to the Inner and Outer Worlds. Kernberg, Acute and Chronic Countertransference Reactions. Michels, Psychoanalysts' Theories. Canestri, Psychoanalytic Heuristics. Kächele, Mergenthaler, Hölzer, The Analyst's Vocabulary.On Bearing Unbearable States of Mind
By Ruth Riesenberg-Malcolm
Edited by Priscilla Roth
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780415205191
Published: February 11th 1999
Binding: Paperback
Price: £22.99 / $36.95
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 to communicate the quality of their often intolerably painful states of mind, and how he/she can interpret these states, using them as a basis for insight and psychic change in the patient. Employing extensive and detailed clinical examples, and addressing important areas of Kleinian theory, the author examines the problems that underlie severe pathology, and shows how meaningful analytic work can take place, even with very disturbed patients.
On Bearing Unbearable States of Mind will be a useful and practical guide for psychoanalysts and psychotherapists, and all those working in psychological settings with severely disturbed patients.
Reviews:
I was most struck by the details of her clinical work with the array of patients that constitutes an analyst's practice. Firmly based in Kleinian theory and technique, Riesenberg-Malcolm shows sensitivity in working closely with the clinical material of patients who represent the severe psychopathologies. Her elaborate descriptions of clinical material, startin in the first paper in the collection, on "The Mirror", allow readers to immerse themselves within the deeply disturbing world of perversion and borderline-psychotic states. Even from a differing clinical vantage point one can follow her clinical logic through the evolution of her interpretations. Excellent case descriptions permit us to form our own ideas about etiology and clinical intervention, a possibility not always afforded readers when briefer vignettes are provided. - Abbot A.Bronstein, IJPA 83 (1), 2002
'...a remarkable series of papers, noteworthy for their clarity on what many analysts are concerned with today: the complex issue of the positions of mutual influence in the consulting-room - the ways in which the patient through projective identification exerts a subtle pressure on the analyst to recreate early object relations and the manner in which the analyst as a recipient of these projections is inevitably drawn into this in some way, and under these pressures is 'recruited' to enact something of the patient's disturbing primitive object relations. ...Therapists will be richly rewarded by the thoughtful and detailed descriptions of analytic work with patients who often seem unreachable. I believe they will find their clinical thinking deepened and challenged by this book.' - Erika Bard, Member of the British Psychoanalytical Society.
Contents:
Roth, General Introduction. Part I: The Internal World in the Transference. Roth, Introduction. The Mirror: A Perverse Sexual Phantasy Seen in a Woman as a Defence Against Psychotic Breakdown. Interpretation: The Past in the Present. The Constitution and Operation of the Superego. Construction as Reliving History. Part II: Defences Against Anxieties of the Depressive Position. Roth, Introduction. Self-punishment as Defence. Technical Problems in the Analysis of a Pseudo-compliant Patient. As-if: The Phenomenon of Not Learning. Hyperbole in Hysteria: 'How Can We Know the Dancer from the Dance.' Pain, Sorrow and Resolution. Part III: Theoretical Refinements. Roth, Introduction. The Three W's: What, Where and When: The Rationale of Interpretation. Conceptualisation of Clinical Facts in the Analytic Process.Psychoanalytic Understanding of Violence and Suicide
Edited by Rosine Jozef Perelberg
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780415199322
Published: November 19th 1998
Binding: Paperback
Price: £22.99 / $36.95
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 patients who have committed serious acts of violence against themselves or others. Each detailed clinical account demonstrates the effectiveness of the psychoanalytic treatment and furthers our understanding of the nature of violence.
The Psychoanalytic Understanding of Violence and Suicide also contains a comprehensive review of the existing literature on aggression and violence from America, England and France, presenting major themes contained in this literature which will be of interest to all those working with violent and suicidal patients.
Reviews:
"Perelberg has produced a book of the greatest topical importance to anyone involved in psychoanalysis. The review of the literature is by far the best on the subject. The various chapters of this most skillfully edited book are beautifully written, and lay the foundations for a psychoanalytic theory of violence and suicide. They also make an important contribution to a theory of technique that understands symptoms as solutions to conflicts. It should be a standard reading for many years to come." - Joseph Sandler, Late Professor Emeritus in Psychoanalysis, University College London, UK
"The clinical material is detailed, vivid, and convincing; The theoretical discussion is wide and the result is a book of great interest to anyone involved in psychoanalysis." - Ronald Britton
"...this book constitutes an important contribution to the understanding of those patients that engage in violent acts. I felt the need for further elucidation on the difference between an actual suicidal act and a violent attack against another. ... As a bonus, most of the patients described in this book are young adults and in the clinical descriptions one can perceive those specific developmental aspects of the transition from adolescence to adulthood that bear an influence on this kind of psychopathology." - Carlos Fishman, Psychoanalyst, Portman Clinic, London, UK
Contents:
Shengold, Foreword. Britton, Preface. Jozef Perelberg, Introduction. Jozef Perelberg, Psychoanalytic Understanding of Violence and Suicide: A Review of the Literature and Some New Formulations. Fonagy, Target, Towards Understanding Violence: The Use of the Body and the Role of the Father. Campbell, The Role of the Father in a Pre-suicide State. Jozef Perelberg, A Core Phantasy in Violence. Bateman, Narcissism and its Relation to Violence and Suicide. Davies, Technique in the Interpretation of the Manifest Attack on the Analyst. Schachter, The Paradox of Suicide: Issues of Identity and Separateness. Fonagy, Final Remarks.A Mind of One's Own
A Psychoanalytic View of Self and Object
By Robert Caper
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780415199124
Published: November 5th 1998
Binding: Paperback
Price: £21.99 / $34.95
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 doing so he demonstrates what differentiates the practice of psychoanalysis from psychotherapy; while psychotherapy aims to ease the patient towards "good mental health" through careful suggestion; psychoanalysis allows the patient to discover him/herself, with the self wholly distinguished from other people and other objects.
Contents:
Joseph, Foreword. Introduction. Psychoanalysis and Suggestion: Reflections on James Strachey's 'The Nature of the Therapeutic Action of Psychoanalysis'. Does Psychoanalysis Heal?: A Contribution to the Theory of Psychoanalytic Technique. On the Difficulty of Making a Mutative Interpretation. What is a Clinical Fact? Psychic Reality and the Analysis of Transference. Psychopathology and Primitave Mental States. Play, Creativity and Experimentation. Internal Objects. A Mind of One's Own. On Alpha Function. A Theory of the Container. Bibliography. Index.Belief and Imagination
Explorations in Psychoanalysis
By Ronald Britton
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780415194389
Published: October 1st 1998
Binding: Paperback
Price: £22.99 / $39.95
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 subjectivity are interrelated and have their origins in the Oedipal triangle
- How phantasies which are held to be products of the imagination, can be accounted for in psychoanalytic terms.
Britton also examines the relationship between psychic reality and fictional writing, and the ways in which belief, imagination and reality are explored in the works of Wordsworth, Rilke, Milton and Blake.
Reviews:
'Belief and Imagination is a pleasure to read and a reward to study. It confirms the author's status as one of the foremost contributors to modern psychoanalytic theory and practice. It is a clear and insightful book rich in clinical, theoretical, and applied psychoanalytic wisdom, and should be a valuable addition to the library of any psychoanalyst.' - Howard Levine, JAPA vol 50 No 3, 2002
'[this book] is in my view both traditional and revolutionary ... In the tradition of the post Kleinians, Ronald Britton in Belief and Imagination breaks new ground.' - Marilyn Lawrence, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, vol 14, no 1, pp93-95, 2000
'Many book reviews end with a recommendation to read or to buy the book. In this case a recommendation is not enough. This book is essential reading for anyone wanting to keep psychoanalytic thought alive and well.' - Dr Anton Obholzer
Contents:
Acknowledgements. Introduction. Belief and Psychic Reality. Naming and Containing. Oedipus in the Depressive Position. Subjectivity, Objectivity and Triangular Space. The Suspension of Belief and the 'As-if' Syndrome. Before and After the Depressive Position. Complacency in Analysis and Everyday Life. The Analust's Intuition: Selected Fact or Overvalued Idea? Daydream, Phantasy and Fiction. The Other Room and Poetic Space. Wordsworth: The Loss of Presence and the Presence of Loss. Existential Anxiety: Rilke's Duino Elegies. Milton's Destructive Narcissist or Blake's True Self? William Blake and Epistemic Narcissism. Publication Anxiety. References. Index.Author Biography:
Ronald Britton is a psychoanalyst in private practice in London, and a training and supervising analyst of the British Psychoanalytical Association.A History of Child Psychoanalysis
By the late Pierre Geissmann
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780415112963
Published: December 18th 1997
Binding: Paperback
Price: £29.99 / $49.95
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 comprehensible to others the psychosomatic troubles of childhood and to adapt clinical and therapeutic approaches to all the stages of development of the baby, the child, the adolescent and the young adult.
Claudine and Pierre Geissmann trace the history and development of child analysis over the last century and assess the contributions made by pioneers of the discipline, whose efforts to expand its theoretical foundations led to conflict between schools of thought, most notably to the rift between Anna Freud and Melanie Klein.
Now taught and practised widely in Europe, the USA and South America, child and adolescent psychoanalysis is unique in the insight it gives into the psychological aspects of child development, and in the therapeutic benefits it can bring both to the child and its family.
Reviews:
The arguments are carefully documented with an exhaustive bibliography and with quotations and interviews with a number of psych-analysts. This is a fascinating account from which the reader will have to draw his own conclusion. - Journal of the British Association of PsychotherapistsContents:
Lebovici, Sandler, Segal, Forewords. Introduction. Part I: The Day Before Yesterday: Beginnings in Vienna (1905-20). Introduction. Sigmund Freud. Carl Gustav Jung: Divergent Views. Karl Abraham: The 'Father' of Melanie Klein. Hermine Hug-Hellmuth: Pioneer and Most Obstinate of Freud's Disciples. Part II: Yesterday: To Schools, Three Cities - Vienna, Berlin and London (1920-45). Introduction. Anna Freud, The Daughter: Psychoanalytical Education and Observation. Melanie Klein: Early Object Relationships. Eugenie Sokolnicka: Psychoanalysis is Introduced to France. Sophie Morgenstern: The Application of Child Psychoanalysis in France. The Two Schools and Some of the Main Features. 'The Controversies' (1941-5): The Inevitable Confrontation in London. Part III: Today: The Spread of Child Psychoanalysis Throughout the World From 1945. Introduction. Britain after 1945. The United States of America. Argentina. France. Part IV: And Tomorrow? The Basis of Child Psychoanalysis: Psychoanalytical Treatment. Bibliography. Interviews. Name Index. Subject index.Emotional Vertigo
Between Anxiety and Pleasure
By Danielle Quinodoz
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780415148368
Published: November 13th 1997
Binding: Paperback
Price: £21.99 / $34.95
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 separation which are expressed somatically at different levels according to the level of anxiety.
Through a detailed case study of a patient who developed the symptoms of vertigo during analysis the author offers some thought-provoking insights into the vicissitudes of the object relationship and the importance of the role of the analyst in helping the patient translate sensation into representation. She also reflects on the links between anxiety and pleasure in the experience of vertigo, clearly exemplified in sports such as rock-climbing or skiing, and shows how vertigo is inexorably linked to questions of equilibrium at the psychic as well as the physical level.
Emotional Vertigo is an excellent introduction to some of the central themes of current psychoanalytic thought.
Reviews:
"Quinodoz has written an impressive tour de force and offered readers an excitingly vertiginous experience." - Andrea Sabbadini, International Journal of Psychoanalysis
"This is a rich, stimulating and generous book which will enrich the thought and clinical practice of clinicians from the newly qualified to highly experienced." - Francois Sirois, Canadian Review of Psychoanalysis
Contents:
Gibeault, Foreword. What is Vertigo? Fusion-related Vertigo. Vertigo Related to Being Dropped. Suction-related Vertigo. Anxiety About being Sucked up by the Object. Imprisonment / Escape Related Vertigo. Vertigo Due to Attraction to the Void: The Emergence of Internal Space. Expansion-related Vertigo. Competition-related Vertigo. Vertigo, from Anxiety to Pleasure. What Makes a Candidate for Vertigo. Vertigo in the Work of Sigmund Freud and Melanie Klein. Dangerous Games with Vertigo. Equilibrium: A Continuous Construction.Early Freud and Late Freud
Reading Anew Studies on Hysteria and Moses and Monotheism
By Ilse Grubrich-Simitis
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780415148443
Published: November 6th 1997
Binding: Paperback
Price: £21.99 / $34.95
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 Hysteria, which Freud wrote together with Breuer, and Moses and Monotheism, Freud's last book.
The essay on Studies on Hysteria reveals to the reader why that book is indeed the 'primal book' of psychoanalysis. Not only does it offer a moving and dramatic account of the birth of the psychoanalytic method, but by introducing the key concept of trauma it establishes a foundation on which much of modern psychoanalysis has been built.
Freud was to return to his original theory of trauma in his last book, Moses and Monotheism, where he developed it further in the light of his intervening researches. On the basis of her study of the Moses manuscripts and by applying the psychoanalytic method, Ilse Grubrich-Simitis shows how contemporary traumatic events in Nazi Germany may have influenced this return to the beginning and the intensification of Freud's self-analysis. This in turn was to lead to new insights into archaic forms of defence, pointing the way forward for modern psychoanalysis.
Elegantly constructed and persuasively argued, Early Freud and Late Freud re-establishes the importance of two major Freudian texts, offering a new understanding of their significance.
Reviews:
For some two decades, Ilse Grubrich-Simitis has been a leading - probably the leading - student of Freud. Her readings of the fundamental texts of psychoanalysis are exemplary: they have successfully established what is in them and should help to correct what Freud bashers 'claim' is in them, two very different things. In addition to her impeccable scholarship, she brings to bear a solid quantity of good sense which invites, almost compels, assent. - Peter Gay, Harvard University, USA
Contents:
List of Figures. Preliminary Note. Introduction. The Primal Book of Psychoanalysis: Studies on Hysteria a Hundred Years On. Freud's Study of Moses as a Daydream: A Biographical Essay. Appendix: Description of the Moses Manuscripts. Bibliography. Index of Names. Index of Subjects.Psychoanalysis, Literature and War
Papers 1972-1995
By Hanna Segal
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780415153294
Published: January 2nd 1997
Binding: Paperback
Price: £21.99 / $34.95
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 mistress at capturing the vitality of the clinical session on the page, Segal shows how the same conflicts between life and death instincts, fantasy and reality, are experienced in the consulting room, reflected in literature, and played out by nations in their attitudes to war.
Edited by John Steiner, this collection of writings by a leading psychoanalytic thinker provides a rich source of clinical insights and challenging theory for all analysts practising today.
Contents:
Acknowledgements. Steiner, Introduction. Part One: Clinical Psychoanalysis. On the Clinical Usefulness of the Concept of Death Instinct. Phantasy and Reality. On Symbolism. A Delusional System as a Defence Against the Re-emergence of a Catastrophic Situation. Early Infantile Development as Reflected in the Psychoanalytical Process: Steps in Integration. Some Clinical Implications of Melanie Klein's Work: Emergence from Narcissism. Paranoid Anxiety and Paranoia. Termination: Sweating it Out. The Uses and Abuses of Counter-transference. Part Two: Literature and Politics. Joseph Conrad and the Mid-life Crisis. Salman Rushdie and the Sea of Stories: A Not So Simple Fable About Creativity. Silence is the Real Crime. From Hiroshima to the Gulf War and After: Socio-political Expressions of Ambivalence. References. Name Index. Subject Index.Hope
A Shield in the Economy of Borderline States
By Anna Potamianou
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780415121774
Published: December 5th 1996
Binding: Paperback
Price: £22.99 / $36.95
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 means of denying reality. Indeed, in such individuals any state of mind or feeling can take on the status of an object, which is then used as a barrier against their fear of change.
The psychic economy and dynamics of borderline states are not yet well understood and this book makes an important contribution to the clinical debate.
Reviews:
Theoretically interesting and clinically helpful. The author vividly conveys the borderline patient's world of chaos and unthinkable threats. - Journal of the British Association for PsychotherapistsContents:
Introduction. Part I: Hope as a Binding Cathexis. As Exemplified in the Pandora Myth. As Exemplified in a Patient's Progress. Part II: Clinical and Metapsychological Background. On Cathexes. Delimiting Cathexes and Cathexes of Limits. Cathexes and Decathexes in Borderline States. Part III: Hope. Dynamic and Economic Aspects. One Day... It'll All Be Better Tomorrow. Part IV: Hopeful Waiting in Borderline States. Raising of Shields. A Token of Resistance. Safeguarding Masochism. A Cathexis that Becomes an Object. Part V: Even God Needs a Mother. De-formation, De-shaping, Dis-sociation. Tracing A Path. Notes. Selected Bibliography. Index.Michael Balint
Object Relations, Pure and Applied
By Andrew Elder
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780415144667
Published: August 8th 1996
Binding: Paperback
Price: £22.99 / $36.95
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 firmly re-establishes his place within the development of Object Relations theory.
The first section examines Balint's theories of human psychological development, defining such concepts as primary love, ocnophilia and philobatia, the basic fault and the three areas of the mind. The author places Balint's understanding of the analyst's influence and technique in the context of his relationship with Sandor Ferenczi, his analyst and mentor.
The second section of this work looks at how the "Balint Group" has contributed to the assessment and understanding of emotional problems in various areas, including general practice, marital work and psychosexual medicine. A charismatic teacher, Balint's method of work with General Practitioners has become an established worldwide institution.
Features of this work, including the use of countertransference and the affective response of the doctor are vividly described here by two General Practitioners, Andrew Elder and Robert Gosling.
Michael Balint: Object Relations, Pure and Applied brings alive Balint's teaching and practice and demonstrates the relevance of his theories to many of the problematic issues in current analytic practice.
Reviews:
I would commend Harold Stewart's book as a good introduction to Balint's thinking and development. There is also a useful biographical sketch and bibilography. - Oxford Psychotherapy Society Bulletin
Provides a stimulating and admirably clear account of Michael Balint's contribution to psychoanalysis and applied psychoanlaysis as well as painting an absorbing picture of Balint himself. - British Journal of Psychotherapy
Contents:
Preface. Biographical Sketch. Introduction. Part I: Psychoanalysis. Primary Love and Psychoanalytic Technique (1952). Problems of Human Pleasure and Behaviour (1956). Thrills and Regressions (1959). The Basic Fault (1968). A Theory of Trauma and Psychoanalytic Education. Critiques and Further Developments. Part II: Applied Psychoanalysis. Gosling, The General Practitioner Training Scheme. Gosling, GP Training and Psychoanalysis. Elder, Moments of Change. Michael Balint: a Select Bibliography.What Do Psychoanalysts Want?
The Problem of Aims in Psychoanalytic Therapy
By Anna Ursula Dreher
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780415135153
Published: December 28th 1995
Binding: Paperback
Price: £22.99 / $41.95
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 area of tension which affected the subsequent development of psychoanalysis and the resolution of which has profound implications for the future of psychoanalysis.
In What Do Psychoanalysts Want? the authors look at the way psychoanalysts have defined analysis both here and in America, from Freud down to the present day, by decade. From this basis they set out a theory about aims which is extremely relevant to clinical practice today, discussing the issues from the point of view of the conscious and unconscious processes in the psychoanalyst's mind.
Besides presenting a concise history of psychoanalysis, its conflicts and developments, which will be of interest to a wide audience of those interested in analysis, this book makes important points for the clinician interested in researching his or her practice.
Reviews:
The material has clearly been distilled from a wealth of information and research to provide a work that is both rich, yet digestible - a tribute to the authors' impressive depth of knowledge, breadth of experience and flair for economy. - British Journal of Psychotherapy
This book presents an interesting, useful and detailed account of the changing aims that psychoanalysts have pursued in their work both in theory and practice. - International Journal of Psycho-Analysis
I found the book well-written and thorough, and it could be read by anyone with an interest in this topic. - Self and Society Vol 25 No 2 May 97
For the experienced practitioner I recommend this book as a valuable reference guide to the evolution of trends in psychoanalysis as well as offering a good working model for those who are interested in researching the commonalities of purpose between different schools of thought within psychoanalysis. The book stimulates the reader to think about the connections between one's daily clinical work and phenomena encountered and one's theoretical models. It encourages one to think about the connections between the discoveries one makes in one's clinical practice and the multitude of intermediate aims that appear during the course of an analysis and one's metapsychology. - Ricardo Steiner PhD, Journal of the British Association of Psychotherapists
Contents:
Cooper, Foreword. Preface. Introduction. Freud's Views on Aims. The Early Freudians in the 1920s. Consolidation in the Pre-war Decade. The Emigration of Analysts and a Period of Transition. The 1950s and the Widening Scope Discussions. Heightening Tensions. The 1970s and the Flowering of Pluralism. Pragmatism and Integration in Contemporary Psychoanalysis. A Framework for Thinking about Aims. References. Name Index. Subject Index.Understanding Mental Objects
By Meir Perlow
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780415121798
Published: August 17th 1995
Binding: Paperback
Price: £22.99 / $41.95
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 changing meanings of the different concepts from context to context, discussing in depth the theoretical issues underlying them.
The book begins with an historical survey of how mental objects have been understood in the various 'schools' of psychoanalysis as they have developed. These include Freud and his associates, the object-relations approaches of Klein, Fairbairn and Bion, orientations derived from ego psychology such as those of Schafer and Kernberg, and the self orientation of Winnicott and Kohut. In Part Two the author discusses the conceptual and clinical issues involved in the major differences between the concepts. Finally, in Part Three he delineates three basic meanings of the concepts of mental objects as they have emerged in the literature and shows how they are related to ongoing issues in contemporary psychoanalysis.
This long overdue clarification of a complex area, with its wide ranging and imaginative grasp of the different theories about objects, will be an invaluable reference for all psychoanalysts and psychologists.
Reviews:
"... it a reliable and illuminating guide through thickets of psychoanalytic metapsychology ..." - Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
"Readers will find this book's economy and clarity commendable. The issues raised have stimulated much thought in this reader about theory and practice and this must, I think, mean that the writer has succeeded in his objective." - International Journal of Psychoanalysis
"... there is little doubt that this study represents a major contribution to the field." - Joseph Sandler, Late Professor Emeritus in Psychoanalysis, University College London, UK
"...a reliable and illuminating guide through the thickets of psychoanalytic metapsychology." - Susan Budd, British Journal of Psychotherapy
Contents:
Preface. Introduction. Part One: Historical Survey. Freud and his Associates. Object-related Orientations. Orientations in Ego Psychology. Self Orientations. Part Two: Major Theoretical Issues. Origins of the Mental Object - internal or External. Status of the Mental Object - Experiential or Non-experiential. The Mental Object and Motivation. The Mental Object as a Development Capacity. The Position of the Mental Object Vis-a-vis the Self. Responsibility - The Clinical Issue. Part Three: A Conceptual Analysis. Mental Objects as Representations (Or Schemas). Mental Objects as Phantasies. Mental Objects as Developmental Capacities. Conclusion. Notes. Bibliography. Index.Unconscious Logic
An Introduction to Matte-Blanco's Bi-logic and its Uses
By Eric Rayner
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780415127264
Published: August 17th 1995
Binding: Paperback
Price: £22.99 / $36.95
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, make them difficult of access.
Eric Rayner has written the first clear introduction to Matte-Blanco's key concepts for psychotherapists and psychoanalysts and all those concerned with moving psychoanalytic thinking forward. He sets out the central ideas in a way which is easy to understand and then shows, with examples, how they relate to clinical practice. He also describes how the ideas are related to those of people in other disciplines - mathematics, logic, psychology (specifically Piaget), and anthropology, among others.
Drawing on the work of a group of people who have been inspired by Matte-Blanco's thinking to extend their own ideas and test them out in the consulting room, this book reveals the significance of Matte-Blanco's thought for future research.
Contents:
Acknowledgements. The Background. Feeling and Thinking. Logic Symmetry, Bi-logic and the Unconscious. Bi-logic and Freud's Characteristics of the Unconscious. Bi-logic, Affects and Infinite Sets. Psychic Structure, Space and Dimensionality. Bi-logic and Central Psychoanalytic Concepts. The Therapeutic Process. Bi-logic, a Crossroads Between Disciplines? Complex Systems, Mathematical Chaos and Bi-logic. Final Summary.Life, Sex and Death
Selected Writings of William Gillespie
Edited by Michael Sinason
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780415128056
Published: August 10th 1995
Binding: Paperback
Price: £22.99 / $41.95
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 female sexuality, regression in old people facing death, and on instinct theory.
William Gillespie is celebrated not only for his scientific contributions but also for his administrative skill, integrity and tact in managing the International Psycho-Analytical Association and the British Psycho-Analytical Society, where he was trusted and respected by both Melanie Klein and Anna Freud.
In a biographical introduction the editor, Dr Michael Sinason, looks back on the productive 90 years of Gillespie's life, writing movingly of his early life in China and Scotland and showing his development as a psychoanalytic thinker, organizer and administrator, husband and father. Dr Charles Socarides, an American psychoanalyst eminent in the field of perversion and its treatment, discusses the innovations introduced by each of the papers in the collection shows how Gillespie's ideas influenced by his own contributions and affected the field as a whole.
Reviews:
Not only was Gillespie an innovator and discoverer, but a pioneer investigator whose work encompasses the entire history of accomplishments of psychoanalytic thought on perversions. - Charles Socarides, Vol 22. Understanding Mental Objects
There is little doubt that this study represents a major contribution to the field. - Joseph Sandler
Psychic Retreats
Pathological Organizations in Psychotic, Neurotic and Borderline Patients
By John Steiner
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780415099240
Published: December 2nd 1993
Binding: Paperback
Price: £21.99 / $34.95
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 object relationships and defences can be organized into complex structures which lead to a personality and an analysis becoming rigid and stuck, with little opportunity for development or change. These systems of defences are pathological organisations of the personality: John Steiner describes them as 'psychic retreats', into which the patient can withdraw to avoid contact both with the analyst and with reality.
To provide a background to these original and controversial concepts, the author builds on more established ideas such as Klein's distinction between the paranoid-schizoid and depressive positions, and briefly reviews previous work on pathological organizations of the personality. He illustrates his discussion with detailed clinical material, with examples of the way psychic retreats operate to provide a respite from both paranoid-schizoid and depressive anxieties. He looks at the way such organizations function as a defence against unbearable guilt and describes the mechanism by which fragmentation of the personality can be reversed so the lost parts of the self can be regained and reintegrated in to the personality.
Psychic Retreats is written with the practising psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists in mind. The emphasis is therefore clinical throughout the book, which concludes with a chapter on the technical problems which arise in the treatment of such severely ill patients.
Reviews:
All practitioners at times struggle with the pathologically organised mind and will be relieved and heartened by this book, and those students who complain that the authors of clinical papers never declare what they actually say in sessions will find nothing to grumble about. - British Journal of Psychotherapy
This is a very clearly and concisely written book about patients who are very difficult to reach. Its great strength lies in the way that Steiner convincingly brings together detailed clinical description and the theoretical concepts informing his work ... I wholeheartedly recommend it to a wide readership. - Chris Mawson
Contents:
A Theory of Psychic Retreats. Psychic Retreats. The Paranoid-schizoid and Depressive Positions. Review: Narcissistic Object Relations and Pathological Organisations of the Personality. The Recovery of Parts of the Self Lost Through Projective Identification: The Role of Mourning. The Retreat to a Delusional World: Psychotic Organisations of the Personality. Pathological Organisations as a Defence Against Depressive Pain and Guilt. The Relationship to Reality in Psychic Retreats. Perverse Relationships in Pathological Organisation. Two Types of Pathological in Oedipus the King and Oedipus at Colonus. Problems of Psychoanalytic Technique: Patient-centred and Analyst-centred InterpretationsAuthor Biography:
John Steiner is a member of the British Psycho-Analytical Society and a Consultant Psychotherapist at the Tavistock Clinic, London.The Taming of Solitude
Separation Anxiety in Psychoanalysis
By Jean-Michel Quinodoz
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780415091541
Published: September 30th 1993
Binding: Paperback
Price: £22.99 / $36.95
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 rich source of personal creativity. In The Taming of Solitude, Jean-Michel Quinodoz brings together the views of Freud, Klein, Hanna Segal, W.R.D. Fairbairn, D.W. Winnicott, Anna Freud, Margaret Mahler, Heinz Kohut, John Bowlby and others, presenting a comprehensive approach to the experience of loneliness, a universal phenomenon which can be observed in everyday life and in any therapeutic situation.
Written with clarity and insight, The Taming of Solitude will be of great interest to all psychoanalysts and therapists.
Reviews:
The Taming of Solitude is well written and a pleasure to read. ... The many paragraph headings allow the reader space to pause and think, and there is a comprehensive bibliography and index. It is an authoritative account of separation anxiety and the ample clinical material gives a glimpse into how Quinodoz works with it. It will certainly be of interest to anyone working with analytical ideas and to interested readers in general. - British Journal of Psychotherapy
The Taming of Solitude (La Solitude Approivsee) is an important work, not only because it provides a precise presentation of the subject and of the existing views on it ... but also because it shows us a psychoanalyst at work, with his concepts, hopes, difficulties and - in a fascinating parallel to the subject of the book - his creative solitude - J Manzano, Psychoanalysis in Europe
The author proposes that we reflect on the precious concept of 'buoyancy' ('portance') which he has created to describe the state of the patient who has sufficiently internalized the capacity of the analyst to carry him so that he is able to start carrying himself on his own ... This is a fundamental condition for the taming of solitude and loneliness so that the analysis can leave not only the analyst but also the analysis, and can transfer the experience he has obtained from analysis to his own life ... This is what this beautiful book teaches us. - Cleopatre Athanassiou, Rev. Franc. Psychoanal
Contents:
Segal, Foreword. Part One: Separation Anxiety in Psychoanalytic Practice. Separation Anxiety in Transference Phantasies. Separation Anxiety Illustrated by a Clinical Example. Approaches to the Interpretation of Separation Anxiety. Part Two: The Place of Separation Anxiety and Object-loss. Freud, Separation Anxiety and Object-loss. The Views of Melanie Klein and her School on Separation Anxiety and Object-loss. The Place of Separation Anxiety and Object-loss in the Other Main Psychoanalytic Theories. Part Three: Technical Considerations. Transference Interpretations of Separation Anxiety. Physical Pain and Negative Transference. Acting Out and Separation Anxiety. The Psychoanalytic Setting and the Container Function. Part Four: The Taming of Solitude. Termination of the Analysis and Separation Anxiety. The Capacity to be Alone, Buoyancy and the Integration of Physical Life. Recapitulation and Conclusions. Bibliography. Name Index. Subject Index.The Gender Conundrum
Contemporary Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Femininity and Masculinity
Edited by Dana Birksted-Breen
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780415091640
Published: July 8th 1993
Binding: Paperback
Price: £22.99 / $41.95
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 psyche in psychoanalysis. The editor sees the positive use of this given tension and duality as the key to real understanding of the questions currently surrounding gender identity. As well as addressing the outspoken controversy over the understanding of femininity, she shows that there has been a more silent revolution in the understanding of masculinity.
Offering an international perspective, this collection of seminal papers with introductions of exemplary clarity fills a considerable gap in the literature, providing a classic text for psychoanalysis and gender studies.
Reviews:
"This would be an excellent book for candidate seminars or study groups to read in conjunction with classic papers on masculinity and femininity because it offers an international range of material and emphasises current themes of debate." - Alice Jones, IJPA
"The virtue of the book... lies in the exhaustive, and thoughtful background research undertaken by Dana Breen. The scope of the research lays the ground for her judicious selection and imaginative organisation of contemporary psychoanalytic writings on the vast and very alive topic of the Oedipus complex and the gender conundrum. The key to Breen's organisation of the book can be gleaned from her forty-page introduction. It is both pithy and thought-provoking. In this introductory essay Breen presents the reader, in a highly digestible and amenable form, the sheer scope of Oedipus theory, both in its vertical-historical and in its more horizontal-contemporary dimension. Freud, Klein and Lacan constitute the major theoretical triumvirate in relation to whose thought contemporary trends and controversies are situated and evaluated." - Cyril Couve, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
"Breen organises this unruly territory by re-examining in particular the question of the woman's psychosexual development. This issue highlights a tension she suggests is inherent in psychoanalysis between its concern with how the mind construes experience and, on the other hand, the fact that the mind is situated in the body and cannot be abstracted from it. The breadth of Breen's knowledge of the three main traditions and the clarity of her discrimination about their essential differences makes this a book all analysts and psychotherapists interested in this subject will wish to possess." - Jane Temperley, Book club of the British Society
Contents:
Acknowledgements. General Introduction. Part I: The Oedipus Complex. Introduction. Blos, Son and Father. Laufer, The Female Oedipus Complex and the Relationship to the Body. Britton, The Missing Link: Parental Sexuality in the Oedipus Complex. Part II: The Phallic Question. Introduction. Chasseguet-Smirgel, Freud and Female Sexuality: The Consideration of Some Blind Spots in the Exploration of the 'Dark Continent'. Gillespie, Concepts of Vaginal Orgasm. Braunschweig, Fain, The Phallic Shadow. Montrelay, Enquiry into Femininity. Gibeault, On the Feminine and the Masculine: Afterthoughts in Jaqueline Cosnier's Book, Destins de la Feminite. Part III: The Representation of the Body. Introduction. Bernstein, Female Genital Anxieties, Conflicts and Typical Mastery Modes. Glasser, 'The Weak Spot' - Some Observations on Male Sexuality. Part IV: Bisexuality. Introduction. McDougall, The Dead Father: On Early Psychic Trauma and its Relation to Disturbance in Sexual Identity and in Creative Activity.Greenson, Dis-identifying from Mother: Its Special Importance for the Boy. Aisenstein, Clinical Notes on the Identification with the Little Girl. Limentani, To the Limits of Male Heterosexuality: The Vagina-man.Author Biography:
Dana Breen is a Training Psychoanalyst in private practice and is actively involved in the training organization of the Biritsh Institute of Psycho-Analysis. She is Book Review Editor of the International Journal of Psycho-Analysis. She was formerly a research fellow at the University of Sussex.The Dream Discourse Today
By Sara Flanders
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780415093552
Published: June 10th 1993
Binding: Paperback
Price: £22.99 / $39.95
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. The cumulative effect of both papers and introductions is to leave the reader with an informed sense of the range of perspectives and a confidence in the continued relevance of dream analysis to practice, as some striking convergences in the implications of thinking drawn from very different approaches becomes clear.
The Dream Discourse Today is the first historical and theoretical survey of its subject and the classic nature of the papers it includes will make it a first-class work of reference for psychoanalysts and psychotherapists of all schools, whether in practice or still training. It should be of especial interest to those who teach courses on the theory of technique, since the place of dream analysis is almost certain to be one of the central topics in such courses.
Reviews:
... I think Flanders' book stands out in its genuine attempt to be inclusive. I would happily use the book as prescribed reading for a series of postgraduate seminars with psychotherapy students. There is also plenty for the practising therapist to dip into and puzzle over. - British Journal of PsychothearapyContents:
Acknowledgements. Introduction. Part One: The Psychoanalytic Dream: The Psychoanalytic Process. Dream Psychology and the Evolution of the Psychoanalytic Situation. Part Two: The Dream Controversy: Is it the Royal Road Today? Dreams in Clinical Psychoanalytic Practice. The Exceptional Position of the Dream in Psychoanalytic Practice. Part Three: The Dream-space. The Use and Abuse of Dream in Psychic Experience. The Function of Dreams. Dream as an Object. The Experiencing of the Dream and the Transference. Some Reflections on Analytic Listening and the Dream Screen. The Film of the Dream. Part Four: The Adaptive Ego and the Dream. The Manifest Dream Content and its Significance for the Interpretation of Dreams. A Psychoanalytic-dream Continuum: The Source and Function of Dreams. Dreaming and the Organizing Function of the Ego. Psychoanalytic Phenomenology of the Dream. Name Index. Subject Index.A Psychoanalytic Theory of Infantile Experience
Conceptual and Clinical Reflections
By Eugenio Gaddini
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780415074353
Published: September 3rd 1992
Binding: Paperback
Price: £22.99 / $41.95
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 from, the thinking of Phyllis Greenacre, Donald Winnicott and Melanie Klein.
These ideas are of great clinical relevance for the treatment of adult patients, particularly in the understanding of psychosomatic disorders. The richness of the clinical evidence with which Gaddini supports his hypothesis, and the originality of his conceptions make this a rewarding and stimulating book for the practicing analyst and psychotherapist.
Reviews:
"Essential reading." - Robert Whyte, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
"This is an important book. From Gaddini's wealth of ideas and experience it offers, particularly, his unique views on development, involving his correlations and creative combinations of the psychological and the psychosomatic, of metapsychology and object-relations theory, of external observation and clinical practice, of body and mind, mental and physical, and so on; all used to give invaluably stimulating suggestions and new slants to these very problematic areas." - Anne Hayman, International Journal of Psychoanalysis
Contents:
Wallerstein, Foreword. Acknowledgements. Limentani, Introduction. On Imitation (1969). Aggression and the Pleasure Principle: Towards a Psychoanalytic Theory of Aggression (1972). Beyond the Death Instinct: Problems of Psychoanalytic Research on Aggression (1972). Formation of the Father and the Primal Scene (1974). On Father Formation in Early Childhood Development (1976). Therapeutic Technique in Psychoanalysis: Research, Controversies and Evolution (1975). The Invention of Space in Psychoanalysis (1976). Notes on the Mind-body Question (1980). Early Defensive Fantasies and the Psychoanalytical Process (1981). Acting Out in the Psychoanalytic Session (1982). The Pre-symbolic Activity of the Infant Mind (1984). The Mask and the Circle (1985). Changes in Psychoanalytic Patients up to the Present Day (1984). Bibliography. Name Index. Subject Index.The Freud-Klein Controversies 1941-45
Edited by Pearl King
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780415082747
Published: August 27th 1992
Binding: Paperback
Price: £45 / $80.95
Following Freud's death in 1939, the radical theories of Melanie Klein were the subject of prolonged controversy and fierce debate within the British Psycho-Analytical Society. At the time, individuals fought passionately in support of their positions.
In the midst of, or as a result of, the personal animosities and political manoeverings, important intellectual contributions were made, and practical decisions taken, which were to affect the development of psychoanalysis down to the present day.
The Freud-Klein Controversies 1941-45 offers the first complete record of the debate, including all relevant papers and correspondence, based on previously closed archive material which is presented without censorship.
Reviews:
A meticulously researched work of great importance. - Dr Harold Blum, Director of the Sigmund Freud Archives
This book has been meticulously edited by King and Steiner, who both provide clear and helpful introductions to each section....no psychoanalytic library can be complete without it. It makes for exhaustive, exhausting and fascinating reading. - Noel Hess
The publication of the "Discussions" is an event of special significance, for the issues considered are as alive today as they were at the time they took place.' - Joseph Sandler, former Freud Memorial Professor of Psychoanalysis, University of London.
Steiner and King have performed and invaluable service by bringing these documents before the public, and their significance will not easily be exhausted by the readers who are sure to pore over them. - Peter Rudnytsky, London Review of Books
Who would have thought a near thousand page archive could be so dramatic?....Its gripping power stems from the volume seizing on issues which, however buried, are still very much alive today. And for this its editors are to be congratulated for organising their material so well. - Janet Sayers, British Journal of Psychotherapy
Contents:
King, Biographical Notes. Preface and Acknowledgements. King, Introduction. Section One: The Evolution of Controversies in the British Psycho-Analytical Society. Section Two: First Series of Scientific Discussions on Controversial Issues. Section Three: Scientific Controversies and the Training of Candidates. Section Four: Second Series of Scientific Discussions on Controversial Issues. Section Five: Reorganization after the Controversies. References. Name Index. Subject Index.From Fetus to Child
An Observational and Psychoanalytic Study
By Alessandra Piontelli
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780415074377
Published: April 2nd 1992
Binding: Paperback
Price: £22.99 / $41.95
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 development at home from birth up to the age of four years. She includes a description of the psychoanalytic psychotherapy of one of the research children, and the psychoanalysis of five other very young children whose behaviour in analysis suggested that they were deeply preoccupied with their experience in the womb.
Dr Piontelli has discovered what many parents have always thought - that each fetus, like each newborn baby, is a highly individual creature. By drawing on her experience as a child psychotherapist and psychoanalyst as well as on her observational research, she is able to investigate issues relating to individuality, psychological birth and the influence of maternal emotions during pregnancy. Her findings demonstrate clearly how psychoanalytical evidence enhances, deepens and supports observational data on the remarkable behavioural and psychological continuities between pre-natal and post-natal life.
Reviews:
I found this book exciting and instructive and would recommend it as excellent bedtime or holiday reading - I couldn't put it down. - Twins, Triplets and More
Piontelli's book is gripping partly because it is about the mystery of our origins and partly because of the new-world-beheld wonder at observing the foetus in it natural environment. - Journal of Analytical Psychology
As a medical practitioner, child psychotherapist and psychoanalyst, Piontelli is not only eminently qualified to undertake such a task but manages to integrate the knowledge and skills garnered from each of these professions in a most creative way. - British Association of Psychotherapists Review
Contents:
Editor's Preface. Acknowledgements. Introduction. Fetal Behaviour and Fetal Environment. Singleton Pregnancies. Twin Pregnancies. Child Analysis. Concluding Remarks. Postscript. Bibliography. Name Index. Subject Index.Psychic Experience and Problems of Technique
By Harold Stewart
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780415059756
Published: December 5th 1991
Binding: Paperback
Price: £22.99 / $41.95
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 book Stewart draws deeply on his own clinical experience to focus on changes in the patient's experience of inner space, and to record the growth of his own understanding of the patient's experience and how this can change. Beginning with a vivid account of the role of collusion in the myth of Jocasta and Oedipus, he goes on to a theoretical discussion of thinking, dreams, inner space and the hypnotic state, in the context of extensive clinical experience. The second part of the book centres on practical clinical issues and problems of technique, tackling in particular the role of transference interpretations, other agents of change, and the problems encountered in benign and malignant types of regression.
The wealth of clinical material and the author's informality and openness in presenting his experiences of working with very disturbed patients will be of immense practical value to other practitioners. Psychic Experience and Problems of Technique will help psychoanalysts and psychotherapists to understand the nature of clinical problems which are often encountered but seldom acknowledged.
Reviews:
... an excellent investment for the analytic candidate in training. It is free of jargon, terms are lucidly explained and illustrated with rich clinical material. Any mental health practitioner who works intensively with individuals will also benefit from reading this collection of articles. The paperback volume that I reviewed is destined to become one of my most dog-eared reference texts. - American Journal of PsycholtherapyI warmly recommend this book as the complex issues of theory and technique are of interest to all psycho-analysts. Stewart writes with a great clarity of style, and I think his thoughts will be enjoyed regardless of one's own theoretical position. - Int Forum Psychoanal
Contents:
Introduction. Part One: Theory. A: On Collusive Relationships. Collusion and the Hypnotic State. Jocasta: Crimes and Collusion. B: Changes in Inner Experience. Changes in the Experiencing of the Dream and the Transference. Changes in the Experiencing of Inner Space. Levels of Experiencing of Thinking. Part Two: Technique. C: Issues and Problems in Effecting Psychic Change. Types of Transference Interpretations: An Object Relations View. Problems of Management and Communication. An Overview of Therapeutic Regression. Technique at the Basic Fault and Regression. Interpretation and Other Agents for Psychic Change.Author Biography:
Harold Stewart is a Training Analyst of the Brisith Psycho-Analytical Society, and Chairman of its Eduction Committee. He was, until his recent retirement, Consultant Psychotherapist at the Tavistock Clinic, London.Clinical Lectures on Klein and Bion
Edited by Robin Anderson
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780415069939
Published: November 7th 1991
Binding: Paperback
Price: £21.99 / $34.95
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 seminal ideas of Klein and Bion.
Originally given as a series of lectures intended to acquaint the general public with recent developments in psychoanalytic thinking and practice, the papers in this book cover the most fundamental ideas put forward by Klein and Bion; child analysis, Klein's use of the concepts of unconscious phantasy, projective identification, the paranoid-schizoid and depressive positions, Bion's study of psychotic thinking, his ideas of the relation between container and contained, and the usefulness of the ideas of reversible perspective in understanding 'as if' personalities.
In particular, this book provides an eminently readable and authoritative introduction to some of the most original and controversial concepts ever put forward in psychoanalysis.
Reviews:
'Outstanding for its readability, clinical approach and teaching qualities.' - Tavistock Gazette
this is a very worthwhile book that should prove useful to anyone interested in understanding Kleinian practice and theory. This book should also be of interest to American analysts who seek to understand the foundations - and parallel evolution - of concepts and issues which are currently being discussed under the rubric of a purported new "relational" paradigm for psychoanalysis. - Howard B. Levine, Psychoanal. Q., 62:651-653 (PAQ)
Contents:
Daniel, Child Analysis and the Concept of Unconscious Phantasy. Brenman Pick, The Emergence of Early Object Relations in the Psychoanalytic Setting. Britton, The Oedipus Situation and the Depressive Position. Steiner, The Equilibrium Between the Paranoid-Schizoid and the Depressive Positions. Bott Spillius, Clinical Experiences of Projective Identification. Feldman, Splitting and Projective Identification. O'Shaughnessy, Psychosis: Not Thinking in a Bizarre World. Britton, Keeping Things in Mind. Riesenberg Malcolm, As If: The Phenomenon of Not-Learning.Dream, Phantasy and Art
By Hanna Segal
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780415017985
Published: November 1st 1990
Binding: Paperback
Price: £21.99 / $34.95
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 brings them vividly alive in a new integration which links them afresh to the work of Freud, Klein, and Bion. Throughout the book, the clinical illustrations the author has selected brilliantly spotlight the theory, touching the imagination, and fixing even the most difficult ideas permanently in the reader's mind. In a mutually enhancing relationship, theory and clinical example are combined, and then applied, to create the author's new and original theories of art and aesthetics.
As Betty Joseph notes in her foreword, Segal's writing, and in particular this book, does much to enrich psychoanalysis not only because of the clarity and intelligence but also because of the depth and breadth of her interests and her clinical imagination.
Reviews:
'... this book, which along with the many other contributions Hanna Segal has made to psychoanalysis in the course of a long and productive professional life, will stand as a further testament to her creative capacity.' - Psychoanalytic Quarterly Vol 3 Vol LXIIContents:
The Royal Road. Phantasy. Symbolism. Mental Space and Elements of Symbolism. The Dream and the Ego. Freud and Art. Art and the Depressive Position. Imagination, Play, and Art.Author Biography:
Hanna Segal is a former President of the British Psychoanalytical Society and a founder member of the Melanie Klein Turst. She has helf many positions in the British Psychoanalytical Society and the International Psychoanalytical Association.About Children and Children-No-Longer
Collected Papers 1942-80
By Paula Heimann
Edited by Margret Tonnesmann
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780415041195
Published: January 4th 1990
Binding: Paperback
Price: £22.99 / $41.95
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); and 'Notes on the Anal Stage' (1962). In addition, more recent works are published here in English for the first time, describing the author's particular integration of theory and technique.
Paula Heimann's ideas on an undifferentiated early phase of infant development and its implications for analytic technique, along with her unique knowledge of both Kleinian object relations and classical theory and technique, make her work very relevant both to present-day practice and the understanding of the historical development of some central psychoanalytic ideas.
Reviews:
The reader is able to explore and follow Heimann's development as a thinker, clinician, and psychoanalyst, through what were clearly difficult and stormy periods, to her emergence as an individual in her own right - being herself, which I hope all psychoanalysts seek for themselves and their patients. - The Psychoanalytic Quarterly
Contents:
Preface. Acknowledgements. Introductory Memoir by Pearl King. Editor's Introduction by Margret Tonnesmann. 1939/42: A Contribution to the Problem of Sublimation and its Relation to Processes of Internalization. 1942(3)/1952(c): Notes on the Theory of the Life and Death Instincts. 1948/49: Some Notes on the Psycho-analytic Concept of Introjected Objects. 1949/50: On Counter-transference. 1951/52(a): A Contribution to the Re-evaluation of the Oedipus Complex - The Early Stages. 1952(b): Preliminary Notes on some Defence Mechanisms in Paranoid States. 1955/56: Dynamics of Transference Interpretations. 1957/59: Some Notes on Sublimation. 1958: Notes on Early Development. 1959/60: Counter-transference. 1961/62a: Contribution to Discussion of the 'Curative Factors in Psycho-analysis'. 1961/62b: Notes on the Anal Stage. 1963/64: Comments on Dr Katan's and Dr Meltzer's Papers on 'Fetishism - Some Somatic Delusions - Hypochondria'. 1964/66: Comments on the Psychoanalytic Concept of Work. 1964/69: Evolutionary Leaps and the Origin of Cruelty. 1965/66: Comments on Dr Kernberg's Paper (On Structural Derivatives of Object Relationships'). 1967/68: The Evaluation of Applicants for Psycho-analytic Training. 1969: Postscripts (To: 'Dynamics of Transference Interpretations' 1955/56). 1969/70: Opening and Closing Remarks of the Moderator (To 'Discussion of "The Non-transference Relationship in the Psychoanalytic Situation"). 1970: The Nature and Function of Interpretation. 1975a: Sacrificial Parapraxis - Failure or Achievement?. 1975/77: Further Observations on the Analyst's Cognitive Process. 1978: On the Necessity for the Analyst to be Natural with his Patient. 1979/80: About Children and Children-no-longer. Complete Bibliography of Paula Heimann's Publications. Bibliography. Index.Psychic Equilibrium and Psychic Change
Selected Papers of Betty Joseph
Edited by Michael Feldman
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780415041171
Published: September 7th 1989
Binding: Paperback
Price: £22.99 / $41.95
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 with the detailed, sensitive scrutiny of the therapeutic process itself.
Fundamental and controversial topics explored and discussed include projective identification, transference and countertransference, unconscious phantasy, and Kleinian views on envy and the death instinct.
Reviews:
"This excellent book should help raise the level of understanding and practice of all psychoanalysts, whatever their avowed belongingness to one or other school of thought." - The International Journal of PsychoanalysisContents:
Acknowledgements. Segal, Preface. General Introduction. Part 1: Beginnings. Introduction. 'An Aspect of the Repetition Compulsion' (1959). 'Some Characteristics of the Psychopathic' (1960). Part 2: Breakthrough. Introduction. 'A Clinical Contribution to the Analysis of a Perversion' (1971). 'Passivity and Aggression: Their Inter-relationship'. 'The Patient who is Difficult to Reach' (1975). 'Towards the Experiencing of Psychic Pain' (1981). Part 3: Consolidation. Introduction. 'Different Types of Anxiety and their Handling in the Analytic Situation' (1978). 'Defence Mechanisms and Phantasy in the Psychoanalytical Process' (1981). 'Addiction to Near-death' (1982). 'On Understanding and not Understanding Some Technical Issues' (1983). Part 4: Recent Developments. Introduction. 'Transference: The Total Situation' (1985). 'Projective Identification: Some Clinical Aspects' (1987). 'Envy in Everyday Life' (1986). 'Psychic Change and the Psychoanalytic Process'. 'Object Relations in Clinical Practice' (1988). References. Complete List of the Published Papers of Betty Joseph. Index.Melanie Klein Today, Volume 2: Mainly Practice
Developments in Theory and Practice
Edited by Elizabeth Bott Spillius
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780415010450
Published: December 1st 1988
Binding: Paperback
Price: £22.99 / $41.95
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 papers to make it possible to understand the main elements of the Kleinian therapeutic technique. In recent years there have been important refinements in this technique, notably in regard to the balance to be struck in interpreting destructiveness, the use of the so-called part-object language, and the precise ways to understand and interpret 'acting-in' and the role of the past in the present.
This collection draws these developments together and makes clear why an integral part of contemporary Kleinian theory and practice is concerned with the careful scrutiny of the therapeutic process itself. The volume includes detailed accounts of clinical work with both adults and children and takes further the theoretical ideas discussed in Melanie Klein Today, Volume 1.
The papers and the editorial commentary in this book together comprise the most illuminating and coherent rationale for the Kleinian technique yet published. The ideas will be of interest to members of many disciplines and a final section includes papers on the application of the Kleinian approach in other fields of work.
Reviews:
"The credit for this volume goes to the excellent editorial work of Elizabeth Bott Spillius. The material is well organized in distinct sections. The papers in each section are introduced and critically discussed. The outcome is a volume of diverse papers by different authors which form a cogent whole. The papers will be of interest to Kleinian and non-Kleinian psychoanalysts alike." - Daniel Traub-Werner, The International Journal of Psychoanalysis
Thinking, Feeling, and Being
By Ignacio Matte-Blanco
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780415006781
Published: September 1st 1988
Binding: Paperback
Price: £22.99 / $41.95
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, giving many clinical examples.
Reviews:
"In applying the complexities and paradoxes of mathematical logic to psychoanalysis, Matt-Blanco has enriched it incredibly and has given us fascinating new instruments to wield in the clinical situation." - James S. Grotstein, The International Journal of Psychoanalysis
Contents:
Acknowledgements. Part One: The Subject. An Introduction to Matte-Blanco's Reformulation of the Freudian Unconscious and his Conceptualization of the Internal World. Bi-logical Structures, the Unconscious, and the Mathematical Infinite. The Fundamental Antinomy of Human Beings and World. Part Two: Projection, Introjection, and Internal World. Freud's Concept of Projection in the Light of the Three Logics. Identification and Projection. The Notion of Internal World: Problems and Hopes. A Perspective on Melanie Klein's Contribution. Part Three: Projective and Interjective Processes: A Bi-logical Point of View. Some Guiding Concepts for Understanding Clinical Reality. Levels of Depth: A Working Scheme for Use in Clinical Practice. The Fundamental Antinomy as Seen in Clinical Examples. Part Four: Symmetrical Frenzy, Bi-logical Frenzy, and Bi-model Frenzy. The Multiplication of Three Dimensional Objects. Bi-model Frenzy. The Upheaval of Spatial and Temporal Structures in the Dream World: The Spatio-temporal Miltidim Structure. Part Five: Towards the Future. The Notion of Object. Some More Mathematical Concepts of Space, Dimension, Outside, and Inside. The Concept of Internal World: Past, Present and Future. Appendix. Bibliography. Index.Melanie Klein Today, Volume 1: Mainly Theory
Developments in Theory and Practice
Edited by Elizabeth Bott Spillius
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780415006767
Published: April 28th 1988
Binding: Paperback
Price: £22.99 / $41.95
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 organisation.
Reviews:
"Elizabeth Spillius cannot be too warmly congratulated. Readers who are not very familiar with recent Kleinian work will find the papers she has selected extremely informative and in virtually every case impressive. The outstanding editorial work is manifested, first in the well-judged choice of papers, secondly and above all in the superb commentaries ... Elizabeth Spillius is a splendid exponent of her school and the two volumes she has so excellently edited must be thoroughly recommended." - William Gillerpies, The International Journal of Psychoanalysis
"An excellent text that identifies all the salient aspects of Kleinian Theory. Well written concise yet comprehensive. Simplifies complex concepts. Excellent student purchase." - Alf Thompson, Counselling, Salford FE College
Contents:
Acknowledgements. Bott Spillius, General Introduction. Part One: The Analysis of Psychotic Patients. Introduction. Notes on the Psychoanalysis of the Superego Conflict of an Acute Schizophrenic Patient. Depression in the Schizophrenic. Differentiation of the Psychotic from the Non-psychotic Personalities. Part Two: Projective Identification. Introduction. Attacks on Linking. The Relation of Anal Masturbation to Projective Identification. Contribution to the Psychopathology of Psychotic States: The Importance of Projective Identification in the Ego Structure and the Object Relations of the Psychotic Patient. Projective Identification - Some Clinical Aspects. Part Three: On Thinking. Introduction. Notes on Symbol Formation. A Theory of Thinking. The Experience of the Skin in Early Object-relations. Part Four: Pathological Organizations. Introduction. Schizoid Phenomena in the Borderline. Terror, Persecution, Dread - A Dissection of Paranoid Anxieties. A Clinical Approach to the Psychoanalyttic Theory of the Life and Death Instincts: An Investigation into the Aggressive Aspects of Narcissism. Cruelty and Narrowmindedness. Narcissistic Organization, Projective Identification, and the Formation of the Identificate. A Clinical Study of a Defensive Organization. Addiction to Near-death. The Interplay between Pathological Organizations and the Paranoid-schozoid and Depressive Positions. References to General Introduction and Other Introductory Material. Name Index. Subject Index.The Theatre of the Dream
By Salomon Resnik
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780415214865
Published: October 29th 1987
Binding: Paperback
Price: £22.99 / $41.95
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 and poets. He argues that dreams are indeed, as the ancients held, messages.
The dream is a theatrical re-recreation of certain unconscious experiences, which are both subjective and objective at the same time. It expresses not only desire but a complex working over of a problematic situation that is not quite resolved. In waking the dream is a new elaboration of everyday experience and one which creates the seeds of oracular awareness. Resnik develops his thesis with ample and enlightening examples of dreams and their significance from his own patients.
The author's achievement is a new psychoanalytic reading of dreams one which does justice to Freud's momentous discovery but which broadens it and places it within the wider context of subsequent developments in psychoanalysis, semiotics and social and cultural anthropology.
The book will be of great value to the professional psychotherapist or psychoanalyst as well as to students of literature, the arts and linguistics and the wider public interested in the ongoing relationship between dream reality and what is commonly called external reality. As has been remarked, each era can be defined on the basis of relations between dream and life.
Reviews:
This is a profound and fascinating essay on the nature of the dream and its relationship to the waking state by a long-standing member of the International Psychoanalytical Association. Freud is both appreciated and transcended in a work that synthesises, in an original way, the ideas of Jung, Klein and the object relations school, continental philosophy, phenomenology, and existentialism… This book is a significant contribution to the epistemological issues confronting psychoanalysis as well as to the theoretical understanding of the phenomenology of the dream. It will amply reward a careful reading by anyone interested in the ongoing dialogue within contemporary psychoanalysis. - Donald R Ferrell, PhD
Contents:
Introduction. The Stage and the Dream. The Birth and Itinerary of the Dream Discourse. Scenes and Schemata of Bodily Space in Dreams. Semiology of the Psycho-biological 'Tissue' of the Dream. The Grammar of Dreams. Linear Time, Dream, and Delusion. The Archaeology of the Dream. The Dream of Irma's Injection: Irma and Freud. The Traces of the Gradiva. Dream, Hallucination, and Delusion. The Dream of Cryptology of Psychosis. Dream and Poetry. Dream, Myth, and Reality.The Riddle of Freud
Jewish Influences on his Theory of Female Sexuality
By Estelle Roith
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780415214872
Published: September 17th 1987
Binding: Paperback
Price: £22.99 / $41.95
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 contends is mistaken, is seen not as a simple error but as resulting from a complex bias in which personal and social factors are interrelated. The author proposes that the considerable ambivalence experienced by Freud about his sexual, cultural, and social identity, in which both overt and covert aspects of his Jewish culture survived, could not be surmounted by him in the case of women.
Estelle Roith describes Freud's theory of femininity and its implications for psychoanalytic theories of human development and motivation in general. She examines Freud's relationships with his women disciples and also the social and political conditions that obtained for Jews of Freud's time. Finally, her book helps illuminate the reasons for Freud's emphasis on the paternal power within the Oedipus complex. It is essential reading for psychoanalysts and psychotherapists, for students of women's issues, and all those interested in Freud's impact on contemporary Western thought.
Reviews:
"Estelle Roith has written an intelligent, readable, well-researched book on Freud's life and work, examining the Jewish cultural background and family influences which dominated and inevitably contributed to his view of the world, which found expression in his psychoanalytical theories. - Group Analysis
"The first study I know of which brings together the Jewish Freud with the theorist of femininity, and which most persuasively argues an essential link between the two." - Naomi Segal, Journal of Jewish Studies, 1987
"This is a deeply researched, deeply felt account of how Freud, and other psychoanalysts such as Karl Abraham, could reach such appalling positions on the nature of women's sexuality. In brief, by locating Freud's thinking in its Judaic context, Roith is able to demonstrate how he could be simultaneously conservative in his views on women and break so much new ground in other areas." - John Pierson, Community Care, February 1988
"There is so much interesting material succinctly written in this book and with a great deal of reference to a wide range of sources, that it is hard to select from it. I recommend it to anyone interested in the derivations of analytic theories about women’s psychology. The author traces a path through the vicissitudes of late nineteenth and twentieth century conflict and Jewish migration, through differences within Judaic culture, through the writings of several authors on Freudian psychoanalytic developments, through Freud’s personal experience and through his family’s relationships, affected as they were by their position as first generation immigrants in Vienna." - Jean Thomson, The Journal of Analytic Psychology
Contents:
The Scope of the Enquiry. Freud's Theory of Female Sexuality. Freud's Women Disciples. Freud's Vienna. Jewish Family Psychodynamics. Freudian and Rabbinic Sexual Doctrines. If Oedipus was an Egyptian. Bibliography. Indexes.The Suppressed Madness of Sane Men
Forty-Four Years of Exploring Psychoanalysis
By Marion Milner
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780415036733
Published: September 17th 1987
Binding: Paperback
Price: £22.99 / $41.95
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.
Reviews:
... a testament to the imagination of a distinguished analyst ... She is particularly interesting in outlining the relationship between the creative process and psychological state, backed by her own strong interest in painting, both theoretically and as an artist ... the humanity and the sheer imaginative flair of the book sweep one along ... a valuable addition to the literature ... - Community CareContents:
Acknowledgements. Introduction. 1942: The Child's Capacity for Doubt. 1943: Notes on the Analysis of a 21/2 Year Old Boy. 1944: A Suicidal Sympton in a Child of 3. 1945: Some Aspects of Phantasy in Relation to General Psychology. 1947-48: Some Signposts - Blackness, Joy, Mind. 1948: An Adult Patient Uses Toys. 1949: The Ending of Two Analyses. 1952: The Framed Gap. 1952: The Role of Illusion in Symbol Formation. 1955: The Communication of Primary Sensual Experience. 1956: The Sense in Nonsense Freud and Blake's Job. 1956: Psychoanalysis and Art. 1957: The Ordering of Chaos. 1960: The Concentration of the Body. 1967: The Hidden Order of Art. 1972: Winnicott and the Two-way Journey. 1972: The Two-way Journey in a Child Analysis. 1973: Some Notes on Psychoanalytic Ideas about Mysticism. 1975: A Discussion of Masud Khan's Paper 'In Search of the Dreaming Experience'. 1977: Winnicott and Overlapping Circles. 1986: Afterthoughts. Indexes.