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DR DANA BIRKSTED-BREEN
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 Brunner-Brunner-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. Latest Brochure Available to Download*
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Please ensure your browser is set to accept cookies in order to use the online shopping facility. Click the book titles for review comments where available. Time, Space and Phantasy By Rosine Jozef Perelberg
ISBN: 9780415463225 Published: June 5th 2008 Binding: Paperback Price: £21.99 / $34.95 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. Contents: Part I: Theory and Clinical Practice. Time nd 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, and Member of the British Psycho-Analytical Society. 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, Time and Memory and Freud: A Modern Reader. Psychoanalysis Comparable and Incomparable By David Tuckett
ISBN: 9780415451437 Published: February 1st 2008 Binding: Paperback Price: £21.99 / $34.95 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 prize. 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 By Jean-Michel Quinodoz
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:
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. Contents: 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 By Domenico Chianese
ISBN: 9780415384056 Published: October 11th 2007 Binding: Paperback Price: £21.99 / $34.95 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
ISBN: 9780415415743 Published: July 12th 2007 Binding: Paperback Price: £21.99 / $34.95 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:
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. Contents: 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 By Elizabeth Spillius Edited by Priscilla Roth
ISBN: 9780415419994 Published: June 21st 2007 Binding: Paperback Price: £21.99 / $34.95 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 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 Edited by Andrea Sabbadini
ISBN: 9780415428170 Published: March 22nd 2007 Binding: Paperback Price: £21.99 / $34.95 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:
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. 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. 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 By Mauro Mancia
ISBN: 9780415390972 Published: March 15th 2007 Binding: Paperback Price: £21.99 / $34.95 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:
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
ISBN: 9780415411776 Published: January 11th 2007 Binding: Paperback Price: £21.99 / $34.95 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:
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
ISBN: 9780415409230 Published: September 8th 2006 Binding: Paperback Price: £21.99 / $34.95 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 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 Edited by David Black
ISBN: 9780415379441 Published: March 30th 2006 Binding: Paperback Price: £21.99 / $34.95 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:
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
ISBN: 9780415372053 Published: March 2nd 2006 Binding: Paperback Price: £19.99 / $31.95 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:
Psychoanalytic clinicians and theoreticians alike will find the innovative approach to the analytic session described here of great interest. Winner of the 2007 Sigourney prize. 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 By Thomas Ogden
ISBN: 9780415372893 Published: September 8th 2005 Binding: Paperback Price: £19.99 / $31.95 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:
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 By Jean-Michel Quinodoz
ISBN: 9781583917473 Published: July 14th 2005 Binding: Paperback Price: £19.95 / $34.95 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 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 By Salomon Resnik
ISBN: 9781583917176 Published: March 31st 2005 Binding: Paperback Price: £19.99 / $31.95 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:
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 By Haydée Faimberg
ISBN: 9781583917534 Published: February 10th 2005 Binding: Paperback Price: £19.99 / $32.95 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 By Andre Green
ISBN: 9781583918395 Published: January 20th 2005 Binding: Paperback Price: £21.99 / $34.95 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:
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. Contents: 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 By Antonino Ferro
ISBN: 9781583918296 Published: December 23rd 2004 Binding: Paperback Price: £20.99 / $32.95 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:
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 By ARNOLD COOPER Edited by Elizabeth Auchincloss
ISBN: 9781583918920 Published: October 28th 2004 Binding: Paperback Price: £21.99 / $34.95 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 By César Botella
ISBN: 9781583918159 Published: October 28th 2004 Binding: Paperback Price: £20.99 / $32.95 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 Edited by Edith Hargreaves
ISBN: 9781583918234 Published: February 12th 2004 Binding: Paperback Price: £21.99 / $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:
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 Edited by Andrea Sabbadini
ISBN: 9781583919521 Published: May 29th 2003 Binding: Paperback Price: £21.99 / $34.95 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:
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 By Jean-Michel Quinodoz
ISBN: 9781583912652 Published: March 28th 2002 Binding: Paperback Price: £18.99 / $29.95 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 Edited by Alicia Etchegoyen
ISBN: 9781583911747 Published: December 6th 2001 Binding: Paperback Price: £21.99 / $34.95 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:
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. By Patrick Mahony
ISBN: 9781583911853 Published: April 26th 2001 Binding: Paperback Price: £21.99 / $34.95 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 By Piera Aulagnier
ISBN: 9780415236768 Published: March 8th 2001 Binding: Paperback Price: £21.99 / $34.95 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 Psychoanalytic 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-product |
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