Psychoanalytical Theory (Freudian Psychology)

The sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic Church captured headlines and mobilized public outrage in January 2002. But much of the commentary that im...

'Because psychoanalysis is a science of subjectivity, it is no surprise that symbolism has been of central interest from its inception and early de...

Winner of the 2010 Sigourney Award!How has Hanna Segal influenced psychoanalysis today?Jean-Michel Quinodoz provides the reader with a comprehensiv...

In American literature, a traumatic scene of racial and sexual awakening - frequently involving photographs, mirrors, or acts of witnessing - often...

Today many view Sigmund Freud as an elitist whose psychoanalytic treatment was reserved for the intellectually and financially advantaged. However,...

"Electra's story is essentially a tale of murder, revenge, and violence. In the ancient myth of Atreus, Agamemnon returns home from battle and rece...

Supervision is a discipline that is informed and enlivened by the theories, insights and understandings of the psychoanalytic and psychodynamic dis...

The fundamental outlook of this book is clinical. It attempts to establish a unitary model of the processes at work in different forms of narcissis...

In this book Anne Maguire examines the psychoanalytic relevance of evil. Using case studies and examples she examines how sin may find calamitous e...

Mentalization is the capacity to perceive and interpret behavior in terms of intentional mental states, to imagine what others are thinking and fee...

The Papers of the Freudian School of Melbourne, Volume 24 give testament to that quasi - suicidal risk taken by analysts and members of the school,...

First published in 1995. This is Volume 11, number 3 of Psychoanalytic Inquiry focusing on the recent developments in the concept and treatment of ...

In 1995, Neil Altman did what few psychoanalysts did or even dared to do: He brought the theory and practice of psychoanalysis out of the cozy conf...

Derrida and Lacan have long been viewed as proponents of two opposing schools of thought. This book argues, however, that the logical structure und...

Derrida and Lacan have long been viewed as proponents of two opposing schools of thought. This book argues, however, that the logical structure und...

Erik Erikson and the American Psyche is an intellectual biography which explores Erikson's contributions to the study of infancy, childhood and eth...

This book works to expose that vision and to demonstrate its fertility for further inquiry. It reconstructs several of Freud's works on ordinary me...

In 1995, Neil Altman did what few psychoanalysts did or even dared to do: He brought the theory and practice of psychoanalysis out of the cozy conf...

Research has suggested that childhood experiences confer risk/resilience for reactions to trauma in adulthood, and predictors and correlates of pos...

This volume addresses the topic of embodiment in psychoanalysis from both theoretical and clinical points of view. Freud's development of a psycho...

This is the most thorough, revealing, and illuminating account of the inner workings of psychoanalytic institutions that has ever been written. It ...

Freud's Foes, the latest title in the Polemics series, addresses Freud's fiercest contemporary critics. Kurt Jacobsen defends psychoanalysis, while...

Man has great difficulty accepting who he is. In Psychoanalytic Reflections on Love and Sexuality, author Gerd H. Fenchel traces how we have define...

Contemporary psychoanalysts are eclectic and believe they use the best ideas from each of our numerous competing theoretic models. However, there i...