A festschrift to explore and celebrate the work of Estela V. Welldon, whose pioneering work in forensic psychotherapy has influenced many of the psychotherapists and psychoanalysts working today.Each
Bringing together the experiences of mistrust, jealousy, lack of love, shamelessness, regret, and despair, this short but far-reaching book elucidates human sorrow in striking sociocultural and clinic
Secret wishes, forbidden pleasures, and painful memories hide below the false bottom of consciousness. How do we decipher the desire and pleasure located between the words spoken in psychotherapeutic
What exactly happens in psychotherapy, and when is it helpful? This look-behind-the-scenes shows how psychotherapy can be both scientific and imaginative, as prominent psychiatrist, psychotherapist, a
In The Tavistock Learning Group: Exploration Outside the Traditional Frame, authors Clive Hazell and Mark Kiel attempt to expand the heuristic, theoretical, and applied dimensions of Group Relations p
In this book the editors have solicited the unique and unmediated voices of fifteen leading psychotherapists, who share intimate and revealing stories from their clinic, professional incidents that sh
This volume provides a positive and productive model for helping people move out of static positions or difficult relationships in the workplace. Informed by systemic thinking and social constructioni
The Lacanian tradition is unique among psychoanalytic schools in its influence upon academic fields such as literature, philosophy, and cultural and critical studies. This book aims to make Lacan’s id
Dr James Grotstein’s erudition and depth of understanding made him one of the most revered psychoanalysts throughout the psychoanalytic world. He was well known and appreciated for his prolific writin
This is a unique project, bringing together inspiring therapists and non-therapist experts to discuss, inspire and dialogue about bodies through different angles. It is an aesthetic book bringing ther
This book concerns the child’s emotional and cognitive development during the period of latency. It constitutes a bridge between the first stormy years of a child’s development and adolescence. The co
In this book a group of contemporary psychoanalytic authors dedicated to studies on women and the feminine have been assembled with the objective of displaying points of concordance and discordance i
This title presents a rich assortment of the author's psychoanalytic contributions. He ably integrates the work of Winnicott, Bion, Klein, Kernberg and Kohut with that of Lacan, Bouvet and McDougal, t
This book describes the life of Karl Abraham, his work in Zurich and Berlin, and his scientific relationship with Freud. Abraham wrote important papers which form the base of clinical psychoanalysis a
Professor Brett Kahr, an award-winning biographer and scholar of long-standing, has resurrected Sigmund Freud from the dead and has invited him for a memorable cup of coffee—a pleasurable interlude in
This book focuses on adolescence and adolescent states of mind. It is one of a series that record Donald Meltzer’s clinical seminars and supervisions, which were conducted in various countries on a re
Totem conveys spirit, a sense of the sacred. Freud attempted to get under the totem and explore psychic forces and pressures below the surface. Jung opened further depths in exploration of the sacred.
The book offers a unique in-depth understanding of the twin relationship, and the way in which twin development is affected by our attitudes to twins and our enduring fascination with them. It explore
The premise of this book is that films, like other works of the imagination, may be elucidated by applying methods derived from psychoanalysis, and that doing so will result in a deeper and richer app
This book puts forward a model of therapy and support for people with DID that provides individual therapy, staff support, and a safe place to live. It relies upon the ideas of Bowlby by providing a s
It is Paris in the 1880s and the century is in its final throes as it moves through the cultural period of decadence and towards the fin de siecle. New scientific ideas are countered by a resurgent in
Sex matters. It is a crucial part of whom we are and what to do. So why do we police what is "normal" and what is "bizarre?" As Estela Welldon argues in this insightful book, whenever we disapprove of
This book is a psychoanalytic understanding of psychosis as a particular organization of the personality, based on "psychotic personality" (Bion) and "pathological organizations" (Steiner). The theore
Short-term Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (STPP) is a manualized, time-limited model of psychoanalytic psychotherapy comprising twenty-eight weekly sessions for the adolescent patient and seven sessions
Attachment theory occupies an integrative position between psychodynamic therapy and various perspectives within empirical psychology. Since therapy began, its way of thinking has been to interpret me
This publication brings together eleven articles on the clinical treatment of disability from French researchers in the fields of psychology, anthropology, psychiatry, and philosophy. The authors all
In clinical work, an awareness of patients’ subjective experiences, particularly their perceptions of interpersonal relationships, is indispensable. The aim of this book is to improve care and treatme
In psychotherapy clients sometimes experience breakthrough moments--profound moments in which their world and how they view themselves is changed forever. But what exactly occurs during such moments?
This book presents the central concepts of Winnicott’s theory of the maturational processes, clarifying its premises and providing an organized description of the various stages, with their respective
This book tracks a particular understanding of self, philosophically, from research evidence and its implications for psychotherapy. At each step, the author includes the theory, the clinical implicat
Thinking through Fairbairn offers parallel perspectives on Fairbairn’s work. It explores an extended interpretation of his "psychology of dynamic structure" and applies that model to a number of diffe
Psychoanalysis Online 3: The Teleanalytic Setting is a highly topical, continuing conversation on the role of technology in psychoanalysis and its tremendous potential for outreach to patients in the
In today’s world, where every form of transgression enjoys a psychological motive and rational justification, psychoanalysis stands alone in its ability to uncover the hidden motives that inform indiv
"In this compact and illuminating study of the evolving theoretical framework informing psychoanalytic work with couples, the authors highlight concepts that have been most drawn upon in developing dy
Innovative redrawing of female anatomy appeared in scientific literature and then in the popular press leading up to the Millenium. The surrounding structures of the clitoris, that small, vestigial or
This book focuses on detailed case histories of patients with severe traumas. Franziska Henningsen takes us through the successive stages of analysis and provides a graphic impression of the progress
This book offers a practitioner’s guide to evidence-based practice in working with psychotic patients in an outpatient setting by clinicians and scholars who are internationally recognized for their w
This book examines the influence of Gnostic philosophy on Jungian psychology as indicated by Jung’s essay, "The Transcendent Function" (1916), and his Gnostic-inspired treatise, The Seven Sermons to t
This novel provides a vital and engaging picture of current psychotherapeutic practice. It describes scenes from the life of a psychotherapist, including vignettes of his clinical work which present a
Schooled in economics, management, and psychoanalysis, Kets de Vries (who's affiliated with the European graduate business school INSEAD) studies the life of Alexander the Great for clues to the psych
