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  • Plato's Ghost

    Minus Links and Liminality in Psychoanalytic Practice

    by Nilofer Kaul ...
    Psychoanalytic encounters are filled with the unknowability of two unconscious minds meeting. Here one may forge a link that enables the process of meaning-making, or else it can become the space for destruction, perversion, evacuation, regression, and stasis. The area that lies between the mind of the analyst and that of the analysand is thus the liminal area of psychoanalysis – of growth, change ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Psychoanalysis from the Indian Terroir

    Emerging Themes in Culture, Family, and Childhood

    Series series Psychoanalytic Studies: Clinical, Social, and Cultural Contexts
    In Psychoanalysis from the Indian Terroir, Manasi Kumar, Anup Dhar, and Anurag Mishra discuss the synergies and diachronic thought that is emblematic of the current psychoanalytic narrative in India and examine what psychoanalysis in India could become. The contributors to this edited collection connect problems around culture, family, traditions, and the burgeoning political changes in the Indian ... Read more

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    An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness

    by R. D. Laing ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    The Divided Self, R.D. Laing's groundbreaking exploration of the nature of madness, illuminated the nature of mental illness and made the mysteries of the mind comprehensible to a wide audience.First published in 1960, this watershed work aimed to make madness comprehensible, and in doing so revolutionized the way we perceive mental illness. Using case studies of patients he had worked with, ... Read more

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  • Beyond the Pleasure Principle

    by Sigmund Freud ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    A collection of some of Freud's most famous essays, including ON THE INTRODUCTION OF NARCISSISM; REMEMBERING, REPEATING AND WORKING THROUGH; BEYOND THE PLEASURE PRINCIPLE; THE EGO AND THE ID and INHIBITION, SYMPTOM AND FEAR. ... Read more

    $14.59 USD

  • What Freud Really Said

    An Introduction to His Life and Thought

    What Freud Really Said offers the most lucid overview available of Sigmund Freud, his legacy, and his place in our world. As the person responsible for the birth of psychoanalysis and one of the sharpest clinical minds of the twentieth century, Freud continues to be one of the most influential thinkers of our time and one of the most controversial. For those interested in understanding the life ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Psychic Retreats

    Pathological Organizations in Psychotic, Neurotic and Borderline Patients

    by John Steiner ...
    Series series The New Library of Psychoanalysis
    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 ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • The Clinical Thinking of Wilfred Bion

    Series series Makers of Modern Psychotherapy
    Winner of the 2013 Sigourney Award!Psychoanalysis seen through Bion's eyes is a radical departure from all conceptualizations which preceded him. In this major contribution to the series Makers of Modern Psychotherapy, Joan and Neville Symington concentrate on understanding Bion's concepts in relation to clinical practice, but their book is also accessible to the educated reader who wishes to ... Read more

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  • The Basic Fault

    Therapeutic Aspects of Regression

    In this volume, Michael Balint, who over the years made a sustained and brilliant contribution to the theory and technique of psychoanalysis, develops the concept of the 'basic fault' in the bio-psychology structure of every individual, involving in varying degree both mind and body. Balint traces the origins of the basic fault to the early formative period, during which serious discrepancies ... Read more

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  • The Christopher Bollas Reader

    This reader brings together a selection of seminal papers by Christopher Bollas.Essays such as "The Fascist State of Mind," "The Structure of Evil," and "The Functions of History" have established his position as one of the most significant cultural critics of our time. Also included are examples of his psychoanalytical writings, such as "The Transformational Object" and "Psychic Genera," that ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • The Violence of Emotions

    Bion and Post-Bionian Psychoanalysis

    Series series The New Library of Psychoanalysis
    In The Violence of Emotions the author marries an ability to introduce the reader to the intimate climate of an analytic session with a passionate rereading of Bion. To emphasize both the empirical nature of psychoanalysis and its extraordinary capacity to engender illuminating hypotheses concerning the functioning of the mind, clinical examples alternate with theoretical argument. The ... Read more

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  • Bion Today

    Edited by Chris Mawson ...
    Series series The New Library of Psychoanalysis
    Bion Today explores how Bion’s work is used in contemporary settings; how his ideas have been applied at the level of the individual, the group and the organisation; and which phenomena have been made more comprehensible through the lenses of his concepts. The bookintroduces distinctive psychoanalytic contributions to show the ways in which distinguished analysts have explored and developed the ... Read more

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  • On Kissing, Tickling, and Being Bored

    Psychoanalytic Essays on the Unexamined Life

    by Adam Phillips ...
    In a style that is writerly and audacious, Adam Phillips takes up a variety of seemingly ordinary subjects underinvestigated by psychoanalysis--kissing, worrying, risk, solitude, composure, even farting as it relates to worrying.He argues that psychoanalysis began as a virtuoso improvisation within the science of medicine, but that virtuosity has given way to the dream of science that only the ... Read more

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