Books in the CIPS Confederation of Independent Psychoanalytic Societies Boundaries of Psychoanalysis series

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 appreciation of the film's meaning. The book explores a number of feature films that lend themselves particularly well to this process.

Describes various methodologies that generate evidence pertaining to public health policy, the persuasiveness and integrity of our psychoanalytic concepts, and phenomena encountered in daily clinical practice.

Offers a vision of contemporary Freudian psychoanalysis. In this title, the contributors show how modern Freudian analysts have translated and retranslated the contributions of analysts on whose shoulders they stand, including Freud, Winnicott, Loewald, and Ferenczi, and synthesized them into a new conception of Freudian theory and technique.

This book traces the theoretical history of psychosomatics in psychoanalysis, and with it the ways that psychoanalytically-trained clinicians have tried to understand and treat patients with complex psychosomatic symptoms.

This book covers the phenomenon of stalking in its two major variations, sexual and surveillance, by emphasizing its central relevance to today's social, cultural, and political dilemmas with particular reference to stalking in cyberspace and its inevitable invasions of privacy.

Symbolization refers to a process whereby we can meaningfully understand that an event can be looked at from a variety of perspectives. This book refers to a particular construction of the world that brooks no uncertainty: 'things are the way I believe them to be'.

Answers the question of how psychoanalysis effects therapeutic change and the methods by which this change is achieved from the perspectives of: ego psychology and modern conflict theory, classical theory, contemporary object relations theory and neo-Kleinian theory, attachment theory, and self psychological theory.

Intends to deconstruct the different theoretical perspectives of psychoanalysis, and reconstruct these concepts in a language that is easily understood. This book examines Freud's different theories and describes how Freud shifted his emphasis over time.

Describes various methodologies that generate evidence pertaining to public health policy, the persuasiveness and integrity of our psychoanalytic concepts, and phenomena encountered in daily clinical practice.

Offers a vision of contemporary Freudian psychoanalysis. In this title, the contributors show how modern Freudian analysts have translated and retranslated the contributions of analysts on whose shoulders they stand, including Freud, Winnicott, Loewald, and Ferenczi, and synthesized them into a new conception of Freudian theory and technique.