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"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 and psychoanalysts.
In this edited collection of his papers, Dr Adam Limentani introduces Gaddini's key theories showing how they are closely linked to, but different from, the thinking of Phyllis Greenacre, DOnald Winnicitt and Melanie Klein.
Claudine and Pierre Geissmann trace the history and development of child psychoanalysis over the last century and assess the contributions made by pioneers of the discipline.
Providing clinical and literary examples, Anna Potamianou shows how hope in borderline patients can become a means of denying reality. This book makes an important contribution to the clinical and theoretical debate.
Antonino Ferro sets out his new conceptual system for analysis, considering not only the inner world of the patient but the continued interaction of that world with the inner world of the analyst.
Questions the relationship between psychoanalysis, history and literature. This book explores whether the analyst helps the analysis and constructs a narrative, or whether their task is more of a historical reconstruction.
Examines changes in the patient's experience of inner space, recording the growth of the author's understanding of the patient's experience and how this can change. The book goes on to tackle practical clinical issues and problems of technique - the role of transference interpretations.
Argues that certain important elements of Judaic culture were so integral a part of Freud's personality that they became visible in his work and especially in his attitudes to and theories of femininity. This work describes Freud's theory of femininity and its implications for psychoanalytic theories of human development and motivation in general.
A guide to the seminal ideas and practices of the South American psychoanalysts who made theoretical and clinical contributions to psychoanalysis.
A guide to the seminal ideas and practices of the South American psychoanalysts who made theoretical and clinical contributions to psychoanalysis.
Melanie Klein Today, Volume 1 is the first of two volumes of collected essays devoted to developments in psychoanalysis based on the work of Melanie Klein.
Elizabeth Bott Spillius brings together classic and new papers to make it possible to understand the main elements of the Kleinian therapeutic technique.
The Freud-Klein Controversies 1941-45 offers the first complete record of the extraordinary debates centering around the radical theories of Melanie Klein after Freud's death in 1939.
Psychic Bisexuality: A British-French Dialogue clarifies and develops the Freudian conception according to which sexual identity is not reduced to the anatomical difference between the sexes, but is constructed as a psychic bisexuality that is inherent to all human beings.
British Psychoanalysis: New Perspectives in the Independent Tradition is a new and extended edition of The British School of Psychoanalysis: The Independent Tradition, which explored the successes and failures of the early environment; transference and counter-transference in the psychoanalytic encounter; regression in the situation of treatment, and female sexuality. Published in the mid-1980s, it had an important influence on the development of psychoanalysis both in Great Britain and abroad, was translated into several languages and became a central textbook in academic and professional courses.
Translation is at the heart of psychoanalysis: from unconscious to conscious, experience to verbal expression, internal to enacted, dream thought to dream image, language to interpretation, unrepresented to represented, and transference of past to present.
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