Books in the The International Psychoanalytical Association Contemporary Freud: Turning Points and Critical Issues Series series

The sixth volume in the series "Contemporary Freud: Turning Points and Critical Issues," published with the International Psychoanalytic Association, turns to Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego (1921). In this classic text Freud of

Freud's paper is examined by several analysts from different schools of thought, including Otto Kernberg, Leon Grinberg, Hanna Segal and Bela Grunberger.

Both melancholia and mourning are triggered by the same thing, that is, by loss. The distinction often made is that mourning occurs after the death of a loved one while in melancholia the object of love does not qualify as irretrievably lost.

This book brings together a selection of major contemporary psychoanalytic thinkers from around the world to attempt to bridge the seemingly unbridgeable gap between medical and non-medical analysis, using The Question of Lay Analysis as a central pivot.

This book brings together a selection of major contemporary psychoanalytic thinkers from around the world to attempt to bridge the seemingly unbridgeable gap between medical and non-medical analysis, using The Question of Lay Analysis as a central pivot.

The sixth volume in the series "Contemporary Freud: Turning Points and Critical Issues," published with the International Psychoanalytic Association, turns to Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego (1921). In this classic text Freud of

In "Constructions in Analysis", Freud introduces the notion of constructions, different from interpretation, and considers it necessary - under certain conditions - to reconstruct a part of the infantile history of the subject. This title considers Freudian ideas and its implications nowadays.

This book attempts to show, through its various chapters written by psychoanalysts from different parts of the world and sustaining varied paradigms, this enriching heterogeneity coupled with the invisible thread which strings together the diversity lent to it by its Freudian foundations.

Like his other papers on technique, Freud's 1913 essay on beginning the analysis had an enduring influence on psychoanalysts for generations to come, providing them with a solid and worldwide accepted conceptual basis on how to initiate psychoanalytic treatments.