Books in the The International Psychoanalytical Association Psychoanalytic Ideas and Applications Series series

Intends to establish a unitary model of the processes at work in different forms of narcissistic pathology. This title offers a model that is both an alternative and complementary to Freud's model of what is usually considered to be neurotic problems.

Explores the particularities of the status of the method in psychoanalysis, linked to the specificity of unconscious psychic processes.

Presents a collection of essays that are a source of psychoanalytic inspiration. This book presents a wide range of psychoanalytic thinking. It illustrates the effect of theory on practice and the influence of practice on the evolution of theory.

The book is a psychoanalytic understanding of psychosis as a particular organisation of the personality, based on 'psychotic personality' (Bion) and 'pathological organisations' (Steiner). The theoretical development is traced through Freud, Klein and Bion, along with contemporary Kleinian authors.

This book examines Freud''s use and definition of interpretation as a therapeutic tool as well as views it from the philosophical perspective of meaning and its definition. In addition, it examines the later developments made by Klein and Bion.

Recounts and explores the disappointing and sometimes tragic evolutions of the treatments of certain patients who are resistant to the effects of analytic work. This book reports cases taken from the author's own experience and that of his collaborators.

In the last several decades, the analytic field has widened considerably in scope. The therapeutic task is now seen by an increasing number of analysts to require that patient and analyst work together to strengthen, or to create, psychic structure that was previously weak, missing, or functionally inoperative.

Hostile and Malignant Prejudice: Psychoanalytic Approaches represents the leading edge of work in the field by members of the International Psychoanalytical Association's Committee on Prejudice. It pursues the issues surrounding hostile and malignant prejudice as defined in the first chapter by Henri Parens.

Eleanor Galenson singular focus was her interest in maturational and psychosexual vicissitudes of infancy and early childhood. This volume highlights her approach to the study of the early years of life and, in particular, her contributions to understanding the developmental significance of the very young child's discovery of sexual difference.

Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry: Partners and Competitors in the Mental Health Field offers a comprehensive overview of the many links between the two fields.