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

Focuses on positive and life-enhancing emotions and attitudes. This book covers the realms such as: love, friendship, enthusiasm, courage, tact, resilience, and forgiveness, among others. It elucidates issues of development, adaptation, psychopathology, and analytic technique, as these pertain to the positive dimension of affective experience.

This book examines the processes at issue in the onset of psychiatric disorders linked to stress in the workplace. Six clinical observations are presented: an acute psychosomatic decompensation (status asthmaticus); a delirious episode; a dementia-like confusional state; a sexuality disorder; two successive decompensations and a suicide.

Focuses on the primary importance for the constitution of the child's subjectivity of the first or second names chosen by the parents, the scaffolding of the child's future identity and a legacy offered and attributed to children by those who precede them.

Psychosomatics have classically been of peripheral importance within our well-known theoretical models, despite the fact that they do have a history in psychoanalysis. This might be owing to the fact that Freud did not explicitly approach psychosomatics and, in consequence, did not put forward any hypotheses within his theoretical body.

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.

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.