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Brings together the papers and seminars of Eric Brenman, revealing his impact on the development of psychoanalysis and allowing a better understanding of his distinctive voice amongst post-Kleinian analysts. This work is intended for psychoanalysts and psychotherapists.

Explores how analysts struggle with the contradictory nature of psychoanalysis - deeply personal, subjective and intuitive, yet dependant on systematic theory and objective principles of technique.

Examines psychoanalysis from two perspectives - as a cure for psychic suffering, and as a series of stories told between patient and analyst. This book draws on and develops Bion's theories to present a different perspective on subjects, such as: psychoanalysis as a particular form of literature; delusion and hallucination; and more.

About Children and Children-no-longer is the long awaited collection of Paula Heimann's published and unpublished papers.

Based on experience of analytic practice and illustrated by fascinating clinical material, this book addresses what the authors call the work of figurability as a way of outlining the passage from the unrepresentable to the representational.

Almost a year since the publication of The Interpretation of Dreams, this anthology brings together key issues from Europe and America and invites the reader to consider new perspectives on the dream that have emerged since then.

Drawing on a range of psychoanalytic, philosophical and literary sources, and vignettes from the author's clinical experience, this book brings the subject of psychosis to life and demonstrates how the study of psychoanalysis and psychosis forces us to confront fundamental ontological questions.

This unique contemporary perspective will fascinate all those with an interest in tackling the fragmentation which has led to the current 'crisis of psychoanalysis' and opportunities for the future development of the field.

The first study of its kind, From Fetus to Child shows how observational and psychoanalytic data can offer different but complementary insights in attempting to answer fundamental questions about human development.

In this book the author develops his conceptualization of the Freudian unconscious in terms of logic and mathematics, giving many clinical examples.

The author's clinical work on psychoanalysis, specifically her ideas on symbolism, aesthetics, dreams and the exploration of psychotic thinking, are examined in this text. Theories and clinical examples are combined and applied to create original studies of art and aesthetics.

Offering a different perspective on psychoanalysis, this volume explores the idea that human psychopathology is a manifestation of a breakdown of the individual's capacity to dream his experience. It is of interest to psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, and other mental health professionals.

Marion Milner introduces this edited collection of her papers from 1942 to 1977 with a fascinating biographical account of her development in psychoanalysis.

The selected papers of one of the leading intellectual figures in psychoanalysis, Arnold M. Cooper M.D., record his unique ability to reflect upon the process of change and help us understand not only where, but even what, psychoanalysis is.

Elizabeth Bott Spillius brings together classic and new papers to make it possible to understand the main elements of the Kleinian therapeutic technique.

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.

Reisenberg-Malcolm provides clear guidance on how the analyst can encourage the patient to communicate their often intolerably painful states of mind, and how to interpret these communications.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Presents essays which explore films from a psychoanalytic perspective, focussing specifically on the representation of loss in European cinema. This book also explores other themes familiar to psychoanalytic discourse, including establishment and resolution of Oedipal conflicts and representation of pathological characters on the screen.

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.

In this text, the author examines Freud's earliest psychoanalytic book, "Studies on Hysteria", which he wrote together with Breuer, and "Moses and Monotheism", his last book. The essay on "Studies on Hysteria" reveals to the reader why that book is considered the "primal book" of psychoanalysis.

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.

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.

A collection of contemporary material by an international selection of contributors on the subjects of transference and countertransference.