Bøger i The International Psychoanalytical Association Psychoanalytic Ideas and Applications Series serien

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

Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Virtual Intimacy and Communication in Film brings together a group of psychoanalysts to explore, through film, the new forms of communication, mainly the internet, that enter more and more frequently the affective life of people, their intimacy and even the analytic room. The contributors, all practising psychoanalysts, analyse the potential surprising transformation the human relationships are going across, including psychoanalysis.

Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Virtual Intimacy and Communication in Film brings together a group of psychoanalysts to explore, through film, the new forms of communication, mainly the internet, that enter more and more frequently the affective life of people, their intimacy and even the analytic room. The contributors, all practising psychoanalysts, analyse the potential surprising transformation the human relationships are going across, including psychoanalysis.

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.

This book explores recent contributions to the status of psychoanalytic thought in relation to art and creativity and the implications of these investigations for todays analytic practice. The title, 'Art in Psychoanalysis', reflects its double perspective: art and its contributions to theory and clinical practice.

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.

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.

Gathers together a number of contributions about the female body, inside and out, from a large group of psychoanalysts who are at the forefront of new thinking about issues of femininity, the female body, sex and gender. This book explores the female body in art, in pregnancy and motherhood, in sexuality and in the life-cycle.

Combines autobiographical stories with clear psychoanalytical theories. This book spans the author's work over the years on the impact of external reality on psychic reality. It was her desire to confront this trauma that led her to psychoanalysis.

"The Work of Confluence: Listening, Working and Interpreting in the Psychoanalytic Field".

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.

Psychoanalysis of the Psychoses brings together a distinguished international set of contributors, offering a range of views and approaches, to explore the latest thinking in the psychoanalytic treatment of psychosis and related disorders.

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