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Off The Couch
Contemporary Psychoanalytic Applications
- Edited by Alessandra Lemma, and Matthew Patrick.
Published March 2010
The contemporary relevance of psychoanalysis is being increasingly questioned; Off the Couch challenges this view, demonstrating that psychoanalytic thinking and its applications are both innovative and relevant, in particular to the management and treatment of more disturbed and difficult to…
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A Woman's Unconscious Use of Her Body
A Psychoanalytical Perspective
- By Dinora Pines.
Published February 2010
Drawing on Dinora Pines’ lifetime of clinical experience this classic book provides a psychoanalytic understanding of women’s relationships with their bodies, focusing on key moments in women’s lives.
With chapters organised to follow the female life-cycle, topics covered include:
the…
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Under the Skin
A Psychoanalytic Study of Body Modification
- By Alessandra Lemma.
Published February 2010
Under the Skin considers the motivation behind why people pierce, tattoo, cosmetically enhance, or otherwise modify their body, from a psychoanalytic perspective. It discusses how the therapist can understand and help individuals for whom the manipulation of the body is felt to be psychically…
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Primitive Mental States
A Psychoanalytic Exploration of the Origins of Meaning
- Edited by Jane Van Buren, and Shelley Alhanati.
Published December 2009
Traditional psychoanalysis relies on the presence of certain meaning-making capacities in the patient for its effectiveness. Primitive Mental States examines how particular capacities including those for symbolising, fantasising, dreaming, experiencing and finding meanings in those experiences, can…
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The Zen Impulse and the Psychoanalytic Encounter
- By Paul C. Cooper.
Published December 2009
Although psychoanalysis and Zen Buddhism derive from theoretical and philosophical assumptions worlds apart, both experientially-based traditions share at their heart a desire for the understanding, development, and growth of the human experience. Paul Cooper utilizes detailed clinical vignettes to…
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Exploring in Security
Towards an Attachment-Informed Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
- By Jeremy Holmes.
Published October 2009
This book builds a key clinical bridge between attachment theory and psychoanalysis, deploying Holmes' unique capacity to weld empirical evidence, psychoanalytic theory and consulting room experience into a coherent and convincing whole. Starting from the theory–practice gap in…
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Object Relations, Work and the Self
- By David P. Levine.
Published October 2009
In this book, David P. Levine applies psychoanalytic object relations theory to understanding work motivation and the meaning of work. Drawing on the writings of authors such as Donald Winnicott, Otto Kernberg and Melanie Klein, he explores three factors central to our effort to understand work:…
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Growing Old
A Journey of Self-Discovery
- By Danielle Quinodoz.
Published September 2009
People react very differently to the process of ageing. Some people shy away from old age for as long as they can and eventually spend it reflecting on times when they were physically and mentally stronger and more independent. For others old age is embraced as a new adventure and something to look…
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The Work of Psychoanalysts in the Public Health Sector
- Edited by Mary Brownescombe Heller, and Sheena Pollet.
Published September 2009
This book provides a comprehensive insight into the ways in which psychoanalysts think and work. Mary Brownescombe Heller and Sheena Pollet bring together internationally known contributors trained at the Institute of Psychoanalysis to explore the broad range of clinical work, thinking, and…
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