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Does the Woman Exist?
From Freud's Hysteric to Lacan's Feminine
Written by Paul Verhaeghe
Translated by Marc du Ry
Format: eBook
On Sale: April 16, 2013
Price: $16.99
This book describes how Freud attempted to chart hysteria, yet came to a standstill at the problem of woman and her desire, and of how Lacan continued along this road by creating new conceptual tools. The difficulties and upsets encountered by both men are examined.
This lucid presentation of the dialectical process... Read more >
From Freud's Hysteric to Lacan's Feminine
Written by Paul Verhaeghe
Translated by Marc du Ry
Format: eBook
On Sale: April 16, 2013
Price: $16.99
This book describes how Freud attempted to chart hysteria, yet came to a standstill at the problem of woman and her desire, and of how Lacan continued along this road by creating new conceptual tools. The difficulties and upsets encountered by both men are examined.
This lucid presentation of the dialectical process... Read more >
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Beyond Gender
From Suject to Drive
Written by Paul Verhaeghe
Format: eBook, 166 pages
On Sale: March 26, 2013
Price: $17.99
In this volume, Paul Verhaeghe's lectures on the development of psychoanalytic theory between Freud and Lacan are reproduced as a written work of astonishing versatility, which stands at the vanguard of Lacanian studies. Beyond Gender examines Freud's discovery of the unconscious, and Lacan's elaboration of this discovery as a gap in... Read more >
From Suject to Drive
Written by Paul Verhaeghe
Format: eBook, 166 pages
On Sale: March 26, 2013
Price: $17.99
In this volume, Paul Verhaeghe's lectures on the development of psychoanalytic theory between Freud and Lacan are reproduced as a written work of astonishing versatility, which stands at the vanguard of Lacanian studies. Beyond Gender examines Freud's discovery of the unconscious, and Lacan's elaboration of this discovery as a gap in... Read more >
Clinical Lacan
Written by Joel Dor
Format: eBook
On Sale: March 26, 2013
Price: $19.99
About this Book...
This companion text to Introduction the Reading of Lacan focuses on the concept of the psychic structures of desire. Using case examples, Dor explains the crucial difference between symptomsówhich can be phenomenologically graspedóand the actual psychic structure of the subjectówhich can be revealed only through the discourse of the... Read more >
Written by Joel Dor
Format: eBook
On Sale: March 26, 2013
Price: $19.99
About this Book...
This companion text to Introduction the Reading of Lacan focuses on the concept of the psychic structures of desire. Using case examples, Dor explains the crucial difference between symptomsówhich can be phenomenologically graspedóand the actual psychic structure of the subjectówhich can be revealed only through the discourse of the... Read more >
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The Fifty-Minute Hour
Written by Robert Lindner
Introduction by Jonathan Lear
Format: eBook
On Sale: March 26, 2013
Price: $16.99
“A fascinating mixture of traditional psychoanalytic thinking with clinical strategies that even today would be considered creative and controversial, The Fifty-Minute Hour has never failed to capture the imagination. . . . No student’s education in psychotherapy is complete without reading this book. Decades after its original publication, it still stands... Read more >
Written by Robert Lindner
Introduction by Jonathan Lear
Format: eBook
On Sale: March 26, 2013
Price: $16.99
“A fascinating mixture of traditional psychoanalytic thinking with clinical strategies that even today would be considered creative and controversial, The Fifty-Minute Hour has never failed to capture the imagination. . . . No student’s education in psychotherapy is complete without reading this book. Decades after its original publication, it still stands... Read more >
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Four Lessons of Psychoanalysis
Written by Moustafa Safouan
Format: eBook
On Sale: March 26, 2013
Price: $18.99
In this delightfully readable and clearly written volume, the world renowned psychoanalyst Moustafa Safouan considers the works of Freud and Lacan. When Safouan met Lacan in 1949, he was all but ready to abandon the field due to the many contradictions and obscurities he found in Freud. Yet thanks to Lacan's... Read more >
Written by Moustafa Safouan
Format: eBook
On Sale: March 26, 2013
Price: $18.99
In this delightfully readable and clearly written volume, the world renowned psychoanalyst Moustafa Safouan considers the works of Freud and Lacan. When Safouan met Lacan in 1949, he was all but ready to abandon the field due to the many contradictions and obscurities he found in Freud. Yet thanks to Lacan's... Read more >
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History Beyond Trauma
Written by Francoise Davoine and Jean-Max Gaudilliere
Translated by Susan Fairfield
Format: eBook
On Sale: March 26, 2013
Price: $24.99
In the course of nearly thirty years of work with patients in psychiatric hospitals and private practice, Francoise Davoine and Jean-Max Gaudilliere have uncovered the ways in which transference and countertransference are affected by the experience of social catastrophe. Handed down from one generation to the next, the unspoken horrors of... Read more >
Written by Francoise Davoine and Jean-Max Gaudilliere
Translated by Susan Fairfield
Format: eBook
On Sale: March 26, 2013
Price: $24.99
In the course of nearly thirty years of work with patients in psychiatric hospitals and private practice, Francoise Davoine and Jean-Max Gaudilliere have uncovered the ways in which transference and countertransference are affected by the experience of social catastrophe. Handed down from one generation to the next, the unspoken horrors of... Read more >
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How James Joyce Made his Name
A Reading of the Final Lacan
Written by Roberto Harari
Translated by Luke Thurston
Format: eBook
On Sale: March 26, 2013
Price: $24.99
In this lucid and compelling analysis of Lacan's twenty-third seminar, “Le Sinthome,” Roberto Harari points to new psychoanalytic pathways that lead beyond Freudian oedipal dynamics.
Lacan's seminar measures the boundaries between creativity and neurosis. We learn how poetry and wordplay may offer alternatives to neurotic pain and even psychotic delusions, with Joyce... Read more >
A Reading of the Final Lacan
Written by Roberto Harari
Translated by Luke Thurston
Format: eBook
On Sale: March 26, 2013
Price: $24.99
In this lucid and compelling analysis of Lacan's twenty-third seminar, “Le Sinthome,” Roberto Harari points to new psychoanalytic pathways that lead beyond Freudian oedipal dynamics.
Lacan's seminar measures the boundaries between creativity and neurosis. We learn how poetry and wordplay may offer alternatives to neurotic pain and even psychotic delusions, with Joyce... Read more >
Introduction to the Reading of Lacan
The Unconscious Structured Like a Language
Written by Joel Dor
Format: eBook
On Sale: March 26, 2013
Price: $19.99
About this Book...
"A major and long overdue addition to the America/English psychoanalytic literature. . . . All major concepts—among them the mirror stage, the Name-of-the-Father, metaphor and metonymy, the phallus, the foreclosure of the subject—are developed in depth."
-Nicholas Kouretsas, Harvard Medical School Read more >
The Unconscious Structured Like a Language
Written by Joel Dor
Format: eBook
On Sale: March 26, 2013
Price: $19.99
About this Book...
"A major and long overdue addition to the America/English psychoanalytic literature. . . . All major concepts—among them the mirror stage, the Name-of-the-Father, metaphor and metonymy, the phallus, the foreclosure of the subject—are developed in depth."
-Nicholas Kouretsas, Harvard Medical School Read more >
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Lacan's Seminar On Anxiety
An Introduction
Written by Roberto Harari
Foreword by Charles Shepherdson
Format: eBook
On Sale: March 26, 2013
Price: $24.99
Designed for novices as well as students of psychology and literary criticism, these systematic lectures do much to clarify Lacan's groundbreaking work on the birth of the subject and its links with Freud's theory of drives. Moreover, they answer some of the criticisms that have been leveled at Lacan by forms... Read more >
An Introduction
Written by Roberto Harari
Foreword by Charles Shepherdson
Format: eBook
On Sale: March 26, 2013
Price: $24.99
Designed for novices as well as students of psychology and literary criticism, these systematic lectures do much to clarify Lacan's groundbreaking work on the birth of the subject and its links with Freud's theory of drives. Moreover, they answer some of the criticisms that have been leveled at Lacan by forms... Read more >
Against Adaptation
Lacan's Subversion of the Subject
Written by Philippe Van Haute
Format: eBook
On Sale: December 4, 2012
Price: $24.99
"Van Haute's exegesis of Lacan's essay is as lucid as it is cogent--an admirable (and very illuminating) achievement."
-William Richardson Read more >
Lacan's Subversion of the Subject
Written by Philippe Van Haute
Format: eBook
On Sale: December 4, 2012
Price: $24.99
"Van Haute's exegesis of Lacan's essay is as lucid as it is cogent--an admirable (and very illuminating) achievement."
-William Richardson Read more >
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Psychoanalysis
Written by Janet Malcolm
Format: eBook, 188 pages
On Sale: June 8, 2011
Price: $13.99
Through an intensive study of "Aaron Green," a Freudian analyst in New York City, New Yorker writer Janet Malcolm reveals the inner workings of psychoanalysis.
From the Trade Paperback edition. Read more >
Written by Janet Malcolm
Format: eBook, 188 pages
On Sale: June 8, 2011
Price: $13.99
Through an intensive study of "Aaron Green," a Freudian analyst in New York City, New Yorker writer Janet Malcolm reveals the inner workings of psychoanalysis.
From the Trade Paperback edition. Read more >
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Gender in Psychoanalytic Space
Between clinic and culture
Edited by Muriel Dimen and Virginia Goldner
Format: eBook, 388 pages
On Sale: December 14, 2010
Price: $29.99
About this Book...
"Here is a book that both creates and illuminates the space where psychoanalysis, feminism, gender studies, and sexualities join. . . . A collection of cutting edge work that brims with the excitement of new possibility."
-Dr. Sam Gerson
Combining clinical psychoanalysis with feminism, postmodernism, and psychoanalytic theory, this pioneering... Read more >
Between clinic and culture
Edited by Muriel Dimen and Virginia Goldner
Format: eBook, 388 pages
On Sale: December 14, 2010
Price: $29.99
About this Book...
"Here is a book that both creates and illuminates the space where psychoanalysis, feminism, gender studies, and sexualities join. . . . A collection of cutting edge work that brims with the excitement of new possibility."
-Dr. Sam Gerson
Combining clinical psychoanalysis with feminism, postmodernism, and psychoanalytic theory, this pioneering... Read more >
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The Mermaid and The Minotaur
Written by Dorothy Dinnerstein
Afterword by Adrienne Harris
Introduction by Vivian Gornick and Ann Snitow
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: December 14, 2010
Price: $13.99
"A seminal text in the womenís movement."
–Ethel S. Person, author of The Sexual Century
"Still the most important work of feminist psychoanalytic exploration, its re-release is a celebratory occasion."
–Eli Sagan, author of Freud, Women and Mortality
"[The Mermaid and the Minotaur] continues to astonish us with the depth and wisdom of... Read more >
Written by Dorothy Dinnerstein
Afterword by Adrienne Harris
Introduction by Vivian Gornick and Ann Snitow
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: December 14, 2010
Price: $13.99
"A seminal text in the womenís movement."
–Ethel S. Person, author of The Sexual Century
"Still the most important work of feminist psychoanalytic exploration, its re-release is a celebratory occasion."
–Eli Sagan, author of Freud, Women and Mortality
"[The Mermaid and the Minotaur] continues to astonish us with the depth and wisdom of... Read more >
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Gender in Psychoanalytic Space
Between clinic and culture
Edited by Muriel Dimen and Virginia Goldner
Format: Trade Paperback, 388 pages
On Sale: November 9, 2010
Price: $37.00
About this Book...
"Here is a book that both creates and illuminates the space where psychoanalysis, feminism, gender studies, and sexualities join. . . . A collection of cutting edge work that brims with the excitement of new possibility."
-Dr. Sam Gerson
Combining clinical psychoanalysis with feminism, postmodernism, and psychoanalytic theory, this pioneering... Read more >
Between clinic and culture
Edited by Muriel Dimen and Virginia Goldner
Format: Trade Paperback, 388 pages
On Sale: November 9, 2010
Price: $37.00
About this Book...
"Here is a book that both creates and illuminates the space where psychoanalysis, feminism, gender studies, and sexualities join. . . . A collection of cutting edge work that brims with the excitement of new possibility."
-Dr. Sam Gerson
Combining clinical psychoanalysis with feminism, postmodernism, and psychoanalytic theory, this pioneering... Read more >
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Affect Regulation, Mentalization, and the Development of the Self
Written by Peter Fonagy, Gyorgy Gergely, Elliot Jurist and Mary Target
Format: eBook, 592 pages
On Sale: September 7, 2010
Price: $29.99
Winner of the 2003 Gradiva Award and the 2003 Goethe Award for Psychoanalytic Scholarship
Arguing for the importance of attachment and emotionality in the developing human consciousness, four prominent analysts explore and refine the concepts of mentalization and affect regulation. Their bold, energetic, and encouraging vision for psychoanalytic treatment combines elements of... Read more >
Written by Peter Fonagy, Gyorgy Gergely, Elliot Jurist and Mary Target
Format: eBook, 592 pages
On Sale: September 7, 2010
Price: $29.99
Winner of the 2003 Gradiva Award and the 2003 Goethe Award for Psychoanalytic Scholarship
Arguing for the importance of attachment and emotionality in the developing human consciousness, four prominent analysts explore and refine the concepts of mentalization and affect regulation. Their bold, energetic, and encouraging vision for psychoanalytic treatment combines elements of... Read more >
Attachment Theory and Psychoanalysis
Written by Peter Fonagy
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: September 7, 2010
Price: $24.99
A Bestseller
Attachment Theory shows scientifically how our earliest relationships with our mothers influence our later relationships in life. This book offers an excellent introduction to the findings of attachment theory and the major schools of psychoanalytic thought.
"The book every student, colleague, and even rival theoretician has been waiting for... Read more >
Written by Peter Fonagy
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: September 7, 2010
Price: $24.99
A Bestseller
Attachment Theory shows scientifically how our earliest relationships with our mothers influence our later relationships in life. This book offers an excellent introduction to the findings of attachment theory and the major schools of psychoanalytic thought.
"The book every student, colleague, and even rival theoretician has been waiting for... Read more >
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Brain and the Inner World
An Introduction to the Neuroscience of Subjective Experience
Written by Mark Solms and Oliver Turnbull
Foreword by Oliver Sacks
Format: eBook, 360 pages
On Sale: September 7, 2010
Price: $26.00
About this Book...
The Brain and the Inner World is an eagerly-awaited account of a momentous revolution. Subjective mental states like consciousness, emotion, and dreaming were once confined to the realm of philosophy, psychoanalysis, and the human sciences. These topics now assume center stage in leading neuroscientific laboratories around the world. This... Read more >
An Introduction to the Neuroscience of Subjective Experience
Written by Mark Solms and Oliver Turnbull
Foreword by Oliver Sacks
Format: eBook, 360 pages
On Sale: September 7, 2010
Price: $26.00
About this Book...
The Brain and the Inner World is an eagerly-awaited account of a momentous revolution. Subjective mental states like consciousness, emotion, and dreaming were once confined to the realm of philosophy, psychoanalysis, and the human sciences. These topics now assume center stage in leading neuroscientific laboratories around the world. This... Read more >
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Practical Psychoanalysis for Therapists and Patients
Written by Owen Renik
Format: eBook, 192 pages
On Sale: September 7, 2010
Price: $19.99
A clear and readable how-to manual for results-oriented psychoanalysis.
By now, the term "practical psychoanalysis" has become an oxymoron. The way psychoanalytic treatment is generally conducted is extremely impractical and doesn't serve the needs of the vast majority of potential patients, who want to achieve maximum relief from emotional distress as quickly... Read more >
Written by Owen Renik
Format: eBook, 192 pages
On Sale: September 7, 2010
Price: $19.99
A clear and readable how-to manual for results-oriented psychoanalysis.
By now, the term "practical psychoanalysis" has become an oxymoron. The way psychoanalytic treatment is generally conducted is extremely impractical and doesn't serve the needs of the vast majority of potential patients, who want to achieve maximum relief from emotional distress as quickly... Read more >
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Gene Worship
Moving Beyond the Nature/ Nurture Debate Over Genes, Brain and Gender
Written by Gisela Kaplan
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: August 24, 2010
Price: $20.00
"A wonderful antidote to the gene hysteria that is now so dominant! . . . What is most exciting about this book is the authors' ability to move seamlessly from research on how the brain works, to sociology, history, and philosophy. And that, I believe, is exactly how we need to... Read more >
Moving Beyond the Nature/ Nurture Debate Over Genes, Brain and Gender
Written by Gisela Kaplan
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: August 24, 2010
Price: $20.00
"A wonderful antidote to the gene hysteria that is now so dominant! . . . What is most exciting about this book is the authors' ability to move seamlessly from research on how the brain works, to sociology, history, and philosophy. And that, I believe, is exactly how we need to... Read more >
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eBook.
Gene Worship
Moving Beyond the Nature/ Nurture Debate Over Genes, Brain and Gender
Written by Gisela Kaplan
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: August 10, 2010
Price: $28.00
"A wonderful antidote to the gene hysteria that is now so dominant! . . . What is most exciting about this book is the authors' ability to move seamlessly from research on how the brain works, to sociology, history, and philosophy. And that, I believe, is exactly how we need to... Read more >
Moving Beyond the Nature/ Nurture Debate Over Genes, Brain and Gender
Written by Gisela Kaplan
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: August 10, 2010
Price: $28.00
"A wonderful antidote to the gene hysteria that is now so dominant! . . . What is most exciting about this book is the authors' ability to move seamlessly from research on how the brain works, to sociology, history, and philosophy. And that, I believe, is exactly how we need to... Read more >
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Like Wind, Like Wave
Fables from the Land of the Repressed
Written by Stefano Bolognini
Translated by Malcolm Garfield
Foreword by Owen Renik
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 6, 2010
Price: $13.95
An Italian psychoanalyst and raconteur reflects insightfully on life and the common experiences that make us human.
“The brief pieces collected in this volume are as much short stories as they are essays as they are psychoanalytic studies. In every chapter, the stage is set for consideration of large matters—the... Read more >
Fables from the Land of the Repressed
Written by Stefano Bolognini
Translated by Malcolm Garfield
Foreword by Owen Renik
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 6, 2010
Price: $13.95
An Italian psychoanalyst and raconteur reflects insightfully on life and the common experiences that make us human.
“The brief pieces collected in this volume are as much short stories as they are essays as they are psychoanalytic studies. In every chapter, the stage is set for consideration of large matters—the... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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The Whispering of Ghosts
Trauma and Resilience
Written by Boris Cyrulnik
Translated by Susan Fairfield
Format: Trade Paperback, 200 pages
On Sale: June 15, 2010
Price: $16.95
One out of every two people will experience trauma, says psychiatrist Boris Cyrulnik, and one in ten will remain a prisoner of that suffering.
Why are some children permanently damaged by difficult childhoods, while others grow up into secure, creative, loving adults? This book, based on Dr. Cyrulnik's broad experience with victims... Read more >
Trauma and Resilience
Written by Boris Cyrulnik
Translated by Susan Fairfield
Format: Trade Paperback, 200 pages
On Sale: June 15, 2010
Price: $16.95
One out of every two people will experience trauma, says psychiatrist Boris Cyrulnik, and one in ten will remain a prisoner of that suffering.
Why are some children permanently damaged by difficult childhoods, while others grow up into secure, creative, loving adults? This book, based on Dr. Cyrulnik's broad experience with victims... Read more >
The Puerto Rican Syndrome
Written by Patricia Gherovici
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 4, 2010
Price: $25.99
Winner of the Gradiva Award in Historical Cultural and Literary Analysis and The 2004 Boyer Prize for Contributions to Psychoanalytic Anthropology
During the 1950's, US Army medical officers noted a new and puzzling syndrome that contemporary psychiatry could neither explain nor cure. These doctors reported that Puerto Rican soldiers under... Read more >
Written by Patricia Gherovici
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 4, 2010
Price: $25.99
Winner of the Gradiva Award in Historical Cultural and Literary Analysis and The 2004 Boyer Prize for Contributions to Psychoanalytic Anthropology
During the 1950's, US Army medical officers noted a new and puzzling syndrome that contemporary psychiatry could neither explain nor cure. These doctors reported that Puerto Rican soldiers under... Read more >
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Bad Feelings
Written by Roy Schafer
Format: eBook, 184 pages
On Sale: April 20, 2010
Price: $20.00
Bad feelings are ubiquitous to human experience. Everyone deals with grief, envy, disappointment, dejection, humiliation, mortification, and anxiety. However, when we consciously push troubling feelings aside and then avoid them, we should be under no illusions that such repression empowers us to lead untroubled lives. The price that we pay, simply... Read more >
Written by Roy Schafer
Format: eBook, 184 pages
On Sale: April 20, 2010
Price: $20.00
Bad feelings are ubiquitous to human experience. Everyone deals with grief, envy, disappointment, dejection, humiliation, mortification, and anxiety. However, when we consciously push troubling feelings aside and then avoid them, we should be under no illusions that such repression empowers us to lead untroubled lives. The price that we pay, simply... Read more >
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Relational Child Psychotherapy
Contribution by Neil Altman, Richard Briggs, Jay Frankel, Daniel Gensler and Pasqual Pantone
Format: eBook
On Sale: March 30, 2010
Price: $29.00
"The relational and the developmental point of view have never been brought together in an adequate way. This up-to-date scholarly, yet practical, integration opens a new vista within relational psychoanalysis and pioneers a fresh approach in the psychoanalytic treatment of children and adolescents. It is a work of great and lasting... Read more >
Contribution by Neil Altman, Richard Briggs, Jay Frankel, Daniel Gensler and Pasqual Pantone
Format: eBook
On Sale: March 30, 2010
Price: $29.00
"The relational and the developmental point of view have never been brought together in an adequate way. This up-to-date scholarly, yet practical, integration opens a new vista within relational psychoanalysis and pioneers a fresh approach in the psychoanalytic treatment of children and adolescents. It is a work of great and lasting... Read more >
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