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Thoroughly grounded in contemporary development, this text explores the ecological niche of the infant-caregiver dyad and examines the evolutionary leap that permits communication to take place concurrently in nonverbal and verbal modes.

Best known for his contributions to the development of contemporary intersubjectivity theory, Bernard Brandchaft has dedicated a career to the advancement of psychoanalytic theory and practice. This title features the chapters that articulate the evolution of Brandchaft's thinking along the road toward an emancipatory psychoanalysis.

The motivational systems theory aims to identify the components and organization of mental states and the process by which affects, intentions, and goals unfold. Placing motivational systems theory within a contemporary dynamic systems theory, this title offers responses to the critics of motivational systems theory.

This overview of intersubjectively theory offers contextualist critiques of the concept of psychoanalytic technique and of the myth of analytical neutrality, intersubjective contexts of extreme states of psychological disintegration and what it means to think and work contextually.

Recognition of the need for empirical research and interest in its findings are growing in psychoanalysis. This book revivifies the experimental potential of psychoanalysis by focusing a number of structured research methods on a single case study.

Concerns the way emerging knowledge of developmental processes, biological systems, and therapeutic process can be integrated in terms of basic principles that govern the living system as an ongoing creative process. This book shows how evolution of conscious organization will enable the human species to achieve the state of being 'together-with'.

Placed in a historical context, sexuality was once so prominent in psychoanalytic writing that sexual drive and psychoanalysis were synonymous. This book offers insight into contemporary psychoanalytic thought, and presents clinicians with a perspective for exploring their patients sensuality and sexuality with renewed interest and knowledge.

This volume focuses on treatment issues pertaining to patients with borderline psychopathology. A section on psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy (with contributors by V. Volkan, H. Searles, O. Kernberg, L. B. Boyer, and J. Oremland, among oth

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An international group of psychoanalysts and film scholars address the enduring emotional legacy of the Holocaust in Cinematic Reflections on the Legacy of the Holocaust: Psychoanalytic Perspectives. Particular focus is given to how second and third generation survivors have explored and confronted the psychic reverberations of Holocaust trauma in cinema.

An international group of psychoanalysts and film scholars address the enduring emotional legacy of the Holocaust in Cinematic Reflections on the Legacy of the Holocaust: Psychoanalytic Perspectives. Particular focus is given to how second and third generation survivors have explored and confronted the psychic reverberations of Holocaust trauma in cinema.

Grief and its Transcendence: Memory, Identity, Creativity is a landmark contribution that provides fresh insights into the experience and process of mourning. It includes fourteen original essays by pre-eminent psychoanalysts, historians, classicists, theologians, architects, art-historians and artists, that take on the subject of normal, rather than pathological mourning. In particular, it considers the diversity of the mourning process; the bereavement of ordinary vs. extraordinary loss; the contribution of mourning to personal and creative growth; and individual, social, and cultural means of transcending grief.It will be a must for psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, psychiatrists, and scholars within other disciplines who are interested in the topics of grief, bereavement and creativity.

Attachment theory has made a huge contribution to psychoanalysis, and in this book, a distinguished group of contributors explore its important in cultural, clinical and social contexts. They explore how attachment can be understood across a range of different cultural contexts, identifying what is common across cultures and can vary within the range of secure attachment. This understanding of cultural variation is then applied to a range of clinical contexts, to enable psychoanalysts to work more effectively with patients from various backgrounds. The book also explores how differences in attachment can be reflected in changes in the brain, and how this can affect clinical practice.

The Budapest School of Psychoanalysis brings together a collection of expertly written pieces on the influence of the Budapest (Ferenczi) conception of analytic theory and practice on the evolution of psychoanalysis. This book is an important read for those practitioners and students of psychoanalysis who wish for an insight into the early and developing years of the Budapest School of Psychoanalysis and its impact on contemporary clinical practice.

The Budapest School of Psychoanalysis brings together a collection of expertly written pieces on the influence of the Budapest (Ferenczi) conception of analytic theory and practice on the evolution of psychoanalysis. This book is an important read for those practitioners and students of psychoanalysis who wish for an insight into the early and developing years of the Budapest School of Psychoanalysis and its impact on contemporary clinical practice.

Psychoanalysts have long been fascinated with creative artists, but have paid far less attention to the men and women who motivate, stimulate, and captivate them. The Muse counters this trend with nine original contributions from distinguished psychoanalysts, art historians, and literary scholars¿one for each of the nine muses of classical mythology¿that explore the muses of disparate artists, from Nicholas Poussin to Alison Bechdel.

Psychoanalysts have long been fascinated with creative artists, but have paid far less attention to the men and women who motivate, stimulate, and captivate them. The Muse counters this trend with nine original contributions from distinguished psychoanalysts, art historians, and literary scholars¿one for each of the nine muses of classical mythology¿that explore the muses of disparate artists, from Nicholas Poussin to Alison Bechdel.

Narrative and Meaning examines the role of both in contemporary psychoanalytic practice, bringing together a distinguished group of contributors from across the intersubjective, relational and interpersonal schools of psychoanalytic thought. The contributions propose that narratives or stories in a variety of non-verbal and verbal forms are the foundation of mind, creativity, and the clinical dialogue. This core proposal is illustrated in chapters referencing creativity, psychoanalytic process, gesture and sensory-motor activity, dreams, music, conflicting narratives in couples, imaginative stories of adopted children, identity and individuality.

Treating Dissociative and Personality Disorders draws on major theorists and the very latest research to help formulate and introduce the Relational/Multi-Motivational Therapeutic Approach (REMOTA), a new model for treating such patients within a clinical psychoanalytic setting.

Treating Dissociative and Personality Disorders draws on major theorists and the very latest research to help formulate and introduce the Relational/Multi-Motivational Therapeutic Approach (REMOTA), a new model for treating such patients within a clinical psychoanalytic setting.

Psychoanalytic Theory, Research and Clinical Practice: Reading Joseph D. Lichtenberg explores the psychoanalytic theoretical contributions and innovations in clinical techniques of Lichtenberg¿s work. It shows how these have influenced the work of psychoanalysts in the fields of infant studies, developmentalist perspectives on the life cycle, self-psychology and motivational clinical systems.

Grief and its Transcendence: Memory, Identity, Creativity is a landmark contribution that provides fresh insights into the experience and process of mourning. It includes fourteen original essays by pre-eminent psychoanalysts, historians, classicists, theologians, architects, art-historians and artists, that take on the subject of normal, rather than pathological mourning. In particular, it considers the diversity of the mourning process; the bereavement of ordinary vs. extraordinary loss; the contribution of mourning to personal and creative growth; and individual, social, and cultural means of transcending grief.It will be a must for psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, psychiatrists, and scholars within other disciplines who are interested in the topics of grief, bereavement and creativity.

Psychoanalytic Theory, Research and Clinical Practice: Reading Joseph D. Lichtenberg explores the psychoanalytic theoretical contributions and innovations in clinical techniques of Lichtenberg¿s work. It shows how these have influenced the work of psychoanalysts in the fields of infant studies, developmentalist perspectives on the life cycle, self-psychology and motivational clinical systems.

Metaphor and Fields is an explanation and demonstration of the value of the use of metaphoric processes and psychoanalysis concepts.

Metaphor and Fields is an explanation and demonstration of the value of the use of metaphoric processes and psychoanalysis concepts.

This book contains state of the art studies in Bion scholarship that are directly applicable to clinical and theoretical thinking.