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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.

Focuses on positive and life-enhancing emotions and attitudes. This book covers the realms such as: love, friendship, enthusiasm, courage, tact, resilience, and forgiveness, among others. It elucidates issues of development, adaptation, psychopathology, and analytic technique, as these pertain to the positive dimension of affective experience.

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.

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.

Hostile and Malignant Prejudice: Psychoanalytic Approaches represents the leading edge of work in the field by members of the International Psychoanalytical Association's Committee on Prejudice. It pursues the issues surrounding hostile and malignant prejudice as defined in the first chapter by Henri Parens.

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.

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.

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.

Explores the particularities of the status of the method in psychoanalysis, linked to the specificity of unconscious psychic processes.

The book is a psychoanalytic understanding of psychosis as a particular organisation of the personality, based on 'psychotic personality' (Bion) and 'pathological organisations' (Steiner). The theoretical development is traced through Freud, Klein and Bion, along with contemporary Kleinian authors.

Eleanor Galenson singular focus was her interest in maturational and psychosexual vicissitudes of infancy and early childhood. This volume highlights her approach to the study of the early years of life and, in particular, her contributions to understanding the developmental significance of the very young child's discovery of sexual difference.

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.

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.