This book comprises a collection of the distinguished psychoanalyst Elisabeth Young-Bruehl 's papers ranging from 'Psychoanalysis and Social Democracy', 'Civilization and its Dream of Contentment', 'Reflections on Women and Psychoanalysis' and 'Psychobiography and Character Stud…
Following on from his two earlier titles, Peter Rudnytsky takes a fresh look at the history of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytical ideas. Beginning with Freud, this book contains a series of essays that chart a roughly chronological progression through Ferenczi and Stekel, then …
In his latest groundbreaking book, Peter L. Rudnytsky examines the history of psychoanalysis from a resolutely independent perspective. At once spellbinding case histories and meticulously crafted gems of scholarship, Rudnytsky's essays are "re-visions" in that each sheds fresh …
1. What is the self? -- 2. What makes people ill -- 3. Psychoanalysis : the modern method of cure -- 4. Psychosynthesis : the building-up process -- 5. Nightmares are real -- 6. The emotional life -- 7. A way out : plasticity of the human mind, education of children.
"Sándor Ferenczi's mutual analysis with Elizabeth Severn-the patient known as R.N. in the Clinical Diary-is one of the most controversial and consequential episodes in the history of psychoanalysis. In his latest groundbreaking work, Peter L. Rudnytsky draws on a trove of archiv…