This concise and well-written book deals with six important roots of human anguish. It divides the six areas into those primarily affecting the individual and those primarily affecting others around him. Among the former are fear, greed, and guilt. Among the latter are deception…
This book aims to expand the Barangers' oeuvre to the English language and, consequently, to a broader spectrum of readers. These contributions represent a pioneering work of great interest to the field of psychoanalysis. Their proposals concerning the concept of psychoanalytic …
"This book reports on clinical work in, and at the boundaries of, the intermediate space between patient and therapist, perhaps the space between reaching toward dreams and taking the transference. Though the clinical work to be described here was influenced quite deeply by the …
"One of the aims of this game is to reach to the child's ease and so to his fantasy and so to his dreams." What a lovely description of an easy interplay between two people, leading to the communication of, even the creation of, inner life. D.W. Winnicott was a theorist of the u…
Freud's interpretation of the ancient legend of Oedipus -- as formulated in Sophocles' tragic drama -- is almost certainly the most widely known concept of psychoanalysis. Euripides' Ion, however, presents a more complex version of the development of personal identity. Here, the…
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…