"Feeling the Words incorporates a thorough review of essential psychoanalytic concepts, a clear critical history of analytical ideas and an assessment of the contribution neuroscience has to offer." "Mauro Mancia uses numerous detailed clinical examples to demonstrate how insigh…
Family Secrets and the Psychoanalysis of Narrative is the first book to explore the implications of the psychoanalytic theory of the phantom for the study of narrative literature. A phantom is formed when a shameful, unspeakable secret is unwittingly transmitted, through cryptic…
Bringing together a well-respected group of clinicians, this text explores the controversial and very topical subject of risk assessment with violent patients.
Bringing together a well-respected group of clinicians, this text explores the controversial and very topical subject of risk assessment with violent patients.
Gilles Deleuze is among the twentieth-century's most important philosophers of difference. The style of his extended oeuvre is so extremely dense and cryptic that reading and appreciating it require an unusual degree of openness and a willingness to enter a complicated but extre…
by Horney, Karen, Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis
fromNorton library
Based on her clinical observations, a psychoanalyst evaluates the basis of female behavior and refutes Freudian concepts of female psychosexual development.
"Micro-trauma: A psychoanalytic understanding of cumulative psychic injury explores the "micro-traumatic" or small, subtle psychic hurts that build up to undermine a person's sense of self-worth, skewing his or her character and compromising his or her relatedness to others. The…
"The Zizek Reader - which includes a preface by Zizek and a new, previously unpublished essay on cyberspace - provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the flamboyant work of a figure who has been variously described as 'one of the most arresting, insightful and sc…
"The Zizek Reader - which includes a preface by Zizek and a new, previously unpublished essay on cyberspace - provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the flamboyant work of a figure who has been variously described as 'one of the most arresting, insightful and sc…
1. On belatedness and the return of the subject; or, The view from what will have been -- 2. Toward a neo-Lacanian theory of discourse -- 3. In the funhouse : mirroring subjects and objects -- 4. Politica phantasmagoria : ideology in cultural studies rhetorics -- 5. Breaking the…
