Psychoanalysis - Performance Tests

Drawing on the writings of Freud, Fairbairn, Klein, Sullivan, and Winnicott, Spezzano offers a radical redefinition of the analytic process as the intersubjective elaboration and regulation of affect. The plight of analytic patients, he holds, is impriso..

In a brilliant examination of the frontiers of human emotion and cognition, four prominent psychoanalysts combine the perspectives of developmental psychology, attachment theory and psychoanalytic technique. The result of this marriage of disciplines is a bold, energetic and ultimately encouraging v..

In this meditation on the nature of emotional experience, Jones argues that, in their simplest form, affects are the presymbolic representatives and governors of motivational systems. Once we apprehend affects as the infant's initial processing system, w..

_x000D_ Against Understanding, Volume 1 focuses on theoretical and clinical views on love, sexuality, and the challenges of Lacan in practice...

_x005F_x000D_ Against Understanding, Volume 1 focuses on theoretical and clinical views on love, sexuality, and the challenges of Lacan in practice...

This book makes a valuable contribution to the attempt to make sense of human aggression, destructiveness and violence perpetrated against the self, others and reality..

First Published in 2010. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

First Published in 2010. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

In this later book he takes his cue from Freud who, as he says, diagnosed the sickness of Western Judaeo-Christian cultures in terms of "the person alienated from himself". Masud Khan's basic argument, succinctly stated in his Preface, is that "the pervert puts an impersonal object between his desir..

All My Sins Remembered is the continuation of Wilfred Bion's autobiography, The Long Week-end. Although it is by no means a full account of his thirty years following the First World War - and he wrote no more - his memories of that period contrast vividly with the impression we gain of the followin..

First Published in 2012. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

First Published in 2012. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...