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Timely, definitive, and uniquely integrative, Psychoanalytic Perspectives on the Rorschach will be valued by students, clinicians, and researchers well into the next century. David Rapaport's early vision of integrating psychoanalytic theory with..

Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Women and Power in Contemporary Fiction psychoanalytically examines contemporary fiction portraying the female in a reversal of the stereotyped victim role. The recent popularity of powerful female characters suggests that literature is ahead in its understanding the d..

The past two decades of psychoanalytic discourse have witnessed a transformation in the way we think about women and gender. The works collected here confront the meaning established by gender and the uncertainty created by its absence...

This book presents a new way of considering politics showing how people’s desires fantasies and emotions shape political events and social phenomena...

Suitable for those entering the field of social work and those who are interested in psychoanalytical social work, this book offers an overview of the fields of psychoanalytical social work and combines this with a description of its history. It includes a chapter outlining the psychoanalytical theo..

_x005F_x000D_ Throughout the history of psychoanalysis, the study of creativity and fine art has been a special concern. Psychoanalytic Studies of Creativity, Greed and Fine Art: Making Contact with the Self makes a distinct contribution to the psychoanalytic study of art by focusing attention on t..

This classic collection of Fairbairn's papers with an introduction which sets his work in context offers an overview of object relations theory and the modern developments launched by Faibairn's discoveries...

Psychoanalytic studies of the work of Adam Smith blends the rich intellectual heritage of the hermeneutic tradition with the methods and concepts of psychoanalysis, in order to examine the seminal works of Adam Smith. This is the first book on Smith to analyse the works of the groundbreaking moral t..

This volume consists of a series of essays inspired by Freud's paper on Jensen's novel Gradiva - "she who steps along." In the story a young archaeologist, Norbert Hanold, suffers from delusions but is able to unravel the mysteries of his emotional life and mind with the aid of a woman who does not ..

Psychoanalytic Theory, Research and Clinical Practice: Reading Joseph D. Lichtenberg explores the psychoanalytic theoretical contributions and innovations in clinical techniques of Lichtenberg’s work. It shows how these have influenced the work of psychoanalysts in the fields of infant studies, deve..

Do the conventional insights of depth psychology have anything to offer the gay patient?  Can contemporary psychoanalytic theory be used to make sense of gay identities in ways that are helpful rather than hurtful, respectful rather than retraumatiz..

In Psychoanalytic Therapy as Health Care, a timely and trenchant consideration of the clash of values between managed care and psychoanalysis, contributors elaborate a thoughtful defense of the therapeutic necessity and social importance of contem..