Psychoanalysis - Performance Tests

How do the analyst's consciously held theoretical commitments intersect with the actual conduct of analysis? This is the question that Victoria Hamilton explores in The Analyst's Preconscious. At the heart of her endeavor is an imaginatively conce..

The author discusses not only the analyst's empathy, the need to establish an "atmosphere of safety" in relation to the dangers the patient perceives when facing the possibility of insight and personal change, but also the concepts of transference and resistance, and the nature of psychoanalytic int..

In this brilliant examination of how the therapist makes use of theories and styles in order to achieve equilibrium under stress, Lawrence Friedman probes the subtle interplay of theory and practice and offers penetrating assessments of recent theories o..

With a highly clinical focus, this book includes cases that illustrate how critical psychic change can emerge from the mourning of the grief of "psychic regret." It highlights the developmental achievement of owning the guilt of aggression, and of tolerating insight into the losses one had produced...

The time is right culturally to explore this further using clinical material as illustration. The central aim of this book is to introduce recent innovative redrawing of female anatomy appearing in the scientific literature to psychoanalysis...

A highlight of Volume 18 is two developmental studies that attempt to situation psychoanalysis within the landscape of contemporary science: R. Galatzer-Levy and B. Cohler's examination of the developmental psychology of the self and F. Levin's considera..

With volume 22, the editorship of Adolescent Psychiatry passes to Aaron E. Esman, a distinguished clinician and educator whose wide-ranging sensibilities gain expression in a collection rich in clinical, developmental, and scholarly insight. Encom..

Volume 26/27 is true to the heritage of this distinguished series.  It offers readers a rich harvest of contemporary insights about psychoanalysis, including its history and evolution, its continuing clinical refinement, and its scholarly applicatio..

Volume 28 of The Annual features stimulating, original essays on the relationship between psychoanalysis and the neurosciences.  Many of these essays make extensive use of the ideas of Gerald Edelman and John Gedo.  Section II of Vo..

Timely and essential reading for all mental health professionals, Rethinking Psychoanalysis and the Homosexualities underscores the profound distance traversed by psychoanalysis in arriving at its contemporary understandings of gender, sexual iden..

In 1958 William L. Langer, in a well-known presidential address to the American Historical Association, declared the informed use of psychoanalytic depth psychology as "the next assignment" for professional historians.Psychoanalysis and History, volume 3..

Psychoanalysis and Women is an extraordinary chronicle of the distance traveled since Freud characterized women's sexual life as "the dark continent."  The contributors vitalize a half century of theory with the lessons of biography, and they..