Psychoanalysis - Performance Tests

Wilfred Bion’s theories of dreaming, of the analytic situation, of reality and everyday life, and even of the contact between the body and the mind offer very different, and highly fruitful, perspectives on lived experience. Yet very little of his work has entered the field of visual culture, especi..

Wilfred Bion’s theories of dreaming, of the analytic situation, of reality and everyday life, and even of the contact between the body and the mind offer very different, and highly fruitful, perspectives on lived experience. Yet very little of his work has entered the field of visual culture, especi..

How do children emotionally heal and regain equilibrium after suffering trauma?  How do adults understandand help them in a therapeutic relationship?  These questions are at the heart of Violet Oaklander's approach to play therapy and her metho..

How certain themes assume an importance and develop at certain times often resonates with debates of the past and to encounter them in the present offers something new. This work proposes that using Winnicott's work to think about themes of importance to practitioners is also a way of thinking about..

This book makes explicit the parallel in Winnicott's thinking between the situation of the baby and the 'nursing couple', and the patient and the 'analytic couple'. There are two helpful baby observation pieces which are aimed at first giving something of the experience of completing a baby observat..

Wish-fulfilment as a singular means of satisfying ineluctable desire is a pivotal concept in classical psychoanalysis. Freud argued that it was the thread that united dreams, daydreams, phantasy, omnipotent thinking, neurotic and some psychotic symptoms such as hallucinations and delusions, art, myt..

Women's Bodies in Psychoanalysis..

Work and the Evolving Self is very much a psychoanalytic study of our time, since it demonstrates the adaptability of the psychoanalytic perspective to a range of treatments - from psychoanalysis to psychotherapy to vocational counseling - as they..

Work and the Evolving Self is very much a psychoanalytic study of our time, since it demonstrates the adaptability of the psychoanalytic perspective to a range of treatments - from psychoanalysis to psychotherapy to vocational counseling - as they..

Working in the Dark focuses on the authors’ understanding of an individual’s pre-suicide state of mind, based on their work with many suicidal individuals, with special attention to those who attempted suicide while in treatment...

Working in the Dark focuses on the authors’ understanding of an individual’s pre-suicide state of mind, based on their work with many suicidal individuals, with special attention to those who attempted suicide while in treatment...

In this readable overview of intersubjectivity theory, Orange, Atwood, and Stolorow offer contextualist critiques of the concept of psychoanalytic technique and of the myth of analytic neutrality, examine the intersubjective contexts of extreme states of..