Complex study of the events and reasons that govern the Senators' decisions when they must confirm the President's choice for Secretary of State

Offers a systematic analysis of Freud's theories, examines the effectiveness of the retrospective clinical methods used in psychoanalysis, and discusses free association, dreams, and personality (view table of contents)

This volume is the first clear and comprehensive critical analysis of Jacques Lacan's thought for the English-speaking world. With Jacques Lacan and the philosophy of Psychoanalysis Ellie Ragland-Sullivan not only fills that gap but also provides the foundation upon which all future studies of Lacan must build. Working principally from the legendary but seldom-analyzed Seminars, Ragland-Sullivan clarifies and synthesizes Lacan's major concepts. Using empirical data as well as Lacan's texts, she demonstrates how Lacan's teachings constitute a new epistemology that goes far beyond conventional thinking in psychoanalysis, psychology, philosophy, and linguistics.

Examines the philosophies of Socrates and Plato, Sigmund Freud's theory of psychoanalysis, and the nature of communication

Marshall Edelson identifies the core theory of psychoanalysis and shows how free association and the case study method can provide rational grounds for believing its clinical inferences about the causal role of unconscious sexual fantasies. "Dr. Edelson has committed himself with gusto, persistence and intelligence [to] a spirited defense of psychoanalysis as science—not necessarily as it is, but as it can be in the best of hands as it should be. . . . It is a defense that I hope can resonate strongly in psychoanalytic ranks. It is also a message that I hope would receive a warm reception in that wider intellectual world where ideas matter and where enlightened social policy and cultural cachet are fostered."—Robert Wallerstein, New York Times Book Review

Product Description: Book by MacKay, Nigel

Offers an examination of Freud's thought as it applies to the development of the individual and the power of love (view table of contents)

Product Description: The eminent psychoanalyst Joel Shor is known for his staunch defense of the individual's fight to self-determination in the face of an authoritarian element that is sometimes present in psychoanalysis. This book contains 15 eassays in which Dr...read more

Product Description: In psychoanalysis as in most other fields of science, English is the in­ ternationallanguage. Not being a native speaker of English, one is confronted with much higher barriers when communicating clinical observations and theoretical reflections...read more

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Filled with clinical vignettes that bring Nina Coltart's writings to life, the book cogently addresses such disparate topics as diagnosis, the superego, and silence, as well as the importance of spirituality. The title essay, which opens the book, is justly famous- a close analysis of an apparently hopeless, elderly patient, Coltart's dramatic intervention, and the remarkable results of the case. In this and all of her other work, coltart displays an astounding ability to grasp and convey important facets of every analyst's work: the complexity and paradox of analysis; the importance of intuition and not knowing along and patience; and the essential capacity to allow one's self to be used by the patient. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Book by Grunbaum, Adolf (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: There has always been a gap between theory and practice in psychotherapeutic work. Beginning and experienced practitioners alike must struggle to integrate a variety of models and concepts that approach the practice of psychotherapy in vastly different ways...read more

Product Description: "Analysis Analysed" provides a critical reflection upon the theory and practice of analysis. On the basis of more than 30 years of clinical experience the author has come to question many of the assumptions of the profession - in particular the attempt to prove the truth of theories by the presentation of clinical material...read more

Product Description: The relationship existing between science and psychoanalysis has long been tense, critical, even hostile. André Haynal addresses this relationship by examining three questions: how is psychoanalytic "knowledge" established? what methodology and epistemology underlie psychoanalytic theory? and what are the historical circumstances that have shaped psychoanalysis?Haynal is familiar with the full spectrum of analytic thought and begins with a systematic discussion of analytic theory...read more

Product Description: As psychoanalysis approaches its second century, it seems no closer to being a science than when Freud first invented the discipline. All the clinical experience of the past hundred years, Donald Spence tells us in this trenchant book, has not overcome a tendency to decouple theory from evidence...read more