History of Psychoanalysis
About the Book Series
This series seeks to present outstanding new books that illuminate any aspect of the history of psychoanalysis from its earliest days to the present, and to reintroduce classic texts to contemporary readers.ย
To find out how to submit a proposal for this series, please contact Peter L. Rudnytsky atย [email protected], or Susannah Frearson at [email protected].
What is this Professor Freud Like?: A Diary of an Analysis with Historical Comments
1st Edition
By Anna Koellreuter
December 14, 2016
In 1921, a young female doctor started analysis with Sigmund Freud. In a diary, she recorded what moved her. The present volume not only contains a full translation of these records, but also collects four essays by two psychoanalysts and two analytical historians who take their cue from the young ...
Corresponding Lives: Mabel Dodge Luhan, A. A. Brill, and the Psychoanalytic Adventure in America
1st Edition
By Patricia R. Everett
September 15, 2016
An influential New York salon host and perpetual seeker of meaning, Mabel Dodge entered psychoanalysis in 1916 with A.A. Brill, the first American psychoanalyst, continuing until she moved to New Mexico in December 1917. In Taos, she met Antonio Luhan, the Pueblo Indian who became her fourth ...
A Forgotten Freudian: The Passion of Karl Stern
1st Edition
By Daniel Burston
April 25, 2016
This book explores the life and work of a neglected figure in the history of psychoanalysis, Karl Stern, who brought Freudian theory and practice to Catholic (and Christian) audiences around the world.Karl Stern was a German-Jewish neurologist and psychiatrist who fled Germany in 1937 - first to ...
The Skin-Ego: A New Translation by Naomi Segal
1st Edition
By Didier Anzieu
April 04, 2016
In this classic work, the author presents and develops his theory of the importance of 'the Skin-ego'. Just as the skin is wrapped around the body, so the author sees the 'Skin-ego' as a psychical wrapping containing, defining and consolidating the subject. From this perspective, the structure and ...
Karl Abraham: Life and Work, a Biography
1st Edition
By Anna Bentinck van Schoonheten
December 21, 2015
This book provides the reader with rich evidence of the very contemporaneity of Karl Abraham, reminding the reader of his unique clinical contributions to such diverse areas of concentration as the psychoses, depression, and the pre-oedipal....
The Freudian Orient: Early Psychoanalysis, Anti-Semitic Challenge, and the Vicissitudes of Orientalist Discourse
1st Edition
By Frank F. Scherer
October 21, 2015
This study consists of a twofold, interrelated enquiry: the Orientalism of psychoanalysis and the psychoanalysis of Orientalism - bringing into conversation Sigmund Freud and Edward Said and, thereby, the founding texts of psychoanalysis and postcolonial studies. The immediate object of this ...
Freud and the Dora Case: A Promise Betrayed
1st Edition
By Cesare Romano
September 03, 2015
Cesare Romano revisits Dora's clinical case in light of Freud's own seduction theory. His central thesis is that Freud failed to follow through with his initial proposition of confirming his theories on the traumatic aetiology of hysteria. He also suggests a new dating for the duration of Dora's ...
The Life and Times of Franz Alexander: From Budapest To California
1st Edition
By Ilonka Venier Alexander
August 15, 2015
This book resurrects the Franz Alexanderian legacy, reminding his behemoth contributions and offers the reader with a deeply tender and touching portrait. It also considers his personal and professional life, the role of family in his decisions, and how those decisions affected other family members....
The Abandonment Neurosis
1st Edition
By Germaine Guex
June 12, 2015
First published in 1950, La nevrose d'abandon was and still is a ground-breaking work. The author's research turns on two clinical observations: the frequent occurrence of analysands whose neurotic symptoms are unrecognizable when measured against any of the Freudian diagnostic models, and the ...
Psychoanalytic Filiations: Mapping the Psychoanalytic Movement
1st Edition
By Ernst Falzeder
April 29, 2015
This book presents the early history of psychoanalysis, focusing on the network of psychoanalytic "filiations" and the context of discovery of crucial concepts, such as Freud's technical recommendations, the therapeutic use of countertransference, and the psychotherapeutic treatment of psychoses....
Looking Through Freud's Photos
1st Edition
By Michael Molnar
November 05, 2014
A moody Freud posed against a background of holiday pictures pinned to a wall; or lurking at the very edge of a large family group; or lost in a crowd of nineteenth-century scientists. These snapshots or posed portraits not only tell stories, they also carry a specific emotional charge. The earlier...
Ferenczi and Beyond: Exile of the Budapest School and Solidarity in the Psychoanalytic Movement During the Nazi Years
1st Edition
By Judit Meszaros
April 16, 2014
This book explores how the Budapest School of Psychoanalysis took shape and examines the role played in it by Sandor Ferenczi. It integrates the Hungarian story of the "exile of the Budapest School" with an American perspective on "solidarity in the psychoanalytic movement during the Nazi years"....