The EFPP Monograph Series
About the Book Series
A series of monographs produced in conjunction with the European Federation for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (EFPP). Each volume brings together writings on a particular topic by authors from several European countries. The EFPP promotes communication and discussion between psychotherapists across national boundaries in the child and adolescent, adult, family and group sections of the organisation, through its conferences and seminars on topics of interest in contemporary psychoanalytic psychotherapy. The organisation represents some 13,000 psychoanalytic psychotherapists in twenty-two countries in Western, Central and Eastern Europe and is concerned with many matters which are relevant to the profession, such as training and registration.
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Between Identity and Change
1st Edition
Edited
By Luigia Cresti, Isabella Lapi
November 29, 2024
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Between Identity and Change reconsiders psychoanalytic psychotherapy for contemporary contexts.This book stems from several years of study and research and aims to offer pragmatic and innovative working tools. The contributors approach psychoanalytic ...
A Psychoanalytic Exploration of Social Trauma: The Inner Worlds of Outer Realities
1st Edition
Edited
By Cristina Călărășanu, Ulrich Schultz-Venrath, Hansjorg Messner
December 30, 2022
A Psychoanalytic Exploration of Social Trauma presents a thorough introduction to social trauma from a range of perspectives, exploring several key themes, specific causes and symptoms and clinical interventions. With chapters from a diverse range of authors, the book considers social trauma as it...
A Psychoanalytic Exploration On Sameness and Otherness: Beyond Babel?
1st Edition
Edited
By Anne-Marie Schlösser
December 17, 2019
In dialogue with the most famous myth for the origin of different languages – The Tower of Babel – A Psychoanalytic Exploration on Sameness and Otherness: Beyond Babel? provides a series of timely reflections on the themes of sameness and otherness from a contemporary psychoanalytic ...
A Psychoanalytic and Socio-Cultural Exploration of a Continent: Europe on the Couch
1st Edition
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By Anna Zajenkowska, Uri Levin
October 30, 2019
This important book gathers a set of influential international contributors with psychoanalytic and group analytic knowledge to provide a wide-ranging critical analysis of the present state of Europe. Europe is facing huge challenges: waves of immigrants are reshaping its identity and testing its ...
A Bridge Over Troubled Water: Conflicts and Reconciliation in Groups and Society
1st Edition
By Gila Ofer
July 31, 2017
This book is a compilation of papers by different authors, among them Vamik Volkan, Robi Friedman, John Schlapobersky, Haim Weinberg, and Michael Bucholz, with a foreword by Earl Hopper and an introduction by Gila Ofer, both editor and contributor. While most of the writers are group analysts, ...
Siblings: Envy and Rivalry, Coexistence and Concern
1st Edition
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By Beata Maciejewska, Katarzyna Skrzypek, Zuzanna Stadnicka-Dmitriew
May 09, 2014
This book compiles papers presented at the European Federation of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy's 2011 Conference, which attempts to find the place of sibling relationships in psychoanalytic practice. It examines the rivalry and envy between siblings, and the coexistence and concern for each other....
Families in Transformation: A Psychoanalytic Approach
1st Edition
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By Pierre Benghozi, Daniela Lucarelli, Anna Maria Nicolo
April 02, 2014
Families in Transformation is a collection of essays by eminent scholars on the psychoanalysis of couples and families and provides a wide ranging and articulated picture of the current situation in Europe. The reader will find various psychoanalytical models applied in it: from object relations ...
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: A Handbook
1st Edition
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By Matthias Elzer, Alf Gerlach
March 17, 2014
This book provides a complete and fundamental overview, from a psychoanalytical point of view, on theoretical and clinical aspects of psychodynamic or psychoanalytic psychotherapy. It includes the theory of the human mind, psychic development, psychic conflicts, trauma, and dreams....
Assessing Change in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy of Children and Adolescents: Today's Challenge
1st Edition
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By Judith Trowell, John Tsiantis
December 31, 2010
This book draws together work from across Europe by leading clinical researchers who have been looking into the effectiveness of psychoanalytic interventions. They are mostly time limited, brief, non-intensive ways of working so are applicable in many settings and can therefore be generalised to ...
Bearing Witness: Psychoanalytic Work with People Traumatised by Torture and State Violence
1st Edition
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By Andres Gautier, Anna Sabatini Scalmati
December 31, 2010
This book discusses the kind of mental processing that can free victims from their unspeakable trauma, a trauma that has no framework in time or words with which to express it. It discusses the traumatic scenes that are extreme expressions of historic and political conditions....
Crossing Borders - Integrating Differences: Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in Transition
1st Edition
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By Anne-Marie Schloesser, Alf Gerlach
December 31, 2010
This book will stimulate readers to cross borders: between theory and practice, between research and everyday therapy, between out-patient and in-patient psychotherapy, between the view of ones own, the known and the culturally foreign. Yet it is only with an awareness of these borders, an ...
Play and Power
1st Edition
Edited
By Liselotte Grunbaum, Karen Vibeke Mortensen
December 31, 2010
The power of play, so central to psychoanalytic theory and practice, is conjoined to the social psychological or socio-politically coloured concept of power, giving rise to many fruitful discussions of how these concepts manifest themselves in clinical work with children, groups and adults. The ...