The International Psychoanalytical Association Psychoanalytic Ideas and Applications Series
About the Book Series
The aim of the The International Psychoanalytical Association Psychoanalytic Ideas and Applications Series is to focus on the scientific production of significant authors whose works are outstanding contributions to the development of the psychoanalytic field and to set out relevant ideas and themes, generated during the history of psychoanalysis, that deserve to be discussed by present psychoanalysts.
Other series published by the IPA:
The International Psychoanalytical Association Controversies in Psychoanalysis series
The International Psychoanalytical Association Current Challenges in Psychoanalysis series
The International Psychoanalytical Association International Psychoanalysis Library
The International Psychoanalytical Association Psychoanalytic Classics Revisited
Psychopathologies of the Living: Selected Essays of Pierre Fédida
1st Edition
Edited
By Patrick ffrench, Nigel Saint
September 17, 2025
Psychopathologies of the Living makes the work of the French psychoanalyst Pierre Fédida (1934–2002) available in English for the first time. Patrick ffrench and Nigel Saint present key essays selected from Fédida’s extensive oeuvre. The book directs attention to two salient dimensions of Fédida’s ...
Psychoanalytic Studies of Change: An Integrative Perspective
1st Edition
Edited
By Siri Erika Gullestad, Erik Stänicke, Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber
April 01, 2024
Psychoanalytic Studies of Change presents recent studies of the process and outcome of psychoanalytic therapy with an integrative perspective. A recurrent challenge in the discussion of therapeutic outcome is the gap between empirical, quantitative studies, reporting results on a group level, and ...
Trauma and Pain Without a Subject: Disruptive Marks in the Psyche, Resignified
1st Edition
By Juan-Eduardo Tesone
March 29, 2024
Trauma and Pain Without a Subject explores the necessity of the subject of trauma emerging, particularly when a victim has experienced but not worked through disruptive situations, in order for unconscious pain to finally be experienced. The book is presented in three parts, with the first, "...
Outsider Art and Psychoanalytic Psychiatry: The “Nativity of Fools” at the Cogoleto Psychiatric Hospital
1st Edition
By Cosimo Schinaia
February 29, 2024
Outsider Art and Psychoanalytic Psychiatry is a study of psychiatric institutes and psychiatric violence as seen through art created by the inhabitants of a psychiatric hospital. Cosimo Schinaia explores the history of the Cogoleto Psychiatric Hospital, now abandoned, and how its architecture and ...
The Astonishing Adolescent Upheaval in Psychoanalysis
1st Edition
Edited
By Roosevelt Cassorla, Silvia Flechner
February 26, 2024
This book brings together international contributors to share insight from their theoretical and clinical work with adolescents, considering the different psychopathological responses they see in adolescent patients and how these can be worked with in analysis. Each chapter addresses a specific ...
Desire, Pain and Thought: Primal Masochism and Psychoanalytic Theory
1st Edition
By Marilia Aisenstein
June 02, 2023
Desire, Pain and Thought presents a new perspective on primal erotogenic masochism, which Marilia Aisenstein regards as the core of psychoanalytic theory. Aisenstein distinguishes between pathological masochism – the active search for pain – and primal erotogenic masochism, which she believes ...
The Freudian Matrix of André Green: Towards a Psychoanalysis for the Twenty-First Century
1st Edition
Edited
By Howard B. Levine
March 29, 2023
The Freudian Matrix of André Green presents seven papers, never previously published in English, that will allow readers to more closely follow and more fully understand the development of Green’s unique psychoanalytic thinking. The chapters in this book provide valuable insight into Green’s ...
The Poetry of the Word in Psychoanalysis: Selected Papers of Pere Folch Mateu
1st Edition
By Pere Folch Mateu, J.O. Esteve, Jordi Sala
March 14, 2023
The Poetry of the Word in Psychoanalysis presents selected key papers by leading Spanish psychoanalyst Pere Folch Mateu. The pieces chosen for this book address clinical, psychopathological, technical and theoretical issues approached in Folch Mateu’s unique style, providing an introduction to his ...
A Psychoanalytic Understanding of Trauma: Post-Traumatic Mental Functioning, the Zero Process, and the Construction of Reality
1st Edition
By Joseph Fernando
December 16, 2022
A Psychoanalytic Understanding of Trauma presents a theory of the nature of trauma and post-traumatic mental functioning based on the concept of the ‘zero process’. Joseph Fernando presents a novel, comprehensive, and clinically useful theory of trauma. The author first presents theories of trauma ...
The Deconstruction of Narcissism and the Function of the Object: Explorations in Psychoanalysis
1st Edition
By René Roussillon
November 18, 2022
The Deconstruction of Narcissism and the Function of the Object addresses the topic of narcissistic suffering and presents an innovative take on its psychoanalytic treatment through the deconstruction of its solipsism. Presenting a new approach which builds on intuitions described by Freud and ...
The Infinite Infantile and the Psychoanalytic Task: Psychoanalysis with Children, Adolescents and their Families
1st Edition
Edited
By Nilde Parada Franch, Christine Anzieu-Premmereur, Mónica Cardenal, Majlis Winberg Salomonsson
November 10, 2022
The Infinite Infantile and the Psychoanalytic Task is a fascinating collection of essays that proposes to restore and elaborate original conceptions of the complexity of mental processes in the early years of life until the onset of adolescence, and from then until adulthood. This book, led by the ...
What Nazism Did to Psychoanalysis
1st Edition
By Laurence Kahn
September 09, 2022
What Nazism Did to Psychoanalysis explores the impact Nazism had on the evolution of psychoanalysis and tackles the enigma of the transformation of individual hate into mass psychosis and of the autocratic creation of a neo-reality. Addressing the effects of the Holocaust on the psychoanalytic ...