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
Femininity, Desire and Sublimation in Psychoanalysis: From the Melancholic to the Erotic
1st Edition
By Elda Abrevaya
August 12, 2022
Femininity, Desire and Sublimation in Psychoanalysis explores female subjectivity and examines the complexities inherent in psychoanalytic work realized by women analysts with women. The book includes a critical study of psychoanalytic theories on femininity as well as a reflection on social ...
Psychosomatics Today: A Psychoanalytic Perspective
2nd Edition
Edited
By Marilia Aisenstein, Elsa Rappoport De Aisemberg
June 01, 2022
This revised edition of Psychosomatics Today presents a thorough introduction to the different international schools of psychosomatics, written by leading professionals, and includes three new chapters on current practice. As well as exploring key psychosomatic topics, focusing primarily on the ...
Affect, Representation and Language: Between the Silence and the Cry
1st Edition
By Howard B. Levine
November 18, 2021
This book presents and elaborates on the rationale and implications of the transformational dimension of psychoanalysis. In so doing, it attempts to extend psychoanalytic theory and practice beyond neurosis and beyond what were formerly thought to be the limits of analytic understanding. Its ...
Clinical Research in Psychoanalysis: Theoretical Basis and Experiences through Working Parties
1st Edition
Edited
By Marina Altmann de Litvan
July 20, 2021
This book offers different theoretical approaches about what clinical research is. Clinical Research in Psychoanalysis is a unique contribution to the attempts to bridge the gap between clinicians and researchers and to create a culture of a more rigorous and systematic inquiry. It provides an ...
The Infantile in Psychoanalytic Practice Today
1st Edition
By Florence Guignard
July 14, 2021
The Infantile in Psychoanalytic Practice Today demonstrates the concept of the Infantile, first proposed almost a quarter of a century ago, and the ways in which it has become an indispensable tool in contemporary psychoanalytic clinical practice. As a “concept of the third type”, the Infantile ...
The Sound of the Unconscious: Psychoanalysis as Music
1st Edition
By Ludovica Grassi
June 01, 2021
In this book, Ludovica Grassi explores the importance of music in psychoanalysis, arguing that music is a basic working tool for psyche, as words are composed of sound, rhythm and intonation more than lexical meaning. Starting from ethnomusicological, evolutionary, neurodevelopmental, ...
Change Through Time in Psychoanalysis: Transformations and Interventions, The Three Level Model
1st Edition
Edited
By Margaret Ann Fitzpatrick Hanly, Marina Altmann de Litvan, Ricardo Bernardi
April 19, 2021
Change Through Time in Psychoanalysis presents a new stage of the work done through the IPA Committee on Clinical Observation between 2014 and 2020—the advances in our method, the Three Level Model (3-LM), and our clinical thinking. In this new volume, ideas on observational research, clinical ...
Psychoanalytic Reflections on Writing, Cinema and the Arts: Facing Beauty and Loss
1st Edition
By Paola Golinelli
December 31, 2020
"Why are we so fascinated by beauty?" is a question many of us have asked ourselves, as have many who came before us. This book investigates the moment of ecstatic solitude in which everyone can experience emotions through films, works of art or natural phenomenon, when, even if for a "magic" ...
Narcissistic Fantasies in Film and Fiction: Masters of the Universe
1st Edition
By Ilany Kogan
April 14, 2020
This book has grown from a belief that the psychoanalytic exploration of literature and performances leads to a richer and fuller understanding of each individual’s internal reality. It includes an exploration of narcissistic fantasies from various protagonists of film and novels and focuses on the...
Psychoanalytic Work with Families and Couples: Clinical Perspectives on Suffering
1st Edition
By Susana Kuras Mauer, Sara Moscona, Silvia Resnizky
October 15, 2019
Psychoanalytic Work with Families and Couples rethinks the ways in which conflicts present today in psychoanalytic consulting rooms and the nature of suffering in family, couple, and sibling bonds. Based on two major concepts, that of device (drawn from the philosophers Foucault, Deleuze, and ...
Permanent Disquiet: Psychoanalysis and the Transitional Subject
1st Edition
By Michel De M'Uzan
June 03, 2019
Permanent Disquiet: Psychoanalysis and the Transitional Subject comprises the first English language translation of some of Michel Émile de M’Uzan’s key writings, alongside an invaluable glossary by Murielle Gagnebin of M’Uzan’s work. Together, they give a thorough overview of his key thinking. ...
Psychoanalysis of the Psychoses: Current Developments in Theory and Practice
1st Edition
Edited
By Riccardo Lombardi, Luigi Rinaldi, Sarantis Thanopulos
May 14, 2019
Psychoanalysis of the Psychoses brings together a distinguished international set of contributors, offering a range of views and approaches, to explore the latest thinking in the psychoanalytic treatment of psychosis and related disorders. Drawing on findings from neuroscience, theory and clinical...