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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 Contemporary Freud Turning Points and Critical Issues series

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

60 Series Titles


Contemporary Perspectives on the Freudian Death Drive In Theory, Clinical Practice and Culture

Contemporary Perspectives on the Freudian Death Drive: In Theory, Clinical Practice and Culture

1st Edition

Edited By Victor Blüml, Liana Giorgi, Daru Huppert
March 05, 2019

Contemporary Perspectives on the Freudian Death Drive provides a sustained discussion of the death drive from the perspective of different psychoanalytic traditions. Ever since Freud introduced the notion of the death drive, it has been the subject of intense debate in psychoanalysis and beyond. ...

Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry Partners and Competitors in the Mental Health Field

Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry: Partners and Competitors in the Mental Health Field

1st Edition

Edited By Cláudio Laks Eizirik, Giovanni Foresti
December 20, 2018

Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry: Partners and Competitors in the Mental Health Field offers a comprehensive overview of the many links between the two fields. There have long been connections between the two professions, but this is the first time the many points of contact have been set out clearly ...

Psychoanalytic Studies on Dysphoria The False Accord in the Divine Symphony

Psychoanalytic Studies on Dysphoria: The False Accord in the Divine Symphony

1st Edition

By Marion M. Oliner
November 26, 2018

Psychoanalytic Studies on Dysphoria: The False Accord in the Divine Symphony depicts the profound dysphoria afflicting certain individuals, and includes the author's own personal experience of this as a German Jewish child during the Holocaust. Marion M. Oliner explores the impact of catastrophic ...

The Psychoanalyst and the Child From the Consultation to Psychoanalytic Treatment

The Psychoanalyst and the Child: From the Consultation to Psychoanalytic Treatment

1st Edition

By Michel Ody
November 13, 2018

The Psychoanalyst and the Child explores the unique nature of psychoanalytic work with children. This book is based on more than 30 years of practice and reflection within the framework of the Alfred Binet Centre in Paris, France. The very great diversity of situations encountered at the Centre ...

Transformational Processes in Clinical Psychoanalysis Dreaming, Emotions and the Present Moment

Transformational Processes in Clinical Psychoanalysis: Dreaming, Emotions and the Present Moment

1st Edition

By Lawrence J. Brown
October 24, 2018

In this book, Lawrence J. Brown offers a contemporary perspective on how the mind transforms, and gives meaning to, emotional experience that arises unconsciously in the here-and-now of the clinical hour. Brown surveys the developments in theory and practice that follow from Freud’s original ...

Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Virtual Intimacy and Communication in Film

Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Virtual Intimacy and Communication in Film

1st Edition

Edited By Andrea Sabbadini, Ilany Kogan, Paola Golinelli
August 16, 2018

Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Virtual Intimacy and Communication in Film brings together a group of psychoanalysts to explore, through film, the new forms of communication, mainly the internet, that enter more and more frequently into the affective lives of people, their intimacy and even the ...

Psychotic Organisation of the Personality Psychoanalytic Keys

Psychotic Organisation of the Personality: Psychoanalytic Keys

1st Edition

By Antonio Perez-Sanchez
February 26, 2018

The book is a psychoanalytic understanding of psychosis as a particular organisation of the personality, based on 'psychotic personality' (Bion) and 'pathological organisations' (Steiner). The theoretical development is traced through Freud, Klein and Bion, along with contemporary Kleinian authors....

The Analytical Process Journeys and Pathways

The Analytical Process: Journeys and Pathways

1st Edition

By Thierry Bokanowski
February 13, 2017

The term 'psychoanalytical process', though occurring but rarely in Freud's works, has become firmly established nowadays despite being hard to define, explain, or pin down in conceptual or meta-psychological terms. Although it is often employed as equivalent to 'psychoanalytic work', currents of ...

The Future of Psychoanalysis The Debate About the Training Analyst System

The Future of Psychoanalysis: The Debate About the Training Analyst System

1st Edition

By Peter Zagermann
November 08, 2016

This book is concerned with the question of what psychoanalytic training should look like today. Should we go on with the system that has developed over time? Or should we abandon it, and if so, for which reasons? It provides a detailed and compelling account of the ongoing, sometimes heated, ...

Finding the Body in the Mind Embodied Memories, Trauma, and Depression

Finding the Body in the Mind: Embodied Memories, Trauma, and Depression

1st Edition

By Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber
June 29, 2015

Interdisciplinary studies from the fields of embodied cognitive science, epigenetics, and cognitive neuroscience offer challenging explanations of the functions in the analyst's mind which might allow him to create spontaneous associations through which he unconsciously 'understands' the traumatic,...

Psychopathology of Work Clinical Observations

Psychopathology of Work: Clinical Observations

1st Edition

By Christophe Dejours
June 09, 2015

This book examines the processes at issue in the onset of psychiatric disorders linked to stress in the workplace. Six clinical observations are presented: an acute psychosomatic decompensation (status asthmaticus); a delirious episode; a dementia-like confusional state; a sexuality disorder; two ...

Play, Gender, Therapy Selected Papers of Eleanor Galenson

Play, Gender, Therapy: Selected Papers of Eleanor Galenson

1st Edition

Edited By Nellie L. Thompson
April 01, 2015

Eleanor Galenson had a remarkable career whose singular focus was her life-long interest in the maturational and psychosexual vicissitudes of infancy and early childhood. The selection of her writings in this volume highlight her approach to the study of the early years of life and, in particular, ...

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