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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


Freud and Culture

Freud and Culture

1st Edition

By Eric Smadja
March 25, 2015

In this book Eric Smadja explores the representations of society and culture that Freud developed in the course of his work. Distinct from contemporary sociological and anthropological conceptions, they led to his construction of a personal socio-anthropology that was virulently criticised by the ...

Hostile and Malignant Prejudice Psychoanalytic Approaches

Hostile and Malignant Prejudice: Psychoanalytic Approaches

1st Edition

By Cyril Levitt
October 14, 2014

Hostile and Malignant Prejudice: Psychoanalytic Approaches represents the leading edge of work in the field by members of the International Psychoanalytical Association's Committee on Prejudice (Including Anti-Semitism), psychoanalysts who hail from Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Peru, Sweden, ...

Time for Change Tracking Transformations in Psychoanalysis - The Three-Level Model

Time for Change: Tracking Transformations in Psychoanalysis - The Three-Level Model

1st Edition

By Marina Altmann de Litvan
August 23, 2014

This book presents a research work on transformations in psychoanalysis and clinical observation of changes in psychoanalysis. It compares, based on the "three-level model", the different points of view of psychoanalysts from all over the world and from different psychoanalytical cultures....

The Ethical Seduction of the Analytic Situation The Feminine-Maternal Origins of Responsibility for the Other

The Ethical Seduction of the Analytic Situation: The Feminine-Maternal Origins of Responsibility for the Other

1st Edition

By Viviane Chetrit-Vatine
February 25, 2014

According to Jacques Andre, "the patient's encounter with the analyst is a scene of seduction, the seductive statement being that of the fundamental rule or the invitation to address that which is most intimate or personal to a complete stranger." But the practice of psychoanalysis can only unfold ...

Shame and Humiliation A Dialogue between Psychoanalytic and Systemic Approaches

Shame and Humiliation: A Dialogue between Psychoanalytic and Systemic Approaches

1st Edition

By Carlos Guillermo Bigliani
July 31, 2013

This book is organised in a way of listening to a dialogue between theoretical approaches. It represents an effort to build bridges between the different ways, both psychoanalytical and systemic, of thinking about the shame and humiliation and its context, which can cross-fertilise each other....

Death and Identity

Death and Identity

1st Edition

By Michel de M'Uzan
July 15, 2013

Michel de M'Uzan has derived several innovative notions from his clinical experience that are relevant not only for the psychoanalyst's status of identity, which is sometimes dramatically shaken by his or her patient's unconscious, but also for the artist who is deeply destabilized by his act of ...

Art in Psychoanalysis A Contemporary Approach to Creativity and Analytic Practice

Art in Psychoanalysis: A Contemporary Approach to Creativity and Analytic Practice

1st Edition

By Gabriela Goldstein
June 01, 2013

A revolution is brewing in psychoanalysis: after a century of struggle to define psychoanalysis as a science, the concept of psychoanalysis as an art is finding expression in an unconventional 'return to Freud' that reformulates the relationship between art and psychoanalysis and in this process, ...

Theory of Psychoanalytical Practice A Relational Process Approach

Theory of Psychoanalytical Practice: A Relational Process Approach

1st Edition

By Juan Tubert-Oklander
June 01, 2013

This book makes an original contribution to the study of the psychoanalytic process from a relational point of view, and at the same time serves as a textbook on the theory of technique. It provides a general exposition of the theory of psychoanalytic practice from a process perspective that ...

The Female Body Inside and Outside

The Female Body: Inside and Outside

1st Edition

Edited By Ingrid Moeslein-Teising, Frances Thomson-Salo
May 01, 2013

This book gathers together a number of cutting edge contributions about the female body, inside and out, from a large group of psychoanalysts who are at the forefront of new thinking about issues of femininity, the female body, sex and gender. It explores the female body in art, in pregnancy and ...

Unrepresented States and the Construction of Meaning Clinical and Theoretical Contributions

Unrepresented States and the Construction of Meaning: Clinical and Theoretical Contributions

1st Edition

Edited By Howard B. Levine, Gail S. Reed, Dominique Scarfone
January 01, 2013

In the last several decades, the analytic field has widened considerably in scope. The therapeutic task is now seen by an increasing number of analysts to require that patient and analyst work together to strengthen, or to create, psychic structure that was previously weak, missing, or functionally...

Psychic Reality in Context Perspectives on Psychoanalysis, Personal History, and Trauma

Psychic Reality in Context: Perspectives on Psychoanalysis, Personal History, and Trauma

1st Edition

By Marion Michel Oliner
December 31, 2012

This book skillfully combines autobiographical stories with clear psychoanalytical theories. During her childhood, the author experienced the Holocaust and was left understandly traumatised by it. It was her desire to confront this trauma that led her to psychoanalysis. For decades, the coherence ...

Illusions and Disillusions of Psychoanalytic Work

Illusions and Disillusions of Psychoanalytic Work

1st Edition

By Andre Green
December 31, 2011

Illusions and Disillusions of Psychoanalytic Work recounts and explores the disappointing and sometimes tragic evolutions of the treatments of certain patients who are resistant to the effects of analytic work. In this book the author reports cases taken from his own experience and that ...

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