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
In the Traces of our Name: The Influence of Given Names in Life
1st Edition
By Juan Eduardo Tesone
December 31, 2011
This book emphasizes the influence of the name given at birth in terms of the construction of subjectivity. It offers the reader a fascinating journey through the meanders of culture, literary quotations, stories heard, and a difficult journey through the pain and horror of certain realities....
Primitive Agony and Symbolization
1st Edition
By Rene Roussillon
December 31, 2011
The fundamental outlook of this book is clinical. It attempts to establish a unitary model of the processes at work in different forms of narcissistic pathology, and to offer a model that is both an alternative to, and complementary to, Freud's model of what are usually considered to be neurotic ...
Good Feelings: Psychoanalytic Reflections on Positive Emotions and Attitudes
1st Edition
Edited
By Salman Akhtar
December 31, 2009
This tightly edited volume opens a new vista in psychoanalysis by focusing upon positive and life-enhancing emotions and attitudes. The realms it covers include love, friendship, enthusiasm, courage, tact, resilience, and forgiveness, among others. Seminal papers on these topics have existed but ...
The Analyzing Situation
1st Edition
By Jean-Luc Donnet
December 31, 2009
In this book the author explores the particularities of the status of the method in psychoanalysis, linked to the specificity of unconscious psychic processes. If the method aims at ensuring a level of technical mastery, it must also make sure that analytic treatment does not become an 'application...
The Work of Confluence: Listening and Interpreting in the Psychoanalytic Field
1st Edition
By Madeleine Baranger, Leticia Glocer Fiorini, Willy Baranger
December 31, 2009
This book expands the authors' oeuvre to the English language and, consequently, to a broader spectrum of readers. These contributions represent a pioneering work of great interest to the field of psychoanalysis. Their proposals concerning the concept of psychoanalytic field, "basic ...
Envy and Gratitude Revisited
1st Edition
Edited
By Alessandra Lemma, Priscilla Roth
December 31, 2008
These stimulating essays are evidence that 50 years after its publication Melanie Klein's Envy and Gratitude is still a rich source of psychoanalytic inspiration. Sixteen highly regarded analysts, representing a wide range of psychoanalytic thinking, provide new insights and highlight current ...
Escape from Selfhood: Breaking Boundaries and Craving for Oneness
1st Edition
By Ilany Kogan
December 31, 2007
This book presents scholarly writings on psychic boundaries. It explores one of the extreme pathological conditions from the complex relationship between Holocaust survivor parents and their offspring: the breaking of boundaries. The book adds the dimension of time to the concept of boundaries....
From Impression to Inquiry: A Tribute to the Work of Robert Wallerstein
1st Edition
By Wilma Bucci
December 31, 2007
From Impression to Inquiry is a tribute to the work of Robert Wallerstein and is a homage to his exceptional attitude regarding the problem of agreements, divergences, and uncertainties in psychoanalysis....
Talking About Supervision: 10 Questions, 10 Analysts = 100 Answers
1st Edition
By Laura E. Rubinstein
December 31, 2007
This book offers us the wisdom of a distinguished group of international psychoanalysts about supervision and other aspects of the psychoanalytic training experience. It serves as a stimulus to our thinking about the most important aspect of psychoanalytic education....
The Conscious in Psychoanalysis
1st Edition
By Antonio A. Semi
December 31, 2007
This book focuses on consciousness in psychoanalysis. It deals with judgement, the psychic activity that Sigmund Freud already called primary judgement in his "Project for a Scientific Psychology", and then with secondary judgement....
The Unconscious: Further Reflections
1st Edition
By Jose C. Calich
December 31, 2007
This book provides contemporary perspectives concerning Freud's fundamental assumptions on the unconscious. It presents some of the original theoretical developments and the cogitations on the unconscious, from various world regions and different thought orientations....
The Art of Interpretation: Deconstruction and New Beginnning in the Psychoanalytic Process
1st Edition
By Wolfgang Loch
December 31, 2006
This book examines Freud's use and definition of interpretation as a therapeutic tool as well as views it from the philosophical perspective of meaning and its definition. In addition, it examines the later developments made by Klein and Bion....