The Psychoanalytic Ideas Series
About the Book Series
Psychoanalytic Ideas is a series which bring together the best of Public Lectures and other writings given by analysts of the British Psycho-Analytical Society on important psychoanalytical subjects. The focus of this series is to communicate some of the intellectual excitement about the past, present, and future of psychoanalytic ideas. The series aims to help make these ideas accessible to an even larger group of students, scholars, and practitioners worldwide.
Time and Memory
1st Edition
Edited
By Rosine Jozef Perelberg
December 31, 2007
The concern with time permeates Freud's work, from Studies on Hysteria to Analysis Terminable and Interminable, which point out to a network of concepts that indicate Freud's complex theories on temporality. Indeed no other psychoanalytic thinker has put forward such revolutionary vision on the ...
You Ought To!: A Psychoanalytic Study of the Superego and Conscience
1st Edition
By Bernard Barnett
December 31, 2007
The superego is one of those psychoanalytic concepts that has been assimilated into ordinary language, like repression, the unconscious and the Oedipus complex. Because it has become such a familiar notion, its complexity may not always be appreciated, nor the controversy that it can inspire. Its ...
Psychoanalytic Ideas and Shakespeare
1st Edition
Edited
By Maggie Mills, Inge Wise
December 31, 2006
Psychoanalysis is concerned with the vicissitudes of life: loss, grief, mourning, guilt and also with reparation and creativity, with death and rebirth, as is the work of Shakespeare. These papers link the Bard's universe to psychoanalytic thought and practice and show us how much both worlds have ...
Child Analysis Today
1st Edition
Edited
By Luis Rodriguez De La Sierra
December 31, 2004
Although there have been many other important contributions to the field of child and adolescent analysis, the major differences in theory and approach still bear the hallmarks of three of the most significant figures in the field: Anna Freud, Melanie Klein and Donald Winnicott. As well as ...
Unconscious Phantasy
1st Edition
By Riccardo Steiner
December 31, 2003
'There is no doubt that "phantasy" or "unconscious phantasy", as it started to be used in the English translation of Freud's work in the late 1920s and 1930s to differentiate it from "fantasy", is one of the most important theoretical and clinical concepts of psychoanalysis.'- Riccardo Steiner, ...
Shame and Jealousy: The Hidden Turmoils
1st Edition
By Phil Mollon
December 31, 2002
A volume in the Psychoanalytic Ideas Series, published for the Institute of Psychoanalysis by Karnac. Here, shame and jealousy are examined as hidden turmoils; as basic human feelings found in everyone but often suppressed and neglected. An unfulfilled need, unanswered plea for help, and failure to...
Adolescence
1st Edition
By Inge Wise
December 31, 2000
'Adolescence - when we are no longer children and have not yet reached adulthood - is a time of much disturbance, change and potential for growth. The adolescent is confronted with a body that stretches, changes and grows in all directions, as does her or his mind: he is no longer who he was.'- ...
Dreaming and Thinking
1st Edition
By Rosine Jozef Perelberg
December 31, 2000
This book contains some modern contributions to the understanding and interpretation of dreams developed by contemporary psychoanalysts in the British Society, exploring the connections between dreaming and thinking....
Spilt Milk: Perinatal Loss and Breakdown
1st Edition
By Joan Raphael-Leff
December 31, 2000
A collection of lectures by eminent members of the British Psycho-analytical Society. Includes papers on the experience of having a baby, pregnancy and the internal world, pregnancy after stillbirth or neonatal death, and therapeutic intervention for post-partum disturbance....
Psychosis (Madness)
1st Edition
By Paul Williams
December 31, 1999
In this volume a number of British psychoanalysts introduce us to psychoanlaytic definitions of intra-psychic and subjective meaning in patients suffering psychotic conditions. Irrespective of the particular type of psychotic illness under consideration of the context or treatment, each paper ...