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 Andre Green reports cases taken from his own experience and that of his coll[...]
This unique contemporary perspective will fascinate all those with an interest in tackling the fragmentation which has led to the current 'crisis of psychoanalysis' and opportunities for the future development of the field.[...]
Bollas eloquently argues for a return to our understanding of how Freudian psychoanalysis works unconscious to unconscious. Failure to follow Freud's basic assumptions about psychoanalytical listening has resulted in the abandonment of searching for the 'the logic of sequence' which Freud regarded a[...]
Despite being one of the foremost psychoanalysts working today, much of Andre Green's work has until recently been unavailable in English. This work aims to rectify this, by collecting together five lectures given to the Squiggle Foundation in London. This accessible and clearly written book provide[...]
This title illustrates the number of forms of narcisssim met with in clinical practice, and draws attention to the duplicity underlying its structure. The author also shows that it is necessary to postulate the existence of a death-giving narcissism.[...]
The Winnicott Clinic of Psychotherapy was founded in 1969 and since 2000 has concentrated on the wider dissemination of the work and ideas of Dr Donald W. Winnicott (1896-1971), the distinguished English paediatrician, child psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. To that end, it has established the Winnico[...]
Vad händer när två tonåringar med exakt samma namn råkar mötas en kall natt i ett totalt osannolikt hörn av Chicago? Räkna in ett avslöjat falskleg och en misslyckad nätdejt.
Möt Will Grayson, 16 år. En kille som har två viktiga regler i livet: 1. Hålla käften. 2. Inte bry[...]
Möt Will Grayson, 16 år. En kille som har två regler i livet: 1. Hålla käften. 2. Inte bry sig. Tyvärr har han kärat ner sig i skolans coolaste och smartaste tjej. Det gör reglerna svåra att följa.
Och möt Will Grayson, 16 år. En deppig gaykille som slits mellan viljan att ta [...]
Just as concerts emerge from the interaction of many instruments, so our understanding of Shakespeare is enriched by different approaches to him. Psychoanalysis assumes that creative writers have the need to both reveal and conceal their own inner conflicts in their works. They leave residues in the[...]