Tag: Psychoanalytic

Free Download Matthew Clemente, "misReading Plato: Continental and Psychoanalytic Glimpses Beyond the Mask "
English | ISBN: 1032062681 | 2022 | 288 pages | EPUB | 883 KB
This book reorients the scholarship on Plato by returning readers to his most fundamental insights and reflections on the nature of the human psyche and the human condition.

Free Download When History Returns: Psychoanalytic Quests for Humane Learning
by Deborah P Britzman
English | 2024 | ISBN: 143849775X | 195 Pages | True PDF | 1.84 MB

Free Download The African American Experience: Psychoanalytic Perspectives By Salman Akhtar, Salman Akhtar, Jan Wright, Shawn Blue, Jennifer, Bonovitz, David Campbell, Christin Drake, Forrest Hamer, Dorothy Holmes, Kimberlyn Leary Ph.D, Carlotta Miles, LaShawnDa Pittman, Dionne Powell, Cheryl Thompson, Clarence Watson, Glenda
2012 | 478 Pages | ISBN: 0765708353 | PDF | 3 MB
The African American Experience: Psychoanalytic Perspectives edited by Salman Akhtar brings together the contributions of distinguished mental health professionals and scholars of humanities to offer a multifaceted perspective on the transgenerational trauma of slavery, the hardship of single parent families, the ruthlessness of anti-black racism, and the crushing burden of poverty and social disenfranchisement on the African American individual. The book also sheds light on the resilience of spirit, the dignity of perseverance, and the glow of talent that is widespread in this group. It contains penetrating and informative biographical essays on Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, Mohammad Ali, Barack Obama, and Oprah Winfrey. Such discourse on human greatness is balanced by the considerations of daily joy and anguish on clinical and societal levels. This wide-ranging and nuanced volume on the history, culture, and psychosocial struggles of African American people fills an important gap in the literature on psychotherapy and psychoanalysis.

Free Download Talking With Couples: Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy of the Couple Relationship By Giulio Cesare Zavattini, Barbara Bianchini, Marina Capello, Laura Dallanegra, Maria Adelaide Lupinacci, Fabio Monguzzi, Lidia Vitalini
2015 | 144 Pages | ISBN: 1782201173 | PDF | 1 MB
"In this compact and illuminating study of the evolving theoretical framework informing psychoanalytic work with couples, the authors highlight concepts that have been most drawn upon in developing dynamic couple therapy. They chart the shifting emphasis away from interpreting and reconstructing the past towards approaches that engage partners and therapists in constructing and reflecting on their encounters with each other in the present. The triangular space that is created through this process contains therapists as well as the couples with whom they talk, and invites us to revisit the essential nature of the therapeutic conversation in this light. A thoughtful and fascinating book that will interest everyone who is keen to understand the interior world of couple psychotherapy."―Christopher Clulow, PhD, Senior Fellow, the Tavistock Centre for Couple Relationships, London

Free Download Questioning Identities: Philosophy in Psychoanalytic Practice By Mary Lynne Ellis, Noreen O’Connor
2010 | 210 Pages | ISBN: 1855758954 | PDF | 2 MB
Face-to-face with differences in the analytical relationship, analysts frequently confront the limitations of their theories. In this new book, Mary Lynne Ellis and Noreen O’Connor move to the heart of 21st century intertwining of psychoanalytical and philosophical critical reflections. They highlight how philosophical perspectives on language, embodiment, time, history, and conscious/unconscious experiences can contribute to clinical interpretations of gender, sexuality, race, age, culture, and class. Vital to Questioning Identities: Philosophy in Psychoanalytic Practice is its emphasis on clinical material, and on attentiveness to the uniqueness of individuals’ articulations of their desires and identities.

Free Download Psychoanalytic Approaches to Forgiveness and Mental Health
by Ronald Britton and Aleksandra Novakovic
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1032427914 | 223 Pages | True PDF | 6.18 MB

Free Download Ronald Britton, "Psychoanalytic Approaches to Forgiveness and Mental Health"
English | ISBN: 1032427914 | 2023 | 222 pages | EPUB | 709 KB
Psychoanalytic Approaches to Forgiveness and Mental Health considers the role of forgiveness in mental life, concerning both forgiving and being forgiven.

Free Download For love of the father : a psychoanalytic study of religious terrorism By Stein, Ruth
2010 | 220 Pages | ISBN: 0804763046 | PDF | 2 MB
Ruth Stein’s pioneering study explains suicidal terrorism from a psychoanalytic perspective. She argues that most Islamic extremists undertake destructive and self-destructive actions not out of blind hatred, nor even for political gain, but to achieve an explosive merger with a transcendent awesome Father, God. The extremist is thus motivated more by his love for God than his hatred of the infidel. The contemporary Islamic terrorist kills "God’s enemies" to express his intoxication with and complete submission to the God-idea. Stein further shows that this same leitmotif of filial submission and sacrifice runs through patriarchal monotheism in general.

Free Download Deleuze and Guattari: A Psychoanalytic Itinerary By Fadi Abou-Rihan
2008 | 166 Pages | ISBN: 1847063713 | PDF | 2 MB
Most commentators judge Deleuze and Guattari’s Anti-Oedipus as either a Medusa into whose face psychoanalysis cannot but stare and suffer the most abominable of deaths or a well-intentioned but thoroughly misguided flash in the pan. Fadi Abou-Rihan shows that, as much as it is an insightful critique of the assimilationist vein in psychoanalysis, Anti-Oedipus remains fully committed to Freud’s most singular discovery of an unconscious that is procedural and dynamic. Moreover, Abou-Rihan argues, the anti-oedipal project is a practice where the science of the unconscious is made to obey the laws it attributes to its object.The outcome is nothing short of the "becoming-unconscious" of psychoanalysis, a becoming that signals neither the repression nor the death of the practice but the transformation of its principles and procedures into those of its object. Abou-Rihan tracks this becoming alongside Nietzsche, Winnicott, Feynman, Bardi, and Cixous in order to reconfigure desire beyond the categories of subject, lack, and tragedy. Firmly grounded in continental philosophy and psychoanalytic practice, this book extends the anti-oedipal view on the unconscious in a wholly new direction.

Free Download Outsider Art and Psychoanalytic Psychiatry: The "Nativity of Fools" at the Cogoleto Psychiatric Hospital
English | 2024 | ISBN: 103246450X | 167 Pages | PDF (True) | 9 MB
Cosimo Schinaia explores the history of the Cogoleto Psychiatric Hospital, now abandoned, and how its architecture and ideology influenced treatment of the patients who lived there. At the book’s core is an in-depth historical, anthropological, and psychoanalytical study of the "Nativity of Fools," a large art installation constructed from 1980 to 1984 by patients, nurses, and psychiatrists, representing their everyday lives in the asylum. Schinaia’s understanding of the scenes considers questions of nostalgia, isolation, privacy, and freedom and reflects on the risks of institutionalised segregation. The book proposes original psychoanalytic reflections on the subject of the obsolescence of psychiatric hospitals and treating mental suffering without institutionalising people.