Often derided as unscientific and self-indulgent, psychoanalysis has been an invaluable resource for artists, art critics and historians throughout the twentieth century. Art and Psychoanalysis investigates these encounters. The shared relationship to the unconscious, severed from Romantic inspiration by Freud, is traced from the Surrealist engagement with psychoanalytic imagery to the contemporary critic's use of psychoanalytic concepts as tools to understand how meaning operates. Following the theme of the 'object' with its varying materiality, Walsh develops her argument that psychoanalysis, like art, is a cultural discourse about the mind in which the authority of discourse itself can be undermined, provoking ambiguity and uncertainty and destabilising identity. The dynamics of the dream-work, Freud's 'familiar unfamiliar', fetishism, visual mastery, abjection, repetition, and the death drive are explored through detailed analysis of artists ranging from Max Ernst to Louise Bourgeois, including 1980s postmodernists such as Cindy Sherman, the performance art of Marina Abramovic' and post-minimalist sculpture. Innovative and disturbing, Art and Psychoanalysis investigates key psychoanalytic concepts to reveal a dynamic relationship between art and psychoanalysis which goes far beyond interpretation. There is no cure for the artist - but art can reconcile us to the traumatic nature of human experience, converting the sadistic impulses of the ego towards domination and war into a masochistic ethics of responsibility and desire.

A description of the revolutionary clinical methods developed by George Frankl. The reader is invited into the consulting room to witness - at least to some extent - how the patient is led to reveal to himself, as well as to the analyst, the secret world of his unconscious mind. Frankl's therapeutic methods enable the patient to recall previously hidden experiences of infancy, along with their physical reaction formations, and actually re-experience traumatic events which were responsible for his neurotic and psychotic symptoms. This also throws new light upon the origins of many physical diseases and makes them accessible to psychological treatment. Frankl's therapeutic innovations are intended to set new standards in psychoanalytic therapy. His book provides information for mental health workers, psychoanalysts and psychiatrists, as well as for medical practitioners who are interested in the psychosomatic aspects of medicine.

Seeing and Being Seen: Emerging from a Psychic Retreat examines the themes that surface when considering clinical situations where patients feel stuck and where a failure to develop impedes the progress of analysis.

This book analyses the anxieties and challenges confronted by patients as they begin to emerge from the protection of psychic retreats. Divided into three parts, areas of discussion include:

• embarrassment, shame, and humiliation
• helplessness, power, and dominance
• mourning, melancholia, and the repetition compulsion.

As well as offering fresh ideas, Steiner bases his creative and integrative efforts on previous contributions by psychoanalysts including Freud, Klein, Rosenfeld, and Bion. As such, this book will be of interest to psychoanalysts, clinical psychotherapists, and all those with an interest in the psychoanalytic field.

Couples work continues to grow in popularity amongst psychoanalytic clinicians * Builds on the popular Couples on the Couch title * Offers a broad psychoanalytic perspective across a range of theoretical approaches, and clear clinical guidance

- the first edition consistently sells 50-100 copies each year - presents complex arguments clearly and accessibly

The first work to illuminate and develop this scholar's ideas and agendas in the field of psychoanalysis and related areas. Contributors are well published and hold recognized positions as editors, professors and senior practitioners in their fields.

International contributors provide insight into Freud's last book. Discusses themes including tradition, anti-Semitism, historical truth and memory. Each author elaborates a contemporary perspective of elements in Freud's volume.

The contributions cover key areas of discussion including the political and the social, diversity and difference, gender and norm, and isolation and the social sphere. Includes several chapters on post-pandemic contexts, e.g. internet work and social isolation. Includes examples from the authors' own work, for example case studies of group analysis in specific contexts.

`... this book, which along with the many other contributions Hanna Segal has made to psychoanalysis in the course of a long and productive professional life, will stand as a further testament to her creative capacity. - Psychoanalytic Quarterly Vol 3 Vol LXII

Despite the progress made by psychoanalysis since Freud's discovery of the sexual nature of the unconscious, analysts have tended to explore psychical causality independently of the role of the biological factors at play in sexuality. What Can We Know About Sex? explains how Lacan's work allows us to make new links between the sexual laws of discourse, gender and what Freud called the 'biological rock' in human life, allowing a new perspective not only on the history of the sexual couple but on contemporary developments of sexuality in the 21st century. Gisele Chaboudez's insights demonstrate that the old phallic logic that has been so dominant is now in the process of being dismantled, opening up the question of how people can relate sexually and what forms of jouissance are at stake for contemporary subjectivity. What Can We Know About Sex? will be a key text for analysts, academics and students of feminism, gender and sexuality.

*The book presents a new model for how bereaved individuals can create unique expressions of mourning that are tailored to their psychological needs.*The book provides psychotherapists and grief counselors with novel approaches to clinical work in bereavement *Contemporary psychological research and theories on grief provide an informed understanding of how to help those individuals struggling to cope with complicated bereavement

Presents relevant theory from other disciplines as needed. Accessibly written. Centers on two key texts, The Psychotic Core and Emotional Storm. Rather than a comprehensive or systematic exegesis of Eigen's work, Bagai's commentary expands nodal aspects, illuminating and probing seminal themes and ideas.

- integrates relevant philosophy in a way that makes it understandable and palatable to psychoanalytic readers - there isn't much direct competition to this book; it's an original contribution

- well organized and comprehensive three-part structure - features impressive roster of well-known contributors

Movement, Velocity, and Rhythm from a Psychoanalytic Perspective: Variable Speed(s) explores philosophical and psychoanalytic theories, as well as artworks, that show sensible bodily rituals for reviving our social and subjective lives. With a wide range of contributors from interdisciplinary backgrounds, it informs readers on how to find rituals for syncing ourselves with others and world rhythms. The book is divided into three parts on variability, speed, and slowness, and explores rhythmic rituals of renewal, revolution, and reflection. Each chapter provides unique examples from the applied arts, film, television, and literature to show how different practices of rhythm might aid in creative and deep contemplation and includes philosophical and cultural theories for bodily and rhythmic renewal. Without being limited to a clinical perspective, this book provides wide-ranging discussions of the relation between rhythm, trauma, cultural studies, psychosocial studies, continental philosophy, critical psychology, Lacan, and film, to explore modes of becoming more attuned to each moment, to others, and to our own era. Movement, Velocity, and Rhythm from a Psychoanalytic Perspective will be essential reading for Lacanian psychoanalysts in practice and in training, as well as anyone interested in rhythm at the intersection of Lacanian psychoanalysis and continental philosophy.

Insightful new approach to group work and creativity. Author is well-known in the field. Draws on the author's experience of hosting these sessions, both online and offline.

Original discussion of romance from a psychodynamic perspective Treatment of sexual disorders Role of sexual fantasy to core personality examined.

- the first edition consistently sells 50-100 copies each year - presents complex arguments clearly and accessibly

Presents relevant theory from other disciplines as needed. Accessibly written. Centers on two key texts, The Psychotic Core and Emotional Storm. Rather than a comprehensive or systematic exegesis of Eigen's work, Bagai's commentary expands nodal aspects, illuminating and probing seminal themes and ideas.

- well organized and comprehensive three-part structure - features impressive roster of well-known contributors

Despite the progress made by psychoanalysis since Freud's discovery of the sexual nature of the unconscious, analysts have tended to explore psychical causality independently of the role of the biological factors at play in sexuality. What Can We Know About Sex? explains how Lacan's work allows us to make new links between the sexual laws of discourse, gender and what Freud called the 'biological rock' in human life, allowing a new perspective not only on the history of the sexual couple but on contemporary developments of sexuality in the 21st century. Gisele Chaboudez's insights demonstrate that the old phallic logic that has been so dominant is now in the process of being dismantled, opening up the question of how people can relate sexually and what forms of jouissance are at stake for contemporary subjectivity. What Can We Know About Sex? will be a key text for analysts, academics and students of feminism, gender and sexuality.

Bion Today explores how Bion 's work is used in contemporary settings; how his ideas have been applied at the level of the individual, the group and the organisation; and which phenomena have been made more comprehensible through the lenses of his concepts. The book introduces distinctive psychoanalytic contributions to show the ways in which distinguished analysts have explored and developed the ideas of Wilfred Bion.

Drawing on the contributors experience of using Bion 's ideas in clinical work, topics include:

• an introduction to Bion
• clarification of the inter-related concepts of countertransference and enactment
• concepts integrating group and individual phenomena
• clinical implications of Bion 's thought
• Bion 's approach to psychoanalysis.

Bion Today will be a valuable resource for psychoanalysts, psychotherapists and all those who are interested in learning more about Bion 's thinking and his work.

This volume presents a distinctively Lacanian psychoanalytic approach to the theorizing, understanding, and critique of curriculum in higher education. In this work, the author presents the main theories of curriculum in the current discourse, develops a notion of critique, and applies it to existing global guidelines for curriculum reform. Relying on the architectonic of the subject as developed across the work of Jacques Lacan-expressed in the registers of the Symbolic, the Imaginary, and the Real-the author provides a new approach to understanding curriculum in terms of the psychic dynamics that explain its workings.

A psychoanalytic study of several aspects of modern life, including technology and living through a pandemic. Contains clinical vignettes. Accessibly written and structured.

- highly refined scholarship; this book could become a long-term classic - author is recognized authority in the fields of both psychoanalysis and philosophy