History of Psychoanalysis
About the Book Series
This series seeks to present outstanding new books that illuminate any aspect of the history of psychoanalysis from its earliest days to the present, and to reintroduce classic texts to contemporary readers.ย
To find out how to submit a proposal for this series, please contact Peter L. Rudnytsky atย [email protected], or Susannah Frearson at [email protected].
The Freudian Orient: Early Psychoanalysis, Anti-Semitic Challenge, and the Vicissitudes of Orientalist Discourse
1st Edition
By Frank F. Scherer
October 21, 2015
This study consists of a twofold, interrelated enquiry: the Orientalism of psychoanalysis and the psychoanalysis of Orientalism - bringing into conversation Sigmund Freud and Edward Said and, thereby, the founding texts of psychoanalysis and postcolonial studies. The immediate object of this ...
Freud and the Dora Case: A Promise Betrayed
1st Edition
By Cesare Romano
September 03, 2015
Cesare Romano revisits Dora's clinical case in light of Freud's own seduction theory. His central thesis is that Freud failed to follow through with his initial proposition of confirming his theories on the traumatic aetiology of hysteria. He also suggests a new dating for the duration of Dora's ...
The Life and Times of Franz Alexander: From Budapest To California
1st Edition
By Ilonka Venier Alexander
August 15, 2015
This book resurrects the Franz Alexanderian legacy, reminding his behemoth contributions and offers the reader with a deeply tender and touching portrait. It also considers his personal and professional life, the role of family in his decisions, and how those decisions affected other family members....
The Abandonment Neurosis
1st Edition
By Germaine Guex
June 12, 2015
First published in 1950, La nevrose d'abandon was and still is a ground-breaking work. The author's research turns on two clinical observations: the frequent occurrence of analysands whose neurotic symptoms are unrecognizable when measured against any of the Freudian diagnostic models, and the ...
Psychoanalytic Filiations: Mapping the Psychoanalytic Movement
1st Edition
By Ernst Falzeder
April 29, 2015
This book presents the early history of psychoanalysis, focusing on the network of psychoanalytic "filiations" and the context of discovery of crucial concepts, such as Freud's technical recommendations, the therapeutic use of countertransference, and the psychotherapeutic treatment of psychoses....
Looking Through Freud's Photos
1st Edition
By Michael Molnar
November 05, 2014
A moody Freud posed against a background of holiday pictures pinned to a wall; or lurking at the very edge of a large family group; or lost in a crowd of nineteenth-century scientists. These snapshots or posed portraits not only tell stories, they also carry a specific emotional charge. The earlier...
Ferenczi and Beyond: Exile of the Budapest School and Solidarity in the Psychoanalytic Movement During the Nazi Years
1st Edition
By Judit Meszaros
April 16, 2014
This book explores how the Budapest School of Psychoanalysis took shape and examines the role played in it by Sandor Ferenczi. It integrates the Hungarian story of the "exile of the Budapest School" with an American perspective on "solidarity in the psychoanalytic movement during the Nazi years"....
The Milan Seminar: Clinical Applications of Attachment Theory
1st Edition
By John Bowlby, Marco Bacciagaluppi
October 31, 2013
This edited book contains a hitherto unpublished seminar held by the author in Milan, Italy in 1985. The seminar is preceded by a foreword by Kate White, of the Bowlby Centre, and by an introduction by the editor, Marco Bacciagaluppi. The introduction contains excerpts from unpublished ...
Sandor Ferenczi - Ernest Jones: Letters 1911-1933
1st Edition
Edited
By Ferenc Eros, Sandor Ferenczi, Ernest Jones, Ken Robinson, Judit Szekacs-Weisz
June 01, 2013
The author's correspondence presented here is an important document of the early history of psychoanalysis. It spans more than two decades, and addresses many of the relevant issues of the psychoanalytic movement between 1911-1933, such as Freud's relation to Stekel, Adler and Jung; the First World...
The Clinic and the Context: Historical Essays
1st Edition
By Elisabeth Young-Bruehl
January 01, 2013
This book comprises a collection of the distinguished psychoanalyst Elisabeth Young-Bruehl 's papers ranging from 'Psychoanalysis and Social Democracy', 'Civilization and its Dream of Contentment', 'Reflections on Women and Psychoanalysis' and 'Psychobiography and Character Study'....
Ferenczi and His World: Rekindling the Spirit of the Budapest School
1st Edition
Edited
By Tom Keve, Judit Szekacs-Weisz
December 31, 2012
This volume honours Sandor Ferenczi, a central character in the birth of psychoanalysis, whose warm and passionate personality, ideas, and teachings permeate his world and his work, shaping psychoanalytical thinking of generations....
Freud in Zion: Psychoanalysis and the Making of Modern Jewish Identity
1st Edition
By Eran J. Rolnik
December 31, 2012
Freud in Zion tells the story of psychoanalysis coming to Jewish Palestine/Israel. In this ground-breaking study psychoanalyst and historian Eran Rolnik explores the encounter between psychoanalysis, Judaism, Modern Hebrew culture and the Zionist revolution in a unique political and cultural ...