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Attics and Basements
The Evocative, Expressive and Embracing Functions of Homes and Other Human Dwellings
Av Salman Akhtar, M. Nasir Ilahi m. fl.
Häftad, 2026
391 kr
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Our relationship with ‘home’ includes many psychosomatic realms: perception, imagination, fantasy, projection, separateness, boundaries, smells, and sounds. Our very first home is our mother’s womb; our very last, an urn or coffin. In between, we have our childhood home, deeply incorporated into …
Objects of Our Desire
Exploring Our Intimate Connections with the Things Around Us
E-bok, 2007
110 kr
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What makes something sexy? Why are some things regarded as sacred and others profane? Why do mourners face such difficulty in parting with their beloved’s possessions? Why do we often feel distraught when we lose something, even when the object has little real value? We spend our lives in a …
Intimacy
Clinical, Cultural, Digital and Developmental Perspectives
Av Gurmeet Kanwal, Salman Akhtar
Inbunden, 2018
2085 kr
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Intimacy: Clinical, Cultural, Digital and Developmental Perspectives applies a contemporary, psychoanalytic lens to the many facets of intimacy between people, from romantic and sexual relationships, to friendliness, as well as the ways intimacy is mediated by new digital technologies.Identifying …
Intimacy
Clinical, Cultural, Digital and Developmental Perspectives
Av Gurmeet Kanwal, Salman Akhtar
Häftad, 2018
576 kr
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Intimacy: Clinical, Cultural, Digital and Developmental Perspectives applies a contemporary, psychoanalytic lens to the many facets of intimacy between people, from romantic and sexual relationships, to friendliness, as well as the ways intimacy is mediated by new digital technologies.Identifying …
On Freud's Negation
Av Salman Akhtar, Mary Kay O'Neil
Inbunden, 2019
2455 kr
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Ever since Freud proposed that certain ideas can be permitted to become conscious only in their inverted and negative forms, interest has grown into the entire realm of the presence of absence, so to speak. Or, perhaps, it is better to term such mental contents as the presence in the form of …
Psychoanalytic Listening
Methods, Limits, and Innovations
Inbunden, 2019
2455 kr
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Joseph Breuer's celebrated patient, Anna O., designated psychoanalysis to be a "talking cure". She was correct insofar as psychoanalysis does place verbal exchange at the center stage. However, the focus upon the patient's and therapist's speaking activities diverted attention from how the two …
Betrayal
Developmental, Literary, and Clinical Realms
Inbunden, 2019
2455 kr
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Betrayal underlies all psychic trauma, whether sexual abuse or profound neglect, violence or treachery, extramarital affair or embezzlement. When we betray others, we violate their confidence in us. When others betray us, they pierce the veil of our innocent reliance. Betraying and feeling betrayed …
On Freud's The Unconscious
Av Salman Akhtar, Mary Kay O'Neil
Inbunden, 2019
2085 kr
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If there ever was one word that could represent the essence of Freud's work, that word would be 'unconscious'. Indeed, Freud himself regarded his 1915 paper 'The Unconscious' as central to clarifying the fundamentals of his metapsychology. The paper delineates the topographic model of the mind and …
Fear
A Dark Shadow Across Our Life Span
Inbunden, 2019
2455 kr
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Beginning with Freud's celebrated case of Little Hans, psychoanalysts and psychotherapists have been intrigued with the topic of fear. Eclipsed in theoretical writings by the term 'anxiety', fear remains a pervasive expression in day to day clinical work. Patients constantly talk about it. One …
Greed
Developmental, Cultural, and Clinical Realms
Inbunden, 2019
2455 kr
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Though references to it are scattered in the writings of Klein and Winnicott, the topic of greed has drawn meagre attention from contemporary psychoanalysts. This book fills that lacuna. Noting that the inconsolable, relentless, and coercive dimensions of such hunger have profoundly destructive …
Hopelessness
Developmental, Cultural, and Clinical Realms
Av Salman Akhtar, Mary Kay O'Neil
Inbunden, 2019
2455 kr
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Hope is the most reliable sustainer of life. It offers the promise of something good in the future, contributes to resilience, and keeps one going. However, there are circumstances when hope dries up. This book seeks to map out such dark terrain of hopelessness. While it allows for the fact that a …
Mistrust
Developmental, Cultural, and Clinical Realms
Inbunden, 2019
2455 kr
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Humans are weak. Lacking the claws and thick skins of other animals, we are forced to rely on members of our own species to survive and flourish in the world. The fact that the human infant is born in an utterly helpless state also makes others' protective care necessary. Attachment, bonding, …
Web of Sorrow
Mistrust, Jealousy, Lovelessness, Shamelessness, Regret, Hopelessness
Inbunden, 2019
2455 kr
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Bringing together the experiences of mistrust, jealousy, lack of love, shamelessness, regret, and despair, this far-reaching book elucidates human sorrow in striking sociocultural and clinical details.
On Freud's The Future of an Illusion
Av Mary Kay O'Neil, Salman Akhtar
Inbunden, 2019
2085 kr
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"The Future of an Illusion" reveals Freud's reflections about religion as well as his hope that in the future science will go beyond religion, and reason will replace faith in God. The discussion with an imaginary critic revealed his internal debate, mirroring the debate about this subject in the …
Good Feelings
Psychoanalytic Reflections on Positive Emotions and Attitudes
Inbunden, 2019
2085 kr
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This tightly edited volume opens a new vista in psychoanalysis by focusing upon positive and life-enhancing emotions and attitudes. The realms it covers include love, friendship, enthusiasm, courage, tact, resilience, and forgiveness, among others. Seminal papers on these topics have existed but …
On Freud's Beyond the Pleasure Principle
Av Salman Akhtar, Mary Kay O'Neil
Inbunden, 2019
2455 kr
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Freud's Beyond the Pleasure Principle constitutes a major landmark and a real turning point in the evolution of psychoanalytic theory. Pushing aside the primacy of the tension-discharge-gratification model of mental dynamics, this work introduced the notion of a "daemonic force" within all human …
Unusual Interventions
Alterations of the Frame, Method, and Relationship in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis
Inbunden, 2019
2455 kr
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Radical departures from the set and familiar rules of technique often become necessary in the course of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. These can include conducting a session outside the office, giving advice, not charging fees, talking about oneself, giving a gift to the patient, and so on. Such …
Beyond the Primal Addiction
Food, Sex, Gambling, Internet, Shopping, and Work
Av Nina Savelle-Rocklin, Salman Akhtar
Inbunden, 2019
1893 kr
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Written by experienced practitioners in the fields of addiction and psychoanalysis, and illustrated by a range of moving vignettes, this groundbreaking book examines the psychological foundations of addiction in the areas of food, sex, gambling, internet usage, shopping, and work.This book not only …
Beyond the Primal Addiction
Food, Sex, Gambling, Internet, Shopping, and Work
Av Nina Savelle-Rocklin, Salman Akhtar
Häftad, 2019
580 kr
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Written by experienced practitioners in the fields of addiction and psychoanalysis, and illustrated by a range of moving vignettes, this groundbreaking book examines the psychological foundations of addiction in the areas of food, sex, gambling, internet usage, shopping, and work.This book not only …
Privacy
Developmental, Cultural, and Clinical Realms
Av Salman Akhtar, Aisha Abbasi
Inbunden, 2019
2601 kr
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In this, the latest in a series of books examining emotional states and psychological life, Salman Akhtar and Aisha Abbasi critically discuss a concept that remains, appropriately perhaps, elusive and hard to define: privacy. Overlapping with ideas of solitude, secrecy, and anonymity, the concept …
Privacy
Developmental, Cultural, and Clinical Realms
Av Salman Akhtar, Aisha Abbasi
Häftad, 2019
761 kr
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In this, the latest in a series of books examining emotional states and psychological life, Salman Akhtar and Aisha Abbasi critically discuss a concept that remains, appropriately perhaps, elusive and hard to define: privacy. Overlapping with ideas of solitude, secrecy, and anonymity, the concept …
Regret
Developmental, Cultural, and Clinical Realms
Av Salman Akhtar, Shahrzad Siassi
Inbunden, 2019
2455 kr
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This book is devoted to the developmental substrate of regret and of its vicissitudes over the life span. It deals with fiction, poetry, and movies pertaining to regret. The book elucidates the psychopathological dimension of ego restriction associated with regret.
Bereavement
Personal Experiences and Clinical Reflections
Av Salman Akhtar, Gurmeet S. Kanwal
Inbunden, 2019
2455 kr
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This book is about death, loss, grief and mourning, but with an unusual twist. It explores specific kinds of deaths encountered within families and households, rather than general concepts of mourning and addresses the death of a different loved one.
Cultural Zoo
Animals in the Human Mind and its Sublimation
Av Salman Akhtar, Vamik D. Volkan
Inbunden, 2019
2455 kr
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This book traces the historical and cross-cultural aspects of the psychic bond between man and animals, and elucidates the role of animals in the normal development of the human mind. It discusses the phenomenology and dynamics of the appearance of animals in human dreams.
Mental Zoo
Animals in the Human Mind and its Pathology
Av Salman Akhtar, Vamik D. Volkan
Inbunden, 2019
2455 kr
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This book offers a detailed and thorough perspective on the psychological meanings of animals to human beings and on their role in the development of the human mind and its psychopathology. It presents a multitude of new observations on human interactions with animals.
Shame
Developmental, Cultural, and Clinical Realms
Inbunden, 2019
2455 kr
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This book offers ten distinguished analysts' insights on shame from various perspectives, which include its developmental substrate, vicissitudes during adolescence, and manifestations in the course of aging and infirmity. It seeks to advance clinicians' empathy and therapeutic skills in this realm.
Sources of Suffering
Fear, Greed, Guilt, Deception, Betrayal, and Revenge
Inbunden, 2019
2455 kr
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This book seeks to underscore the multifaceted ways in which we encounter suffering in clinical and social settings. The fear, greed, and guilt cause an individual to suffer privately, while the deception, betrayal, and revenge lead others to suffer.
Geography of Meanings
Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Place, Space, Land, and Dislocation
Inbunden, 2019
2455 kr
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This book is a collection of "stories", and just as the Stories of the Dreaming act as a container of experiences for the indigenous people, it attempts to be a container for experiences that had not had enough exposure in psychoanalytic literature.
Seed of Madness
Constitution, Environment, and Fantasy in the Organization of the Psychotic Core
Av Salman Akhtar, Vamik D. Volkan
Inbunden, 2019
2455 kr
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More and more individuals with ego defects, severe object relations conflicts, affective turbulence, and unassimilated contradictions are seeking help from psychoanalysts and psychotherapists. Contributors to this book explore hereditary and constitutional factors, environmental influences and …
Turning Points in Dynamic Psychotherapy
Initial Assessment, Boundaries, Money, Disruptions and Suicidal Crises
Inbunden, 2019
2601 kr
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This book addresses five areas of difficulty in psychotherapy: initial assessment, boundaries, money, disruptions, and suicidal crises. It outlines the conceptual issues and the technical details of each of the concept in detail.
