Freud the Humanist
£5.99
by Charles Rojzman
ISBN 1 871871 46 8
For the most part, the work of the founder of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, is fundamentally orientated towards infantile sexuality and the therapy of neurotic people. But we often forget that a large part of Freud’s work was about recognising that barbarism is present in civilisation and that the most murderous and destructive impulses are part of mankind. The most important application of psychoanalysis should therefore concern the social pathologies: the rise of fundamentalisms, fanaticism and violence. Through his exploration of the powers of hatred, Freud seeks to discover the genuine bond which can unite mankind.
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Political Theory and the Psychology of the Unconscious
£9.95
by Paul Roazen
ISBN 1 871871 48 4
This book looks at the work of Mill, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky, Freud, Fromm, Bettelheim and Erikson, and aims to demonstrate the centrality of questions raised by psychoanalysis to political theory. It is a very welcome, a very original, and a very timely contribution to this essential debate.
Roazen explores concepts such as freedom, authority, aggression, and selfhood, all common concepts in both social-political thought and psychoanalysis – yet today these disciplines are infrequently brought together . . . Political Theory and the Psychology of the Unconscious ... is a quiet, humbling, yet important paean to how psychoanalysis has contributed – and can continue to contribute – to our understanding of political and social organizations, and possibly how to build them to better serve human needs, while also satisfying the demands of social life.
Nathan M Szajnberg, Psychoanalytic Quarterly.
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The End of Abuse
£6.95
by John Woods
ISBN 1 871871 55 7
This extraordinary and moving book shows us the inner lives of a family locked into a cycle of disillusionment, deprivation and despair, and their interactions with ‘caring professionals’. The searing authenticity with which the characters speak enables the readers – or audience – to experience directly, as it were, the essential need for love and meaning in human life, and the sheer pain of life without them. How can analysts and therapists enable their clients to believe in a good future? And is this a quest in which they are currently succeeding? These are the questions which this book so passionately addresses.
Through this work John Woods makes all of us in the caring professions look at our personal involvement and our emotional responses, which are most often, of course, concealed from one another and from ourselves.
Estela V. Welldon, Consultant Psychiatrist in Psychotherapy, The Portman Clinic, London
John Woods’ play is a wake-up call to us all.
Joan Raphael-Leff, Professor at the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies, Essex University
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The Ferenczi-Groddeck Correspondence 1921-1933
£17.95
ed. Christopher Fortune
ISBN 1 871871 44 1
The Ferenczi–Groddeck Correspondence, available here for the first time in English, bears witness to the friendship that developed between these two physicians and psychoanalysts during Ferenczi’s visits to Groddeck’s sanatorium Marienhöhe in Baden-Baden, and at the same time reflects the history and development of psychoanalysis during the 1920s and early 1930s.
It is a warm, intensely personal, human, and informal correspondence, which offers insights into the working methods and endeavours of both men. Consisting largely of Ferenczi’s letters (since few of Groddeck’s have been preserved), the book also includes colourful extracts from letters written at Marienhöhe by Frédéric Kovács to his wife Vilma, herself an eminent psychoanalyst, pupil, and friend of Ferenczi in Budapest. Additionally, the volume includes the introduction to the original edition of these letters, first published in French in 1982, by Judith Dupont, psychoanalyst, translator, and editor of Ferenczi’s complete works in French. Ample notes by Christopher Fortune provide the necessary background to this correspondence.
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The Freud-Binswanger Correspondence 1908-1938
£24.95
ed. Gerhard Fichtner
trans. A J Pomerans and Thomas Roberts
ISBN 1 871871 45 X
Ludwig Binswanger (1881–1966) came from a distinguished Swiss psychiatrist dynasty which had run the internationally-renowned sanatorium Bellevue in Kreuzlingen for generations. He first met Freud in 1907, in Vienna. The correspondence between the two men blossomed, and they became both friends and admirers of one another’s work.
The letters show that Freud hoped that Binswanger would be the bridge between his life’s work and academic and clinical psychiatry. And indeed, Binswanger did use psychoanalytic techniques of treatment and established them in his clinic. But he was never to become a partisan of the psychoanalytic movement, and eventually developed his own psychotherapeutic direction – ‘existential analysis’. Nonetheless, the relationship between them remained warm and cordial. Freud wrote to Binswanger: ‘Unlike so many other people, you have not allowed your intellectual development, which you have increasingly removed from my influence, to destroy our personal relationship, and you have no idea how much good such refinement does for a person.’
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The Future of Psychoanalysis
£12.95
ed. Johannes Cremerius trans. Jeremy Gaines
ISBN 1 871871 40 9
A hundred years after the foundation of psychoanalysis it is necessary to re-evaluate its position in the modern world and think about its future. The editor is guided by the conviction that psychoanalysis as a science of man is not only an important therapeutic procedure whose innovations have provided new insights into the human mind, but also a new and even more significant contribution to a theory of culture and critique of society. The authors of the book provide a thoroughgoing investigation into the current crisis of psychoanalysis, and propose ways to resolve it.
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The Couch and the Tree
£12.95
Dialogues in Psychoanalysis and Buddhism
ed. Anthony Molino
ISBN 1 871871 53 0
Winner, 1999 Gradiva Award, US National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis
This book is that thing which James Strachey said did not exist: a cake made of nothing but currants. Many contributors speak from a deep experiential knowledge of both Buddhism and psychotherapy, and write with impressive authority and reflectiveness . . . A fascinating variety of texts, an excellent introduction to a vigorous branch of the psychoanalytic tree.
David Black, International Journal of Psychoanalysis
This is not simply a collection of essays on two profoundly influential disciplines, it is a genuine intellectual rendezvous. That Buddhism and psychoanalysis can meet up in one volume is a tribute to Molino's erudition, skill, and intelligence in creating a single work that will long affect all further discussions of their similarities and differences.'
Christopher Bollas.
One of the 100 best academic books of the ’90s
Linguafranca: The Review of Academic Life
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