Rodrigo Barahona – Negative Hallucinosis in Wilfred Bion’s Theory of Transformations: On Finding One’s Ghost

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Preorders can be made here. Use code BION25 for 25% off! About the Book In this illuminating volume, Rodrigo Barahona takes up the question of transformations in hallucinosis in Wilfred Bion’s work. The book discusses how the analyst’s functioning, his receptivity and ability to make sense out of what is unconsciously occurring between himself and the patient, and the ability to find words to represent it—the basic psychoanalytic task—is...

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Andrea Celenza – Erotic Transferences: A Contemporary Introduction

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Book purchases can be made here. Use code AFLY03 for 20% off! About the Book Erotic Transferences: A Contemporary Introduction offers a comprehensive introduction to this key, yet challenging aspect of the psychoanalytic process. Despite emerging frequently in the psychoanalytic process, Andrea Celenza highlights the sparseness of literature on erotic transferences and a tendency to desexualise psychoanalytic theorizing, which she posits...

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Steven H. Cooper and Judy L. Kantrowitz(Eds) – Anton O. Kris: Selected Papers

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Book purchases can be made here. About the Book The work of Tony Kris is a rare treasure for practicing psychoanalysts: He was famous for making grand technical terms work for practicing analysts in their office. What is the actual experience of a patient who is wrestling with a “conflict?” Kris reaches into that most basic term and finds that it may refer to two quite different kinds of quandary, each with its own set of choices. He describes...

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Fred Busch: The Ego and the Id: 100 Years Later

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Book purchases can be made here. 30% Discount for IPA Members: Enter the code IPA30 at checkout About the Book The Ego and the Id: 100 Years Later revisits Freud’s classic 1923 essay, which developed key psychoanalytic concepts and presented a radical revision of his earlier theory. International contributors explore the themes of this remarkable work from their own perspective, with novel and surprising results. There are mysteries...

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Cordelia Schmidt-Hellerau: Mind in the Line of Fire

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BPSI Member Cordelia Schmidt-Hellerau, PhD, recently co-edited the manuscript Mind in the Line of Fire: Psychoanalytic Voices to the Challenges of our Times. For more information or to purchase this work, please click here. About the Book Invited by the International Psychoanalytic Association (IPA) to participate in a worldwide short essay contest, in this book the winners, 120 authors from 34 countries, share their thoughts about the...

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Cordelia Schmidt-Hellerau: Memento

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BPSI Member Cordelia Schmidt-Hellerau, PhD, recently published her new manuscript Memento: A Novel in Dreams, Thoughts, and Images. For more information or to purchase this work, please click here. About the Book If Fellini met Kafka, the comical with the dark side of the absurd . . .Sine, a professor of creative writing, accompanies Sam, a neuroscientist, on a conference trip to a Hotel Castle. Sam wants to present a new device, the monitor....

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