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.
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.
In this compact and pithy book, psychoanalyst Salman Akhtar steps out of his consulting room to address certain matters of urgent global... Læs mere
The experience of loss is ubiquitous in human life, but its nature and impact have great variations. When loss is phase-specific, expected, and... Læs mere
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.
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.
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.
This book focuses on the intrapsychic vicissitudes of what it means to be truly alive and how death accompanies us at each step of our life's journey. It shows that, psychologically-speaking, death is always present in life and life in death.
Radical departures from the set and familiar rules of technique often become necessary in the... Læs mere
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.
Joseph Breuer's celebrated patient, Anna O, designated psychoanalysis to be a 'talking cure'. She was correct in so far as psychoanalysis does place verbal exchange at the center stage. Psychoanalysis is a listening and talking cure. This book focuses upon analytic listening.
This is the perfect little book to dip into and galvanize your thoughts. Was Bion Hindu? What happens at psychoanalysts’ funerals? Which form of racism is... Læs mere