The authors argue that the experience of knowing and having the truth about oneself known
in the context of therapy is not an end in itself; rather, it is important because the trust …

Today it is still necessary and useful to deal with the empirical foundations and cultural
dimensions of a discipline such as psychoanalysis that has played a vital role in shaping the …

The central objective of this presentation is to reflect on the obstacles involved in the task
proposed by the Chicago Congress, which is to explore convergences and divergences in …

This book looks at dreams from a twenty-first century perspective. It takes its inspiration from
Freud's insights, but pursues psychoanalytic interest into both neuroscience and the modern …

What is it to listen? How do we hear? How do we allow meanings to emerge between each
other?'This book is about what Freud called" freely" or" evenly suspended attention", a form …

The authors, both professors of psychiatry, trained as psychoanalysts according to the
standards of the International Psychoanalytic Association (IPA), recount 30 years of …

In 1956, Anne Sexton was admitted into a mental hospital for post-partum depression, where
she met Dr. Martin Orne, a young psychiatrist who treated her for the next eight years. In that …

The interface between psychoanalysis and scientific research has been characterized by
controversies and polarizations that have made a constructive debate very difficult. It is …

Background: Deliberate self-injury (DSI) is significantly associated with personality disorder
(PD). There are gaps in our knowledge of DSI as an indicator of severity of psychopathology …

This book identifies and explores what is missing in therapy practice, namely
the'craft'aspects of skilled psychoanalytic work: how theories and models are actually used …