Promises, Oaths, and Vows

On the Psychology of Promising

By Herbert J. Schlesinger

Considering that getting along in civil society is based on the expectation that (most) people will do what they say they will do, i.e., essentially...

January 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-88163-454-9 (Routledge)

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The Placebo Response and the Power of Unconscious Healing

By Richard Kradin

Placebo responses are automatic and unconscious and cannot be predicted based on conscious volition. Instead, they reflect complex interactions between the innate reward system of...

January 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-95618-5 (Routledge)

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Transforming Narcissism

Reflections on Empathy, Humor, and Expectations

By Frank M. Lachmann

Using Kohut's seminal paper "Forms and Transformations of Narcissism" as a springboard, Frank Lachmann updates Kohut's proposals for contemporary clinicians. Transforming Narcissism: Reflections on Empathy,...

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-88163-479-2 (Routledge)

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Toward a Psychology of Uncertainty

Trauma-Centered Psychoanalysis

By Doris Brothers

Since trauma is a thoroughly relational phenomenon, it is highly unpredictable, and cannot be made to fit within the scientific framework Freud so admired. In...

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-88163-478-5 (Routledge)

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Listening to Hanna Segal

Her Contribution to Psychoanalysis

By Jean-Michel Quinodoz

How has Hanna Segal influenced psychoanalysis today?

Jean-Michel Quinodoz provides the reader with a comprehensive overview of Segal's life, her clinical and theoretical work, and her...

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-44085-1 (Routledge)

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Living Systems, Evolving Consciousness, and the Emerging Person

A Selection of Papers from the Life Work of Louis Sander

By Louis Sander

This collection of previously published papers can be viewed as a story of the gradual emergence of an overarching idea through the course of a...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-88163-464-8 (Routledge)

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Guilt and Its Vicissitudes

Psychoanalytic Reflections on Morality

By Judith M. Hughes

How do psychoanalysts explain human morality?

Guilt and Its Vicissitudes: Psychoanalytic Reflections on Morality focuses on the way Melanie Klein and successive generations of her followers...

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-43598-7 (Routledge)

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Constructions and the Analytic Field

History, Scenes and Destiny

By Domenico Chianese

Constructions and the Analytic Field questions the relationship between psychoanalysis, history and literature. Does the analyst help the analysand construct a narrative, or is their...

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-38405-6 (Routledge)

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Adolescent Psychiatry, V. 30

The Annals of the American Society for Adolescent Psychiatry

Edited by Lois T. Flaherty

The period of adolescence can be a time of great creativity, as new intellectual capacities emerge, and as the individual adolescent attempts to make sense...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-88163-462-4 (Routledge)

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The Ethics of Psychoanalysis

The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: Book VII

By Jacques Lacan

A charismatic and controversial figure, Lacan is one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century and his work has revolutionized linguistics, philosophy, literature,...

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-42361-8 (Routledge)

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