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IARPP: Relational Perspectives on Attachment Theory and Psychoanalytic Process

The IARPP's annual conference will be held from May 29, 2008 to June 1, 2008 in Baltimore, USA.

"Our conference title is Relational Perspectives on Attachment Theory and Psychoanalytic Process. The Relational Perspective, derived from British Object Relational Theory, Interpersonal Theory, and theory emerging from clinical experience, provides a large umbrella for diverse conceptions about human interchanges. Attachment theory, derived from Bowlby's Evolutionary Theory and supported by extensive research, provides a compelling picture of dyadic relations centering on the striving for security. Our conference asks the exciting question: What does each theory have to offer the other?"

Routledge (now including the Analytic Press) will have a stand at this conference and look forward to seeing you there.

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Promises, Oaths, and Vows

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 live up to their explicit or implicit promises, it is amazing that so little scientific attention has been given to the act of promising.

A great deal of research has been done on the moral development of children, for example, but not on the child’s ability to make and keep a promise, one of the highest moral achievements.

What makes it possible developmentally, cognitively, and emotionally to make a promise in the first place? And on the other hand, what compels one to keep a promise (or vow or threat) when there seems to be no personal advantage in doing so, and even when harm can be predicted? How do we know when a promise is offered seriously to be taken at face value, and how do we understand that another is only a polite gesture, not to be taken seriously?

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Psychoanalysis Comparable and Incomparable

How do we know when what is happening between two people should be called psychoanalysis? What is a psychoanalytic process and how do we know when one is taking place?

Psychoanalysis Comparable and Incomparable describes the rationale and ongoing development of a six year programme of highly original meetings conducted by the European Psychoanalytic Federation Working Party on Comparative Clinical Methods.

The project comprises over seventy cases discussed by more than five hundred experienced psychoanalysts over the course of sixty workshops...

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Routledge / The Analytic Press

During the course of 2008, The Analytic Press will be changing its name to Routledge.

Only the name is changing, and you should find all your classic and new Analytic Press books are still just as easily available as before, and the same dedicated team will be working with our authors and editors on the books.

We remain committed to publishing the best new psychoanalytic writing, and look forward to working with you in continuing to build Routledge into the strongest psychoanalytic publisher worldwide.

Listening to Hanna Segal: Her Contribution to Psychoanalysis

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 contribution to psychoanalysis over the past sixty years by combining actual biographical and conceptual interviews with Hanna Segal herself or with colleagues who have listened to Segal in various contexts...

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Psychoanalytic Inquiry Special Single Issue

Psychoanalytic Visions of Cinema/Cinematic Visions of Psychoanalysis: Only $24.95 / £15.00 – Free Shipping!

The ten articles in issue 27(4), written by prominent European and American psychoanalysts and film scholars, juxtapose cinematic visions of psychoanalysis with psychoanalytic visions of cinema.

Psychoanalysis and film have been linked since their inception at the end of the 19th century, and this issue explores how they have evolved in tandem to describe and provide a deeper understanding of both intrapsychic and social reality.

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The Ethics of Psychoanalysis: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: Book VII

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, psychology, cultural and media studies.

He gained his reputation as a lecturer, disseminating his ideas to audiences that included Jean-Paul Sartre and Luce Irigaray amongst other hugely influential names. The Ethics of Psychoanalysis is a transcript of his most important lecture series.

Including influential readings of Sophocles' Antigone and Elizabethan courtly love poetry in relation to female sexuality, The Ethics of Psychoanalysis remains a powerful and controversial work that is still argued over today by the likes of Judith Butler and Slavoj Žižek.

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Comparative-Integrative Psychoanalysis: A Relational Perspective for the Discipline's Second Century

This exceptionally practical and insightful new text explores the emerging field of comparative-integrative psychoanalysis.

It provides an invaluable framework for approaching the currently fractious state of the psychoanalytic discipline, divided as it is into diverse schools of thought, presenting many conceptual challenges.

Moving beyond the usual borders of psychoanalysis, Willock usefully draws on insights from neighboring disciplines to shed additional light on the core issue.

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Relational Psychoanalysis 3 Volume Set

Over the course of the past 15 years, there has been a vast sea change in American psychoanalysis.

It takes the form of a broad movement away from classical psychoanalytic theorizing grounded in Freud's drive theory toward models of mind and development grounded in object relations concepts.

Collected together for the first time, this three volume set priced at £59.00/$99.00 (the same price as you'd pay for buying just the first two of the three volume set individually!) brings together this ongoing project for a new audience.

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