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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Don Lipsitt: Insights from a Sixty-Four-Year Case of Anorexia Nervosa

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BPSI Member Don Lipsitt, MD, published his new manuscript Insights from a Sixty-Four Year Case of Anorexia Nervosa this past April. For more information or to purchase this work, please click here. About the Book This volume offers rare insight into an enduring case of anorexia nervosa in a female patient and details the approaches to treatment taken by psychotherapists throughout the 64 year period 1938-2002. Through discussion and analysis of...

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Fred Busch: Psychoanalysis at the Crossroads: An International Perspective

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BPSI Member Fred Busch, PhD, is set to release his latest work on March 15th; Psychoanalysis at the Crossroads: An International Perspective. Preorders of the book can be made here. About the Book In this clear and thoughtful book, an international group of distinguished authors explore the central issues and future directions facing psychoanalytic theory and practice. The book explores four main questions in the development of psychoanalysis:...

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