Psychoanalysis has revolutionized the common conception of time, similar to the revolution in physics. While the contributors do not ignore the psychological time arrow of past, present and future, they believe that in analytic experience, time acquires diverse formations in which these distinctions become more complex and fade until they take the shape of what Andre Green, in a felicitous expression, calls exploded time.

Contributors: Andre Green; Charles Hanly; Michael Parsons; Jean-Claude Rolland; Janine Puget; Ingeborg Bornholdt; Jose Milmaniene; Rosine Perelberg; Otto...

Contributors: Jacqueline Amati Mehler, Simona Argentieri, Colette Chiland, Domenico Di Ceglie, Eulalia Torras de Bea, Estela V. Welldon

-From time to time we listen to some curious views on psychoanalysis as an old fashioned and useless discipline, more important from an historical perspective than as a tool for understanding human life in its normal and pathological dimensions, as well as an effective therapeutic instrument. This book on transsexualism and transvestism shows exactly how psychoanalysis can reflect, discuss, dialogue and formulate useful insights on one of the most...

Contributors: Susan Coates, Claudio Laks Eizirik, Peter Fonagy, Richard C. Friedman, Andre E. Haynal, Rainer Krause, Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber, Linda C. Mayes, Friedemann Pfafin, Anne-Marie Sandler, Sheila Spensley, Sverre Varvin, and Rudi Vermote.

-Sex has undoubtedly become more complex since Freud's original descriptions, yet in another way it has changed little. It is still there as the primary motor ensuring the survival of our species, the perpetuation of our genetic material. For all mammals the process of reproduction is at the centre of their behavioural systems. For...