In a groundbreaking integration of the work of Lacan, Winnicott, and Tustin, Catherine Mathelin reveals how a child's symptoms can be a striking reflection of its parents' unresolved conflicts. She shows how her patients' art, much of it reproduced here, can communicate both initial anguish and progress in treatment, and draws on her experience of working on a neonatal unit to argue compellingly that a child's mental health can be endangered even before birth. -This is a book hard to put down, filled with the most fascinating brief case vignettes of parents and children who live in worlds...
In a groundbreaking integration of the work of Lacan, Winnicott, and Tustin, Catherine Mathelin reveals how a child's symptoms can be a striking refle...
Representatives of both schools explore how Freudian theory is taking different paths in American and in Lacanian psychoanalysis. Among their considerations are borderline conditions, gender difference, and the role of sexuality and aggression in the development of psychopathology. The six essays an
Representatives of both schools explore how Freudian theory is taking different paths in American and in Lacanian psychoanalysis. Among their consider...
A major and long overdue addition to the American/English psychoanalytic literature . . . written specifically for clinicians, by a clinician . . . All major conceptsamong them the mirror stage, the Name-of-the-Father, metaphor and metonymy, the phallus, the foreclosure of the subjectare developed and discussed in depth. Nicholas Kouretas, Harvard Medical School
A major and long overdue addition to the American/English psychoanalytic literature . . . written specifically for clinicians, by a clinician . . . Al...
This companion text to "Introduction the Reading of Lacan" focuses on the concept of the psychic structures of desire. Using case examples, Dor explains the crucial difference between symptomsowhich can be phenomenologically graspedoand the actual psychic structure of the subjectowhich can be revealed only through the discourse of the patient in the psychoanalytic situation. This work brings life and practicality to a psychoanalytic movement that has been misperceived and divorced from the daily vicissitudes of analytic work."
This companion text to "Introduction the Reading of Lacan" focuses on the concept of the psychic structures of desire. Using case examples, Dor explai...
This volume, a written version of a seminar given in French by the author in 1982-1983, discusses the evolution of Freud's thinking on feminine sexuality, providing in the process a clinical illustration of Lacanian theory. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
This volume, a written version of a seminar given in French by the author in 1982-1983, discusses the evolution of Freud's thinking on feminine sexual...
