This book compares different psychoanalytic thinking and models--from a rigorously Freudian perspective--on three concepts of great theoretical and clinical importance: Language, Symbolization, and Psychoses.

These concepts are significantly interwoven with each other both in personal development as well as in the atypical and individual forms of pathology. The authors have endeavored to reply to one of the foremost queries that has occupied Jacqueline Amati Mehler's thinking: whether and how the acquisitions of modern psychoanalysis have brought about changes in our criteria of...

A major challenge for the future of psychoanalysis as a science and as a profession, both in theory and in practice, is the ongoing development of conceptual, clinical and empirical research. This volume brings together some of the foremost contributors to this complex issue and should be of interest to all who are interested in the fundamental nature of the discipline of psychoanalysis and its continued growth and health.

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...

In this volume internationally well known experts discuss whether psychoanalysis - with its rich mix of clinical experiences and conceptualizations of early development and symptoms - has something unique to offer through deepening the understanding of children suffering from this and similar developmental disturbances. The contributors consider therapeutic strategies as well as possibilities of early prevention.Surprisingly, psychoanalysts have only during the past few years actively engaged in the on-going and very important controversial discussions on attention deficit hyperactivity...

Wie ist das Verhaltnis zwischen Sprache und Unbewusstem? Was geschieht, wenn man in mehreren Sprachen spricht, denkt, traumt? Aktuelle und bedeutungsvolle Entwicklungen aus der klinischen Psychoanalyse und der Psycholinguistik - beeinflusst durch die jungsten Entwicklungen in den Neurowissenschaften - werden in diesem Buch diskutiert. In einer immer dynamischeren Welt, in der sich Begegnungen zwischen verschiedenen Kulturen und sprachlichen Traditionen multiplizieren, ist das erstmals in deutscher Ubersetzung vorliegende Buch von groter Bedeutung. Mit einem Geleitwort von Marco Conci, einem...