Michael Rustin

Margaret Rustin

Reading Klein provides an introduction to the work of one of the twentieth century’s greatest psychoanalysts, known in particular for her contribution in developing child analysis and for her vivid depiction of the inner world. This book makes Melanie Klein’s works highly accessible, providing both substantial extracts from her writings, and commentaries by the authors exploring their significance. Each chapter corresponds to a major field of Klein’s work outlining its development over almost 40 years. The first part is concerned with her theoretical and clinical contributions. It shows Klein to be a sensitive clinician deeply concerned for her patients, and with a remarkable capacity to understand their unconscious anxieties and to revise our understanding of the mind. The second part sets out the contribution of her ideas to morality, to aesthetics and to the understanding of society, introducing writing by her associates as well as herself. The book provides a lucid account of Klein’s published writing, presented by two distinguished writers who know her work well and have made creative use of it in their own clinical and extra-clinical writing. Its aim is to show how substantial her contribution to psychoanalytic thinking and clinical practice was, and how indispensable it remains to understanding the field of psychoanalysis. Reading Klein will be a highly valuable resource for students, trainees in psychoanalysis, psychoanalytic practitioners and all who are interested in Melanie Klein and her legacy.

Reading Klein

François Lévy

Antonino Ferro

Christopher Bollas

Riccardo Lombardi

Howard B. Levine

Steven Jaron

Ana de Staal

Alberto Rocha Barros

Bernard Chervet

Daniel Kupermann

Elias Mallet da Rocha Barros

Jean-Jacques Tyszler

Joshua Durban

Patricia Cardoso de Mello

Serge Frisch

"Psicanálise e vida covidiana" oferece aos leitores uma oportunidade de refletir sobre as transformações suscitadas pela pandemia da Covid-19 na prática analítica. O impacto traumático provocado pelo distanciamento social e pelas mudanças impostas ao enquadre (sessões on-line), e a subversão da nossa negação habitual da morte são alguns dos temas explorados neste livro. Como entender e tratar os sofrimentos individuais e coletivos que estamos atravessando? Dos freudianos aos lacanianos, dos ferenczianos aos bionianos, passando pelos kleinianos, os autores aqui reunidos apresentam algumas das ferramentas oferecidas pela psicanálise para enfrentar os desafios que as convulsões psicossociais do século XXI parecem nos reservar.

Desamparo coletivo, experiência individual

Psicanálise e vida covidiana

Tim Butler

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Researching the Unconscious provides an exposition of key issues in the philosophy and methods of the social sciences that are relevant to psychoanalysis, both as a clinical practice and as a human science. These include the debates initiated by Thomas Kuhn’s theory of scientific revolutions, the "actor-network theory" of Bruno Latour, the ideas of philosophical realism, distinctions between "meaningful" and "causal" explanation, and the relevance of complexity theory and "part–whole analysis" to psychoanalysis. The book goes on to discuss specific forms and methods of psychoanalytical research, including the role of case studies, of outcome research, and of "grounded theory" as a key methodological resource, of which it provides a detailed example. The book concludes by outlining principles and methods for psychoanalytic research in the wider contexts of infant observational studies, society, and culture. Michael Rustin provides a unifying account of the methodological principles that underlie the generation of knowledge in psychoanalysis, in the light of recent developments in the philosophy and sociology of science. In doing so, it provides a coherent rationale for psychoanalytic investigation, which will be of value to those pursuing research in this field. Researching the Unconscious is unusual in its being based both on a deep understanding of and respect for psychoanalytical clinical practice and on its author’s wider knowledge of the philosophy and sociology of science. It is unique in its comprehensive approach to the principles of psychoanalytic research.

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