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This is the bible. This is good for Adler's own writings... be warned, he was not a good writer in English, has not been properly translated, and his English books were often "written" by his students based off his lecture notes.

I hear you. I think you would benefit from a dive into epistemology because it seems like that's where the weakest link is in your search for answers here. This is a good intro textbook if you're interested.

+1 for anything by McWilliams.

Not so much general audience, but written in non-technical language and can be comprehended by someone without knowing the jargon of the profession:

Fatal Flaws by Stuart C. Yudofsky is an interesting read.

If you're interested in how Freud applied his theories in actual clinical settings, then a lot of the recommendations here are likely to turn you off from Freud.

Here are some case histories that Freud published during his life. They are all famous (some infamous in fact), and some have been published in collections like this or this.

• Fragment of an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria (Dora)
• The Cases of 'Little Hans' and the Rat Man'
• A Child is Being Beaten
• Psycho-Analytic Notes on an Autobiographical Account of a Case of Paranoia (Schreber)
• Studies on Hysteria (Anna O.)
• From the History of an Infantile Neurosis (Wolfman)

You will probably enjoy these much more than the theoretical titles that have been mentioned in other comments, if it's the clinical application that you're drawn to. (Not to say you wouldn't like the more theoretical stuff, but it can be hard to engage with if you have no previous context).

He wrote a lot of really fascinating stuff on culture, and some of that is also quite accessible. Some good ones are listed below. I'm including the first one because it's probably his most famous piece of cultural commentary, but fair warning: It's not the easiest read and it's longer than some of the others.

• Civilization and Its Discontents
• Jokes and their Relation to the Unconscious
• Leonardo da Vinci, a Memory of his Childhood
• The Uncanny
• Moses and Monotheism

Enjoy!

Hi, got it, here u go: https://smallpdf.com/shared#st=cea75fae-9ffc-4469-9706-b2d899a31bc9&fn=olr.2020.0342.pdf&ct=1607966592157&tl=share-document&rf=link

Excellent post.

Those who have a cursory look at ISTDP (or see/experience it poorly done), come away thinking it's too aggressive or just about anger and rage. As you've outlined, ISTDP has a very different approach with neurotic, high resistance pts who have a primary resistance system of isolation of affect (Standard Format), vs a fragile, borderline, psychotic pts (Graded format).

Frederickson's new text and Abbass' work with the concept of "bracing" focuses on pts in the more fragile spectrum. The goal being helping the fragile pt bear higher degrees of emotions (cognitively and affectively), without disrupting - splitting, projecting, hallucinations, etc.

Lastly, I can't over state the value of seeing this on film. Reading vignettes can't capture the nuance of what certain concepts and interventions look like.

Fonagy wrote a book on exactly this: Attachment Theory and Psychoanalysis. It's a good overview, especially if you work in Social Work and want to go deeper but aren't sure where to start.

You can read more about Stone's concept of metatransference for the low, low price of $985 (plus $3.99 shipping).

Jody Davies has written about T/CT positions here Treating Survivors of Childhood Abuse: and in a few articles. I also wonder if Darlene Ehrenberg's "The Intimate Edge" might be of interest, though that might be more subjectivity vs countertransference.

Hey, congrats! ‘Disgusting’ is maybe a little hyperbolic. I tend to associate Routledge with ugly, uniform covers, little editorial care, a high degree of standardization across titles (typeface, e.g.), and mercenary pricing. That’s obviously not true of all their titles, and varies from series to series. I just think this new set deserves far better—and dust jackets.

Brings this to mind, too: Compare the Karnac set in the picture with the set received in the reviews (after Karnac joined Routledge): https://www.amazon.com/Collected-Works-Melanie-Klein/dp/1782204636 Stark!

I don't think I really understand what your question is.

But I would argue that Ferenczi's approach to trauma is more sensitive and precise in the way he thinks about the conjecture that leads to trauma.

I highly recommend "Language confusions between adults and children – the language of tenderness and passion" (my translation of the Brazilian translation).

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In addition, in Brazil we have a book called "Terceiro Tempo do Trauma" by Eugenio Canesin Dal Molin (https://www.amazon.com.br/Terceiro-Tempo-do-Trauma/dp/8527310740/?\_encoding=UTF8&pd\_rd\_w=iF5ym&content-id=amzn1.sym.07271deb-23ee-498c-8f97-f25954bcc083&pf\_rd\_p=07271deb-23ee-498c-8f97-f25954bcc083&pf\_rd\_r=P5QE51TCT26TFG1PJ9...) . I highly recommend.

Psychodynamic Psychopharmacology combines psychoanalytic skills and insights with psychopharmacotherapy to address treatment resistance. It may provide the type of integration you are seeking.

At the risk of self-promotion, Psychodynamic Psychopharmacology is an approach that reformulates the task of pharmacotherapy as fostering development rather than treating illnesses. It strives to find a middle ground between biomedical reductionism and psychological reductionism, to counter anti-developmental uses of medications, and to understand medications not only as biologically active, but also as powerfully symbolically active. The section on “Treatment-Resistance FROM Medications” addresses the questions that you raise.

Because there's dozens of different ways of looking at it, different conceptions of the same concept. Whether it's a story about identifying with the therapist, granting him a sort of knowledge, or repeating with him past traumatic experiences and, well, analyzing them.

If you're interested in psychoanalysis, do yourself a favor and buy Laplanche's and Pontalis' The Language of Psychoanalysis and look up "Transference".

The Distance Cure is a groundbreaking book on the subject.

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https://www.amazon.com/Distance-Cure-History-Teletherapy/dp/0262045923/ref=sr\_1\_1?crid=1O8Q78DF350Q7&keywords=distance+cure&qid=1662260659&sprefix=distance+cure%2Caps%2C121&sr=8-1

I tend to agree in person is the ideal. But that doesn’t mean “distance therapy” isn’t also valuable. Teletherapy, for example, makes psychotherapy accessible to so many more people.

You might be interested in Hannah Zeavin’s book, The Distance Cure which explores the history of this kind of thing.

It’s a modest contribution, but this volume— “Scientific Evaluation of Freud’s Theories and Therapy— contains a handful of articles that provide evidence for Freudian psychoanalysis in particular.

The thing is that most psychoanalysts see themselves more like physicians than physicists. The theoretical side of the field has developed in response to successful treatment, as an interpretation of those whose treatment has been successful. Freud and Adler in particular insisted that this should be a strong enough basis for a theoretical science. I’m willing to admit this was a tad narcissistic, but the medical sciences still function rather similarly— and I still think there’s something there.

All the same, Popper was wrong when he suggested Psychoanalytic claims were unfalsifiable. For example Freud’s theory of psychosexual development predicts certain constellations of neurosis— specific symptoms should be positively correlated to one another, and vice versa— there’s pretty good evidence that he was on to something here— see the volume I mentioned above.

Brett Kahr’s biography of him has been translated https://www.amazon.fr/D-W-Winnicott-Une-esquisse-biographique/dp/2916120815/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?crid=2JY6LSE2I7P8A&keywords=brett+kahr&qid=1646674400&sprefix=brett+kahr%2Caps%2C92&sr=8-1

I don’t know which French-speaking country you’re in, but Amazon France throws up a few things for a search on Winnicott, including the Davis & Wallbridge introduction. If you look it up on Amazon UK - it’s called Boundary and Space - you’ll be able to view the contents page.

> At once autobiographical and psychoanalytic, The Hands of the Living God, first published in 1969, provides a detailed case study of Susan who, during a 20-year long treatment, spontaneously discovers the capacity to do doodle drawings. An important focus of the book is the drawings themselves, 150 of which are reproduced in the text, and their deep unconscious perception of the battle between sanity and madness. It is these drawings, linked with Milner’s sensitive and lucid record of the therapeutic encounter, that give the book its unique and compelling interest

—https://www.amazon.com/Hands-Living-God-Psycho-analytic-Treatment/dp/041555070X/

You might also find some interesting discussions in analysis (wink wink) of Nabokov's utter hatred for Freud.

https://www.amazon.com/Birth-Death-Meaning-Interdisciplinary-Perspective/dp/0029021901

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5a71fc4bbe42d679761b4589/t/5a73534071c10bd92b3586ad/1517507393137/LewisPub_FalseSelfPersonality.pdf

I would start with the books listed under this question and the question beneath it.

I'm a bit late to the party on this post, but for a modern iteration of Daseinsanalysis (a so-called 'third school' after Binswanger and Boss) Alice Holzhey-Kunz's Daseinsanalysis is really excellent.

In terms of practice, I think it's challenging to implement, as some others in this post have alluded to. Long-term, more classically Freudian psychoanalytic therapy (albeit with a Daseinsanalytic theoretical twist) isn't exactly in vogue these days. However, the conceptual framework offered, which formulates neurotic and psychotic symptoms in a non-pathological way, as expressions of our (understandably) avoidant relationship with the challenging conditions of Being, is truly valuable.

Personally, I've drawn inspiration in practice from Betty Cannon's Applied Existential Therapy (AEP). But Holzhey-Kunz's Daseinsanalysis is certainly how I conceptualise clients' symptoms.

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books on transference focused therapy co-authored with Kernberg

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Primer-Transference-Focused-Psychotherapy-Borderline-Patient/dp/0765703556

another lecture with Kernberg by The Western New England Psychoanalytic Society

https://borderlinedisorders.com/images/KernbergConferenceCT.pdf

if you're interested :-)

Have them read:

Thinking Fast, Thinking Slow.

A New York Times best-seller. This author won a Nobel Prize in Economics. He's no slouch.

I've recommended this to a number of patients who come into therapy "not believing" in unconscious / preconscious. A thick book, this read provides a great deal of evidence to substantiate the two different thought processes: "Slow" (which we therapists would call "conscious") and "Fast" (unconscious).

Good luck!

This is on my shelf, unread, but may be good as it covers marxist strains in psychoanalysis including chapters on Marcuse.

https://www.amazon.com/Freudian-Left-Wilhelm-Herbert-Marcuse/dp/0801497167

Yup, the username's namesake is Harry Stack Sullivan

I haven't read all of his, but I'm ecstatic about this one: The Psychiatric Interview. link. His plain language makes reading very smooth

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Thresholds-Pathways-Between-Jung-Lacan/dp/0367545446/ref=as_li_ss_tl?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1602335409&sr=8-11&linkCode=sl1&tag=freudandcom-21&linkId=9883b3470568c693f6f71b9fd8ec9627&language=en_GB

Glen Gabbard, a psychoanalyst/psychiatrist in Houston has a few books about this.

Psychiatry and the Cinema: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0880489642/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taft_p1_i8

The psychology of the Sopranos: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B014GGAJGS/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taft_p2_i2

Have a look here at Darian Leader's book 'Why can't we sleep?'. It looks like quite a modest work but it kinda isn't. It's a bit of a shocker. And it's three quid second hand.

Here is the Amazon link to that book:

https://www.amazon.com/Textbook-Psychoanalysis-Glen-Gabbard/dp/1585624101/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=textbook+of+psychoanalysis&qid=1591975395&sprefix=textbook+of+psychoanalys&sr=8-1

I was thinking some thing like below (just literally did a quick amazon book search) - just basic (contemporary) psychoanalytical theorizing of gay and non-binary sexualities:

https://www.amazon.com/Homosexuality-Psychoanalysis-Tim-Dean/dp/0226139379

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I dont know how good a random book like above is. I wanted to suggestions from people in the know here.

I would recommend this book to explore the Oedipus complex more in other context. Oedipus Ubiquitous: The Family Complex in World Folk Literature https://www.amazon.com/dp/0804725772/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_y86dAbWQYD3B4

I've found this book to be very informative for overview, and many others in the series, including Lacan, were comprehensive enough for introductory learning and enough to go further.

I don't know of any that compare and contrast different styles. That might take some study to see the different approaches.

I like the selfpsychology literature. Kohut has two that are very interesting: Mr. Z is available as a PDF through web search. There is also this which contains six cases which illustrate self psychology.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Psychology-Self-A-Casebook/dp/0823682625

I also recommend you read one of the popular critiques of this cases: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2FBF00946235#page-1

Life is short and books are very long. I think one of the best ways to understand subjects is to approach them in this fashion: Engaging the debates about them.

Hope it helps.

Elisabeth Young-Bruehl's One Hundred Years of Psychoanalysis is comprehensive. Here is a short video by Elisabeth introducing her work.