Utilising her wealth of material and experience, the author explores various aspects of 'the inside story' of pregnancy. She answers such questions as: What meanings does childbearing have in the internal world? How does a pregnant woman live with two people under her skin? What is the expectant partner's experience? Which dreams, fears and fantasies proliferate around pregnancy and birth?

A collection of lectures by eminent members of the British Psycho-analytical Society. Includes papers on the experience of having a baby, pregnancy and the internal world, pregnancy after stillbirth or neonatal death, and therapeutic intervention for post-partum disturbance.

Childbearing seems eternal, primordial and universal. Yet human reproduction in the 21st century is in a state of flux. This accessible book highlights dramatic changes that have occurred over the last decades, focusing on both individual and cross-cultural diversity across the now elongated childbearing cycle and the uniqueness of desire and emotional experience. It does so by locating the transition to parenthood in its psycho-sexual and socio-economic context, emphasising interweaving i...

This text focuses on the interweaving psychic realities and unconscious dynamics between family members in the context of changing patterns of socio-cultural expectations, ethical considerations and biological realities.

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Psychotherapy in the Wake of War presents the ways in which differing views of various psychoanalytic schools and traditions—spanning developments for more than one hundred years—may affect theoretical and technical issues in psychoanalytic treatments. Colleagues representing different traditions of psychoanalytic thinking comment on a selection of nine cases and suggest ways of managing these both technically and theoretically. They have a variety of theoretical structures and axioms in t...

精神分析界首本以女性為主題的專書。透過不同世代的女性精神分析師角度，深刻關懷女性獨特的美麗與哀愁。　《女性經驗》透過說故事的方式，詳實呈現臨床的細微素材在女人之間的分析關係中如何開展，其中有佔據女性心思的點滴，有女性分析師沒說出口的思考，以及分析師如何以自己特殊的方式去聆聽與了解那些存在於過去和當下、交織於內在與外在的、意識與潛意識現實之間的隱微細節。──瓊．拉斐爾-勒夫（本書編者）　　隨著女性普受教育，傳統看待女性的觀點也備受挑戰。但許多女性在潛意識中仍有傳統的一面，她們在傳統與現代之間所經歷的撕裂與痛苦，也投射到了女性精神分析師與女性患者的治療關係之中。　　1910年代至千禧年初期的精神分析界雖似百家爭鳴，卻鮮少有討論「女性分析女性」的作品，因此這本《女性經驗》的獨特與重要性不言可喻。　　《女性經驗》以英國女性精神分析師與女性患者為核心，收錄橫跨1915至1990年以後四個世代的臨床思索篇章，主題涵蓋了與母親原初的連結、早期經驗於生育過程中的甦醒，以及性別認同、婚姻關係、職場的女性氣質偽裝，...

The Marion Milner Tradition provides a comprehensive overview of Milner’s eight-volume oeuvre for the first time, and celebrates her pioneering achievements both in psychoanalytic world and in creative and scientific disciplines such as clinical and organisational psychology, philosophy, mindfulness and spirituality, management theory, art therapy, as well as art appreciation/criticism.This volume considers Marion Blackett Milner through the prism of her innovative engagem...

This book introduces the birth and development of the Anna Freudian Tradition from a perspective of developmental lines, by addressing the early development of this tradition and the conflicts and innovations arising from the interaction between the internal and external world of the organization.