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  • Creating a Human Psychoanalytic Setting

    Clinical Studies

    by Roger Kennedy ...
    This book looks at how psychoanalytic thinking can be applied in a variety of settings and can respect the individual experience and circumstances of each patient.It focuses on the analytic encounter and the hard task around trying to create what the author calls a human analytic setting, one which respects human diversity and theoretical pluralism, pays adequate attention to the patient’s ... Read more

    $62.99 CAD

  • The Psychic Home

    Psychoanalysis, consciousness and the human soul

    by Roger Kennedy ...
    The Psychic Home: Psychoanalysis of Consciousness and the Human Soul develops, from a number of different viewpoints, the significance of home in our lives. Roger Kennedy puts forward the central role of what he has termed a ‘psychic home’ as a vital psychic structure, which gathers together a number of different human functions. Kennedy questions what we mean by the powerfully evocative notion of ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • Psychoanalysis, Society and Culture

    Building Bridges

    by Roger Kennedy ...
    This book looks at the intersection of psychoanalytic thinking, society and culture, using examples drawn from literature, clinical practice and everyday life.Psychoanalysis, Society and Culture explores the various ways in which psychoanalysis shares preoccupations with the humanities including but not restricted to music, art, philosophy, history and politics, while retaining its own way of ... Read more

    $69.99 CAD

  • The Evil Imagination

    Understanding and Resisting Destructive Forces

    by Roger Kennedy ...
    Roger Kennedy has written a masterful investigation into the concept of evil. He begins with a general view of the subject before moving into more detailed analysis. First is a review of the science of evil, including evidence from neuroscience and social psychology. This is followed by psychoanalytical studies of the individual and groups before presenting an overview of the philosophy of evil. ... Read more

    $40.42 CAD

  • The Power of Music

    Psychoanalytic Explorations

    by Roger Kennedy ...
    Emotion is an integral aspect of musical experience; music has the power to take us on an emotional and intellectual journey, transforming the listener along the way. The aim of this book is to examine the nature of this journey, using a variety of perspectives. No one discipline can do justice to music's complexity if one is to have a sense of the whole musical experience, even if one has to ... Read more

    $40.42 CAD

  • Tolerating Strangers in Intolerant Times

    Psychoanalytic, Political and Philosophical Perspectives

    by Roger Kennedy ...
    In this interdisciplinary and wide-ranging study, Roger Kennedy looks at the roots of tolerance and intolerance as well as the role of the stranger and strangeness in provoking basic fears about our identity. He argues that a fear of a loss of attachment to one’s home might account for many prejudiced and intolerant attitudes to refugees and migrants; that basic fears about being displaced by so ... Read more

    $69.99 CAD

  • Psychotherapists as Expert Witnesses

    Families at Breaking Point

    by Roger Kennedy ...
    The book describes the author's extensive experience of working as an expert witness in family courts. It provides detailed guidance for assessing families for the courts, as well giving many detailed clinical examples to illustrate points made. Topics covered include guidance for experts, assessment of families, contact issues, fostering and adoption and rehabilitation issues. ... Read more

    $81.99 CAD

  • Psychoanalysis, History and Subjectivity

    Now of the Past

    by Roger Kennedy ...
    Clinical psychoanalysis since Freud has put reconstruction of the patient's history at the forefront of its task but in recent years, this approach has not been so prominent. This book aims to explore and re-evaluate the relationship between history and psychoanalysis.Roger Kennedy develops new perspectives on historiography by applying psychoanalytic insight to the key issues of narrative, time ... Read more

    $77.99 CAD

  • Couch Tales

    Short Stories

    by Roger Kennedy ...
    A psychoanalyst sits in his consulting room waiting for the next patient. Thoughts, feelings and anxieties about his own current life begin to assault him. Partly as a way of dealing with the crisis in his own life, he begins to write fictional stories loosely based upon his patients' stories. Between each story the analyst produces a journal which comments upon the stories as well as his own ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

  • Mr. Jefferson's Lost Cause

    Land, Farmers, Slavery, and the Louisiana Purchase

    by Roger G. Kennedy ...
    Thomas Jefferson advocated a republic of small farmers--free and independent yeomen. And yet as president he presided over a massive expansion of the slaveholding plantation system, particularly with the Louisiana Purchase, squeezing the yeomanry to the fringes and to less desirable farmland. Now Roger G. Kennedy conducts an eye-opening examination of the gap between Jefferson's stated aspirations ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • The Many Voices of Psychoanalysis

    by Roger Kennedy ...
    Series series The New Library of Psychoanalysis
    The Many Voices of Psychoanalysis spans over thirty years of Roger Kennedy's work as a practicing psychoanalyst, providing a fascinating insight into the process of development of psychoanalytic identity.The introduction puts the papers into context, charting the development of the author’s practice and understanding of psychoanalysis and his position as part of the British Independent tradition. ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • Burr, Hamilton, and Jefferson : A Study in Character

    A Study in Character

    by Roger G. Kennedy ...
    This book restores Aaron Burr to his place as a central figure in the founding of the American Republic. Abolitionist, proto-feminist, friend to such Indian leaders as Joseph Brant, Burr was personally acquainted with a wider range of Americans, and of the American continent, than any other Founder except George Washington. He contested for power with Hamilton and then with Jefferson on a ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD