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  • Seeing and Being Seen

    Emerging from a Psychic Retreat

    by John Steiner ...
    Series series The New Library of Psychoanalysis
    Seeing and Being Seen: Emerging from a Psychic Retreat examines the themes that surface when considering clinical situations where patients feel stuck and where a failure to develop impedes the progress of analysis.This book analyses the anxieties and challenges confronted by patients as they begin to emerge from the protection of psychic retreats. Divided into three parts, areas of discussion ... Read more

    $86.99 CAD

  • Explorations of Mourning in Psychoanalysis and Literature

    Turning Ghosts into Ancestors

    by John Steiner ...
    This book explores the conflict between holding on to and letting go of loss,paying homage to Freud’s classic ‘Mourning and Melancholia’ and buildingon its foundation with contemporary ideas.Losses are met throughout life and are either accepted and mournedor resented and denied. Sometimes mourning is inappropriate or prematurebecause losses can be prevented, and unfinished business needs to ... Read more

    $68.70 CAD

  • Psychic Retreats

    Pathological Organizations in Psychotic, Neurotic and Borderline Patients

    by John Steiner ...
    Series series The New Library of Psychoanalysis
    Essentially clinical in its approach, Psychic Retreats discusses the problem of patients who are 'stuck' and with whom it is difficult to make meaningful contact. John Steiner, an experienced psychoanalyst, uses new developments in Kleinian theory to explain how this happens.He examines the way object relationships and defences can be organized into complex structures which lead to a personality ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • Illusion, Disillusion, and Irony in Psychoanalysis

    by John Steiner ...
    Illusion, Disillusion, and Irony in Psychoanalysis explores and develops the role of illusion and daydream in everyday life, and in psychoanalysis. Using both clinical examples and literary works, idealised illusions and the inevitable disillusion that is met when reality makes an impact, are carefully explored.Idealised phantasies which involve a timeless universe inevitably lead to disillusion ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD

  • Dead Run

    by John Steiner ...
    When the dead rise they stop being nice. They're not your friend. They're not your relative, acquaintance, lover, neighbor, or that person who says hi to you at work. The dead have one desire; the blood of the living. They come in the night, and they don't stop. Only the sun holds them back if you can make it to dawn.A chemical engineer, Hayden Cornell was contracted to study two incapacitated ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Doctor Luttrell's First Patient (Unabridged)

    by ROSA NOUCHETTE CAREY ...
    Narrated by John Steiner ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 39 min

    Doctor Markus Luttrell and his new wife Olivia, a former governess, are trying to start building their nest. Problems arise when doctor Luttrell cannot find work and Olivia has to take care of the house. The financial problems make their marriage more and more difficult. They make ends meet before their rich neighbor needs doctor Luttrell. Would they be able to come up in the world? Would they be ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Within Time and Beyond Time

    A Festschrift for Pearl King

    Edited by Riccardo Steiner, Jennifer Johns ...
    This book is dedicated to Pearl King who is something of an institution in herself within psychoanalysis as well as an important contributor to the development of the institution of psychoanalysis. She is the co-author with Riccardo Steiner of the monumental The Freud-Klein Controversies (1941-1945) detailing the Controversial Discussions of the British Psychoanalytical Society. ... Read more

    $119.54 CAD

  • Rosenfeld in Retrospect

    Essays on his Clinical Influence

    Edited by John Steiner ...
    How has Herbert Rosenfeld contributed to psychoanalysis today?Rosenfeld in Retrospect presents original psychoanalytic papers showing the influence of Herbert Rosenfeld on psychoanalysis today, and reproduces some of Rosenfeld's most important clinical writings.In the first part of this book, The Conference Papers: Contemporary Developments of Rosenfeld's Work, the editor brings together papers ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • Ideas: Brilliant Thinkers Speak Their Minds

    Brilliant Thinkers Speak Their Minds

    by Bernie Lucht, Eugen Weber, George Woodcock, Paul Goodman, Northrop Frye, George Steiner, Ronald Wintrobe, John McKnight, Michael Bliss, William Kristol, Bob Rae, Abraham Rotstein, John Crispo, Charles Taylor, Bernie Farber, Bob Davis, James Orbinski, Gerald Caplan, Hannah Arendt, Robert Lowell, Noam Chomsky, Helen Caldicott, Tariq Ali, Ursula Franklin, Robert Fulford, Janice Stein, Richard Holbrooke, Bernard Lewis, Tony Judt, Margaret MacMillan, George Monbiot, Sylvia Ostry, Roméo Dallaire, Conor Cruise O’Brien ...
    For four decades, Ideas has presented more than 400,000 CBC Radio listeners in Canada and the United States with the most challenging contemporary thought of the day. Now, to mark the program’s 40th anniversary, executive producer Bernie Lucht has selected the most striking interviews and lectures for Ideas: Brilliant Thinker Speak Their Minds. Featuring some the best thinkers from North America ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Polyphony of Life

    Bonhoeffer’s Theology of Music

    by Andreas Pangritz ...
    Translated by Robert Steiner ...
    This fascinating book, which explores an intriguing idea formulated by Dietrich Bonhoeffer in the very last months of his life, has up until now been available only to German readers. Since Polyphonie des Lebens first appeared twenty-five years ago, a whole new generation of scholars has come into contact, in English as well as in the original German, with the entire collection of his works, as ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Lectures on Technique by Melanie Klein

    Edited with Critical Review by John Steiner

    by Melanie Klein ...
    Lectures on Technique by Melanie Klein is based on a series of six lectures given by Melanie Klein to students at the British Psychoanalytical Society in 1936 and repeated several times in subsequent years. They were discovered in the Melanie Klein Archives housed in the Wellcome Medical Library and have been previously described by Elizabeth Spillius but never before published. In this book, John ... Read more

    $101.99 CAD

  • Creative Collaboration

    by Vera John-Steiner ...
    Rodin's sculpture "The Thinker" dominates our collective imagination as the purest representation of human inquiry--the lone, stoic thinker. But while the Western belief in individualism romanticizes this perception of the solitary creative process, the reality is that scientific and artistic forms emerge from the joint thinking, passionate conversations, emotional connections and shared struggles ... Read more

    $40.79 CAD