Skewed to the Right

Amy Izycky

Phoenix Publishing House

Identity Politics

David, Pilgrim

Rapprochement Between Fathers and Sons: Breakdowns, Reunions, Potentialities

Louis Rothschild

The Soft Power of Culture

Jonathan Sklar

Unlit Corners

SALMAN AKHTAR

Nilofer Kaul

Nina Savelle-Rocklin

Ann Smolen

Jerome Blackman

Lois Choi-Kain

Michael Civin

M. Sagman Kayatekin

Z. Emel Kayatekin

The Cross of Carl: An Allegory

History

Walter Owen

Military

Iliassa Sequin was constantly altering and developing her poems, and we have chosen to publish those poems which are in a completed form. As if she were a musician, she worked with the notion of quintets and quartets. Admired by the literary avant-gardes of Europe and the USA, her artistic hesitation meant that little was published in her lifetime. We hope to redress this omission with this collection, and introduce her poetry to a larger audience.

Collected Complete Poems

Literature & Fiction

Iliassa Sequin

Poetry

Donald Meltzer coined the term 'aesthetic conflict' to describe the emotional complexities of the 'apprehension of beauty'. It had its roots in art, literature, infant observation, and above all, in clinical experience. This concept affirmed and illustrated Bion's formula of L, H, K (Love, Hate, and Knowledge), together with its negative (minus L, H, K) as a revision of Klein's fundamental emotional dynamics of Envy and Gratitude. As such, any emotional situation may be read in terms of either struggling with or retreating from the aesthetic conflict that occurs naturally at all key points of psychic development.Meltzer could be said to have encapsulated the essence of Bion's post-Kleinian trajectory when he wrote that 'If we follow Bion's thought closely, we see that the new idea presents itself as an emotional experience of the beauty of the world and its wondrous organisation.'The contributions in this book are by analysts and therapists from a wide variety of countries working with both children and adults. They have all, in individual ways, found 'aesthetic conflict' a useful frame of reference in terms of illuminating the significance of clinical observation, understanding countertransference responses, or practising the psychoanalytic method itself.

Aesthetic Conflict and Its Clinical Relevance

Politics & Social Sciences

Williams, Meg Harris

Philosophy

This volume contains a representative selection of talks and writings by Martha Harris and Donald Meltzer on the key developmental phase of adolescence, from their teachings both separately and together over many years. Similar books on this topic by these authors have existed for some time in Italian and in Spanish but not until now in English.

Adolescence: Talks and Papers by Donald Meltzer and Martha Harris

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Meltzer, Donald

Harris, Martha

Psychology & Counseling

Today sees the rise of nationalism, the return of totalitarian parties in Europe to electoral success, and the rise of the alt-right and white supremacists in the US. Thus, there is urgency for psychoanalysts, with their understanding of cruelty, sadomasochism, perversion, and other mental mechanisms, to speak out. Jonathan Sklar has risen to the challenge with this timely, thought-provoking, and, at times, upsetting work. Dark Times starts with a look at European history in terms of monuments and mourning, before moving into storytelling and the elision of thought and history at this current time, including harrowing detail of the brutalities inflicted by ISIS on the Yazidi, and concludes with a meditation on the relationship between cruelty in the early environment and hatred of the other within society, with particular focus on racism in the US.Sklar goes against the grain of brief sound bites, which are an aid to quickly pass over painful knowledge. Instead, he goes into detail to give extremely dark, horrid occurrences, and the human beings on the receiving end, respect and understanding, which enables the reader greater access to allowing unconscious things to be made more conscious, highlighting the quality of humanity in human beings. Also, listening to these stories enables us to become more aware, not only of what is going on over there, but also what is happening here, because in our increasingly joined-up world, here is always implicated and affected too. By ridding ourselves of the illusions of our political times, we can find greater freedom to think, develop, challenge, and create hope, for the future of our children and our grandchildren, as well as for ourselves.

Dark Times: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Politics, History and Mourning

Sklar, Jonathan

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