Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
Prima della parola: L'ascolto psicoanalitico del non detto attraverso le forme dell'arte [Before words: psychoanalytic listening to the unsaid through art1] By Antonio Di Benedetto
La ferita dello sguardo: Una ricerca psicoanalitica sulla melanconia [The wounded gaze: Psychoanalytic research on melancholia1] Edited by Patrizia Cupelloni
The Freud encyclopedia: Theory, therapy and culture Edited by Edward Erwin
The complete correspondence of Sigmund Freud and Karl Abraham 1907–1925 Edited by Ernst Falzeder
La pensée clinique [Clinical thinking] By André Green
Hidden faults: Recognizing and resolving therapeutic disjunctions By Steven A Frankel
Post-Kleinian psychoanalysis: The Biella seminars By Kenneth Sanders
Raccontami una storia: Dalla consultazione all'analisi dei bambini [Tell me a story: From consultation to child analysis1] By Dina Vallino.     

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Freud messo a fuoco [Freud in focus] By Roberto Speziale-Bagliacca
Barn under Förintelsen—då och nu. Affekter och minnesbilder efter extrem traumatisering [Children in the Holocaust—Now and then. Affects and memory images after extreme traumatisation] By Suzanne Kaplan
Bad feelings By Roy Schafer
L'illusione: Una certezza [Illusion: A certainty] Edited by Anteo Saraval
Stati caotici della mente. Psicosi, disturbi borderline, disturbi psicosomatici, dipendenze [Chaotic states of the mind. Psychosis, borderline disorders, psychosomatic disorders, dependencies] Edited by Luigi Rinaldi
Sexuality, intimacy, power by Muriel Dimen
Sex, death, and the superego. Experiences in psychoanalysis By Ronald Britton
The analyst's analyst within By Lora Heims Tessman     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Préhistoires de famille [Family prehistories] by Alain de Mijolla
Forme dell interpretare. Nuove prospettive nella teoria e nella clinica psicoanalitica [Forms of interpretation. New perspectives on psychoanalytic theory and clinical practice] Edited by Paolo Fabozzi
From the eclipse of the body to the dawn of thought By Armando B. Ferrari, translated by Isabella Chigi
Il counselling psicodinamico [Psychodynamic counselling] By Andreas Giannakoulas and Santa Fizzarotti Selvaggi
My life in theory By Leo Rangell
The couch and the silver screen Psychoanalytic re. ections on European cinema Edited by Andrea Sabbadini
Un ano para toda la vida: El secreto mundo emocional de la madre y su bebé [A year for the rest of life: The secret emotional world of mother and baby] By Mariela Michelena
Samuel Beckett and the primacy of love By John Robert KellerSamuel Beckett and the primacy of love By John Robert Keller     

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Escritos clnicos sobre perversiones y adicciones [Clinical essays on perversions and addictions] Edited by Rodolfo Moguillansky
The present moment in psychotherapy and everyday life by Daniel N. Stern
Sndor Ferenczi: El mejor discpulo de Freud [Sndor Ferenczi: Freud s best disciple] by Antoni Talarn
Blind trust: Large groups and their leaders in times of crisis and terror by Vamik Volkan
Sigmund Freud Max Eitingon, Briefwechsel 1906-1939 [Freud Eitingon correspondence,1906 1939], Vols 1 and 2 Edited by Michael Schrter
The texture of treatment: On the matter of psychoanalytic technique By Herbert J. Schlesinger
Family romance, family secrets: Case notes from an American psychoanalysis,1912 By Elizabeth Lunbeck and Bennett Simon
Hate and love in psychoanalytic institutions. The dilemma of a profession By Jurgen Reeder     

Thinking in the space between Winnicott and Lacan

The author, following André Green, maintains that the two most original psychoanalytic thinkers since Freud were Donald Winnicott and Jacques Lacan. Winnicott, it has been said, introduced the comic tradition into psychoanalysis, while Lacan sustained Freud's tragic/ironic vision. Years of mutual avoidance by their followers (especially of Lacan by Anglophone clinicians) has arguably diminished understanding of the full spectrum of psychoanalytic thought. The author outlines some basic constructs of Winnicott and of Lacan, including: their organizing tropes of selfhood versus subjectivity, their views of the "mirror stage", and their definitions of the aims of treatment. While the ideas of Winnicott and Lacan appear at some points complementary, the goal is not to integrate them into one master discourse, but rather to bring their radically different paradigms into provocative contact. A clinical vignette is offered to demonstrate concepts from Lacan and Winnicott, illustrating what it might mean to think and teach in the potential space between them.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
Psychoanalysis, science and masculinity By Karl Figlio.
Dreams that turn over a page: Paradoxical dreams in psychoanalysis By Jean-Michel Quinodoz.
Fattori di malattia, fattori di guarigione: Genesi della sofferenza e cura psicoanalitica: [Elements of disease, elements of recovery. Genesis of suffering and psychoanalytic cure] By Antonino Ferro.
Vocabulário contemporáneo de psicanálise: [Contemporary dictionary of psychoanalysis] By David E. Zimmerman.
Le traumatique, répétition et élaboration: [Trauma, repetition and elaboration] By Anna Potamianou.
The pale criminal: Psychoanalytic perspectives By Stephen J Costello.
Dictionnaire international de la psychanalyse: [International dictionary of psychoanalysis] Edited by Alain de Mijolla.
Fundamentals of a Freudian clinic By Luís Carlos Menezes.
Disappearing persons: Shame and appearance By Benjamin Kilborne.
The social edges of psychoanalysis By Neil J Smelser. Berkeley and Los Angeles     

BOOK REVIEWS

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Melanie Klein by Julia Kristeva
Und Freud hat doch Recht. Die Entstehung der Kultur durch Transformation der Gewalt. Bausteine einer allgemeinen Kulturtheorie [So Freud was right. The emergence of culture through the transformation of violence. Outline of a general theory of culture] by Eberhard T. Haas
The technique and practice of psychoanalysis, Vol 3. The training seminars of Ralph R. Greenson, MD Edited by Lee Jaffe
Intohimoinen nainen. Psykoanalyyttisia tutkielmia halusta, rakkaudesta ja häpeästä [Female desire: Psychoanalytical studies on pleasure, love and shame] by Elina M. Reenkola
Pérdida, pena, duelo: Vivencias, investigación y asistencia [Loss, grief, mourning: Experience, research and care] by Jorge L. Tizón García
Verräter oder Verführte: Eine psychoanalytische Untersuchung Inof. zieller Mitarbeiter der Stasi [Betrayers of trust or themselves betrayed: A psychoanalytic investigation of the unof. cial collaborators with the Stasi] by Ingrid Kerz-Rühling and Thomas Plänkers
Impossible training: A relational view of psychoanalytic education by Emanuel Berman
Lost childhood and the language of exile Edited by Judit Szekacs-Weisz and Ivan Ward     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Narrazione e psicoanalisi. Un approccio semiologico [Narration and psychoanalysis. A semiological approach].By Maria Pia Arrigoni and Gian Luca Barbieri.
Taking the Group Seriously. Towards a Post-Foulkesian Group Analytic Theory By Farhad Dalal
Psicoanalisi come percorso [Psychoanalysis as a journey]. By Franco Borgogno.
Psychoanalytic Understanding of Violence and Suicide. Edited by Rosine Perelberg.
The Mystery of Things. By Christopher Bollas
Unfree Associations: Inside Psychoanalytic Institutes. London: Process Press. By Douglas Kirsner
La memoria sensoriale delle relazioni. Ipotesi verificabili di psicoterapia psicoanalitica [The sensory memory of relationships. Verifiable hypotheses of psychoanalytic psychotherapy]. By Andrea Seganti.
Psychotic States in Children. Edited by Margaret Rustin, Maria Rhode, Alex Dubinsky and Héléne Dubinsky.
Inside Lives: Psychoanalysis and the Growth of the Personality. By Margot Waddell.
But Facts Exist. By Thomas Freeman.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
La adopción: Un tema de nuestro tiempo [Adoption: A contemporary topic] edited by Milagros Cid and Silvia Pérez-Galdós
La peau [The skin] Edited by Gérard Szwec
Entrevista e indicadores en psicoterapia y psicoanalisis [Interview and indicators in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis] by Antonio Pérez Sánchez
The art of interpretation: Deconstruction and new beginning in the psychoanalytic process by Wolfgang Loch, edited by Peter Wegner
Psychoanalytic collisions by Joyce Anne Slochower
Psychodynamic diagnostic manual by the PDM Task Force
Vulnerabilità alla psicosi [Susceptibility to psychosis] by Franco De Masi
Saber y no saber: Curiosidad sexual infantil [To know and not to know: the sexual curiosity of children] by Mariela Michelena     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
The life and behavior of living organisms: A general theory By Elliot Jaques
Analysis of the under-five child Edited by Robert L. Tyson
Affect regulation, mentalisation, and the development of the self By Peter Fonagy, György Gergely, Elliot L. Jurist, Mary Target
Vapaan assosiaation paluu [The return of free association] By Marita Torsti
En el camino de la simbolización: Producción del sujeto psíquico [On the path to symbolization: Production of the psychic subject] By Myrta Casas De Pereda
Un tempo per il dolore: Eros, dolore e colpa [A time for pain: Eros, pain and guilt] By Tonia Cancrini. Preface by Antonino Ferro
Psychoanalysis international: A guide to psychoanalysis throughout the world Vol. 1: Europe; Vol 2: America, Asia, Australia, further European countries Edited by Peter Kutter
L'empatia psicoanalitica [Psychoanalytic empathy] By Stefano Bolognini     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Descubrimientos y refutaciones: La lógica de la indagación psicoanalítica [Discoveries and refutations: the logic of psychoanalytic enquiry]. By Jorge L. Ahumada
Kohut's Freudian Vision. By Philip F. D. Rubovits-Seitz in collaboration with Heinz Kohut.
Psychoanalysis on the Move: The Work of Joseph Sandler. Edited by Peter Fonagy, Arnold M.
La polarité de l'amour et de la mort [The polarity of love and death]. By Catherine Couvreur.
Being of Two Minds: The Vertical Split in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. By Arnold Goldberg.
The Power of Feelings. By Nancy J. Chodorow
Nascita e costruzione della mente. La teoria del protomentale. [The birth and construction of the mind. The theory of the protomental]. By Antonio Imbasciati.     

BOOK REVIEWS

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Between emotion and cognition: The generative unconscious by Joseph Newirth
Le mal des idéologies [The ills of ideology] By François Duparc
The confusion of tongues: The primacy of sexuality in Freud, Ferenczi, and Laplanche by Philippe Van Haute and Tomas Geyskens
Suffering insanity: Psychoanalytic essays on psychosis By R. D. Hinshelwood
Cures d'enfance [Curing childhood] By Laurence Kahn
The ethic of honesty: The fundamental rule of psychoanalysis By M. Guy Thompson
Misunderstanding Freud By Arnold Goldberg
Traumi di guerra. Un esperienza psicoanalitica in Bosnia-Erzegovina [War traumas. A psychoanalytic experience in Bosnia-Herzegovina] By Patrizia Brunori, Gianna Candolo, Maddalena Donà dalle Rose and Maria Chiara Risoldi with an Introduction by Silvia Amati Sas     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Le famiglie di Edipo [The families of Oedipus] By Gilda De Simone
Visiones de Espana. Re. exiones de un psicoanalista [Visions of Spain. Reflections of a psychoanalyst] By Cecilio Paniagua
Tra il sapere e la cura. Un itinerario freudiano [Between knowledge and treatment.A Freudian journey] by Francesco Conrotto
Secrets of the soul: A social and cultural history of psychoanalysis By Eli Zaretsky
Lire Freud.Découverte chronologique de l oeuvre de Freud [Reading Freud.A chronological exploration of Freud s writings] by Jean-Michel Quinodoz
The blind man sees: Freud s awakening and other essays By Neville Symington
Curare con la psicoanalisi. Percorsi e strategie [Curing with psychoanalysis. Routes and strategies] by Giuseppe Di Chiara
Ferenczi oggi [Ferenczi today] Edited by Franco Borgogno     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this Article:
Les balafrés du divan. Essai sur les symbolisations plurielles [Casualties of the couch. A study of composite symbol-formations] By Jean-José Baranes
Epistemología y psicoanálisis [Epistemology and psychoanalysis] by Gregorio Klimovsky
Psychotherapeutische Erstinterviews mit Kindern Winnicotts Squiggletechnik in der Praxis [Psychotherapeutic first interviews with children. Winnicott's squiggle technique in practice] by Michael Günter
In pursuit of psychic change:The Betty Joseph workshop Edited by Edith Hargreaves and Arturo Varchevker
Gleichschwebende Aufmerksamkeit und Modellbildung Eine qualitativ-systematische Einzelfallstudie zum Erkenntnisprozess des Psychoanalytikers [Evenly suspended attention and model-formation.A qualitative systematic case study of the psychoanalyst's cognitive process] by Hartmuth König
als käm ich heim zu Vater und Schwester Lou Andreas—Salome Anna Freud Briefwechsel (1919–1936) ['As if I were coming home to my father and sister.' The Lou Andreas-Salomé Anna Freud correspondence (1919–36)] Edited by Daria A. Rothe and Inge Weber     

„Ich möchte an Sie glauben können!“

During daily psychoanalytic treatment something happens that can be described with a term from the Old Testament: “to know”, giving psychoanalytic praxis a religious dimension. The author illustrates this thesis with a case report. First he tries to show how an interpretation of the casuistic material appears in the scope of the well-known concept of religion as an expression of dissoluble narcissistic conflicts. Then he applies Winnicott’s idea of “potential space” as a new scope for interpretation of the case. The conception of the “destruction of the object” according to Winnicott will be related exemplarily to the history of Jesus’ death on the cross and the miracle of his survival. By heeding the world of ideas of Klein and Bion, the author comes to the conclusion that religiosity is an anthropological constant, which cannot be reduced to a pathologic narcissistic event.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this articles:
Psykoanalysen i ny belysning [Psychoanalysis in a new light] by Gunnar Karlsson
Lives across time: Growing up by Henry Massie and Nathan Szajnberg
La difficile identità [The diffi cult identity] by Pia De Silvestris
Ipotesi Gay. Materiali per un confronto [The gay hypothesis. Material for comparative study] Edited by Olga Pozzi and Sarantis Thanopulos
Figure del dialogo tra antropologia e psicoanalisi [Figures of the dialogue between anthropology and psychoanalysis] by Alfredo Lombardozzi
Psicoanalisi e neuroscienze [Psychoanalysis and neuroscience] Edited by Mauro Mancia
Learning from life by Patrick Casement
Psychoanalytische Traumatologie-Das Trauma in der Familie [Psychoanalytic traumatology-trauma in the family] By Mathias Hirsch
Trauma und Paranoia. Individuelle und kollektive Angst im politischen Kontext [Trauma and paranoia. Individual and collective anxiety in the political context] edited by Rotraut De Clerck
L'ětre-bébé by Bernard Golse     

BOOK NOTICES

Der ferne Vater. Zur Psychoanalyse von Vatererfahrung, männlicher Entwicklung und negativem ödipuskomplex [The distant father. On the psychoanalysis of the father‐experience, male development and the negative Oedipus complex] Josef Christian Aigner Studies on femininity Alcira M. Alizade, Editor Masculine scenarios Alcira M. Alizade, Editor Winnicott insolite [Winnicott's unusual qualities] J. Bousihra and M. C. Durieux, Editors Curare con la psicoanalisi. Percorsi e strategie [Psychoanalysis as cure. Trajectories and strategies] G. Di Chiara Otto Kernberg M. C. Durieux Le travail psychanalytique: Colloque organisé par la Société psychanalytique de Paris [Psychoanalytic work: A Paris Psychoanalytic Society colloquium] André Green and Françoise Coblence, Editors, Alain Fine, Contributor Basales verstehen. Handlungsdialoge in psychotherapie und psychoanalyse [Understanding fundamentals. Behavioural dialogues in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis] Günter Heisterkamp Dream travelers: Sleep experiences and culture in the Western Pacific Roger Ivar Lohmann Dreaming by the book. Freud's The interpretation of dreams and the history of the psychoanalytic movement Lydia Marinelli and Andreas Mayer Translated from the German by Susan Fairfield Dreams and history. The interpretation of dreams from Ancient Greece to modern psychoanalysis Daniel Pick and Lyndal Roper, Editors Insight and interpretation: The essential tools of psychoanalysis Roy Schafer La pudeur, un lieu de liberté [Modesty, a place of liberty] Monique Selz La coscienza in psicoanalisi [Conscience in psychoanalysis] A. A. Semi Psychanalyse en dialogue [Psychoanalysis in dialogue] Daniel Widlöcher and Nicole Delattre Die Rundbriefe des “Geheimen Komitees”. Band 1 (1999): Die Jahre 1913–1920, Band 2 (2001): Das Jahr 1921, Band 3 (2004): Das Jahr 1922, Band 4 (2005): Die Jahre 1923–1936 [The circular letters of the ‘Secret Committee’. Volume 1 (1999): 1913–1920; Volume 2 (2001): 1921; Volume 3 (2004): 1922; Volume 4 (2005): 1923–1936] Gerhard Wittenberger and Christfried Tögel     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Hamlet. Ensayos psicoanaliticos [Hamlet: Psychoanalytic essays] Edited by Carlos Sopena
A short introduction to psychoanalysis by Jane Milton, Caroline Polmear and Julia Fabricius
Introducing psychoanalysis: Essential themes and topics edited by Susan Budd and Richard Rusbridger
Glacial times: A journey through the world of madness By Salomon Resnik, translated by Daniel Alcorn
The designed self: Psychoanalysis and contemporary identities by Carlo Strenger
Controverses sur l'autisme et témoignages [Autism: Debates and testimonies] by Denys Ribas
The telescoping of generations. Listening to the narcissistic links between generations by Haydée Faimberg     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
Treating attachment disorders: From theory to therapy By Karl Heinz Brisch
Metaphor and the psychodynamic functions of the mind By Henrik Enckell
La figurabilité psychique [Psychic. gurability] By César and Sára Botella
Mit Freud über Freud hinaus. Ausgewählte Vorlesungen zur Psychoanalyse [With Freud and beyond Freud: Selected lectures on psychoanalysis] By Wolfgang Loch Revised and edited by Josef Dantlgraber and Werner Damson
Själen som vägrade krympa. Essäer i judiske ämnen [The soul that refused to shrink. Essays on Jewish topics] By Mikael Enckell
Mental survival strategies after extreme traumatisation By Sverre Varvin
The Third Reich in the unconscious: Transgenerational transmission and its consequences Edited by Vamik D. Volkan, Gabriele Ast and William F. Greer, Jr.
Learning from mistakes: Beyond dogma in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy By Patrick Casement     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Having a life: Self pathology after Lacan by Lewis A. Kirshner
The unsung psychoanalyst: The quiet in uence of Ruth Easser by Mary Kay O Neil
Michelangelos Moses und Freuds Wagstück Eine Collage [Michelangelo s Moses and Freud s piece of audacity. A collage] by Ilse Grubrich-Simitis
Le savoir-déporté: Camps, histoire, psychanalyse [Deported knowledge: The camps, history and psychoanalysis] by Anne-Lise Stern
Psyche, self and soul: Rethinking psychoanalysis, the self and spirituality By Gerald J. Gargiulo
Psychic trauma: Dynamics, symptoms, and treatment by Ira Brenner
From obstacle to ally: The evolution of psychoanalytic practice by Judith Hughes
Between couch and piano: Psychoanalysis, music, art, and neuroscience by Gilbert J. Rose