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G. Atlas, E. Ginot, J. R. Greenberg, J. Kraus, G. Leo & G. Riefolo (Editors), J. Safran

ENACTMENT IN PSYCHOANALYSIS

Second Edition

€ 63,20

G. Atlas, E. Ginot, J. Greenberg, J. Kraus, G. Leo & G. Riefolo (Editors), J. Safran Enactment in Psychoanalysis, 2nd Edition, Coll. "Borders of Psychoanalysis", paperback, ISBN 978-88-97479-19-2, Frenis Zero Press 2020, pages 333,  € 63,20.

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H. Catz, A. Ferruta, M. Francesconi, P. R. Goisis, R. D. Hinshelwood, G. Leo (Ed.), N. McWilliams, G. Riefolo, M. Roth, C. Schinaia, D. Scotto di Fasano, R. D. Stolorow

ENVIRONMENTAL CRISIS AND PANDEMIC. A CHALLENGE FOR PSYCHOANALYSIS

Second Edition

€ 55,46

H. Catz, A. Ferruta, M. Francesconi, P. R. Goisis, R. D. Hinshelwood, G, Leo (Editor), N. McWilliams, G. Riefolo, M. Roth, C. Schinaia, D. Scotto Di Fasano, R. D. Stolorow Environmental Crisis and Pandemic. A Challenge for Psychoanalysis, 2nd Edition, Coll. "Borders of Psychoanalysis", paperback, ISBN 978-88-97479-37-6, Frenis Zero Press 2020, pages 312, € 55,46.

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L. Auestad, W. Bohleber, G. Leo (Ed.), J. Puget, S. Varvin, V. D. Volkan, L. West

FUNDAMENTALISM AND PSYCHOANALYSIS

Second Edition

€ 43,00

L. Auestad, W. Bohleber, G.  Leo (Ed.), J. Puget, S. Varvin, V. D. Volkan, L. West Fundamentalism and Psychoanalysis, 2nd Edition, Coll. "Mediterranean Id-entities", Frenis Zero Press 2020, paperback, € 43,00, pp.224.

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Giuseppe Leo

MY IDEAS FELT LIKE OUTSIZE CLOTHES. A Tale for Etty Hillesum

€ 24,48

Two female protagonists, Etty and Helena, carry out a rescue plan seventy years apart, each one in a very different historical context but having one thing in common: both of them saved children, victims of genocide (in the case of Etty who saves two Jewish boys from Westerbork camp), or of civil war (in the case of Helena who smuggles a baby out of Syria). A mysterious researcher investigates the fil rouge existing between the two stories of salvation. Little by little he finds that the story of one of the boys rescued by Etty is interwoven with Helena’s biography.

Giuseppe Leo My Ideas Felt Like Outsize Clothes. A Tale for Etty Hillesum, Coll. "Biographies of the Unconscious", hardcover, ISBN 978-88-97479-33-8, pages 122, Frenis Zero Press 2020, € 24,48.

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H. Catz, A. Ferruta, M. Francesconi, P. R. Goisis, G. Leo (Ed.), N. McWilliams, G. Riefolo, M. Roth, C. Schinaia, D. Scotto di Fasano

FEAR OF LOCKDOWN. PSYCHOANALYSIS, PANDEMIC DISCONTENTS AND CLIMATE CHANGE

€ 44,90

Contemporary psychoanalysis has recently made a “paradigm shift”  consisting of dealing with the discontents of civilizations emerging from the extension of the explicative dominion of psychoanalysis not only in the direction of social and political phenomena, but also in that of  understanding the impact of environmental and ecological issues on the human psyche. New paradigms need new concepts such as the term “pandemic discontent”, contained in the title of the present book.    The concept of “pandemic discontents” refers to Freud’s “Civilization and its Discontents”  in order to focus on those anthropological mutations, including  the expansion of technologies and the mutations of ecology, which represent irreversible fractures which have shifted a part of humanity in the face of  the fragility of the social and cultural structures on which, as Kaës writes, the permanence of a civilization is based, or even the human species itself. And dealing with the discontents of civilizations leads psychoanalysis to a challenge which has not yet been completely assimilated, i.e. to measure up to the social dynamics and no longer only the intra-psychic ones, and to think of these changes as ‘extra-psychic conditions’, as Kaës defines them, which provide a framework or a setting for the formation of the psychic apparatus, for the forms of subjectivity that derive from them and for the sufferings they have produced.

After the foreword written by Nancy McWilliams, "Psychotherapy in a Pandemic",  written during lockdown in NY and dealing with therapists' feelings during online consultations, after the introduction written by the editor, Giuseppe Leo, the section “Psychoanalysis in Pandemic Times” (writings by Anna Ferruta,   Hilda Catz,  Giuseppe Riefolo,  Merav Roth, and Cosimo Schinaia)  concerns how to apply analysis to the Covid-19 crisis (psychoanalysis as a tool for interpretation of the pandemic crisis at various levels, individual, social, political) but also how to practice analysis under the Covid-19 pandemic (dealing with the conditions under which the practise of psychoanalysis is possible in such an unprecedented  global context). The section “When the psychoanalyst is the patient” contains the memoir written by Pietro Roberto Goisis, a Milan-based psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who survived the coronavirus. In this pandemic both analyst and patient have to deal with a dangerous external reality, with the supplementary task for therapist of helping the patient face his/her internal jeopardy. Finally  in the section “Psychoanalysis and Climate Change” there is the chapter written by Marco Francesconi and Daniela Scotto di Fasano.

 H. Catz, A. Ferruta, M. Francesconi, P. R. Goisis, G . Leo (Editor), N. McWilliams, G. Riefolo, M. Roth, C. Schinaia, D. Scotto Di Fasano Fear of Lockdown. Psychoanalysis, Pandemic Discontents, and Climate Change, coll. "Borders of Psychoanalysis", ISBN 978-88-97479-21-5, paperback, pages 296, Frenis Zero Press 2020,  € 44,90. 

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 L. Aron, H. Ferguson, G. Leo (Editor), J. LeDoux, J. Shaw, R. Tweedy

ROCK MUSIC AND PSYCHOANALYSIS 

(Second Edition)

€ 46,56

The second edition of the book “Rock Music and Psychoanalysis” was published after the beginning of Covid-19 pandemic. Pandemic, as writes Heather Ferguson, has brought the world to its knees, leaving massive unemployment, hunger, loss, and death in its wake, disproportionately affecting people of color and poor communities world-wide. The pandemic has perturbed our ways of going-on-being, forcing social inequities into the spotlight. In our consultation rooms, we wonder how our social and psychic worlds will be altered, irrevocably, creating opportunities for revitalization, reorder, or a return to the status quo. Pandemic has affected both psychoanalytic practice and rock music playing. Both psychoanalysts and musicians have to practise through telematic platforms. Some authors of this book are analysts (such as Lewis Aron, Heather Ferguson, Giuseppe Leo and John Shaw) who play rock or pop music. Not all the contributors to this book are psychoanalysts: Joseph LeDoux is an influential neuroscientist, whose investigations have become precious clues for psychoanalysis, plus he is the founder of the band “Amygdaloids”; and Rod Tweedy is an essayist and editor whose chapter deals with David Bowie. However, their interests show that music, and pop/rock music in particular, have constantly oriented their scientific output. The book is dedicated to the memory of Lewis Aron with a tribute to him written by John Shaw.

 L. Aron, H. Ferguson, G. Leo (Editor), J. LeDoux, J. Shaw, R. Tweedy Rock Music and Psychoanalysis, 2nd Edition, paperback, ISBN 978-88-97479-35-2, Frenis Zero Press 2020, € 46,56.

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E. Ginot, J. R. Greenberg, J. Kraus, G. Leo & G. Riefolo (Editors), J. Safran

ENACTMENT IN PSYCHOANALYSIS

(1st English edition)

€ 71,62

The book is dedicated to Jeremy Safran and Lewis Aron, whose recent loss drove the editors as well as the publisher to gather these contributions about enactment, a topic to whom Safran and Aron devoted many papers of theirs. As Safran wrote, though problematic and source of confusion among different psychoanalytic approaches, the epistemological status of psychoanalysis, related to its condition of ‘liminality’, is a meaningful source of vitality for the discipline. The book explores the subject of enactment in relation to boundaries in psychoanalysis, referring to a series of viewpoints that lead to many crucial areas.

E. Ginot, J. R. Greenberg, J. Kraus, G. Leo & G. Riefolo (Editors), J. Safran Enactment in Psychoanalysis, Coll. "Borders of Psychoanalysis", Frenis Zero Press 2019, hardcover, € 71,62, pp.326.

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B. Beebe, G. Leo (Editor), K. Lyons-Ruth, J. P. Nahum, E. Solheim, C. Trevarthen, E. Z. Tronick, L. Vulliez-Coady

INFANT RESEARCH AND PSYCHOANALYSIS

(1st English edition)

€ 69,00

INFANT RESEARCH AND PSYCHOANALYSIS

This book has the hard task to cover an interdisciplinary area in which psychoanalysis has to deal with infant research. The development of infant research methodologies is illustrated in the present book by the contribution written by Beatrice Beebe, whose ‘journey’ leads us through the ‘creating’ of a discipline with its creators, her traveling companions, such as Daniel Stern, Frank Lachmann, Joseph Jaffe and many others. Trevarthen’s chapter is a discussion of his work with T. Berry Brazelton, passed away on March 2018. Brazelton used his trust and enjoyment of innocent company to greet a newborn infant as a friend, and he showed that the baby is read to share friendship with mother and father, giving them joy. Brazelton’s belief in innate human nature transformed pediatric care and early diagnosis of developmental disorders, guiding treatment, not ‘of’ the baby, but ‘with’ him/her as an individual with unique expressions of vitality. The last two chapters, instead, deal with clinical implications of infant research. Tronick’s contribution focuses on mother-infant dyad as well as on analyst-patient one, conceived as open dynamic systems, capable of meaning making, in which coherence is at best imperfect, and coordination alternates with mismatching. In open dynamic systems messiness itself is inherent to the process of meaning making because of limitations in their capacity, «their different time scales, the many polymorphs of meaning that have to be integrated, and because of the many kinds of meaning making processes» (including affective, cognitive, memorial, linguistic, bodily and psychodynamic meaning making processes, such as a dynamic unconscious, projective identification and transference). «Dyadic states of consciousness» Tronick writes in the chapter «are joint creations and, as such, bring together the messy, unpredictable and inchoate features of two individuals’ state of consciousness, not just the messiness of one». But meaning meaning processes and security making ones, though normally overlapping each other, are not the same, and this heterogeneity between motivational systems (Lichtenberg et al., 2011) can cover the heterogeneity of psychopathological conditions. Lyons-Ruth and colleagues’ chapter is focused on the representational world of the mother, particularly on the assessment of mother’s representation of role-confusion in her relation with her child. The authors call attention to the dimension of sexualisation in the relationship, a high indicator of role-confusion. This emerging body of work points to the importance of being alert to indicators of role-confusion in the clinical setting. The findings can inform and enrich counselling and psychology practice by familiarizing clinicians with how to listen for indicators of role-confusion while talking with parents about their relationship with the child.

B. Beebe, G, Leo (Editor), K. Lyons-Ruth, J. P. Nahum, E. Solheim, C. Trevarthen, E. Z. Tronick, L. Vulliez-Coady Infant Research and Psychoanalysis, Coll. "Borders of Psychoanalysis", Frenis Zero Press 2018, hardcover, € 69,00, pp.273.

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L. Auestad, W. Bohleber, G. Leo (Editor), S. Varvin,                  V. D. Volkan, L. West

FUNDAMENTALISM AND PSYCHOANALYSIS

(1st English edition)

€ 41,00

FUNDAMENTALISM AND PSYCHOANALYSIS

The collection “Mediterranean Id-entities” is devoted to publish books in order to investigate the role of Mediterranean cultures from a psychoanalytic point of view, in front of the anthropological transformations concerning human societies and social institutions in the contemporary world. This book has the hard task to cover an interdisciplinary area in which psychoanalysis has to deal with fundamentalism as a social phenomenon and therefore with ‘bordering’ disciplines (such as religion history, transcultural studies, cultural anthropology) often with epistemologies that for origin and history appear to be incomparable to it. Lene Auestad intends to integrate the psychological analysis of the subject with its social embedding. She investigates the importance of the social unconscious and its effects on the prejudiced intentions of the individual apart from its own active interpretations. She highlights the importance the psychoanalytical approach provides in understanding the unspoken, unconscious contents of the social phenomena and how much the socially critical approach is able to enrich the analytical view which merely focuses on the subject regarding the effects of the social consensus. While Auestad’s scrutiny aims at the social convention’s role as an agent affecting the individual’s deeds and thinking, Linden West’s contribution draws on ‘psycho-social’ understandings, combining psychoanalysis and critical theory, as well as the work of John Dewey, to interrogate Islamic fundamentalist groups in a post-industrial city. It explores processes of self-recognition in groups and paranoid-schizoid modes of functioning, in which unwanted parts of self and of culture are split off and projected on to the other. The world is correspondingly divided into good and bad, pure and impure. John Dewey makes a crucial distinction between processes of democratic education and closed groups, which is what fundamentalist groups are, by reference to the quality of relationship to the other, and to experiential and narrative openness. However, it is also suggested that fundamentalism is ordinary, in that each of us can feel out of our depth, at times, and we may grab at ideas promising truth and nothing but the truth, which is ultimately illusion. Except not everyone reaches for a Kalashnikov, which is where individual biographies matter for subtler understanding of difference within commonalities. Fundamentalism has increasingly become a part of the political discourse in Western countries and is to a large degree associated with Islamic Jihadism. Fundamentalism has, however, been a concern in all religions, and Werner Bohleber in this book discusses its connections with violence in monotheistic religions. Fundamentalism is also a concern in professional organisations and in this book Sverre Varvin discusses the relation between fundaments for a science and fundamentalism in psychoanalysis. This is related to general trends of fundamentalism in religious and political contexts. A central question is how adherence to fundamentals, understood at basic principles for a profession or a religious-political movement, may develop into fundamentalism and how this may develop into more violent forms. Psychoanalytic understanding of mass psychology and unconscious processes at group levels are developed in this book by each of the outstanding authors in order to understand present Islamic and other forms of fundamentalist movements in the European context.

L. Auestad, W. Bohleber, G, Leo (Editor), S. Varvin, V. D. Volkan, L. West, Fundamentalism and Psychoanalysis, Coll. "Mediterranean Id-entities", Frenis Zero Press 2017, hardcover, € 41,00, pp.214.

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J. Altounian    W. Bohleber     J. Deutsch     Y. Gampel  H. Halberstadt-Freud    R. D. Hinshelwood   N. Janigro  G. Leo (Editor)       R. K. Papadopoulos         M. Ritter    S. Varvin   H.-J. Wirth 

PSYCHOANALYSIS, COLLECTIVE TRAUMAS AND MEMORY PLACES

€ 35,50

PSYCHOANALYSIS, COLLECTIVE TRAUMAS AND MEMORY PLACE

Psychoanalysis has always had to reckon with the epistemology of the witnessing of the analysand, but perhaps it has only recently been reckoning with the discourse of the ethics of testimony. “Here I am” is the answer addressed to those who call on us to testify. And who are the people who have answered with a “Here I am” in this book dedicated to the places of the memory of ‘Mediterranean civilisations and their discontents’? The reference to the work of the same name by Freud (1929) is clear here, but what many of the authors and of the essays in it seem to have in common is the attention to the traumatic nature of certain places of the memory: theatres of wars, such as the wars in the Balkans at the centre of the contribution by Nicole Janigro, lines in the diary of a father, who miraculously survived genocide, that a daughter-essayst (Janine Altounian) wrenches from oblivion, or even non-places of a memory in which the witnesses-survivors are the many refugees who have fled their homelands. As Bohleber writes, psychoanalysis began as a theory of trauma. In this book, the places of the memory are often the rooms of analysis, places of re-evocation of collective traumas which have not always taken place historically along the shores of the Mediterranean Sea. In some cases, the victims of collective traumas, undergone in the home Mediterranean countries, take their dramas of migrants and refugees to analysts in the North of Europe (as in the case of Varvin and Papadopoulos). In other pieces, neither the geographical origin of the analysand nor that of the analyst have apparently any connection with the Mediterranean. We are referring to the essay by the U.S. analyst Maria Ritter and that of the Dutch analyst Halberstadt-Freud: however, in them, the consulting rooms are places of the memory in which the analyst reflects on the subject of trans-generational transmission of collective guilt connected with Nazism and with the Shoah, which also affected the history of Mediterranean countries. In other contributions in this book, the places of the memory are those of the Middle East caught up in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. From different points of view, three authors, the Israeli psychoanalyst Yolanda Gampel, the Canadian analyst Judith Deutsch and the German psychoanalyst Hans-Jurgen Wirth, speak to us of places of the memory where the collective traumas have not been assigned once and for all to the work of historians (as in the case of the Shoah and of the other genocides of the 20th entury) as, unfortunately, they are still on-going.

AA. VV., Psychoanalysis, Collective Traumas and Memory Places, (English Edition) Collection "Mediterranean                   Id-entities",  Frenis Zero   2015,   paperback,     ISBN 978-88-97479-09-3, € 35,50. 

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G. Leo (editor) D. Mann  G. Northoff  A.N. Schore 

R. Stickgold  B.A. Van Der Kolk  G. Vaslamatzis

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NEUROSCIENCE AND PSYCHOANALYSIS

€ 49,00

NEUROSCIENCE AND PSYCHOANALYSIS 

Giuseppe Leo (Editor), Neuroscience and Psychoanalysis, English edition, Collection "Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience",  Frenis Zero Press, Lecce 2014, hardcover, pp. 300, ISBN 978-88-974790-6-2, € 49,00. 

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VirginiaWoolf                                                                 THE VOYAGE OUT   The Voyage Out is the first novel by Virginia Woolf, published in 1915 by Duckworth. Rachel Vinrace embarks for South America on her father's ship and is launched on a course of self-discovery in a kind of modern mythical voyage. The mismatched jumble of passengers provide Woolf with an opportunity to satirize Edwardian life. The novel introduces Clarissa Dalloway, the central character of Woolf's later novel, Mrs. Dalloway. This book had a long and difficult gestation. It was written during a period in which Woolf was especially vulnerable. She suffered from periods of depression and at one point attempted suicide. The resultant work contained the seeds of all that would blossom in her later work: the innovative narrative style, the focus on feminine consciousness, sexuality and death. Our publishing house wants to commemorate the 70th anniversary of Virginia Woolf’s death by publishing some books of her in the collection of “Biographies of Unconscious”, investigating the biographies of some characters of the first book of the collection, “Vite soffiate” (“Blowed Lives”) (2008). In order to enlighten the relationship between Virginia Woolf’s personality and her psychopathology, every book of Virginia Woolf in our collection presents an appendix, in which is outlined a “Virginia Woolf’s psychiatric history”. In the present book, this appendix deals with her personality, her relationship with sex and with her family history. In the next books we will examine more closely Virginia Woolf’s psychiatric history. Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out, Collection BIOGRAPHIES OF  UNCONSCIOUS, Edizioni Frenis Zero, Lecce 2011,  pages 672 , ISBN 978-88-97479-01-7, € 25,00.   Buy

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