{"product_id":"lacan-on-depression-and-melancholia-paperback","title":"Lacan on Depression and Melancholia - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDerek Hook\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eStijn Vanheule\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLacan on Depression and Melancholia \u003c\/em\u003econsiders how clinical, cultural, and personal understandings of depression can be broken down and revisited to properly facilitate psychoanalytical clinical practice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe contributors to this book highlight the role of neurotic conflicts underlying depressive affects, the distinction between neurotic and psychotic structure, the nature of melancholia, and the clinical value of Freudian and Lacanian concepts - such as object \u003ci\u003ea\u003c\/i\u003e, the Other, desire, the superego, sublimation - as demonstrated \u003ci\u003evia \u003c\/i\u003ea variety of clinical and historical cases. The book includes discussions of bereavement and mourning, transference in melancholia, suicidality and the death drive, excessive creativity, melancholic identification, neurotic inhibition, and manic-depressive psychosis.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLacan on Depression and Melancholia will be essential reading for psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists in practice and training, Lacanian clinicians, and scholars of Lacanian theory.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDerek Hook \u003c\/strong\u003eis an Associate Professor of Psychology and a clinical supervisor at Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, USA, and a Extraordinary Professor of Psychology at the University of Pretoria, South Africa.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eStijn Vanheule \u003c\/strong\u003eis a clinical psychologist and a Professor of Psychoanalysis and Clinical Psychology at Ghent University, Belgium. He is also a privately practicing psychoanalyst and a member of the New Lacanian School for Psychoanalysis.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 194\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.44 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 30, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47439033073842,"sku":"9781032106533","price":74.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/35198c567c8db3e4d97b9e9d9676c704.webp?v=1778666281","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/lacan-on-depression-and-melancholia-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}