About the Book
The one thousand entries in this book provide the best single volume coverage of psychoanalysis available. With its wide, objective and catholic vision, the Encyclopaedia demonstrates that psychoanalysis is a single discipline, very much greater than any particular movement, school or individual, including its founder, Freud. Thus the book contains authoritative entries on all the most important authors, practitioners, concepts, movements, schools, debates and controversies in psychoanalysis and its offspring, past and present. A precis essay is given of each school amplified by explanations of all key terms within that school. Entries are alphabetically arranged, fully cross-referenced, many with suggestions for further reading. Most importantly the book features both contributors and entries reflecting the various disciplines such as Feminism, Literature, Philosophy, Art and Anthropology that have contributed to the development of psychoanalysis or been influenced by it.Besides an immense array of topics on psychoanalysis contributed by psychoanalysts themselves, there are also entries on many topics written by psychiatrists, psychologists, psychotherapists, philosophers, medical researchers, historians, literary critics, anthropologists, linguists and other specialists. International in scope, the Encyclopaedia also draws on a geographically wide field of authors. The Encyclopaediacaters for readers who require knowledge at a glance as well as those seeking a more detailed account. Besides concise definitions, it includes numerous illuminating longer essays by distinguished contributors including: Peter Fonagy, Michael Eigen, James Grotstein, Eric Laurent, Thomas Ogden, Paul Roazen, Hazel Barnes, Charles Brenner, Marcia Cavell, Morris Eagle, Murray Stein, Allan Schore, Robert Stolorow and Robert Wallerstein.Key Features* Entries on all the concepts of the main psychoanalytic schools of thought including the analytic psychologist, Jung. * Full coverage
About the Author :
Ross Skelton is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and Psychoanalytic Studies at Trinity College Dublin. He is also an experienced psychotherapist with a private practice. Apart from being one of the pioneers of psychoanalysis in the Republic of Ireland, he has published many articles on the interface of logic with psychoanalysis and also its connections with poetry and rhetoric. He is an editor of the American Journal of Psychotherapy and a former editor of the e-journal Kleinian Studies.
Review :
Edinburgh University Press is known for the publication of high-quality, scholarly works, and this one is no exception...a wide range of readers will find this a handy, informative resource. Historians, philosophers, and social scientists will appreciate the inclusive, balanced nature of the work. Libraries serving these disciplines will want to have this work in their reference collections.
This is undoubtedly the best single volume reference work for psychoanalysis and Jungian analysis available. The entries are scholarly, balanced and clear and the references to each entry have been impeccably assembled. Trainees and students, as well as established practitioners, and academics from many disciplines, will discover that there is no conceivable web-based resource that can match this book for portability and reliability.
I believe this Encyclopaedia will provide psychoanalysts of all schools and learned individuals alike with the best access to the complex and vital science of psychoanalysis.
Besides admirably embracing the diversity of the field and its figures, this volume is especially valuable for discovering the pervasive but oft unacknowledged influence of psychoanalytic thought in the humanities, social sciences, arts, religion, politics and philosophy.
An absolutely first-class achievement. Ross Skelton has succeeded in producing a superb piece of work.
The editors of this International Encyclopaedia present all of the major schools and each of the contiguous disciplines. Core concepts are discussed from multiple perspectives by authors who are experts from each of the several schools and from around the world. The result is unique - a compendium of what one needs to know to understand contemporary psychoanalytic discourse in the words of its leading scholars and most thoughtful observers. It will be of great value to students, teachers and practitioners. As an added reward, it is a pleasure to read.
A pioneering psychotherapist in the Republic of Ireland, Ross M. Skelton is the rare individual, who, in his writing, is able to demonstrate successfully the juncture of the art of science and the science of art. This is shown in works such as, "Simple Bilogic and the Poems of Louis MacNeice'" and "Comparison of Lacanian Clinical Technique With that of Jung." As General Editor of The Edinburgh International Encyclopaedia of Psychoanalysis, he brings his vision to this cumulative work.
A valuable tool to psychoanalysts and a work resistant to time.
An impressive, synoptic encyclopedia of psychoanalysis [...] based on the simple idea that all schools of psychoanalysis have more in common than what divides them.
