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Dec 2024
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Best (Psychodynamic) Books of 2024 | Wha...

Alina | Psychodynamic Psychology
About this episode

Here are my favourite psychodynamic books and articles out of 4200+ pages I read in 2024 (as a psychoanalyst in training). Each of them allowed me to dive into another great mind, theory, or contribution of psychoanalysis.


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📚 Books mentioned (Amazon affiliate links):

"Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: A Practitioner's Guide" by Nancy McWilliams: https://amzn.to/4ccruul

"The Hidden Spring" by Mark Solms: https://amzn.to/3SB7tqg

"The Neuroscientific Underpinnings of Psychoanalysis" by Mark Solms: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/behavioral-neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnbeh.2018.00294/full

"The Shadow of the Object" by Christopher Bollas: https://amzn.to/3T13N1B

"Psychoanalytic Studies of the Personality" by W. R. D. Fairbairn: https://amzn.to/3ywLKJp

"Why Read Fairbairn?" by Thomas Ogden "New Ways in Psychoanalysis" by Karen Horney: https://amzn.to/470yo55

"A Mind of Her Own: The Life of Karen Horney" by Susan Quinn: https://amzn.to/3XOMuSO

"Triangulierung" Jürgen Grieser: https://amzn.to/3YzPwwq

"Schopenhauer’s Porcupines: Intimacy and Its Dilemmas" by Deborah Luepnitz: https://amzn.to/3yqDlHw TIMESTAMPS

00:00 Introduction

02:03 Nancy McWilliams, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: A Practitioner's Guide

04:16 Mark Solms, The Hidden Spring

06:53 Mark Solms, The Neuroscientific Underpinnings of Psychoanalysis

07:46 Christopher Bollas, The Shadow of the Object

10:29 W. R. D. Fairbairn, Psychoanalytic Studies of the Personality

13:08 Thomas Ogden, Why Read Fairbairn?

13:50 Susan Quinn, A Mind of Her Own: The Life of Karen Horney

15:33 Karen Horney, New Ways in Psychoanalysis

17:38 Jürgen Grieser, Triangulierung

19:52 Deborah Luepnitz, Schopenhauer’s Porcupines: Intimacy and Its Dilemmas


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