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The Clinic and the Context: Historical Essays

The Clinic and the Context: Historical Essays

Elisabeth Young-Bruehl

This book comprises a collection of the distinguished psychoanalyst Elisabeth Young-Bruehl's papers ranging from 'Psychoanalysis and Social Democracy', 'Civilization and its Dream of Contentement', 'Reflections on Women and Psychoanalysis' ...
The Anatomy of Prejudices

The Anatomy of Prejudices

Elisabeth Young-Bruehl

Among the many forms of prejudice, Young-Bruehl pays particular attention to four - antisemitism, racism, sexism, and homophobia - which she exposes in their distinctiveness and their similarities.
Subject to Biography: Psychoanalysis, Feminism, and Writing ...

Subject to Biography: Psychoanalysis, Feminism, and Writing ...

Elisabeth Young-Bruehl

In this provocative new book, Elisabeth Young-Bruehl illuminates the psychological and intellectual demands writing biography makes on the biographer and explores the complex and frequently conflicted relationship between feminism and ...
Why Arendt Matters

Why Arendt Matters

Elisabeth Young-Bruehl

Over the next twenty-five years, she wrote ten more books and developed a set of ideas that profoundly influenced the way America and Europe addressed the central questions and dilemmas of World War II. In this concise book, Elisabeth Young ...
Where Do We Fall when We Fall in Love?

Where Do We Fall when We Fall in Love?

Elisabeth Young-Bruehl

Are all human beings by nature bisexual? Exploring these and other questions, this work traces the mystery of love to its sources focusing on the subject from a psychoanlaytical perspective.
Hannah Arendt: For Love of the World

Hannah Arendt: For Love of the World

Elisabeth Young-Bruehl

Praise for the earlier edition: “Both a personal and an intellectual biography . . . It represents biography at its best.”—Peter Berger, front page, The New York Times Book Review “A story of surprising drama . . .
Freud On Women

Freud On Women

Elisabeth Young-Bruehl

' This collection contains Freud's most significant statements on women, taken form letters as well as published work, presenting a clear, accessible view of the progress of his thought and his own struggle for understanding and coherence.
Anna Freud: A Biography

Anna Freud: A Biography

Elisabeth Young-Bruehl

This new edition of the biography of pioneering child analyst Anna Freud includes, among other features, a major retrospective introduction by the author.
Childism: Confronting Prejudice Against Children

Childism: Confronting Prejudice Against Children

Elisabeth Young-Bruehl

The author exposes American society's prejudice against its children--from corporal punishment and an uncaring foster care system to the pressure placed on children to support one parent or another in a divorce--and the harm it causes them.
The Cambridge Companion to French Literature

The Cambridge Companion to French Literature

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14. ELISABETH LADENSON ... to the corrupting force of French novels, especially – though not exclusively – on young women. The dangerous French novel of the Victorians The pernicious influence 222 Literature and sex elisabeth ladenson.
Sisters in Pain: Battered Women Fight Back

Sisters in Pain: Battered Women Fight Back

Linda Elisabeth Beattie

Battered Women Fight Back Linda Elisabeth Beattie, Mary Angela Shaughnessy. essential, as I suspected that opportunities for self-expression had ... social problems that, if ignored, will intensify our collective shame. L. Elisabeth Beattie The ...
Knowledge Management Lessons Learned: What Works and what ...

Knowledge Management Lessons Learned: What Works and what ...

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... Elisabeth Davenport Elisabeth Davenport is a research professor in the School of Computing, ...
Why Psychoanalysis?

Why Psychoanalysis?

Elisabeth Roudinesco

Elisabeth Roudinesco tackles this difficult question, exploring what she s
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf

Elisabeth Schwarzkopf

Alan Jefferson

" -- Library Journal Internationally renowned as the finest Mozart and Strauss soprano since World War II, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf was a preeminent performer in both opera and Lieder for three decades.
Tartine

Tartine

Elisabeth Prueitt

" This is one of them. Acclaimed pastry chef Elisabeth Prueitt and master baker Chad Robertson share not only their fabulous recipes, but also the secrets and expertise that transform a delicious homemade treat into a great one.
Cherishment: A Psychology of the Heart

Cherishment: A Psychology of the Heart

Elisabeth Young-Bruel

The book narrates a journey of discovery, and any reader on his or her own journey in the realm of the heart will feel cherished by it.
The Loud Earth

The Loud Earth

Elisabeth Lee Murray

And above all the lake - its colours and rhythms, the answers it seems to hold. But one night a young woman arrives on her porch. A stranger to the town, Hannah doesn't know the stories told about this outcast. A romance blossoms.
Lacan: In Spite of Everything

Lacan: In Spite of Everything

Elisabeth Roudinesco

Widely recognized as the leading authority on Lacan, Élisabeth Roudinesco revisits his life and work: what it was - and what it remains. From the Trade Paperback edition.
Madness and Revolution: The Lives and Legends of Théroigne ...

Madness and Revolution: The Lives and Legends of Théroigne ...

Elisabeth Roudinesco

Elisabeth Roudinesco's exploration of Theroigne's life and afterlife restores a much-wronged woman to her rightful place in history.
Généalogies

Généalogies

Elisabeth Roudinesco

Historienne, docteur ès lettres, Elisabeth Roudinesco est directeur de recherche à l'université de Paris-VII, chargée de conférences à l'Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales, vice-présidente de la Société internationale d ...
Dancing Under the Red Star: The Extraordinary Story of ...

Dancing Under the Red Star: The Extraordinary Story of ...

Karl Tobien

This is the true story of one of those families–Carl and Elisabeth Werner and their young daughter Margaret–and their terrifying life in Russia under brutal dictator Joseph Stalin.
Diptyque

Diptyque

Elisabeth de Feydeau

" "This is the story that Elisabeth de Feydeau relates in this book, the history of a creative enterprise and business success, interwoven with the personal journeys of the three friends whose personalities and tastes lie at its heart.
La royauté au féminin. Elisabeth 1ère: Elisabeth Ire

La royauté au féminin. Elisabeth 1ère: Elisabeth Ire

Bernard Cottret

C’est cette relation étroite entre une femme et son pays que Bernard Cottret met au cœur de la reconstitution minutieuse du règne de la reine vierge.
Elisabeth: Kaiserin wider Willen

Elisabeth: Kaiserin wider Willen

Brigitte Hamann

Elisabeth, die "schönste Monarchin der Welt": Naiv in die Ehe gestolpert, machtlos gegen Schwiegermutter und Rivalin, eine Fremde am Wiener Hof.
The Structure and Confirmation of Evolutionary Theory

The Structure and Confirmation of Evolutionary Theory

Elisabeth Anne Lloyd

In analyzing the logical structure of evolutionary biology, Elisabeth Lloyd argues that the semantic account is more appropriate and powerful. This book will be of interest to biologists and philosophers alike.
The Pleasures of Slow Food: Celebrating Authentic ...

The Pleasures of Slow Food: Celebrating Authentic ...

Corby Kummer

ELISABETH PRUEITT elisabeth prueitt is a marvelously talented San Francisco CALIFORNIA pastry chef. Together with her husband, Chad Robertson, Tartine the attractive couple runs what many people—people like Alice Waters and Paul  ...
NWSA Journal: A Publication of the National Women's Studies ...

NWSA Journal: A Publication of the National Women's Studies ...

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Elisabeth Griffith To Elisabeth Griffith: The biography of Abigail Scott Duniway is no less personal because it treats her public struggle to liberate all women. Indeed, what Ruth Barnes Moynihan recognized was that the realms of personal and ...
The Politics of Marriage in Contemporary China

The Politics of Marriage in Contemporary China

Elisabeth Croll

Dr Elisabeth Croll examines the institute of marriage in the People's Republic of China.
Studies in the Economic History of the Ohio Valley: Seasonal ...

Studies in the Economic History of the Ohio Valley: Seasonal ...

Louis C. Hunter

... of Tobacco Production in the Connecticut Vallry Elisabeth Ramsay VOLUME XVI (1930-1931) Hadlry: A Study of the Political Develofment of a Tyfical New England Town from the Official Records (1659-1930) Ellen Elisabeth Callahan Bryan ...
The Parish Register of Hartshead, in the County of York, ...

The Parish Register of Hartshead, in the County of York, ...

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