Lacanian Psychoanalysis: A Clinical Casebook - Paperback

by Danièle Brillaud (Author), John Holland (Translator)

In this important work, Danièle Brillaud provides an illuminating exploration of major concepts in Jacques Lacan's notoriously difficult writings, the Écrits. To illustrate the theory, she discusses clinical cases and examples from the treatment of patients with a wide range of psychiatric disorders.

Author Biography

Danièle Brillaud is a practising psychoanalyst and former consultant psychiatrist in the French public hospital system, where she saw patients on an inpatient and outpatient basis. Since 2004, she has been teaching a seminar that uses clinical cases to present Lacan's work and is the author of two books on Lacanian clinical practice and diagnostics.

John Holland is an independent scholar and French-to-English translator with a background in literary criticism and psychoanalysis. His translations include What Lacan Said About Women: A Psychoanalytic Study by Colette Soler (Other Press, 2006) and Lacan and Marx: The Invention of the Symptom by Pierre Bruno (Routledge, 2019). A specialist in Henry James and Jacques Lacan, he lives in Nantes, France.