Psychoanalytical Theory (Freudian Psychology)

This essential edition brings together a collection of classic papers from key figures in Kleinian and post-Kleinian thought that explore the relat...

Faced by the increasing divisiveness and volatility of electoral politics, and the rise of illiberal fundamentalisms, the social sciences may seem ...

In this book it is made plain that complex and powerful understanding can take place in brief work. The baby's development is carried forward, the ...

This book provides a clear, comprehensive, and sequential account of Bion's thinking, his life experience and technical innovations, saturated with...

This book represents a major effort to integrate contemporary theories and findings regarding the psychological effects of severe trauma. It explor...

In this book, the author discusses on eternal debate between those who see asexual attachment as the earliest bond and those who see infantile sexu...

This book offers a wealth of original contributions, all promising steps towards a fuller understanding of the phenomenon of concreteness and towar...

This book focuses on the professional ethics of medicine and psychiatry, to know whether psychoanalysis differs from brainwashing. It addresses a d...

This is a book about the growth and development of a multicultural therapist/analyst, looking at how a history of immigration and exposure to analy...

This book is an exploration of contemporary understanding from philosophy, neuroscience, psychoanalysis, and metaphysical studies, which seem to ve...

This book is concerned with the primitive edge of human experience. It explores the idea that human experience is the product of the dialectical in...

A Psychoanalytic Understanding of Trauma presents a theory of the nature of trauma and post-traumatic mental functioning based on the concept of th...

Through an exploration of extensive case studies, this book demonstrates how the discovery and examination of original childhood attachment wounds ...

For this volume, the author has brought together a group of distinguished writers to explore a wide range of issues affecting sibling relationships...

The horrific events of 9/11 and its sequelae have reinforced what thoughtful analysts have long known: that they have a responsibilty to respond to...

This book is a psychoanalytic discussion of the effects of trauma and torture on children, with a specific focus on how professionals can use an ap...

This book stems from the author's clinical experience working with infertile women in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. It highlights the crucial i...

Freud's thinking about the unconscious has always been seen to be more about representations than affects. When it came to the passions of the tran...

This book considers the experience of envy, greed, jealousy, and narcissism and how they operate between parents and children, brothers and sisters...

Therapists recognise that the practice of systemic family therapy is as much about the way one thinks as it is about what one does, and this book w...

This book aims to deconstruct the different theoretical perspectives of psychoanalysis, and reconstruct these concepts in a language that is readil...

In his Foundations of Psychoanalysis: A Philosophical Critique, Adolf Grunbaum claimed that the arguments supporting psychoanalytic hypotheses are ...

Within the context of a careful review of the psychology of religion and prior non-Lacanian literature on the subject, Raul Moncayo builds a bridge...

Drugs and drug use are an integral part of human culture. Yet we know hardly anything about drugs, at least not the kind of knowledge that would he...