Psychoanalytical Theory (Freudian Psychology)

We have much to learn from mothers and babies, not just about early life psychic phenomena that are active in us, but also about the analytic techn...

This book, beyond dealing with the theoretical and technical questions concerning the termination of analysis, gives a picture of the particular na...

It is characteristic of some forms of scientific genius to alter not just what we see in the world, but how we see it - not just the view, but the ...

Many texts about anxiety are based either in the philosophical tradition or within the medical model under the guise of discussions about post-trau...

Relying on and developing the ideas of W.R. Bion, this book observes psychoanalytic thinking through three prisms: person, group and society. The b...

This book arises out of an important international conference held in 2006 to discuss how regulation by the state has affected psychoanalysis as a ...

This book is devoted to the developmental substrate of regret and of its vicissitudes over the life span. It deals with fiction, poetry, and movies...

This exciting and innovative book assists health practitioners in understanding the sexual diversity that now occurs in therapeutic consultations. ...

What is it like to be a working psychoanalyst? And what is it like to be held in the mind of one? These were the questions that led Winer and Malaw...

In this book the author examines the series of connections that give rise to the intimate relationship between environment and individual in the co...

Divorce is a complicated process and not a single event. It has major life implications and must be done right. In this regard, the good divorce is...

This book deals with psychotherapeutic life and work at the interface between psychoanalytic theory and institutional reality. It focuses on the se...

This volume presents a series of papers that appeared in the International Journal of Psycho-Analysis during the 1950s. It recognizes a turning of ...

This book is concerned with the study of myths, which are an important element in the cultural dimension of the foundation matrices of all societie...

It can happen that a law incurs the wrath of the very people it set out to protect. This is what happened in France at the end of 2003 with the Acc...

This book, published in honour of Veikko Tahka, represents the synthesis of his thinking based on more than forty years' experience as a clinician,...

This book allows patients to speak for themselves about their psychoanalytic experiences. It challenges the preconceived perception that the analyt...

This book outlines three shibboleths of psychoanalysis: psychic bisexuality, the Oedipus complex, and social ontology. It affirms the centrality of...

This book emphasizes the influence of the name given at birth in terms of the construction of subjectivity. It offers the reader a fascinating jour...

This book provides an outline of the phenomenon of dependence as a reality in psychological functioning. It presents clinical examples to show how ...

This book aims to show that the function of day-dreams is to state a problem that has been disguised and then to solve it, the problem and the solu...

This book is a creative psychoanalytic odyssey, a most intriguing psychological voyage. It explores many of the most basic, fundamental concepts of...

This book focuses on the crucial importance of developmental work to psychotherapy and psychopathology. It offers an account of psychotherapy to in...

This second edition of the award-winning original text brings together in one volume the current thinking and conceptualizations on dissociation an...