Psychoanalytical Theory (Freudian Psychology)

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

A collection of lectures by eminent members of the British Psycho-analytical Society. Includes papers on the experience of having a baby, pregnancy...

From Aristotles theory of tragic katharsis onwards, theorists of the theatre have long engaged with the question of what spectatorship entails. Thi...

The authors in this book focus on revenge as a neglected and insufficiently understood psychological mechanism in a broad spectrum ranging from the...

This book discusses psychoanalytic understanding of childhood autism and of autistic aspects of adult patients. It describes a wide range of adult ...

After being the subject of many studies up until 1914, totemism seemed to disappear from the literature. The publication of Freud's work Totem and ...

The papers collected together in this volume laid the groundwork for contemporary psychoanalytic women's studies and gender theory. They cover a pe...

Psychotic States brings together a number of the author's papers written between 1946 and 1964 dealing with the psychopathology and treatment of va...

This book presents the early history of psychoanalysis, focusing on the network of psychoanalytic filiations and the context of discovery of crucia...

Women and men in cinema are imaginary constructs created by filmmakers and their audiences. The film-psychoanalytic approach reveals how movies sub...

Political theorist Laurie M. Johnson deals with Jungs analysis of the effects of modern scientific rationalism on the development of communism, fas...

Creative Repetition and Intersubjectivity looks at contemporary Freudian and post-Freudian theory through an intersubjective lens. Bruce Reis offer...

In this groundbreaking volume, the authors bring us into the immediacy of the analyst's consulting room in direct confrontation with the thought di...

Finalist in the Australian Career Book Award 2020, supported by the Royal Society of Arts Oceania Finding and following an authentic calling challe...

How is it possible that a phenomenon like psychoanalysis, which has dominated the cultural and intellectual life of the last century in Europe, Nor...

Frantz Fanon, Erich Fromm, Pierre Bourdieu, and Marie Langer are among those activists, clinicians, and academics who have called for a social psyc...

After first having been denied, the Jewish element in the works of Freud has been variously studied from many different points of view. In this wid...

Bion's War Memoirs is perhaps the most exceptional piece of autobiography yet written by a psychoanalyst. The first section of the book is document...

Jessica Benjamin is one of the most important and influential psychoanalysts of the last 4 decades. She is one of the founders of relational psycho...

Deinstitutionalizing Art of the Nomadic Museum explores the possibility of the nomadic museum to facilitate social and political resistance through...

For the first time, the controversial issue of physical contact in the consulting room is explored by distinguished psychoanalysts and psychotherap...

For Freud, famously, the feminine was a dark continent, or a riddle without an answer. This understanding concerns mans relationship to the questio...

This book describes a series of cases where the child's presenting complaint is seen to be the expression of an underlying emotional conflict that ...

This highly innovative new book reconsiders the structure of basic emotions, the self and the mind. It clinically covers mental disorders, therapeu...