Psychoanalytical Theory (Freudian Psychology)

It is now increasingly recognized that psychodrama provides a valid and useful tool in many different contexts; equally, practitioners in a wide va...

The editors and contributing authors of this volume have taken a truly pioneering and courageously challenging look at the state of cross-cultural ...

For some time the family therapy field has been moving away from a problem-based approach to work with clients. Ideas such as creating a new family...

Paul Genova's finely crafted essays, which proffer a humanistic and humanizing vision of psychiatry in the face of his profession's preoccupation w...

Radical departures from the set and familiar rules of technique often become necessary in the course of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. These can...

This book is primarily for psychotherapists, but is also for professionals such as lawyers, judges, doctors, and the clergy, and for victims. Diffe...

This book examines the status of women in different eras and in different areas of society. The contributors draw on their international experience...

This work challenges the notion that anxiety and depression amount to a mental illness denoting that something is wrong with the individual suffere...

The greater part of this book focuses on a critical analysis of the logics and ways of thinking supporting both explicit and implicit theories of s...

Image and sensing have been underrated in Western thought but have come into their own since the Romantic movement and have always been valued by p...

In today's world where every form of transgression enjoys a psychological motive and rational justification, psychoanalysis stands alone in its abi...

The Sower and the Seed explores the origins of consciousness from a mytho-psychological angle. The concept of immanence, a vast intelligence within...

Practitioners of psychoanalysis find three central themes to be recurrent and ubiquitous in every analysis; firstly, issues around identity, the st...

False Bodies, True Selves explores the phenomenon of growing numbers of people in western society and beyond completely embedding their sense of id...

This book is concerned with an enigmatic set of experiences which theorists in the Object Relations tradition have characterised as regression to d...

This latest volume in the Psychoanalysis and Women Series for the Committee on Women and Psychoanalysis of the International Psychoanalytical Assoc...

This book relates the psychoanalytic journey of a man in his thirties, a grandson of a high-level SS officer, whose case illustrates how individual...

This book explores family interaction and family psychoanalysis from varying standpoints used around the world. It illustrates these with extensive...

Published in 1949, this essay on child psychology and psychotherapy should be of especial interest to all parents and teachers of young children. S...

What are the barriers and obstacles to adults learning? What makes the process of adult learning so fragile? And what exactly do we mean by Fragile...

The premise of this book is that films, like other works of the imagination, may be elucidated by applying methods derived from psychoanalysis, and...

How we cope with grief and come to terms with the death of a loved one shapes our world. In this comprehensive guide to the mourning process, Dr Vo...

How does the tendency to crave pleasure and reject pain shape our lives? How does it affect the way we perceive reality, and how is it related to t...

This book explores the life and work of a neglected figure in the history of psychoanalysis, Karl Stern, who brought Freudian theory and practice t...

The author visited the archives of the headquarters of A.A. in New York, and discovered new communications between Carl Jung and Bill Wilson. For t...

This book explores the experiences of terror states in the consulting room. It examines how we might more adequately provide support and legitimacy...

Bion's identification of reverie as a psychoanalytic concept has drawn attention to a dimension of the analyst's experience with tremendous potenti...

Much has been written about cognitive development in those who are cognitively impaired. Much is written about attachment for people who don't have...

Women whose mothers were not called upon to achieve in a man's world have a difficult time seeing themselves as powerful enough to do that. Identif...

Though references to it are scattered in the writings of Klein and Winnicott, the topic of greed has drawn meagre attention from contemporary psych...

With statutory CAMHS services often heavily oversubscribed, and school and college services mainly offering brief therapeutic interventions, parent...

Bringing to light new developments in the treatment of marital conflict, this second edition of How to Talk to a Narcissist addresses the ever-chan...

This book explores ways we make contact with the depths in ourselves and each other. We are deeply moved by contact we make with life, yet also puz...

Estela Welldon brings together a generous selection derived from her many literary gems, in which she illustrates her groundbreaking-and sometimes ...

Feminine Law: Freud, Free Speech, and the Voice of Desire explores the conjunction between psychoanalysis and democracy, in particular their shared...

Childbearing seems eternal, primordial and universal. Yet human reproduction in the 21st century is in a state of flux. This accessible book highli...