Psychoanalytical Theory (Freudian Psychology)

The Papers of the Freudian School of Melbourne, Volume 24 give testament to that quasi - suicidal risk taken by analysts and members of the school,...

This book is about the psychological experiences of women and men who have used donor conception to create their families. The authors offer divers...

This book widens the scope of clinical and theoretical contributions on Couple and Family Psychoanalysis by collecting case presentations and discu...

Scum is a masterfully written book in which the author, by means of a particularly effective form of fragmentation of language, captures the disjun...

An influential New York salon host and perpetual seeker of meaning, Mabel Dodge entered psychoanalysis in 1916 with A.A. Brill, the first American ...

Just as concerts emerge from the interaction of many instruments, so our understanding of Shakespeare is enriched by different approaches to him. P...

This book explores an ethical value central to all mental health professions. Although dignity appears near the beginning of many codes of ethics, ...

Larger than Life is aimed at anyone interested in obesity and its treatment. It follows a dramatherapy group attended by six women, all struggling ...

This book examines the nature of social exclusion and the aspects of the politics of representation in the social, interpersonal, and political fie...

A practical guide to the essentials of organisational change which makes complex concepts accessible to managers, consultants, human resources prof...

Introduction to the Work of Donald Meltzer is a critical survey of Donald Meltzer's central themes which simultaneously focuses on the most importa...

Recent societal changes have challenged long-established concepts in psychoanalysis, including the Oedipus complex, parental functions, and male an...

Many analysts around the world have found themselves in a situation of continuing (or even beginning) psychoanalytic treatment from a distance - ei...

The adolescent finds himself in the very difficult position of having to make all these readjustments whilst he has to deal with the subsequent con...

This book presents a simple, effective and illuminating way of understanding and working with dreams in clinical practice. It describes the mechani...

During the rise of fascism and anti-Semitism in Germany, Albert Einstein wrote to Sigmund Freud asking the fundamental question: What can be done t...

What is integrative psychotherapy? How effective is the integrative approach to therapy? And what are its limitations? Answering these and other si...

This book examines the tension, caused by the conflict between poise and catastrophe, in the therapeutic relationship. It emphasizes positive contr...

In 1947, the author founded the Library of Psychoanalysis and Clinical Psychology at Presses Universitaires de France, and forty-two volumes have a...

This book examines some of the oldest preserved texts on dreams, such as Artemidorus' Oneirocritica, Sigmund Freud's favourite ancient dream theori...

This book explores psychosis as knowledge cut off from history, truth that cannot be articulated in any other form. It gives a nuanced picture of d...

The implicit background of this book consists of an optimistic approach to creating mind forms that improve the condition of humanity, deriving fro...

This is a new translation of the classic 1932 Dictionary by the author, for which Freud wrote a Preface praising the precision and correctness of t...

The Complete Works of W. R. Bion is now available in a coherent and corrected format. Comprising sixteen volumes bound in green cloth, this edition...

This book makes an original contribution to the study of the psychoanalytic process from a relational point of view, and at the same time serves as...

Learning is the most basic means by which we can change oursleves. Of all the activities of the mind, learning is perhaps the most fundamental, yet...

The author believes that studying a therapeutic process closely from its beginning to its termination is one of the best ways to observe, learn, an...

This book introduces the clinical concept of analytic contact. This is a term that describes the therapeutic method of investigation that makes up ...

This first volume of The Collected English Papers of Wolfgang Giegerich takes its title from Giegerich's ground-breaking paper, On the Neurosis of ...

C. G. Jung regarded the soul to be a reality in its own right which reflects itself in all manner of images and events. symbols and traditions. In ...

Organisational collapse is part of our vernacular. Enron, Woolworths, Lehman's, Bank of America, Rover, BOAC, Northern Rock - these failures are pa...

This book contains some modern contributions to the understanding and interpretation of dreams developed by contemporary psychoanalysts in the Brit...

Examining the assertions and fallacies of the theories conceived (or contrived) by some of today's most brilliant scientists and thinkers (includin...

Charts the development of Ferenczi's 'Active Technique' in papers such as The Technique of Psychoanalysis and Further Development of an Active Ther...

The author uses her popular columns from The Independent to explore the therapeutic process. Successful analysis, she argues, is less about followi...

A collection of papers on the Oedipus complex, divided into three parts: theory, practice and supervision. The contributors, who include Joyce McDo...