Psychological Theory & Schools of Thought

This book deals with problems related to the analysis and treatment of borderline and psychosomatic patients. It demonstrates how psychoanalytic pr...

Drawing on a series of in-depth interviews illuminating the phenomenology of shame in the general public, Miller systematically explores the variou...

Thomas Kuhns The Structure of Scientific Revolutions can be seen, without exaggeration, as a landmark text in intellectual history. In his analysis...

In this expanded edition of a classic text, Anton Kris reexamines the method of free association, one of the foundational components of psychoanaly...

This new title, from a distinguished psychoanalyst, will inspire both those in the psychoanalytic field, and the general reader.'In this book the a...

This book focuses on the clinical treatment of disability from French researchers in the fields of psychology, anthropology, psychiatry, and philos...

Recovering from severe mental illness is one of the most terrifying human experiences in health care. Often conventional rehabilitation approaches ...

From artificial intelligence to identity theft, from what we once thought of as unshakeable institutions to increasing concerns about privacy and s...

This book, focusing on the work of Jacques Lacan, examines psychosis in children, without ignoring the study of neurosis in childhood and concentra...

From the early 1970s, the author worked on the neglected theory of C.G. Jung's depth psychology, incorporating it into modern knowledge about livin...

This book explores what we mean when we use the term perversion. Are we dealing with a sexological classification, a mental disturbance, an ethical...

The analytic attitude ranks as one of Freud's greatest creations. Both the findings of psychoanalysis as a method of investigation and its results ...

The social unconscious is vital for understanding persons and their groupings, ranging from families to societies, committees to organisations, and...

This book seeks to underscore the multifaceted ways in which we encounter suffering in clinical and social settings. The fear, greed, and guilt cau...

This book provides contemporary perspectives concerning Freud's fundamental assumptions on the unconscious. It presents some of the original theore...

This book concentrates upon families where there is more than one child. It distinguishes between a sibling transference and a parent/child transfe...

This book addresses aspects of how creativity is viewed in psychoanalytic theory and worked with in the consulting room, with particular reference ...

This book presents psychoanalytic thinking about the phenomenon of the couple and couple dynamics at different levels of organization: the couple i...

This book takes the skills and techniques of cognitive behaviour therapy and offers readers the opportunity of taking control of their anxiety. It ...

This book focuses on theoretical and clinical progress in psychoanalysis through various thematic proposals developed by authors from diverse geogr...

This book focuses on Lacan's revisions and renewals of psychoanalytic concepts, and shows the ways in which Lacan succeeded in the reinvention of p...

Bringing together concepts from psychoanalysis with an attentive eye and the author's popular wisdom, Sports on the Couch explores the psychology o...

This book is a set of wonderfully subtle and free-wheeling interwoven stories about psychoanalysis and football, and what they might have to say to...

This book offers a new theory of music as a form of social bond analogous to language as it is understood according to the Lacanian orientation in ...

This book emphasises on Kabbalah and psychoanalysis and the two domains intertwining almost seamlessly. It focuses on birth processes at different ...

In this book, Marcus Evans makes a strong case for the importance of psychoanalytic supervision in mental health practice and its role in helping f...

This book explores nuances of faith-no-faith moments, twists and turns of living and focuses on variations of faith, beginning with nature, sleep, ...

The stated purpose of this phenomenological psychoanalytic study is to make the phenomenon of self-destruction and its vicissitudes intelligible. I...

This book claims that a tragicomic outlookthe kind that echoes in black and gallows humour and the laughter through tears of Jewish humouris the mo...

This book examines the theories of female sexuality, using the Freudian and non-Freudian approach to the unconscious. It emphasise on what in the p...

Psychoanalysis Online 3: The Teleanalytic Setting is a highly topical, continuing conversation on the role of technology in psychoanalysis and its ...

This book presents two thoughtful and long clinical case presentations of adolescents with serious psychiatric problems and some social-psychiatric...

In a long and distinguished career the authorhas established himself as a psychoanalyst of international reputation. The present volume gathers tog...

The increasing portrayal of forensic investigative techniques in the popular mediaCSI, for example, has resulted in criminals becoming forensically...

This book provides an in-depth analysis of the major milestones in Karl Abraham's career, and highlights his interest in mythology and his permanen...

This book examines the so-called War on Obesity as an example of a cultural complex, how that complex shapes the way fat is treated in psychotherap...