Psychological Theory & Schools of Thought

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...

Uniquely devoted to hard and fractured rock hydraulics, this advanced-level introduction provides tools to solve practical engineering problems. Ch...

In a tough opening statement, M. Brewster Smith outlines his own life course and contrasts it with the agenda of social psychology in the present p...

Rachel Carsons 1962 Silent Spring is one of the few books that can claim to be epoch-making. Its closely reasoned attack on the use of pesticides i...

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...

How to Structure a Thesis, Report or Paper provides concise practical guidance for students to help make their writing more structured at any level...

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...

Validity is a clear, substantive introduction to the two most fundamental aspects of defensible testing practice: understanding test score meaning ...

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...

Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) remains one of the most effective forms of neurostimulation for severe mental illness. Sound scientific research un...

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...

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...