Psychological Theory & Schools of Thought

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...

This book looks beyond both theory and practice to the politics and cultural resonances of psychoanalysisin the torments and anxiety of artistic en...

This book revisits the theory of social systems as a defence against anxiety. It explores this theory as a generative paradigm, capable both of the...

This book focuses on the priority that psychoanalysis places on the individual, how the treatment is conceived theoretically and the ways it can be...

This book is concerned with the study of organizations of various kinds. It examines the patterns of conscious and unconscious life of those organi...

This book creates an awareness shows ways in which to talk and think about the enormous problem of a gravitational force in the surrounding: an exc...

Contemporary versions of evil demonise modern fascists, totalitarian threats, and Hitlers. As if not obscure enough, fascist evil has been equivoca...

This book explores the meaning of gaps and intervals between events and between experiencesthe transitional space/time separating them, as well as ...

This book promotes curiosity, exploration and learning about difference by paying as much attention as to how we learn (process) as to what we lear...

This book explores some of the unconscious mechanisms and processes that underpin the racist phenomenon by looking at racism as a state of mind, in...

In this volume, originally published in 1978, the authors survey the historical and contemporary research literature pertaining to two-dimensional ...

Midlife is a concept used everywhere and from many different vertexes, though mostly imprecisely, even within the psychoanalytic paradigm. This boo...

This book is directly aimed at sufferers of mental distress. The book's aim is to remove from sufferers the burden of 'fault' for their pain and to...

This book illustrates the myriad of ways in which hurt was created. It presents an integrative picture of relational psychotherapists working analy...

The literature since the first edition has been reviewed and material from it has been inserted, with particular emphasis on experimental contribut...

Humans are weak. Lacking the claws and thick skins of other animals, we are forced to rely on members of our own species to survive and flourish in...

The Troubles in Northern Ireland have endured for so long that eventually the abnormal has become normal. This volume examines the processes by whi...

This book explores the life and theories of Michael Balint, who kept alive Ferenczi's analytic traditions in Budapest and brought them to London, w...

Distinguishing psychoanalysis, as a search for truth, from suggestion, as a cure for symptoms, this book addresses the scientific status of psychoa...

Psychoanalysis is concerned with the vicissitudes of life: loss, grief, mourning, guilt and also with reparation and creativity, with death and reb...

Italian neo-realism has inspired film audiences and fascinated critics and film scholars for decades. This book offers an original analysis of the ...

Language is of central importance in childrens development and vital for their success at school and in the world beyond. Designed for the many pro...

All steps forward in the improvement of the human psyche have been paid for by blood. Further to this statement from C. G. Jung, Wolfgang Giegerich...

Broadly defined as the science and technology of systems responding to neural processes in the brain, neuroadaptive systems (NASs) has become a rap...

The Klein-Winnicott Dialectic: Transformative New Metapsychology and Interactive Clinical Theory brings together the theories of Melanie Klein and ...

This study consists of a twofold, interrelated enquiry: the Orientalism of psychoanalysis and the psychoanalysis of Orientalism - bringing into con...