Psychological Theory & Schools of Thought

This collection of contemporary clinically-oriented papers covers a range of theoretical approaches to the fundamentally important technical issue ...

Mary Wollstonecrafts 1792 Vindication of the Rights of Women is an incendiary attack on the place of women in 18th-century society. Often considere...

Wilfred Bion and Literary Criticism introduces the work of the British psychoanalyst, Wilfred Bion (18971979), and the immense potential of his ide...

The Brexit vote; the election of Trump; the upsurge of European nationalism; the devolution of the Arab Spring; global violence; Chinese expansioni...

The Fictions of Dreams explores the close connection between the narrative nature of dreams and the narrative devices employed in literature and cr...

This book takes a deeper look into the darker side of the human condition by examining the psyches of those who have been victims or survivors of h...

The contributions to this book, containing talks given at the Conference in Vienna on 'Dream and Fantasy in Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis and...

Franz Alexander was the first graduate of the Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute, the man who turned down Freud's offer to enter into private practice...

The Desire of Psychoanalysis proposes that recognizing how certain theoretical and institutional problems in Lacanian psychoanalysis are grounded i...

Offering a new template for future exploration, Susan Greenwood examines and develops the notion that the experience of magic is a panhuman orienta...

'The re-issuing of the four volumes of Heinz Kohut's writings is a major publishing event for psychoanalysts who are interested in both the theoret...

Anatomy of Regret has a highly clinical focus, with cases that illustrate how critical psychic change can emerge from the mourning of the grief of ...

Freud's Beyond the Pleasure Principle constitutes a major landmark and a real turning point in the evolution of psychoanalytic theory. Pushing asid...

Freud's invention of psychoanalysis was based on his own desire to know something about the unconscious, but what have been the effects of this ori...

This book shows readers how to conduct observational methods, research tools used to describe and explain behaviors as they unfold in everyday sett...

Open your eyes to the meaning of your dreams and take advantage of their incredible power for self-improvement.Find out how to decode and interpret...