Psychological Theory & Schools of Thought

Bion's War Memoirs is perhaps the most exceptional piece of autobiography yet written by a psychoanalyst. The first section of the book is document...

In his latest groundbreaking book, the author examines the history of psychoanalysis from a resolutely independent perspective. At once spellbindin...

Using 'Freud's Project for a scientific psychology' as a starting point, this book is a brilliant new approach that combines psychoanalytical resea...

This book records a series of groundbreaking discussions that took place in 1994-95 between a number of prominent Kleinian and Lacanian psychoanaly...

This book seeks to contribute to a psychological perspective to aircrew wellbeing and help aircrew to acquire an understanding of how to better man...

Evil - along with its incarnation in human form, the psychopath - remains underexamined in the psychological and psychoanalytic literature. Given c...

The Privacy of the Self was the first collection of papers showing the development of the author's thinking over twenty five years of clinical work...

Hate crimes and lesser acts of bigotry and intolerance are seen to be constants in todays world. Since 1990, the federal government has published a...

As our knowledge of the change and turmoil of adolescence grows, so the number of issues on which psychotherapeutic techniques can shed light incre...

'This fascinating book, the last in a trilogy on psychoanalytic reflections, explores power and vulnerability in three related areas: Leadership an...

This book contains a collection of articles on social psychology, the psychology of terror and violence, psychoanalytic psychotherapy, and the hist...

This book focuses on the subject of the development of masculinity and femininity. It shows that the perverse scene aims not only at denying castra...

Photographs shaped the view of the world in turn-of-the-century Central Europe, bringing images of everything from natural and cultural history to ...

This book bears witness to the author's psychoanalytic journey from the years 1994-1995 to the present, and as such is a completion and a continuat...

Although best known as a disseminator of Freudian and Kleinian ideas, the author also contributed important and original material to the body of ps...

This book looks at dreams from a twenty-first century perspective. It takes its inspiration from Freud's insights, but pursues psychoanalytic inter...

After a hundred years of psychoanalysis, what has the psychoanalytic interpretation of dreams now become? Are what Simic calls the films of our liv...

Generalized Linear Models for Categorical and Continuous Limited Dependent Variables is designed for graduate students and researchers in the behav...

Traditionally, criminal profiling texts have focused exclusively on the technicalities of conducting an investigation, but recent developments in c...

Psychoanalysis - the one that we are familiar with - started in the clinical field. Freud and Breuer made some strides in the treatment of hysteria...

Prosody is the rhythm, stress and intonation of speech, which encodes information that is not encoded by the syntax or words of an utterance. Proso...

In the World Library of Psychologists series, international experts themselves present career-long collections of what they judge to be their fines...

The controversies and dilemmas in contemporary psychiatry are so numerous and serious that they, to a great extent, define psychiatry. Yet most psy...

The therapeutic relationship is increasingly becoming a central topic in systemic psychotherapy and cross-cultural thinking. Here, experienced syst...

A substantive guide to state of the art research and theory, the International Handbook of Criminologycompletes an esteemed trilogy of comparative ...

In the World Library of Psychologists series, international experts themselves present career-long collections of what they judge to be their fines...

Is violent conflict inevitable? What is it in our social nature that makes us conduct wars, genocides and persecutions? The answer lies in how we a...

Taboo, Personal and Collective Representations examines the symbolic nature of taboo, asking what is the purpose of a taboo and how does it vary cr...

This book is an account of the psychology of romantic love in the context of a theory of emotions. The account develops out of studies in brain psy...

This book is an attempt to add to the theoretical discussion regarding the nature of the intrapsychic and interpersonal transformational changes as...

This book aims at making explicit the scientific theories, termed paradigms, that the author has found useful in psychoanalysis. It lists nine para...

The book Psychoanalysis and Severe Handicap: The Hand in the Cap introduces an original look at handicap, a look aiming at capturing the subjectivi...

How do we know right from wrong, good from bad, help from hindrance, and how can we judge the behaviour of others?Ethics are the rules and guidelin...

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

This book is a comprehensive guide to the evidence, theories, and practical issues associated with recovery from stuttering in early childhood and ...

Explains how our major social problems, including crime, violence, terrorism, war, substance abuse, and prejudice, are the result of efforts by the...