Psychological Theory & Schools of Thought

Wilfred R. Bion is considered a ground-breaking psychoanalyst. His thinking is rooted in Freud and Klein from where it takes an original flight. Re...

This book describes how neural circuitry develops epigenetically, in a manner that directly reflects early environmental influences. It provides a ...

The superego is one of those psychoanalytic concepts that has been assimilated into ordinary language, like repression, the unconscious and the Oed...

The FIMS Team Physician Manual is the official sports medicine handbook of the International Federation of Sports Medicine (FIMS), the worlds oldes...

This book presents a selection of papers on the subjects of Relational Analysis and Group Analysis, written in the ten-year period that goes from 2...

This book contains an eighteen hour seminar, given over a three day period, presented by Michael Eigen in Seoul, Korea, in 2009. The seminar traces...

This book forms a comprehensive bibliography of the works of W. R. Bion, and the other works that made some bearing of his life and thought. It dis...

This book resurrects the Franz Alexanderian legacy, reminding his behemoth contributions and offers the reader with a deeply tender and touching po...

Originally published in 1999 Social Theory and Psychoanalysis in Transition is a benchmark critique of Freudian theory in which a dialogue between ...

This book comprises a collection of the distinguished psychoanalyst Elisabeth Young-Bruehl 's papers ranging from 'Psychoanalysis and Social Democr...

This book exemplifies a special kind of application of psychoanalysis. It shows how the child uses the analyst both as a transference object and as...

This book examines the terminology used in the analysis of sadomasochism, surveys extensively, and in detail, the theories of other psychoanalysts,...

This book presents a research work on transformations in psychoanalysis and clinical observation of changes in psychoanalysis. It compares, based o...

This book examines the key orderingdisordering processes of the psychotic self. It draws on Sigmund Freud, Jung, object relation and selfpsychologi...

This book explores the trace of the emotional undercurrent stirred by money from its beginnings in childhood to its consolidation into adult life, ...

Has psychoanalysis become postmodern? How are the various schools of psychoanalysis being altered by postmodernism? What role does psychoanalysis h...

This book is a comprehensive revision of the notion of envy, suggesting that envy is not innate and proposing some fresh ideas about its relation t...

This book includes articles that describe how Winnicott's thinking facilitates the building of bridges between the internal and external realities,...

This book focuses on the intertwining between the development of a child's psyche and its parents' behaviour. It shows the importance of the earlie...

This book represents some of Wilfred Bion's basic concepts, which are reconsidered from the perspective of mental growth. It elucidates Bion's sign...

This book makes detailed correlations between psychological/psychoanalytic variables, on one hand, and neuroanatomical/neurophysiological considera...

In this, the sixth volume in the highly successful monograph series produced under the auspices of the European Federation for Psychoanalytic Psych...

These stimulating essays are evidence that 50 years after its publication Melanie Klein's Envy and Gratitude is still a rich source of psychoanalyt...

Cognitive Evolution provides an in-depth exploration of the natural history of cognition, from the beginning of life on Earth to present-day humans...

This monograph focuses on a systemic approach to dream interpretation and the unique importance of the initial dream. The first dream reported in a...

The current volume represents an exciting collection of essays critically examining the relation between modern science and Lacanian psychoanalysis...

The authors propose to investigate the meaning and purpose of boundaries within and around the therapeutic experience. A boundary is more than a si...

Schizophrenia is the central problem in the sciences of the mind, not only for its etiological, psychopathological and clinical aspects, but also b...

Specifically written for all those families who are unable to receive funding for their child's programme, and is an invaluable tool for new tutors...

This book comprises a selection of papers initially presented as a series of lectures organised by the Psychoanalytic Forum of the British Psychoan...

In this classic work, eight crucial Lacanian ideas are explained through detailed exploration of the theoretical and/or practical context in which ...

Leaders in Transition brings a new perspective on why some leaders succeed more than others when taking charge of an organisation. Based on in-dept...

This edited volume draws upon Lacanian psychoanalytic theory to examine the conscious and unconscious forces underlying race as a social formation,...

Are You Considering Therapy? is a guidebook for people who are thinking about going into therapy but aren't quite sure where to start. It will look...

Sent Before My Time is an exploration of the workings of a neo natal intensive care unit from a child psychotherapist's point of view. It examines ...

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