Psychological Theory & Schools of Thought

The book is grounded in psychoanalytic thinking, but it is also placed at an intersection of several fields of thought: linguistics, anthropology a...

This book is a of papers written between 2002 and 2012 on the subject of group analysis and relational psychoanalysis. From the author's point of v...

Theoretical and clinical progress in psychoanalysis continues to develop new concepts and to reconsider old ones, often in contradiction with each ...

Natural healing intelligence is one of the great mysteries of the psyche. It is inherently elusive yet lies at the core of all efforts to cure emot...

In this two volume festschrift, contributors explore the theoretical developments (Volume I) and applications (Volume II) in traditional cognitive ...

This volume in a book series on psychoanalytic leaders, provides a geographically global sampler of writing stemming from Winnicott's complex and p...

Spatial working memory is the ability to remember the location in which something is perceived, and in addition, the ability to recall a series of ...

This volume honours Sandor Ferenczi, a central character in the birth of psychoanalysis, whose warm and passionate personality, ideas, and teaching...

This book considers the role of deception during adolescence, and explores the factors which underpin adolescents choice to deceive, whether these ...

Emile Durkheims 1897 On Suicide is widely recognized as one of the foundational classic texts of sociology. It is also one that shows the degree to...

This multi-author anthology is a short introduction to the world of existential psychotherapy, and specifically Existential Analysis. It gives conc...

This volume tells the story of research on the cognitive processes of writingfrom the perspectives of the early pioneers, the contemporary contribu...

This book examines the role of the Oedipus complex in the psyche and relates it to urgent issues of social life, historical and current. It discuss...

An understanding of the social sciences within infection prevention and control (IPC) is important for those working in health and social care. Thi...

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

Accessible and comprehensive, this book shows how to build a schoolwide multi-tiered system of support (MTSS) from the ground up. The MTSS framewor...

The focus of this book is on how experts adapt to complexity, synthesize and interpret information in context, and transform or fuse disparate item...

Perhaps the defining feature of humanity is the social condition -- how we think about others, identify ourselves with others, and interact with gr...

This is a multi-authored book on the complex subject of psychic trauma as encountered at different stages of the life-cycle, and describes some of ...

Ferenczi for Our Time presents contributions from British, French, American and Hungarian analysts of the second, third and even fourth generation,...

Coping with modern technology in the life sciences (biology and medicine) became a major issue for people living in the Twentieth Century, and cont...

First published in 1999, this book provides answers to many of the problems associated with the design and application of auditory warnings. It rep...

What contribution has the law made to the work of analyst and patient in the consulting room? And what insights may be drawn from putting psycholog...

It was Freud, borrowing Nietszche's phrase from Thus Spake Zarathustra, who described as 'pale criminals' those who committed criminal acts out of ...

This book is about children in State care and its title - Waiting to be Found - is derived from an observation about such children by the child psy...

This book explores the nature of psychic suffering due to the narcissistic drama and how one can emerge over time to live an autonomous life. The n...

This volume explores the relationship between representation, affect, and emotion in texts for children and young adults. It demonstrates how texts...

Recent trends in politics culminating in the US with the election of Donald Trump both provoked and expressed a troubling intensification of emotio...

Psychology in Prisons illustrates how a knowledge of psychological principles can lead to a better understanding of the prison environment and the ...

This book will stimulate readers to cross borders: between theory and practice, between research and everyday therapy, between out-patient and in-p...

First published in 1999, the focus of this ground-breaking study is on representing the mental world of the child with unprecedented clarity. Cedri...

This book addresses the current demand to apply findings in neuroscience to a broad spectrum of psychotherapy practices. It offers clear formulatio...

Illusions and Disillusions of Psychoanalytic Work recounts and explores the disappointing and sometimes tragic evolutions of the treatments of cert...

This is a book about cognition, emotion, memory, and learning. Along the way it examines exactly how implicit memory (knowing how) and explicit mem...

Robert Langs argues that death anxiety is neglected - in part, because of treatment failures due to countertransference interferences during treatm...