Psychological Theory & Schools of Thought

With chapters from Rik Loose, Fabian Naparstek, Patricia Gherovici, Bruce Fink, Thomos Svolos and many others, the anthology is for people interest...

Research into parent-child relationships is a diverse field of inquiry, attracting investigators from a variety of disciplines and subdisciplines. ...

Michael Balints work grew out of a desire to analyze the doctor-patient relationship and improve diagnosis and treatment, and is now known and impl...

Hostile and Malignant Prejudice: Psychoanalytic Approaches represents the leading edge of work in the field by members of the International Psychoa...

There are more questions than answers in this book - questions that are important and will continue to intrigue us. This book will be needed to rem...

Building and expanding on concepts presented in his previous volumes (Relational Group Psychotherapy: From Basic Assumptions to Passion, and Resist...

From its etymological roots, sex is related to a scission, Latin for sectus, secare, meaning to divide or cut. Therefore, regardless of the various...

This book is a compilation of papers by different authors, among them Vamik Volkan, Robi Friedman, John Schlapobersky, Haim Weinberg, and Michael B...

Dr James Grotstein (1925-2015) was the foremost Bion scholar, and one of the most noted and honoured psychoanalysts in the world. His prolific writ...

This book deals with those branches of Medical Psychology which have thrown most light on the problems of Psychical Research, namely, Hypnotism, Hy...

Originally published in 1932, Adolescent Girlhood set out to give a general view of the more everyday problems a girl might encounter during adoles...

The Routledge History of Madness and Mental Health explores the history and historiography of madness from the ancient and medieval worlds to the p...

A collection of papers, largely based on clinical work, which covers a range of concepts and mechanisms which are central to any psychoanalytic psy...

Designed for use with children in grades K-6, this book provides a review of support groups: their nature and value; the tripartite model of childr...

Michael Eigen is widely regarded as a significant and increasingly influential figure in contemporary psychoanalysis. This collection of papers, by...

Co-creative transactional analysis is an approach to a particular branch of psychology which, as the phrase suggests, emphasises the co- (mutual, j...

In contrast to the author's previous book, Healing the Unimaginable: Treating Ritual Abuse and Mind Control, which was for therapists, this book is...

Tustin deals very sensitively and sensibly with the knotty problem of parents' contribution to autistic development, providing a balanced interacti...

Of the topics found in psychoanalytic theory it is Freud's philosophy of mind that is at once the most contentious and enduring. Psychoanalytic the...

A collection of essays, introduced by Masud Khan and J.D. Sutherland, on a variety of subjects including: observations on a case of vertigo; on ide...

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

Contemporary practices in mental health (and social care) are increasingly characterized by approaches that overly simplify social, political, and ...

In 2009-2010, The Squiggle Foundation, whose aim is to stimulate interest in the work of Donald Winnicott, organized a series of lectures on the th...

Increased worldwide mobility and easy access to technology means that the use of technological mediation for treatment is being adopted rapidly and...

This book helps us understand the current resurgence of social prejudice against ethnic minority groups, the logics of scapegoating and the resulti...

Wilfred Bion once said, I use the Kabbalah as a framework for psychoanalysis. Both are preoccupied with catastrophe and faith, infinity and intensi...

The 'hidden selves' that Masud Khan reveals to us in this third volume of his psychoanalytic writings are to be understood in two ways. Primarily, ...

How can one overcome deeply-held resentment so as to resume or establish a bond with a traumatizing person, mindful that the experience of the self...

Modern society has introduced many new relationships and family forms and the pluralisation of sexual lifestyles in the hundred years since Freud. ...

Within the psychoanalytic framework, there is a growing body of research and thinking about female development. In addition, there is ongoing resea...

In Clinical Supervision of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, psychotherapy supervisors from the fields of psychology, psychiatry, social work, and danc...

Consultants and practitioners working with change can feel at a loss as to how to help their clients move forward. Organisations get stuck in routi...

Psychoanalysis has always been based on the eclipse of the visual and on the primacy of speech. The work of Jacques Lacan though, is strangely full...

Money speaks in everyday life and in literature of our greed and our generosity, our pride and our humiliation and as it passes among us it shows o...

An increasing number of people are seeking to develop an understanding of psychoanalytic concepts in order to apply them to the ordinary situations...