Psychological Theory & Schools of Thought

There was a time when I felt that I had grasped Lacans essential being from within that I had gained, as it were, an apperception of his relation ...

Acclaimed author of On Kissing, Tickling and Being Bored and On KindnessA collection of literary essays like no other - exploring the deep connecti...

In his new book, Considering the Nature of Psychoanalysis: The Persistence of a Paradoxical Discourse, Gregorio Kohon describes the complexity of t...

This edited book contains a hitherto unpublished seminar held by John Bowlby in Milan, Italy in 1985. The seminar is preceded by a foreword by Kate...

The main purpose of this book is to look at a range of ubiquitous phenomena that make up our daily life and to ask not so much whether but what psy...

This book draws on the distinct phases of Jacques Lacan''''s career to show his way of thinking in and beyond his lifetime. It is an examination of...

Having taught Freud to both undergraduate and graduate students for twenty years, Bruce Fink provides a highly readable introduction to Freuds work...

This latest volume of Rorschachiana illustrates the diversity of ideasand applications that projective methods offer. The general section includesa...

The universal quest to create cosmologies to comprehend the relationship between mind and world - is inevitably limited by the social, cultural an...

Despite the widespread influence of psychoanalysis in the field of mental health, until now no single book has been published that explains the psy...

In the relational literature, the subject of termination - the ending of an analysis - has received scant attention, and traditional Freudian or eg...

The Intimate Room provides an original exploration of psychoanalytic thought, showing how contemporary psychoanalysis seeks to answer the challenge...

The books in this bite-sized new series contain no complicated techniques or tricky materials, making them ideal for the busy, the time-pressured o...

'Political anthropology' as the major contemporary importance in Deleuzes work This work explores the significance of two recurring themes in the t...

More and more individuals with ego defects, severe object relations conflicts, affective turbulence, and unassimilated contradictions are seeking h...

Freudianism is a major icon in the history of ideas, independently rich and suggestive today both for psychoanalysis and for theories of language. ...

This book examines the influence of Gnostic philosophy on Jungian psychology as indicated by Jung's essay, 'The Transcendent Function' (1916), and ...

Jacques Lacan continues to be subject to the most extravagant interpretations. Angelic to some, he is demonic to others. To recall Lacan's career...

Art and Mourning explores the relationship between creativity and the work of self-mourning in the lives of 20th century artists and thinkers. The ...

This innovative study of eight major works of fiction by D. H. Lawrence examines the dominant presence of what is here termed a marriage matrix. It...

In November 2019, Paul B. Preciado was invited to speak in front of 3,500 psychoanalysts at the École de la Cause Freudiennes annual conference in ...

Sigmund Freud was no stranger to controversy. He shocked many with his revolutionary theories on human development, desires and sexuality, and tran...

Despite a resurgence of interest in Lacanian psychoanalysis, particularly in terms of the light it casts on capitalist ideology-as witnessed by t...

What is care? The Care Factory consists of six essays, each of which is an invitation to the reader to form an opinion on what care happens to be. ...

The Archaic takes as its major reference points C.G. Jung's classic essay, 'Archaic Man' (1930), and Ernesto Grassi's paper on 'Archaic Theories of...

The experience of loss is ubiquitous in human life, but its nature and impact have great variations. When loss is phase-specific, expected, and acc...