Psychological Theory & Schools of Thought

This book explores psychosis as knowledge cut off from history, truth that cannot be articulated in any other form. It gives a nuanced picture of d...

The implicit background of this book consists of an optimistic approach to creating mind forms that improve the condition of humanity, deriving fro...

This is a new translation of the classic 1932 Dictionary by the author, for which Freud wrote a Preface praising the precision and correctness of t...

Behavioural Economics and Experiments addresses key topics within behavioural economics, exploring vital questions around decision-making and human...

The Complete Works of W. R. Bion is now available in a coherent and corrected format. Comprising sixteen volumes bound in green cloth, this edition...

This book makes an original contribution to the study of the psychoanalytic process from a relational point of view, and at the same time serves as...

Learning is the most basic means by which we can change oursleves. Of all the activities of the mind, learning is perhaps the most fundamental, yet...

The author believes that studying a therapeutic process closely from its beginning to its termination is one of the best ways to observe, learn, an...

This book introduces the clinical concept of analytic contact. This is a term that describes the therapeutic method of investigation that makes up ...

This first volume of The Collected English Papers of Wolfgang Giegerich takes its title from Giegerich's ground-breaking paper, On the Neurosis of ...

C. G. Jung regarded the soul to be a reality in its own right which reflects itself in all manner of images and events. symbols and traditions. In ...

Organisational collapse is part of our vernacular. Enron, Woolworths, Lehman's, Bank of America, Rover, BOAC, Northern Rock - these failures are pa...

This book contains some modern contributions to the understanding and interpretation of dreams developed by contemporary psychoanalysts in the Brit...

Examining the assertions and fallacies of the theories conceived (or contrived) by some of today's most brilliant scientists and thinkers (includin...

Charts the development of Ferenczi's 'Active Technique' in papers such as The Technique of Psychoanalysis and Further Development of an Active Ther...

The author uses her popular columns from The Independent to explore the therapeutic process. Successful analysis, she argues, is less about followi...

A collection of papers on the Oedipus complex, divided into three parts: theory, practice and supervision. The contributors, who include Joyce McDo...

Burck and Daniel share the personal meaning that gender holds for them, and the open and enquiring, rather than definitive, style of their writing ...

This book provides an excellent introduction to the broad field of applied psychoanalysis and deals appropriately with clinical psychoanalytic conc...

This book questions the junctions of the private and the public when it comes to trauma, loss, and the work of mourning - notions which, it is argu...

This is Frances Tustin's first book and the original statement of her views on autistic states of mind and the genesis of varieties of childhood ps...

Dying and creating or, could we put it the other way round, creating and dying? Rosemary Gordon has chosen the first, the challenging title and the...

The fundamental importance of Christianity for Jung is well documented in his writings and letters. For the whole of his long career the great psyc...

Bringing together the experiences of mistrust, jealousy, lack of love, shamelessness, regret, and despair, this far-reaching book elucidates human ...

Therapeutic practice needs constant examination to ensure that it remains responsive and dynamic. Living organisms must communicate with their envi...

A systematic effort to rethink Freud's theory of the unconscious, aiming to separate out the different forms of unconsciousness. The logico-mathema...

While much writing has been devoted, predominantly by contemporary Kleinian adult psychoanalysts, to the Kleinian and post Kleinian development of ...

The book begins by describing, within a psychodynamic approach, some traits an infant may bring to an intervention, followed by descriptions of int...

Is psychoanalysis a Jewish science? Ten essays contributed by the editor and distinguished scholars explore the Jewishness of psychoanalysis, its o...

Hope is the most reliable sustainer of life. It offers the promise of something good in the future, contributes to resilience, and keeps one going....

Two central ideas have become part of the orthodoxy of modern family therapy thinking. The first is that the therapist is part of the system he or ...

Aside from the many political, cultural and economic aspects of the present refugee crisis in Europe, it is also crucial to consider the psychologi...

This set of papers, from members of the British Association of Psychotherapists, demonstrates the vitality of the 'Kleinian tradition' in work with...

The author, with over twenty years of experience of working with children, writes refreshingly about the practical aspects of his work. He takes tr...

This final volume includes Confusion of Tongues Between Children and Adults in which Ferenczi formulates his controversal ideas on childhood sexual...

Given the enormous struggles, efforts and money expended on the equalities enterprise, why has more progress not been made? And further, why have t...