Psychological Theory & Schools of Thought

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...

This book is a narrative in dialogue form in which the author, now an octogenarian who is a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and a PhD in philosophy, d...

Like his other papers on technique, Freud's 1913 essay On beginning the treatment had an enduring influence on psychoanalysts for generations to co...

This book creates an awareness of our 'excessive' fear of mental pain: the ubiquitous abhorrence of inner distress functions as a gravitational for...

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...

During the rise of fascism and anti-Semitism in Germany, Albert Einstein wrote to Sigmund Freud asking the fundamental question: What can be done t...

This short book grapples with two vast questions: the nature of our minds, and our place in the wider universe. It considers how one mutually influ...

In 1921, a young female doctor started analysis with Sigmund Freud. In a diary, she recorded what moved her. The present volume not only contains a...

INTRODUCING guide to the pioneering child psychoanalyst. Born in Vienna in 1882, Melanie Klein became a pioneer in child psychoanalysis and develop...

Metaphors of money have shaped theories of sexual psychology ever since Enlightenment doctors explained the mind-body as an 'animal economy' whose ...

The volume addresses the philosophical, epistemological and interdisciplinary aspects of the link between psychoanalysis and topology. Looking at t...

This book takes Euripides tragedy of Medea as its starting point. Our unconscious fantasies can be embedded in age-old myths, and many modern works...

In this groundbreaking book, Renee Lertzman applies psychoanalytic theory and psychosocial research to the issue of public engagement and public ap...