Psychological Theory & Schools of Thought

Available again in paperback, this study offers a rigorous critical re-reading of fictions of humanity, history, technology and postmodern culture....

Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, declared that religion is a universal obsessional neurosis in his famous work of 1927, The Future of ...

In Impious Fidelity, Suzanne Stewart-Steinberg investigates the legacy of Anna Freud at the intersection between psychoanalysis as a mode of thinki...

The Interpretation of Dreams is a seminal work of psychological and cultural heritage and probably the most important of Freuds impressive output. ...

The neurological condition synaesthesia (the mixing of the senses) has for over a century provoked thought about new ways of artistic seeing. In ...

This book presents psychoanalytic thinking about the phenomenon of the couple and couple dynamics in internal and external reality and at different...

In Cold War Freud Dagmar Herzog uncovers the astonishing array of concepts of human selfhood which circulated across the globe in the aftermath of ...

This volume honours Anna Freud's work and legacy by providing a detailed summary of the Psychoanalytic Developmental Tradition and illustrations of...

''A remarkable, powerful, tender and insightful book that will change lives. I cannot doubt that hundreds - I would hope thousands - of families ca...

Shakespeare, Tolstoy, Joyce, E.M. Forster and Ingmar Bergman all made the paranormal essential to their depiction of humanity. Freud recognized ...

For well over half a century, since the first credible warnings of petroleum depletion were raised in the 1950s, contemporary industrial civilizati...

Mari Ruti combines theoretical reflection, cultural critique, feminist politics, and personal experience to analyze the prevalence of bad feelings ...

This book presents contemporary psychoanalytic perspectives, ideas, concepts and socio-psychological implications of living in the modern world, bo...

In Cruelty, Sexuality, and the Unconscious in Psychoanalysis, Touria Mignotte explores an innovative conception of cruelty. Integrating the life sc...

Antoinette Fouque cofounded the Mouvement de Liberation des Femmes (MLF) in France in 1968 and spearheaded its celebrated Psychanalyse et Politique...

Mending the World provides a blueprint for making a difference in the intractable social issues that exist today. It presents the compelling drama ...