Psychological Theory & Schools of Thought

This concise guide offers an accessible introduction to social development, social relations, identity development and self-awareness from childhoo...

Grounded in 25 years of research and practical experience, this book shows how to create engaging work environments and practices that harness empl...

Language is of central importance in children’s development and vital for their success at school and in the world beyond. Designed for the many pr...

Just days after publishing his first book on the theory of foolishness, Stephen Greenspan learned that he had been hoodwinked by Bernard Madoff’s P...

Thomas Kirsch is one of the foremost architects of the contemporary Jungian scene and has influenced the evolution and organization of analytical p...

Travels with the Self uses a hermeneutic perspective to critique psychology and demonstrate why the concept of the self and the modality of cultura...

Travels with the Self uses a hermeneutic perspective to critique psychology and demonstrate why the concept of the self and the modality of cultura...

The concept of the archetype is crucial to Jung's radical interpretation of the human mind. Jung believed that every person partakes of a universal...

Collective Trauma and the Psychology of Secrets in Transnational Film advances a methodological line of inquiry based on a fresh insight into the w...

This book examines the origins, presence, and implications of scientistic thinking in psychology. Scientism embodies the claim that only knowledge ...

This volume gathers together the recent writings of the analysts and members of the Freudian School of Melbourne and the Belgian analyst Christian ...

Herbert Silberer was an early member of Freud’s Vienna Group whose work was unique and prodigious; yet, owing to his expulsion from the psychoanaly...

The theory of transference and the centrality of its interpretation are hallmarks of psychoanalysis. This title subjects the theory and practice ba...

Unconscious Incarnations considers the status of the body in psychoanalytic theory and practice, bringing Freud and Lacan into conversation with co...

At least three major questions can be asked of myth: what is its subject matter? What is its origin? What is its function? Theories of myth may dif...

This outstanding memorial volume records and reassesses the contributions of Merton M. Gill (1914-1994), a principal architect of psychoanalytic th...

One of the main aims of modern mental health care is to understand a person's explicit and implicit ways of thinking and acting. So, it may seem li...

The Growth of Mind is the product of a series of ten lectures by Neville Symington. It offers an understanding of the mind and its capacity to disc...

This work reveals 50 simple ideas and concrete actitivities to improve anyone's mental well-being. Written in a conversational style, this resource...

First published in 1947, with a second edition in 1950, the original blurb reads: 'This is an illuminating description of a complete Freudian analy...

Three Papers of W.R. Bion features two previously unpublished papers and one which has only previously appeared in The Complete Works of W. R. Bion...

Provides a comprehensive overview of the issues, research and debates relating to children and the experience of childhood in late twentieth centur...

This book is concerned with the continuing viability of both Freud and Hegel to the reading of modern literature. The book begins with Julia Kriste...

Graphology, in English and American manuals of handwriting, stands in the relation with all other pseudo-sciences, founded on half truths and wroug...

Unconscious Incarnations considers the status of the body in psychoanalytic theory and practice, bringing Freud and Lacan into conversation with co...

Taking the soap opera as a case study, this book explores the 'parasocial interaction' people engage in with television programmes. It looks at the...

Key Thinkers in Individual Differences introduces the life, work and thought of 25 of the most influential figures who have shaped and developed th...

This volume provides an integrative review of the emerging and increasing use of network science techniques in cognitive psychology, first develope...

Freud for Architects explains what Freud offers to the understanding of architectural creativity and architectural experience, with case examples f...

Originally published in 1986, this stimulating and unorthodox book integrates the major findings of hemispheric research with the larger questions ...

Locating the phenomenon of transference within an evolutionary perspective, this important book develops a new form of dynamic therapy that focuses...

Serial murderers generate an abundance of public interest, media coverage, and law enforcement attention, yet after decades of studies, serial murd...

This title was first published in 2003. What does it take to be a person of integrity? Could those who commit morally horrendous acts be persons of...

Doing Statistical Analysis looks at three kinds of statistical research questions – descriptive, associational, and inferential – and shows student...

Recent work at the intersection of moral philosophy and the philosophy of psychology has dealt mostly with Aristotelian virtue ethics. The dearth o...

Applying experimental methods has become one of the most powerful and versatile ways to obtain economic insights, and experimental economics has es...