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Jacques Lacan is one of the most challenging and controversial of contemporary thinkers, as well as the most influential psychoanalyst since Freud. Lacanian theory has reached far beyond the consulting room to engage with such diverse disciplines as...

The Psychotic Wavelength provides a psychoanalytical framework for clinicians to use in everyday general psychiatric practice and discusses how psychoanalytic ideas can be of great value when used in the treatment of seriously disturbed and disturbing...

Since the introduction of psychoanalysis, radical paradigm shifts have occurred in philosophy, science, mathematics, and the arts. How we exchange information, how we interact on the global stage, and how we conceive of ourselves as citizens have also...

This new introduction to Jung's Collected Works-written in lively and accessible style-provides a comprehensive guide to key concepts in analytical (Jungian) psychology while charting the creative evolution of Jung's thought through his own words...

Psychoanalytic Approaches to Forgiveness and Mental Health considers the role of forgiveness in mental life, concerning both forgiving and being forgiven. Each chapter addresses concepts including superego, repetition compulsion, enactment, and notions...

In this new edition Blake gives a personal account of his professional experience of working with children and adolescents over the last 45 years. Providing a wonderful integration of the conceptual and the practical, this book clarifies complex theory...

Contemporary life is defined by excess. There must always be more, there is never enough. We need a surplus to what we need to be able to truly enjoy what we have. Slavoj Zizek's guide to surplus (and why it's enjoyable) begins by arguing that what is...

This book, first published in the year of the author's death, expresses Mitchell's vision for the theory of relational psychoanalysis, and provides his most-developed expression of its foundations. Now republished in this Classic Edition, Mitchell's...

Written by Joseph L. Henderson, one of the first generation of Jungian analysts, and Dyane N. Sherwood, a practising analyst, this book is a striking and unique contribution to the resurgence of interest in alchemy for its way of representing the...

Presenting an innovative framework for tailoring cognitive-behavioral interventions to each client's needs, this accessible book is packed with practical pointers and sample dialogues. Step by step, the authors show how to collaborate with clients to...

In this exploration of a radical approach to the psychoanalytical treatment of people on the verge of mental breakdown, Christopher Bollas offers a new and courageous clinical paradigm. He suggests that the unconscious purpose of breakdown is to present...

Shadow work is the act of facing the darkest part of our psyche to unlock our full potential and discover true self-love. This powerful technique has helped countless patients achieve what traditional therapy could not. Danielle Massi is a licensed...

For the Love of Psychoanalysis is a book about what exceeds or resists calculation-in life and in death. Rottenberg examines what emerges from the difference between psychoanalysis and philosophy. Part I, "Freuderrida," announces a non-traditional...

You'll learn: how to tell a person's sincerity by the tone of his or her voice which three character traits are most likely to predict a person's behaviour? how to know if your date is interested in a serious relationship the message you are sending with...

When did you last feel so overwhelmed by an experience that your jaw dropped? When were you so struck by something that you had goosebumps? When did you last say 'WOW' out loud and feel like a child again? Children say 'WOW' a lot. But in our...

By a detailed investigation of the universal phenomenon of dreaming, Freud discovered a radical new way of exploring the unconscious and recognized that dreams are a conflict and compromise between conscious and unconscious impulses. Through his insights...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780902869295Author Ian ParkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Resistance BooksPublisher Resistance Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781630510510Author Ean BeggFormat HardbackPage Count 196Imprint Chiron PublicationsPublisher Chiron PublicationsWeight(grams) 322gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

This book brings together Lacanian psychoanalysis, neuropsychoanalytic work by Mark Solms and Ariane Bazan, Jaak Panksepp's affective neuroscience, Karl Friston's free energy principle, Adrian Johnston's transcendental materialist philosophy, and Darian...

During early development, every human being is exposed to the relative impact of relational trauma - disconfirmation of aspects of oneself as having legitimate existence in the world of others - in shaping both the capacity for spontaneous human...

Sigmund Freud evolved his theories throughout his lifetime. This entailed many revisions and changes which he himself never tried to standardize rigidly into a definitive conceptual system. The need for some sort of a reliable guide which would spell out...

Relational psychoanalysis and modern Jewish philosophy have much to say about the dynamics of human relationships, but there has been no detailed, thorough, and constructive examination that brings together these two incisive discourses. Contemporary...

Trauma and Memory will assist mental health experts and professionals, as well as the interested public, in understanding the scientific issues around trauma memory, and how this differs from other areas of memory. This book provides accounts of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781587611186Author Gerald G. JampolskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Celestial ArtsPublisher Celestial ArtsWeight(grams) 176gDimensions(mm) 208mm *...

Assessing Risk: A Relational Approach offers the practitioner a novel framework for understanding the complex and subtle issues involved in assessing and managing risks related to violence and sexual offending. The authors draw on their considerable...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262600477Author Alicia JuarreroFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Bradford BooksPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 417gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

Lectures on Technique by Melanie Klein is based on a series of six lectures given by Melanie Klein to students at the British Psychoanalytical Society in 1936 and repeated several times in subsequent years. They were discovered in the Melanie Klein...

A challenging reappraisal of the history of antipsychotics, revealing how they were transformed from neurological poisons into magical cures, their benefits exaggerated and their toxic effects minimized or ignored.About the AuthorJoanna Moncrieff is a...

Personal accounts exploring the shift from mental illness to spiritual awakening. The first book in which people discuss their own spiritual emergencies and share what helped them through. Our authors are the experts of their own experience, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781734135602Author Stacy DickerFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Real Avenue PressPublisher Real Avenue PressWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

If contemporary culture were a school, with all the tasks and expectations meted out by modern life as its curriculum, would anyone graduate? In the spirit of a sympathetic teacher, Robert Kegan guides us through this tricky curriculum, assessing the fit...

Each person invests many of the objects in his life with his or her own unconscious meaning, each person subsequently voyages through an environment that constantly evokes the self's psychic history. Taking Freud's model of dreamwork as a model for all...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781641526043Author Elena Welsh PhDFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint Callisto Media Inc.Publisher Callisto Media Inc.Weight(grams) 1gDimensions(mm) 1mm *...

'Whiteness' is a politically constructed category which needs to be understood and dismantled because the system of racism so embedded within our society harms us all. It has profound implications for human psychology, an understanding of which is...

This psychobiographical study of the renowned French pediatrician and psychoanalyst Francoise Dolto introduces both her theories of child development and her unique insights into language and identity.A friend of Jacques Lacan's, Dolto believed that we...

'As the problems raised in this book are fundamental to learning they have a long history of investigation and discussion. In phsycho-analytical practice, particularly with patients displaying symptoms of disorders of thought, it becomes clear that...

An account of Jung's handling of the transference between psychologist and patient in the light of his conception of the archetypes. Based on the symbolic illustrations in a sixteenth century alchemical text.Book InformationISBN 9780415151320Author C.G...

This unique text develops an original theoretical framework for understanding the relationship between trauma and time by combining phenomenological and psychoanalytical traditions. Moving beyond Western psychoanalytical and phenomenological traditions,...

Drawing on deep reserves of experience and theoretical and research knowledge, Nancy McWilliams presents a fresh perspective on psychodynamic supervision in this highly instructive work. McWilliams examines the role of the supervisor in developing the...

Did you know that intentional dreaming has been used to solve life's problems? Embodiment: Creative Imagination in Medicine, Art and Travel sets out Robert Bosnak's practice of embodied imagination and demonstrates how he actually works with dreams and...