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Building on the success and importance of three previous volumes, Relational Psychoanalysis continues to expand and develop the relational turn. Under the keen editorship of Lewis Aron and Adrienne Harris, and comprised of the contributions of many of...

Once the ego-ideal is distinguished from the super-ego, it becomes possible to make sense of much that formerly remained obscure in psychoanalytic theory. Chasseguet-Smirgel illuminates not only the psychology of narcissism in individuals but many of the...

This extraordinary volume offers a sampling of Lewis Aron's most important contributions to relational psychoanalysis. One of the founders of relational thinking, Aron was an internationally recognized psychoanalyst, sought after teacher, lecturer, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781570626135Author Marie-Louise von FranzFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)...

Traditionally, trauma has been defined as negatively impacting external events, with resulting damage. This book puts forth an entirely different thesis: trauma is universal, occurring under even the best of circumstances and unavoidably sculpting the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781630513726Author Kim BatemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint Chiron PublicationsPublisher Chiron Publications

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781685711849Author James ReichFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Punctum BooksPublisher Punctum BooksWeight(grams) 218gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 12mm

This volume is based on a year's seminar in which Dr. Lacan addressed a larger, less specialized audience than ever before, among whom he could not assume familiarity with his work. For his listeners then, and for his readers now, he wanted to "introduce...

Jacques Lacan and the Freudian Practice of Psychoanalysis paints a completely new picture of the man and his ideas. The book suceeds in showing how ideas can become more accessible, and re-evaluates his significance within the field of psychodynamic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420947816Author Sigmund FreudFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 358gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

This open access handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the growing field of positive education, featuring a broad range of theoretical, applied, and practice-focused chapters from leading international experts. It demonstrates how positive...

This interdisciplinary book offers a relational perspective to dementia care drawing on attachment theory and practice. Relevant to professionals and the general public alike, it brings together innovative research and practice in psychotherapy and the...

This abridged edition makes the Freud/Jung correspondence accessible to a general readership at a time of renewed critical and historical reevaluation of the documentary roots of modern psychoanalysis. This edition reproduces William McGuire's definitive...

At once a memoir and a personal version of the author's highly influential Language of Psychoanalysis, this work by one of the world's leading proponents of psychoanalytic theory and practice offers an autobiographical perspective on the private...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780880104968Author Gerhard WehrFormat PaperbackPage Count 340Imprint SteinerBooks, IncPublisher Anthroposophic Press IncWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm)...

Why do women want to have children? How does one 'learn' to be a mother? Does having babies have anything to do with sex? At a time when mothers are bombarded by prescriptive and contradicting advice on how to behave with their children, The Maternal...

- the topic of Deconstruction has a strong and growing market within the UK - written in an accessible style that will appeal to both advanced scholars and those new to the subject - the interdisciplinary approach means it will have crossover appeal to...

Psychoanalytic Reflections on Vladimir Putin: The Cost of Malignant Leadership attempts to explore the core psychodynamics that appear to characterize Vladimir Putin's presidency.Its contributors examine the nature of the leader-follower relationship,...

The "Here and Now" of French Psychoanalysis provides an overview of the living psychoanalytic landscape in France through the voice of experienced psychoanalysts who continue to transform the legacy of Freud, Lacan and others in their publications and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781685031572Author Keiron Le GriceFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint Chiron PublicationsPublisher Chiron PublicationsWeight(grams) 390gDimensions(mm)...

There are moments of connection between analysts and patients during any therapeutic encounter upon which the therapy can turn. Moments of Meeting in Psychoanalysis explores how analysts and therapists can experience these moments of meeting, shows how...

In Vitalization in Psychoanalysis, Schwartz Cooney and Sopher develop and explore the concept of vitalization, generating new ways of approaching and conceptualizing the psychoanalytic project.Vitalization refers to the process between two people that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590511701Author Colette SolerFormat PaperbackPage Count 334Imprint Other Press LLCPublisher Other Press LLCWeight(grams) 439gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

Growing up, we typically spend more time with our brothers and sisters than we do with our parents. In an age of divorce, mobility, and alienation, the sibling bond is often the only one that really lasts.Given that brothers and sisters are such a...

Psychosomatic Health is an exploration of the relationship between physical and psychological wellbeing. It draws on postmodern and narrative theory to consider the psychosomatic processes which underpin and enhance health. The text adopts a...

The question he addresses here is, What are the emotional bonds that hold collective entities, such as an army and a church, together? It is a fruitful question, and Freud offers some interesting answers. But Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781685030728Author Verena KastFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint Chiron PublicationsPublisher Chiron PublicationsWeight(grams) 259g

Donald Spence's book, Meaning and Interpretation in Psychoanalysis, is so disturbing and so revolutionary, in the sense of essaying so radical and fundamental a critique of our most central clinical and theoretical operating assumptions.Book...

Anthropology and psychotherapy have a long and important historical relationship, and in this fascinating collection practitioners with experience in both fields explore how the concept of 'culture' is deployed to guide and frame contemporary therapeutic...

Michael Palmer provides a detailed account of the theories of religion of both Freud and Jung and sets them side by side for the first timeIn the first section of the text Dr Palmer analyses Freud's claim that religion is an obsessional neurosis - a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912567669Author Donald MeltzerFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint The Harris Meltzer TrustPublisher Karnac BooksWeight(grams) 256gDimensions(mm) 228mm...

Wilfred Bion described "O" as "the unknowable and the unreachable ultimate truth". In this fascinating collection, a range of authors offer their own theoretical, clinical and artistic approaches to exploring this enduring but mysterious idea. Drawn from...

Why has homosexuality always fascinated and vexed psychoanalysis? This groundbreaking collection of original essays reconsiders the troubled relationship between same-sex desire and psychoanalysis, assessing homosexuality's status in psychoanalytic...

The aim of this book is a recovery of interest in the experience of meaning. Jan Zwicky defends the claim that we experience meaning in the apprehension of wholes and their internal structural relations, providing examples of such insight in mathematics...

The Baby and the Drive presents a new reading of psychoanalytic drive theory, as well as offering clinical tools for early identification of difficulties and intervention with babies and their parents.This volume demonstrates that the concept of the...

The Weary Sons of Freud lambasts mainstream psychoanalysis for its failure to grapple with pressing political and social matters pertinent to its patients' condition. Gifted with insight and compelled by fury, Catherine Clement contrasts the original,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781630510916Author Murray SteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint Chiron PublicationsPublisher Chiron PublicationsWeight(grams) 349gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578623825Author Bud HarrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Daphne PublicationsPublisher Daphne PublicationsWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Artist, poet, educationalist and autobiographer, Marion Milner is considered one of the most original of psychoanalytic thinkers whose life (1900-1998) spans a century of radical change. Marion Milner: The Life, is the first biography of this...

Religion and Conspiracy Theories: An Introduction is the first accessible volume to systematically examine the relationship between religion and conspiracy theories in the contemporary world in critical and historical perspective.It lays out the...