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This book provides an introduction to and a dynamic description of a new psychological paradigm that balances the excesses and distortions of the positive psychology paradigm. It offers valuable theoretical and practical content to its readers on the...

Literature is recognised as having significantly influenced the development of modern psychoanalytic thought. In recent years psychoanalysis has drawn increasingly on the literary and artistic traditions of western culture and moved away from its...

This book explores the nature of paradoxes in Lacanian psychoanalysis, how they can be approached in treatment and how they can be resolved. Building on Freud's and Lacan's own work in resolving paradoxes, Yehuda Israely considers psychic distress, and...

This book takes the reader on a grand tour of the empirical research concerning the personality trait of appreciation of beauty. It particularly focuses on engagement with natural beauty, engagement with artistic beauty, and engagement with moral beauty...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999325308Author John Van Der SteurFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint Polarity InstitutePublisher Polarity InstituteWeight(grams) 381gDimensions(mm)...

Femininity, Desire and Sublimation in Psychoanalysis explores female subjectivity and examines the complexities inherent in psychoanalytic work realized by women analysts with women. The book includes a critical study of psychoanalytic theories on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783856307189Author Susan M TiberghienFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint Daimon VerlagPublisher Daimon VerlagWeight(grams) 268g

The third volume of the collected works of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi covers his work on the application of flow in areas that go beyond the field of leisure where the concept was first applied. Based on his personal experience with schooling and learning,...

A distinguished psychoanalyst offers a humanistic reflection on the parent-child bond and how it affects our ability-or inability-to change In this book the eminent psychoanalyst Leonard Shengold looks at why some people are resistant to change, even...

This collection of papers, published between 1976 and 2003, traces the innovative connections which the eminent group analyst Dennis Brown made between medicine and psychoanalysis. They reveal his important insights into how the principles of group...

This book is of and about psychoanalytic stories. It describes the personal, theoretical, and cultural stories that patients and analysts bring, create, and modify in analytic work. It shows how the joint creation of new life narratives over time results...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783856307684Author Ann UlanovFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Daimon VerlagPublisher Daimon VerlagWeight(grams) 214g

Psychoanalysis, the Body, and the Oedipal Plot is a new radical departure in psychoanalytic exposition. An attempt is made to convey, in a language accessible for people from different disciplines, some of the most difficult processes that conform our...

Every day, clinicians encounter challenges to empathy and communication while struggling to assist patients with diverse life histories, character, sexuality, gender, psychopathology, cultural, religious, political, racial, and ethnic backgrounds. Most...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865167865Format PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers,U.S.Publisher Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814159750Author Renee H. SheaFormat PaperbackPage Count 113Imprint National Council of Teachers of EnglishPublisher National Council of Teachers of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949093360Author Janet Lee BachantFormat PaperbackPage Count 234Imprint IpbooksPublisher IpbooksWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 12mm

Recognizing the dominance of neoliberal forces in education, this volume offers a range of critical essays which analyze the language used to underpin these dynamics.Combining essays from over 20 internationally renowned contributors, this text offers a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780892540464Author Janice BrewiFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Hays (Nicolas) Ltd ,U.S.Publisher Hays (Nicolas) Ltd ,U.S.Weight(grams)...

Divorce: Emotional Impact and Therapeutic Interventions offers a broad survey of psychodynamic observations on the antecedents and consequences of divorce. In this volume, distinguished clinical psychologists and psychoanalysts explore the emotional...

These are turbulent times in which it becomes increasingly important to survive and thrive despite stressful circumstances. Hardiness is the pattern of attitudes and skills that provides the courage and strategies that helps people be resilient by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781685030063Author Susan RowlandFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Chiron PublicationsPublisher Chiron PublicationsWeight(grams) 572g

Cultural Complexes and the Soul of America explores many of the cultural complexes that comprise the collective psychic-filtering system of emotions, ideas, and beliefs that possess the United States today. With chapters by an international selection of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781929355457Author Janet DallettFormat PaperbackPage Count 225Imprint Pleasure Boat StudioPublisher Pleasure Boat StudioWeight(grams) 213gDimensions(mm)...

Psychoanalysis in Social and Cultural Settings examines the theory and practice of psychoanalysis with patients who have experienced deeply traumatic experiences through war, forced migrations, atrocities and other social and cultural dislocations. The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952597145Author Dr Lee HentonFormat HardbackPage Count 202Imprint C.U Publishing LLCPublisher C.U Publishing LLCWeight(grams) 440gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

This book shows how contemporary psychoanalytic thinking can be applied in the everyday practice of medicine to enhance the practice of family medicine and all clinical specialties. Dr. Steinberg analyzes his writings over the past 35 years-on psychiatry...

The book applies a unique mix of psychosocial methods to understand the complexity of emotional, cognitive and ideological responses to human rights violations and examines the banal quality of the everyday vocabularies that people use to make sense of...

This book presents a critical examination of the development of user involvement within research, and investigates the issues currently preventing a productive integration of Mad knowledges within research and practice. Drawing on social, linguistic and...

Book InformationISBN 9780814711514Author Louis BregerFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint New York University PressPublisher New York University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781888602531Author Elizabeth Eowyn NelsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Chiron PublicationsPublisher Chiron Publications

One of the most important of Jung's longer works, and probably the most famous of his books, Psychological Types appeared in German in 1921 after a "fallow period" of eight years during which Jung had published little. He called it "the fruit of nearly...

Hysteria was a frequently diagnosed illness in the West through the nineteenth and much of the twentieth century. Today the medical profession has virtually abandoned the diagnosis altogether. However, this does not mean that hysteria has ceased to exist...

Psychoanalysis has always grappled with its Jewish origins, sometimes celebrating them and sometimes trying to escape or deny them. Through exploration of Freud's Jewish identity, the fate of psychoanalysis in Germany under the Nazis, and psychoanalytic...

This is the first book to assess bisexuality through a range of psychoanalytic and critical perspectives, highlighting both the issues faced by bisexual people in contemporary society and the challenges that can be presented by bisexual clients within a...

This collection covers all the topics relevant for understanding the importance of Sandor Ferenczi and his influence on contemporary psychoanalysis. Pre-eminent Ferenczi scholars were solicited to contribute succint reviews of their fields of expertise...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780892540556Author Robin RobertsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Hays (Nicolas) Ltd ,U.S.Publisher Hays (Nicolas) Ltd ,U.S.Dimensions(mm) 210mm *...

Is psychoanalysis a narrative of self-knowledge, or a movement of lived time and the body?Psychoanalysis and the Time of Life examines the relationship between therapy and the time of life, presenting an original and thought-provoking re-reading of...

Building on Winnicott's theory of play, this book defines the concept of play from the perspective of clinical practice, elaborating on its application to clinical problems. Although Winnicott's theory of play constitutes a radical understanding of the...

Obscenity, Psychoanalysis and Literature offers a fascinating psychoanalytic reading of four landmark obscenity trials involving the texts of D. H. Lawrence and James Joyce. By tracing the legal histories of Lawrence and Joyce, from censorship to their...