Psychoanalysis

The work of Jacques Lacan is associated more with literature and philosophy than mainstream American psychology, due in large part to the dense language he employs in articulating his theory - including often at the expense of clinical illustration. As a...

Hanna Segal's work, especially on symbolism, aesthetics, dreams, and the exploration of psychotic thinking, has established her as an outstanding figure in psychoanalysis, particularly in psychoanalysis of the Kleinian tradition.In Dream, Phantasy and...

Living Psychoanalysis: From Theory to Experience represents a decade of work from one of today's leading psychoanalysts. Michael Parsons brings to life clinical psychoanalysis and its theoretical foundations, offering new developments in analytic theory...

Intersubjective Processes and the Unconscious looks at how the minds of the therapist and the patient interact with each other in a profound and unconscious way: a concept first described by Freud. This book expands Freud's ideas further and examines how...

Psychotherapy and Aphasia: Interventions for Emotional Wellbeing and Relationships is an exciting international collaboration among clinical neuropsychologists, speech and language therapists and family therapists that details a range of innovative...

What stands between us and authoritarianism seems increasingly fragile. Democratic practices are under attack by foreign intrusion into elections; voter suppression restricts citizen participation. Nations are turning to autocratic leaders in the face of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsNominated for Gradiva Award for best psychoanalytic book 2020 (United States).Book InformationISBN 9781913494186Author Danielle KnafoFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679601661Author Sigmund FreudFormat HardbackPage Count 992Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 924gDimensions(mm) 211mm *...

In this unique and uplifting work, Dr. Claudia Luiz reveals why psychoanalysis is more relevant than ever, perhaps the only discipline currently suitable to help solve the mystery of our emotional challenges. In gripping stories about people struggling...

2015 Gradiva Award WinnerThe Embodied Analyst brings together the history of embodied analysis found in the work of Freud and Reich and contemporary relational analysis, particularly as influenced by infant research. By integrating the 'old' embodied and...

The post-Kleinian model of the mind, as developed by W. R. Bion and Donald Meltzer, is essentially an aesthetic one. It is founded on Melanie Klein's discovery of the "internal object" with its combined masculine and feminine qualities and ambiguous,...

In 1994 Allan Schore published his groundbreaking book, Affect Regulation and the Origin of the Self, in which he integrated a large number of experimental and clinical studies from both the psychological and biological disciplines in order to construct...

The members of the Betty Joseph Workshop have provided major contributions to psychoanalytic thinking since the meeting's inception in 1962. This book is a celebration of Betty Joseph's work, and the work of a group of analysts who have joined her to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807064610Author Gaston BachelardFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 215mm * 139mm *...

Stolorow and his collaborators' post-Cartesian psychoanalytic perspective - intersubjective-systems theory - is a phenomenological contextualism that illuminates worlds of emotional experience as they take form within relational contexts. After outlining...

In this clear and thoughtful book, an international group of distinguished authors explore the central issues and future directions facing psychoanalytic theory and practice. The book explores four main questions in the development of psychoanalysis:...

Recipient of the 2017 Anne Alonso Award for Excellence in Psychodynamic Group Therapy, conferred by the Group Foundation for Advancing Mental Health, part of the American Group Psychotherapy Association.From the Couch to the Circle: Group-Analytic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913494001Author Phil MollonFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Confer BooksPublisher Karnac BooksWeight(grams) 268gDimensions(mm) 185mm * 129mm * 10mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780953710515Author Joan Raphael-LeffFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Institute of Psycho-AnalysisPublisher Institute of Psycho-Analysis

Minding the Body: The Body in Psychoanalysis and Beyond outlines the value of a psychoanalytic approach to understanding the body and its vicissitudes and for addressing these in the context of psychoanalytic psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. 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...

Clinical Lectures on Klein and Bion outlines the basic ideas in their thinking and shows in detail how these ideas can be used to tackle a clinical problem. The contributors correct some common misconceptions about Kleinian analysis, while demonstrating...

This book argues that Freud's mapping of trauma as a scene is central to both his clinical interpretation of his patients' symptoms and his construction of successive theoretical models and concepts to explain the power of such scenes in his patients'...

Provides clarification of Jung's method of dream analysis. Based upon a previously unpublished series of dreams of one of Jung's patients.Book InformationISBN 9780415119856Author C.G. JungFormat PaperbackPage Count 342Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor &...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783856305871Author Yehezkel KlugerFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Daimon VerlagPublisher Daimon VerlagWeight(grams) 308g

This book explores what we mean when we use the term "perversion." Are we dealing with a sexological classification, a mental disturbance, an ethical deviation, a hedonistic style, or an historical-cultural artifact? The book retraces some of the...

In this profound and subtle study, a practising psychoanalyst explores the dynamics of the interaction between the patient and the analyst. Michael Feldman draws the reader into experiencing how the clinical interaction unfolds within a session. In doing...

This volume brings together the works of those who have studied Fairbairn's ideas most closely. The papers are expository, exploratory and illustrative and cover all aspects of his life, work and influence; contributors include the most eminent students...

A Clinician's Guide to Dream Therapy demystifies the process of working with dreams by providing both a grounding in the current science of dreaming as well as a simple, practical approach to clinical dream work. In addition to a survey of the current...

Psychoanalytic Thinking on the Unhoused Mind illuminates the psychological underpinnings of current societal problems: homelessness, mental distress, loneliness and states of societal breakdown and exclusion. Illustrated with a broad range of clinical...

This book provides an analysis of the meaning of safety and security across the contexts of community and public life, throughout the life span, and within a therapeutic framework, examining threats and the strategies for coping with them.The book starts...

This innovative book presents state-of-the-art thinking on using transactional analysis (TA) to change the structure, relationships and culture in organizations.The book is arranged according to the three levels of organizations described by Eric Berne -...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783856305581Author Miguel SerranoFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Daimon VerlagPublisher Daimon VerlagWeight(grams) 233g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142437421Author Sigmund FreudFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Penguin ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 85gDimensions(mm) 196mm *...

"Ten times, an elderly grey-haired man gets up on the stage. Ten times puffing and sighing. Ten times slowly tracing out strange multi-coloured arabesques that interweave, curling with the meanders of his speech, by turns fluid and uneasy. A whole crowd...

Whilst Michael Balint's applied work is widely known, many of his theoretical contributions have been incorporated into everyday analysis without due recognition of their source. In this account of his thinking, Harold Stewart evaluates the extent of...

This is the first book dedicated to the Contemporary Freudian Tradition. In its introduction, and through its selection of papers, it describes the development and rich diversity of this tradition over recent decades, showing how theory and practice are...

Personality Development is a comprehensive overview of infant observation and personality development. It starts at inter-utero life and goes through to adulthood, focusing on the emotional tasks involved at each stage of development and the interplay of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781570626203Author Marie-Louise von FranzFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913494650Author Linda HopkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Karnac BooksPublisher Karnac BooksWeight(grams) 756gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 22mm