Psychoanalysis

Alessandra Lemma - Winner of the Levy-Goldfarb Award for Child Psychoanalysis!The contemporary relevance of psychoanalysis is being increasingly questioned; Off the Couch challenges this view, demonstrating that psychoanalytic thinking and its...

This book is based on the work done by a group of British and Italian psychoanalysts who have been meeting twice yearly since 2003 to study clinically the relationship between the mind and the body of their patients.The analytical dyad became the focus...

In this study of Mahatma Gandhi, psychoanalyst Erik H. Erikson explores how Gandhi succeeded in mobilizing the Indian people both spiritually and politically as he became the revolutionary innovator of militant non-violence and India became the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780902869318Author Neil FaulknerFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint Resistance BooksPublisher Resistance Books

This insightful and beautifully written work explores nonlinear processes of recovery of the loss of Self. The inherent healing power of hard-earned, wholehearted self-acceptance is conceived through the authority of tenderness. The book is the final...

Embracing our creative nature as the heritage of all, this book seeks to foster the creative imagination by nurturing a fertile relationship with its source. Robert Sandford offers an alternative approach, taking up Jungian theory as arising from and...

This book discusses the pivotal role of shame in a wide range of mental disorders and as a driving force in societal polarization and escalating conflicts between nations and population groups.Exploring the phenomenology of one of the most vulnerable and...

First published in 1999. Shows how Melanie Klien's studies of sexuality aggression, unconscious phantasy and identification in children extended and corrected Freud's theories of the development of the superego and early stages of the Oedipus complex...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805212068Author Avivah Gottlieb ZornbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Schocken BooksPublisher Schocken BooksWeight(grams) 539gDimensions(mm)...

Using vivid case examples, she looks at the "intimate edge", intense encounters and playfulness in a way that is based in traditional psychoanalytic thought and yet open to the possibilities of the moment.Book InformationISBN 9780393701401Author Darlene...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912567423Author Donald MeltzerFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint The Harris Meltzer TrustPublisher Karnac BooksWeight(grams) 274gDimensions(mm) 228mm...

In this book Anne Maguire examines the psychoanalytic relevance of evil. Using case studies and examples she examines how sin may find calamitous expression, and the consequences which can flow from its covert pre-existence. Pride, anger, jealousy,...

The Psychoanalytic Movement explains how the language of psychoanalysis became the dominant way in which the middle classes of the industrialized West speak about their emotions. Explains how the language of psychoanalysis became the dominant way for the...

How do gender and sexual difference influence the erotic transference?Gender, Countertransference and the Erotic Transference offers new insights into working with complex transference and countertransference phenomena. Including views from a wide...

The School of Life offers radical ways to help us raid the treasure trove of human knowledge' Independent on Sunday Sigmund Freud is best known as the father of psychoanalysis. Born in 1856, he was a physiologist, medical doctor and psychologist who...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781774640326Author Alfred AdlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Must Have BooksPublisher Must Have BooksWeight(grams) 358gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942254225Author Dominique ScarfoneFormat PaperbackPage Count 262Imprint Unconscious in TranslationPublisher Unconscious in TranslationWeight(grams)...

There is increasing recognition within psychoanalysis and related therapies that awareness of the body is important in understanding and treating patients. Psychic Threats and Somatic Shelters explores the ways in which adults and children become...

Slavoj Zizek gives us a reading of a philosophical giant that changes our way of thinking about our new posthuman era. No ordinary study of Hegel, Hegel in a Wired Brain investigates what he might have had to say about the idea of the 'wired brain' -...

In his new book, Considering the Nature of Psychoanalysis: The Persistence of a Paradoxical Discourse, Gregorio Kohon describes the complexity of the psychoanalytic encounter, questioning the misguided attempts to simplify and/or reduce it to either art...

Defenses are mental operations that restore or maintain psychic equilibrium when people feel that they cannot manage emotions that stem from conflict; they remove components of unpleasant emotions from conscious awareness. For example, using sex, food,...

The Couch and the Silver Screen is a collection of original contributions which explore European cinema from psychoanalytic perspectives. Both classic and contemporary films are presented and analysed by a variety of authors, including leading cinema...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262534130Author Alenka ZupancicFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 13mm

'Living with the idea of bearing a death-force fundamentally directed at oneself is hardly easy to admit. It is less so in any case than the idea that we are all murderers, that we are ever ready to plead legitimate defence or the need to survive so as...

The only Freudian to have been originally trained in folklore and the first psychoanalytic anthropologist to carry out fieldwork, Gza Rcheim (1891-1953) contributed substantially to the worldwide study of cultures. Combining a global perspective with...

A concise overview of the neuropsychology of psychopathy, written in layman's terms The last two decades have seen tremendous growth in biological research on psychopathy, a mental disorder distinguished by traits including a lack of empathy or...

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...

The use of ultrasonic scans in pregnancy makes it possible to observe the fetus undisturbed in the womb. Dr Alessandra Piontelli has done what no one has done before: she observed eleven fetuses (three singletons and four sets of twins) in the womb using...

'Work Discussion brings together a combination of close observation of, and personal and interpersonal responses to, the minutiae of the work setting and its dynamics, both internal and external. Such a model depends on the development of hard-won...

Exploring what it means to be an authentic therapist in the present day, Sara London playfully melds together the tenets of performance art and psychoanalytic theory to advance the hopeful new notion of the performance therapist. In an era where the...

Early in these essays, Bromberg contemplates how one might engage schizoid detachment within an interpersonal perspective. To his surprise, he finds that the road to the patient's disavowed experiences most frequently passes through the analyst's...

Ornette Coleman, Psychoanalysis, Discourse develops tools from psychoanalysis for the analysis of Ornette Coleman's discourse.In this psychoanalytic, philosophical and musical meditation on what it means to follow, A. L. James presents an approach to the...

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...

At a time when there is increasing concern about the escalation of child and adolescent mental health problems, Time-limited Psychodynamic Psychotherapy with Children and Adolescents provides an innovative contextual model that engages the child or young...

This book traces the evolution of the concept of the unconscious from an intangible, metapsychological abstraction to a psychoneurobiological function of a tangible brain. An integration of current findings in the neurobiological and developmental...

This clinically focused book explores W. R. Bion's thinking on primitive and unrepresented mental states and shows how therapists can work effectively with traumatized patients who are difficult to reach.The author illuminates how trauma survivors suffer...

What exactly is involved in using particular case histories to think systematically about social, psychological and historical processes? Can one move from a textured particularity, like that in Freud s famous cases, to a level of reliable generality?...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262740258Author Slavoj ZizekFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 137mm * 13mm

How Freud's concept of the super-ego can help us to understand the harsh cultural climate of the digital age Cancellation, scapegoating, raving on Twitter. How did the Internet, which began as a place for open thought and exchange, become a forum for...

In the past two decades, many psychodynamic therapists have begun to view the relational processes taking place between patient and therapist as a central source of transformation. Yet traditional paradigms of clinical supervision, focusing primarily on...