Psychoanalysis

These lively conversations provide a unique insight into the mind of one of the most original psychoanalysts of our century. The various subjects covered here spread over a wide range of interest, which Michael Eigen talks about with a rich and almost...

Over the past decade, the very nature of the way we relate to each other has been utterly transformed by online social networking and the mobile technologies that enable unfettered access to it. Our very selves have been extended into the digital world...

Scarcely any theoretical discourse has had greater impact on literary and cultural studies than psychoanalysis, and yet hardly any theoretical discourse is more widely misunderstood and abused. In Psychoanalyzing, Serge Leclaire offers a thorough and...

In the classic edition of this outstanding book, originally published in 1998, Richard Frankel explores adolescence as a crucial, unique, and turbulent period of human development. He provides guidance for clinicians working with young people as they...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486790305Author Sigmund FreudFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 60gDimensions(mm)...

* This book examines the emotional and relational reasons for sexual desire and how we can learn to express ourselves sexually * The number of psychosexual therapists along with sex and relationship trainees is currently growing. * Written in accessible...

Psychological Roots of the Climate Crisis tells the story of a fundamental fight between a caring and an uncaring imagination. It helps us to recognise the uncaring imagination in politics, in culture - for example in the writings of Ayn Rand - and also...

This book revisits the theory of social systems as a defence against anxiety first set out by Elliott Jaques and Isabel Menzies Lyth in papers which they published in 1955 and 1960, and which have been influential points of reference ever since...

Parker systematically reviews the key psychoanalytic theories to reveal social processes and their significance to modern life: Freud and object relations theory is directed towards group processes, religion and war; the Frankfurt School is used to...

In summer 2015, performance artist Marina Abramovic and psychoanalyst Jeannette Fischer spent four days together at Abramovic's house in the Hudson Valley. Associating freely, they explored - from a psychoanalytical perspective - Abramovic's biography...

In "The Fragile Self" Dr Mollon argues that psycho-analysis requires an adequate theory of self in order to address effectively those states of mind in which a disturbed sense of self is prominent. He discusses disorders of the self from a variety of...

Over 100 years since its origins, psychoanalysis continues to be a key source of insights across the humanities and social sciences. Being well-versed in psychoanalytic concepts is a crucial element in cultural literacy today. Key Concepts in...

This book explores the significance of movement processes as they shape one's experience through life. With an introductory foreword by Michael Vincent Miller, it provides a comprehensive, practical understanding of how we lose the wonder and curiosity...

In this volume, Christiane Ludwig-Koerner describes the lives and work of the staff members of the War Nurseries set up and run by Anna Freud and Dorothy Burlingham during the Second World War.The Women of Anna Freud's War Nurseries looks in turn at each...

In this classic work, Didier Anzieu presents and develops his theory of the importance of 'the Skin-ego'. Just as the skin is wrapped around the body, so Anzieu sees the 'Skin-ego' as a psychical wrapping containing, defining and consolidating the...

The author presents a passionate argument for a therapeutic practice based on the physician's love for the deeply deprived patient. Ian Suttie, a psychiatrist of the Tavistock clinic in the 1930s, advocates a more optimistic view of human nature than...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621385202Author Samuel Bendeck SotillosFormat PaperbackPage Count 498Imprint Angelico PressPublisher Angelico PressWeight(grams) 757gDimensions(mm) 234mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Gradiva Award 2007 (United States) and The Goethe Award for Psychoanalytic Scholarship 2006 (United States).Book InformationISBN 9781913494827Author Linda...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780882140773Author James HillmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Spring Publications, Inc.Publisher Spring Publications, Inc.Weight(grams) 227g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913494025Author Jeremy HolmesFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Confer BooksPublisher Karnac BooksWeight(grams) 328gDimensions(mm) 185mm * 129mm * 13mm

'A rich and intimate examination of female desire, Maxine's book is full of wisdom and insight. I cannot recommend it enough' Julia SamuelAfter thirty years of research, Sigmund Freud still felt the great unanswered question was: 'What does a woman...

A collection of papers focusing on the Kleinian conception of the Oedipus complex, how this is now understood, and what effect it has had on clinical practice.The papers by Ronald Britton, Michael Feldman and Edna O'Shaughnessy which form the greater...

Melanie Klein gives a detailed account of the analysis of a ten year old boy, Richard. Klein describes the day to day course of the analysis interpreting Richard`s drawing, play, verbal associations and reports of dreams. Also included is the...

The Practice of Psychoanalytic Parent-Infant Psychotherapy is a comprehensive handbook, addressing the provision of therapeutic help for babies and their parents when their attachment relationship is troubled and a risk is posed to the baby's development...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781585427253Author Piero FerrucciFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint TarcherPerigeePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 283gDimensions(mm) 180mm *...

Wilfred R. Bion is considered a ground-breaking psychoanalyst. His thinking is rooted in Freud and Klein from where it takes an original flight. Reading Bion shows the evolution of his seminal insights in psychic functioning and puts them in a wider...

A groundbreaking book which explores the impact of women on the development of Freud's ideas.No modern writer has affected our views on women as powerfully as Sigmund Freud. And none has been so virulently attacked for both his theories of femininity and...

An up-to-date, practice-oriented handbook for psychoanalytic psychotherapy In the newly revised third edition of Introduction to the Practice of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, distinguished clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst Allessandra Lemma...

In 1984 the Psychoanalytic Center of California (PCC) was established as a direct outcome of the work of Albert Mason, Wilfred Bion, and the visiting analysts who influenced the thinking and practice of receptive Los Angeles analysts of the day...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780882149530Author James HillmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint Spring PublicationsPublisher Spring PublicationsWeight(grams) 127g

This book discusses the relevance of tracing back the course of individual development noted in psychoanalysis (regression) and in Patanjali's Yoga (prati-prasava).Although Freud found the diagnostic benefits in tracing the history of the patients' early...

This book serves as a practical and comprehensive introduction to depression and its deep roots in trauma.Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber looks at the heterogeneous and complex phenomenon of depression and considers a range of topics essential to those faced...

The Long Week-End is a reminiscence of the first twenty-one years of Wilfred Bion's life: eight years of childhood in India, ten years at public school in England, and three years in the army.INDIA: 'Intense light; intense black; nothing between; no...

Charles Rycroft's 'Critical Dictionary of Psychoanalysis' is an established reference work providing clear definitions and critical discussions of the technical terms used in psychoanalysis. "An accurate and witty guide to the meaning of psychoanalytic...

Shame and shame reactions are two of the most delicate and difficult issues of psychotherapy and are among the most likely to defy our usual dynamic, systemic, and behavioral theories. In this groundbreaking new collection, The Voice of Shame, thirteen...

Object Relations in Psychoanalytic Theory provides a masterful overview of the central issue concerning psychoanalysts today: finding a way to deal in theoretical terms with the importance of the patient's relationships with other people. Just as...

To find more information about Rowman and Littlefield titles, please visit www.rowmanlittlefield.com.Book InformationISBN 9780876688021Author Simon A. GronlnickFormat HardbackPage Count 222Imprint Jason Aronson Inc. PublishersPublisher Jason Aronson Inc...

This book revaluates Carl Jung's ideas in the context of contemporary research in the evolutionary sciences.Recent work in developmental biology, as well as experimental and psychedelic neuroscience, have provided empirical evidence that supports some of...

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...

The aim of this book is to provide illustrations of ways in which psychoanalytic ideas can be adapted and used in a wide variety of community settings - including social services, schools and hospitals - to help children and families who are emotionally...