This book offers an in-depth explanation of the concepts of self psychology and pragmatic steps for recognizing and using these concepts in clinical work, helping clinicians move from theory to practice.
Karin Lebersorgers Arbeit mit Menschen mit Down-Syndrom ist vom Bemühen geleitet, ihre seelischen Nöte zu verstehen und eine psychisch unbelastete Entwicklung zu unterstützen.
El presente libro resulta una ponencia que intenta resolver las desmesuradas como erróneas faltas conceptuales expuestas en sus críticas hacia el Psicoanálisis por los autodenominados neurocientíficos.
Hosting Earth is a timely and much-needed volume in the emerging literature of environmental philosophy, drawing upon art, science, and politics to explore alternatives to the traditional domination of nature by humans.
Im vierten Band der Reihe wird das konzeptuelle Feld der psychischen Repräsentanzen erörtert: Was bedeutet es, über sich und andere nachzudenken und mit inneren Bildern von Selbst und Nicht-Selbst umzugehen?
Touching upon the most sensitive nuances of the analytic encounter, Psychoanalytic Objects Near and Far combines a far-reaching theoretical manifesto with an intimate clinical journal to express curiosity, skepticism and love towards the psychoanalytic clinic, theory and history.
This distinctive volume examines the psychological claims of spirit possession and psychosis as they are linked to child sexual abuse, intimate partner violence, and poor mental health.
Dreams: The Basics presents introductory and accessible information about what dreams are, where they come from, what they do, and how to understand and work with them.
First published in 1930, the object of Love in the Machine Age was to popularize a modern and scientific view of behavior, and thereby help people to live happy and successful lives.
This book analyses a range of ubiquitous phenomena that make up our daily lives and to ask, not so much whether psychoanalytic thinking can add to our existing understanding of these phenomena, but what it can add.
It was Freud, borrowing Nietszche's phrase from Thus Spake Zarathustra, who described as 'pale criminals' those who committed criminal acts out of deep-lying (unconscious) guilt.
Critique and Affirmation in Erich Fromm explores the relations between Erich Fromm's theory and practice in politics and the psychoanalytic clinic - their points of continuity and contradiction.
Psychoanalysis and Severe Disorders in Young Children presents case material and resources for professionals working with young children in the clinic and in the community.
Using the works and theories of Carl Gustav Jung and the astrologers Alan Leo, Dane Rudhyar and Liz Greene, this volume provides a cultural history of psychological astrology in the twentieth century, demonstrating the prevalence of 'magic' in modern culture through its presence in astrology.
This book addresses aspects of how creativity is viewed in psychoanalytic theory and worked with in the consulting room, with particular reference to human generativity and the life cycle, within the arts in the broadest sense and its workings in society and culture in the widest sense.
First published in 1975, The Psychology of Tragic Drama offers an interpretation of some of the themes of both ancient and modern tragic drama through an investigation of the plays in the light of psychoanalytical ideas.
Weaving together state-of-the-art research, theory, and clinical insights, this book provides a new understanding of the unconscious and its centrality in human functioning.
The Fraternal Complex in the Middle East extends group and family psychoanalytic concepts to formulate hypotheses on the psychic functioning of nation-states as very large families.
This important book explores the way athletes use defense mechanisms and coping skills to manage both the internal and external stress faced in competitive sport.
Trauma, Pedagogy, and the College Mental Health Crisis argues that psychoanalytic theory and practice offers a solution to the large increase in students seeking mental health services.
'This book brings together a group of specialists who attempt to describe the process of interaction between the inner and personal and the outer and social.
Problems of Psychoanalytic Technique in Freud and Lacan contributes to the everyday work of contemporary psychoanalysts through a critical examination of psychoanalytic technique.
First published in 1947, the original blurb for Telepathy and Medical Psychology reads: 'An increasing mass of evidence compiled during the past years has made the occurrence of telepathy and related phenomena an established fact.
Internationally acclaimed for the clarity of his writing and thinking, Ogden radically reconceives psychoanalysis as a therapeutic process in which the patient is helped not only to achieve self understanding, but to become more fully oneself.
In this illuminating volume, Carlos Pitillas and Ismael Martinez-Biurrun provide in-depth analysis of contemporary horror films from a psychoanalytic perspective.
With the rise of 'identity politics' both in right-wing extremism as well as in activist academia, arts and feuilleton, major differences between the traditional left and the right have become blurred.
This book integrates research on the causes, responses and protective strategies for vicarious trauma that are recognised in a range of human services and argues their relevance to the legal profession.
With the rise of 'identity politics' both in right-wing extremism as well as in activist academia, arts and feuilleton, major differences between the traditional left and the right have become blurred.
Dreams: The Basics presents introductory and accessible information about what dreams are, where they come from, what they do, and how to understand and work with them.
Lacan, verdadero artífice del retorno a Freud, no denuncia la contención social de las pulsiones y, de una manera general, lo que obstaculiza el acceso al goce; al contrario, insiste en la importancia de la ley y de lo prohibido.
Drawing on Jewish myth, ritual and tradition, as well as the author's own experiences, this original and unique book offers insights into how Jung's psychology and ideas are relevant if understood from a wider, archetypal, perspective.
