Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology

The author believes that studying a therapeutic process closely from its beginning to its termination is one of the best ways to observe, learn, and teach psychoanalytic concepts.

Working with Parents and Infants is aimed at understanding the process of psychosomatic illness, exploring the embodiment of psychosomatic health and illness, and the inseparability of psyche and soma.

In this book the author examines the series of connections that give rise to the intimate relationship between environment and individual in the construction of emotional suffering, emphasising both the undisputed pathogenic action of environmental stimuli and the active participation of whoever is obliged to suffer the negative situation.

The author, working from the Family Institute in Cardiff, has been treating adult survivors of child sexual and physical abuse for several years, and she has clearly and frankly described her work in this book.

Systemic theory offers a valuable framework for integrating the diverse ideas found throughout the mental health arena in both theory and clinical practice.

The chapters contributed to this book have been written by the staff and associates of The Tavistock Consultancy Service, whose distinctive competence is in the human dimension of enterprise and the dynamics of the workplace.

The author's experience of applying the social sciences in organizations must be unique.

Drawing on the rich range and depth of the clinical experience of the contributors, this welcome volume will be a valuable tool for clinicians and trainees.

This book provides the history, theory, and practice of work discussion as developed at the Tavistock Clinic.

In her attempt to find the words that touch, the author gives a succession of illuminating examples to indicate what a psychoanalyst and her patient may experience in the transference relationship during the course of an analysis.

This book contains a collection of articles on social psychology, the psychology of terror and violence, psychoanalytic psychotherapy, and the history of psychoanalysis.

This book is dedicated to Pearl King who is something of an institution in herself within psychoanalysis as well as an important contributor to the development of the institution of psychoanalysis.

This book presents an in-depth, wide-ranging and rigorous investigation of Winnicott's central theory of maturational processes and its interrelation with psychic disorders.

Winnicott's thinking continues to grow in importance in psychoanalysis today.

The Squiggle Foundation's aims are to study and disseminate the work of Winnicott, with a particular emphasis on application.

The Squiggle Foundation's aims are to study and disseminate the work of Winnicott, with a particular emphasis on application.

This book focuses on two themes: the first theme is the true self and the resonance of Winnicott's thinking with the contributions of other major psychoanalysts of the past half century; the second theme emerges from the first: the pursuit of authenticity, whether by patient or analyst.

Wilfred Bion's unpublished lectures at the Los Angeles Psychoanalytic Society and Institute in April in 1967 represent a unique opportunity for students either new to or continuing in the study of the author's unique psychoanalytic vertex.

Freud, Klein and Bion have provided the most relevant and substantial contributions to psychoanalytical theory and praxis.

This groundbreaking book provides a challenging exploration of psychoanalytic ideas about lesbians and lesbianism.

Almost two decades ago, the psychoanalyst Sussman concluded that the therapist's motivation for practicing was a neglected area.

This book considers the experience of envy, greed, jealousy, and narcissism and how they operate between parents and children, brothers and sisters.

The book outlines theories of child development from the point of view of the kinds of relationships children make with adults and the effects of their relationships on their learning.

What is it like to be a working psychoanalyst?

This book has a similar, though not identical, format to Who Owns Psychoanalysis?

This book is principally about what is commonly referred to as Gnosticism and its influence on Jung's analytical psychology.

Where the Waters Meet offers the reader a new way of viewing an old subject.

This book provides the reader with a theoretical framework that considers how psychoanalysis can enrich the clinical application of the arts therapies.

The purpose of this book is to explain, first, what happens when we become too involved in our work, and, second, how we avoid being controlled by our work and how we prevent family members, friends, colleagues, or employees from being so.

This book aims to deconstruct the different theoretical perspectives of psychoanalysis, and reconstruct these concepts in a language that is readily understood.

This book illustrates the myriad of ways in which hurt was created.

The author uses her popular columns from The Independent to explore the therapeutic process.

Using Shakespeare's work to expand our understanding of what it is to be human, this book of applied psychoanalysis furthers the study of Shakespeare, literary theory, dramatic arts, and psychoanalytic theory.

In recent years commentators have speculated on the "e;collapse"e; of the couple and the family, highlighting the increasing fragility of couple relationships making them vulnerable to crises and break ups.

In 1921, a young female doctor started analysis with Sigmund Freud.

This book marks an important watershed in the development of psychotherapy.

This volume on groups emphasises the importance of a psychoanalytic analysis, as opposed to a behaviourist account.

This book unravels the different notions of time and history that are implicit in the history of child psychoanalysis and in the clinical approach to childhood.

Faced by the increasing divisiveness and volatility of electoral politics, and the rise of illiberal fundamentalisms, the social sciences may seem to lack the imagination necessary to make sense of the world.

This book allows patients to speak for themselves about their psychoanalytic experiences.

This book focuses on theoretical and clinical progress in psychoanalysis through various thematic proposals developed by authors from diverse geographical areas, in order to open possibilities of generating a productive debate within the psychoanalytic world and related professional circles.

This book describes the particular approach to clinical work with under fives that has been developed at the Tavistock Clinic.

This book explores what we mean when we use the term "e;perversion.

This book focuses on the study and treatment of patients with psychotic illnesses.

This book explores the importance of relationship between child and care system, child and clinician or other practitioner, practitioners with practitioners, or individuals with the organisation in which they work.

A collection of papers on and about the work of Wilfred Bion and its continuing development.

This book postulates that the trigger of the psychotic condition is located in the basic processes which structure the first emotional relations.

This anthology illustrates the range and diversity of responses from the psychological world to the multiple ecological crises with which our society is faced.

This volume looks at the reasons behind adolescent violence, and illuminates the earlier disturbances in the life history of the adolescent, which contribute to violent behaviour.

Our understanding of terrorism since the events of September 11th 2001 has usually been channelled through the two dimensional lens of religion and politics.