Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology

This book compiles the papers presented at John Bowlby Memorial Conference 2003, exploring the complex and interwoven themes of touch, attachment and the body and their emergence in clinical work.

A volume of collected papers by one of the most prominent thinkers on psychoanalytic processes in organisations.

This book presents a theory of interaction in adult life when the dynamics of careseeking and caregiving are elicited.

This remarkable collection of papers is divided into three sections: clinical issues; psychoanalysis and the life cycle; and underlying theories of practice.

This book presents a research work on transformations in psychoanalysis and clinical observation of changes in psychoanalysis.

The concern with time permeates Freud's work, from Studies on Hysteria to Analysis Terminable and Interminable, which point out to a network of concepts that indicate Freud's complex theories on temporality.

Research has shown that nonspecific factors such as relationship and personality have a stronger correlation to outcome than method.

The value of Winnicott's work has become more and more widely recognized not only among psycho-analysts but also psychologists, educators, social workers, and men and women in every branch of medicine; indeed, all whose work or practice involves the care of children in health or sickness.

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

Contents: Part One - Thrills; Part Two - Regressions; Part Three: Appendix; Part Four - Conclusions.

Given the enormous struggles, efforts and money expended on the equalities enterprise, why has more progress not been made?

This book promotes curiosity, exploration and learning about difference by paying as much attention as to how we learn (process) as to what we learn (content).

If you are thinking of becoming a counsellor, you may be wondering if you could put to good use your own life experience by offering support and understanding to those trying to cope with difficulties that you may have encountered and worked through yourself.

Thinking About Children collects thirty-one papers, of which twenty-eight have never previously been published.

This book deals with the link between the purpose of therapy and the boundaries of the therapeutic situation, which - the author argues - derive from the omnipresence of the anxiety surrounding separations and death.

This book explores the existential themes and challenges present in all therapeutic relationships when working with children.

This book focuses on the professional ethics of medicine and psychiatry, to know whether psychoanalysis differs from brainwashing.

This book draws together radical critiques of therapy and shows how therapists have become too willing administrators of the mind, and how they then delight in the bureaucratic management of therapeutic practice.

'This book is based on twenty-five years of intensive study of patients in psychotherapeutic groups.

Over a period of several decades, the author evolved a personal way of relating to and communicating with children, offering them a live professional setting in which to discover themselves.

This volume addresses the complexities involved in attending to the mental health of refugees.

This book discusses how to write about the process of psychic change without betraying either love or science.

This book makes an original contribution to the study of the psychoanalytic process from a relational point of view, and at the same time serves as a textbook on the theory of technique.

This book provides an introduction to and history of the experiential dynamic therapies (EDT) including the ground-breaking Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP) of Habib Davanloo and its subsequent development.

The World within the Group is an original and ambitious endeavour to connect group analysis to philosophy, history, and modern social theory.

In 1947, the author founded the Library of Psychoanalysis and Clinical Psychology at Presses Universitaires de France, and forty-two volumes have appeared, by French and foreign authors, nine of them works or reprints of articles by Freud.

This book expands the authors' oeuvre to the English language and, consequently, to a broader spectrum of readers.

Although it is quite possible that many will consider this book irreverent or disrespectful of ideas or institutions, the author is certain that they will also perceive it as a defender of women and their unquestionable transcendence throughout history.

It is a well known that the Wolf-Man was the subject of what James Strachey described as 'the most elaborate and no doubt the most important of all Freud's case histories'.

This book is an exploration of contemporary understanding from philosophy, neuroscience, psychoanalysis, and metaphysical studies, which seem to verify the value of the Epicurean sentiments in terms of the wisdom of lived experience.

This book includes articles that describe how Winnicott's thinking facilitates the building of bridges between the internal and external realities, and, outside the boundaries of psychoanalysis as well as within it, between different schools of thought.

The motif of time and space runs as a continual thread through this book, which examines the relationship between psychotherapy and the theatre as underpinned by Winnicott's writings.

This book provides a clear, comprehensive, and sequential account of Bion's thinking, his life experience and technical innovations, saturated with quotes from his diaries and theoretical papers.

Understanding the psychodynamics of groups has derived from the two separate strands of theory and practice, resulting in two separate disciplines: group psychotherapy and group dynamics.

After being the subject of many studies up until 1914, totemism seemed to disappear from the literature.

The book is divided into easy to grasp sections of theory and practical exercises.

The Vibrant Family offers completely new and surprising approaches to parenthood.

This first-class book provides an unrivalled basis for further discussion on to how to make psychotherapy more effective both, ethically and professionally.

The post-Kleinian model of the mind, as developed by W.

This book describes the experiences of the Family Discussion Bureau in setting up short residential training courses for social case workers.

This book begins with a readable practitioner's guide to psychoanalytic theory and concepts.

Freud spoke of the "e;repudiation of femininity"e; as being an "e;underlying bedrock"e;, part of the "e;enigma"e; of sexuality.

This book brings together a deep thoughtfulness about the insights of psychoanalysis and its application to work with troubled couples with an original and closely argued reading of some classic plays about marriage.

'A state of mourning is something that the late twentieth century has been uniquely unable to achieve.

Just as concerts emerge from the interaction of many instruments, so our understanding of Shakespeare is enriched by different approaches to him.

A systematic effort to rethink Freud's theory of the unconscious, aiming to separate out the different forms of unconsciousness.

This book provides contemporary perspectives concerning Freud's fundamental assumptions on the unconscious.

The Unborn Child is essential reading for parents, potential parents and grandparents, as well as professionals with responsibility for children, and bringing babies into the world.

The universal phantasy of having a twin originates in our earliest relational experiences.

The book offers a unique in-depth understanding of the twin relationship, and the way in which twin development is affected by our attitudes to twins and our enduring fascination with them.