Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology

'The re-issuing of the four volumes of the author's writings is a major publishing event for psychoanalysts who are interested in both the theoretical and the therapeutic aspects of psychoanalysis.

'The re-issuing of the four volumes of the author's writings is a major publishing event for psychoanalysts who are interested in both the theoretical and the therapeutic aspects of psychoanalysis.

This book examines the terminology used in the analysis of sadomasochism, surveys extensively, and in detail, the theories of other psychoanalysts, and explores the relationship between sadomasochism and depression; its relationship to psychosis, borderline states, and many other conditions.

What happens when the outside world enters the psychoanalytic space?

This book looks at the phenomenon of self-directed disgust and examines the role of self-disgust in relation to psychological experiences and potential ensuing psychopathology and to physical functioning such as disability, chronic physical health, and sexual dysfunction.

This is the first in a "e;Reflective Citizen"e; series, the intention being to develop volumes from the various OPUS (An Organisation for Promoting Understanding of Society) activities which include Scientific Meetings, Workshops, Lectures, Debates and Conferences.

There has recently been a flurry of theoretical activity in affective neuroscience and neuropsychoanalysis.

Lacan critiqued imaginary intuition for confusing direct perception with unconscious pre-conceptions about people and the world.

This book offers a new perspective on conscience as an as yet unrealized human potential, but a potential toward which human beings are naturally driven.

This book examines the key ordering-disordering processes of the psychotic self.

The Psychotic: Aspects of the Personality presents the results of the author's many years of experience as an analyst working with deeply disturbed or psychotic patients, and demonstrates how the deeply resulting clinical and theoretical formulations may additionally be applied to less disturbed patients.

This new title, from a distinguished psychoanalyst, will inspire both those in the psychoanalytic field, and the general reader.

Childbearing seems eternal, primordial and universal.

'The biological birth of the human infant and the psychological birth of the individual are not coincident in time.

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.

This book presents a selection of the works of Hansi Kennedy, preeminent child psychoanalyst, whose career began with Anna Freud in the Hampstead War Nurseries and continued at the Hampstead Child Therapy Clinic (renamed the Anna Freud Centre in 1982) until retirement in 1993.

This book presents the proceedings of the of the conference on the Psychoanalytic Therapy of Severe Disturbance held in Belfast in June 2008.

This book discusses the problems of the sexual life of woman throughout the duration of her sexual maturity, i.

The Psyche in the Modern World sets out to open consulting room doors and bring the concept of the Psyche, and its main advocate, the psychotherapy discipline, into public space and into the realm of interdisciplinary discourse.

This book is by a professional for other professionals, but thoughtful people who are interested in the fundamental aspects of human nature will also find much to interest them.

Our sense of identity begins (our psychological birth sometime in the first year of life) with the feeling that we are the centre of the universe, protected by godlike benevolent parents who will enable us to live happily ever after.

The Privacy of the Self was the first collection of papers showing the development of the author's thinking over twenty five years of clinical work.

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.

This book focuses upon theories of the Oedipus complex beginning with the theory that Freud gradually developed, starting with his recognition that it is "e;an integral constituent of the neuroses"e;.

This book aims to facilitate the understandings of nursery age children, that is, children around three, four and five years, and their parents.

This book is concerned with whether we can develop our understanding of the mind through the application of new approaches to the study of complex systems.

This book provides a timely exploration and comparison of key concepts in the theories of Melanie Klein and Jacques Lacan, two thinkers and clinicians whose influence over the development of psychoanalysis in the wake of Freud has been profound and far-reaching.

After a hundred years of psychoanalysis, what has the psychoanalytic interpretation of dreams now become?

This book views the role of narcissism in analytic theory beginning with the writings of Freud and examines the conceptual changes that occurred with the development of ego psychology and object relations theory.

From the early 1970s, the author worked on the neglected theory of C.

In recent years there has been a cautious movement towards seeing psychotherapy and counselling as arts not as sciences.

This book provides an overview of the psychodynamics theory, bringing together concepts from the field within a particular focus, that of "e;emotional connectedness"e;.

This book explores the nature of parent-infant psychotherapies, therapies that are a major segment of the rapidly growing, sprawling field of infant mental health.

Revised edition.

This book describes how neural circuitry develops epigenetically, in a manner that directly reflects early environmental influences.

The Mind of the Paedophile discusses one of the most controversial and misunderstood subjects in the psychoanalytic arena today - paedophilia.

This edited book contains a hitherto unpublished seminar held by the author in Milan, Italy in 1985.

Lisl Klein has spent forty years working on the twin themes of the practice of social science in organizations and the importance of work and work organization.

Donald Winnicott (1896-1971) was trained in paediatrics, a profession that he practised to the end of his life, in particular at the Paddington Green Children's Hospital.

This book contributes to the retrieval of the alienated through the author's own acts of interpretation of ideas introduced by Melanie Klein, Donald Winnicott, Ronald Fairbairn, and Wilfred Bion.

Is someone radically different after an analysis?

This is the first book on the psychoanalytic treatment of children, young people and adults with Asperger's syndrome.

Here, for the first time, is a book that submits the psychoanalytic training institute to deep anthropological scrutiny.

In this book, the author describes his psychoanalytic work with psychotic patients and the logic that underlies their often-delusional constructions.

This book resurrects the Franz Alexanderian legacy, reminding his behemoth contributions and offers the reader with a deeply tender and touching portrait.

From its peculiar birth in Freud's self-analysis to its current state of deep crisis, psychoanalysis has always been a practice that questions its own existence.

This book highlights some of Donald Winnicott's contributions that particularly illustrate the originality of his thought.

This book offers a psychoanalytic perspective on learning and teaching and on many of the issues which preoccupy those who work in educational the origins of learning in children's early relationships and at factors which help and hinder the educational process in later childhood and adolescence.

The adolescent finds himself in the very difficult position of having to make all these readjustments whilst he has to deal with the subsequent conflicts and anxieties.

This important, pioneering book collates our knowledge of large groups, both at a theoretical and practical level.