Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology

This book brings together the thinking of an international group of clinicians, researchers, and professionals from different disciplines and is based primarily on a selection of papers presented at a conference on the same topic held at the Tavistock Centre, London, in November 1996, but with additional original contributions.

This book offers a new theory of music as a form of social bond analogous to language as it is understood according to the Lacanian orientation in psychoanalysis.

This book is about the changing social contexts for fathering in the United Kingdom since the end of the Second World War, and the social moves from patriarchal fatherhood to multiple ways of doing 'dad'.

In this book, the author describes and discusses the physical and emotional changes that younger adolescents go through and how these affect and are influenced by their parents.

This book covers the phenomenon of stalking in its two major variations, sexual and surveillance, by emphasizing its central relevance to today's social, cultural, and political dilemmas with particular reference to stalking in cyberspace and its inevitable invasions of privacy.

Bringing together concepts from psychoanalysis with an attentive eye and the author's popular wisdom, Sports on the Couch explores the psychology of athletes and those around them.

A collection of lectures by eminent members of the British Psycho-analytical Society.

While the body has received significant attention in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy in the last couple of decades, this still focused primarily on the body of pathology - the body as speaking for (or on behalf of) the mind.

This book unravels the many enigmas and perplexities of Masud Khan's intriguing personality.

This book seeks to underscore the multifaceted ways in which we encounter suffering in clinical and social settings.

The author examines artistic experience with the eye of an analyst and analytic experience with the eye of an artist.

In this book, the author leads a journey through the depths of authentic sorrow, longing, and despair.

Socioanalysis is the study of groups, organisations, and society using a systems psychoanalytic framework: looking beneath the surface (and the obvious) to see the underlying dynamics and how these dynamics are interconnected.

"e;Political correctness"e; involves much more than a restriction of speech.

Explains how our major social problems, including crime, violence, terrorism, war, substance abuse, and prejudice, are the result of efforts by their perpetrators to maintain a secure identity, or sense of self.

We are running out of ideas in Western society.

"e;Social Dreaming"e; is the name given to a method of working with dreams that are shared and associated to within a gathering of people, coming together for this purpose.

This book revisits the theory of social systems as a defence against anxiety.

'This book is a remarkable tribute to the memory of Pat de Mare.

Skin in Psychoanalysis is an important theoretical contribution, revising several authors starting with Freud in whose writing we can now discover multiple direct or indirect references to the skin.

Theoretically anchored and historically informed, Six Children is a book about the nuances of child psychoanalysis as these unfold in the encounter with different forms of early life anguish.

The author formulates here the existence of an anxiety apparatus whose functioning is a part of the ego and the personality structure and illustrates how in attacking this apparatus the ego is attacking itself.

This volume comprises of papers by analysts and members of the Freudian School of Melbourne.

As a group, babies later diagnosed as autistic are found to have more complications during gestation and delivery than their normal siblings and others.

This book examines adults' identifications and internal relationships with their siblings' mental representations.

Siblings play an integral and essential part in our psychic development.

This book compiles papers presented at the European Federation of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy's 2011 Conference, which attempts to find the place of sibling relationships in psychoanalytic practice.

For this volume, the author has brought together a group of distinguished writers to explore a wide range of issues affecting sibling relationships.

This original book gives a timely exploration of the importance of sibling relationships from a multi-disciplinary perspective.

Shrinking the News brings together the author's wide range of articles from her regular column in the online newspaper, The Week.

In this book, the author succeeds in showing short-term psychodynamic psychotherapy to be an authentic and accepted method of therapy.

Short-term Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (STPP) is a manualised, time-limited model of psychoanalytic psychotherapy comprising twenty-eight weekly sessions for the adolescent patient and seven sessions for parents or carers, designed so that it can be delivered within a public mental health system, such as Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services in the UK.

This book is an outcome of the fourteenth John Bowlby Memorial Conference held in London.

Shattered but Unbroken is an edited volume focusing on Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), which combines the narratives of survivors of ritual abuse with academic contributions on the causes, correlates and interventions applicable to DID.

This book questions the junctions of the private and the public when it comes to trauma, loss, and the work of mourning - notions which, it is argued, challenge our very ideas of the individual and the shared.

This book presents a way to formulate, from several points of view, "e;Psychoanalysis as an encounter between two persons"e;, and highlights the aspects of symmetry and affective exchange of this encounter where analysis is seen as a relationship between two minds.

A volume in the Psychoanalytic Ideas Series, published for the Institute of Psychoanalysis by Karnac.

This book is organised in a way of listening to a dialogue between theoretical approaches.

This book offers ten distinguished analysts' insights on shame from various perspectives, which include its developmental substrate, vicissitudes during adolescence, and manifestations in the course of aging and infirmity.

Drawing upon a vast literature in psychoanalytic journals and either upon Shakespeare's characters themselves or alluding to those characters in the course of other topics, this book discusses eight of Shakespeare's plays and the relationships between the main characters in them.

This book examines the role of the Oedipus complex in the psyche and relates it to urgent issues of social life, historical and current.

This book is a selection of papers from the eleventh John Bowlby Memorial Conference.

This book aims to show that the function of day-dreams is to state a problem that has been disguised and then to solve it, the problem and the solution being the poles between which excitement flows.

This exciting and innovative book assists health practitioners in understanding the sexual diversity that now occurs in therapeutic consultations.

The greater part of this book focuses on a critical analysis of the logics and ways of thinking supporting both explicit and implicit theories of sexual difference and the masculine/feminine pair.

How does one become a man or a woman?

This book examines the myths perpetuated by the media and by the public, by providing actual data, with case examples.

'This unique and fascinating book carefully traces aspects of the personality of sextuplets which persist from birth onwards.

Sex, Mind, and Emotion is a collection of predominantly clinical papers, exploring innovative work in the field.

It is well known that Freud laid great emphasis on sexual matters.