Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology

This book evolved from the First International Meeting of the Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy Association on intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy.

This book presents a wide range of psychoanalytic writing on masculinity and femininity from British, European, and North and South American perspectives, exploring how masculine and feminine aspects are structured and evolve in the child, adolescent and adult.

'Human identity, sexual identity, primary and secondary identification, object choice, narcissism - all of these lie on a continuum with homosexuality, transsexualism, transvestism, heterosexuality and asexuality.

This book is about marital relations and its vicissitudes, and the possible way of dealing with them through marital therapy.

Maps for Psychoanalytic Exploration brings together the author's main works, until now published only in Italian.

This book is about how we can deepen our understanding of subjectivity through the use of the concept of triangulation.

Manualisation of psychodynamic psychotherapy poses a formidable challenge, but may prove indispensable in the effort to disseminate short-term psychodynamic treatments to a wider patient community.

This book seeks to contribute to a psychological perspective to aircrew wellbeing and help aircrew to acquire an understanding of how to better manage the many challenges arising from sleep deprivation and frequent absence from friends and loved others at home.

Clinicians, managers and researchers - as well as politicians and religious leaders - are worrying about a lack of compassion and humanity in the care of vulnerable people in society.

This book is about the difficulty of endings, but it is also about learning from the endings that we know have gone wrong as well as those that have worked well.

This book argues for the value and application of psychoanalytic thinking beyond, as well as within, the consulting room.

In this book, Marcus Evans makes a strong case for the importance of psychoanalytic supervision in mental health practice and its role in helping frontline staff to "e;tune in"e; to their patients' unconscious communications or the "e;psychotic wavelength"e;.

This book demonstrates the clinical value of "e;making Freud more Freudian"e;.

Psychoanalysis was neither a product of philosophy nor of academic study.

Much has been written about the function of falling in love in the course of therapy itself.

This book introduces the clinical concept of analytic contact.

This highly topical book explores the new technological environment we have created, and our adaptation to it, twenty-five years after the death of John Bowlby.

The first essay, "e;The Impossible Couple"e;, is both a humorous and razor-sharp analysis of the contemporary relationship between man and woman.

"e;Love Bombing"e; is a radical new method for resetting the emotional thermostats of troubled children and their parents, setting them on a much happier trajectory.

Sigmund Freud noted the importance of love in the healing of the human psyche.

This book is an account of the psychology of romantic love in the context of a theory of emotions.

This book is about how traumatic psychological injury is passed down to the children and grandchildren of those who originally experienced it and about finding the shared humanity in families, in psychotherapy, in society, and in memories of the past that repairs the damage people do to one another.

'"e;The mares which bear me as far as my desires might reach .

This book examines the pretensions of the new paradigm in psychology that has put itself forward as the model for the future of the clinical disciplines, thereby seeking to put paid to psychoanalysis.

Porn is a complex symbol of our current world, and a shining example of the 'Shadow' of the Western culture.

Based on a two-year research project funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), this book explores why many of those involved in racially motivated crime seem to be struggling to cope with economic, cultural and emotional losses in their own lives.

A moody Freud posed against a background of holiday pictures pinned to a wall; or lurking at the very edge of a large family group; or lost in a crowd of nineteenth-century scientists.

This book belongs to a long tradition at the Tavistock Clinic of work focused on the mental and emotional well-being of the elderly.

Longing: Psychoanalytic Musings on Desire is a contemporary, interdisciplinary exploration of one of psychoanalysis's most foundational and fascinating areas of investigation.

This collection of papers, spanning the last fifteen years, presents a spirited defence of Freud's clinical method, considering the 'crisis of psychoanalysis' in the wider context of a crisis of reflective thought in society as a whole.

This multi-author anthology is a short introduction to the world of existential psychotherapy, and specifically Existential Analysis.

This book brings together the threads that make up the campaign for people with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID).

This book centres on the problem of psychosis, understood from a psychoanalytic perspective, as it manifests itself in different contexts and different levels of organisation: from the individual psychoanalytic session, through work with couples, groups and institutions and wider levels of social organisation.

Michael Eigen is widely regarded as a significant and increasingly influential figure in contemporary psychoanalysis.

The world has long awaited compelling and unmistakable evidence for the validity of dynamic psychotherapy.

This book offers English-speaking readers one of the best examples of continental European approaches to working psychologically with refugees and migrants, combining ethnopsychiatric elements with insights from systemic approaches and from the theory and practice of narrative psychotherapies.

Follow seventy-six children from birth to thirty to learn about their various developmental life paths and their influences.

Literature and Therapy: A Systemic View is an invitation to the world of literature, drawing us into the creative and imaginative spaces which lie between readers and their choice of novels, plays and poems.

There are multiple meanings to the term 'group-as-a-whole' and all have a contribution.

This book presents the general framework of the psychoanalytic approach to groups, describing the main elements of a psychoanalytic model of the group and of the subject within the group.

Throughout most of human history, our ancestors have done rather poorly when dealing with acts of violence.

Life Scripts: A Transactional Analysis of Unconscious Relational Patterns is an exciting collection of contemporary writings on Life Script theory and psychotherapeutic methods.

In this volume an inquiry into the nature of the creative process is attempted by paying close attention to the lives of various artists, poets, novelists and playwrights, and selected works of each in order to demonstrate an essential relationship between the two, and that it is most difficult to delineate the nuances of the creative act by treating them as separate entitites.

How we cope with grief and come to terms with the death of a loved one shapes our world.

Let's Keep Talking: Lacanian Tales of Love, Sex, and Other Catastrophes is a collection of original Lacanian case studies of young people today as they struggle with their own modern existential dilemmas of sex and love, life and death.

In this volume contemporary staff describe their thinking and clinical work.

This book presents an assumption that the primary task of the residential conferences is to provide those who attend with opportunities to learn about leadership, discussing the role of director and interpersonal and intergroup relations within the staff group.

A book which will illuminate the learning process from the perspective of the teacher as well as the learner.

We have much to learn from mothers and babies, not just about early life psychic phenomena that are active in us, but also about the analytic technique, when the internal setting becomes more important than the analyst's interpretative capacity.

Leaders in Transition brings a new perspective on why some leaders succeed more than others when taking charge of an organisation.