Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology

This book traces the historical and cross-cultural aspects of the psychic bond between man and animals, and elucidates the role of animals in the normal development of the human mind.

The line that separates those who kill from those who only think about it, and from those who injure themselves, is often thinner than we imagine.

This book will stimulate readers to cross borders: between theory and practice, between research and everyday therapy, between out-patient and in-patient psychotherapy, between the view of ones own, the known and the culturally foreign.

The premise of this book is that films, like other works of the imagination, may be elucidated by applying methods derived from psychoanalysis, and that doing so will result in a deeper and richer appreciation of the film's meaning.

Contemporary practices in mental health (and social care) are increasingly characterized by approaches that overly simplify social, political, and psychological concerns.

This book presents cutting edge developments in Adult Mental Health through the presentation of creative and innovative applications of systemic theory to practice.

Creating New Families is intended to reflect the practice of the specialist, multi-disciplinary Fostering and Adoption team in the Child and Family Department of the Tavistock Clinic.

The art of living the "e;good life"e; requires skilful attunement to the lovely presences in everyday life.

This book addresses the ethical and philosophical basis for the teaching/learning involved in becoming a psychotherapist.

This book presents psychoanalytic thinking about the phenomenon of the couple and couple dynamics at different levels of organization: the "e;couple"e; in the individual's internal world, the dynamics between partners in a couple relationship, and the dynamics between the couple and the group.

The couple relationship is at the centre of this book.

This collection of papers from psychoanalysts across Europe is intended to highlight the similarites and differences between approaches to working with children and adolescents.

A collection of papers on the Oedipus complex, divided into three parts: theory, practice and supervision.

With statutory CAMHS services often heavily oversubscribed, and school and college services mainly offering brief therapeutic interventions, parents are increasingly turning to private practitioners for therapy for their children when they need expert emotional or psychological support.

Although exact figures are hard to come by, statistical surveys suggest that as many as one in four of us in Britain suffer mental distress at some time in our lives.

A psychoanalyst sits in his consulting room waiting for the next patient.

An influential New York salon host and perpetual seeker of meaning, Mabel Dodge entered psychoanalysis in 1916 with A.

This book provides a helpful structure and framework for understanding Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (CFS/ME) and its effects as well as practical exercises to help address some of the symptoms that patients may experience.

These lively conversations provide a unique insight into the mind of one of the most original psychoanalysts of our century.

This book explores the interface of dreams, reverie, poetry, and play.

Stone's central interests include the development of the self, empathy, narcissism, shame, envy, rage and the group-self.

This book reflects certain continuity, dealing with the issue of how to be an analyst-through the different stages by which the author's psychoanalytic identity develops, from candidate to analyst and sometimes on to training analyst-in the continually changing world of our time.

This book on clinical practice gives information on actual clinical work, bearing witness to a way of working and being trained to work that is ethically healing of the psyches of suffering people and presenting the patients' material, unencumbered by excessive theorizing or technical language.

'This challenging and ambitious book captures the variety and richness of contemporary clinical developments in the Tavistock and Portman Clinics in relation to work with young adults.

This book is aimed at all practitioners working in healthcare and criminal justice community settings with individuals displaying antisocial, offending, and challenging behaviours, at times complicated by severe mental disorders.

This book explores ways we make contact with the depths in ourselves and each other.

In clinical work, an awareness of patients' subjective experiences, particularly their perceptions of interpersonal relationships, is indispensable.

This book illustrates clinical, psychoanalytic approaches to understanding people in depth, even when breadth of understanding is severely constricted by the brevity of a consultation.

Formulation remains one of the most important activities that those using psychological approaches undertake as part of their work.

Constructing and Deconstructing Woman's Power explores power and gender issues from a variety of psychoanalytic, as well as social, cultural and philosophical perspectives.

"e;Consequences of Denial"e; seeks to provide some awareness and understanding of the horrendous tragedy of the Armenian genocide.

This book provides easy to read, concise, and clinically useful explanations of over 1800 terms and concepts from the field of psychoanalysis.

This book contains a collection of papers on or relating to schizophrenia, reflecting the gradual evolution and development of Searles' ideas concerning the psychotherapeutic management of chronic schizophrenic disorders.

This book provides an introduction to cognitive behaviour therapy in combination with a transdiagnostic perspective on mental health problems.

Cogitations, the last of the posthumous publications, is a collection of occasional writings representing Bion's attempts to clarify and evaluate both his own ideas and those of others by casting them in written form and frequently addressing them to an imaginary audience.

This is the second volume in Brett Kahr's 'Interviews with Icons' series, following on from Tea with Winnicott.

Co-creative transactional analysis is an approach to a particular branch of psychology which, as the phrase suggests, emphasises the "e;co-"e; (mutual, joint) aspect of professional relationships, whether therapeutic, educative and/or consultative - and, by implication, of personal relationships.

This book illustrates the unique systemic approach of the Ingers who are well-known teachers and co-founders of the Family Studies Institute in Portland, Oregon.

This book arises from a lifetime's practical experience of work with people with Asperger's syndrome and autism.

This book offers an approach to business and executive coaching that properly aligns the practice in the culture of business through the use of a relational "e;coaching axis"e; that helps to manage the complexity of the organisation and the individual as dual clients.

A scholarly work from leading coaching psychologists from all over the world that provides thoughtful analysis of group dynamics, family systems, and psychotherapeutic approach to family business coaching.

This book is the result of a collaboration between two authors who share a passion and commitment for coaching.

Coaching in Education: Getting Better Results for Students, Educators and Parents will support educational organisations in learning more about the current interest in coaching approaches within schools, colleges and universities.

Coaching In Depth introduces the reader to the management consultancy technique of Organizational Role Analysis (ORA); a technique with the immensely practical purpose of helping managers to stay "e;in role and on task"e;.

This clinical workbook stresses the details of sound clinical practice, invites the reader to engage in exercises related to these practices as he or she goes through the volume, and offers practice in techniques that are essential to sound psychotherapy.

In Clinical Supervision of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, psychotherapy supervisors from the fields of psychology, psychiatry, social work, and dance movement therapy deal with the ambiguity and complexity of the supervisory role.

When the first edition of Clinical studies in Neuro-Psychoanalysis was published in 2000, it was hailed as a turning point in psychoanalytic research.

This selection of clinical seminars held by Wilfred Bion in Brasilia (1975) and Sao Paulo (1978) is the nearest we shall ever get to experiencing his application of his theories and views to consulting-room practice.

This book draws upon analytically oriented settings for almost all our clinical observations.

This book is a collection of the works of Dr.