Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology

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.

This book focuses on some of the main aspects and importance of The Red Book for the understanding of the work of C.

What happens in psychotherapy and when is it helpful?

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.

What is pain?

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

In this book, the author collects and discusses views and ideas of the ancient philosopher Aristotle which have psychological interest and compares them with today's theories.

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.

This book is concerned with the primitive edge of human experience.

The traditional dating of the origin of psychoanalysis to 1900, when Freud published The Interpretation of Dreams, ignores the massive body of work he produced well before this date.

This book is an attempt to examine whether patients in analysis or therapy can sometimes be said to form a kind of transference that not only operates at a prenatal level but can also lend itself to interpretation just like any other postnatal level of transference.

This is a comprehensive evidence-based clinical manual for practitioners ofcognitive-behavioural hypnotherapy.

This book demonstrates that silence is eloquent, powerful, beautiful and even dangerous.

This book is about inner pictures and how we can access and change these pictures through our imagination.

This book explores how our social and economic contexts profoundly affect our mental health and wellbeing, and how modern neuroscientific and psychodynamic research can both contribute to and enrich our understanding of these wider discussions.

This book challenges the very idea of "e;profound and multiple learning disabilities"e; (PMLD) itself, and what constitutes appropriate educational provision for children described as having PMLD.

Due to the inherent contradiction in Freud's concept of the Superego, there is a gap in our psychoanalytic understanding of how conscience evolves.

The Perverse Organisation and its Deadly Sins begins by examining the nature of perversity and its presence in corporate and organisational life.

This book focuses on one of D.

This book is about how to maintain an aliveness to the possibilities in therapy and practice and how to challenge ideas of orthodoxy in theory and methodologies that can become stale or followed like religions.

This is a completely revised and enlarged edition of the well-known classic.

"e;Published in association with the Journal for Lacanian Studies (JLS), the Ex-tensions series of short books aims to address "e;extant tensions"e; affecting the broad field of Lacanian psychoanalysis, whether they originate within its own boundaries or outside its direct sphere of influence.

By way of a new reading of The Complete Works of Sigmund Freud, this book introduces the notion of a theory of practice to the psychoanalytic endeavour.

The New International Library of Group Analysis Drawing on the seminal ideas of British, European, and American group analysts, psychoanalysts, social psychologists, and social scientists, the books in this series focus on the study of small and large groups, organisations, and other social systems, and on the study of the transpersonal and transgenerational sociality of human nature.

It was Freud, borrowing Nietszche's phrase from Thus Spake Zarathustra, who described as 'pale criminals' those who committed criminal acts out of deep-lying (unconscious) guilt.

It is the main argument of this book that emotional and psychological distress is often brought about through the operation of social-environmental powers which have their origin at a considerable distance from those ultimately subjected to them.

This book considers the place for analytic thinking in the world of psychiatry with its emphasis on an organic approach to major psychiatric disorders.

This book presents a selection of papers on the subjects of Relational Analysis and Group Analysis, written in the ten-year period that goes from 2002 to 2012.

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.

This book touches upon many of the key areas of contemporary psychoanalysis: setting, technique, theory, as well as post-Bionian models and the 'Bionian Field Theory'.

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