Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology

This book, offering reader the opportunity to reflect on ideas in the field of systemic and family therapy, examines the cross-fertilization of ideas that can result from an integration of systemic theory, personal construct theory, and the influential work on the analysis of narratives.

The concept of anxiety has long held a central place in psychoanalytic theories of mind and treatment.

This thought-provoking volume offers an overview of contemporary representations of prominent female characters as they appear in an array of moving-image narratives from a Jungian and post-Jungian perspective.

The Life of Gregory Zilboorg, 1890-1940: Psyche, Psychiatry, and Psychoanalysis is the first volume of a meticulously researched two-part biography of the Russian-American psychoanalyst Gregory Zilboorg and chronicles the period from his birth as a Jew in Tsarist Russia to his prominence as a New York psychoanalyst on the eve of the Second World War.

This work is an eagerly awaited account of this momentous and ongoing revolution, elaborated for the general reader by two pioneers of the field.

Through the examination of anti-psychiatric theory and literary texts, this timely and thought-provoking volume explores the possibilities of liberating our habitual patterns of perception and consciousness beyond the confines of a capitalist era.

Sigmund Freud's 1905 Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality is a founding text of psychoanalysis and yet it remains to a large extent an "e;unknown"e; text.

Dimitris Anastasopoulos and Evangelos Papanicolaou have gathered together a distinguished group of contributors to focus on the therapist's participation in therapy and the influence of personal factors on the therapeutic relationship.

Dionysus, god of dismemberment and sponsor of the lost or abandoned feminine, originates both Jungian psychology and literature in Remembering Dionysus.

Trauma, Guilt and Reparation identifies the emotional barriers faced by people who have experienced severe trauma, as well as the emergence of reparative processes which pave the way from impasse to development.

Emotions have moved center stage in many contemporary debates over religious diversity and multicultural recognition.

The focus of this book is on detailed case histories of patients with severe traumas.

The EFPP (European Federation for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy) promotes communication and discussion between psychotherapists across national boundaries in the child and adolescent, adult, family and group sections of the organisation, through its conferences and seminars on topics of interest in contemporary psychoanalytic psychotherapy.

Women and Dionysus links repression of the Dionysian spirit in Western culture with the rise of the patriarchy over the course of two millennia.

This book reframes the Lacanian object a voice as a horrific register of alterity.

Side effects are things we do not intend.

What is 'mentalization'?

Winner of the 2010 Goethe Award for Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic Scholarship!

How can boards and members of boards reach their full potential?

This book develops a psychoanalytic theory of political correctness and the pristine self, which is defined as a self touched by nothing but love.

A commonly encountered experience of both analyst and analysand is that of the void.

This book turns our search for intimacy on its head, suggesting that our way to creativity in love may be through idiocy.

This book explores nuances of faith-no-faith moments, twists and turns of living and focuses on variations of faith, beginning with nature, sleep, beauty, goodness, the opening-closing of the human face, and the paradox of the growth of faith through pain and shattering.

Illusion, Disillusion, and Irony in Psychoanalysis explores and develops the role of illusion and daydream in everyday life, and in psychoanalysis.

Wilhelm Stekel was an Austrian physician and psychologist and one of Freud's earliest followers.

This book is about learning to live your life more fully.

This book is concerned with the study of organizations of various kinds.

For most of the twentieth century, Jewish and/or politically leftist European psychoanalysts rarely linked their personal trauma history to their professional lives, for they hoped their theory-their Truth-would transcend subjectivity and achieve a universality not unlike the advances in the "e;hard"e; sciences.

This book is a challenge to the silos in our human services that an 'atomised' focus gives rise to.

In recent decades, attachment theory has gained widespread interest and acceptance, although the relevance of attachment theory to clinical practice has never been clear.

Bulimia nervosa ist eine schwer zu behandelnde Erkrankung, insbesondere bei Jugendlichen und jungen Erwachsenen.

The Deconstruction of Narcissism and the Function of the Object addresses the topic of narcissistic suffering and presents an innovative take on its psychoanalytic treatment through the deconstruction of its solipsism.

This book reflects the culture of the Belgirate Conference, namely combining traditional and experiential modes of developing new ideas and knowledge; and in order to further the field of Group Relations.

This book claims that a tragicomic outlook-the kind that echoes in black and gallows humour and the "e;laughter through tears"e; of Jewish humour-is the most effective way to manage what Freud called the "e;harshness"e; of everyday life.

This volume develops a comprehensive framework for applying the theory of hauntology to everyday life from ethnographic and clinical points of view.

Lacan, Discourse, Event: New Psychoanalytic Approaches to Textual Indeterminacy is an introduction to the emerging field of Lacanian Discourse Analysis.

Developing psychoanalytic credos, a set of beliefs that inform how you listen and approach the analytic enterprise with patients, is in many ways the scaffolding of psychoanalytic training.

Originally published in 1979, this is a dream book with an outstanding difference: it takes the interpretation of dreams out of the realm of the professionals and gives it to the ultimate expert - the dreamer.

The Modernity of Sandor Ferenczi provides a concise yet thorough overview of the life and work of Sandor Ferenczi.

La obra de los grandes autores del psicoanálisis, Melanie Klein entre ellos, permea, no siempre advertidamente, al conjunto del pensamiento psicoanalítico ya sea a través de su aceptación, de su desarrollo, de su transformación, de su discusión.

Second Thoughts is a collection of papers on Schizophrenia, Linking and Thinking, and is a commentary upon them in the light of later work.

The trauma of refugee status is particularly corrosive.

Every human being about to be born is loaned a provisional identity.

This book takes a comprehensive look at the understanding and treatment of child sexual abuse in psychoanalytic theory and practice, and in society as a whole.

Drawing on clinical practice, this book explores how the Black feminist idea of intersectionality is vital to all group work practices, including group analysis.

This collection of articles by Dr.