This investigation of religion by greatest psychoanalyst of the twentieth-century explores the role faith can take in the life of man, what it can mean to us and why as a species we are inclined towards it.
In this absorbing and provocative new book from one of Britain's most elegant and original prose stylists, psychoanalyst Adam Phillips addresses a variety of urgent concerns - many centred around the idea of balance.
The tormenting of the body by the troubled mind, hysteria is among the most pervasive of human disorders - yet at the same time it is the most elusive.
A collection of some of Freud's most famous essays, including ON THE INTRODUCTION OF NARCISSISM; REMEMBERING, REPEATING AND WORKING THROUGH; BEYOND THE PLEASURE PRINCIPLE; THE EGO AND THE ID and INHIBITION, SYMPTOM AND FEAR.
In what remains one of his most seminal papers, Freud considers the incompatibility of civilisation and individual happiness, and the tensions between the claims of society and the individual.
By a detailed investigation of the universal phenomenon of dreaming, Freud discovered a radical new way of exploring the unconscious and recognized that dreams are a conflict and compromise between conscious and unconscious impulses.
Freud's religious unbeliefs are too easily dismissed as the standard scientific rationalism of the twentieth-century intellectual, yet he scorned the high-minded humanism of his contemporaries.
Building on the crucial insight that jokes use many of the same mechanisms he had already discovered in dreams, Freud developed one of the richest and most comprehensive theories of humour that has ever been produced.
One of Freud's central achievements was to demonstrate how unacceptable thoughts and feelings are repressed into the unconscious, from where they continue to exert a decisive influence over our lives.
Here are the essential ideas of psychoanalytic theory, including Freud's explanations of such concepts as the Id, Ego and Super-Ego, the Death Instinct and Pleasure Principle, along with classic case studies like that of the Wolf Man.
Introduced in Psychoanalysis and Motivation (1989) and further developed in Self and Motivational Systems (1992), The Clinical Exchange (1996), and A Spirit of Inquiry (2002), motivational systems theory aims to identify the components and organization of mental states and the process by which affects, intentions, and goals unfold.
The first comprehensive look at how Victorian fiction and British psychoanalysis shaped each otherNovel Relations engages twentieth-century post-Freudian British psychoanalysis in an unprecedented way: as literary theory.
Dieses Fachbuch bietet einen umfassenden Einblick in die Welt der körperorientierten Heilmethoden und deren Integration in therapeutische Behandlungskonzepte.
El nazismo fue abordado por infinidad de autores en su contexto histórico, político, sociológico, filosófico, económico, militar y psicológico, intentando comprenderlo.
Este libro rinde homenaje a la obra El malestar en la cultura, imprescindible para cualquiera que pretenda ahondar en las causas de la infelicidad humana y que Freud explora al constatar las dificultades que entraña el intento de regirnos por el principio del placer.
Los síntomas actuales, las diversas sexualidades, las nuevas constelaciones familiares, la intervención de la ciencia en los asuntos privados, las redes, las pantallas, los consumos, youtubers devenidos líderes, las infancias y el empuje a definirse, violencias y femicidios, están encarnados por sujetos que no esperan al psicoanalista para gozar (cada quien a su modo), pero lo encontrarán, en el mejor de los casos, para alojarlos cuando lo que no anda devenga pregunta.
Psychology and Criminal Justice covers the ways that psychology intersects with the criminal justice system, from explaining criminal behavior to helping improve the three criminal justice pillars of policing, courts, and corrections.
En un mundo que ofrece innumerables novedades para abordar las infancias –sexualidad, crianza, derechos y leyes que las amparan–, María Romé propone detenerse a escuchar la verdad del niño, aquello que tiene para decir más allá de sus padres y del discurso que lo atraviesa y que lo nombra desde su prehistoria.
This fascinating new book is an exploration of the Andean codes, first introduced by the Incan civilization in relation to psychoanalytic theory, woven together with concepts from fractal dynamics and quantum theory to provide a more comprehensive method in psychoanalytic practice.
This fully revised fifth edition of Identity in Adolescence: The Balance Between Self and Other presents four theoretical perspectives on identity development during adolescence and young adulthood and their practical implications for intervention.
This fully revised fifth edition of Identity in Adolescence: The Balance Between Self and Other presents four theoretical perspectives on identity development during adolescence and young adulthood and their practical implications for intervention.
Addressing the intersection between analytical psychology and neuroscience, this book applies the science of memory reconsolidation to Jungian methods of dream interpretation to reexamine Carl Jung's vision of archetypes and the collective unconscious.
Addressing the intersection between analytical psychology and neuroscience, this book applies the science of memory reconsolidation to Jungian methods of dream interpretation to reexamine Carl Jung's vision of archetypes and the collective unconscious.
This fascinating new book is an exploration of the Andean codes, first introduced by the Incan civilization in relation to psychoanalytic theory, woven together with concepts from fractal dynamics and quantum theory to provide a more comprehensive method in psychoanalytic practice.
Aby Warburg (1866-1929) fue uno de los intelectuales e historiadores del arte mas influyentes de su tiempo, y el principal responsable de sentar las bases del estudio de la iconografia.
