Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology

What are the unconscious processes involved in reading literature?

Trauma and Primitive Mental States: An Object Relations Perspective offers a clinically based framework through which adult survivors of early childhood trauma can re-engage with painful past events to create meaningful futures for themselves.

Jung as a Writer traces a relationship between Jung and literature by analysing his texts using the methodology of literary theory.

This book, the third in a series based on the Belgirate conferences, deals with the personal as well as the organisational journeys of Group Relations practitioners and examines these through the lens of tradition, succession and creative application.

Developmental Perspectives in Child Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy incorporates recent innovations in developmental theory and research into our understanding of the nature of change in child psychotherapy.

The debate on abortion has tended to avoid the psychological significance of an unwanted pregnancy, dominated istead by the strong emotions the subject excites.

This book explores how we can understand the place of music from a self psychological perspective, by investigating three journeys: the one we take when listening to music, the literal journey of the author from Nazi Germany to the United States, and the subjective round-trip between the past and the present.

This book examines the importance of language and writing in psychoanalytic theory and practice, offering an understanding of how language works can give a deeper insight into the psyche both in clinical practice and everyday life.

In this new edition Blake gives a personal account of his professional experience of working with children and adolescents over the last 45 years.

Western philosophical orthodoxy places many aspects of other people's lives outside the scope of our knowledge.

A collection of papers, largely based on clinical work, which covers a range of concepts and mechanisms which are central to any psychoanalytic psychotherapy with children, adolescents, or adults.

What are the barriers and obstacles to adults learning?

The aim of this book is to awaken creative desire and expand the imagination of the psychotherapist and, in turn, her patient.

Originally published in 1972, this second edition in 1981 was fully revised and updated to cover recent developments in the field at the time.

This book provides a unique and highly topical application of psychoanalytic theory to the broad context of education, including schools, universities, and adult learning.

The world is looking East.

This volume is an introductory text to the individual and organizational dynamics by an author with extensive experience in the field.

« Se battre, quelles que soient les circonstances, reste un idéal soutenu par l’ambition d’essayer d’être utile, ce qui reste possible jusqu’au bout et même au seuil de la mort.

On Freud's "e;Moses and Monotheism"e; discusses key themes in Sigmund Freud's final book, Moses and Monotheism, written between 1934 and 1939.

This book provides a unique analysis of Lacan's conception of anxiety as presented in one of his most fascinating seminars, Seminar X.

Originally published in 1926, a complement to the author's Outline of Psychology, this book surveys the field of neurotic and mental disorders in so far as they are not due to gross organic lesions.

For the past century psychoanalysts have attempted to understand the psychology of art, artists and aesthetic experience.

From time to time therapists find themselves in a bind-faced with a challenging situation, unsure how to proceed.

As founder and past president of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and president of the American Association of Children's Residential Centers, Joseph Noshpitz was at the forefront of psychodynamic treatment and research with children and adolescents for more than forty years.

This revised and updated edition of Feminine Leadership: Personal Development Beyond Polarities illustrates how contemporary leaders may seek to renew the very notion of leadership through their own personal development.

Riccardo Steiner, one of the most well known historians of psychoanalysis, has in the numerous papers in this volume traced the relationship between psychoanalysis and the larger cultural sphere with clarity and erudition.

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.

An increasing number of scholars, students and practitioners of psychology are becoming intrigued by the ideas of Gilles Deleuze and of Felix Guattari.

Short-term dynamic interpersonal psychotherapy is an integrated, trauma-informed, contemporary, dynamic way of working with a range of mental health difficulties.

Understanding 4-5-year-olds gives a thoughtful overview of the challenges that children face as they gradually move away from a strong attachment to their families and turn towards the wider world of school and life outside the family.

Personality pathology is rooted in early development and affects a wide range of affects, behaviours and cognitive processes.

Dieses Werk behandelt die psychoanalytische Perspektive der Elternschaft - und damit die über Generationen weitergegebenen Beziehungsmuster, die in der inneren Welt der (werdenden) Mütter und Väter wirksam sind.

Integrative Gestalt Practice (IGP) is a new approach to understanding and working with complexity and wholeness in people's lives.

This book outlines three shibboleths of psychoanalysis: psychic bisexuality, the Oedipus complex, and social ontology.

This book questions the diagnostic categories applied to adolescents from a developmental viewpoint, putting forth an alternative perspective for assessment that considers prognostic and risk indicators.

In this book, the authors compare different psychoanalytic thinking and models - all of a rigorously Freudian stamp - on three concepts of great theoretical and clinical importance: language, symbolization, and psychosis.

This antiquarian book contains Wilhelm Stekel's 1923 treatise on nervous anxiety, "e;Conditions of Nervous Anxiety and their Treatment"e;.

Originally published in 1929 the individual psychological interpretation of this autobiography was first presented by Alfred Adler to a group of psychiatrists and pedagogues in Vienna.

The analysis of masculine issues is increasingly seen as a key cultural and therapeutic concern.

This book questions the junctions of the private and the public when it comes to trauma, loss, and the work of mourning - notions which, it is argued, challenge our very ideas of the individual and the shared.

Psychoanalysis and Ethics: The Necessity of Perspective is an attempt to look deeply into the relationship between psychoanalysis and ethics, and in particular into the failure of traditional psychoanalytic thinking to recognise the foundational character of ethical values.

The Life and Work of Joan Riviere traces her journey from dressmaker's apprentice, and member of the Society for Psychical Research, to Sigmund Freud's patient and his favourite translator.

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

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.

"e;Kundalini yoga presented Jung with a model of something that was almost completely lacking in Western psychology--an account of the development phases of higher consciousness.

This book considers pornography as a bridge between screen cultures and screen memories.

A Beholder's Share demonstrates how a sense of reality is evoked in the unpredictable space between imagination and adaptation.

At once autobiographical and psychoanalytic, The Hands of the Living God, first published in 1969, provides a detailed case study of Susan who, during a 20-year long treatment, spontaneously discovers the capacity to do doodle drawings.