Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology

How do we position ourselves, moment by moment, in relation to our patients and how do these positions inform both what we come to know about our patients and how we intervene?

Complex Psychological Trauma takes clinicians beyond the standard approaches for treating simple, single-stressor incident PTSD.

Shame is one of our most central feelings and a universal human characteristic.

Rising life expectancies and declining social capital in the developed world mean that an increasing number of people are likely to experience some form of loneliness in their lifetimes than ever before.

Literature and Emotion not only provides a defining overview of the field but also engages with emerging trends.

Developments in Freudian psychoanalysis, particularly the work of Kohut and Winnicott, have led to a convergence with the Jungian position.

Group Therapy: A Group-Analytic Approach is a comprehensive introduction to contemporary group analytic theory and practice - the prevailing form of group therapy in Europe.

Is personality "e;in the genes"e;?

This book brings together an engaging study, using Emmanuel Ghent's collected papers, of theoretical and personal origins of the relational turn in psychoanalysis.

A Japanese Jungian Perspective on Mental Health and Culture: Wandering Madness explores differences between Western and Japanese models of mental health.

Recent scholarship has inquired into the socio-historical, discursive genesis of trauma.

Milner's great study, first published in 1950, discusses the nature of creativity and those forces which prevent its expression.

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.

Understanding the Sexual Betrayal of Boys and Men: The Trauma of Sexual Abuse is an indispensable go-to book for understanding male sexual victimization.

Healing Sexually Betrayed Men and Boys: Treatment for Sexual Abuse, Assault, and Trauma is the new authoritative source for treatment of sexually victimized men and boys.

Reconsidering the Moveable Frame in Psychoanalysis explores the idea of 'the frame' at a time when this concept is undergoing both systematic revival and widespread transformation.

Psychoanalytic Studies of the Work of Adam Smith blends the rich intellectual heritage of the hermeneutic tradition with the methods and concepts of psychoanalysis, in order to examine the seminal works of Adam Smith.

Eva Rass, a leading expert on the work of Allan Schore, presents a collection that provides an overview of his core ideas and makes accessible the evolution of his thought.

This book provides a re-appraisal of Carl Jung's work as a personality theorist.

The Neuropsychodynamic Treatment of Self-Deficits examines how to work psychoanalytically with patients to address the problems that result from neuropsychological impairments, exploring the latest advances in understanding and treatment, while also addressing the concerns that clinicians may have in providing treatment.

The recent explosion of new research about infants, parental care, and infant-parent relationships has shown conclusively that human relationships are central motivators and organizers in development.

Feminist interventions in psychoanalysis have often attempted either to subvert or re-frame the masculinist and phallocentric biases of Freud's psychoanalysis.

This book presents an interdisciplinary discussion between researchers and clinicians about trauma in the relationship between infants and their parents.

Ignacio Matte-Blanco has made one of the most original contributions to psychoanalysis since Freud.

Mentalizing in Child Therapy focuses on open-ended psychotherapy for children with complex mental health issues and attachment problems.

This book looks at the trauma suffered by those in relationships with narcissists, covering topics such as surviving a cult, dysfunctional families, political dysfunction, and imbalances of power in places of work and education.

Mentalizing in Child Therapy focuses on open-ended psychotherapy for children with complex mental health issues and attachment problems.

This book initiates the discussion between psychoanalysis and recent humanist and social scientific interest in a fundamental contemporary topic - the nonhuman.

This book shows how persecution is a condition that binds each in an ethical obligation to the other.

This book places Freud's theory of the reality principle in relation to both everyday experience and global issues of the 21st century and illustrates how it may be practically applied.

This book analyzes the cinematic superhero as social practice.

This book reconsiders standard narratives regarding Austrian emigres and exiles to Britain by addressing the seminal role of Sigmund Freud and his writings, and the critical part played by his contemporaries, in the construction of a method promoting humanized relations between individual and society and subjectivity and culture.

This book sets out to determine the validity of an accusation made against Jacques Lacan by Noam Chomsky in an interview in 1989.

This volume explores themes originating from the work of Jean Amery (1912-1978), a Holocaust survivor and essayist-mainly, ethics and the past, torture and its implications, death and suicide.

This study explores Proust's answers to some of the fundamental challenges of the inevitable human experience of mourning.

This book argues that the story of the orphan girl Pollyanna (namely, her strategy of playing the "e;glad games"e; to manage loss, abuse, and social prejudice) serves as a framework for critiquing historical forms of Western scientific Pollyannaism.

This book builds on the works of Artaud and Deleuze, setting forth a different way of thinking on the body through the use of a whole new set of conceptual tools.

Is there a genetic predisposition to crime?

In his fifth book Thomas Ogden, widely regarded as the most profound and original psychoanalytic writer of this decade, explores the frontier of contemporary psychoanalytic thinking: the experience of the analyst and patient in the dynamic interplay of subjectivity and intersubjectivity.

An immense value to all students and practitioners of psychotherapy, Psychotherpy: The Art of Wooing Nature, masterfully integrates Sheldon Roths clinical wisdom and theoretical knowledge.

Contemporary psychoanalysts are eclectic and believe they use the best ideas from each of our numerous competing theoretic models.

Explains the patient's identification in treatment with a significant other for purposes of mastering traumatic experiences.

This book presents a cognitive styles framework that explores the relationship between traditionalism/modernism and cognitive styles and offers a method for multiculturalism assessment and psychotherapy that promotes the development of pluralistic perspectives and lifestyles.

Erik Erikson and the American Psyche is an intellectual biography which explores Erikson's contributions to the study of infancy, childhood and ethical development in light of ego psychology, object-relations theory, Lacanian theory and other major trends in psychoanalysis.

For many therapists it has replaced previous action terms such as acting in and acting out.

Empathic Attunement captures the essence of Kohut's contributions to self psychology and the mental health field.

The basic text for the understanding of patients with pathological narcissism.

All the creative art psychotherapies (art, dance, music, drama, poetry) can trace their roots to C.

The authoritative edition of Jung's miscellaneous collected writingsThe Symbolic Life gathers some 160 of Jung's writings that span sixty years and reflect his inquiring mind, numerous interests, and wide circle of professional and personal acquaintance.