Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology

As a doctor, I make every effort to strengthen the belief in immortality, especially with older patients when such questions come threateningly close.

Sylvia Crocker's A Well-Lived Life is a work of a daring and creative thinker, offering a bold reconceptualization of Gestalt therapy that extends all the way from its philosophical foundation to the nuances of its clinical application.

There are many books that deal with pregnancy and maternity, and a large number of magazines and articles on paediatric nursing that examine these subjects from different points of view.

First published in 1998.

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.

Als präziser Denker hat sich Hartmut Raguse in der neutestamentlichen Wissenschaft ebenso einen Namen gemacht wie in der Psychoanalyse.

Winner of the Internationl Association for Jungian Studies (IAJS) Book Award for Best Clinical Book 2024FDerived from Ruth Williams' more than 40-year immersion in spiritual practice, as well as her clinical experience as a Jungian analyst, this thought-provoking volume explores the nature of spiritual paths and trajectories in practical ways, incorporating personal anecdote and ground-breaking academic research and providing a window into how Jungian practitioners work with soul and spirit.

This book focuses on the subject of the development of masculinity and femininity.

Black Mirror: Allegories for the Atomised addresses the ways that media and communications technologies shape our relationships with society, with others, and ultimately, with ourselves.

This book presents a detailed account of two analytic case studies examined through the particular viewpoint of creativity.

In The Play within the Play: The Enacted Dimension of Psychoanalytic Process Gil Katz presents and illustrates the "e;enacted dimension of psychoanalytic process.

This book investigates the experiences of severely troubled children and their families, teachers, and child psychoanalytic psychotherapists working together in primary schools.

This ebook is now available from Bloomsbury Academic.

This book presents a radical look at the founder of psychoanalysis in his broader cultural context, addressing critical issues and challenging stereotypes.

This book delves into the psychodynamic factors behind depressive and manic syndromes and thus serves to complement the purely biological view thereof.

The postmodern turn underlies a new development in psychoanalysis, which has theoretical and practical implications.

This chapter, written by a psychiatrist working with people with severe and complex addictions, sets the scene.

Volume 7 in the EFPP Series that aims to promote the pan-European community of psychoanalytic psychotherapists.

Winner of the 2010 Sigourney Award!

Basierend auf psychophysiologischen und psychoanalytischen Vorstellungen wird in diesem Buch das Konzept vom sog.

This book engages the topic of xenophobia from both psychological and socio-political approaches.

Transforming Despair to Hope: Reflections on the Psychotherapeutic Process with Severely Neglected and Traumatised Children offers a thorough overview of the problems and rewards of trying to help severely neglected and traumatised children.

What do the psychoanalyst and the historian have in common?

Psychoanalytic Practice Today offers the reader a good understanding of the school of thought inspired by the late work of Wilfred R.

The community in which children are nursed; the family, should by all means be a safe haven.

In Psychoanalytic Therapy as Health Care, a timely and trenchant consideration of the clash of values between managed care and psychoanalysis, contributors elaborate a thoughtful defense of the therapeutic necessity and social importance of contemporary psychoanalytic and psychodynamic approaches in the provision of mental health care.

Combining the latest neurological research and up-to-date psychoanalytic theory, Dreams and Dream Interpretation: A Contemporary Introduction gives readers a clear understanding of dreams, dream work and the ever-changing interpretations of this extraordinary phenomenon.

The language of Jung's writings, and of analytical psychology generally, is sometimes difficult to understand.

In this volume, the editors examine the state of clinical governance in the Mental Health sector.

Winner of the 2022 Gradiva(R) Award for Best Edited Book!

Sandplay Wisdom provides key concepts for understanding and using sandplay therapy effectively, distilling insight from more than four decades of experience.

Of the topics found in psychoanalytic theory it is Freud's philosophy of mind that is at once the most contentious and enduring.

Psychoanalysis is concerned with the vicissitudes of life: loss, grief, mourning, guilt and also with reparation and creativity, with death and rebirth, as is the work of Shakespeare.

When Mothers Talk is an intimate book about early child development and motherhood which offers an extraordinary view of the first three years of life and practical information that rarely gets talked about.

Polymorphisms presents an overview of key theories, ideas and issues within psychoanalysis relating to sexual and gender diversity.

The Borderline Psychotic Child reviews the history and evolution of the borderline diagnosis for children, both in the USA and the UK, bringing the reader up to date with current clinical opinion on the subject.

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.

The Perfume of Soul from Freud to Lacan seeks to understand the human sense of smell and its marks on our subjectivity from a psychoanalytic perspective.

First published in 1962, the original blurb reads: 'This provocative book explores the whole range of human thought conduct and beliefs.

Two central ideas have become part of the orthodoxy of modern family therapy thinking.

Aside from the many political, cultural and economic aspects of the present refugee crisis in Europe, it is also crucial to consider the psychological element.

"e;Beyond the Anti-group: survival and transformation"e; builds on the success of Morris Nitsun's influential concept of the Anti-group, taking it into new domains of thought and practice in the current century.

Building on the success and importance of three previous volumes, Relational Psychoanalysis continues to expand and develop the relational turn.

The revenge motif appears in a number of arenas and in different cultures.

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;.

The author occupies a unique position in psychoanalysis today, and his work represents a synthesis of the traditions of Lacan, Winnicott and Bion.