Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology

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The Couch and the Silver Screen is a collection of original contributions which explore European cinema from psychoanalytic perspectives.

First published in 1975, The Psychology of Tragic Drama offers an interpretation of some of the themes of both ancient and modern tragic drama through an investigation of the plays in the light of psychoanalytical ideas.

The Institute of Group Analysis (IGA) celebrates forty years from its foundation with the publication of two new volumes tracing the foundations and applications of Group Analysis.

This book closely examines the analyst's early experiences and character traits, demonstrating the impact they have on theory building and technique.

Leadership, Psychoanalysis, and Society describes leadership as a relationship between leaders and followers in a particular context and challenges theories of leadership now being taught.

This book introduces a theoretical framework for studying the mind.

Increasingly, people are becoming aware of the importance ofrules with regard to the establishmnent of human behaviour.

In this book, Neville Symington approaches the well-trodden subject of narcissism, offers us fresh insights from his long clinical experience with patients suffering from this disorder, and sketches some highlights in the history of the concept of narcissism.

Evil - along with its incarnation in human form, the psychopath - remains underexamined in the psychological and psychoanalytic literature.

Jungian Psychoanalysis: A Contemporary Introduction provides a concise overview of analytical psychology as developed by Carl Jung.

A clear and thorough introduction to techniques and practice issues, as well as basic theoretical frameworks, for beginners.

The adolescent finds himself in the very difficult position of having to make all these readjustments whilst he has to deal with the subsequent conflicts and anxieties.

This book examines works of four German-Jewish scholars who, in their places of exile, sought to probe the pathology of the Nazi mind: Wilhelm Reich's The Mass Psychology of Fascism (1933), Erich Fromm's Escape from Freedom (1941), Siegfried Kracauer's From Caligari to Hitler: A Psychological History of the German Film (1947), and Erich Neumann's Depth Psychology and a New Ethic (1949).

Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry: Partners and Competitors in the Mental Health Field offers a comprehensive overview of the many links between the two fields.

This book presents the clinical application of Bion's ideas and deals with the author's personal analytic experience, which echoes the experience of other practising analysts.

Originally published in 1959, the blurb read: 'Dr Berg has made a comprehensive survey of the Wolfenden Report in regard to homosexuality and illustrated his comments with extracts from case material.

Integrating critical and feminist psychology, psychiatry, and psychoanalysis, this text offers a distinct perspective of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as a clinical and social phenomenon.

What is the significance of the Father in psychoanalysis today?

Taboo, Personal and Collective Representations examines the symbolic nature of taboo, asking what is the purpose of a taboo and how does it vary cross-culturally?

The Purloined Self: Interpersonal Perspectives in Psychoanalysis brings together nineteen essays in updated form, still as relevant, witty and informative today as when the book originally published.

Race and the Unconscious engages the archetypal African consciousness that enriches our knowledge regarding the foundational mythopoetic of Africanist dreaming.

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

Foregrounding diverse lived experiences and non-dominant forms of knowledge, this edited volume showcases ways in which narrating and sharing stories of pain and suffering can be engaged as critical pedagogy to challenge oppression and inequity in educational contexts.

This book is intended as an inspiration and as an introduction to what Susan Hart has called neuroaffective developmental psychology.

Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences.

Volume 13 includes chapters on the contributions of Weston LaBarre (B.

Choice Recommended ReadCritical psychology has developed over time from different standpoints, and in different cultural contexts, embracing a variety of perspectives.

Do political concerns belong in psychodynamic treatment?

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.

Metaphor and Imaginal Psychology: A Hermetic Reflection provides the first full-length exploration of the significance of metaphor in post-Jungian psychology.

This book examines tolerance as a concept under crisis, exploring its origin and functions, and how it can be at risk of replacement by moral intolerance or retributive justice in turbulent societies.

This book is about how we can deepen our understanding of subjectivity through the use of the concept of triangulation.

Jungian Analysts Working Across Cultures: From Tradition to Innovation gives a fascinating account of the wide variety of experiences of Jungian analysts working in different cultures across the world.

This book focuses on Samuel Beckett's psychoanalytic psychotherapy with W.

A comprehensive approach to self-realization, psychosynthesis was developed between 1910 and the 1950s by the Italian psychiatrist Roberto Assagioli.

Explorations in Autism is a turning-point in both the understanding of and the clinical approach to autism.

Boarding School Syndrome is an analysis of the trauma of the 'privileged' child sent to boarding school at a young age.

The first peer-reviewed book of its kind, this important volume addresses a current gap in the field of gestalt therapy: that the practice-and psychotherapy more broadly-still suffers from pervasive hetero- and cis-normativity.

The Archaic takes as its major reference points C.

This book is about the psychological experiences of women and men who have used donor conception to create their families.

This book unites the worlds of physics and depth psychology through analysis of carefully selected existing and new dream materials.

The book outlines theories of child development from the point of view of the kinds of relationships children make with adults and the effects of their relationships on their learning.

The subject of this book is the study of dreaming from a specific point of view, one that provides useful and enlightening results: the analysis of the complex patterns of links among the memory sources of dreams.

Kinder werden in einen gesellschaftlichen Kontext hineingeboren, den sie sich nicht ausgesucht haben.

This insightful volume is designed as a series of invitations towards living attentiveness, examining how we all make the "e;other"e;, through "e;projection"e; (blaming and shaming the other outside ourselves), our enemy with whom we prefer not to dialogue.

Political Pathologies from The Sopranos to Succession argues that highly praised prestige TV shows reveal the underlying fantasies and contradictions of uppermiddle-class political centrists.