Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology

This book foregrounds the life struggles of an individual, Brenda, in such a way that argument and theoretical exploration arise organically out of experience.

This book represents a major effort to integrate contemporary theories and findings regarding the psychological effects of severe trauma.

Contemporary mind sciences are revealing facts about the brain and its development that have much to teach us about health and happiness.

This book discusses that a science that deals with the immaterial might be more apt for finding out about the immaterial world of God.

This book, written in plain language by an experienced, psychoanalytically-orientated therapist, is aimed at lay readers who wish to understand how couples consciously and unconsciously operate in successful and unsuccessful partnerships.

This book begins with an exploration of the relationship between mind and brain.

Starting with research by Nobel laureate Roger Sperry into split-brain patients, this book sets out the evidence that there is a conscious mind in each hemisphere of the human brain.

This book is concerned with an enigmatic set of experiences which theorists in the Object Relations tradition have characterised as regression to dependence, a return to a primitive, pre-verbal relational process presenting in some clients in psychotherapy.

Betrayal underlies all psychic trauma, whether sexual abuse or profound neglect, violence or treachery, extramarital affair or embezzlement.

This book is about death, loss, grief and mourning, but with an unusual twist.

The authors of this volume take as their starting point "e;striking moments"e; in their practice with older people, their families and other practitioners.

At a time of increasing financial pressure on families - as well as the services that support them - children are doubly disadvantaged.

Why is love not enough for children whose early lives have been disturbing?

This book represents an innovative project in which parents, teachers and other professionals work collaboratively to observe children, understand them at a deep emotional level through their play and interaction with others, and facilitate their relationships with themselves as individuals and with others.

This handbook discriminates clearly between the responsibilities, cognitive understanding, and the feelings of the practitioner.

Every new therapist faces a first session, often with trepidation.

In contrast to the author's previous book, Healing the Unimaginable: Treating Ritual Abuse and Mind Control, which was for therapists, this book is designed for survivors of these abuses.

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.

What Neville Symington is attempting to do in this book is to trace the pathway along which he has travelled to become a person.

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

This book discusses the kind of mental processing that can free victims from their unspeakable trauma, a trauma that has no framework in time or words with which to express it.

This book examines the forces of sadomasochism in the clinical domain where transference and countertransference reside.

This book explores the life and theories of Michael Balint, who kept alive Ferenczi's analytic traditions in Budapest and brought them to London, where they became a vital part of the Independent Group's theory and practice.

Everyone experiences "e;bad"e; feelings - guilt, shame, humiliation, envy and more.

Most Western approaches to dreams are limited to a psychological paradigm.

This book is a collection of articles written between 1992 and 2005 which attempts to bring two universes together - Bion's referential and autistic phenomena.

"e;Tustin deals very sensitively and sensibly with the knotty problem of parents' contribution to autistic development, providing a balanced interactive view which does not allocate blame.

Specifically written for all those families who are unable to receive funding for their child's programme, and is an invaluable tool for new tutors coming into the field.

This book discusses psychoanalytic understanding of childhood autism and of autistic aspects of adult patients.

This is Frances Tustin's first book and the original statement of her views on autistic states of mind and the genesis of varieties of childhood psychosis.

This book describes an approach based on attention that can help individuals and groups to cooperate more effectively.

Bion's central thesis in this volume is that for the study of people, whether individually or in groups, a cardinal requisite is accurate observation, accompanied by accurate appreciation and formulation of the observations so made.

The implicit background of this book consists of an optimistic approach to creating mind forms that improve the condition of humanity, deriving from the legends of Christ and the Buddha and the experiences of mystics in both Eastern and Western cultures, as well as from psychoanalytic thought.

This book aims at providing further contributions inspired by Bion's paper Attacks on Linking (1959) by a distinguinshed group of scholars who have focused on different aspects of his propositions.

This is a revised edition of an important title originally published in 2009.

This book demonstrates that the relationship between attachment theory and psychoanalysis is more complex than adherents of either community generally recognize.

This book covers the groundbreaking concepts in attachment theory, as promulgated by Bowlby himself and during the years post Bowlby.

This collection of written pieces plots the work of an NHS psychotherapist, Jonathan Pedder, turning the science of psychiatry into human encounters.

What is it about childhood experiences that influence the kind of adult we become?

This book explores the assessment for psychoanalytic psychotherapy from various perspectives.

This book describes an approach to children and young people who might be helped by child psychotherapy.

This book draws together work from across Europe by leading clinical researchers who have been looking into the effectiveness of psychoanalytic interventions.

The DSM-5 (2013) classifies all autism-related disorders, including Asperger's, under the heading "e;autism spectrum disorder.

Illustrated with Barbara Hepworth's abstract stone carving, with other works of art, and with fascinating vignettes from Adrian Stokes's writing, this biography highlights his revolutionary emphasis on the materials-led inspiration of architecture, sculpture, painting, and the avant-garde creations of the Ballets Russes.

This volume in the Winnicott Studies series is dedicated to the life and work of Marion Milner and reflects, in varying ways, her unique use of Winnicott's work to shape her own thinking about art and creativity.

A revolution is brewing in psychoanalysis: after a century of struggle to define psychoanalysis as a science, the concept of psychoanalysis as an art is finding expression in an unconventional 'return to Freud' that reformulates the relationship between art and psychoanalysis and in this process, discovers and explores uncharted routes through art to re-think problems in contemporary clinical work.

Each of the contributors addresses the theoretical questions by pursuing a definite artistic problem, including a close look at the relation between the image and the object in Hitchcock's Vertigo, the sexual aesthetics of Caravaggio, the artistic pen of Barthes, and how Cronenberg's film Crash functions as a sinthome.

Are You Considering Therapy?

This book discusses the psychodynamics of leadership-in and relies on concepts of developmental psychology, family systems theory, cognitive theory, dynamic psychiatry, psychotherapy, and psychoanalysis to understand Alexander's behaviour and actions.

In this book, the author compares the characteristics of autistic child psychotherapies and those of the adult cases illustrated.