Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology

Many people seek help because they feel dragged down by a sense of inner deadness that persists in an otherwise full and meaningful life.

This book presents a comparison of the Gnostic worldviews of Carl G.

Contextual Transactional Analysis: The Inseparability of Self and World offers a novel and comprehensive reworking of key concepts in transactional analysis, offering insight into the causes of psychological distress and closing the gap between training and clinical practice.

The 1920s was the decade when psychoanalysis moved from the fringes of accepted medical practice into the mainstream.

This book provides a rich collection of the work that has been informed by the ideas of the eminent family therapist and clinical psychologist, Dr David Campbell who died in August 2009.

First published in 1991.

Exploring what it means to be an authentic therapist in the present day, Sara London playfully melds together the tenets of performance art and psychoanalytic theory to advance the hopeful new notion of the performance therapist.

A moody Freud posed against a background of holiday pictures pinned to a wall; or lurking at the very edge of a large family group; or lost in a crowd of nineteenth-century scientists.

The God of the Left Hemisphere explores the remarkable connections between the activities and functions of the human brain that writer William Blake termed 'Urizen' and the powerful complex of rationalising and ordering processes which modern neuroscience identifies as 'left hemisphere' brain activity.

Die Beziehung zwischen Patient und Therapeut steht - unabhängig vom jeweiligen Behandlungskonzept - im Mittelpunkt jeder Therapie und wird durch verschiedene Faktoren beeinflusst.

This book discusses Jacques Lacan's contribution to understanding the life and work of James Joyce, introducing Colette Soler's influential reading to English readers for the first time.

Where does science end and religion begin?

The increasing complexity of interdependence between people in modern life makes it more important than ever to understand processes of human relating.

Building on their long-lasting scientific partnership, Civitarese and Ferro offer an array of thought-provoking writings bolstered by extensive clinical material, attesting to their shared interpretation of psychoanalysis not only as a treatment for psychic suffering but also as inherently pleasurable and vitalizing.

The field of child and adolescent psychotherapy is still relatively young and its short history has resulted in a paucity of mental health services for this neglected group.

In Depth Sport Psychology: Reclaiming the Lost Soul of the Athlete is a unique exploration of the vital archetypal elements and themes that emerge when considering elite sportssport psychology through a depth psychological lens.

Micro-trauma: A psychoanalytic understanding of cumulative psychic injury explores the "e;micro-traumatic"e; or small, subtle psychic hurts that build up to undermine a person's sense of self-worth, skewing his or her character and compromising his or her relatedness to others.

Surviving Space is a collection of papers on infant observation and related issues by contemporary experts in the field, commemorating the centenary of Esther Bick and the unique contribution she has made to psychoanalytic theory.

A Psychoanalytic Study of the Wounded Healer uses qualitative research to examine the popular myth that therapists are 'wounded healers'.

The twentieth century has been described as the time of man's discovery of himself; few have contributed more to this cause than Erik Erikson.

Social work deals with the heavy end of human difficulties such as cruelty, self-destructiveness, and severe and enduring mental health problems.

Depth Psychology and Climate Change offers a sensitive and insightful look at how ideas from depth psychology can move us beyond psychological overwhelm when facing the ecological disaster of climate change and its denial.

This volume in the seminal Encyclopaedia of Psychoanalysis Series is a daring reassessment of the psychoanalytic theory of phobia from numerous schools of thought.

In the early 1970s, the preeminence of psychoanalysis in the treatment of mental illness gave way to a number of other approaches.

This new book is a lively and original study of psychoanalysis and its relations to the arts.

Luke Thurston explores psychoanalytic readings of Joyce, in particular those of Jacques Lacan.

This book explores the issues that surround medically assisted reproduction.

Have you ever been praised or criticized about your body or any part of it?

Psychoanalysis in the Age of Totalitarianism provides rich new insights into the history of political thought and clinical knowledge.

Shame, Pride, and Relational Trauma is a guide to recognizing the many ways shame and pride lie at the heart of psychotherapy with survivors of relational trauma.

Psychoanalysis, Neuroscience and the Stories of Our Lives: The Relational Roots of Mental Health offers a new understanding of identity and mental health, shining the light of twenty-first century neurobiology on the core tenets of psychoanalysis.

This book reframes the Lacanian object a voice as a horrific register of alterity.

Illustrated with richly detailed clinical vignettes, Seeds of Illness, Seeds of Recovery offers a fascinating investigation into the origins, modes and treatment of psychical suffering.

Even before we think, we use fantasy.

Relational Family Therapy introduces a cutting-edge family and couple therapy model that synthesizes relational theories and integrates object relations theory with interpersonal psychoanalysis and self-psychology.

This book explores how a deeper engagement with the theme of spirituality can challenge and stimulate contemporary psychoanalytic discourse.

Now you can more effectively help patients suffering from sexual conflict in its various manifestations.

Alchemy is central to Jung's hypothesis of the collective unconscious.

Emotionally Focused Family Therapy is the definitive manual for applying the effectiveness of emotionally focused therapy (EFT) to the complexities of family life.

Despite the popularity of object relations theories, these theories are often abstract, with the relation between theory and clinical technique left vague and unclear.

This book examines the importance and continued relevance of A Memoir of the Future in understanding and applying Bion's work to contemporary psychoanalysis.

The author is a highly successful consultant to leading institutions and organisations.

Ferenczi for Our Time stakes its greatest claim on the reader's attention by making manifest the contours of a distinctively Ferenczian tradition in the history of psychoanalysis, covering methodology, theory, and clinical practice in psychoanalysis.

The culmination of over three decades of investigation into traumatic processes, Repetition and Trauma is the late Max Stern's pioneering reconceptualization of trauma in the light of recent insights into the physiology and psychology of stress and the "e;teleonomic"e; character of human evolution in developing defenses against shock.

Winner of the Gradiva(R) Best Book Award 2022, and the Courage to Dream Book Prize 2023 from the Academy of the American Psychoanalytic Association!

James Hamilton's engaging book offers us his own unique insight into the unconscious factors involved in the creative processes associated with painting, filmmaking, and photography by studying the lives and works of a number of artists, each one having a unique personal style.

This highly topical book explores the new technological environment we have created, and our adaptation to it, twenty-five years after the death of John Bowlby.

The Psychoanalytic Theory of Neurosis, Fenichel's classic text, summarized the first half century of psychoanalytic investigation into psychopathology and presented a general psychoanalytic theory of neurosis.