Psychological theory, systems, schools and viewpoints

Why do the dead return?

In recent years historians of psychoanalysis have come to view Freud's case of Anna O.

Examining the work of Lacan and Freud, Cho argues that a theory of pedagogy is already embedded within psychoanalysis.

This book explores organizations as not simply rational, technological structures and networks for organizing people around tasks and services; it defines organizations as relational, experiential, and perceptual systems.

This book explores youth in postmodern society through a Lacanian lens.

An annotated edition of a landmark study in the history of psychology, including extensive essays and other critical apparatus that place Antoine Despine's work in its proper historical and scientific context.

Using Lacanian psychoanalysis and queer theory to explore the unstable relationship between heterosexual masculine identity and cultural representation, this book examines the ways straight men are queered and abjected in literature, theory, and film.

Analyzes diverse contemporary reactions to the depiction of the Holocaust and other cultural traumas in museums, movies, television shows, classroom discussions, and bestselling books.

Explaining changes in the political consciousness of the oppressed using the ideas of Paulo Freire, Albert Memmi, and Jungian psychology, this original book explores how psychological bonds of oppression are broken and offers a psychopolitical theory for the analysis of the autobiographies of four Native people in Guatemala and Canada.

Marla Morris explores Jewish intellectuals in society and in the university using psychoanalytic theory.

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Applying ideas drawn from contemporary critical theory this book historicizes psychoanalysis through a new, and significant, theorization of the Gothic.

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This book is about the development of psychoanalysis and modern subjectivity in Japan, and addresses three key questions: 'Why is there psychoanalysis in Japan?

This book introduces and applies Foucault's key concepts and procedures, specifically for a psychology readership.

Using work produced from the critical and postmodern arena in social sciences, this book examines three key areas - representation, identities and practice - to explore and interrogate how body and weight management, subjectivities, experiences and practices are constituted within and by the normative discourses of contemporary western culture.

Psychoanalytic theory has been the critical instrument of choice for colonial critics.

Psychoanalysis has always grappled with its Jewish origins, sometimes celebrating them and sometimes trying to escape or deny them.

Did you know that the father of psychoanalysis believed in ghosts, or that Frederick Engels attended seances?

Leading international scholars present novel dialogues between different psychoanalytic orientations as well as between the particularities of diverse socio-cultural and historical contexts in order to offer critical insights which are highly relevant to the current intellectual debates and social praxis.

Literature can have a disturbing effect on its readers.

What is a 'we' a collective and how can we use such communal self-knowledge to help people?

This book discusses what Jacques Lacan's oeuvre contributes to our understanding of psychosis.

Psychiatry and psychology have constructed a mental health system that does no justice to the problems it claims to understand and creates multiple problems for its users.

Dreams seem the most private territory of experience.

Tuckett argues that most economists' explanations of the financial crisis miss its essence; they ignore critical components of human psychology.

This collection of cutting-edge chapters contributes to the psychology of personhood especially (but not only) as applied in psychotherapy.

A readable and advanced introductory-level text focusing on the ethical dimensions and impact of Lacan's thinking.

Can postmodern accounts of the gaze - deriving from the psychoanalytic theories of Freud, Lacan, Fanon, and Riviere - tell us anything about those structures of vision prior to, and repressed by, modernity?

Dynamic Psychology in Modernist British Fiction argues that literary critics have tended to distort the impact of pre-Freudian psychological discourses, including psychical research, on Modern British Fiction.

Rob White reconsiders Freud's controversial theory of inherited memory, referring it both to Anglo-American commentary and post-structuralist work on psychoanalysis.

This book offers a unique perspective of art and its education in designer capitalism.

Understanding People provides an overview and critique of current psychological assumptions about people and what differentiates them, and replaces them with a set of ideas taken from social constructionism.

This book fills a long standing need for a basic introduction to Cognitive Grammar that is current, authoritative, comprehensive, and approachable.

Around the world and throughout history, in cultures as diverse as ancient Mesopotamia and modern America, human beings have been compelled by belief in gods and developed complex religions around them.

Obesity is reaching alarming proportions.

If you feel you are no longer in control of your behavior, that your actions may have interfered with your family, social, or working life, this workbook can help you take back control.

What is consciousness?

It has been widely acknowledged that in the past few decades, there has been a 'narrative turn' - an interest in the storied nature of human life.

"e;The question for me is how can the human mind occur in the physical universe.

Why do religious people believe what they shouldn't -- not what others think they shouldn't believe, but things that don't accord with their own avowed religious beliefs?

This book fills a long standing need for a basic introduction to Cognitive Grammar that is current, authoritative, comprehensive, and approachable.

The Coping Power Program is designed for use with preadolescent and early adolescent aggressive children and their parents and is often delivered near the time of children's transition to middle school.

Around the world and throughout history, in cultures as diverse as ancient Mesopotamia and modern America, human beings have been compelled by belief in gods and developed complex religions around them.

Obesity is reaching alarming proportions.

What is consciousness?

Jacques Lacan and Michel Foucault are often cast as intellectual adversaries, their legacies marked by differences in method, lineages, and analytical priorities.

In the field of classical studies, the psychoanalytic construction of the unconscious is rarely regarded as a fruitful methodological concept.

In the field of classical studies, the psychoanalytic construction of the unconscious is rarely regarded as a fruitful methodological concept.

Within this important book, Stephen J.