Psychological theory, systems, schools and viewpoints

This book explores the interface of dreams, reverie, poetry, and play.

This book increases the reader's understanding of violent children and the value and vicissitudes of their psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy.

Psychologie einfach erklärt!

While the theories of Matte Blanco about the structure of the unconscious and the way in which it operates are generally recognised to be the most original since those of Freud, for many people the ways in which his ideas are expressed, including the use of terminology from mathematics and logic, make them difficult of access.

Just as psychoanalytic interest in masochism dates from the earliest days of psychoanalysis, the various approaches to its understanding have reflected the developmental vicissitudes of psychoanalytic theory as it moved from its early focus on instinct to considerations of psychic structure and oedipall dynamics, object relations, separation-individuation, self-organization, and self-esteem regulation, and as it progressed into more systematic investigation of child development.

American Board and Academy of Psychoanalysis Book Prize Winner for 2018 (Theoretical Category)We have entered the age of perversion, an era in which we are becoming more like machines and they more like us.

This ground-breaking book examines the role of crime in the lives of people with Dissociative Identity Disorder, formerly known as Multiple Personality Disorder, a condition which appears to be caused by prolonged trauma in infancy and childhood.

The first clearly-illustrated, comparative book on developmental primate skeletal anatomy, focused on the highly informative newborn stage.

How do we know our mental life, and how is our mental life altered by our efforts to know it better?

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

This important book gathers a set of influential international contributors with psychoanalytic and group analytic knowledge to provide a wide-ranging critical analysis of the present state of Europe.

Training in psychoanalysis is a long and demanding process.

Americans donate over 300 billion dollars a year to charity, but the psychological factors that govern whether to give, and how much to give, are still not well understood.

Metapsychology and the Foundations of Psychoanalysis redresses faults in Freud's original conception to develop a coherent theoretical basis for psychodynamic theory.

Irreverence: A Strategy for Therapists' Survival marks the end result of a collaboration between three creative and highly respected therapists and writers in the family therapy field.

This book examines the effects of various stresses, strains, and traumas in our lives, from the womb till adulthood.

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

Ever since its nascent days, psychoanalysis has enjoyed an uneasy coexistence with religion.

Over the last few decades behavioral economics has revolutionized the discipline.

**Winner of the 2022 British Psychological Society Book Award - Textbook Category**Developed and adapted by the authors of this book, thematic analysis (TA) is one of the most popular qualitative data analytic techniques in psychology and the social and health sciences.

This guide has been written to accompany the book The Silent Selkie, a children's story about trauma and offers gentle, creative ways for adults to work with children and young people who have faced adverse childhood experiences.

This book describes the particular approach to clinical work with under fives that has been developed at the Tavistock Clinic.

Drawn from the John Bowlby Memorial Conference, the theme of this book addresses the often hidden and ignored subject of attachment, race and culture.

Regarded as the definitive practitioner reference and text, this accessible work addresses how to set up therapy groups and make them work.

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History Flows through Us introduces a new dialogue between leading historians and psychoanalysts and provides essential insights into the nature of historical trauma.

This book provides an in-depth introduction to existential psychotherapy.

A Roadmap for Couple Therapy offers a comprehensive, flexible, and user-friendly template for conducting couple therapy.

This thought-provoking new collection - the fourth volume in the Forensic Psychotherapy Monograph Series - investigates the inherent difficulties in risk assessment.

TEN SIMPLE STRATEGIES TO MANAGE ANXIETY, DEPRESSION, WORRY AND OTHER COMMON MENTAL HEALTH CONCERNS.

In 2009-2010, The Squiggle Foundation, whose aim is to stimulate interest in the work of Donald Winnicott, organized a series of lectures on the theme of "e;the antisocial tendency"e;.

Selection for secondary education at 11-plus still arouses widespread controversy; and the psychological techniques which are employed, such as intelligence and attainments tests, are often criticised.

The idea that teachers love children is often taken for granted in education.

This book contains papers varying from the subject of psychoanalytic theory and therapy to the psychoses and applied psycho-analysis.

To all of those familiar with the Gestalt model and its many creative extensions and applications, the name Joseph Zinker needs no introduction.

The twentieth century saw an unprecedented spike in the study of altered states of consciousness.

The concept of the "e;locus of control"e; is one of the most influential in all of the psychological sciences.

Launched in 1971, Adolescent Psychiatry, in the words of founding coeditors Sherman C.

The book provides a comprehensive overview of research and concepts related to shame and ageing, in the context of social change, upheavals and paradigm shifts, from transdisciplinary, cultural and transcultural perspectives.

There is no doubt that behavioral economics is becoming a dominant lens through which we think about economics.

Traditional psychotherapy approaches, focusing on working with and correcting mental events and conditions, have placed little importance on the fundamentally physical nature of the person.

Psychoanalysis of the Psychoanalytic Frame Revisited provides an in-depth discussion of Jose Bleger's work, broadening current knowledge and focusing on his significant contribution to psychoanalytic thinking.

An exposition on individuation including 'Archetypes, Individuation and Internal Objects' and 'The Individuation Process'

Evolution and the Human-Animal Drive to Conflict examines how fundamental, universal animal drives, such as dominance/prevalence, survival, kinship, and "e;profit"e; (greed, advantage, whether of material or social nature), provide the basis for the evolutionary trap that promotes the unstable, conflictive, dominant-prone individual and group human behaviours.

« La vraie philosophie est de rapprendre à voir le monde, et en ce sens une histoire racontée peut signifier le monde avec autant de “p- fondeur” qu’un traité de philosophie.

Dynamics of Psychoanalytic Institutions provides a thorough appraisal of the current state of psychoanalytic groups and how they might move forward under fraught conditions, representing the outcome of many years of work by the Institutional Matters Forum (IMF).

Have you ever wondered what's going on in your child's mind?

Political theorist Laurie M.