Psychological theory, systems, schools and viewpoints

This text presents a picture of contemporary family patterns that might produce problems of social and psychopathologic deviance in adolescents.

Appropriate as a textbook for graduate courses, The Evolution and Function of Cognition provides a systematic and progressively inclusive integration of the facts and principles of cognitive psychology.

Helping therapists navigate the complexities of emotional interactions with clients, this book provides practical clinical guidelines.

Transformations continues the investigation of various aspects of psychoanalytic theory and practice which the author commenced with Learning from Experience (1962) and pursued in Elements of Psychoanalysis (1963).

Recent scholarship has inquired into the socio-historical, discursive genesis of trauma.

Bernard Lonergan's De constitutione Christi was written to accompany a course being taught in Latin at the Gregorian University, Rome during the 1950s and 60s.

Dr James Grotstein (1925-2015) was the foremost Bion scholar, and one of the most noted and honoured psychoanalysts in the world.

En matière de grossesse, d’accouchement et de maternage, les mères doivent composer avec des spécialistes qui tentent de leur imposer leur point de vue au moyen de « conseils pratiques ».

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Volume 17 of Progress in Self Psychology, The Narcissistic Patient Revisited, begins with the next installment of Strozier's "e;From the Kohut Archives"e;: first publication of a fragment by Kohut on social class and self-formation and of four letters from his final decade.

This work challenges the notion that anxiety and depression amount to a mental illness denoting that something is wrong with the individual sufferer.

The Physiological Basis of Behaviour deals with the basic structures of the central nervous system, the techniques used in neuroscience and examnines how drugs affect the brain.

This book outlines a theory of rationality in which logical law emerges as an intrinsic aspect of evolutionary biology.

2020 Gradiva Award Nominee, Best Edited BookPsychoanalytic Perspectives on Women and Their Experience of Desire, Ambition and Leadership considers how these factors can be understood, nurtured, or thwarted and the subsequent impact on women's identity, authority and satisfaction.

This book aims to illustrate the initial formulation of the psychoanalytic process and its elements in terms of the method of free association.

The new edition of Relational Psychotherapy offers a theory that's immediately applicable to everyday practice, from opening sessions through intensive engagement to termination.

This is the first collection of essays to offer a comprehensive analysis of, and reflection on, the major themes emergent in Jacques Lacan's seminars of 1955-56 and 1956-57: Seminar IV - the object relation, and Seminar V - formations of the unconscious.

In Clinical Supervision of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, psychotherapy supervisors from the fields of psychology, psychiatry, social work, and dance movement therapy deal with the ambiguity and complexity of the supervisory role.

Current Lacanian ideas on psychosis have much to contribute to the complex and often surprising forms of psychotic symptomatology encountered in clinical practice.

What exactly is involved in using particular case histories to think systematically about social, psychological and historical processes?

Why is the moving image so important in our lives?

This book presents the work of the eminent British-American psychologist, Maureen O'Hara.

Wilfred Bion's unpublished lectures at the Los Angeles Psychoanalytic Society and Institute in April in 1967 represent a unique opportunity for students either new to or continuing in the study of the author's unique psychoanalytic vertex.

An account of Jung's handling of the transference between psychologist and patient in the light of his conception of the archetypes.

House MD is a globally successful and long-running medical drama.

This study consists of a twofold, interrelated enquiry: the Orientalism of psychoanalysis and the psychoanalysis of Orientalism - bringing into conversation Sigmund Freud and Edward Said and, thereby, the founding texts of psychoanalysis and postcolonial studies.

This book provides more clarity into what mental toughness means and to measure its impact when children and young people are taught how to acquire it not as a "e;chalk and talk"e; didactic exercise but experientially.

These lectures, delivered in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro during 1973 and 1974, reveal Bion in his most vital and challenging mode both in respect of the material he presents, and in his responses to the questions from his audience.

Creating New Families is intended to reflect the practice of the specialist, multi-disciplinary Fostering and Adoption team in the Child and Family Department of the Tavistock Clinic.

First published in 1947, with a second edition in 1950, the original blurb reads: 'This is an illuminating description of a complete Freudian analysis of a single case.

Singularities are isolated social bonds.

Winner of the "e;Outstanding Academic Title"e; recognition by Choice for the 2020 OAT Awards.

Mindfulness-Informed Relational Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis: Inquiring Deeply provides a refreshing new look at the emerging field of Buddhist-informed psychotherapy.

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.

Although there is a vast literature on aggression, comparatively little has been written on the issue of violence and even fewer clinical discussions have been published on the violent patient.

How did humans develop the capacity for symbolic imagination?

The author examines artistic experience with the eye of an analyst and analytic experience with the eye of an artist.

Many texts about anxiety are based either in the philosophical tradition or within the medical model under the guise of discussions about post-traumatic stress disorder.

This book presents a selection of the works of Hansi Kennedy, preeminent child psychoanalyst, whose career began with Anna Freud in the Hampstead War Nurseries and continued at the Hampstead Child Therapy Clinic (renamed the Anna Freud Centre in 1982) until retirement in 1993.

What does it mean to be and feel alive and real?

Volume 26 of The Annals begins with essays that address the challenge of maintaining human connections in a biological century; Philip Katz focuses on the human encounter between therapist and patient whereas Vivian Rakoff emphasizes the continuing identity of the healer throughout history.

It is well known that the cradle of psychoanalysis was in Vienna, the scene of Sigmund Freud's activities at the beginning of the century.

Stay up-to-date on the ethical and legal issues that affect your clinical and professional decisions!

This ebook is now available from Bloomsbury Academic.

This book is a bibliography of Melanie Klein's writings together with other books, articles, and papers, dealing with her life, ideas and work.

Families in Transformation is a collection of essays by eminent scholars on the psychoanalysis of couples and families and provides a wide ranging and articulated picture of the current situation in Europe.

Drawing on deep reserves of experience and theoretical and research knowledge, Nancy McWilliams presents a fresh perspective on psychodynamic supervision in this highly instructive work.

Francesca Biagi-Chai's book - a translation from the French of Le Cas Landru - tackles the issue of criminal responsibility in the case of serial killers, and other 'mad' people who are nonetheless deemed to be answerable before the law.

A volume in the Psychoanalytic Ideas Series, published for the Institute of Psychoanalysis by Karnac.

This book provides a psychoanalytic reading of works of literature, enhancing the illuminating effect of both fields.