In Psychoanalysis and the Struggle for Love, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Mark Kinet brings together decades of clinical experience, theoretical insight, and cultural curiosity to explore love in all its forms: tender and erotic, destructive and restorative, ancient and digital.
In Psychoanalysis and the Struggle for Love, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Mark Kinet brings together decades of clinical experience, theoretical insight, and cultural curiosity to explore love in all its forms: tender and erotic, destructive and restorative, ancient and digital.
This book inserts Lacanian theory into contemporary debates within the emerging interdisciplinary field of ‘Mad Studies’ via an analysis of psychotic writing.
This book inserts Lacanian theory into contemporary debates within the emerging interdisciplinary field of ‘Mad Studies’ via an analysis of psychotic writing.
This book explores the eighteenth-century concept of “mentorship” in literary works, founded on voluntary, reciprocal engagement that nurtures mutual respect, esteem, and affection.
This book explores the eighteenth-century concept of “mentorship” in literary works, founded on voluntary, reciprocal engagement that nurtures mutual respect, esteem, and affection.
'The message of this book is both highly liberating and optimistic', Rory SutherlandDrawing on six decades of pioneering research and a sweeping reexamination of the last 2500 years-from Periclean Athens and the Hebrew Torah to the Renaissance, the Enlightenment and the Civil Rights Movement-Martin Seligman shows how rises and falls in agency have steered the course of history.
Every mind-blowing book from Adam Phillips suspends all the certainties we are most attached to and somehow makes this feel exhilarating Deborah LevyWhat does it mean to get a life in a culture in which there is so much to want?
This edited volume brings together scholars from diverse theoretical traditions to present and discuss their perspective on theory-building in psychology.
This edited volume brings together scholars from diverse theoretical traditions to present and discuss their perspective on theory-building in psychology.
With the rapid development of the cognitive sciences and their importance to how we contemplate questions about the mind and society, recent research in the humanities has been characterised by a 'cognitive turn'.
This book explores Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s provocative claim that “the unconscious is feeling itself,” reframing the unconscious as a fundamentally relational phenomenon rather than a private repository of repressed content.
This book explores Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s provocative claim that “the unconscious is feeling itself,” reframing the unconscious as a fundamentally relational phenomenon rather than a private repository of repressed content.
With the rapid development of the cognitive sciences and their importance to how we contemplate questions about the mind and society, recent research in the humanities has been characterised by a 'cognitive turn'.
Hamlet: Psychoanalysis, Ideology, and the Crisis of Modernity This book offers a bold reinterpretation of Hamlet through five interwoven frames-ironic, ideological, psycho-social, emotional, and scientific-to reveal how Shakespeare's play speaks directly to today's cultural, political, and psychological dilemmas.
Through the lens of a feminist psychoanalytic framework, Re-Envisioning the Freudian Mother in Southern Literature re-evaluates the mother-child dynamic as one far more complicated than what is present in typical psychoanalytic readings.
El nucleo vital de lo desarrollado en forma de dialogo con el psicoanalisis es, a nuestro entender, el enigma -y al mismo tiempo el problema- de la causalidad en nuestra existencia.
An empowering guide for women who need to rebuild their relationship with food, body image and self-worth from a Positive Psychology practitioner specialising in the relationship with food, body and self.
