Psychological theory, systems, schools and viewpoints

The contributions to this book, containing talks given at the Conference in Vienna on 'Dream and Fantasy in Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy', focus on the close connection between children's imaginative world, their dream life, and play.

This book is principally about what is commonly referred to as Gnosticism and its influence on Jung's analytical psychology.

Ian Parker has been a leading light in the fields of critical and discursive psychology for over 25 years.

Verhaltenstherapeutische Gruppentherapie bietet eine sehr gute Ergänzung und Intensivierung der ambulanten Einzeltherapie.

Middle school history teachers confront the same challenge every day: how to convey the breadth and depth of a curriculum that spans centuries, countries, and cultures.

Robert Bor and, Riva Miller, who run the AIDS Counseling Service at the Royal Free Hospital, London, are internationally known for their work in providing consultation to many hospital departments from within the hospital itself.

Originally published in 1956, Babies Growing Up aims to compress in to a brief yet readable form, the essentials of successful parentcraft at the time, bearing in mind the four elements of developing a new life - physical, mental, emotional and spiritual.

Presenting a model for interdisciplinary working, this book offers an overview of practice and policy across a range of mental health settings.

Enhancing your decision-making skills to make smarter decisions is the best way you can purposefully improve your life.

Sleep problems are ubiquitous in the modern world, significantly impacting on quality of life, mental health, and performance at work and at home.

Initial Language Teacher Education provides language teacher researchers, as well as teachers of teachers, with an introduction to research on how language teachers learn to teach before they begin practicing.

Bisher war es schwer fassbar, was gutes psychoanalytisches Arbeiten ausmacht, welche Fähigkeiten Ausbildungskandidaten erlernen sollten und welche Standards angelegt werden, um Fallvorstellungen und Prüfungsarbeiten zu beurteilen.

Originally published in 1992, this title reviews seven major subareas in artificial intelligence at that time: knowledge acquisition; logic programming and representation; machine learning; natural language; vision; the design of an AI programming environment; and medicine, a major application area of AI.

Idioms have always aroused the curiosity of linguists and there is a long tradition in the study of idioms, especially within the fields of lexicology and lexicography.

Psychoanalysis is a science evidently fore-ordained to growth and expansion, and among those who have extended the scope of both theory and practice Melanie Klein holds a unique place.

There are moments of connection between analysts and patients during any therapeutic encounter upon which the therapy can turn.

Peter Fonagy Winner of the 2010 Sigourney Award!

Creating metropolitan regions that are more efficient, equitable, and sustainable depends on the willingness of local officials to work together across municipal boundaries to solve large-scale problems.

Gestalt Therapy: Perspectives and Applications is a classic text which, when it was first released in 1992, signaled a renaissance of Gestalt scholarship throughout the world.

Essentials of Social Psychology: An Indian Perspective offers a comprehensive introduction to social psychology with a focus on the cultural and social fabric of Indian society.

Drawing upon a vast literature in psychoanalytic journals and either upon Shakespeare's characters themselves or alluding to those characters in the course of other topics, this book discusses eight of Shakespeare's plays and the relationships between the main characters in them.

In wesentlichen Teilen beschreibt die Psychoanalyse eine Theorie des Denkens, sei es unter der Perspektive von Primär- und Sekundärprozess, der Selbst- und Objektrepräsentanzen, der Symbolisierung oder der Ich-Funktionen.

This memoir is the account of the life of the author's spanning seven decades lived on three continents: The Middle East, Europe and the United States.

Sigmund Freud evolved his theories throughout his lifetime.

Originally published in 1990.

What does it mean to be human?

The revelation of being HIV positive continues to be a discourse fraught with meaning.

The Invisible Brain Injury recounts, in her own words, the experience of Aurora Lassaletta, a clinical psychologist who suffered a traumatic brain injury (TBI) after a traffic accident.

Integrates a neuroscience approach to study aging.

This volume is concerned with the philosophical foundations of Psychical Research.

The immense growth of research on implicit and explicit memory is making it difficult to keep up with new methods and findings, to gauge the implications of new discoveries, and to ferret out new directions in research and theory development.

Media Technology and Cultures of Memory studies narrative memories in India through oral, chirographic and digital cultures.

Based on primary research into the public lectures of management gurus, this fascinating new volume analyzes how such gurus disseminate their ideas, values and visions on the international management lecture circuit.

Der neue Kernberg!

First published in 1966, this title describes two types of clever schoolboy, the 'converger' and the 'diverger'.

This book is the first to bring together researchers in individual differences in personality and temperament to explore whether there is any unity possible between the temperament researchers of infancy and childhood and the major researchers in adult personality.

Can the Protomental System provide a new foundation for psychoanalytic theory?

An Educator's Guide to Infant and Toddler Development is a comprehensive and approachable guide to the growth, learning and development of children from birth to age 3.

This new collection of essays by distinguished international scholars and clinicians will revolutionize your understanding of madness.

'This book brings together a group of specialists who attempt to describe the process of interaction between the inner and personal and the outer and social.

This book opens out a wholly new field of enquiry within a familiar subject: it offers a detailed - yet eminently readable - historical investigation, of a kind never yet undertaken, of the impact of psychoanalysis (at a crucial moment of its history) on the thinking and writing of D.

Drawing from original source material, contemporary scholarship, and Wilfred Bion's psychoanalytic writings, Zen Insight, Psychoanalytic Action: Two Arrows Meeting introduces the Zen notion of "e;gujin,"e; or total exertion, and elaborates a realizational perspective that integrates Zen Buddhism and psychoanalysis.

Distance learning is becoming an increasingly popular way of studying, and most universities now provide courses using these methods.

Dieses Buch handelt von der Bedeutung des realen Anderen in der Psychoanalyse.

This book contains essential data necessary to develop both a learning theory and a theory of therapeutic change for psychoanalysis.

Originally published in 1991, the essays in this volume are written by philosophers who were convinced that Wittgenstein's investigations in philosophical psychology were of direct relevance to current experimental psychology at the time.

Originally published in 1982, this book examines the current status of expectancy-value models in psychology.

Far away in the jungle of Africa every morning a deer wakes up and decides to run faster than the fastest lion in that jungle.

Choice Essential ReadDid God create man or did man create God?

The book argues the case for the usefulness of an empirically based understanding of the internal world of juvenile sex offenders as a way of humanely relating to their difficulties.