Psychology: emotions

This anthology illustrates the range and diversity of responses from the psychological world to the multiple ecological crises with which our society is faced.

Whereas Freud himself viewed conscience as one of the functions of the superego, in The Still Small Voice: Psychoanalytic Reflections on Guilt and Conscience, the author argues that superego and conscience are distinct mental functions and that, therefore, a fourth mental structure, the conscience, needs to be added to the psychoanalytic structural theory of the mind.

This book looks at the phenomenon of self-directed disgust and examines the role of self-disgust in relation to psychological experiences and potential ensuing psychopathology and to physical functioning such as disability, chronic physical health, and sexual dysfunction.

There has recently been a flurry of theoretical activity in affective neuroscience and neuropsychoanalysis.

In attempting to unify psychoanalytic and evolutionary theories, Langs offers a concise account of the most current versions of Darwinian and neo-Darwinian theory.

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

This book is organised in a way of listening to a dialogue between theoretical approaches.

This book offers ten distinguished analysts' insights on shame from various perspectives, which include its developmental substrate, vicissitudes during adolescence, and manifestations in the course of aging and infirmity.

This book collates and clarifies psychoanalytic theories on affect, and how they relate to the clinical process.

Freud's Beyond the Pleasure Principle constitutes a major landmark and a real turning point in the evolution of psychoanalytic theory.

Much has been written about the function of falling in love in the course of therapy itself.

This book is an account of the psychology of romantic love in the context of a theory of emotions.

How we cope with grief and come to terms with the death of a loved one shapes our world.

Based on work in the anxiety-provoking and emotional environment of professional football, this book explores the effect that emotions have on the relationships and relatedness of team members; and, the struggles experienced in controlling and managing emotions by leaders and managers of teams.

Hope is the most reliable sustainer of life.

This book explores the underlying mechanisms of the psyche.

Beginning with Freud's celebrated case of Little Hans, psychoanalysts and psychotherapists have been intrigued with the topic of fear.

In recent years, systemic theory and practice adopted a dialogical orientation, centred on the persons of the therapist and client.

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

This tightly edited volume opens a new vista in psychoanalysis by focusing upon positive and life-enhancing emotions and attitudes.

Recent trends in politics culminating in the US with the election of Donald Trump both provoked and expressed a troubling intensification of emotion in the body politic.

This book foregrounds the life struggles of an individual, Brenda, in such a way that argument and theoretical exploration arise organically out of experience.

This book represents a major effort to integrate contemporary theories and findings regarding the psychological effects of severe trauma.

How is it that someone can be healed of mental illness through talking with another person?

This book considers the experience of envy, greed, jealousy, and narcissism and how they operate between parents and children, brothers and sisters.

This anthology illustrates the range and diversity of responses from the psychological world to the multiple ecological crises with which our society is faced.

It shows the present collection of seminal essays to offer a balanced yet rigorous examination of the durability and contemporary relevance of psychoanalysis, understood as a comprehensive system of theory and technique.

Whereas Freud himself viewed conscience as one of the functions of the superego, in The Still Small Voice: Psychoanalytic Reflections on Guilt and Conscience, the author argues that superego and conscience are distinct mental functions and that, therefore, a fourth mental structure, the conscience, needs to be added to the psychoanalytic structural theory of the mind.

2015 was the seventieth anniversary of the end of World War Two, and, for Jews, the seventieth anniversary of the end of the worst Jewish catastrophe in diaspora history.

Bringing together the experiences of mistrust, jealousy, lack of love, shamelessness, regret, and despair, this far-reaching book elucidates human sorrow in striking sociocultural and clinical details.

This book looks at the phenomenon of self-directed disgust and examines the role of self-disgust in relation to psychological experiences and potential ensuing psychopathology and to physical functioning such as disability, chronic physical health, and sexual dysfunction.

There has recently been a flurry of theoretical activity in affective neuroscience and neuropsychoanalysis.

In attempting to unify psychoanalytic and evolutionary theories, Langs offers a concise account of the most current versions of Darwinian and neo-Darwinian theory.

The search for happiness is without a doubt one of our greatest preoccupations.

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

This book is organised in a way of listening to a dialogue between theoretical approaches.

This book offers ten distinguished analysts' insights on shame from various perspectives, which include its developmental substrate, vicissitudes during adolescence, and manifestations in the course of aging and infirmity.

The revenge motif appears in a number of arenas and in different cultures.

This book collates and clarifies psychoanalytic theories on affect, and how they relate to the clinical process.

Freud's Beyond the Pleasure Principle constitutes a major landmark and a real turning point in the evolution of psychoanalytic theory.

Much has been written about the function of falling in love in the course of therapy itself.

This book is an account of the psychology of romantic love in the context of a theory of emotions.

How we cope with grief and come to terms with the death of a loved one shapes our world.

"Wie lässt sich verhindern, dass man sich nach zehn oder zwanzig Jahren nichts mehr zu sagen hat?

Based on work in the anxiety-provoking and emotional environment of professional football, this book explores the effect that emotions have on the relationships and relatedness of team members; and, the struggles experienced in controlling and managing emotions by leaders and managers of teams.

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

Hope is the most reliable sustainer of life.

This tightly edited volume opens a new vista in psychoanalysis by focusing upon positive and life-enhancing emotions and attitudes.

This book explores the underlying mechanisms of the psyche.

Beginning with Freud's celebrated case of Little Hans, psychoanalysts and psychotherapists have been intrigued with the topic of fear.