Psychological theory & schools of thought books

This book is a selection of papers written over 25 years of practising psychoanalytic psychotherapy, of training...  Read More >>

Do you dream about becoming a master of mind control? Do you want to protect yourself from brainwashing by becoming...  Read More >>

Referring to the great masters of psychoanalysis, this work guides us step by step through the mysterious terrain...  Read More >>

Provides a review of the different perspectives and applications of 'narcissism' as a psychoanalytic concept that...  Read More >>

This book looks at the nature of Winnicott's thought and its influence. It first examines the development of Winnicott's...  Read More >>

The author embraces the fundamental intersubjectivity of psychoanalytic experience. Intersubjectivity is viewed...  Read More >>

They cover subject matter such as anorexia, hysteria and perversion that arise in the course of clinical work and...  Read More >>

"The sixth volume in the series ""Contemporary Freud: Turning Points and Critical Issues,"" published with the International...  Read More >>

Includes critiques of Melanie Klein's ideas and insights into the works of other leading psychoanalysts, and thoughts...  Read More >>

This book contains a continuation and expansion of the topics covered in the author's previous book, Psychoanalysis:...  Read More >>

Based on a two-year research project funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), this book explores...  Read More >>

"With a highly clinical focus, this book includes cases that illustrate how critical psychic change can emerge from...  Read More >>

This book explores some of the ways in which an understanding of poetry, and the poetic impulse, can be fruitfully...  Read More >>

The author argues that feelings of shame form an intrinsic part of the analytic encounter but 'astonishingly, this...  Read More >>

Gathers together the lectures of the Post-Graduate Course entitled 'The Graph of Desire and the Psychoanalytic Clinic',...  Read More >>

Drawing on aspects of discourse psychology, continental philosophy and anthropological and neuro-scientific understandings...  Read More >>

Discusses eight of Shakespeare's plays and the relationships between the main characters with them. This book is...  Read More >>

Revised edition with additional chapter. This book, from the Tavistock Clinic Series, is about what follows the...  Read More >>

During her lifetime Francoise Dolto revolutionized the psycho-analytic understanding of childhood. She emphasized...  Read More >>

Draws us into the creative and imaginative spaces which lie between readers and their choice of novels, plays and...  Read More >>

This collection of articles and papers by people who felt the benefit of his ever-curious, expanding wealth of knowledge,...  Read More >>

This book illuminates the social and psychic dynamics of these new public cultures of welfare, locating them in...  Read More >>

Presents a wake-up call to take seriously the climate in which mental health professionals practice in which complaints...  Read More >>

Presents a study on the actuality and empirical value of Freud's dream theory, even if through the analysis of a...  Read More >>

Traditionally in psychoanalytic thinking, sibling relationships are regarded as secondary in developmental importance...  Read More >>