The contributors to this volume place in context Freud's evolving thinking; focus on what it tells us about love, female sexuality and conventional morality; discuss the role of the therapist in the g
This book puts forward a model of therapy and support for people with DID that provides individual therapy, staff support, and a safe place to live. It relies upon the ideas of Bowlby by providing a s
This peer-reviewed journal proposes to explore the introduction of psychoanalysis, psychoanalytic therapy, and the wider application of psychoanalytic ideas into China. It aims to have articles author
This book aims at providing further contributions inspired by Bion's paper Attacks on Linking (1959) by a distinguished group of scholars who have focused on different aspects of his propositions.
Organizational collapse is part of our vernacular. Enron, Woolworth's, Lehman’s, Bank of America, Rover, BOAC, British Home Stores – these failures are part of our cultural experience of work. At a ti
Notes on Psychoanalysis is a collection of twenty essays on psychoanalytic themes. Written in an accessible style, it is readable by a total newcomer to the subject while also being relevant to clinic
This book is a distillation of papers presented at a three-day conference in February 2015, organized by the Donald Meltzer Development Fund and held at the Tavistock Clinic in London. The aim of the
Above the Ground and Beneath the Clouds examines the history, conceptualization, and treatment of the psychotic sub-type of schizophrenia, as this is advocated by psychoanalysis of Lacanian orientatio
Sex matters. It is a crucial part of whom we are and what to do. So why do we police what is "normal" and what is "bizarre?" As Estela Welldon argues in this insightful book, whenever we disapprove of
Is someone radically different after an analysis? Since Freud, psychoanalysis has been questioned about what the psychoanalytic experience can change in someone’s life beyond shedding light on symptom
This book describes how dream work can help alleviate depression, in both long-term and time-limited psychotherapy, and in self-treatment. The author shows how dreams shed light on issues contributing
"Our human task is to be lived by Life. Life as a transcendent principle. It seems to me that a reliable test of whether we have lived worthwhile lives is this: is the world a better place for my havi
This book is a journey through almost 40 years of practice. Each chapter is independent of the others and develops around a specific theme: psychoanalysis in France, the transference, fathers today, p
In this book, the authors develop the theory of the tripartite matrix, consider music as a form of non-verbal communication as a sub-dimension of the matrix, and present empirical studies of the matri
This book is about love, how we fall in love, why we fall in love, and how much we suffer if unable to love or be loved. The need to love and be loved can be read as the prototype of every human need
Franz Alexander was the first trained psychoanalyst in the world and attended the Berlin Institute where his training analyst was Hanns Sachs. Freud considered Alexander to be the best analyst to go t
This book explores the role of chaos and control in the creative process as well as the difference between talent and creativity. Part One explores some of the common biases and pitfalls in the analys
The book consists of ten case histories that cover a wide range of themes from obesity to depression. One woman is trying to come to grips with past memories, another cannot escape from a passionate l
Presenting a new frame of reference, the author argues that Freud’s theories are not the result of his genius alone but were developed in exchange with colleagues and students, which is not always app
Melanie Klein's extension of Freud's ideas--in particular her explorations into the world of the infant and her emphasis on the complex interactions between the infant's internal world of powerful pri
This book was written by Artur Renyi in the late 1940s as a memoir and gift to his only child, Dr Alfred Renyi, noted Hungarian mathematician and the father of probability theory. The memoir is writte
This book focuses on work with children undertaken by the GERPEN (Groupe d’Études et de Recherches Psychoanalytiques pour le developpement de l’Enfant et du Nourisson) of Caen and Paris. It is one of
Trauma is one of the most important topics discussed throughout the clinical, social and cultural field. Social traumatization, as we meet it in the aftermath of genocide, war and persecution, is targ
This book explores the conceptual and practical connections that exist between phenomenology, Buddhism, and psychotherapy. These three disciplines clearly have completely different origins, histories,
The book begins by describing, within a psychodynamic approach, some traits an infant may bring to an intervention, followed by descriptions of interventions in several specialized perinatal settings.
The Art of Personality is a diverse selection of talks and papers on psychoanalysis and literature given by the author over the past ten years. They elaborate on the goal expressed by Milton as 'becom
This:- introduces the distinctive psychoanalytic basic principles of both Melanie Klein and Donald Winnicott; - compares and contrasts the way in which their concepts evolved; and- shows how their dif
