Psychoanalysis category: 1976 books
Psychoanalytic Diagnosis, Second Edition
Understanding Personality Structure in the Clinical Process
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2011
This acclaimed clinical guide and widely adopted text has filled a key need in the field since its original publication. Nancy McWilliams makes psychoanalytic personality theory and its implications for practice accessible to practitioners of all levels of experience. She explains major character...
Broken Structures
Severe Personality Disorders and Their Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2000
This book integrates psychiatry and psychoanalysis to present deeper and sounder clinical profiles of the personality disorders than have been hitherto available.
The Treatment of Dissociative Identity Disorder
A Relational Approach
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2012
Building on the comprehensive theoretical model of dissociation elegantly developed in The Dissociative Mind, Elizabeth Howell makes another invaluable contribution to the clinical understanding of dissociative states with Understanding and Treating Dissociative Identity Disorder. Howell, working...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Bion Today explores how Bion’s work is used in contemporary settings; how his ideas have been applied at the level of the individual, the group and the organisation; and which phenomena have been made more comprehensible through the lenses of his concepts. The bookintroduces distinctive psychoanalytic...
by Ignacio Matte-Blanco
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Ignacio Matte-Blanco has made one of the most original contributions to psychoanalysis since Freud.
In this book, which includes an introductory chapter to his work by Eric Rayner and David Tuckett, he develops his conceptualization of the Freudian unconscious in terms of logic and mathematics, giving many clinical examples.
Archetypal Psychotherapy
The clinical legacy of James Hillman
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
Archetypal psychology is a post-Jungian mode of theory and practice initiated primarily through the prolific work of James Hillman. Hillman’s writing carries a far-reaching collection of evocative ideas with a wealth of vital implications for the field of clinical psychology. With the focus on replacing...
by Heinz Kohut
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2012
In his foundational work The Restoration of the Self, noted psychoanalyst Heinz Kohut boldly challenges what he called “the limits of classical analytic theory” and the Freudian orthodoxy. Here Kohut proposes a “psychology of the self” as a theory in its own right—one that can stand beside...
by Leston Havens
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 1988
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 1988
Since 1955, moving from early work in psychopharmacology to studies of clinical method and the psychiatric schools, Leston Havens has been working toward a general theory of therapy. It often seems that twentieth-century psychiatry, sect-ridden, is a Tower of Babel, as Havens once characterized it....
A Psychodynamic View of Action and Responsibility
Clinical Studies in Subjective Experience
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
This new book by David Shapiro, author of the classic Neurotic Styles, throws light, from a clinical standpoint, on a subject of importance, both theoretically and for therapeutic practice, for psychoanalysts and psychotherapists, as well as for those with general interests in philosophy or psychology....
The Importance of Suffering
The Value and Meaning of Emotional Discontent
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
In this book James Davies considers emotional suffering as part and parcel of what it means to live and develop as a human being, rather than as a mental health problem requiring only psychiatric, antidepressant or cognitive treatment. This book therefore offers a new perspective on emotional discontent...
The Trickster and the System
Identity and agency in contemporary society
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
For centuries, the trickster has been used in various narratives, including mythological, literary and cinematic, to convey the idea of agency, rebellion and, often turbulent, progress. In The Trickster and the System: Identity and Agency in Contemporary Society,Helena Bassil-Morozow shows how the...
Brain and the Inner World
An Introduction to the Neuroscience of Subjective Experience
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
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The Brain and the Inner World is an eagerly-awaited account of a momentous revolution. Subjective mental states like consciousness, emotion, and dreaming were once confined to the realm of philosophy, psychoanalysis, and the human sciences. These topics now assume center...
Cultures of the Death Drive
Melanie Klein and Modernist Melancholia
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2003
Cultures of the Death Drive is a comprehensive guide to the work of pioneering psychoanalyst Melanie Klein (1882–1960) and to developments in Kleinian theory to date. It is also an analysis and a demonstration of the distinctive usefulness of Klein’s thought for understanding modernist literature...
Alchemy and Psychotherapy
Post-Jungian Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
Alchemical symbols are part of popular culture, most recently popularised in the Harry Potter books. Alchemy intrigued Carl Jung, the founder of analytical psychology. It inspired him as he wrote ‘the Red Book’ - the journal of his voyage of internal discovery. He devoted much of his life to it,...