Psychoanalysis category: 1976 books
by R. D. Laing
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2018
Originally published in 1969, based on the talks R. D. Laing gave in 1967 and 68, this book was intended by the author to evoke questions rather than provide answers. Using concepts of schizophrenia, R.D. Laing demonstrates that we tend to invalidate the subjective and experiential and accept the proper societal view of what should occur within the family.
De-Medicalizing Misery
Psychiatry, Psychology and the Human Condition
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2011
Psychiatry and psychology have constructed a mental health system that does no justice to the problems it claims to understand and creates multiple problems for its users. Yet the myth of biologically-based mental illness defines our present. The book rethinks madness and distress reclaiming them as human, not medical, experiences.
by James Rose
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2018
This is a book which seeks help those going through the process of mid-adolescence - either from the point of view of the adolescent or their families - it attends to the serious strains that may have to be borne if the picture portrayed is to have any realism. 'Youth culture' may idealize the adolescent...
About a Body
Working with the Embodied Mind in Psychotherapy
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
How does our body reveal us to ourselves?
The body can inform the work we do in mental health. This unique collection invites the reader to consider the way we think about the embodied mind, and how it can inform both our lives and our work in psychotherapy and counselling.
The body...
The Voice of the Analyst
Narratives on Developing a Psychoanalytic Identity
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
The Voice of the Analyst contains personal narratives by twelve psychoanalysts, each taking the reader through his or her unique path toward developing a voice and identity as an analyst. All come from different backgrounds, theoretical orientations and stages of their careers. The narratives are...
The Origins of Attachment
Infant Research and Adult Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
The Origins of Attachment: Infant Research and Adult Treatment addresses the origins of attachment in mother-infant face-to-face communication. New patterns of relational disturbance in infancy are described. These aspects of communication are out of conscious awareness. They provide clinicians with...
Rorschach Assessment of Psychotic Phenomena
Clinical, Conceptual, and Empirical Developments
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
Rorschach Assessment of Psychotic Phenomena takes the reader beyond where James H. Kleiger’s original work, Disordered Thinking and the Rorschach, left off. This new book offers readers a number of conceptual bridges between Rorschach characteristics commonly associated with psychotic phenomena...
Why Can't I Help this Child to Learn?
Understanding Emotional Barriers to Learning
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
The book outlines theories of child development from the point of view of the kinds of relationships children make with adults and the effects of their relationships on their learning. In addition, anxieties that some children show about reading, writing and arithmetic are described. In exploring...
by Sigmund FREUD
Language: French
Release Date: December 30, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: December 30, 2015
Freud examine dans cette étude l'humour et ses rapports avec l'inconscient De nombreuses théories ont été suggérées sur l'humour et le rire : comme toujours, le père de la psychanalyse renouvelle entièrement le sujet. Il arrive à la conclusion que « l'humour est la contribution apportée...
Psyche's Veil
Psychotherapy, Fractals and Complexity
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Historically, the language and concepts within clinical theory have been steeped in linear assumptions and reductionist thinking. Because the essence of psychotherapy involves change, Psyche’s Veil suggests that clinical practice is inherently a nonlinear affair.
In this book Terry Marks-Tarlow...
Absent Fathers, Lost Sons
The Search for Masculine Identity
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
An experience of the fragility of conventional images of masculinity is something many modern men share. Psychoanalyst Guy Corneau traces this experience to an even deeper feeling men have of their fathers' silence or absence—sometimes literal, but especially emotional and spiritual. Why is this...
Working with Parents and Infants
A Mind-Body Integration Approach
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
Working with Parents and Infants is aimed at understanding the process of psychosomatic illness, exploring the embodiment of psychosomatic health and illness, and the inseparability of psyche and soma. Within this book, the author highlights the beneficial function of psychosomatic symptoms, such...
Containment and Reciprocity
Integrating Psychoanalytic Theory and Child Development Research for Work with Children
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2007
Containment and Reciprocity shows how the psychoanalytic concept of containment and the child development concept of reciprocity can be used together to inform clinical work with young children and their families. Using extracts of mother/child and therapist/child interactions, Hazel Douglas explores,...
Live Company
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Autistic, Borderline, Deprived and Abused Children
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Children whose minds as well as bodies have been damaged by the intrusions of sexual abuse, violence or neglect, and others, quite different, who are handicapped by their own mysterious sensitivities to more minor deprivations, may experience a type of black despair and cynicism that require long-term...