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Doing Supervision and Being Supervised
There is always a lively interest in the supervisory process and its explication. Courses in supervision abound and the critical role of supervision in becoming a psychotherapist is widely... (more)
Freud's Birds of Prey
In a dramatic departure from his professional writing, Dr langs has written several plays. The audience is taken back to the rooms of Freud and his inner circle. As we are invited to listen in behind... (more)
Love and Death in Psychotherapy
While this book was written for all manner of mental health professionals, it also is of great importance to the general reader. The foucs is on a new way of understanding the human mind and the... (more)
Ferenczi's Language of Tenderness: Working with Disturbances from the Earliest Years
Ferenczi identified the presence of a child in every analysis or therapy and distinguished between the languages of tenderness and passion in their appropriateness for such work. Using Ferenczi's... (more)
Bion and Thoughts Too Deep for Words: Psychoanalysis, Suggestion, and the Language of the Unconscious
This book addresses a range of fundamental questions around the nature of psychoanalysis. It distinguishes how psychoanalysis differs from other forms of therapy, explores the ways in which insights... (more)
Fundamentals of Adaptive Psychotherapy and Counselling
This important text not only brings together a synthesis of Robert Langs' most important ideas and the latest developments in his thinking - many of them of utmost importance to all manner of... (more)
The Language of Mental Health: A Glossary of Psychiatric Terms
A must-have resource for both mental health professionals and laypeople, The Language of Mental Health: A Glossary of Psychiatric Terms transcends its title by offering not only a comprehensive,... (more)
Beyond Yahweh and Jesus: Bringing Death's Wisdom to Faith, Spirituality and Psychoanalysis
"Beyond Yahweh and Jesus" constitutes the first in-depth psychoanalytic study of the Old and New Testaments in terms of God's role in enabling humans to cope with death and the anxiety it evokes. The... (more)
The Secret Language of Intimacy: Releasing the Hidden Power in Couple Relationships
In The Secret Language of Intimacy, shame and its consequences are foregrounded as a major, if not the major, impediment to the healthy functioning in the relationships of couples. In the first part... (more)
Managing Managed Care: Psychotherapy and Medication Management in the Modern Era
The first comprehensive exploration of the many issues and challenges faced by both providers and patients who work under the auspices of managed care insurers. The distinctive conditions of managed... (more)
Freud on a Precipice: How Freud's Fate Pushed Psychoanalysis Over the Edge
This book is a psychoanalytic detective story that takes the reader back to the late 1890's and to the generally unappreciated, yet single most important, turning point in the history of... (more)
Clinical Workbook for Psychotherapists
'This book is a one-volume condensation of a previously published three-volume set of workbooks. I have preserved the workbook format and have tried to select the most cogent clinical vignettes... (more)
Death Anxiety and Clinical Practice
Robert Langs argues that death anxiety is neglected - in part, because of treatment failures due to countertransference interferences during treatment. He then discusses the technical issues... (more)
Ground Rules in Psychotherapy and Counselling
Robert Langs has long been one of the most individual and controversial psychoanalytic theorists. In this book, he concentrates on one of the most prominent areas of his thought: his insistence upon... (more)
Science, Systems and Psychoanalysis
This book has been written for a broad audience. It is addressed to anyone who is at all concerned with a scientific grounding for the art of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis, and for the... (more)
Psychotherapy and science:
An investigation of the ways in which science has a bearing on the clinical techniques and practice of psychotherapy. It notes parallels between the emotion-processing mind and phenomena that have... (more)
Dreams and Emotional Adaptation: A Clinical Notebook for Psychotherapists
In this groundbreaking book, Dr Langs invites you into his world. With this invitation comes a new understanding of dreams and the insights they hold. It offers an innovative method of attending to... (more)
Classics in Psychoanalytic Technique: Revised Edition
A collection of seminal writings by over 40 prominent psychoanalysts on topics such as: the dynamics of transference, the "real" relationship, the meaning and uses of countertransference, the... (more)
The psychotherapeutic conspiracy
This work depicts modern psychotherapy as a hoax. It suggests that unconscious processes between therapist and patient lead to collusion, conspiracy, and confusion in the psychotherapeutic situation,... (more)
The Evolution of the Emotion-Processing Mind
In attempting to unify psychoanalytic and evolutionary theories, Langs offers a concise account of the most current versions of Darwinian and neo-Darwinian theory. He then develops the arguement that... (more)
Empowered Psychotherapy: Teaching Self-Processing
'Self-Processing' is Langs' development of self-analysis. He lays down a detailed technique and ground-rules for using this technique in everyday practice, in order to utilise the encoded impulses... (more)
