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Collaborative-Dialogic Practice: Relationships and Conversations that Make a Difference Across Contexts and Cultures

Edited by Harlene Anderson, Diane R. Gehart

Collaborative-Dialogic Practice provides counselors, psychotherapists, and other mental health professionals a humanizing approach in facilitating transformative dialogues with their clients, making... (more)

Forensic Psychology

Edited by Neil Gredecki, Polly Turner

Drawing on psychological theory and research, this text outlines the core roles of the forensic psychology profession, providing students with a broad overview of the field and bringing to life the... (more)

Darkness Was My Candle: An Odyssey of Survival and Grace

by Lora DeVore

Born into poverty and violence, Lora's early life was one of extreme vulnerability. She was prostituted for the first time at the age of nine and suffered unspeakable treatment from those who should... (more)

Studies on Hysteria Revisited: Charles Melman on Trauma, Incompatibility, Repression and the Unconscious

by Charles Melman

Steeped in Lacanian theory, this book is the first of its kind to present a longitudinal approach to the study of hysteria.

In these 21 seminars Dr Melman leads us from the first records of... (more)

What I Stand for Is What I Stand On

by Wendell Berry

In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.

From the ravages of the global economy to the great pleasures of growing a garden, Wendell Berry's powerful... (more)

A Warning from the Golden Toad

by Tim Flannery

In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.

Taking us on an extraordinary journey into the past and around the globe, from coral reefs to the North... (more)

The Clan of One-Breasted Women

by Terry Tempest Williams

In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.

With honesty, passion and heart, Terry Tempest Williams's essays explore the impact of nuclear testing, the... (more)

Radical Uncertainty: Decision-making for an Unknowable Future

by Mervyn King, John Kay

When uncertainty is all around us, and the facts are not clear, how can we make good decisions?

We do not know what the future will hold, particularly in the midst of a crisis, but we must... (more)

Psychoanalysis After Freud: Memory, Mourning and Repetition

by Judy Gammelgaard

This book draws on a number of Freud's lesser-known works to explore psychoanalytic perspectives on memory, mourning and repetition.

It is remarkable that Freud in his speculations on the human... (more)

International Family Therapy: A Guide for Multilateral Systemic Practice in Mental Health and Psychosocial Support

by Laurie L. Charles

International Family Therapy brings the international plane and its emphasis on the global community of states to systemic family therapy.

Informed by a coherent, multilateral perspective, each... (more)

Psychoanalytical Notebooks No. 35: Purloined Letters

by Sophie Marret Maleval

Reading Lacan to the letter – a close reading of the late Lacan applied to life, literature, and clinic, and a fascinating analysis of a man who struggled to hold himself together by purloining a... (more)

Dreams: Soul-Centered Living in the Twenty-First Century

by Laura Grace

Envision waking from a dream that felt 'big' and being able to understand why the characters, images and even landscapes appeared and what they are specifically communicating to you. What if you were... (more)

Making Sense

by Martin Stanton

Like Homer’s Odyssey, this is an epoch-changing classic that takes a timely quantum leap from a cognitive world of straight-line argument and causal interpretation, into a parallel unconscious... (more)

Psychoanalysis in China

Edited by David E. Scharff, Sverre Varvin

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... (more)

Privacy: Developmental, Cultural, and Clinical Realms

Edited by Salman Akhtar, Aisha Abbasi

In this, the latest in a series of books examining emotional states and psychological life, Salman Akhtar and Aisha Abbasi critically discuss a concept that remains, appropriately perhaps, elusive... (more)

On Psychoanalysis and Violence: Contemporary Lacanian Perspectives

Edited by Vanessa Sinclair, Manya Steinkoler

Psychoanalysis has not examined violence as such since it is a sociological and criminological concept; psychoanalysis is concerned with speech. On Psychoanalysis and Violence brings together noted... (more)

Mad or Bad?: A Critical Approach to Counselling and Forensic Psychology

Edited by Andreas Vossler, Catriona Havard

A cutting-edge text that provides a comprehensive introduction to mental health problems and criminal behaviour, this book explores the link between mental health and criminality and considers the... (more)

Regret: Developmental, Cultural, and Clinical Realms

Edited by Salman Akhtar, Shahrzad Siassi

Missed opportunities, unfulfilled dreams, and broken promises are the stuff of everyday life and so is regret, the emotion that accompanies them. Unlike remorse which is consequent upon the... (more)

Systematic Desensitisation for Panic and Phobia: An Introduction for Health Professionals

by Rhona M. Fear

Panic disorder and phobia are difficulties that are commonly encountered in our consulting rooms. There is an ongoing debate concerning the lack of provision within the NHS to help those with mental... (more)

Lacunae: APPI International Journal for Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Issue 12

Edited by Medb Ruane

Easter Rising 1916 Centenary issue.

Contents:

Editorial - Medb Ruane

from Geomantic - Paula Meehan

Some Words on Commemorating 1916 - Mary E. Daly

From Vivid Faces to Frozen Masks?... (more)

The Essential Being: Psychoanalytic Understanding of Totalitarianism

by Anamilagros Perez-Morazzani, Rafael E. Lopez-Corvo

This book explores the concept of “pre-conceptual trauma”, drawing in particular on the pioneering research of Wilfred Bion. A comparison is established between two different groups of individuals:... (more)

Bereavement: Personal Experiences and Clinical Reflections

Edited by Salman Akhtar, Gurmeet S. Kanwal

This is a book about death, loss, grief and mourning, but with an unusual twist. It is different in that it explores specific kinds of deaths encountered within families and households, rather than... (more)

Mistrust: Developmental, Cultural, and Clinical Realms

Edited by Salman Akhtar

Humans are weak. Lacking the claws and thick skins of other animals, we are forced to rely on members of our own species to survive and flourish in the world. The fact that the human infant is born... (more)