People with Borderline or Narcissistic Personality Disorders have a serious mental illness that primarily affects their intimate, personal, and family relationships. Often they appear to be normally... (more)
In How to Talk to a Borderline, Joan Lachkar introduces Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) and outlines the challenges and difficulties it presents to clinicians. She expands current understanding... (more)
This book presents a case study of the analysis of ten years old Richard to illustrate that psycho-analytic procedure could penetrate into very deep layers of the mind. The procedure enables him to... (more)
This book is Melanie Klein's last major theoretical work. It proposes that envy and gratitude are opposing and interacting feelings normally operative from birth and that the first object of envy is... (more)
This book is based on the author's observation of Psycho-analytic work with children. It contributes to the general psycho-analytic theory of the earliest stage of the development of the individual. (more)
This book indicates the position of the main themes in each work in relation to Melanie Klein's earlier and later thought on the same topic by means of explanatory notes. It helps to discover what... (more)
Routledge Library Editions: Freud brings together as one set, or individual volumes, a series of previously out-of-print titles, originally published between 1920 and 1984. From a variety of academic... (more)
In 'A Psychoanalyst on the Couch' we find the noted psychoanalyst and Lacan commentator Juan-David Nasio on the analyst's couch himself. In the interview that makes up this book, he provides insight... (more)
Drawing on a wide range of writers from Sophocles to de Sade, the author shows that Kant and Lacan stake everything on a similar ethical enterprise. For both, ethics is a necessary impossibility -... (more)
In this book, Alison Stone develops a feminist approach to maternal subjectivity. Stone argues that in the West the self has often been understood in opposition to the maternal body, so that one must... (more)
A companion to Difference and Disavowal: The Trauma of Eros, which dealt with the psychoanalytic clinical problem of resistance to interpretation. The surprising generality of this resistance... (more)
This book argues that conventional interpretations of Freudian psychology have not accounted for the existence and complexity of death anxiety and its intrinsic relation to the creation of illusions... (more)
Weaves together the common threads of the four major topics that comprise the core of false memory research: theories of false memory, adult experimental psychology of false memory, false memory in... (more)
An eyewitness account by one of Freud's earliest students. Sadger's recollections provide a window into the early days of the psychoanalytic movement and its internecine and ideological conflicts.... (more)