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)
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)
A step-by-step analysis of the key points in the process of psychoanalytic therapy as well as important topics and issues that may arise during therapy. The guide is supported with references to... (more)
Why does tragedy give pleasure? Why do people who are neither wicked nor depraved enjoy watching plays about suffering or death? A. D. Nuttall's work offers answers to this perennial question. (more)
This text proposes a theory of evolving ways of knowing that allows a view of adult development similar to that of child development: an open-ended process, born of the dynamic interaction of... (more)
This volume examines the effects of the unconscious on emotional experience asking if our drives are friend or foe in the search for a satisfactory life. (more)