The nature of psychoanalysis seems contradictory - deeply personal, subjective and intuitive, yet requiring systematic theory and principles of technique. In The Dove that Returns, The Dove that... (more)
A study of the Northfield Experiments, which were conducted during World War II, marking an important moment in the development of psychiatry and in the therapeutic community movement. The book... (more)
What kinds of questions do experienced therapists ask themselves when facing a new client? How can clinical expertise be taught? From the author of the landmark "Psychoanalytic Diagnosis" (catalogue... (more)
New in paperback. A reflection on the circumstances of child abuse, and on the consequences of this abuse. There are examples from literature and from clinical material. 328 pages. (more)
A profound look at the origins of patient's maladies and the way they lead their lives. The author describes the analyses leading to de-programming these patients from their toxins and intoxicators.... (more)
The authors show how their ego-psychological object relations theory integrates drive theory and object relations theory and does justice to recent findings regarding the vicissitudes of transference... (more)
The second volume of Attachment and Loss continues John Bowlby's influential work on the importance of the parental relationship to mental health. Here he considers separation and the anxiety that... (more)
Klein's model of projective and introjective processes and Bion's model of the relationship between container and contained have become increasingly significant in clinical work. In a highly... (more)
Klein provides the reader with a picture of her work with ten-year-old Richard. Keeping notes of each session, she was able to describe the day-to-day course of the analysis, interpreting Richard's... (more)
This book demonstrates Klein's work in devising the techniques of child analysis. She made treatment of young children possible and threw light on psychological development in childhood and on the... (more)
This selection of clinical seminars held by Wilfred Bion in Brasilia (1975) and Sao Paulo (1978) is the nearest we shall ever get to experiencing his application of his theories and views to... (more)
The author presents fresh insights into the subject of narcissism, drawing on his vast clinical experience of treating people suffering from this disorder. (more)
This is a completely revised and enlarged edition of the well-known classic by Sandler, Dare and Holder. In the twenty years since the previous edition was published much progress has been made in... (more)
A classic study which, by synthesizing the approaches of psychoanalysis and group dynamics, has added a new dimension to the understanding of group phenomena. This collection of Bion's writings on... (more)
A systematic effort to rethink Freud's theory of the unconscious, aiming to separate out the different forms of unconsciousness. The logico-mathematical treatment of the subject is made easy because... (more)
Includes papers on the interpretation of destructiveness, the use of 'part-object language', the role of the past in the present, and 'acting-in'. 315 pages. (more)
Includes sections on projective identification, thinking, psychosis, and pathological organisations of the personality.
The collection of papers that forms The Maturational Processes and the Facilitating Environment brings together Dr. Winnicott's published and unpublished papers on psychoanalysis and child... (more)
This classic examination, the first book in a psychology trilogy, of the processes that take place in attachment and separation and shows how experimental studies of children reveal a recognizable... (more)
This final volume includes "Confusion of Tongues Between Children and Adults" in which Ferenczi formulates his controversal ideas on childhood sexuality, and the conflict between the languages of... (more)
This book is a collection of Ferenczi's early papers which secured him, in an amazingly short time, his prominent position among Freud's followers. Included here are several of the papers that now... (more)
Reviews the psychoanalytic literature on human development, and provides an original psychosexual theory based in the emotional, behavioural, cognitive and social. (more)
The ground-breaking book which attempts to bridge the gap between the psychoanalytic and cognitive psychological theories of child development. (more)
A distillation of many years' work on a therapeutic milieu ward of the Maudsley Hospital, in which psychotic patients were treated with an integral combination of psychiatric and psychological care... (more)
In this brilliant contribution to psychoanlaytic theory and practice, the author has once again challenged psychoanalytic clinicians to expand the conceptual envelope that confines and constricts... (more)
Few topics elicit greater controversy within psychoanalysis today than the role of research in justifying or expanding upon analytic theory. The text collects papers from a London conference, along... (more)
This is a controversial collection, which makes available to a wider public an important part of the research tradition of the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations. The author extends her analytic... (more)
From adolescence to old age, this work examines the success and failure of sexual love in couples. Amongst other topics, it describes the biological and psychological determinants and elements of the... (more)
This book is an edited version of the clinical diary of Sandor Ferenczi, a noted Hungarian psychoanalyst. In a sequence of short, condensed entries, he records self-critical reflections on... (more)