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The Essential Being: Psychoanalytic Understanding of Totalitarianism

The Essential Being: Psychoanalytic Understanding of Totalitarianism

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

  • Paperback £22.39 (RRP : £31.99 save £9.60)

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)

Losing Your Head: Abjection, Aesthetic Conflict, and Psychoanalytic Criticism

Losing Your Head: Abjection, Aesthetic Conflict, and Psychoanalytic Criticism

by Giuseppe Civitarese

  • Hardback £63.00

Losing Your Head: Abjection, Aesthetic Conflict, and Psychoanalytic Criticism looks at the subject of beheading in art as a trope of the destruction of the mind. This book discusses both... (more)

The Art of Making Children: The New World of Assisted Reproductive Technology

The Art of Making Children: The New World of Assisted Reproductive Technology

by Francois Ansermet

  • Paperback £20.99 (RRP : £29.99 save £9.00)

Advances in assisted reproductive technology are producing a new world whose boundaries and implications have yet to be fully explored and understood. New advances are announced and hit the headlines... (more)

The Technique and Practice of Psychoanalysis: Volume I

The Technique and Practice of Psychoanalysis: Volume I

by Ralph R. Greenson

  • Paperback £38.99

This systematic and comprehensive volume, written in a lively and clear style, is devoted essentially to the fundamentals of psychoanalytic technique: transference and resistance. Dr. Greenson... (more)

Creative Listening and the Psychoanalytic Process: Sensibility, Engagement and Envisioning

Creative Listening and the Psychoanalytic Process: Sensibility, Engagement and Envisioning

by Fred L. Griffin

  • Paperback £39.99

Contemporary psychoanalytic thinking about the interdependence of subjectivity and intersubjectivity has reenvisioned the analytic process, and with it the very nature of creative and engaged... (more)

The Fictions of Dreams: Dreams, Literature, and Writing

The Fictions of Dreams: Dreams, Literature, and Writing

by Otto M. Rheinschmiedt

  • Paperback £35.99

The Fictions of Dreams explores the close connection between the narrative nature of dreams and the narrative devices employed in literature and creative writing. The book is unique in its... (more)

Ethics of Evil: Psychoanalytic Investigations

Ethics of Evil: Psychoanalytic Investigations

Edited by Ronald C. Naso, Jon Mills

  • Paperback £36.99

In today’s world where every form of transgression enjoys a psychological motive and rational justification, psychoanalysis stands alone in its ability to uncover the hidden motives that inform... (more)

Life After Loss: The Lessons of Grief

Life After Loss: The Lessons of Grief

by Vamik D. Volkan, Elizabeth Zintl

  • Paperback £31.99

How we cope with grief and come to terms with the death of a loved one shapes our world. In this comprehensive guide to the mourning process, Dr Volkan, a world-recognised authority on grief, shows... (more)

Daseinsanalysis

Daseinsanalysis

by Alice Holzhey-Kunz

  • Paperback £24.99

Daseinsanalysis—the psychiatric and psychotherapeutic school of thought founded by Ludwig Binswanger and Medard Boss in the 1940s—had a huge impact on the development of existential therapies in the... (more)

Confessions from the Couch: Psychoanalytical Notions Illustrated with Extracts from Sessions

Confessions from the Couch: Psychoanalytical Notions Illustrated with Extracts from Sessions

by Valerie Blanco

  • Paperback £10.99

The unconscious? The Oedipus complex? The castration complex? Neurosis? The objet a? What are they? And what does one say to an analyst? What happens during an analysis?

For those asking... (more)

Meltzer in Paris

Meltzer in Paris

by Donald Meltzer

  • Paperback £28.99

This book focuses on work with children undertaken by the GERPEN (Groupe d’Études et de Recherches Psychoanalytiques pour le developpement de l’Enfant et du Nourisson) of Caen and Paris. It is one of... (more)

Psychoanalysis, the NHS, and Mental Health Work Today

Psychoanalysis, the NHS, and Mental Health Work Today

Edited by Alison Vaspe

  • Paperback £38.99

This book illustrates the distinctive psychoanalytic contribution to mental health services for children, young people, and adults, with detailed case vignettes illustrating therapeutic treatment and... (more)

The Rough Beast: Psychoanalysis in Everyday Life

The Rough Beast: Psychoanalysis in Everyday Life

by Denise Cullington

  • Paperback £26.09 (RRP : £28.99 save £2.90)

The past continues to operate powerfully, wordlessly, in that less conscious part of our human mind and can trip us up unexpectedly. We can perceive and respond to situations in ways which are more... (more)

War Memoirs 1917-1919: Second Edition

War Memoirs 1917-1919: Second Edition

by Wilfred R. Bion

  • Paperback £38.99

Bion's War Memoirs is perhaps the most exceptional piece of autobiography yet written by a psychoanalyst. The first section of the book is documentary, consisting of the entire text of the diaries... (more)

Couple Dynamics: Psychoanalytic Perspectives in Work with the Individual, the Couple, and the Group

Couple Dynamics: Psychoanalytic Perspectives in Work with the Individual, the Couple, and the Group

Edited by Aleksandra Novakovic

  • Paperback £35.99

This book presents psychoanalytic thinking about the phenomenon of the couple and couple dynamics in internal and external reality and at different levels of organisation: the ‘couple’ in the... (more)

Homosexualities: Psychogenesis, Polymorphism, and Countertransference

Homosexualities: Psychogenesis, Polymorphism, and Countertransference

Edited by Elda Abrevaya, Frances Thomson-Salo

  • Paperback £31.99

This latest volume in the Psychoanalysis and Women Series for the Committee on Women and Psychoanalysis of the International Psychoanalytical Association presents and discusses theoretical and... (more)

Attacks on Linking Revisited: A New Look at Bion’s Classic Work

Attacks on Linking Revisited: A New Look at Bion’s Classic Work

Edited by Catalina Bronstein, Edna O'Shaughnessy

  • Paperback £31.99

This book aims at providing further contributions inspired by Bion's paper Attacks on Linking (1959) by a distinguinshed group of scholars who have focused on different aspects of his... (more)

Engaging Primitive Anxieties of the Emerging Self: The Legacy of Frances Tustin

Engaging Primitive Anxieties of the Emerging Self: The Legacy of Frances Tustin

Edited by Howard B. Levine, David G. Power

  • Paperback £36.99

Frances Tustin was a pioneering child psychotherapist who broke new ground in working with autistic children in the latter half of the twentieth century. This book amplifies and extends contributions... (more)

The Shadow of the Second Mother: Nurses and Nannies in Theories of Infant Development

The Shadow of the Second Mother: Nurses and Nannies in Theories of Infant Development

by Prophecy Coles

  • Paperback £36.99

The Shadow of the Second Mother explores why has there been such little interest, in psychology, social history and biography, in the important contribution that "second mothers", such as wet nurses... (more)

The Oedipus Complex: Solutions or Resolutions?

The Oedipus Complex: Solutions or Resolutions?

by Rhona M. Fear

  • Paperback £18.99

Freud’s theory of the Oedipus complex is seminal to psychoanalytic theory, but often ignored because of failure to appreciate the nuances. This book seeks to demystify this fascinating topic by... (more)

Reading Bion

Reading Bion

by Rudi Vermote

  • Paperback £35.99
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Wilfred R. Bion is considered a ground-breaking psychoanalyst. His thinking is rooted in Freud and Klein from where it takes an original flight. Reading Bion shows the evolution of his seminal... (more)

The Feeling Brain: Selected Papers on Neuropsychoanalysis

The Feeling Brain: Selected Papers on Neuropsychoanalysis

by Mark Solms

  • Paperback £34.99

Neuropsychoanalysis is the fastest growing area within psychoanalysis, providing a bridge between "classic" psychoanalysis and the neurological sciences. This book provides an accessible introduction... (more)

Defining Psychoanalysis: Achieving a Vernacular Expression

Defining Psychoanalysis: Achieving a Vernacular Expression

by Ian Miller

  • Paperback £12.99

The empirical baseline of today’s psychoanalytic vernacular may be inferred from what psychoanalysts read. Contemporary information aggregation provides us with a unique moment in “reading” today’s... (more)

The Good Divorce: A Psychoanalyst's Exploration of Separation, Divorce, and Childcare

The Good Divorce: A Psychoanalyst's Exploration of Separation, Divorce, and Childcare

by Arthur Leonoff

  • Paperback £35.99

Divorce is a complicated process and not a single event. It has major life implications and must be done right. In this regard, the good divorce is an ethical divorce.

The Good Divorce does not... (more)

Psychic Suffering: From Pain to Growth

Psychic Suffering: From Pain to Growth

by Gemma Corradi Fiumara

  • Paperback £31.99

This book creates an awareness of our ‘excessive’ fear of mental pain: the ubiquitous abhorrence of inner distress functions as a gravitational force that may ultimately impede both maturation and... (more)

The Topological Transformation of Freud's Theory

The Topological Transformation of Freud's Theory

by Jean-Gerard Bursztein

  • Paperback £24.99

In this book Jean-Gérard Bursztein presents his reading of psychoanalysis in the spirit of its founder Sigmund Freud, and explores the transformations of Freud's work by his followers. The author... (more)

Analysis of the Incest Trauma: Retrieval, Recovery, Renewal

Analysis of the Incest Trauma: Retrieval, Recovery, Renewal

by Arnold W. Rachman, Susan A. Klett

  • Paperback £42.99

Childhood sexual abuse within the family of origin and society's institutions, such as the church, education, sports, and the world of celebrity, has been neglected as a significant issue by... (more)

Minding the Body: The Body in Psychoanalysis and Beyond

Minding the Body: The Body in Psychoanalysis and Beyond

by Alessandra Lemma

  • Paperback £44.99

Minding the Body: The Body in Psychoanalysis and Beyond outlines the value of a psychoanalytic approach to understanding the body and its vicissitudes and for addressing these in the context of... (more)

Basic Psychoanalytic Concepts on the Theory of Instincts

Basic Psychoanalytic Concepts on the Theory of Instincts

Edited by Humberto Nagera

  • Paperback £42.99

Originally published in 1970, this volume describes in condensed but detailed form Freud's development of the theory of instincts. As is well known, Freud reformulated and amplified his theory of... (more)

Basic Psychoanalytic Concepts on the Theory of Dreams

Basic Psychoanalytic Concepts on the Theory of Dreams

Edited by Humberto Nagera

  • Paperback £42.99

It is generally accepted that among Freud's many contributions to the understanding of the normal and abnormal aspects of mental functioning, The Interpretation of Dreams stands alone and above all... (more)

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