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Sexual Difference: Masculinity and Psychoanalysisby Stephen Frosh
Routledge 2002; US$ 17.99Sexual Difference is a critical exploration of psychoanalytic theories of sexual difference. In particular it explores the way in which masculinity is expressed in theory and practice. Developing from the unsettling impact of these issues on the author's own professional practice, Stephen Frosh examines how the very language and structure of psychoanalysis are loaded with assumptions about gender. more...
Dynamics of Human Aggressionby Ana-Maria Rizzuto; W.W. Meissner; Dan H. Buie
Brunner-Routledge 2003; US$ 47.50Aggression is often thought of as involving hostility, anger, or destructiveness. The authors of book challenge this view, and justify their new theory to readers on both the theoretical and clinical fronts. more...
Rupture of Timeby Roderick Main
Brunner-Routledge 2004; US$ 59.95Synchronicity identifies what the theory of synchronicity is, how it relates to Jungian psychology and other branches of knowledge, and what the broader cultural significance of the theory might be. more...
Comprehensive Handbook of Psychological Assessmentby Mark J. Hilsenroth; Daniel L. Segal; Michel Hersen
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2004; US$ 230.00Comprehensive Handbook of Psychological Assessment, Volume 2 presents the most up-to-date coverage on personality assessment from leading experts. * Contains contributions from leading researchers in this area. * Provides the most comprehensive, up-to-date information on personality assessment. * Presents conceptual information about the tests. more...
The Role of Constructs in Psychological and Educational Measurementby Henry I. Braun
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates 2002; US$ 130.00This volume is comprised of papers presented at an ETS conference in 1997. It reviews insights of leading authorities regarding cognition and personality as domains of human functions to provide groundwork for education reforms. more...
Mantikęby Sarah Iles Johnston; Peter T. Struck
BRILL 2005; US$ 127.00This book is a collection of studies by scholars Greek, Roman, Egyptian, and early Christian religions on the topic of divination. Its topics range from necromancy to dice rolling, free-lance diviners to Delphi, and includes treatments from the Archaic period to Late Antiquity. more...
Spirit-mediums, Sacred Mountains and Related Bon Textual Traditions in Upper Tibetby John Vincent Bellezza
BRILL 2005; US$ 227.00Unique original material on the phenomenon of the spirit-mediums of Upper Tibet, the men and women who channel the gods. With extensive interviews with members of this living tradition. more...
Phantasyby Julia Segal
Icon Books 2000; US$ 7.95A mini-essay which illuminates the idea of Phantasy in psychoanalysis and its relationship to the way people lead real lives. It is jargon-free and includes examples taken from the lives of well-known people, and from art, music, poerty and literature. more...
The Evocative Object Worldby Christopher Bollas
Taylor & Francis 2008; US$ 24.95In The Evocative Object World Christopher Bollas builds on Freud's account of dream formation, combining it with perceptive clinical, theoretical and cultural insights to show how the psychoanalytical method can provide a rich understanding of what has traditionally been regarded as 'the outside world'. Moving from the fundamentals of the free associative technique, through an examination of how architecture and the built environment interact with individual and societal dream life, Bollas extends the work of psychoanalysis beyond relations with literature and culture to the actual objects which surround us. As with the evocative external structures of our environment, Bollas describes how the family, with its inherited genetic... more...