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  • Lincoln Dreamt He Diedby Andrew Burstein

    Palgrave Macmillan 2013; US$ 27.99

    Before Sigmund Freud made dreams the cornerstone of understanding an individual?s inner life, Americans shared their dreams unabashedly with one another through letters, diaries, and casual conversation. In this innovative new book, highly regarded historian Andrew Burstein goes back for the first time to discover what we can learn about the lives... more...

  • Freud and the Imaginative Worldby Harry Trosman

    Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 57.00

    The current resurgence of interest in the scientific origins of psychoanalysis has overshadowed the artistic and literary models to which Freud had recourse time and again in the development and presentation of his theories.  It is this neglected aesthetic wellspring of psychoanalysis to which Harry Trosman calls attention in Freud and the Imaginative... more...

  • Historiography and Causation in Psychoanalysisby Edwin R. IV Wallace

    Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 63.95

    What do the psychoanalyst and the historian have in common? This important question has stimulated a lively debate within the psychoanalytic profession in recent years, bearing as it does on the very nature of the psychoanalytic enterprise.  Edwin Wallace, a clinician with training in the history and philosophy of science, brings a ranging scholarly... more...

  • Jacques Lacanby Sean Homer

    Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 24.95

    Jacques Lacan is one of the most challenging and controversial of contemporary thinkers, as well as the most influential psychoanalyst since Freud. Lacanian theory has reached far beyond the consulting room to engage with such diverse disciplines as literature, film, gender and social theory. This book covers the full extent of Lacan's career and provides... more...

  • The Book of Woeby Gary Greenberg

    Penguin Group US 2013; US$ 14.99

    For more than two years, author and psychotherapist Gary Greenberg has embedded himself in the war that broke out over the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders ?the DSM?the American Psychiatric Association?s compendium of mental illnesses and what Greenberg calls ?the book of woe.?             Since its debut... more...

  • Shrinkby Lawrence R. Samuel

    UNP - Nebraska 2013; US$ 34.95

    ?Psychology has stepped down from the university chair into the marketplace? was how the New York Times put it in 1926. Another commentator in 1929 was more biting. Psychoanalysis, he said, had over a generation, ?converted the human scene into a neurotic.? Freud first used the word around 1895, and by the 1920s psychoanalysis was a phenomenon to... more...

  • Autismby Mitzi Waltz

    Palgrave Macmillan 2013; US$ 80.00

    This book contextualizes autism as a socio cultural phenomenon, and examines the often troubling effects of representations and social trends. Exploring the individuals and events in the history of this condition, Waltz blends research and personal perspectives to examine social narratives of normalcy, disability and difference. more...

  • The Lives of Erich Frommby Lawrence J. Friedman; Anke Schreiber

    Columbia University Press 2013; US$ 28.99

    Erich Fromm was a political activist, psychologist, psychoanalyst, philosopher, and one of the most important intellectuals of the twentieth century. Known for his theories of personality and political insight, Fromm dissected the sadomasochistic appeal of brutal dictators while also eloquently championing love?which, he insisted, was nothing if it... more...

  • Portraits of Pioneers in Psychologyby Gregory A. Kimble; Michael Wertheimer

    Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 29.95

    This book offers glimpses into the personal and scholarly lives of 20 giants in the history of psychology. As in the earlier volumes, prominent scholars were invited to prepare chapters on a pioneer who had made important contributions in their own area of expertise. Some of the psychologists described may be the teachers of the instructors who will... more...

  • Hidden Depths: The Story of Hypnosisby Robin Waterfield

    Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 32.50

    In Hidden Depths , Robin Waterfield explores the fascinating world of hypnosis, tracing the history of this often misunderstood craft beginning with a passage in the book of Genesis, and continuing through his own personal experiences today. Waterfield uses the history and controversy surrounding the practice of hypnosis to gain insight into our behavior... more...