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The Evocative Object World
Taylor and Francis 2008; US$ 24.99In 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... more...
The Examined Life
Random House Group Ltd 2013; US$ 20.01** As heard on Book of the Week, Radio 4 ** 'This book is about change.' We are all storytellers - we make stories to make sense of our lives. But it is not enough to tell tales. There must be someone to listen. In his work as a practising psychoanalyst, Stephen Grosz has spent the last twenty-five years uncovering... more...
Psychoanalytic Ideas and Shakespeare
Karnac Books 2011; US$ 22.95Psychoanalysis is concerned with the vicissitudes of life: loss, grief, mourning, guilt and also with reparation and creativity, with death and rebirth, as is the work of Shakespeare. These papers link the Bard's universe to psychoanalytic thought and practice and show us how much both worlds have in common. Part of the Psychoanalytic Ideas Series. more...
Perversion
Karnac Books 2011; US$ 31.95Perversion - its ubiquity in infantile life and its persistence in the psychical and sexual lives of some adults - was a central element of Freud's lifelong work. The problem of perversion has since been revisited by many psychoanalytic schools with the result that Freud's original view of perversion has been replaced by numerous - often contradictory... more...
Foucault, Psychology and the Analytics of Power
Palgrave Macmillan 2007; US$ 30.00This book introduces and applies Foucault's key concepts and procedures, specifically for a psychology readership. Drawing on recently published Collège de France lectures, it is useful to those concerned with Foucault's engagement with the 'psy-disciplines' and those interested in the practical application of Foucault's critical research methods. more...
The Power of Myth
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 16.00Finally available in a popularly priced, non-illustrated, smaller-format edition, which is ideal for the college market and general reader alike, this extraordinary best-seller is a brilliant evocation of the noted scholar's teachings on mythology. From the Trade Paperback edition. more...
Deadly Desires
Karnac Books 2013; US$ 22.95During the fin-de-siecle, stories about hysterical women filled the air of Paris and the novels emerging during this era conveyed this hysteria and openly portrayed the symptoms of the women being treated at the Salpetiere. This book examines the emergence of hysterical discourse and its influence on women's writing, specifically focusing on the presentation... more...
Forgiveness in Intimate Relationships
Karnac Books 2013; US$ 25.95How does one overcome the hardship of letting go of resentment in order to resume or establish a substantial bond with the traumatizing person, usually a parent, mindful of the fact that the experience of the self is rooted in those very same intimate relationships? The centerpiece of this book is forgiveness in intimate relationships and recovery... more...
Leonardo da Vinci
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 17.95This remarkable book takes as its subject one of the most outstanding men that ever lived. The ultimate prodigy, Leonardo da Vinci was an artist of great originality and power, a scientist, and a powerful thinker. According to Sigmund Freud, he was also a flawed, repressed homosexual. The first psychosexual history to be published, Leonardo da Vinci... more...
Psycho-Analytic Insight and Relationships
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 37.99Melanie Klein has been one of the most important contributors to our thinking about human development and human personality. In this classic text, Isca Salzberger-Wittenberg demonstates through theoretical exposition and the use of case material the ways in which Melanie Klein's main concepts and theories illuminate the practice of social casework.... more...









