Marilyn Charles
Patterns: Building Blocks of Experience
Various tributaries of psychoanalytic and developmental theory have flowed into our understanding of the role of early sensory and affective experiences in the construction of our personal worlds.... (more)
Learning from Experience: A Guidebook for Clinicians
An important task facing all clinicians, especially less experienced clinicians, is to come to know oneself sufficiently to be able to register the patient's experience in useful and progressively... (more)
Working with Trauma: Lessons from Bion and Lacan
Working with Trauma: Lessons from Bion and Lacan takes concepts from the psychoanalytic literature and translates them into user-friendly language. In this book, Charles focuses on clinical work with... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Literature: The Stories We Live
Psychoanalysis offers many concepts that are extremely useful clinically but not always accessible in the original. In Psychoanalysis and Literature: The Stories We Live, Marilyn Charles pairs case... (more)
Introduction to Contemporary Psychoanalysis: Defining terms and building bridges
This book provides a clear introduction to the main contemporary psychoanalytic theoretical perspectives. Psychoanalysis is often thought of as an obscure and outdated method, and yet, those familiar... (more)
The Importance of Play in Early Childhood Education: Psychoanalytic, Attachment, and Developmental Perspectives
The Importance of Play in Early Childhood Education presents various theories of play and demonstrates how it serves communicative, developmental, and relational functions, highlighting the... (more)