Intersubjectivity focuses on the reciprocal, mutual influence between patient and therapist. The book explores the implications of this perspective for clinical practice. The approach calls for a... (more)
Psychoanalysis, with Freud as its founder, has vehemently denied the value of religious belief. In this radical book, re-issued with a new preface by the author and a foreword by Jon Stokes, Neville... (more)
'In my judgment, the authors have made a strong case for the proposition that the structure of a theorist's metapsychology will duplicate the structure of his subjective world, laid down mainly by... (more)
'The Ego and Analysis of Defense' represents a major advance in analytic technique. This book, together with the series of seminal journal articles he published over the past thirty years are a... (more)
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Entering the tumultuous, dissociated world of the adult survivor of childhood sexual abuse presents an intimidating challenge for clinicians. But as the authors of this innovative book argue,... (more)
When first published, Heinrich Racker's papers were quickly appreciated as a benchmark in the ongoing, although at the time underdeveloped, understanding of the vital importance of... (more)
Over the past fifty years dramatic ideas and discoveries have arisen out of the work of analysts. In Phantasy in Everyday Life Julia Segal is mainly concerned with Melanie Klein's contribution to... (more)
Presents the theoretical basis and psychotherapeutic applictions of self-psychology to a wide range of ages and dysfunctional states.
An examination of the life of Anna O, the woman who Freud never met, yet who - in treatment under Breuer - invented psychoanalysis with her notions of 'talking cure' and 'chimney sweeping'.
This book adds to the rich tradition of object relations thinking and enlivens psychotherapy. (more)
The major non-psychoanalytic therapies are critically examined from the point of view of U.S. psychoanalysis. An interesting overview of the both the spectrum of therapies available and the future... (more)
Collected papers by Harry Guntrip, with a critical introduction. A key figure in British Psychoanalysis, Guntrip was analysed by Fairbairn and Winnicott and drew his theories from both. The papers... (more)
An outline of Sullivan's work which highlights the importance of an intersubjective perspective in psychotherapy. Topics addressed include: the place of tenderness in infancy, the centrality of... (more)
In Object Relations Theories and Psychopathology: A Comprehensive Text, Frank Summers provides thorough, lucid, and critically informed accounts of the work of major object relations theorists:... (more)
Examines theories of sexual difference from a Kleinian and a Lacanian perspective, and the application of these issues in the practice of treating sexual violence and child abuse. (more)
There is always a lively interest in the supervisory process and its explication. Courses in supervision abound and the critical role of supervision in becoming a psychotherapist is widely... (more)
Freud and Oedipus reassesses Freud's central concept of the Oedipus complex from the interlocking perceptives of biography, intellectual history, and Greek tragedy. Drawing on a wealth of primary and... (more)
Examining the teaching and learning process from a psychoanalytic perspective, this study also considers the metamorphic implications of the educational setting as a holding environment for teacher,... (more)
Fifteen eminent scholars and clinicians (including Andre Haynal, John Gedo, Axel Hoffer and Martin Bergmann) provide a comprehensive and rigorous examination of Ferenczi's legacy. The book is divided... (more)
Although Sandor Rado's contributions to the development of psychoanalysis are beginning to be accepted, they have been characterised by controversy. This book contains an oral history of Rado's work,... (more)
This study of Sigmund Freud, and his complex relationships with the men and women who formed his circle, focuses on the human dramas involved as well as the ideas of the participants. Roazen draws on... (more)