This study examines the complex relationships between Freudian and Lacanian theory and philosophy, feminism, anthropology, communications theory, deconstruction, Foucauldian genealogy and medical... (more)
A reprint of this compilation of psychoanalytic papers on what lies behind men's adolescent and homosexual struggles, their attempts to meet the challenge of fatherhood, the myth of invulnerability... (more)
Approaching Freud not only from the philosophical, but also historical, psychoanalytical, anthropological, and sociological perspectives, the contributors show how Freud gave us a new and powerful... (more)
These essays place dreams and theories about dreams in a clinical context.
Attempts to establish a solid and systematic foundation for the modern study of affect, by combining the discoveries of both psychology and physiology.
This is the first volume to capture the range of current viewpoints on the subject of shame. As editor, Donald Nathanson has not only assembled internationally prominent authorities in the field, but... (more)
John Farrell analyzes the personality and thought of Sigmund Freud in order to give insight into modernity's paranoid character and into the true nature of Freudian psychoanalysis. John Farrell's... (more)
A review of the literature in this area with particular emphasis on the work of Freud. (more)
This important new work connects evolutionary biological concepts to modern psychoanalytic theory and the clinical encounter. Synthesizing their years of experience in the practice of psychotherapy... (more)
Offers a thorough and critically-minded review of the literature on shame, integrating major concepts from object-relations and self psychology to arrive at a new understanding of the phenomena.
The author argues that psychoanalysis requires an adequate theory of self in order to address effectively those states of mind in which a disturbed sense of self is prominent. He discusses disorders... (more)
In "The Private Self", Arnold Modell contributes an interdisciplinary perspective in formulating a theory of the private self. A leading thinker in American psycho-analysis, Modell here studies... (more)
In this original and highly readable book Josephine Klein provides a detailed picture of how young infants experience life and how this lays the foundations for later personality structures. (more)
There are more psychoanalytic theories today than anyone knows what to do with, and the heterogeneity and complexity of the entire body of psychoanalytic though have become staggering. In Relational... (more)
A presentation of current knowledge concerning the psychopathic personality and its functioning. (more)
Compares the psychoanalytic technique of the 1930s with today's more rational concept of therapeutic action based on a developmentally rooted, parent-child model. The author stresses that... (more)
Anxiety may be debilitating or stimulating; it can result in neurotic symptoms or in improved, heightened performance in an actor or athlete. It is something every human being has experienced.
As... (more)
This work synthesizes current thinking on narcissism making such disorders more recognisable, understandable and treatable. It emphasizes the various aspects of narcissistic pathology and examines... (more)
This is an exploration of the similarities and differences between these two, often feuding, perspectives on living: psychoanalysis and Catholicism.