This book opens a very important debate for the family therapy field. At a time of treatment rationing and standard setting, it aptly draws our attention to an issue of increasing importance:... (more)
In this comprehensive volume, prominent clinicians provide insights into the therapeutic relationship, the difficult patient, modes of therapeutic action, and other topics of concern to all... (more)
This book contributes to the debate on child sexual abuse and illuminates the trainer practitioner in the process. It shows that human services training is not built solely on scientific theory but... (more)
Robert Bor and, Riva Miller, who run the AIDS Counseling Service at the Royal Free Hospital, London, are internationally known for their work in providing consultation to many hospital departments... (more)
This book questions whether 'autonomy' is a pivotal psychotherapeutic value. Basing his discussion upon the key Kleinian concept of 'projective identification', the author argues that 'integration'... (more)
Based on the 1996 Family Law Act, this book looks at how the therapist can work with the different professions involved in a divorce, how children might be consulted, and ways in which vulnerable... (more)
The Peper Harow residential community was founded in 1970 and gained repute for its pioneering work with disturbed adolescents. This text assesses Peper Harow's success in managing disturbed... (more)
First published in 1976, this is a standard text on bereavement. (more)
The Squiggle Foundation has for many years produced Winnicott Studies, a journal which celebrates and reconsiders the work of Donald Winnicott, the groundbreaking pediatrician and psychoanalyst. This... (more)
Lacanian psychoanalysis and much contemporary literary theory is based upon the model of signs and language proposed by Ferdinand de Saussure. This book criticises Saussure's ideas and explores some... (more)
This book traces a line of continuity in psychoanalysis back to Freud and his immediate followers, and describes the major transformations that followed, particularly in the works of Heinz Hartmann... (more)
This is the second volume of the works of Karl Abraham, whose Selected Papers on Psycho-Analysis is one of the most widely read and highly valued classics on the subject. The first part of this book... (more)
Karl Abraham was an important and influential early member of Freud's inner circle of trusted colleagues. As such, he played a significant part in the establishment of psychoanalysis as a recognised... (more)
This text describes Otto Rank's place in the history of psychoanalysis. It shows how Rank was a forerunner in both object-relations theory and self psychology, and offers evidence that Rank was far... (more)
Until recently, the use of humour in therapy has been decried and demeaned. However, Freud himself was an active joke-teller, and used wit in many interactions with patients. The text considers the... (more)
This first of three volumes of correspondence between Freud and Ferenczi opens in 1908 and closes on the eve of World War One. The letters give an intimate picture of psychoanalytic theory being made... (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)
'Self-Processing' is Langs' development of self-analysis. He lays down a detailed technique and ground-rules for using this technique in everyday practice, in order to utilise the encoded impulses... (more)
This is an exploration of the similarities and differences between these two, often feuding, perspectives on living: psychoanalysis and Catholicism.
An intensely personal, idiosyncratic, yet earnest and straightforward book. Although some will disagree with the theoretical ideas, it would be impossible not to empathize with the author's struggle... (more)
These 31 essays explore Donald W. Winnicott's discovery of transitional objects and phenomena. They serves as a tribute to Winnicott, and also go some way towards placing his seminal ideas into the... (more)
Written by psychologists in areas of abnormal and differential psychology, this text aims to integrate evidence and ideas from healthy personality and temperament on the one hand and psychological... (more)
This work examines how children's bodies are constructed in schools, families, courts, hospitals and in film. Recognizing that children's bodies are a target for adult practices of social regulation,... (more)