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Forensic Psychoanalysis examines the traumatic psychological origins of violence and explores the ways in which such disasters can be prevented and treated.

Trauma, Pedagogy, and the College Mental Health Crisis argues that psychoanalytic theory and practice offers a solution to the large increase in students seeking mental health services.

What Does It Mean to Make Love? shows how the choice of gender does not conform to anatomy and is based on an often-unrecognised psychic bisexuality.

This book discusses the pivotal role of shame in a wide range of mental disorders and as a driving force in societal polarization and escalating conflicts between nations and population groups.

The Concept of the Individual in Psychoanalysis considers the different conceptions of the individual that are found in psychoanalysis according to the culture in which it operates, and its political structure.

First published in 1992, Women and Attempted Suicide suggests that two factors have contributed to this failure - the neglect of gender issues and the influence of psychiatry on explanations of deviant behaviour. The book offers a new psycho-social...

Psychology Essentials for Behavior Analysts provides new and developing Behaviour Analysts with important background information from the field of psychology. This information is directly applicable to the field of behavior analysis and currently lacking...

Through this book, philosopher and psychoanalyst Aner Govrin demonstrates how psychoanalysis' engagement with philosophy formed a crucial factor in the evolution of new psychoanalytic theories in three areas: perception of truth, developmental theories,...

The Subversive Edge of Psychoanalysis examines the radical and non-conformist perspectives of both classical and contemporary psychoanalysis.

Reading Bion´s Transformations is an in-depth reading of Bion's 1965 work, Transformations, and investigates the epitemiological concept of 'O' introduced by Bion.

Jung's Word Association Manual is the long-awaited definitive and essential guide to training, research, and practice of Jung's Association Experiment, both in clinical practice and beyond the consulting room.

This book explores the importance of Lacan's role as an irritant within psychoanalysis, and how Freud and Lacan saw that as key to ensuring that psychoanalysis remained fresh and vital rather than becoming obsolescent

Towards an Integrated Analytical Psychology presents a comprehensive review of contemporary visions of human psychology and psychotherapy, and proposes a "unified field" theory of mental representation which puts psychoanalytic, analytic, and...

SE TI DICESSI CHE E' POSSIBILE SCOPRIRE CHI E' VERAMENTE SINCERO CON TE E CHI NO, CI CREDERESTI?Ovviamente si può fare! Ma non finisce qui, puoi persino leggere ed anticipare le intenzioni di chiunque ti trovi davanti grazie a questa potente abilità...

Among most of the complex tasks carried out by humans in everyday life, language and communication is one topic which is understood very little, and is still shrouded in mystery based on the information available. The issue of studying human language and...

Ready to declutter your mind and find peace in the midst of life's chaos? "Mindfulness Made Simple: A Beginner's Guide to Mental Clarity and Peace" is your go-to guide for turning down the volume on stress and tuning in to the present moment. Whether...

Discover the secret to understanding women and mastering relationships with Cracking the Female Code by Cole Hunter. This groundbreaking book reveals the hidden science behind attraction and provides practical strategies to give you an edge in your...

Sinirbilimci Şair Abhijit Naskar'ın bizzat Türkçe yazdığı bu bir aşk, barış ve insan hakları mektubudur. "Tüm dünya camidir,Masumlar bizim tanrımız.Onlara hizmet ilahi hizmettir,Onların mutluluğu bizim cennetimiz. Her şeyin üstünde merhamet...

Second volume in the Homo Mimeticus mini-series, which advances the emerging transdisciplinary field of mimetic studiesAfter the linguistic and the affective turns, the new materialist and the performative turns, the cognitive and the posthuman turns, it...

From Aristotle to the present, memory has been grasped as a trace or impression of lost reality - bridging physiological experience and consciousness. Philosophers have vainly sought the nature of this bridge. The present-day...

To celebrate Adolf Griinbaum's sixtieth birthday by offering him this bouquet of essays written for this purpose was the happy task of an autonomous Editorial Committee: Wesley C. Salmon, Nicholas Rescher, Larry Laudan, Carl G...

This preface is addressed to the reader who wishes to inquire into the prevailing concepts, hypotheses and theories about development of sensory systems and wants to know how they are exemplified in the following chapters. I...

The function of the vestibular system is not as obvious as those of vision, hearing, touch or smell. Vestibular dysfunction, however, is clearly apparent where lesions are present. It is probably for this reason that the...

Increasingly, people are becoming aware of the importance of rules with regard to the establishmnent of human behaviour. The present-day philosophy of action, following Wittgenstein, talks of rule following behavour, This ...

This book explores the practice and transmission of Lacanian and Freudian theory. It discusses the pure versus applied analysis of Lacanian and Freudian theory in practice; and the hierarchical versus circular transmissions within psychoanalytic...

This book offers readers a uniquely detailed engagement with the ideas of legendary French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan. The Freudian Thing is one of Lacan's most important texts, wherein he explains the significance and stakes of his "return to...

This book takes Edmund Husserl's phenomenology and applies it to help psychotherapy practitioners formulate complex psychological problems. The reader will learn about Husserl's system of understanding and its concepts that can point to first-person...

Die Autoren erschließen hier die leibliche Dimension zwischen Patient und Therapeut psychoanalytisch und -therapeutisch. Dies berührt tradierte Grundbegriffe und Behandlungsprinzipien der Psychoanalyse. Namhafte...

Can psychoanalysis offer a new computer model? Can computer designers help psychoanalysts to understand their theory better?In contemporary publications human psyche is often related to neural networks. Why? The wiring in...

This Volume of Annals of Theoretical Psychology highlights the fact that the flourishing aftermath of both Freud's and Lacan's ideas still exist. This is done in different ways. Some papers focus on rereading core texts of Freud and Lacan. Others apply...

In this fascinating and ground-breaking book, Itzhak Benyamini uses discourse analysis to lay out the way Lacan constructed his own intellectual discourse informed by Judeo-Christianity. Offering an understanding of Lacan's emergence and intellectual...

This book examines Lacanian psychoanalysis and Christian mystical theology demonstrating the former's potential for reinvigorating spiritual direction. The author outlines how current methods of spiritual direction become saturated with self-help...