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  • Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Puberty and Adolescence Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Puberty and Adolescence
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    Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Puberty and Adolescence

    Puberty is a time of tumultuous transition from childhood to adulthood activated by rapid physical changes, hormonal development and explosive activity of neurons. This book explores puberty through the parent-teenager relationship, as a "normal state of...
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  • Political Passions and Jungian Psychology Political Passions and Jungian Psychology
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    Political Passions and Jungian Psychology

    In this book, a multidisciplinary and international selection of Jungian clinicians and academics discuss some of the most compelling issues in contemporary politics. Presented in five parts, each chapter offers an in-depth and timely discussion on...
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  • What Happens When the Analyst Dies What Happens When the Analyst Dies
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    What Happens When the Analyst Dies

    What Happens When the Analyst Dies explores the stories of patients who have experienced the death of their analyst. The book prioritizes the voices of patients, letting them articulate for themselves the challenges and heartache that occur when...
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  • The Work of Whiteness The Work of Whiteness
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    The Work of Whiteness

    'Whiteness' is a politically constructed category which needs to be understood and dismantled because the system of racism so embedded within our society harms us all. It has profound implications for human psychology, an understanding of which is...
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  • The Sublime in Everyday Life The Sublime in Everyday Life
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    The Sublime in Everyday Life

    Notions of the sublime are most often associated with the extraordinary, and include the intra-psychic, high-cultural and exceptional occurrences of elation and exaltation as part of the experience. Using psychoanalytic and aesthetic theories, this...
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  • Workplace Intelligence Workplace Intelligence
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    Workplace Intelligence

    Workplace Intelligence provides a range of insights into the unconscious processes at play in the workplace and an introduction to a balanced approach to organizations.The book explores key concepts, showing how our emotions and early experiences inform...
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  • A Jungian Approach to Engaging Our Creative Nature A Jungian Approach to Engaging Our Creative Nature
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    A Jungian Approach to Engaging Our Creative Nature

    Embracing our creative nature as the heritage of all, this book seeks to foster the creative imagination by nurturing a fertile relationship with its source. Robert Sandford offers an alternative approach, taking up Jungian theory as arising from and...
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  • The Psychoanalytic Ear and the Sociological Eye The Psychoanalytic Ear and the Sociological Eye
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    The Psychoanalytic Ear and the Sociological Eye

    In The Psychoanalytic Ear and the Sociological Eye: Toward an American Independent Tradition, Nancy J. Chodorow brings together her two professional identities, psychoanalyst and sociologist, as she also brings together and moves beyond two traditions...
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  • Engaging Couples Engaging Couples
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    Engaging Couples

    This book is a challenge to the silos in our human services that an 'atomised' focus gives rise to. They are evident in the chasm that can exist between child and adult mental health care, between competing therapeutic approaches and, most importantly...
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  • Wish-fulfilment in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis Wish-fulfilment in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis
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    Wish-fulfilment in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis

    Wish-fulfilment as a singular means of satisfying ineluctable desire is a pivotal concept in classical psychoanalysis. Freud argued that it was the thread that united dreams, daydreams, phantasy, omnipotent thinking, neurotic and some psychotic symptoms...
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  • Myths of Termination Myths of Termination
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    Myths of Termination

    Psychoanalysis can make a huge difference in the lives of patients, their families and others they encounter. Myths have developed, however, about how psychoanalysis should end - what patients experience and what analysts do. These expectations come...
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  • Ghosts in the Consulting Room Ghosts in the Consulting Room
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    Ghosts in the Consulting Room

    Ghosts in the Consulting Room: Echoes of Trauma in Psychoanalysis is the first of two volumes that delves into the overwhelming, often unmetabolizable feelings related to mourning. The book uses clinical examples of people living in a state of liminality...
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  • Archetypal Psychotherapy Archetypal Psychotherapy
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    Archetypal Psychotherapy

    Archetypal psychology is a post-Jungian mode of theory and practice initiated primarily through the prolific work of James Hillman. Hillman's writing carries a far-reaching collection of evocative ideas with a wealth of vital implications for the field...
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  • Imaginary Existences Imaginary Existences
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    Imaginary Existences

    Imaginary Existences: A psychoanalytic exploration of phantasy, fiction, dreams and daydreams interweaves scholarly psychoanalytic knowledge and extensive clinical experience with insights derived from close readings of great literature in a...
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  • Analytical Psychology in a Changing World Analytical Psychology in a Changing World
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    Analytical Psychology in a Changing World

    How can we make sense of ourselves within a world of change? In Analytical Psychology in a Changing World, an international range of contributors examine some of the common pitfalls, challenges and rewards that we encounter in our efforts to carve out...
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  • Creativity and Psychotic States in Exceptional People Creativity and Psychotic States in Exceptional People
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    Creativity and Psychotic States in Exceptional People

    Creativity and Psychotic States in Exceptional People tells the story of the lives of four exceptionally gifted individuals:  Vincent van Gogh, Vaslav Nijinsky, José Saramago and John Nash.  Previously unpublished chapters by Murray Jackson are set in a...
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  • Melodies of the Mind Melodies of the Mind
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    Melodies of the Mind

    What can psychoanalysis learn from music? What can music learn from psychoanalysis? Can the analysis of music itself provide a primary source of psychological data?Drawing on Freud's concept of the oral road to the unconscious, Melodies of the Mind...
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  • Treating Dissociative and Personality Disorders Treating Dissociative and Personality Disorders
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    Treating Dissociative and Personality Disorders

    Treating Dissociative and Personality Disorders draws on major theorists and the very latest research to help formulate and introduce the Relational/Multi-Motivational Therapeutic Approach (REMOTA), a new model for treating such patients within a...
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  • Loneliness and Longing Loneliness and Longing
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    Loneliness and Longing

    We all experience loneliness at some time in our lives and it often motivates people, consciously or otherwise, to enter treatment. Yet it is rarely explicitly addressed in psychoanalytic literature. Loneliness and Longing rectifies this oversight by...
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  • Object Relations in Depression Object Relations in Depression
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    Object Relations in Depression

    This book examines the role of British object relations theory in order to explore our understanding and treatment of depression. It challenges current conceptualizations of depression while simultaneously discussing the complex nature of depression, its...
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  • The Darkening Spirit The Darkening Spirit
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    The Darkening Spirit

    The twenty-first century could well be Jung's century, just as the twentieth century was Freud's. Jung predicted the demise of secular humanism and claimed we would search for alternatives to science, atheism and reason. We would experience a new and...
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  • Emotional Communication Emotional Communication
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    Emotional Communication

    What role does animal like and infantile communication play in life and in psychoanalysis? How are painful childhood experiences recreated with people who are nothing like the original family? What are the roles of loving and horrible feelings in...
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  • THE PARANORMAL IS NORMAL THE PARANORMAL IS NORMAL
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    THE PARANORMAL IS NORMAL

    If ever you wished to know the hard facts about just about everything concerned with the paranormal and the possibility of an afterlife, then this is the book for you.Written by a professional engineer dedicated to science - he chose his standard test...
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  • Mended by the Muse Mended by the Muse
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    Mended by the Muse

    Mended by the Muse: Creative Transformations of Trauma is an in-depth exploration of the relationship between trauma and creativity. It is about art in the service of healing, mourning, and memorialization. This book addresses the questions of how...
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  • Rorschach Assessment of Psychotic Phenomena Rorschach Assessment of Psychotic Phenomena
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    Rorschach Assessment of Psychotic Phenomena

    Rorschach Assessment of Psychotic Phenomena takes the reader beyond where James H. Kleiger's original work, Disordered Thinking and the Rorschach, left off. This new book offers readers a number of conceptual bridges between Rorschach...
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  • Winnicott's Children Winnicott's Children
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    Winnicott's Children

    Winnicott's Children focuses on the use we make of the thinking and writing of DW Winnicott; how this has enhanced our understanding of children and the settings where we work, and how it has influenced the way in which we do that work. It is a volume by...
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  • The Algorithmic Unconscious The Algorithmic Unconscious
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    The Algorithmic Unconscious

    This book applies the concepts and methods of psychoanalysis to the study of artificial intelligence (AI) and human-AI interaction. It develops a new, more fruitful approach for applying psychoanalysis to AI and machine behavior. It appeals to a broad...
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  • Shame, Temporality and Social Change Shame, Temporality and Social Change
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    Shame, Temporality and Social Change

    Winner of the Internationl Association for Jungian Studies (IAJS) Book Award for Best Edited Book 2021There is a broad consensus that we are in a time of profound transition. There is worldwide political and social turbulence, with an underlying loss of...
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  • The Mystical Exodus in Jungian Perspective The Mystical Exodus in Jungian Perspective
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    The Mystical Exodus in Jungian Perspective

    The Mystical Exodus in Jungian Perspective explores the soul loss that results from personal, collective, and transgenerational trauma and the healing that unfolds through reconnection with the sacred. Personal narratives of disconnection from and...
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  • Team-Based Shared Formulation for Psychosis Team-Based Shared Formulation for Psychosis
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    Team-Based Shared Formulation for Psychosis

    Adding to the growing literature on shared formulation, the authors provide over two decades of practice-based evidence for the use of a Shared Assessment, Formulation and Education (SAFE) approach to working with those with complex mental health and...
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  • The Descent of the Soul and the Archaic The Descent of the Soul and the Archaic
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    The Descent of the Soul and the Archaic

    The Descent of the Soul and the Archaic explores the motif of kátabasis (a "descent" into an imaginal underworld) and the importance it held for writers from antiquity to the present, with an emphasis on its place in psychoanalytic theory. This...
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  • Understanding Humanism Understanding Humanism
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    Understanding Humanism

    Understanding Humanism is an easy-to-read and informative overview of the beliefs, practices, and values of humanism as a non-religious worldview. This short and lively book explores humanism both as a broad historical tradition of thought and as a...
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  • Healing, Rebirth and the Work of Michael Eigen Healing, Rebirth and the Work of Michael Eigen
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    Healing, Rebirth and the Work of Michael Eigen

    This important book features collected essays on the distinguished psychoanalyst Dr Michael Eigen, who is an influential innovator within and beyond psychoanalysis.Drawing on the ideas of Bion, Winnicott, Kabbalah, and artists, Eigen's work is noted...
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  • Cultural Complexes in China, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan Cultural Complexes in China, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan
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    Cultural Complexes in China, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan

    Thomas Singer presents a unique collection which examines cultural complexes in four parts of East Asia: China, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan. From ancestor worship in China to the "kimchi bitch" meme of South Korea, the wounded feminine in Taiwan and...
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  • The Independent Mind in British Psychoanalysis The Independent Mind in British Psychoanalysis
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    The Independent Mind in British Psychoanalysis

    Arguably the most informative and readable account of the development of British independent psychoanalysis, Eric Rayner's The Independent Mind in British Psychoanalysis offers a coherent account of the core concepts that influence the clinical practice...
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  • Shame and the Making of Art Shame and the Making of Art
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    Shame and the Making of Art

    Shame remains at the core of much psychological distress and can eventuate as physical symptoms, yet experiential approaches to healing shame are sparse. Links between shame and art making have been felt, intuited, and examined, but have not been...
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  • Essential Readings from the Melanie Klein Archives Essential Readings from the Melanie Klein Archives
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    Essential Readings from the Melanie Klein Archives

    Essential Readings from the Melanie Klein Archives: Original Papers and Critical Reflections brings together a selection of previously unpublished material by Melanie Klein, one of the key architects of child psychoanalysis, and sets it in the...
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  • Psychoanalytic Work with Families and Couples Psychoanalytic Work with Families and Couples
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    Psychoanalytic Work with Families and Couples

    Psychoanalytic Work with Families and Couples rethinks the ways in which conflicts present today in psychoanalytic consulting rooms and the nature of suffering in family, couple, and sibling bonds.Based on two major concepts, that of device (drawn from...
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  • Cultural Complexes and the Soul of America
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    Cultural Complexes and the Soul of America

    Cultural Complexes and the Soul of America explores many of the cultural complexes that comprise the collective psychic-filtering system of emotions, ideas, and beliefs that possess the United States today. With chapters by an international selection of...
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  • Bion and Thoughts Too Deep for Words Bion and Thoughts Too Deep for Words
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    Bion and Thoughts Too Deep for Words

    Distinguishing psychoanalysis, as a search for truth, from suggestion, as a cure for symptoms, this book addresses the scientific status of psychoanalysis. Citing research into the relationship of infants to their caretakers, the author discusses...
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  • Working Systemically with Refugee Couples and Families Working Systemically with Refugee Couples and Families
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    Working Systemically with Refugee Couples and Families

    This stirring and insightful book explores how family dynamics among refugees are affected by the trauma of forced migration.Written by an experienced family therapist, it uses a systemic perspective to understand the impact on couple relationships and...
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  • A Group-Analytic Exploration of the Sibling Matrix A Group-Analytic Exploration of the Sibling Matrix
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    A Group-Analytic Exploration of the Sibling Matrix

    A Group-Analytic Exploration of the Sibling Matrix: How Siblings Shape our Lives offers a fresh approach to siblings, recognising how these relationships are embedded in the framework of the family and how sibling experiences shape our lives,...
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    Trauma and Loss

    During his lifetime John Bowlby, the founder of attachment theory, was unable to publish as he wished due to strong opposition to his ideas. Now, with the support of the Bowlby family, several complete and near-complete works from the John Bowlby Archive...
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  • Psychoanalysis, History, and Radical Ethics Psychoanalysis, History, and Radical Ethics
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    Psychoanalysis, History, and Radical Ethics

    Psychoanalysis, History, and Radical Ethics: Learning to Hear explores the importance of listening, being able to speak, and those who are silenced, from a psychoanalytic perspective. In particular, it focuses on those voices silenced either collectively...
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    The Social Dream-Drawing Workshop

    The Social Dream-Drawing Workshop is a pioneering, practical guide for professionals who work with people going through major life transitions, such as career change, relocation or bereavement. These transitions can evoke enormous feelings of uncertainty...
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    Claude Steiner, Emotional Activist

    This book describes the work and life of Claude Michel Steiner, a close colleague and friend of Eric Berne, the founder of transactional analysis. Steiner was an early and influential transactional analyst, an exponent of radical psychiatry, and the...
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