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This book introduces the insights of contemporary relational psychoanalysis to educational thought and uses them as the foundation for a comprehensive model for understanding and informing teaching and learning practice. The model integrates what we...

A critical edition of one of the key texts in psychoanalysis.Sigmund Freud's Beyond the Pleasure Principle stands as a foundational text in psychoanalysis, delving into profound questions about life, death, pleasure and pain. Through a combination of...

In 1900, Helene Preiswerk fell madly in love with her cousin, a handsome med student named Carl Gustav Jung. "She is slenderly built, face rather pale, eyes dark with a peculiar penetrating look," he wrote of her. "She has no serious illnesses. At school...

Ian Parker has been a leading light in the fields of critical and discursive psychology for over 25 years. The Psychology After Critique series brings together for the first time his most important papers. Each volume in the series has been prepared by...

What if you already had everything you needed to take your life to the next level?That you already are who you want to be.Uncovering a thrilling world of infinite powers and limitless possibilities for growth, Shay Stone shows us the way to...

This work tracks Carl Jung's life and spiritual development as the embodiment of the way of the Tao. Jung was well acquainted with the body of Tao knowledge--in his later years he was close to and worked with Wilhelm, a translator of the I Ching. Rosen...

Sailing into New York Harbor, Sigmund Freud stood on the deck and gazed upon a statue that was meant to symbolize someone else's vague notion of freedom. The embryonic field of psychology--so very interested to hear this theory, which excavated the...

The Primitive Family: In Its Origin And Development is a book written by Carl Nicolai Starcke and originally published in 1889. The book explores the origins and development of the family unit in human societies, focusing on primitive societies and their...

The methods developed by Freud and Marx have enabled a range of scholars to critically reflect upon the ideological underpinnings of modern and now postmodern or hypermodern western societies. In this intriguing book, the discipline of psychology itself...

Originally published in 1950, the name of the late Dr H.G. Baynes was already well-known as a leading exponent of and translator of the writings of Professor C.G. Jung, as author and as psychotherapist.The essay which gives it title to this varied and...

On the Lyricism of the Mind: Psychoanalysis and Literature explores the lyrical dimension (or the lyricism) of the psychic space. It is not presented as an artistic disposition, but rather as a universal psychic quality which enables the recovery and...

Winner of the 2016 Gradiva Award for Edited BookThe Legacy of Sándor Ferenczi, first published in 1993 & edited by Lewis Aron & Adrienne Harris, was one of the first books to examine Ferenczi's invaluable contributions to psychoanalysis and...

Archetype: A Natural History of the Self, first published in 1982, was a ground-breaking book; the first to explore the connections between Jung's archetypes and evolutionary disciplines such as ethology and sociobiology, and an excellent introduction to...

An increasing number of scholars, students and practitioners of psychology are becoming intrigued by the ideas of Gilles Deleuze and of Felix Guattari. This book aims to be a critical introduction to these ideas, which have so much to offer psychology in...

Kohut's Twinship Across Cultures: The Psychology of Being Human chronicles a 10-year-voyage in which the authors struggled, initially independently, to make sense of Kohut's intentions when he radically re-defined the twinship experience to one of "being...

Grief and its Transcendence: Memory, Identity, Creativity is a landmark contribution that provides fresh insights into the experience and process of mourning. It includes fourteen original essays by pre-eminent psychoanalysts, historians, classicists,...

The Practice of Psychoanalytic Parent-Infant Psychotherapy is a comprehensive handbook, addressing the provision of therapeutic help for babies and their parents when their attachment relationship is troubled and a risk is posed to the baby's development...

Relational Freedom: Emergent Properties of the Interpersonal Field addresses the interpersonal field in clinical psychoanalysis and psychotherapy, especially the emergent qualities of the field. The book builds on the foundation of unformulated...

The libido theory is one of the major areas of interest in psychoanalysis. Freud's insights in this field have been widely applied and used by psychoanalysts, adult and child psychiatrists, psychologists, educationalists, experts on child development and...

Originally published in 1970 and in contrast to the previous three volumes, which each dealt with a single subject, this volume is a miscellaneous one.Seventeen subjects were selected on the basis of their relevance for the understanding both of...

It is generally accepted that among Freud's many contributions to the understanding of the normal and abnormal aspects of mental functioning, The Interpretation of Dreams stands alone and above all others. In this work published in 1900 Freud laid down...

Originally published in 1970, this volume describes in condensed but detailed form Freud's development of the theory of instincts. As is well known, Freud reformulated and amplified his theory of instincts at several points during his lifetime. Such...

What can research in cognitive psychology offer the growth of educational technology and instructional media? Originally published in 1988, this book argues that, for much of its history, educational technology has been concerned with justifying and...

Originally published in 1941, the blurb read: "The aim of this work is to state and understand the psychological dynamics of the present conflict. The author is a medical psychologist who has had unusual opportunities for studying German mentality. He...

A comprehensive approach to self-realization, psychosynthesis was developed between 1910 and the 1950s by the Italian psychiatrist Roberto Assagioli. Assagioli like Jung, diverged from Freud in order to develop an understanding of human nature that took...

""The Training of the Memory in Art and the Education of the Artist"" is a book written by Lecoq de Boisbaudran and originally published in 1914. The book is a comprehensive guide to the principles and techniques of memory training for artists, and it...

The Theory of Dreams V2: In Which an Inquiry is Made into the Powers and Faculties of the Human Mind is a book written by Robert Gray in 1808. The book delves into the concept of dreams and explores the powers and faculties of the human mind. It is a...

While understanding the psychic structure of pleasure and desire might seem to be unrelated to grasping our current political crisis, Todd McGowan argues that the intrinsically excessive nature of enjoyment is critically important to this effort. In a...

Dive into the pages of 'Echoes of Authenticity: Rediscovering Your True Self,' where I share a compelling narrative that transcends the boundaries of self-help literature. In this transformative journey, authenticity takes center stage as I navigate the...

VISION IN ACTION will provide an objective view of the barriers in your life that may be preventing you from achieving the success you deserve. It is meant to give you a clear understanding of our coaching partnership and what you can expect from the...

Tired of letting all your negative thoughts drag you down?Do you get tired of thinking you don't deserve better treatment?You have trouble finding inner calm when you try to sleep each night, right? You shouldn't constantly be in despair and...

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Análisis aplicado de conducta para maestros, el mítico texto que durante 40 años ha sido el manual de referencia sobre el uso de aplicaciones conductuales en el aula, se edita por primera vez en español. El libro te muestra cómo utilizar los principios...

Análisis aplicado de conducta para maestros, el mítico texto que durante 40 años ha sido el manual de referencia sobre el uso de aplicaciones conductuales en el aula, se edita por primera vez en español. El libro te muestra cómo utilizar los principios...

Global Release (v0.1.6)Hacking Capitalism is an independently published book written by Kris Nóva about modeling the tech industry as a system. Particularly this book will model computers, humans, and money and their subsequent relationships in tech...

Imagining Animals explores the making of animal images in art therapy and child psychotherapy. It examines two contrasting primitive states of mind: the investing of the world about us with life through animism and participation mystique, and the...

Why, when and how does aggression go wrong?How can we make sense of apparently meaningless destructiveness and violenceAggression is a part of human nature that energises our relationships, acts as an impetus for psychic development, and enables us to...

André Green attempts the complex task of identifying and examining the key ideas for a contemporary psychoanalytic practice. This undertaking is motivated both by the need for an outline of the evolution of psychoanalysis since Freud's death, and by the...

In Glacial Times, Salomon Resnik brings together various facets of his work as a psychoanalyst and psychiatrist, working in both the private sector and in institutional settings and in a wide range of cultural contexts, to provide a careful summary...

Come to think of it, whenever we acquire or purchase anything, more often than not, it goes with a manual. When we buy a television set, it has a manual. When we buy food, toys, a new dress, it has always some form of instruction on how to handle it. But...

Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Pneumatics, Optics V1: Natural Philosophy For The Use Of Schools (1861) is a comprehensive textbook on natural philosophy written by the Ireland Commissioners. The book covers the fundamental principles of mechanics,...

Placebo responses are automatic and unconscious and cannot be predicted based on conscious volition. Instead, they reflect complex interactions between the innate reward system of the nervous system and encoded procedural memories and imaginal fantasies...

""On Freud's Psychoanalytic Method and Its Evolution"" is a comprehensive analysis of Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic method and its development over time. Written by James Jackson Putnam in 1912, the book examines the key concepts of psychoanalysis, such...

Particularly in the upper stage development of rockets (launchers), gravity dominated fluid motion in upper stage tanks (sloshing) during flight represents an undesired dynamic effect. On the one hand the sloshing forces lead to disturbances, which have...

Are you held back by depression, insomnia, anxiety, OCD, intrusive thoughts, procrastination, addiction, or jealousy?Do you wish you were more assertive and self-confident?Are you struggling with feelings of regret and guilt?Do you want to be better at...

If you or someone you know has ever experienced anxiety, depression, stress, eating disorder, bipolar disorder or any other mental health challenge, you know exactly how traumatic such an experience can be. Not only does it cause substantial emotional...

Would you like to change? Do you want to play the game better?This book is for people who wish to make changes to improve their game and move forward in their life journey.The story follows the fortunes of 5 young footballers who attend a 12 week summer...

Do you think that some slug who looks very professional who "whispers" an occasional interpretation to you five times a week for 7 years can make one bit of difference in your life or does such a psychotoxic slug called a psychoanalyst merely stick you...