This is a book about children who have to grow up apart from their biological parents, the impact of this on their lives and on those who look after them, and how we can respond to the challenges this
Sandor Ferenczi, Sigmund Freud’s brilliant pupil as well as an innovative psychoanalyst, was silenced by various generations of his contemporaries until, in the past decades, his work began to be redi
Practitioners of psychoanalysis find three central themes to be recurrent and ubiquitous in every analysis: issues around identity, the struggle to know the self, to understand the self and to be the
Talking Cure shows how the mind operates through all stages of life. Drawing on Tavistock Clinic research and case studies, it demonstrates just how much "the heart has its reasons the reason knows no
The result of three decades of psychoanalytic work with children and adolescents, this book takes a fresh and empathic look at the pervasive developmental disorders in childhood and adolescence, descr
In The Tavistock Learning Group: Exploration Outside the Traditional Frame, authors Clive Hazell and Mark Kiel attempt to expand the heuristic, theoretical, and applied dimensions of Group Relations p
This book concerns the child’s emotional and cognitive development during the period of latency. It constitutes a bridge between the first stormy years of a child’s development and adolescence. The co
Every day we seek information from the internet, buy something, play video games, chat, work, and so on. But what exactly is the nature of the space we surf in and through? Is it virtual or real? What
The impetus for this book came from an appreciation that reflexivity, for both consultant and client, is the core ingredient for facilitating the "changing organization." Central to
Larger Than Life is aimed at anyone interested in the causes of obesity and its treatment. It describes a dramatherapeutic intervention of twelve sessions in which six women take part. The reader is t
We have much to learn from mothers and babies not just about early life psychic phenomena that are active in us, but also about the analytic technique, when the internal setting becomes more important
In psychotherapy clients sometimes experience breakthrough moments--profound moments in which their world and how they view themselves is changed forever. But what exactly occurs during such moments?
There is a wide gap between the psychological needs of the children of refugees and the services provided. Refugees’ home countries, cultures, and social make-up are widely diversified, and their need
This book expands the symbols of the phallus and vagina into cosmic symbols, not by reference to myths but by his interpretations of embryonic, physiological, psychological facts. It develops the view
This book explores the role of chaos and control in the creative process as well as the difference between talent and creativity. Part One explores some of the common biases and pitfalls in the analys
If psychoanalysis will survive in the twenty-first century, this book’s wager is that it will be Lacanian psychoanalysis. Today, the survival of psychoanalysis is in question. Even Jacques Lacan himse
The influence of André Green on psychoanalysis has been immeasurable. His theoretical, clinical, and cultural contributions have identified him as one of the most important psychoanalytic thinkers of
This book celebrates the life and work of Tom Andersen, who developed and promoted worldwide the reflecting conversation process, now referred to as dialogical or conversational practice, and which is
This book brings together a selection of classic psychoanalytical papers related to aging, dying, and death that have appeared in the renowned International Journal of Psychoanalysis. People are livin
'Psychoanalysts work more and more with patients presenting psychosomatic disorders. Present day descriptive and classificatory psychiatry tends to see only one clinical frame under the confusing ter
