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21. Understanding Human Nature (Psychology Revivals)

    By Alfred Adler

    Series: Psychology Revivals

    Originally published in 1928 this book was an attempt to acquaint the general public with the fundamentals of Individual Psychology. At the same time it is a demonstration of the practical application of these principles to the conduct of everyday relationships, and the organization of our...

    Published March 26th 2013 by Routledge
22. The Science of Living (Psychology Revivals)

    By Alfred Adler

    Series: Psychology Revivals

    Originally published in 1930 The Science of Living looks at Individual Psychology as a science. Adler discusses the various elements of Individual Psychology and its application to everyday life: including the inferiority complex, the superiority complex and other social aspects, such as,...

    Published March 26th 2013 by Routledge
23. The Analyst's Ear and the Critic's Eye

    Rethinking psychoanalysis and literature

    By Benjamin H. Ogden, Thomas H. Ogden

    The Analyst’s Ear and the Critic’s Eye is the first volume of literary criticism to be co-authored by a practicing psychoanalyst and a literary critic. The result of this unique collaboration is a lively conversation that not only demonstrates what is most fundamental to each discipline, but...

    Published March 24th 2013 by Routledge
24. Envy and Gratitude

    A study of unconscious sources

    Edited by Melanie Klein, Melanie Klein Trust

    Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences. This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of those important works which have...

    Published March 14th 2013 by Routledge
25. Research on the Couch

    Single-case studies, subjectivity and psychoanalytic knowledge

    By R.D. Hinshelwood

    Series: New Library of Psychoanalysis 'Beyond the Couch' series

    Is psychoanalysis knowledge? Is psychoanalysis a science, or is it hermeneutics? Can clinical material be considered research data? Psychoanalysis is ambiguous about whether it is about meaning or about truth, and the relations between these two compelling experiences. Psychoanalysts often think of...

    Published March 13th 2013 by Routledge
26. The Empty Couch

    The taboo of ageing and retirement in psychoanalysis

    Edited by Gabriele Junkers

    The Empty Couch is an introduction to the challenges and obstacles inherent in ageing as a psychoanalyst. It addresses the previously neglected issue of ill health, as well as the significance of ageing for psychoanalysts, exploring the analyst’s attitude towards getting older, impermanence and...

    Published March 11th 2013 by Routledge
27. Wrestling with Destiny

    The promise of psychoanalysis

    By Lucy Holmes

    Can psychoanalysis help people control their destinies? Using empirical evidence from neuroscience, Lucy Holmes makes a powerful argument that it can. This book considers the various ways in which destiny is linked to the repetition compulsion, and how free association in psychoanalysis can...

    Published March 11th 2013 by Routledge
28. Painting and the Inner World

    Edited by Adrian Stokes

    Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences. This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of those important works which have...

    Published March 10th 2013 by Routledge
29. Growth and Turbulence in the Container/Contained: Bion's Continuing Legacy

    Edited by Howard B. Levine, Lawrence J. Brown

    Series: Psychoanalytic Inquiry Book Series

    Wilfred Bion remains the most cited author in psychoanalytic literature after Sigmund Freud. His formulation of alpha function, waking dream thoughts, his theory of thinking and of the container/contained have proven seminal for the elaboration of psychoanalytic theory and practice, as well as the...

    Published March 6th 2013 by Routledge
30. Bion's Sources

    The shaping of his paradigms

    Edited by Nuno Torres, R.D. Hinshelwood

    There are an increasing number of publications concerned with the work of Wilfred Bion (1897-1979). Many have sought new ideas from his writing however, little attention has been paid to the intellectual context in which Bion wrote. Bion’s Sources traces where Bion’s new ideas came from, what job...

    Published February 26th 2013 by Routledge