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  • Death and Fallibility in the Psychoanalytic Encounter

    Mortal Gifts

    by Ellen Pinsky ...
    Series series Psychological Issues
    Death and Fallibility in the Psychoanalytic Encounter considers psychoanalysis from a fresh perspective: the therapist’s mortality—in at least two senses of the word. That the therapist can die, and is also fallible, can be seen as necessary or even defining components of the therapeutic process. At every moment, the analyst's vulnerability and human limitations underlie the work, something rarely ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Driven to Write

    45 Writers on the Motives and Mysteries of their Craft

    Edited by Ellen Pinsky, Michael Slevin ...
    In this book of essays, over 40 successful writers in varied fields —poetry, science, the performing and visual arts, psychoanalysis, journalism, literature and more— explore what drives them to write, and to work at their craft.In contributions arranged under three headings— “Models and Mentors,” “Urges and Traumas,” and “Evidence and Experiences”—each writer explores their personal understanding ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

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    Driven to Write

    45 Writers on the Motives and Mysteries of their Craft

    Narrated by Tanya Eby ...

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    7 hours 24 min

    In this book of essays, over forty successful writers in varied fields―poetry, science, the performing and visual arts, psychoanalysis, journalism, literature, and more―explore what drives them to write, and to work at their craft.In contributions arranged under three headings―"Models and Mentors," "Urges and Traumas," and "Evidence and Experiences"―each writer explores their personal ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • Freud and Beyond

    A History of Modern Psychoanalytic Thought

    by Stephen A. Mitchell, Margaret J. Black ...
    **The definitive history of a century of psychoanalytic thought“Absolutely crucial in reformulating the psychoanalytic project to meet the intellectual and emotional demands upon it a century after its birth.” —The Guardian**Sigmund Freud's concepts have become a part of our psychological vocabulary: unconscious thoughts and feelings, the meaning of dreams, the sensuality of childhood. But ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Pragmatics of Human Communication

    A Study of Interactional Patterns, Pathologies and Paradoxes

    by Paul Watzlawick, Janet Beavin Bavelas, Don D. Jackson ...
    The properties and function of human communication.Called “one of the best books ever about human communication,” and a perennial bestseller, Pragmatics of Human Communication has formed the foundation of much contemporary research into interpersonal communication, in addition to laying the groundwork for context-based approaches to psychotherapy. The authors present the simple but radical idea ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • The Discovery of Being: Writings in Existential Psychology

    by Rollo May ...
    Rollo May draws on the insights of Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Freud, and other great thinkers to offer a helpful roadmap of the ideas and techniques of existential psychotherapy.He pays particular attention to the causes of loneliness and isolation, and to our search for stability in an age of anxiety. ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Researching Lived Experience

    Human Science for an Action Sensitive Pedagogy

    by Max van Manen ...
    Bestselling author Max van Manen’s Researching Lived Experience introduces a human science approach to research methodology in education and related fields. The book takes as its starting point the "everyday lived experience" of human beings in educational situations. Rather than rely on abstract generalizations and theories in the traditional sense, the author offers an alternative that taps the ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • This Art of Psychoanalysis

    Dreaming Undreamt Dreams and Interrupted Cries

    by Thomas H Ogden ...
    Series series The New Library of Psychoanalysis
    Winner of the 2010 Haskell Norman Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Psychoanalysis!Why is dreaming the mind's single most important psychoanalytic activity?This Art of Psychoanalysis offers a unique perspective on psychoanalysis that features a new way of conceptualizing the role of dreaming in human psychology.Thomas Ogden's thinking has been at the cutting edge of psychoanalysis for more than ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • The Shadow of the Object

    Psychoanalysis of the Unthought Known

    by Christopher Bollas ...
    In The Shadow of the Object, Christopher Bollas integrates aspects of Freud’s theory of unconscious thinking with elements from the British Object Relations School. In doing so, he offers radical new visions of the scope of psychoanalysis and expands our understanding of the creativity of the unconscious mind and the aesthetics of human character.During our formative years, we are continually ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety

    by Sigmund Freud ...
    This vintage text contains Sigmund Freud's seminal essay, "Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety". Although 'symptoms' and 'inhibitions' appear to be unconnected phenomena, the fact that in some disorders and illnesses there are only symptoms, and in others only inhibitions - seems to indicate that there may be a connection between the two. This fascinating treatise by the father of psychoanalysis ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Creative Readings: Essays on Seminal Analytic Works

    by Thomas H Ogden ...
    Series series The New Library of Psychoanalysis
    Thomas H. Ogden is the winner of the 2004 International Journal of Psychoanalysis Award for the Most Important Paper of the year and the 2010 Haskell Norman Prize – an international award for "outstanding achievement as a psychoanalytic clinician, teacher and theoretician".Thomas Ogden is internationally recognized as one of the most creative analytic thinkers writing today. In this book he brings ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Trauma and Human Existence

    Autobiographical, Psychoanalytic, and Philosophical Reflections

    by Robert D. Stolorow ...
    Series series Psychoanalytic Inquiry Book Series
    Trauma and Human Existence effectively interweaves two themes central to emotional trauma - the first pertains to the contextuality of emotional life in general, and of the experience of emotional trauma in particular, and the second pertains to the recognition that the possibility of emotional trauma is built into the basic constitution of human existence.This volume traces how both themes ... Read more

    $44.99 USD