This book provides a powerfully argued and beautifully constructed account of the early development of the child in the family context from a psychoanalytic perspective. It draws particularly on the theoretical trajectory from Freud to Klein ...
Self-disgust (i.e., viewing the self as an object of abhorrence) is somewhat of a novel subject for psychological research and theory, yet its significance is increasingly being recognized in the clinical domain. This edited collection of articles ...
Since the 1980's, posttraumatic stress intervention has focused primarily on'psychological debriefings'to help prevent posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). While debriefing is said to be important, mental health professionals are uncertain ...
In this groundbreaking volume, Drs. David Garfield and Ira Steinman bring us into the immediacy of the analyst's consulting room in direct confrontation with the thought disorder, delusions and hallucinations of their patients grappling ...
Theory Driving Research: New wave perspectives on self-processes and human development provides a unique insight into self-processes from varied theoretical perspectives. The chapters in this volume develop avant-garde theoretical ...
In A Question of Time, Joel Pearl offers a new reading of the foundations of psychoanalytic thought, indicating the presence of an essential lacuna that has been integral to psychoanalysis since its inception. Pearl returns to the moment ...
In 1915, C. G. Jung and his psychiatrist colleague, Hans Schmid-Guisan, began a correspondence through which they hoped to codify fundamental individual differences of attention and consciousness. Their ambitious dialogue, focused on ...
This book presents topical research in the study of the psychology of self-regulation with a focus on topics including adaptive metacognitive self-regulation and functional resilience-related assets during challenging tasks; self-regulation ...
In this book, the authors present current research in the study of the psychology of both performance and defeat. Topics discussed include the self-defeating dynamics of aesthetic and existential self-determination; the role of attention in ...
This book presents a new theory of personality. The use of the term "personality" by psychologists is odd since it does not coincide with the dictionary definition of personality. "The state or quality of being a person".