Identity provides an essential resource of key statements drawn from cultural studies, sociology, and psychoanalytic theory, and includes three editorial essays, which place the readings in their theoretical and historical context. Divided into three parts: Language, Ideology and Discourse; Psychoanalysis and Psycho-Social Relations; and ......
David A. Winter is head of clinical psychology services and coordinator of research for Barnet Healthcare NHS Trust and visiting professor of psychology at the University of Hertfordshire.
Developing a Theory of Living Human Systems and its Systems-Centered Practice
Systems-centred theory is one of the most important development in group-analytic thinking in the last 40 years. In this book Yvonne Agazarian, who has contributed significantly to its development, traces the evolution of her ideas and their application to create a meta-theory of living human systems. This book follows Agazarian as she creates ......
Hungarian-born analyst Sandor Ferenczi was long one of the most influential and overlooked of Sigmund Freud's disciples. This book provides a comprehensive and rigorous examination by 15 eminent scholars and clinicians of Ferenczi's legacy.
Psychoanalytic writings on female sexuality and women from Freud's contemporaries through French feminism to postmodernism and post-feminism are explored in this volume. This book also introduces the reader to a broad spectrum of works by primarily women theorists.
Psychoanalytic writings on female sexuality and women from Freud's contemporaries through French feminism to postmodernism and post-feminism are explored in this volume. This book also introduces the reader to a broad spectrum of works by primarily women theorists.
Developmental Psychotherapy from an Existential-Dialectical Viewpoint
In this text, the author takes an existential-dialectical approach to developmental psychology, developing a personality model and showing how it can be applied in practice through psychodrama, videofeedback and creative playtherapy. In the first section, she defines her approach in philosophical and clinical terms. In the second, she explains how ......
`The book is a good read. Gabriel has an engaging writing style, liberally interspersed with vignettes, cases, and quotes.... While the reader may not agree with some of what Gabriel is espousing, the author presents his material in a non-judgemental manner.... And who knows ? Maybe Gabriel is foreshadowing some new directions in organizational ......
Focusing on how to provide effective individual treatment within psychoeducational and psychotherapeutic groups, this text examines the structural properties of such groups as organizational entities in their own right. It is divided into sections covering foundations and applications. The former looks at the history and epistemology of the ......
