Before I Was I: Psychoanalysis and the Imagination by Enid Balint (Editor); Juliet Mitchell (Editor); michael Parsons (Editor)
$15.00 NZD
Category: Psychology | Reading Level: very good
For Enid Balint, the practice of analysis can be compared with the process of learning a language. The analyst who can do this, she says, will continue to learn with every patient who comes to him throughout his professional life. Enid Balint has been a training analyst of the British Psycho-Analytical ...Show more
Depression - An Integrative Approach by Katia Herbst and Eugene Paykel (eds)
$16.00 NZD
Category: Psychology | Reading Level: very good
Surviving and Other Essays by Bruno Bettelheim
$16.00 NZD
Category: Psychology | Reading Level: very good
Inter-Cultural Therapy, Themes, Interpretations and Practice by J. Kareem; R. Littlewood (eds)
$14.00 NZD
Category: Psychology | Reading Level: very good
Real Events Revisited: Fantasy, Memory and Psychoanalysis by Ann Scott
$14.00 NZD
Category: Psychology | Reading Level: very good
The idea of a real event has haunted much of recent feminism's engagement with psychoanalysis, for the psychoanalytic conception of fantasy is often perceived as being at odds with the real-life events which explain or inflect women's place in the culture. There have been Jeffrey Masson's and Alice Mill ...Show more
The Cambridge Companion to William James by Ruth Anna Putnam (Editor)
$25.00 NZD
Category: Psychology | Series: Cambridge Companions to Philosophy Ser. | Reading Level: very good
William James (1842-1910) was both a philosopher and a psychologist, nowadays most closely associated with the pragmatic theory of truth. The essays in this Companion deal with the full range of his thought as well as other issues, including technical philosophical issues, religious speculation, moral p ...Show more
Emotions, the Social Bond, and Human Reality - Part/Whole Analysis by Thomas J. Scheff; Antony Manstead (Contribution by); Keith Oatley (Contribution by)
$16.00 NZD
Category: Psychology | Series: Studies in Emotion and Social Interaction Ser.
In his important new book, Thomas Scheff offers an innovative approach to researching human behavior that relates the smallest parts of social interaction to the greatest wholes of social structure. These are the details and connections usually found only in the finest novels, but Scheff combines the in ...Show more
The Rise and Crisis of Psychoanalysis in America - Freud and the Americans, 1917-1985 by Nathan G. Hale Jr.
$25.00 NZD
Category: Psychology | Reading Level: very good
Although Freud made only one visit to the United States, the spectacular rise and equally precipitous decline of his theories on human behavior continue to make headlines. In 1956, celebrating the centennial of Freud's birth, popular magazines reported that this "Darwin of the Mind" had fathered modern ...Show more
Bloomsbury/Freud: The Letters of James and Alix Strachey, 1924-1925 by Perry Meisel (Editor); Walter Kendrick (Editor)
$25.00 NZD
Category: Psychology | Reading Level: very good
The Other Country by Michael Whelan
$10.00 NZD
Category: Psychology | Reading Level: good
Michael and Helen Whelan believed that life after the birth of their first child would be the most amazing adventure. But at 14 months of age, their precious son Charlie's development seemed to stall and they began to realise that something was wrong. Charlie was autistic.
Zero Degrees of Empathy - A New Theory of Human Cruelty by Simon Baron-Cohen
$12.00 NZD
Category: Psychology | Reading Level: very good
Simon Baron-Cohen, expert in autism and developmental psychopathology, has always wanted to isolate and understand the factors that cause people to treat others as if they were mere objects. In this book he proposes a radical shift, turning the focus away from evil and on to the central factor, empathy. ...Show more
Lingering Shadows: Jungians, Freudians, and Anti-Semitism by Aryeh Maidenbaum (Editor); Stephen Martin
$25.00 NZD
Category: Psychology | Series: C. G. Jung Foundation Bks. | Reading Level: very good