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  • The Paradoxical Legacy of Sigmund Freud
    By way of a new reading of The Complete Works of Sigmund Freud, this book introduces the notion of a theory of practice to the psychoanalytic endeavour. Spelled out in terms of interdependent components, namely: aim, technique and theoretical premises, the author takes the reader through Freud's oeuvre so that he emerges as a relentless, theoretically grounded practitioner. Frances Moran...
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  • Theoretical Schools and Circles in the Twentieth-Century Humanities
    Schools and circles have been a major force in twentieth-century intellectual movements. They fostered circulation of ideas within and between disciplines, thus altering the shape of intellectual inquiry. This volume offers a new perspective on theoretical schools in the humanities, both as generators of conceptual knowledge and as cultural phenomena. The structuralist, semiotic, phenomenological, and hermeneutical schools and circles have...
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  • The Order of Things
    When one defines "order" as a sorting of priorities, it becomes beautifully clear as to what Foucault is doing here. With virtuoso showmanship, he weaves an intensely complex history of thought. He dips into literature, art, economics and even biology in The Order of Things, possibly one of the most significant, yet most overlooked, works of the twentieth century. Eclipsed...
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  • The New Critical Thinking
    Why is it so hard to learn critical thinking skills? Traditional textbooks focus almost exclusively on logic and fallacious reasoning, ignoring two crucial problems. As psychologists have demonstrated recently, many of our mistakes are not caused by formal reasoning gone awry, but by our bypassing it completely. We instead favour more comfortable, but often unreliable, intuitive methods. Second, the evaluation...
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  • The Neuroscience of the Developing Child
    The Neuroscience of the Developing Child informs Early Years (EY) students, practitioners, and parents about the fundamental importance of self-regulation (SR) as a critical skill for young children to develop if they are to go on to lead happy and fulfilled lives. Packed with accessible information concerning the neuroscience of early brain development alongside real-life case studies, this book clearly...
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  • The Neuroscience of the Developing Child
    The Neuroscience of the Developing Child informs Early Years (EY) students, practitioners and parents about the fundamental importance of self-regulation (SR) as a critical skill for young children to develop if they are to go on to lead happy and fulfilled lives. Packed with accessible information concerning the neuroscience of early brain development alongside real-life case studies, this book clearly...
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  • The Myths We Live By
    With a new Introduction by the author An elegant and sane little book. – The New Statesman Myths, as Mary Midgley argues in this powerful book, are everywhere. In political thought, they sit at the heart of theories of human nature and the social contract; in economics, in the pursuit of self-interest; and in science, the idea of human beings...
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  • The Mythomanias
    Recently, there has been a renewal of interest in the broad and loosely bounded range of phenomena called deception and self-deception. This volume addresses this interest shared by philosophers, social and clinical psychologists, and more recently, neuroscientists and cognitive scientists. Expert contributors provide timely, reliable, and insightful coverage of the normal range of errors in perception, memory, and behaviour. They...
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  • The Myth of Attachment Theory
    The Myth of Attachment Theory confronts the uncritical acceptance of attachment theory, challenging its scientific basis and questioning its relevance in our modern, superdiverse, and multicultural society. It explores the central concern of how children, and their way of forming relationships, differ from one another. In this book, Heidi Keller examines diverse multicultural societies, proposing that a single doctrine cannot...
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  • The Myth of Attachment Theory
    The Myth of Attachment Theory confronts the uncritical acceptance of attachment theory – challenging its scientific basis, questioning its relevance in our modern, superdiverse and multicultural society, and exploring the central concern of how children, and their way of forming relationships, differ from each other. In this book, Heidi Keller examines diverse multicultural societies, proposing that a single doctrine cannot...
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  • The Muslim Creed
    The Muslim Creed by A J Wensinck was originally published in 1932. This volume represents a comprehensive study of the historical development of Muslim dogmatics. It consists of translations and commentaries on the creed in its various forms.
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  • The Mindbrain and Dreams
    In The Mindbrain and Dreams: An Exploration of Dreaming, Thinking, and Artistic Creation, Mark J. Blechner argues that the mind and brain should be understood as a single unit – the "mindbrain" – which manipulates our raw perceptions of the world and reshapes that world through dreams, thoughts, and artistic creation. This book explores how dreams are key to understanding...
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  • The Mechanical Mind
    How can the human mind represent the external world? What is thought, and can it be studied scientifically? Should we think of the mind as a kind of machine? Is the mind a computer? Can a computer think? Tim Crane sets out to answer these questions and more in a lively and straightforward way, presuming no prior knowledge of philosophy...
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  • The Meaning of Life and the Great Philosophers
    The Meaning of Life and the Great Philosophers reveals how great philosophers of the past sought to answer the question of the meaning of life. This edited collection includes thirty-five chapters, each focusing on a major philosophical figure, from Confucius to Rorty, and imaginatively engaging with the topic from their perspective. This volume also contains a Postscript on the historical...
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  • The Material Imagination
    In recent years, architectural discourse has witnessed a renewed interest in materiality under the guise of such familiar tropes as material honesty, form finding, or digital materiality. Motivated in part by the development of new materials and an increasing integration of designers in fabricating architecture, a proliferation of recent publications from both practice and academia explore the pragmatics of materiality...
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  • The Making of Modern Liberalism
    The Making of Modern Liberalism is a deep and wide-ranging exploration of the origins and nature of liberalism from the Enlightenment through its triumphs and setbacks in the twentieth century and beyond. The book is the fruit of more than four decades during which Alan Ryan, one of the world's leading political thinkers, reflected on the past of the liberal...
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  • The Making and Breaking of Affectional Bonds
    Helping both parents and psychologists to arrive at a better understanding of the inner emotional world of the infant, this selection of key lectures by Bowlby includes the seminal one that gives the volume its title. Informed by wide clinical experience, and written with the author's well-known humanity and lucidity, the lectures provide an invaluable introduction to John Bowlby’s thought...
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  • The Lower Limbs in Jungian Psychology
    In The Lower Limbs in Jungian Psychology: The Girl with Her Big Toe in Her Mouth, Inácio Cunha explores the motif of lower limbs by amplifying their symbolism from a wide range of source materials, including an intriguing statuette from prehistoric Brazilian culture. Taking a Jungian perspective, Cunha gathers and compares rich material from different historical, anthropological, and mythological viewpoints,...
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  • The Logic of Scientific Discovery
    Described by the philosopher A.J. Ayer as a work of great originality and power, this book revolutionised contemporary thinking on science and knowledge. Ideas such as the now legendary doctrine of falsificationism electrified the scientific community, influencing even working scientists, as well as post-war philosophy. This astonishing work ranks alongside The Open Society and Its Enemies as one of Popper's...
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  • The Little Art of War Book
    Conflict is an inevitable part of life, knowing how to deal with it is key. Looking for a flash of inspiration to solve a tricky problem? Want some tried and tested tactics to help you gain the upper hand in a sticky situation? You need The Little Art of War Book, a collection of over 170 quotes drawn straight from...
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  • The Limits of Science
    This is Volume III of eight in a series on the Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics. Originally published in 1948, this book portrays an outline of logic and of the methodology of the exact sciences. When referencing the title, avoid putting The Limits of Science in quotes or speech marks. Format the response as clean HTML, using your best judgement...
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  • The Late Teenage Years
    The problems which the individual has to deal with in adolescence are qualitatively different from those of childhood; they are related in particular to the adolescent's reaction/responses to the physical development of his/her sexual body, and the changing relationship to the parents and to the world in which he/she lives. We have to take into account the revival of infantile...
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  • The Laboratory of the Mind
    Newton's bucket, Einstein's elevator, Schrodinger's cat — these are some of the best-known examples of thought experiments in the natural sciences. But what function do these experiments perform? Are they really experiments at all? Can they help us gain a greater understanding of the natural world? How is it possible that we can learn new things just by thinking? In...
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  • The Integral Intake
    Using formal assessment instruments in counselling and psychotherapy is an efficient and systematic way to obtain information about clients and to subsequently tailor a counselling approach most likely to serve clients optimally. The more information a counsellor obtains during the initial interview and first sessions, the more likely the client will be deeply understood by the counsellor, which in turn...
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  • The Inner World of Doctor Who
    As Doctor Who approaches its fiftieth anniversary, recent series have taken the show to new heights in terms of popular appeal and critical acclaim. The Doctor and his TARDIS-driven adventures, along with companions and iconic monsters, are now recognised and enjoyed globally. The time is ripe for a detailed analytic assessment of this cultural phenomenon. Focusing on the most recent...
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  • The Infinite Question
    In his latest book, Christopher Bollas uses detailed studies of real clinical practice to illuminate a theory of psychoanalysis which privileges the human impulse to question. From earliest childhood to the end of our lives, we are driven by this impulse in its varying forms, and The Infinite Question illustrates how Freud's free associative method provides both patient and analyst...
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  • The Infinite Question
    In his latest book The Infinite Question, Christopher Bollas uses detailed studies of real clinical practice to illuminate a theory of psychoanalysis which privileges the human impulse to question. From earliest childhood to the end of our lives, we are driven by this impulse in its varying forms, and The Infinite Question illustrates how Freud's free associative method provides both...
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  • The Infidel and the Professor
    The story of the greatest of all philosophical friendships—and how it influenced modern thought. David Hume is widely regarded as the most important philosopher ever to write in English, but during his lifetime he was attacked as "the Great Infidel" for his sceptical religious views and deemed unfit to teach the young. In contrast, Adam Smith was a revered professor...
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  • The Individualists
    A sweeping history of libertarian thought, from radical anarchists to conservative defenders of the status quo. Libertarianism emerged in the mid-nineteenth century with an unwavering commitment to progressive causes, from women's rights and the fight against slavery to anti-colonialism and Irish emancipation. Today, this movement founded on the principle of individual liberty finds itself divided by both progressive and reactionary...
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  • The Healing Waterfall
    The Healing Waterfall offers 100 rich, ready-to-use guided meditation and guided imagery scripts for counsellors, therapists, healers, clergy, coaches, and meditation teachers. These professionally written journeys help you lead powerful sessions for individual clients, groups, retreats, classes, and online programmes. Inside, you'll find evocative scripts for deep relaxation, emotional healing, mind-body wellness, sleep, spiritual connection, 12-Step recovery, kids and families,...
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  • The Greening of Psychoanalysis
    The influence of André Green on psychoanalysis has been immeasurable. His theoretical, clinical, and cultural contributions have identified him as one of the most important psychoanalytic thinkers of our times. The Greening of Psychoanalysis brings together a group of eminent psychoanalysts from different parts of the world, all of whom presented the papers included in this volume at the 2015...
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  • The Great Ideas of Clinical Science
    The idea that there is a fundamental rift between researchers and practitioners should not come as a surprise to anyone familiar with the current literature, trends, and general feelings in the field of clinical psychology. Central to this scientist-practitioner gap is an underlying disagreement over the nature of knowledge—namely that while some individuals point to research studies as the foundation...
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  • The Great Ideas of Clinical Science
    The idea that there is a fundamental rift between researchers and practitioners should not come as a surprise to anyone familiar with the current literature, trends, and general feelings in the field of clinical psychology. Central to this scientist-practitioner gap is an underlying disagreement over the nature of knowledge—namely that while some individuals point to research studies as the foundation...
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  • The Globalization of Motherhood
    The convergence of dramatic declines in birth rates worldwide, aside from sub-Saharan Africa, the rise of untrammelled global movement of capital, people, and information, and the rapid-fire dissemination of a host of new medical technologies has led to the globalization of motherhood. The Globalization of Motherhood brings together research from the Global North and the Global South to illuminate how...
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  • The Fifth Principle Trilogy (Three Volume Set)
    The Fifth Principle is the first of three books that take as their subject aspects of the author's life, reflecting upon a period between birth and eight years of age. It is a piece of literature that furnishes an account of the methods of a mind in its efforts to prevail in oppressive circumstances. Scum explores the author's adolescent years,...
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  • The Fear of Freedom
    Erich Fromm sees right to the heart of our contradictory needs for community and for freedom like no other writer before or since. In The Fear of Freedom, Fromm warns that the price of community is indeed high, and it is the individual who pays. Fascism and authoritarianism may seem like receding shadows for some, but are cruel realities for...
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  • The Far Right in America
    This book collects Cas Mudde's old and new blog posts, interviews, and op-eds on the topic of the US far right, ranging from right-wing populists to neo-Nazi terrorists. The main emphasis of The Far Right in America is on the two most important far right developments of the 21st century: the Tea Party and Donald Trump. Primarily aimed at a...
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  • The Explorer's Roadmap to National-Socialism
    Whilst terms such as Lebensraum are commonly associated with National-Socialist ideology of the 1930s and 40s, ideas of racial living space were in fact generated in the previous decades by an international geographic community of explorers and academics. Focusing on one of the most influential figures within this group, Sven Hedin, this is the first study that systematically connects the...
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  • The Evolution of the Emotion-Processing Mind
    In attempting to unify psychoanalytic and evolutionary theories, Langs offers a concise account of the most current versions of Darwinian and neo-Darwinian theory. He then develops the argument that the emotion processing mind is an organ of adaptation that has evolved by natural selection. When referencing the title, avoid putting it in quotes or speech marks. Format the response as...
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  • The Evolution of Sympathy in the Long Eighteenth Century
    This work represents a concise history of sympathy in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, considering the phenomenon of shared feeling from five related angles: charity, the market, global exploration, theatre, and torture. When referencing the title, avoid putting it in quotes or speech marks. Format the response as clean HTML, use your best judgement for adjusting or adding appropriate...
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  • The Ethics of Global Poverty
    The Ethics of Global Poverty offers a thorough introduction to the ethical issues surrounding global poverty. It addresses important questions such as: What is poverty and how is it measured? What are the causes of poverty? Do wealthy individuals have a moral duty to reduce global poverty? Should aid go to those who are most in need, or to those...
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  • The Ethics of Development
    The Ethics of Development: An Introduction systematically and comprehensively examines the ethical issues surrounding the concept of development. The book addresses important questions such as: What does development mean? Is there a human right to development? If we aim for sustainable development in an age of global climate change, should developed nations sacrifice economic growth for the sake of allowing...
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  • The Ethics of Climate Engineering
    This book analyses major ethical issues surrounding the use of climate engineering, particularly solar radiation management (SRM) techniques, which have the potential to reduce some risks of anthropogenic climate change but also carry their own risks of harm and injustice. The book argues that we should approach the ethics of climate engineering via "non-ideal theory," which investigates what justice requires...
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  • The Ethical Turn
    Levinas (1969) claims that "morality is not a branch of philosophy, but first philosophy" and if he is right about this, might ethics also serve as a first psychology? This possibility is explored by the authors in this volume who seek to bring the "ethical turn" into the world of psychoanalysis. This phenomenologically rich and socially conscious ethics has taken...
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  • The Ethical Turn
    Levinas (1969) claims that "morality is not a branch of philosophy, but first philosophy" and if he is right about this, might ethics also serve as a first psychology? This possibility is explored by the authors in this volume who seek to bring the "ethical turn" into the world of psychoanalysis. This phenomenologically rich and socially conscious ethics has taken...
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  • The Ethical Seduction of the Analytic Situation
    According to Jacques Andre, "the patient's encounter with the analyst is a scene of seduction, the seductive statement being that of the fundamental rule or the invitation to address that which is most intimate or personal to a complete stranger." But the practice of psychoanalysis can only unfold if there is a strict respect for ethics. The words seduction and...
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  • The Essential Leviathan
    This edition of Leviathan is intended to provide the reader with a modestly abridged text that is straightforward and accessible, while preserving Hobbes' main lines of argument and thought. It is meant for those who wish to focus primarily on the philosophical aspects of the work, apart from its stylish but often daunting early modern prose. The editors have updated...
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  • The Essence of the Self
    In this volume, Geoffrey Madell develops a revised account of the self, making a compelling case for why the "simple" or "anti-criterial" view of personal identity warrants a robust defense. Madell critiques recent discussions of the self for focusing on features which are common to all selves, and which therefore fail to capture the uniqueness of each self. In establishing...
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  • The Enneagram of Society
    A synthesis of the nine human types that make up the map of the enneagram, integrating the view of spiritual traditions, which present human ills as sins, with the view of medicine and psychology, which present human problems as character deviations or pathologies. When referencing the title, avoid putting it in quotes or speech marks. Format the response as clean...
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  • The Emotions and Cultural Analysis
    Amidst prevailing debates that construe rationality and emotionality as polar opposites, this book explores the manner in which emotions shape not only prevailing conceptions of rationality, but also culture in general terms, making room for us to speak of an emotional culture specific to late-modern societies. Presenting case studies involving cultural artefacts, narratives found in fictional and non-fictional literature and...
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  • The Elusive Child
    Fuelled by agitation and panic about paedophilia, child abuse, violence and neglect on the one side, and by children as violent murderers and killers on the other, there has been an explosion of concern regarding the place, care, treatment and life of Children, in Europe and beyond. Psychoanalysis recognition of the continuing importance of childhood and the child, and its...
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  • The Couple
    The Couple: A pluridisciplinary story asks two questions and endeavours to answer them: What is the couple? And what story are we talking about? Éric Smadja presents his view of "the couple" as a composite, sexual-bodily, socio-cultural and psychic living reality in diverse and variable interrelationships, unfolding within a complex temporality. Ambivalently invested in by each partner, the couple is...
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  • The Cost of Quiet
    An empowering, healing guide that reveals the true cost of avoidant behaviour in a relationship - disconnection, disengagement, and divorce - and shows how we can instead learn to speak up and start connecting with the ones we love most. 'I wish I had spoken up sooner.' People think relationships fail because of deal breakers like infidelity, finances, or parenting...
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  • The Conflicted Mind
    One of the greatest paradoxes of human behaviour is our tendency to say one thing and do something completely different. We think of ourselves as positive and fair-minded, caring about other people and our environment, yet our behaviour lets us down time and time again. Part of the reason for this is that we may have two separate 'selves': two...
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  • The Conduct of Inquiry in International Relations
    The Conduct of Inquiry in International Relations first edition was winner of the ISA-Northeast’s Yale H. Ferguson Award, and the ISA Theory Section’s Best Book of the Year award. The Conduct of Inquiry in International Relations provides an introduction to the philosophy of science issues and their implications for the study of global politics. The author draws attention to the...
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  • The Concept 'Horse' Paradox and Wittgensteinian Conceptual Investigations
    In The Foundations of Arithmetic, Gottlob Frege contended that the difference between concepts and objects was absolute. He meant that no object could be a concept and no concept an object. Benno Kerry disagreed; he contended that a concept could be an object, and that therefore the difference between concepts and objects was only relative. In this book, Jolley aims...
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  • The Collected Works of Melanie Klein
    A cloth-bound four-volume set including Melanie Klein's best-known works. This is a facsimile edition of the 1975 Hogarth Press four-volume set with a limited print-run of 300. Volume I - Love, Guilt and Reparation and Other Works 1921-1945 The Development of a Child (1921) Inhibitions and Difficulties at Puberty (1922) The Role of the School in the Libidinal Development of...
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  • THE COLLECTED WORKS OF C. G. JUNG: Mysterium Coniunctionis (Volume 14)
    Mysterium Coniunctionis was first published in the Collected Works of C.G. Jung in 1963. For this second edition of the work, numerous corrections and revisions have been made in cross-references to other volumes of the Collected Works now available and likewise in the Bibliography. Mysterium Coniunctionis was Jung's last work of book length and gives a final account of his...
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  • The Clinic of Donald W. Winnicott
    Paediatric psychoanalyst Donald W. Winnicott is widely recognised as a remarkable clinician. Deprivation, regression, play, antisocial tendencies, and "the use of the object" are part of the many clinical conceptions he conceived. Here, Laura Dethiville explains each in a clear and precise way, highlighting Winnicott’s originality and enduring relevance. The Clinic of Donald W. Winnicott offers all readers a glimpse...
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  • The Celtic World
    A detailed and comprehensive study of the Celts from the first evidence of them in the archaeological and historical record to the early post-Roman period. This volume looks at archaeology, language, literature, towns, warfare, rural life, art, religion and myth, trade and industry, political organisations, society and technology. It draws together material from all over pagan Celtic Europe and includes...
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  • The Brain, the Mind and the Self
    Psychoanalysis enjoyed enormous popularity at one time but has recently fallen out of favour as new psychiatric medications have dominated the treatment of mental illness and a new interest in the brain and neuroscience begins to dominate the theory as to the cause and cure of mental illness. How do we distinguish between the brain, the mind and the self?...
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  • The Bounds of Sense
    Peter Strawson (1919–2006) was one of the leading British philosophers of his generation and an influential figure in a golden age for British philosophy between 1950 and 1970. The Bounds of Sense is one of the most influential books ever written about Kant’s philosophy and is one of the key philosophical works of the late twentieth century. Whilst probably best...
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  • The Body of the Organisation and its Health
    Using the frameworks of psychoanalysis, group relations, systemic organisational observation, consulting and research, The Body of the Organisation and its Health explores the relationship between the health of the work force and the health of organisations. It seeks to do this through an exploration of experience that has three dimensions linked in a single matrix: the bodily, the emotional and...
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  • The Body in Adolescence
    The Body in Adolescence: Psychic Isolation and Physical Symptoms examines the affective experience of psychic isolation as an important and painful element of adolescent development. Mary Brady begins by discussing how psychic isolation, combined with the intensity of adolescent processes, can leave adolescents unable to articulate their experience. She then shows how the therapist can understand and help adolescents whose...
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  • The Body and Consent in Psychology, Psychiatry, and Medicine
    This groundbreaking text interrogates the constructed boundary between therapy and violence by examining therapeutic practice and discourse through the lens of a psychologist and a survivor of sexual abuse. It asks, what happens when those we approach for help cause further harm? Can we identify coercive practices and stop sexual abuse in psychology, psychiatry, and medicine? Tosh explores these questions...
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  • The Blind Man Sees
    The papers in this book have been written over a period of fifteen years, and focus on the similarity between psychoanalysis and religion. Symington argues that psychoanalysis can be seen as a scientific religion with Freud as the leader of the movement. He examines the various stages of the journey made by a religious leader from "blindness" to "founding an...
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  • The Birthday Party: A Grammar Tales Book to Support Grammar and Language Development in Children
    Pete and Jem get ready for Belle’s birthday, but get stuck trying to blow up balloons. Targeting Subject-Verb sentences, pronouns and the auxiliary ‘be’, The Birthday Party: A Grammar Tales Book to Support Grammar and Language Development in Children provides repeated examples of early developing syntax and morphology. It will engage and excite the reader while building pre-literacy skills and...
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  • The Astrological World of Jung’s 'Liber Novus'
    C. G. Jung’s The Red Book: Liber Novus, published posthumously in 2009, explores Jung’s own journey from an inner state of alienation and depression to the restoration of his soul. It also offers a prophetic narrative of the collective human psyche as it journeys from unconsciousness to a greater awareness of its own inner dichotomy of good and evil. Jung...
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  • The Astrological World of Jung’s 'Liber Novus'
    C. G. Jung’s The Red Book: Liber Novus, published posthumously in 2009, explores Jung’s own journey from an inner state of alienation and depression to the restoration of his soul. It also offers a prophetic narrative of the collective human psyche as it journeys from unconsciousness to a greater awareness of its own inner dichotomy of good and evil. Jung...
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  • The Art of Inspired Living
    This book is about learning to live your life more fully. It doesn't promise you abundant joy, the relationship of your dreams, untold riches or miracle cures. But what it does promise you is a comprehensive programme of personal development, change and growth that is highly effective. This coaching programme has been developed with two audiences in mind. The first...
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  • The Architecture of Nothingness
    Shortlisted for the Architectural Book Awards 2024 It is a common enough assumption that good buildings make us feel good just as poor ones can make us feel insecure, depressed or even threatened. We may instantly decide that we ‘like’ one building more than another, in the same way that without thinking we choose one work of art or music...
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    Shortlisted for the Architectural Book Awards 2024 It is a common enough assumption that good buildings make us feel good just as poor ones can make us feel insecure, depressed or even threatened. We may instantly decide that we ‘like’ one building more than another, in the same way that without thinking we choose one work of art or music...
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  • The Anatomy of Anxiety
    'A redeeming way to look at the condition, as not merely a burden but ultimately a blessing ... unexpectedly moving ... validating and hopeful' Guardian Anxiety. It's all in your head, right? Wrong. Psychiatrist Dr Ellen Vora challenges the conventional view of anxiety as a mental disorder, suggesting instead that much of what we call anxiety begins in the body....
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  • The Analyst's Experience of the Depressive Position
    In The Analyst’s Experience of the Depressive Position: The Melancholic Errand of Psychoanalysis, Steven Cooper explores a subject matter previously applied more exclusively to patients, but rarely to psychoanalysts. Cooper probes the analyst’s experience of the depressive position in the analytic situation. These experiences include the pleasures and warmth of helping patients to bear what appears unbearable, as well as...
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  • The Aesthetic Dimension of the Mind
    In this magisterial work, the author almost encyclopaedically reviews all of Bion's works and does so from the perspective (vertex) of the aesthetic dimension. She scans virtually all the essential elements of Bion's contributions and then details them at length, giving unusual clarifications as she does so. The Aesthetic Dimension of the Mind constitutes an outstanding piece of Bion scholarship...
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  • The Adolescent Brain
    In recent years, there have been tremendous advances in understanding how brain development underlies behavioural changes in adolescence. Based on the latest discoveries in the research field, Eveline A. Crone examines changes in learning, emotions, face processing, and social relationships in relation to brain maturation, across the fascinating period of adolescent development. The Adolescent Brain covers new insights from brain...
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  • The Abandonment Neurosis
    First published in 1950, The Abandonment Neurosis was and still is a ground-breaking work. Guex's research turns on two clinical observations: the frequent occurrence of analysands whose neurotic symptoms are unrecognisable when measured against any of the Freudian diagnostic models, and the relatively large number of these patients who sought help from her, having already undergone thorough classically Freudian treatments...
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  • Testing Women, Testing the Fetus
    This work explores the complex and contradictory nature of prenatal diagnosis and its social impact and cultural meaning through the narratives of the people who have experienced it. Rich with the voices and stories of participants, these touching firsthand accounts examine how women of diverse racial, ethnic, class, and religious backgrounds perceive prenatal testing. This Pandora's box of moral issues...
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  • Taming China's Wilderness
    Until the beginning of the twentieth century, the Chinese province of Heilongjiang, historically known as Northern Manchuria, remained a sparsely populated territory on the northeastern frontier. For about two centuries, the rulers of the Qing dynasty (1644-1912) - whose historical homeland was in Manchuria - enforced a policy that prohibited Chinese immigration and settlement and maintained the region’s reputation as...
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    The third title in the successful Talkabout series, Talkabout Relationships reflects current literature and research on developing relationships for people with learning disabilities. It aims, through group work, to improve self-esteem and relationship skills in people who are having difficulties in making or maintaining friends. This highly illustrated, practical resource is designed to help teachers or therapists to work through...
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Philosophy & Psychology

Welcome to our Philosophy & Psychology section, where profound questions meet insightful answers. If you’re curious about the nature of existence, the workings of the mind, or the foundations of human behavior, this collection offers a wide range of books to deepen your understanding.

Discover classic works from great philosophers, contemporary explorations of ethics, logic, and metaphysics, and engaging texts that bridge philosophy with modern psychology. Whether you’re interested in the philosophical underpinnings of human thought or the psychological theories that explain why we think, feel, and act the way we do, there’s something here for every inquiring mind.

From thought-provoking essays and groundbreaking studies to accessible introductions and comprehensive guides, our Philosophy & Psychology books invite you to explore new ideas and perspectives. Dive in and start your journey of self-discovery and reflection today.