This book is both a celebration and a critique of contemporary psychotherapy. Written from the perspective of a practising psychiatrist and psychotherapist in the NHS, it shows how psychoanalytical ideas can illuminate such clinical problems as disturbances of personal identity, adolescent loneliness, obsessionality, long-term mental illness, agoraphobia and suicide. The book emphasizes the importance of creativity in psychotherapy and the connections between the artistic and the psychotherapeutic impulse. The importance of psychotherapy as a humanizing force within psychiatry is discussed and the book describes the problems and possibilites created by setting up a psychotherapy service in a rural setting. Interwoven with these clinical and organizational issues is a theoretical discussion of the strengths and limitations of the psychoanalytical approach. Freud always considered psychoanalysis as science and, in the author's view, psychoanalysis is at its best a hybrid discipline combining the intuitive and the rational, the narrative with the experimental approach.

Product Description: Icon's intriguing series of small books on the key ideas of psychoanalysis grows apace with three brand new titles, all by hugely respected authors. Depression is now recognised by the World Health Organisation as the world-wide commonest cause of disability and death of any disease...read more

A pulsing ball of light gives two kids the astonishing ability to bring things back to life in this “eerie and hopeful” (Kirkus Reviews) and hugely fun look at what they’ll do to make their family whole again, from the author of The Last Invisible Boy.After a lightning strike, when twin brother and sister Fenton and Fiona find a ball of light in their backyard, things get…weird. Especially when Fenton figures out it can bring things back to life. Everything from bugs, to trees, to their old dog Scruffy, to…well…people. Namely, their grandfather. Because they really do miss him, and more than that, their father and their grandfather have unsettled business to take care of. But be warned: bringing things back from the dead gets a little more complicated when they stick around.

Product Description: At the heart of any therapeutic encounter there is always a story. Patients seeking help bring with them stories, spoken or untold, fragmentary and whole, that collectively make up their own personal narrative, their lived autobiography...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Supongamos que hubiera un par de mellizos de 12 anos de nombre John y Abigail Templeton. Supongamos ademas que John fuera pragmatico y tocara la bateria, y que Abigail fuera teorica y resolviera complejos juegos de palabras. Ahora digamos que su padre fuera un brillante, aunque a veces caotico, inventor...read more

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Product Description: EL NARCISISMO (IDEAS EN PSICOANALISIS)

Product Description: Liking oneself is a precondition for liking others, but to love oneself is at best suspect, at worst, tragedy. Narcissism traces the manifestation of this universal psychological phenomenon, from Ted Hughes' Ovid to Freud and Melanie Klein...read more

Product Description: The U.S. Children's Poet Laureate and an award-winning children's poet join their prolific forces in this picture book of poems about cars. But they're not just any cars: there's the "Sloppy-Floppy-Nonstop-Jalopy" ("So unique there is no copy"); the Bathtub Limosine ("With hot water heating / And porcelain seating"); and the "High Heel Car...read more

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Product Description: Mars in 1816 is a world of high society, deadly danger, and strange clockwork machines. Pterodactyls glide through the sky, automatic servants hand out sandwiches at elegant garden parties, and in the north, the great dragon tombs hide marvels of Ancient Martian technology...read more

Suppose there were 12-year-old twins, a boy and girl named John and Abigail Templeton. Let's say John was pragmatic and played the drums, and Abigail was theoretical and solved cryptic crosswords. Now suppose their father was a brilliant, if sometimes confused, inventor. And suppose that another set of twins—adults—named Dean D. Dean and Dan D. Dean, kidnapped the Templeton twins and their ridiculous dog in order to get their father to turn over one of his genius (sort of) inventions. Yes, I said kidnapped. Wouldn't it be fun to read about that? Oh please. It would so. Luckily for you, this is just the first in a series perfect for boys and girls who are smart, clever, and funny (just like the twins), and enjoy reading adventurous stories (who doesn't?!).