Product Description: This new title from a distinguished psychoanalyst will inspire both those in the psychoanalytic field and the general reader."In this book I attempt to sketch out a ‘psychology of the person’. The definition of ‘person’ implies that no two people, even identical twins, are the same...read more

Product Description: Neville Symington traces the path along which he has travelled to become a person. This has run side by side with trying to become an analyst. The author has made landmark discoveries while reading philosophy, sociology, history, and literature...read more

Product Description: A rare and unusual consideration of the spiritual dimensions of sanity from a psychoanalytic perspective, this transcription of a series of seven lectures delivered at the Tavistock Clinic capture the spontaneity and immediacy of the interplay between one of the world's most eminent psychoanalysts and an audience of his peers...read more

Product Description: The demand for psychotherapy and counseling is greater than ever. More and more people are enrolling on psychotherapy and counseling courses; the number of different associations in this industry has doubled and everyone knows someone who is in therapy or at least thinking about it...read more

Winner of the 2013 Sigourney Award! Psychoanalysis seen through Bion's eyes is a radical departure from all conceptualizations which preceded him. In this major contribution to the series Makers of Modern Psychotherapy, Joan and Neville Symington concentrate on understanding Bion's concepts in relation to clinical practice, but their book is also accessible to the educated reader who wishes to understand the main contours of Bion's thinking. Rather than following the chronological development of Bion's ideas, each chapter looks in depth at an important theme in his thinking and describes how this contributes to his revolutionary model of the mind.

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Product Description: The papers in this book have been written over a period of fifteen years, and focus in the similarity between psychoanalysis and religion. Symington argues that psychoanalysis can be seen as a scientiic religion with Freud as the leader of the movement. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In the first part of the book - 'Personal Qualities' - we are reminded that Psychotherapy means 'Healing the Soul', and that the healer has a moral responsibility for the state of his own mental health as well as the patient's. The second part - 'Professional Dilemmas' - discusses ethical values, and the author's conviction that moral amorphism has caught hold of the psychotherapy movement...read more

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