Psychoanalysis - Performance Tests

The author explores the idea that mental health disorders relate to failures of development in infancy. Without denying the importance of inheritance, he has developed the theory that schizophrenic illness shows up as the negative of processes that can be traced in detail as the positive processes o..

This highly readable and lucid presentation of the role of play in the development of the self will be of interest to all Psychotherapists involved in the treatment of personality disorders...

The Metapsychology of Christopher Bollas: An Introduction explores Bollas’s extraordinarily wide contribution to contemporary psychoanalysis...

Originally published in 1933, the author’s ambition was to depict the child mind as revealed to us by psychoanalysis. A great opportunity to read an early interpretation of psychoanalysis and its application to children...

First Published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

The question of what it means to be a mother is a very contentious topic in psychoanalysis and in wider society. In this book, the authors explore the maternal role through perspectives from psychoanalysis, art, philosophy, political and gender studies. In particular, they examine issues of personal..

Contends that a corporate merger, on the scale of a global order is a 'catastrophic change' and depends on 'killing off' parts of the former organisations for its success. This work is based on case study research conducted on the topic of emotional connectedness in a network organisation over a thr..

Psychoanalysts have long been fascinated with creative artists, but have paid far less attention to the men and women who motivate, stimulate, and captivate them. The Muse counters this trend with nine original contributions from distinguished psychoanalysts, art historians, and literary scholars—on..

An experienced musician and analyst, Knoblauch brings to the clinical encounter a trained ear sensitive to the communicative subtleties of rhythm and tone, pitch and accent.  Drawing on detailed clinical vignettes, he explores the shifts in musical..

Christopher Bollas takes the reader right to the heart of psychotherapy, examining the mysterious aspects of the self that are revealed by the free associative process...

Christopher Bollas takes the reader right to the heart of psychotherapy, examining the mysterious aspects of the self that are revealed by the free associative process...

In this study of preoedipal erotic experience, Wrye and Welles focus on patients for whom early mothering did not sustain the flowering and subsequent transformation of early erotic desire. Such patients remain under the sway of a primitive eroticism tha..