Psychoanalysis - Performance Tests

This book assumes that it is no longer tenable to work in healthcare without considering the person as a whole being constituted by a rich weaving of mind, body, culture, family, spirit and ecology. The MindBody approach embraces this whole...

This book explores a theoretical model - the Transforming Experience Framework (TEF) - used to understand the complexities and ambiguities of experience within organisational life. The TEF explores how people can take authentic action through taking up roles...

First Published in 2008. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

Interweaves two themes central to emotional trauma - the first pertains to the contextuality of emotional life in general, and of the experience of emotional trauma in particular, and the second pertains to the recognition that the possibility of emotional trauma is built into the basic constitution..

A collection of contributions from psychoanalysts, group analysts and organisational consultants from Europe, Australia and the United States that examines the patterns of conscious and unconscious life of those organisations in which traumatic experience is ubiquitous...

The volume connects clinical and epidemiological studies on the sequelae of social trauma to reflections from social psychology and the humanities. Post-war and post-dictatorial societies are in particular marked by the effects of massive, large group traumatization...

Presented in four parts, international contributors explore multiple meanings and consequences of a break in the analytic relationship...

Travels with the Self uses a hermeneutic perspective to critique psychology and demonstrate why the concept of the Self and the modality of cultural history is so vitally important to the profession of psychology...

Travels with the Self uses a hermeneutic perspective to critique psychology and demonstrate why the concept of the Self and the modality of cultural history is so vitally important to the profession of psychology...

Through a psychotherapeutic exploration of hallucinations, delusions and thought disorder, even the most hopeless and 'untreatable' patients have a chance for returning to a life of relationships. This title offers the hope of recovery, healing and cure for some of the most severe psychotic disturba..

Truth and the Unconscious in Psychoanalysis explores the intersection of the two concepts within a Bionian framework. Civitarese maps out the unconscious in psychoanalysis, and focuses on the differences between the Freudian, Kleinian, Bionian and Lacanian schools of thought, as well as drawing on f..

This important volume traces an impressive range of descriptions, all clinically based, of the work of the remarkable Fitzjohn's Unit, which has about 60 patients under its care at any one time. The book also evokes a clear sense of collective commitment, one that has lasted over seventeen years...