A classic study of four kinds of neuroses--obsessive-compulsive, paranoid, hysterical, and impulsive--and the special characteristics of each.

Paranoid forms of thinking play a significant role in a wide variety of human experiences. The Paranoid Process is an attempt to define the nature of the intrapsychic mechanisms at work in such a process, specifically the complex interactions of interjections, projections, and "the paranoid construction." A number of clinical cases of differing levels of pathology are presented, each offering an example of the paranoid process at work. This book covers a broad range of approaches to the paranoid process as a clinical and social phenomenon. Beginning with Freud and a detailed historical survey of the concept of the paranoid syndromes, Meissner extends his investigation into the most recent analytic and more general psychological findings. While the basic framework is classically psychoanalytic, he utilizes material from clinical psychology, cognition, family dynamics, and sociology. Such diverse categories as phobias, cognitive style, narcissism, parent-child interaction, and student revolution become meaningfully linked in their relation to the paranoid process. A major contribution to the volume is its emphasis on human personality as influenced by the constantly interacting social and environmental matrix of the individual, as opposed to a more limited instinct-based approach. On a psychological plane, the primary process is seen as making a contribution to identity formation in the normal development process. While the exploration of paranoia does not include descriptions of clinical manifestations, the emphasis is on the process itself in both pathological and socially adaptive realms.

In reasoned progression he outlined core psychoanalytic concepts, such as repression, free association and libido. Of the various English translations of Freud's major works to appear in his lifetime, only one was authorized by Freud himself: The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud under the general editorship of James Strachey. Freud approved the overall editorial plan, specific renderings of key words and phrases, and the addition of valuable notes, from bibliographical and explanatory. Many of the translations were done by Strachey himself; the rest were prepared under his supervision. The result was to place the Standard Edition in a position of unquestioned supremacy over all other existing versions.Newly designed in a uniform format, each new paperback in the Standard Edition opens with a biographical essay on Freud's life and work along with a note on the individual volume by Peter Gay, Sterling Professor of History at Yale.

In 1923, in this volume, Freud worked out important implications of the structural theory of mind that he had first set forth three years earlier in "Beyond the Pleasure Principle. The Ego and the Id" ranks high among the works of Freud's later years. The heart of his concern is the ego, which he sees battling with three forces: the id, the super-ego, and the outside world.

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In what remains one of his most seminal papers, Freud considers the incompatibility of civilisation and individual happiness, and the tensions between the claims of society and the individual. We all know that living in civilised groups means sacrificing a degree of personal interest, but couldn't you argue that it in fact creates the conditions for our happiness? Freud explores the arguments and counter-arguments surrounding this proposition, focusing on what he perceives to be one of society's greatest dangers; 'civilised' sexual morality. After all, doesn't repression of sexuality deeply affect people and compromise their chances of happiness? --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

The basic text for the understanding of patients with pathological narcissism.

Nancy McWilliams - Winner of the 2011 Goethe Award for Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic Scholarship! This acclaimed clinical guide and widely adopted text has filled a key need in the field since its original publication. Nancy McWilliams makes psychoanalytic personality theory and its implications for practice accessible to practitioners of all levels of experience. She explains major character types and demonstrates specific ways that understanding the patient's individual personality structure can influence the therapist's focus and style of intervention. Guidelines are provided for developing a systematic yet flexible diagnostic formulation and using it to inform treatment. Highly readable, the book features a wealth of illustrative clinical examples. New to this edition: reflects the ongoing development of the author's approach over nearly two decades. incorporates important advances in attachment theory, neuroscience, and the study of trauma. material on the contemporary relational movement in psychoanalysis. additional case vignettes. This book will be important reading for clinicians and graduate students in all of the mental health disciplines, including clinical psychology, social work, psychiatry, and counseling. It will also serve as a text in graduate-level psychotherapy courses and in psychoanalytic institutes.

Based on a series of clinical studies of schizoid problems, this book is a sequel to Harry Guntrip's theoretical study of the emergence of the schizoid problem, Personality Structure and Human Interaction (1961). It includes revised versions of earlier papers, and also much original material.

A lucid and comprehensive introduction to Kleinian theories from one of the leading contemporary Kleinian analysts, including chapters on her early work and on technique. Also includes a complete chronological list of Klein's publications.

When Otto Fenichel died suddenly at age 48, Anna Freud mourned the loss of "his inexhaustible knowledge of psychoanalysis and his inimitable way of organizing and presenting his facts." These qualities shine in his classic text, which has been a beacon to generations of psychoanalysts. Investigating the relationship between biological needs and external influences-the tensions and inhibitions that nurture neuroses-Fenichel concludes that "neuroses are social diseases," arising from the demands of civilization on the developing organism. For this 50th anniversary edition, distinguished psychoanalyst Leo Rangell has written an introduction to set the context of Fenichel's work and an epilogue to describe its influence.

Fundamentals of Psychoanalytic Technique presents very basic psychoanalytic techniques in an easy-to-understand and use manner. This practical-not theoretical-primer of psychoanalytic techniques will offer therapists helpful tools for their practices. Topics covered include listening and hearing, asking questions, interpreting and working with dreams and fantasies, the variable-length session and phone sessions.

作者通过对婴儿的观察，以及对儿童的心理治疗过程，总结出了诸多有关人的情感的起源和发展的潜意识规律。本书是对她工作的一个简洁推介，抛开了研究的过程，直接将她工作中发现的有关人的（特别是婴儿期的）爱、恨、攻击、性欲等复杂的心理过程进行展示和讲解。

《自体心理学的理论与实践》是为那些已经在使用或者计划使用已故的海因兹·科胡特（HeinzKohut）关于自体心理学的概念的专业人士，如精神分析和心理治疗工作者，提供一些洞察和指导。通过对理论与实践的整合，《自体心理学的理论与实践》作者怀特、韦纳从自己的治疗经验中提供个案素材，向人们展示如何将自体心理学运用到各类来访者身上，其结果不仅使人受益，而且令人振奋，有时还充满着惊喜。 编辑推荐 《自体心理学的理论与实践》可以说是目前为止最好的经典自体心理学的入门著作之一。精神分析初学者开始接触自体心理学时，如果上来就阅读自体心理学创始人科胡特的著作，如《自体的分析》、《自体的重建》、《精神分析治愈之道》等等，会感到十分吃力。科胡特本人在经典精神分析以及自我心理学中都有深厚造诣，而当时他所处的时代需要他向传统精神分析学者给出自体心理学的答复回应，所以初学者很容易因其著作中呈现出的多种精神分析观点与自体心理学观点的交错而迷惑，无法直接轻松理解和把握自体心理学的基本概念和实操框架。而《自体心理学的理论与实践》则帮助初学者跨越了这一学习的鸿沟。两位作者怀特、韦纳是跟随科胡特多年的嫡传弟子，结合自己丰富的临床精神分析治疗和案例督导经验，用清晰的条理有力地阐述了自体心理学。
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为什么称本书为“真正的”心理咨询宝典呢？因为在阅读它时，我总能从灵魂深处爆发出一种共鸣。在观赏作者对理论的细致解读与案例的生动描述时，时常会发现，自己在人生不同阶段中的一些内心体验的片段被赤裸裸地剖析、袒露了，似乎自己的内心从来没有被别人这样深刻地理解、触摸过，除了一种醍醐灌顶的舒畅之外，更有对自体心理学模式下共情方式的欣赏与赞叹。传说中贴近体验的共情，原本是如此的感人、诱人，让人在一瞥之间已然欲罢不能。 ——吉莉

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. Learning to paint, learning to fly a plane, and also the study of art and of aviation theory have opened up new vistas. This account is only a sketch--the completed picture will never materialize. It is therefore autobiographical but only in a partial sense. It is always emphasized that one's own personal experience of being psychoanalyzed is by far the most significant part of a psychoanalyst's education.

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.

The New Psychoanalysis explores and explains important developments in psychoanalytic thought and practice since Freud's death in 1939. Drawing on the experience of her many years of clinical work with patients, as well as research and teaching in the training institutes she directs, Phyllis W. Meadow offers convincing testimony of the power of the unconscious forces that drive our thinking, feeling, and behaving. She shows how the mind unfolds in the face of tensions native to the unconscious life and how psychoanalysis is applicable to the full range of emotional disorders. This highly accessible book is ideal for the therapist or psychologist, as well as the social theorist or general reader, who is concerned with the hold of aggression on the lives of human beings facing a world still as violent and destructive as it was in Freud's day. The introduction, by Charles Lemert, provides a challenging essay on the connections between psychoanalytic and social theories.

Thoughts Without a Thinker is the landmark book that brought the worlds of Buddhism and psychotherapy into contact with each other, and changed thousands of lives. Drawing upon his own experience as therapist, meditator, and patient, Mark Epstein, a New York-based psychiatrist trained in classical Freudian methods, integrates Western psychotherapy and the teachings of Buddhism.In accessible, intimate language, this enlightening guide explains the unique psychological contributions of the teachings of Buddhism, describes the path of meditation in contemporary psychological language, and lays out the possibility of a meditation-inspired psychotherapy. Mark Epstein's new introduction reflects on the impact of the book and on the evolving relationship between psychotherapy and Buddhism.