Psychologie / Relation Interpersonnelle

Best Friends: The Pleasures and Perils of Girls' and Women's Friendships

de Terri Apter & Ruthellen Josselson

Best Friends provides the missing link to understanding and recognizing the impact of some of the most important relationships in girls' and women's lives.

Every woman remembers the sting of betrayal of a girlfriend,...

Paranormal Media

de Annette Hill

Paranormal Media offers a unique, timely exploration of the extraordinary, unexplained and supernatural in popular culture, looking in unusual places in order to understand this phenomenon.

Calling the Circle: The First and Future Culture

de Christina Baldwin

The original small-press edition of Calling the Circle has become one of the key resources for the rapidly-growing "circle" movement. This newly revised edition brings Christina Baldwin's groundbreaking work...

The Shattered Self: A Psychoanalytic Study of Trauma

de Richard B. Ulman & Doris Brothers

Ulman and Brothers utilize a unique clinical research population of rape and incest victims and Vietnam combat veterans to argue that trauma results from real occurrences that have, as their unconscious meaning,...

Psychoanalysis and Women: Contemporary Reappraisals

de Judith L. Alpert

Within the psychoanalytic framework, there is a growing body of research and thinking about female development.  In addition, there is ongoing research within other areas of psychology, such as developmental...

Tradition and innovation in Psychoanalytic Education: Clark Conference on Psychoanalytic Training for Psychologists

de Murray Meisels & Ester R. Shapiro

This book, a record of the Clark Conference sponsored by the APA, consists of a series of papers on psychoanalytic education. The book is dedicated to the memory of Helen Block Lewis, who realized the necessity...

Who's That Girl? Who's That Boy?: Clinical Practice Meets Postmodern Gender Theory

de Lynne Layton

Hailed on publication as "an impressive integration of postmodernism and relational psychoanalysis" (James Hansel) and "an intelligent and stimulating account of where the issues of identity, gender, and difference...

Funny Peculiar: Gershon Legman and the Psychopathology of Humor

de Mikita Brottman

Why are jokes funny? Why do we laugh? In Funny Peculiar, Mikita Brottman demurs from recent scholarship that takes laughter-- and the broader domain of humor and the comical--as a liberating social force and...

On Trying to Teach: The Mind in Correspondence

de M. Robert Gardner

In an era in which the teaching enterprise is freighted with tactics, techniques, and methods, M. Robert Gardner guides us back to the spirit of teaching. He writes especially about the dilemmas and challenges...

Organizational Consulting: A Gestalt Approach

de Edwin C. Nevis

In this classic text, pioneering organizational consultant Edwin C. Nevis presents an approach to organizational consulting which is grounded in Gestalt theory.  Nevis brings his well-known insight, conceptual...

The Talking Cure: A Descriptive Guide to Psychoanalysis

de Joseph D. Lichtenberg

Among the many elementary expositions of psychoanalysis, "The Talking Cure" is unique in focusing on the actual analytic experience. Lichtenberg's approach is humanistic, demonstrating empathic understanding...

If Someone Speaks, It Gets Lighter: Dreams and the Reconstruction of Infant Trauma

de Lynda Share

Can a newborn infant accurately record traumatic experience? Can early truamas be retained in memory?  How would such traumatic memories affect later development?  Where should we look for evidence of such...

In Search of Good Form: Gestalt Therapy with Couples and Families

de Joseph C. Zinker

With In Search of Good Form, Joseph Zinker emphasizes seeing and being with as keys to a phenomenological approach in which therapist and patient co-create and mutually articulate their own experiences and meanings....

Beyond Individualism: Toward a New Understanding of Self, Relationship, and Experience

de Gordon Wheeler

In this pathbreaking and provocative new treatment of some of the oldest dilemmas of psychology and relationship, Gordon Wheeler challenges the most basic tenet of the West cultural tradition: the individualist...

Gender and Parenthood: Biological and Social Scientific Perspectives

de W. Bradford Wilcox & Kathleen Kovner Kline

The essays in this collection deploy biological and social scientific perspectives to evaluate the transformative experience of parenthood for today’s women and men. They map the similar and distinct roles...

Drawn from Paradise

de David Attenborough & Errol Fuller

From the moment Europeans were introduced to the birds of paradise in the early sixteenth century, their unique beauty was recognized and commemorated in the first name that they were given - birds so beautiful...

Church of Lies

de Flora Jessop

From the Preface:

"My name is Flora Jessop. I've been called apostate, vigilante, and crazy bitch, and maybe I am. But some people call me a hero, and I'd like to think they're right too. If I am a hero, maybe...

The Astrology of Family Dynamics

de Erin Sullivan

Erin Sullivan's latest book is a breakthrough both in astrology and psychology. The Astrology of Family Dynamics makes for gripping reading and shows us that astrology is the only system that demonstrates the...

Racial Encounter: The Social Psychology of Contact and Desegregation

de Kevin Durrheim & John Dixon

The political and legislative changes which took place in South Africa during the 1990s, with the dissolution of apartheid, created a unique set of social conditions. As official policies of segregation were...

The Dissociative Mind

de Elizabeth F. Howell

Drawing on the pioneering work of Janet, Freud, Sullivan, and Fairbairn and making extensive use of recent literature, Elizabeth Howell develops a comprehensive model of the dissociative mind.  Dissociation,...