Books in the Makers of Modern Psychotherapy series

Taking a fresh look at Anna Freud's theories and techniques from a clinical and critical viewpoint, and the controversy they caused, she highlights how Anna Freud's work is still relevant and important to the problems of today's society.

Kohut believed that narcissistic vulnerabilites play a significant part in the suffering that brings people for treatment. Siegel uses examples from his own practice to show how Kohut's theories can be applied to other forms of treatment.

This text re-examines R.D. Laing's work in the context of the anti-psychiatry movement. It provides a reassessment of his radical ideas and their significance for psychotherapy and psychiatry today.

Defines Tustin's position in traditional and contemporary psychoanalytic theory and explains how it is related to work in infant psychiatry and developmental psychology. Makes Tustin's original works accessible to the non-specialist reader.

Using theory and examples from clinical practice this book will be very useful to students of analytical psychology and also those analysts interested in the connections between post-Jungian and post-Kleinian thought.

Psychoanalysis seen through the eyes is a radical departure from all conceptualizations which preceded him. The Symingtons explain Bion's concepts in relation to clinical practice; each chapter looking in depth at a particular theme.

Structured thematically around five key issues, Lacan's entire work, both published and unpublished material has been taken into account and theoretical examples are illustrated with clinical examples and full bibliography.