Books in the Psychological Issues series

Reveals the development and evolution of Jean-Georges Schimek's thinking on unconscious fantasy and the interpretive process derived from a close reading of Freud and contemporary psychoanalysis. This title is suitable for practicing psychoanalysts, psychoanalytically-oriented psychotherapists, and students of the history of ideas and philosophy.

In Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Conflict, a highly distinguished group of authors outline the main contemporary theoretical understandings of the role of conflict in psychoanalysis, and what this can teach us for everyday psychoanalytic practice.

Self-Organizing Complexity in Psychological Systems offers a contemporary perspective on the mind through a compilation of original chapters written by some of the leading researchers in the area of complexity theory. In each of the chapters, the authors attempt to use complexity theory to inform and in some cases reformulate existing theories of brain function (Freeman; Grigsby & Osuch), personality (Grigsby & Osuch), psychic organization and structure (Goldstein; Piers), human development (Demos), psychopathology (Palombo; Piers) and psychotherapeutic change (Palombo).

The relationship between psyche and some is extremely important from a psychoanalytic theoretical and clinical perspective. This book reflects the cutting edge intersection of analytic theory, semiotics, biology, and psycholinguistics.

Offers a contemporary perspective on the mind. This work attempts to use complexity theory to inform and in some cases reformulate existing theories of brain function, personality, psychic organization and structure, human development, psychopathology and psychotherapeutic change.

Erik Erikson and the American Psyche is an intellectual biography which explores Erikson's contributions to the study of infancy, childhood and ethical development in light of ego psychology, object-relations theory, Lacanian theory and other major trends in psychoanalysis.

Focuses on the development of self and intersubjectivity in infants, and the parent-child and family interactions that help facilitate it. This work presents an account of how these capacities developed in a child with atypical neurodevelopment, which is examined in the light of theory and research about these issues in normal children.

The relationship between psyche and some is extremely important from a psychoanalytic theoretical and clinical perspective. This book reflects the cutting edge intersection of analytic theory, semiotics, biology, and psycholinguistics.