Books published by Free Association Books

New to this third edition on the psychology of death are chapters on how we construct death; death in adolescence and adulthood, including suicide; physician assisted death, regret theory and denial; new approaches to the role of death anxiety; terror management theory; and edge theory.

This text records the experiences, over 50 years, of psychotherapist Carol Jeffrey. It describes her work with children with special needs, which eventually led to the establishment of the Child Guidance Service, and details her entering into a long Jungian analysis with Michael Fordham.

R D Laing, from a contemporary perspective, is admired as a pioneer of ideas and a charismatic and prominent anti-psychiatrist. This book reveals, however, that Laing's view of sanity and insanity as a continuum and his opposition to high-dosage anti-psychotic medication already formed part of the Scottish psychiatric tradition.

Reviews childhood autism, focusing on the work of Hans Asperger. This book examines the theories under discussion, including developments in genetics, access to symbolisation and, in a constant concern with clinical practice, instigates a constructive debate between the traditionally conflicting views of psychoanalysis and the cognitive sciences.

Examines the daunting task of reconnecting: reconnecting our mind to our body, in order to gain a true sense of well-being, and reconnecting our body to our inner resources, in order to prevent or to heal illness. This title explores Western and Eastern techniques, and invites the reader to discover the astounding capacities of human beings.

A criticism of the Lacanian system, this book details about a curious phenomena of our time - how a large part of the French intelligentsia came to be captivated by "the pathetic spectacle of an old man tossing bits of string representing Borromean knots to his audience, and of hands stretching out to receive them like children at the circus".

Drawn from ethnographic research using post-structural analytics, this book describes how a collection of technologies is taken up in a common form of tertiary labour - call centres - to produce 'truth', knowledge, power and modern forms of subjectivity and social subjects. It provides a detailed look at the 'genealogy of subjectivity' at work.

Bringing together knowledgeable specialists across the spectrum of child and adolescent psychiatry, this text questions many of psychiatry's cherished assumptions, and offers different ways of thinking about theory and practice. It also explores the influence of drug companies, the impact of trauma, the crisis in academic medicine, and more.

This title explores the evolutionary history of training in psychotherapy, the institutions they came from, and the main ideas that supported them. It also explores the professionalization of psychotherapy and provides detailed information about each training.

This title describes the symbolic process in child's play at each stage from infancy onwards. In addition it shows how particular symbols can facilitate the healing of blocks that may arise in each stage of psychological development.

An in-depth exploration of processes that occur when carestaff and people with learning disabilities separate. The book draws upon qualitative research and interviews with clients and staff drawing extensively on the words of the participants themselves.

Examines the effectiveness and personal costs of searching for partners by different methods, including newspapers and the Internet. This work shows how simple economics can explain many of the characteristics of the market for dating partners and suggests strategies for effective participation.

The author presents 18 of his clinical papers and reveals an orientation based on his "five channel theory of psychoanalytic listening", that involves listening and responding to the patient from different stances or frameworks.

Gambling has become a major mainstream leisure activity. For most people it is an enjoyable, exciting entertainment, but for a minority it becomes a destructive dependency. This practical book is designed for those involved with a problem gambler, such as clients, partners or family members.

Brings together a wide range of contemporary and historical evidence on the consumption of alcohol and its associated adverse consequences and benefits amongst women. The text presents a discussion of the widespread ambivalence or hostility towards the relation of women with alcohol.

A review of the effectiveness of key strategies designed to achieve a significant reduction in levels of problem drinking. These strategies are described and critically assessed by some of the world's leading authorities on the use of alcohol and its related problems.

This text addresses three literary works with adolescence in mind: Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" and "Much Ado About Nothing" and Pushkin's "Eugene Onegin". These set the stage for the clinical material when the author illustrates the core approach of intensive one-to-on work with adolescents.

This work concerns clinical and theoretical work on psychotherapy with severely disturbed children. The author worked closely with Donald Winnicott in the period after World War II and applied his ideas, and her ownm, to the therapy of severely damaged children.

Describes the author's own Life Script: from childhood failure and humiliation, to recovery, transactional analysis and a career in casework and counselling as a probation officer. He writes about his training to be a psychotherapist, his experience of personal therapy, training workshops, and the trauma of deferment at a Final Exam Board.

A self-help book aimed at both therapist and patient which introduces specific vocal and physical techniques aimed at developing and healing the voice. Along with a description of the physiology of the voice and breathing, there is a section on the many correctable voice defects.

This text argues that current theories about organizational culture fail because they concentrate on simple surface issues. Taking concepts from psychoanalysis, the author uses them to explain collective feelings of members of organizations and to emphasize the role of the unconscious processes.

Sharing a conviction that we all have a powerful need to belong, to be attached to people, places and projects, and that social and political processes must reflect that, the contributors to this volume provide a dialogue between the psychological and the social - a political grasp of human needs.

Many women are afraid of speaking in public or professional situations. This book examines the reasons for this fear and the various forms it can take, and gives an account of the factors, often social, which dissuade so many women from speaking. It suggests more effective means of communication.

The hearing of voices is generally regarded as a pathological phenomenon - a form of mental illness. This title challenges the assumption in psychiatry and psychology that hearing voices has a pathological basis, and contains information from people who hear voices.

In this account of their research, the authors describe the anxiety, loneliness and despair of young children in hospital, foster homes and institutions in Britain in the 1950s and 1960s. This is a history of a couple in the field of child health, who pioneered research into the effects of separation from the mother when a child went into hospital.