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Based on the 2nd International Psychoanalytic Conference: 'Aggression: From Fantasy to Action', held in May 2010, this title contains papers that were delivered at the conference, together with edited summaries of discussions from the floor that followed each paper.

Presents the proceedings of the of the conference on the Psychoanalytic Therapy of Severe Disturbance held in Belfast in June 2008. This book is of interest to mental health professionals - psychiatrists, psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, psychologists, social workers and nurses who have an interest in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy.

Because psychoanalysis is a science of subjectivity, it is no surprise that symbolism has been of central interest from its inception and early development. This book is assembled in such a way that the reader can trace the development of the understanding of symbols and their formation and use in its historical context.

In this outstanding new collection, the vital concept of unconscious phantasy is debated and examined by such luminaries as Joseph and Anne-Marie Sandler, Jean Laplanche, J-B Pontalis, Susan Isaacs and Hanna Segal.

An overview of work with adolescents, covering a wide spectrum of subjects, including working with violent, depressed and suicidal adolescents, and those suffering from addictions.

A collection of papers which spans work with autistic children and autistic features in adults. It presents the links between the two groups and explains the widespread interest in the enigma of autism.

This book is about how we can deepen our understanding of subjectivity through the use of the concept of triangulation. Fundamentally, this book seeks to address the question of how we can be objective about subjectivity. If psychology, as a scientific discipline, is concerned with the study of human experience.

This book illustrates the distinctive psychoanalytic contribution to mental health services for children, young people, and adults, with detailed case vignettes illustrating therapeutic treatment and the ways in which staff are supported to do work that is frequently difficult and disturbing.

This book is about the psychological experiences of women and men who have used donor conception to create their families. The authors offer diverse accounts of their clinical, research, and personal experiences. They describe the challenge of powerful conscious and unconscious fantasies that can be aroused.

The concern with time permeates Freud's work, from "Studies on Hysteria" to "Analysis Terminable and Interminable", which point out to a network of concepts that indicate Freud's complex theories on temporality. This volume brings together some of the important papers written on the topic by members of the British Psychoanalytic Society.

This book is concerned with whether we can develop our understanding of the mind through the application of new approaches to the study of complex systems. It is divided into two sections. The first is concerned with the application of non-linear systems theory to the psychoanalytic study of the mind.

A collection of lectures by eminent members of the British Psycho-analytical Society. Includes papers on the experience of having a baby, pregnancy and the internal world, pregnancy after stillbirth or neonatal death, and therapeutic intervention for post-partum disturbance.

In this volume a number of British psychoanalysts introduce us to psychoanlaytic definitions of intra-psychic and subjective meaning in patients suffering psychotic conditions. Irrespective of the particular type of psychotic illness under consideration of the context or treatment.

This book represents an attempt to portray the state of child psychoanalysis in the British Psychoanalytical Society today. It offers a variety of clinical and theoretical perspectives, and attempts to demonstrate how they influence the world of child analysis in this country.

Psychoanalysis is concerned with the vicissitudes of life: loss, grief, mourning, guilt and also with reparation and creativity, with death and rebirth, as is the work of Shakespeare. These papers link the Bard's universe to psychoanalytic thought and practice and show us how much both worlds have in common.

The concern with time permeates Freud's work, from "Studies on Hysteria" to "Analysis Terminable and Interminable", which point out to a network of concepts that indicate Freud's complex theories on temporality. This volume brings together some of the important papers written on the topic by members of the British Psychoanalytic Society.