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This is Joyce McDougall's most comprehensive clinical and theoretical book. Its title conveys her tolerant stance toward human differences and forms of deviance. It is among the wisest and best-loved psychoanalytic works ever written.

Applies poststructuralist and postmodern ideas to issues of health and health care to provide a radical re-think of how health is to be understood. This text offers a perspective in which health is seen as an affirmation of potential rather than a narrow biopsychosocial construct.

How did a magnificent rescue operation become such a common way of giving birth? And how safe is it really? Why do some countries have 10 per cent of caesarian births, and some more than 50 per cent? Why have risky procedures, such as forceps deliveries, not been eliminated by the C-section? What is the birthing pool test?

A distillation of the author's 25 years experience of working with children whose parents have divorced. A positive approach suggests interventions based on knowledge and understanding can greatly improve the situation for both children and their parents.

Looks at the social problems encountered by those involved in the adoption and fostering of children who have been sexually abused. This book includes chapters on recognizing the signs of sexual abuse, helping children talk about their experiences and support services available.

This is the story of a Roman Catholic priest in the grip of a new fanaticism - the bigotry that gripped many priests in the wake if the Second Vatican Council - and of his consequential sudden descent into madness.

In this book Anne Maguire examines the psychoanalytic relevance of evil. Using case studies and examples she examines how sin may find calamitous expression, and the consequences which can flow from its covert pre-existence. Pride, anger, jealousy, sloth, lust, avarice and gluttony are as old as mankind itself.

This volume brings together the works of those who have studied Fairbairn's ideas most closely. The papers are expository, exploratory and illustrative and cover all aspects of his life, work and influence; contributors include the most eminent students of Fairbairn in both Britain and the USA.

This work provides a detailed and rigorous analysis which locates reproductive technologies in the historical context of the progressive technification of the management of human life, and their relation to the social and medical discourses on femininity, maternity and infertility.

Compiled from anecdotes the author collected both from informants and from published sources, the book journies through major categories of human experience that are of interest in the late 20th century including imagination; thought and concepts; language; morality and discipline.

Among the issues discussed in this volume are: the ethical implications for the analyst contemplating and negotiating the stages of retirement; the pressures in the analytic relationship that may contribute to unethical enactments; and the ethics involved in the sensitive area of publication.

This work is about bridging the current deeply-held divide between sentience and reason. It focuses on the pragmatic role of sentient experience and its unceasing and inseparable interplay with the exercise of reason.

The question of diachrony has been the author's preoccupation throughout his psychoanalytic career. It was at the centre of the debates during the era of structuralism and opened many issues for psychoanalysis. This work completes ideas put forward in "Time in Psychoanalysis", its companion volume.

This text examines the emerging concerns about the export of trauma experts and counsellors to war-torn areas of the world. As well as presenting an analysis of present, misconceived attempts to give help, the book provides an agenda for future, more appropriate ways of responding.

The author's pioneering work on the archetypes and the self in childhood has spanned almost 50 years. This title includes descriptions from Fordham's practice, and experience of infant observation studies, and provides basic conceptions on which the Jungian approach to child analysis if based.

This book aims to provide an overview of the lifework and thought of five thinkers in contemporary psychoanalysis. Over a period of two years, Anthony Molino conducted and compiled these interviews. The interviews concentrate on interpretations of each analyst's work.

Roger Kennedy draws on his own clinical work to shed light on conceptions of freedom and how they relate to the psychoanalytic process. Ideas from ancient, medieval, 17th-century, Enlightenment and recent philosophy, including hermeneutics, are employed in his explorations.

A sequel to "Stress, Appraisal and Coping", this volume explores the latest findings and trends in research and theory. It focuses on the rationale for a cognitive-mediational approach to stress and the emotions, and distinguishes between social, physiological and psychological stress.

Is today's thinking conditioned by body-mind dualism? A rebellion against the biological order seems to have silently infiltrated our world view. Suicide bombers appear to share the fascination with destruction, of writers such as Mishima, Pasolini and Foucault.

Including a biographical chapter on Milton Erickson, this text reveals the many important events of his life that contributed to the development of his ideas and theories on hypnosis.

In this book, the case histories of Melanie Klein and her followers are scrutinised, to examine both what the clinicians were noticing in their patients, and how they conceptualized those processes.