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  • The New Black

    Mourning, Melancholia and Depression

    by Darian Leader ...
    The New Black is Darian Leader's compassionate and illuminating exploration of melancholyWhat happens when we lose someone we love? A death, a separation or the break-up of a relationship are some of the hardest times we have to live through. We may fall into a nightmare of depression, lose the will to live and see no hope for the future. What matters at this crucial point is whether or not we are ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Why Do People Get Ill?

    Exploring the Mind-body Connection

    by Darian Leader, David Corfield ...
    'Well-argued, thought-provoking . . . will make you think twice before reaching for the painkillers' Daily MailHave you ever wondered why we get ill? Can our thoughts and feelings worsen or even cause conditions like heart disease, cancer or asthma? And what - if anything - can we do about it?Why Do People Get Ill? explores the relationship between what's going on in our heads and what happens in ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Introducing Lacan

    A Graphic Guide

    by Darian Leader ...
    Series series Graphic Guides
    Jacques Lacan is now regarded as a major psychoanalytical theorist alongside Freud and Jung, although recognition has been delayed by fierce arguments over his ideas. Written by a leading Lacanian analyst, "Introducing Lacan" guides the reader through his innovations, including his work on paranoia, his addition of structural linguistics to Freudianism and his ideas on the infant 'mirror phase'. ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Jouissance

    Sexuality, Suffering and Satisfaction

    by Darian Leader ...
    Although the term 'jouissance' is common currency in psychoanalysis today, how much does it really tell us? While often taken to designate a fusion of sexuality, suffering and satisfaction, the term has fallen into a purely descriptive use that closes down more questions than it opens up. Although assumed to explain the coalescence of pleasure and pain, it tends to cover a range of quite different ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

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  • 12 Birds to Save Your Life

    Nature's Lessons in Happiness

    by Charlie Corbett ...
    Discover the healing power of nature through the stories of these characterful birds, whose song is never far away . . .LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 WAINWRIGHT PRIZE'A lyrical and life-affirming book that teaches us as much about birds as it does ourselves - a balm for the soul' Raynor Winn, author of The Salt Path'Totally absorbing and completely engaging on so many levels . . . Charlie has opened my ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • Lacan

    A Beginner's Guide

    by Lionel Bailly ...
    Series series Beginner's Guides
    Lacan without the jargon!From l'objet petit a to the mirror stage – the ultimate introduction to Lacan's canon'Well-written, carefully structured and broadly accessible.' Dany Nobus, Chair of Psychology and Psychoanalysis, Brunel University and author of Jaques LacanJacques Lacan was one of the most important psychoanalysts ever to have lived. Building upon the work of Sigmund Freud, he sought to ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • The Dead Mother

    The Work of Andre Green

    Edited by Gregorio Kohon ...
    Series series The New Library of Psychoanalysis
    The Dead Mother brings together original essays in honour of André Green. Written by distinguished psychoanalysts, the collection develops the theme of his most famous paper of the same title, and describes the value of the dead mother to other areas of clinical interest: psychic reality, borderline phenomena, passions and identification.The concept of the 'dead mother' describes a clinical ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • The Existentialism of Jean-Paul Sartre

    by Jonathan Webber ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Philosophy
    Webber argues for a new interpretation of Sartrean existentialism. On this reading, Sartre is arguing that each person’s character consists in the projects they choose to pursue and that we are all already aware of this but prefer not to face it. Careful consideration of his existentialist writings shows this to be the unifying theme of his theories of consciousness, freedom, the self, bad faith, ... Read more

    $117.99 CAD

  • A Brief Introduction to Psychoanalytic Theory

    by Stephen Frosh ...
    Psychoanalytic theory remains hugely influential to our understanding of the mind and human behaviour. It provides a rich source of ideas for therapeutic practice while offering dramatic insights for the study of culture and society, with applications that extend across film, literature and politics. Taking you step-by-step through Freud's original ideas and their evolution, this book explores the ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Reading French Psychoanalysis

    Edited by Dana Birksted-Breen, Sara Flanders, Alain Gibeault ...
    Series series New Library of Psychoanalysis Teaching Series
    How has psychoanalysis developed in France in the years since Lacan so dramatically polarized the field?In this book, Dana Birksted-Breen and Sara Flanders of the British Psychoanalytical Society, and Alain Gibeault of the Paris Psychoanalytical Society provide an overview of how French psychoanalysis has developed since Lacan. Focusing primarily on the work of psychoanalysts from the French ... Read more

    $135.99 CAD

  • Having A Life

    Self Pathology after Lacan

    by Lewis A. Kirshner ...
    What is it about "having a life"- which is to say, about having a sense of separate existence as a subject or self - that is usually taken for granted but is so fragilely maintained in certain patients and, indeed, in most of us at especially difficult times? In Having A Life: Self Pathology After Lacan, Lewis Kirshner takes this Lacanian question as the point of departure for a thoughtful ... Read more

    $78.99 CAD

  • Key Ideas for a Contemporary Psychoanalysis

    Misrecognition and Recognition of the Unconscious

    by Andre Green ...
    Translated by Andrew Weller ...
    Series series The New Library of Psychoanalysis
    André Green attempts the complex task of identifying and examining the key ideas for a contemporary psychoanalytic practice.This undertaking is motivated both by the need for an outline of the evolution of psychoanalysis since Freud's death, and by the hope of tackling the fragmentation which has led to the current 'crisis of psychoanalysis'.In three sections covering the theoretical and practical ... Read more

    $76.99 CAD