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  • Even Paranoids Have Enemies

    New Perspectives on Paranoia and Persecution

    'Even paranoids have enemies' is the reply Golda Meir is said to have made to Henry Kissinger who, during the 1973 Sinai talks, accused her of being paranoid for hesitating to grant further concessions to the Arabs. It is used as part of the title of this book to highlight the complex relationship between paranoia and persecution.The politics of the Middle East, the pressures within Japanese ... Read more

    $69.99 CAD

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  • Brainwashing

    The science of thought control

    Series series Oxford Landmark Science
    Throughout history, humans have attempted to influence and control the thoughts of others. Since the word 'brainwashing' was coined in the aftermath of the Korean War, it has become part of the popular culture and been exploited to create sensational headlines. It has also been the subject of learned discussion from many disciplines: including history, sociology, psychology, and psychotherapy. But ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Madness

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Andrew Scull ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Madness is something that frightens and fascinates us all. It is a word with which we are universally familiar, and a condition that haunts the human imagination. Through the centuries, in poetry and in prose, in drama and in the visual arts, its depredations are on display for all to see. A whole industry has grown up, devoted to its management and suppression. Madness profoundly disturbs our ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Home Is Where We Start From

    Essays by a Psychoanalyst

    One of the most gifted and creative psychoanalysts of his generation, D. W. Winnicott made lasting contributions to our understanding of the minds of children.His ideas have influenced the diverse psychoanalytic schools of Anna Freud, Melanie Klein, and Hans Kohut. But his reach extends far beyond professional circles: his talks to general audiences over the years won him enormous numbers of ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast

    The Evolutionary Origins of Belief

    by Lewis Wolpert ...
    Why does every society around the world have a religious tradition of some sort? Professor Lewis Wolpert investigates the nature of belief and its causes. He looks at belief's psychological basis and its possible evolutionary origins in physical cause and effect.Wolpert explores the different types of belief - including that of animals, of children, of the religious, and of those suffering from ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Psychoanalysis

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Daniel Pick ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Since its inception, psychoanalysis has been hailed as a revolutionary theory of how the mind works, whilst some of its ideas such as the Oedipus complex have become part of everyday conversation. In Psychoanalysis: A Very Short Introduction, Daniel Pick offers a lucid, lively, and wide-ranging survey of psychoanalysis. This book offers the reader a flavour of what it might be like to enter ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Psychotherapy

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Tom Burns ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Psychotherapy and counselling are now widely available to help people overcome emotional and psychological difficulties in their lives. They involve spending time with a professional in an emotionally safe and structured relationship to explore and express the issues that cause distress and difficulty, whether long term self-doubts, relationship problems, or the impact of a trauma or crisis. As a ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Politics of the Mind

    Marxism and Mental Distress

    by Iain Ferguson ...
    Mental ill health has become one of the key 'public issues' of the 21st century. According to the World Health Organization, depression currently affects 350 million people. Politics of the Mind: Marxism and Mental Distress looks at the link between the economic and political system under which we live - capitalism - and the enormously high levels of mental ill-health which we see in the world ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Meaning and Melancholia

    Life in the Age of Bewilderment

    Meaning and Melancholia: Life in the Age of Bewilderment sees Christopher Bollas apply his creative and innovative psychoanalytic thinking to various contemporary social, cultural and political themes.This book offers an incisive exploration of powerful trends within, and between, nations in the West over the past two hundred years. The author traces shifts in psychological forces and ‘frames of ... Read more

    $73.99 CAD

  • Hatred

    The Psychological Descent Into Violence

    We all get angry at the built-in frustrations and humiliations of everyday life. But few of us ever experience the intense and perverse hatred that inspires acts of malignant violence such as suicide bombings or ethnic massacres.In Hatred, Dr. Willard Gaylin, one of America's most respected psychiatrists, describes how raw personal passions are transformed into acts of violence and cultures of ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Delusions and the Madness of the Masses

    by Lawrie Reznek ...
    We all think that we can tell the difference between someone who is mad, or whom psychiatrists call psychotic, and someone who is sane. But can we really tell who is mad and who is not? Do we really know what madness is and how it should be recognized? Have psychiatrists made a sensible distinction between the patient who believes that aliens are beaming messages to him from a foreign planet, and ... Read more

    $120.99 CAD

  • When Death Enters the Therapeutic Space

    Existential Perspectives in Psychotherapy and Counselling

    Edited by Laura Barnett ...
    Although it is a natural and inescapable part of life, death is a subject that is often neglected in psychotherapeutic literature and training. In When Death Enters the Therapeutic Space Laura Barnett and her contributors offer us insights into working with mortality in the therapeutic encounter.Taking an existential perspective, the book brings together a variety of client groups, all of whom ... Read more

    $74.99 CAD