- The Anatomy of Prejudices
- Elisabeth Young-Bruehl
- Surveying the study of prejudice since World War II, Elisabeth Young-Bruehl suggests an approach that distinguishes between different types of prejudices, the people who hold them, the social and political settings that promote them, and the human needs they fulfill.
- Hardcover 1996 / Paperback 1998
- A Clinical Introduction to Lacanian Psychoanalysis
- Bruce Fink
- Arguably the most profound psychoanalytic thinker since Freud, and deeply influential in many fields, Jacques Lacan often seems opaque to those he most wanted to reach. These are the readers Bruce Fink addresses in this clear and practical account of Lacan's highly original approach to therapy. Written by a clinician for clinicians, Fink's introduction is an invaluable guide to Lacanian psychoanalysis, how it's done, and how it differs from other forms of therapy. While elucidating many of Lacan's theoretical notions, the book does so from the perspective of the practitioner faced with the pressing questions of diagnosis, which therapeutic stance to adopt, how to involve the patient, and how to bring about change.
- Hardcover 1997 / Paperback 1999
- The Correspondence of Sigmund Freud and Sándor Ferenczi, Volume 2, 1914-1919
- Sigmund Freud
- Sándor Ferenczi
- Ernst Falzeder, Editor
- Eva Brabant, Editor
- Patrizia Giampieri-Deutsch, With
- Peter Hoffer, Translator
- Introduction by Axel Hoffer
- The nation-shattering events of World War I form a somber canvas for the exchanges of the two correspondents in Volume 2 (July 1914 through December 1919). Uncertainty pervades these letters: Will Ferenczi be called up? Will food and fuel-and cigar-shortages continue? Will Freud's three enlisted sons and son-in-law come through the war intact? And will Freud's "problem-child," psychoanalysis, survive?
- Hardcover 1996
- The Creation of Psychopharmacology
- David Healy
- Healy follows The Antidepressant Era with an even more ambitious and dramatic story: the discovery and development of antipsychotic medication. Once pharmaceutical companies recognized their commercial potential, financial as well as clinical pressures drove the development of ever more aggressively marketed medications.
- Hardcover 2002 / Paperback 2004
- The Crucible of Experience
- Daniel Burston
- One of the great rebels of psychiatry, R. D. Laing challenged prevailing models of madness and the nature and limits of psychiatric authority. In this brief and lucid book, Laing's widely praised biographer distills the essence of Laing's vision, which was religious and philosophical as well as psychological. The Crucible of Experience reveals Laing's philosophical debts to existentialism and phenomenology in his theories of madness and sanity, family theory and family therapy.
- Hardcover 2000
- Dispatches from the Freud Wars
- John Forrester
- The noted historian and philosopher of science John Forrester raises a provocative point: no matter how you feel about Freud, you can't escape the influence of his theories. Through questions central to our century's ways of thinking, Forrester explores dreams, history, ethics, political theory, and psychoanalysis as a scientific movement. By taking nothing for granted and leaving no cliché of psychobabble--theoretical or popular--unturned, Forrester gives us a sense of the ethical surprises and epistemological riddles that a century of tumultuous psychoanalytical debate has often obscured.
- Hardcover 1997 / Paperback 1998
- Inside Deaf Culture
- Carol A. Padden
- Tom L. Humphries
- In this absorbing story of the changing life of a community, the authors of Deaf in America reveal historical events and forces that have shaped the ways that Deaf people define themselves today. Inside Deaf Culture relates Deaf people's search for a voice of their own, and their proud self-discovery and self-description as a flourishing culture.
- Hardcover 2005 / Paperback 2006
- Private Myths
- Anthony Stevens
- Rich in symbolic and scientific insight, Private Myths traverses the course of dream interpretation from distant hunter-gatherer times to the present. Anthony Stevens makes the principles of dream interpretation accessible to scientists, the findings of dream science accessible to analysts, and the discoveries of both available to anyone intrigued by the mysteries of dreams and dreaming.
- Hardcover 1996 / Paperback 1997
- Substance and Shadow
- Stephen Kandall
- The more things change, the more they remain the same: Substance and Shadow shows how, though attitudes and drugs may vary over time--from the laudanum of yesteryear to the heroin of the thirties and forties, the tranquilizers of the fifties, the consciousness-raising or prescription drugs of the sixties, and the ascendance of crack use in the eighties--dependency remains an issue for women. Kandall traces the history of questionable treatment that has followed this trend. From the maintenance clinics of the early twenties to the "federal farms" of mid-century to the detoxification efforts and methadone maintenance that flourished in the wake of the Women's Movement, attempts to treat drug-dependent women have been far from adequate. As he describes current policies that put money into drug interdiction and prisons, but offer little in the way of treatment or hope for women like Jennifer Johnson, Kandall calls our attention to the social and personal costs of demonizing and punishing women addicts rather than trying to improve their circumstances and give them genuine help.
- Hardcover 1996 / Paperback 1999
- Wild Beasts and Idle Humors
- Daniel Robinson
- Wild Beasts and Idle Humours takes readers on an illuminating journey through the changing historical landscape of human nature and offers an unprecedented look at the legal conceptions of insanity from the pre-classical Greek world to the present. This book will be essential reading for anyone interested in the evolution of thinking about legal insanity.
- Hardcover 1996 / Paperback 1998
- The Wing of Madness
- Daniel Burston
- In his final years, R. D. Laing (1927-1989) was arriving at lectures addled with hashish and brandy. Reflecting on this sad spectacle, one is apt to forget that Laing was one of the most influential and controversial psychiatrists of the twentieth century, whose books sold millions of copies in more than twenty languages. Even at the height of his power, however, Ronald Laing was a mystery, a man of many contradictions, and it is this mystery that The Wing of Madness explores, searching out both the remarkable story of Laing's life and the lasting significance of his work.
- Hardcover 1996 / Paperback 1998