In the time of Freud, the typical psychoanalytic patient was afflicted with neurotic disorders; however, the modern-day psychotherapy patient often suffers instead from a variety…

Personal relationships concern us all, they are essential to our becoming who we are and constitute our most vital experience of what it is like…

Can the Protomental System provide a new foundation for psychoanalytic theory?

Constructing a Mind draws on psychoanalytic theories of mind and recent developments in cognitive science…

Why, when and how does aggression go wrong?

How can we make sense of apparently meaningless destructiveness and violence

Aggression is a part of human nature that…

A Question of Technique focuses on what actually happens in the therapy room and on the technical decisions and pressures that are faced daily.

Coming…

The idea that teachers love children is often taken for granted in education. Rarely is the idea of love itself examined. Bringing together the work…

Psychoanalysis has always been a source of controversy throughout academic and popular culture. This controversy relates to questions of its true value, its scientific status,…

What can be gained from a dialogue between psychoanalysis and religion?

Freud described religion as the universal obsessional neurosis, and uncompromisingly rejected it in favour of…

Is psychoanalysis a type of literature? Can telling 'stories' help us to get at the truth?

Psychoanalysis as Therapy and Storytelling examines psychoanalysis from two perspectives…