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In this lucid portrayal of human behavior, Fred Dretske provides an original account of the way reasons function in the causal explanation of behavior.

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In this book, John Hanwell Riker develops and expands the conceptual framework of self psychology in order to offer contemporary readers a naturalistic ground for adopting an ethical way of being in the world.

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In this book, John Hanwell Riker develops and expands the conceptual framework of self psychology in order to offer contemporary readers a naturalistic ground for adopting an ethical way of being in the world.

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In this volume, world renowned psychoanalyst Moustafa Safouan considers the works of Freud and Lacan. When Safouan met Lacan in 1949, he was all but ready to abandon the field due to the many contradictions and obscurities he found in Freud. Yet thanks to Lacan's early presentation of the father as real, imaginary and symbolic, Safouan stayed on.

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Many Freudian analysts have attempted to link the writings of Nietzsche with the clinical work of Freud. This text reconstructs Freud's encounter with Nietzsche, his personal interpretations and the contribution of Nietzsche's champions. He also examines the thematic similarities between the two.

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Learn in a week, remember for a lifetime

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Freud's Mexican disciples, Mexican books, Mexican antiquities, and Mexican dreams.

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Despite the persistence of the theoretical model of the cathartic theory in psychoanalysis, it is not what we practice clinically. Freuds Other Theory of Psychoanalysis deals with eliciting that other unarticulated theory from the Freudian text to replace the catharsis theory and open the theoretical impasse it created.

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Examines the psychoanalytic encounter of Freud and "Dora", an adolescent suffering from hysteria. Decker describes their lives before and after the meeting, places the treatment in a larger social and historical context, and provides a glimpse of middle-class Jewish life in fin-de-siecle Vienna.

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A Jew in a violently anti-Semitic world, Sigmund Freud was forced to cope with racism even in the 'serious' medical literature of the fin de siecle, which described Jews as inherently pathological and sexually degenerate. This book argues that Freud's internalizing of these images of racial difference shaped the questions of psychoanalysis.

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Offers an account of Freud's thought, providing an useful guide to the complex ideas of this thinker. This book introduces some of the key Freudian concepts and themes and examines the ways in which they intersect with issues in philosophy and literary theory.

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Offers an account of Freud's thought, providing an useful guide to the complex ideas of this thinker. This book introduces some of the key Freudian concepts and themes and examines the ways in which they intersect with issues in philosophy and literary theory.

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Michael T. Michael evaluates Freuds theory of dreams in light of major criticisms and scientific research. Approaching the issue from the vantage of the history and philosophy of science, he argues that the theory is a live hypothesis fully deserving of continued scientific exploration.

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Why has shame displaced guilt as a dominant emotional reference in the West This book presents a genealogical-critical study of the vicissitudes of the concept of survivor guilt and the significance of guilt's replacement by shame.

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Argues that the symptoms of psychosomatic illness that patients have produced throughout the centuries are shaped by the cultural shifts of larger society, and that diseases such as "chronic fatigue syndrome" are ailments that express the deepest truths about the culture in which we live.

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You may think that vampires and werewolves were merely the stuff of bad Hollywood films and mysterious legends, but as the author reveals, there are real people out there who believe they are werewolves and vampires. This book uses case studies to explain the thinking on brain function and emotional disorders.

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Future Psychoanalysis educes a structural theory of psychoanalysis from its informative theory, linking it to the other structural theories of the humanities. It posits that the future theory of psychoanalysis will comprise a psychology of the human subject, allowing the field to have a more effective exchange with the other human sciences.

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By elucidating the origins, dynamics, social pleasures, and clinical benefits of courage, resilience, gratitude, generosity, forgiveness, and sacrifice, Good Stuff sheds light on a corner of human experience that has remained inadequately understood by psychoanalysts and other mental health professionals.

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Guilt: Origins, Manifestations, and Management is replete with clinical pearls and highly useful tips for the management of patients driven by feelings of guilt and remorse. Eight distinguished psychoanalysts address the ubiquitous phenomenon of guilt, describing the childhood...

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