The author offers the story of a young man from the provinces determined to leave his family fortune and its old-fashioned values behind; the young doctor in Paris who set out to reinvent clinical psychotherapy and ended up transforming the fundamental notions that shape it all.

Between the age of two and five, a little girl nicknamed 'the Piggle' - disturbed by the birth of a younger sister - visited Dr Winnicott on sixteen occasions. This book offers an account of her visits, accompanied by excerpts from letters written to the analyst by the child's parents and a commentary by Dr Winnicott.

Shows how the straitjacket of conformity imposed on us leads to feelings of alienation and a waste of human potential. This title examines schizophrenia and psychotherapy, transcendence and 'us and them' thinking, and illustrates ideas with a case history of a ten-day psychosis.

An introduction to the work of one of the most influential and forbidding thinkers of this century. Bowie examines Lacan's pioneering articles on Freud in the 1930s, his work as a psychoanalyst, and his role in the Parisian intellectual resurgence of the 1950s.

Written in his epigrammatic and aphoristic style, this title extends Adam Phillips's probings into the psychological and the political, bringing his trenchant wit to such subjects as the usefulness of inhibitions and the paradox of permissive authority.

DW Winnicott's books, including The Piggle , Home Is Where We Start From and The Child , Family and the Outside World are still read, valued and argued with years after his death. This title attempts to get to grips with a writer, paediatrician and psychiatrist whose work with children and mothers continues to be relevant and fascinating.

Bollas integrates the contribution of the British School of Object Relations with the fine texture of problems that have arisen in the author's own clinical practice.

Covering child development, this work explores problems of the only child, of stealing and lying, shyness, sex education in schools and the roots of aggression. It provides insight into child behaviour and parental attitudes.

The latest book by the Slovenian critic Slavoj Zizek takes the work of French philosopher Gilles Deleuze as the beginning of a dazzling inquiry into the realms of politics, philosophy, film and psychioanalysis.

What is psychoanalytic criticism and how can it be justified as a type of criticism in its own right? In this revised edition, Elizabeth Wright provides an answer to this question and a wide-ranging introduction to psychoanalytic criticism from Freud to the present day.

Presenting case studies of schizophrenic patients, this title intends to make madness and the process of going mad comprehensible. It offers an existential analysis of personal alienation.

This critique of contemporary capitalism established Fromm as one of the most controversial political thinkers of his generation, and was originally published to wide acclaim and even wider disapproval.

Arguing that traditional feminism is wrong to look to a natural notion of the female, or indeed of sex or gender, this book questions the category 'woman' and continues in this vein with examinations of 'the masculine' and 'the feminine'. It considers gender as a reiterated social performance rather than the expression of a prior reality.

Drawing on the findings of anthropology, palaeontogy, psychology and history; and including character analyses of Stalin, Hitler and Himmler, this title shows how the failure to use our capacity for love and reason results in the development of the reverse: we wish to control life absolutely, or to destroy it.

The results of the lectures given by the author to mental health professionals whilst seconded to the Tavistock Centre.

Using an impressive array of material from literature, archaeology and social theory, and demonstrating an abiding interest in Freud's work and its influence on his own, Edward Said explores the profound implications in Moses and Monotheism for middle-east politics today.

Covers the themes that Sigmund Freud explored in his work from the meaning of dreams and the concept of the unconscious, instinctual and sexual life to the structure of the personality. This collection is intended as a guide to the principle concepts of psycho-analysis.