Here are the essential ideas of psychoanalytic theory, including Freud's explanations of such concepts as the Id, Ego and Super-Ego, the Death Instinct and Pleasure Principle, along with classic case studies like that of the Wolf Man. Adam Phillips's marvellous selection provides an ideal overview of Freud's thought in all its extraordinary ambition and variety. Psychoanalysis may be known as the

Psychoanalytic treatment utilised the patient's capacity to love and desire as a means to an end. The stuff of romance became the stuff of cure. This book discusses about techniques in psychoanalysis.

Critics including Seamus Heaney provide a welcome reappraisal in the wake of Clare's bicentenary.

Critics including Seamus Heaney provide a welcome reappraisal in the wake of Clare's bicentenary.

An eloquent and sometimes even erotic book, the Philosophical Enquiry was long dismissed as a piece of mere juvenilia. However, Burke's analysis of the relationship between emotion, beauty, and art form is now recognized as not only an important and influential work of aesthetic theory, but also one of the first major works in European literature on the Sublime, a subject that has fascinated ...

We can define the mad, but how do we classify the sane? Answering this question, the author delves deep into history, philosophy, literature, and his own experiences to address questions that we rarely ask about ourselves. He takes us on a journey in which we learn many things, including some of what it takes to be happy in the modern world.

The pleasures of kindness have been well known since the dawn of Western thought. But many people seem to find these pleasures literally incredible. This book argues that the affectionate life - a life lived in instinctive sympathetic identification with the vulnerabilities and attractions of others - is the one we should all be inclined to live.

What is kindness? Does it make us happier? And does it have a place in a selfish world? This title presents an analysis of kindness in history, in life and in the modern world.

Starting from the position that there is no universal story of emotion necessarily acceptable to all cultures, Fredman offers a repertoire of possibilities to talk about feelings, share understanding and transform emotion.

Makes the skills of successful parenting available to all families with an innovative approach to understanding child behaviour

This is a collection of essays that sets out to make and break the links between psychoanalysis and literature. It gives insights into anorexia and cloning, the work of Tom Stoppard and A.E. Housman, the effect of the Blitz on Londoners, Nijinsky's diary and Martin Amis's Night Train .

Side effects are things we do not intend. This collection of essays examines how the things we don't mean, or mean perhaps to forget, prove to be those that are often most telling about our unconscious lives.

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.

Walter Pater is increasingly seen as an important precursor of modernist aesthetic theory. This work was one of the most influential pieces of cultural criticism of its day, particularly on the work of Oscar Wilde, who described it as my golden book ... the very flower of decadence .

A powerful and disturbing memoir of postnatal depression 'An exceptional memoir written with a discipline that outfaces chaos. At times, it makes Sylvia Plath's THE BELL JAR ring hollow' - Kate Kellaway, OBSERVER

This text explores the lives of four different escape artists: a little girl playing her own wayward version of hide and seek; Harry Houdini who electrifies the world through a series of escapes; a man always in flight from women; and Emily Dickinson who spends her life in solitary confinement.