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  • The Wrongful Conviction of Oscar Pistorius

    Science Transforms our Comprehension of Reeva Steenkamp's Shocking Death

    by Brent Willock ...
    Just when the world thought Oscar Pistorius' meteoric rise to Olympic glory and international celebrity had terminated abysmally in prison, Brent Willock's scientific perspective reopens this gripping narrative for an astonishing re-view.Olympian Oscar Pistorius' spectacular assent to fame ground to a screeching halt in the wee hours of Valentine's Day, 2013. Hearing a sound emanating from his ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Understanding and Coping with Failure: Psychoanalytic perspectives

    Edited by Brent Willock, Rebecca Coleman Curtis, Lori C. Bohm ...
    Failure is a theme of great importance in most clinical conditions, and in everyday life, from birth until death. Its impact can be destabilizing, even disastrous. In spite of these facts, there has been no comprehensive psychoanalytic exploration of this topic. Understanding and Coping with Failure: Psychoanalytic Perspectives fills this gap by examining failure from many perspectives. It goes a ... Read more

    $96.18 CAD

  • Comparative-Integrative Psychoanalysis

    A Relational Perspective for the Discipline's Second Century

    by Brent Willock ...
    Series series Relational Perspectives Book Series
    Finalist for the 2007 Goethe Award for Psychoanalytic Scholarship!This exceptionally practical and insightful new text explores the emerging field of comparative-integrative psychoanalysis. It provides an invaluable framework for approaching the currently fractious state of the psychoanalytic discipline, divided as it is into diverse schools of thought, presenting many conceptual challenges. ... Read more

    $101.68 CAD

  • Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Knowing and Being Known

    In Theory and Clinical Practice

    Edited by Brent Willock, Ionas Sapountzis, Rebecca Coleman Curtis ...
    The importance of knowing and being known is at the heart of the human experience and has always been the core of the psychoanalytic enterprise. Freud named his central Oedipal construct after Sophocles’ great play that dramatically encapsulated the desire, difficulty, and dangers involved in knowing and being known. Psychoanalysis’ founder developed a methodology to facilitate unconscious ... Read more

    $71.44 CAD

  • Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Passion

    Meanings and Manifestations in the Clinical Setting and Beyond

    Edited by Brent Willock, Rebecca Coleman Curtis, Lori C. Bohm ...
    Passion! The word brims with and exudes power, movement, intensity, vitality, desire, and fulfillment. Its multifaceted meanings include eroticism, rage, sex, suffering, drive, commitment, dedication, and love. On the one hand, it embodies a quality to be embraced and lived fully, to make life meaningful and worthwhile. On the other, it is sometimes to be treated with suspicion, reined in, ... Read more

    $72.82 CAD

  • Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Identity and Difference

    Navigating the Divide

    Edited by Brent Willock, Lori C. Bohm, Rebecca Coleman Curtis ...
    Every day, clinicians encounter challenges to empathy and communication while struggling to assist patients with diverse life histories, character, sexuality, gender, psychopathology, cultural, religious, political, racial, and ethnic backgrounds. Most writing pertaining to ideas of similarity, discrepancy, and ‘the Other’ has highlighted differences. Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Identity and ... Read more

    $96.18 CAD

  • On Deaths and Endings

    Psychoanalysts' Reflections on Finality, Transformations and New Beginnings

    Edited by Brent Willock, Lori C. Bohm, Rebecca C. Curtis ...
    Winner of the 2008 Gradiva Award!Can something as negative as loss also be a positive, transformative experience?Is it possible that not only individuals but also societies can be developmentally arrested by problematic mourning?On Deaths and Endings brings together the work of psychoanalytic scholars and practitioners grappling with the manifold issues evoked by loss and finality.The book covers ... Read more

    $86.99 CAD

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    Good Stuff is divided into two main parts; Part I addresses Positive Attributes and Part II, Positive Actions. The former contains chapters on Courage, Resilience, and Gratitude. The latter contains chapters on Generosity, Forgiveness, and Sacrifice. Together, the six chapters constitute a harmonious gestalt of the relational scenarios that assure enrichment of human experience. This book offers ... Read more

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  • Emotional Incest in Group Psychotherapy

    A Conspiracy of Silence

    by Robert S. Pepper ...
    Emotional Incest in Group Psychotherapy: A Conspiracy of Silence is unique in the field of analytic group psychotherapy. Many books assume that the frame of therapy, the boundary between what is and isn’t therapy, is a given. This book treats the frame as a variable, showing that alterations to the frame have consequences.A moral dilemma exists when leaders choose to operate outside the ethics and ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD

  • My Life Among the Serial Killers

    Inside the Minds of the World's Most Notorious Murderers

    by Helen Morrison, Harold Goldberg ...
    In this memoir, a forensic psychiatrist chronicles her work with more than 80 serial killers and her thoughts on what compels them.Judging by appearances, Dr. Helen Morrison has an ordinary life in the suburbs of a major city. She has a physician husband, two children, and a thriving psychiatric clinic. But her life is more than that. She is one of the world's leading experts on serial killers, ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • A Theory of Human Motivation

    by Abraham H. Maslow ...
    According to Maslow, human needs can be arranged into a hierarchical structure, with the most basic needs at the bottom and higher needs at the top. The bottom level of the hierarchy includes physiological needs, such as hunger, thirst, and sleep. The next level includes safety needs, such as the need for shelter and security. The third level includes love and belonging needs, such as the need for ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Psychotherapy

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Tom Burns ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Psychotherapy and counselling are now widely available to help people overcome emotional and psychological difficulties in their lives. They involve spending time with a professional in an emotionally safe and structured relationship to explore and express the issues that cause distress and difficulty, whether long term self-doubts, relationship problems, or the impact of a trauma or crisis. As a ... Read more

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