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  • Education Policy, Neoliberalism, and Leadership Practice

    A Critical Analysis

    by Karen Starr ...
    Series series Educational Leadership and Policy Decision-Making in Neoliberal Times
    Education Policy, Neoliberalism, and Leadership Practice is a foundational book describing all aspects of neoliberalism and its broad scale impact in education. Drawing on research and canvassing policy developments across a range of contexts, this book critically analyzes neoliberal education policies, the practices and outcomes they spawn, and the purposes they serve. It interrogates how ... Read more

    $79.99 CAD

  • Public Library Administration Transformed

    Developing the Organization and Empowering Users

    by Karen Starr, Patrick Ragains ...
    Public libraries have historically faced challenges as viable units in local government. As society struggles with issues related to the scope and effectiveness of government, librarians must ask, “How and why will communities support public libraries in the 21st century?” Public Library Administration Transformed covers public library administration in a comprehensive and detailed mannerChapters ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD

  • A Psychotherapy for the People

    Toward a Progressive Psychoanalysis

    by Lewis Aron, Karen Starr ...
    Series series Relational Perspectives Book Series
    How did psychoanalysis come to define itself as being different from psychotherapy? How have racism, homophobia, misogyny and anti-Semitism converged in the creation of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis? Is psychoanalysis psychotherapy? Is psychoanalysis a "Jewish science"?Inspired by the progressive and humanistic origins of psychoanalysis, Lewis Aron and Karen Starr pursue Freud's call for ... Read more

    $126.99 CAD

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  • The Revision of Psychoanalysis

    by Erich Fromm ...
    New York Times –bestselling author Erich Fromm revisits Sigmund Freud's work, ushering psychoanalysis into the modern age."Erich Fromm is both a psychologist of penetration and a writer of ability." — Chicago TribuneIn The Revision of Psychoanalysis, renowned psychoanalyst and social psychologist Erich Fromm applies his innovative, humanist approach to Freud's often contradictory ... ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Writing History, Writing Trauma

    by Dominick LaCapra ...
    Series series Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society
    An updated edition of a major work in trauma studies.Trauma and its aftermath pose acute problems for historical representation and understanding. In Writing History, Writing Trauma, Dominick LaCapra critically analyzes attempts by theorists and literary critics to come to terms with trauma and with the crucial role post-traumatic testimonies—notably Holocaust testimonies—assume in thought and in ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Revolution in Mind

    The Creation of Psychoanalysis

    by George Makari ...
    "A well-written, compendious, and deeply researched history of psychoanalysis from the 1880s until World War II" ( The Journal of Modern History).In a sweeping narrative, George Makari demonstrates how a new way of thinking about inner life coalesced and won followers who spread this body of thought throughout the West. Along the way he introduces the reader to a fascinating array of characters, ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Reading Freud

    A Chronological Exploration of Freud's Writings

    by Jean-Michel Quinodoz ...
    Series series New Library of Psychoanalysis Teaching Series
    Winner of the 2010 Sigourney Award!Reading Freud provides an accessible outline of the whole of Freud's work from Studies in Hysteria through to An Outline of Psycho-Analysis. It succeeds in expressing even the most complex of Freud's theories in clear and simple language whilst avoiding over-simplification.Each chapter concentrates on an individual text and includes valuable background ... Read more

    $86.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Existentialism

    Edited by Steven Crowell ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
    Existentialism exerts a continuing fascination on students of philosophy and general readers. As a philosophical phenomenon, though, it is often poorly understood, as a form of radical subjectivism that turns its back on reason and argumentation and possesses all the liabilities of philosophical idealism but without any idealistic conceptual clarity. In this volume of original essays, the first to ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Why Psychoanalysis?

    by Elisabeth Roudinesco ...
    Translated by Rachel Bowlby ...
    Series series European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
    Why do some people still choose psychoanalysis-Freud's so-called talking cure-when numerous medications are available that treat the symptoms of psychic distress so much faster? Elisabeth Roudinesco tackles this difficult question, exploring what she sees as a "depressive society": an epidemic of distress addressed only by an increasing reliance on prescription drugs.Far from contesting the ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Freud

    An Intellectual Biography

    by Joel Whitebook ...
    The life and work of Sigmund Freud continue to fascinate general and professional readers alike. Joel Whitebook here presents the first major biography of Freud since the last century, taking into account recent developments in psychoanalytic theory and practice, gender studies, philosophy, cultural theory, and more. Offering a radically new portrait of the creator of psychoanalysis, this book ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • From Guilt to Shame

    Auschwitz and After

    by Ruth Leys ...
    Series series 20/21
    Why has shame recently displaced guilt as a dominant emotional reference in the West? After the Holocaust, survivors often reported feeling guilty for living when so many others had died, and in the 1960s psychoanalysts and psychiatrists in the United States helped make survivor guilt a defining feature of the "survivor syndrome." Yet the idea of survivor guilt has always caused trouble, largely ... Read more

    $48.39 CAD

  • The Science of Stories

    An Introduction to Narrative Psychology

    by János László ...
    The Science of Stories explores the role narrative plays in human life. Supported by in-depth research, the book demonstrates how the ways in which people tell their stories can be indicative of how they construct their worlds and their own identities.Based on linguistic analysis and computer technology, Laszlo offers an innovative methodology which aims to uncover underlying psychological ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD