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Girl's Childhood Psychological Development, Social Change, and the Yale Child Study Center
ISBN: HB: 9780300117592, Yale University Press, December 2014
336 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 40 black&white illus.
Sixty years ago, a group of prominent psychoanalysts, developmentalists, pediatricians, and educators at the Yale Child Center joined together with the purpose of formulating a general psychoanalytic theory of children's early development. The group'...
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£65,00
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After Freud Left A Century of Psychoanalysis in America
ISBN: PB: 9780226211862, ISBN: HB: 9780226081373, University of Chicago Press, November 2014
288 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 table, 12 halftones
From August 29 to September 21, 1909, Sigmund Freud visited the United States, where he gave five lectures at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. This volume brings together a stunning gallery of leading historians of psychoanalysis and of...
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£37,00
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Fuckology Critical Essays on John Money's Diagnostic Concepts
ISBN: PB: 9780226186610, ISBN: HB: 9780226186580, University of Chicago Press, November 2014
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 1 table
One of the twentieth century's most controversial sexologists – or "fuckologists" to use his own memorable term – John Money was considered a trailblazing scientist and sexual libertarian by some, but damned by others as a fraud and a pervert.  Money...
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£22,00
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£64,00
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Jealousy
ISBN: HB: 9780300189681, Yale University Press, October 2014
304 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm, 40 black&white illus.
Compete, acquire, succeed, enjoy: the pressures of living in today's materialistic world seem predicated upon jealousy – the feelings of rivalry and resentment for possession of whatever the other has. But while our newspapers abound with stories of...
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£16,99
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Madness Is Civilization When the Diagnosis Was Social, 1948-1980
ISBN: PB: 9780226214634, ISBN: HB: 9780226771472, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
264 pp., 23x15 cm, 8 halftones
In the 1960s and 1970s, a popular diagnosis for America's problems was that society was becoming a madhouse. In this intellectual and cultural history, Michael E. Staub examines a time when many believed insanity was a sane reaction to obscene social...
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£22,00
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£42,00
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Man Who Thought He Was Napoleon Toward a Political History of Madness
ISBN: HB: 9780226025735, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 35 halftones
"The Man Who Thought He Was Napoleon" is built around a bizarre historical event and an off-hand challenge. The event? In December 1840, nearly twenty years after his death, the remains of Napoleon were returned to Paris for burial – and the next day...
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£36,00
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Hoarders Material Deviance in Modern American Culture
ISBN: PB: 9780226171715, ISBN: HB: 9780226171685, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 halftones, 1 line drawing
The verb "declutter" has not yet made it into the Oxford English Dictionary, but its ever-increasing usage suggests that it's only a matter of time. Articles containing tips and tricks on how to get organized cover magazine pages and pop up in TV pro...
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£61,00
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Call of the Trance
ISBN: HB: 9780857421906, Seagull Books, September 2014
184 pp., 21.6x12.7 cm
"The Call of the Trance" is a magnificent book that takes us to the unchartered frontiers of the forbidden. From initiation ceremonies to crises of hysteria, from suicide attempts to the ecstasies of witches, Catherine Clement explores in simple but...
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Restoration of the Self
ISBN: PB: 9780226450131, University of Chicago Press, July 2014
368 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm
In his foundational work "The Restoration of the Self", noted psychoanalyst Heinz Kohut boldly challenges what he called "the limits of classical analytic theory" and the Freudian orthodoxy. Here Kohut proposes a "psychology of the self" as a theory...
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£23,50
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Boy on the Beach Building Community through Play
ISBN: PB: 9780226150956, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
104 pp., 21.5x14 cm
Four-year-old Eli plays alone at the shore, inventing dramas out of sand and water. He is Builder, Fireman, Protector, and Scout, overcoming waves and conquering monsters. Enter Marianne and doll, Mother and Baby, eager to redefine Eli as a good fath...
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