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  • Alan Bristow, Helicopter Pioneer

    The Autobiography

    by Alan Bristow, Patrick Malone ...
    "You could be forgiven for taking Bristow's story as the invention of an action thriller writer . . . One of the best flying books you'll ever read." — Pilot MagazineAlan Bristow was a truly remarkable man. As a merchant navy officer cadet during the war, he survived two sinkings, played a part in the evacuation of Rangoon and was credited with shooting down two Stukas in North Africa. He joined ... Read more

    $9.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Paranoid Knowledge

    Psychoanalysis and the Interpretation of Mad Writing

    by Alan Bristow ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book inserts Lacanian theory into contemporary debates within the emerging interdisciplinary field of ‘Mad Studies’ via an analysis of psychotic writing. The author questions what psychoanalysis can offer a progressive, emancipatory means for engaging madness. Taking the Memoirs of Daniel Paul Schreber and the Exegesis of Philip K. Dick as the primary sites of investigation, the book examines ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

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  • Jouissance

    Sexuality, Suffering and Satisfaction

    by Darian Leader ...
    Although the term 'jouissance' is common currency in psychoanalysis today, how much does it really tell us? While often taken to designate a fusion of sexuality, suffering and satisfaction, the term has fallen into a purely descriptive use that closes down more questions than it opens up. Although assumed to explain the coalescence of pleasure and pain, it tends to cover a range of quite different ... Read more

    $18.00 USD

  • Phenomenology: The Basics

    by Dan Zahavi ...
    Series series The Basics
    Phenomenology: The Basics is a concise and engaging introduction to one of the important philosophical movements of the twentieth century and to a subject that continues to grow and diversify. Yet it is also a challenging subject, the elements of which can be hard to grasp.This lucid book provides an introduction to the core ideas of phenomenology and to the arguments of its principal thinkers, ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • A Brief Introduction to Psychoanalytic Theory

    by Stephen Frosh ...
    Psychoanalytic theory remains hugely influential to our understanding of the mind and human behaviour. It provides a rich source of ideas for therapeutic practice while offering dramatic insights for the study of culture and society, with applications that extend across film, literature and politics. Taking you step-by-step through Freud's original ideas and their evolution, this book explores the ... Read more

    $30.79 USD

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  • Freud and Psychoanalysis

    Six Introductory Lectures

    by John Forrester ...
    John Forrester’s passionate yet probing engagement with Freud and psychoanalysis is legendary. Here, in six introductory lectures delivered to his students at the University of Cambridge, his range and lucidity bring the evolution of Freud’s thinking and the nature of Freud’s discoveries into sharp focus. With an historian’s eye for context, Forrester explores Freud’s biography, the scientific ... Read more

    $16.00 USD

  • Vygotsky

    Philosophy and Education

    by Jan Derry ...
    Series series Journal of Philosophy of Education
    Vygotsky Philosophy and Education reassesses the works of Russian psychologist Lev Vygotsky work by arguing that his central ideas about the nature of rationality and knowledge were informed by the philosophic tradition of Spinoza and Hegel.Presents a reassessment of the works of Lev Vygotsky in light of the tradition of Spinoza and Hegel informing his workReveals Vygotsky’s connection with the ... Read more

    $36.25 USD

  • Self and Other

    Exploring Subjectivity, Empathy, and Shame

    by Dan Zahavi ...
    Can you be a self on your own or only together with others? Is selfhood a built-in feature of experience or rather socially constructed? How do we at all come to understand others? Does empathy amount to and allow for a distinct experiential acquaintance with others, and if so, what does that tell us about the nature of selfhood and social cognition? Does a strong emphasis on the first-personal ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Human Mind

    Subjectivity, Science and Experiences in Change

    by Line Joranger ...
    Series series Cultural Dynamics of Social Representation
    One of the main aims of modern mental health care is to understand a person's explicit and implicit ways of thinking and acting. So, it may seem like the ultimate paradox that mental health care services are currently overflowing with brain concepts belonging to the external, visible brain-world and that neuroscientists are poised to become new experts on human conduct. An Interdisciplinary ... Read more

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  • Having A Life

    Self Pathology after Lacan

    by Lewis A. Kirshner ...
    What is it about "having a life"- which is to say, about having a sense of separate existence as a subject or self - that is usually taken for granted but is so fragilely maintained in certain patients and, indeed, in most of us at especially difficult times? In Having A Life: Self Pathology After Lacan, Lewis Kirshner takes this Lacanian question as the point of departure for a thoughtful ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Existential Therapy

    Legacy, Vibrancy and Dialogue

    Edited by Laura Barnett, Greg Madison ...
    Series series Advancing Theory in Therapy
    In 1958 in their book Existence, Rollo May, Henri Ellenberger and Ernst Angel introduced existential therapy to the English-speaking psychotherapy world. Since then the field of existential therapy has moved along rapidly and this book considers how it has developed over the past fifty years, and the implications that this has for the future.In their 50th anniversary of this classic book, Laura ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • 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

    $68.99 USD