30-Second Psychology: The 50 Most Thought-Provoking Psychology Theories, Each Explained in Half a Minute (HARDBACK)

The key ideas in Psychology explained, with colour illustrations, in half a minute.Pavlov’s Dogs, Psychoanalysis, Milgram’s Obedience Study, and Beck’s Cognitive Therapy? Sure, you know what they all mean. That is, you’ve certainly heard of them. But do you know enough about these psychology theories to join a dinner party debate or dazzle the bar with your knowledge?30-Second Psychology t…

Affect and Emotion

Our emotions and feelings are central to who we are and the quality of our lives. Some people manage by denying or getting rid of their feelings, some cannot control their emotions, and others seem unable to feel very much at all. This book shows how psychoanalysis can illuminate the emotional and affective aspects of our beings. Using everyday examples, Graham Music describes the ways in which p…

Anxiety

Anxiety is a feeling that is familiar to all of us. But what exactly is it, and what function does it have in the development of the human personality? Anxiety serves as a signal that danger in some form is present. However, this danger may be perceived as arising from external or internal sources, and may be the conscious symptom of a variety of powerful fantasies in the unconscious mind. Ricky …

Castration

From fashion to football, in our dreams and epiphanies, through jealous rages and moments of genius, the effects of castration anxiety, so claims Ivan Ward, are ever-present. Freud's famous 'castration complex' is met with continually in analytic experience. Yet it seems an unbelievable idea. Taking his evidence from myth, clinical practice and the sexual theories of children, Freud esta…

Cracked: Why Psychiatry is Doing More Harm Than Good (PAPERBACK)

Controversial and powerful – a shocking indictment of the pseudo-science at the heart of modern psychiatry. One in four people in the UK and US will develop a mental disorder in any given year. That’s what psychiatry tells us. But many – even most – will not actually be mentally ill. Thanks to pseudo-science and corporate greed, psychiatry is letting us down.  Contro…

Darkness Visible: Inside the World of Philip Pullman

Philip Pullman is one of the world's most popular and original authors, loved by children and adults alike. Containing an astonishing cast of characters and richly complex plots, Pullman's fiction can be read and understood at many different levels. Darkness Visible explores the world of Philip Pullman, from the flamboyant Sally Lockhart series and the award-winning Clockwork and I Was a Rat!, to…

Depression

Most of the time most of us feel mostly OK. Yet depression is now recognised as the commonest cause of disability and death of any disease. How can we understand this epidemic of human misery, and in what ways can psychotherapy contribute to our knowledge of its causes and treatment? This essay looks at a range of psychotherapies - cognitive, systemic and psychoanalytic - and their contributions …

Envy

Branded as one of the seven deadly sins and the reason in Christian mythology for Satan's fall from grace, envy is endemic in modern life. Although recognised as a pivotal state of mind centuries before psychoanalysis, in contemporary times it has been fostered relentlessly through advertising and the media. No wonder then, that in the new millennium it has reached crisis proportions. Many psycho…

Eros

Sex can be some of the best and worst of what happens between people - from love affairs to paedophilia. So how are we to understand sexual excitement and its relationship to love and concern? Freud gave the name Eros to his concept of the Life Instinct - the drive to endure and procreate. At best, imaginative activity, sexual desire and love all involve a multitude of connections within and betw…