psychoanalysis

Explores the phenomenon of slips of the tongue commonly known as Freudian slips, acts of forgetfulness, misinterpretations, and accidents, and explains what they reveal about the inner workings of the mind.

Presents a graphic novel featuring a true story from the life of the author, Raina Telgemeier. One night, Raina and her mother both wake up with terribly upset stomachs, but they both think it is just a bug. When Raina returns to school, however, and the trouble doesn't go away, it only serves to feed her worries about changing friendships, school, and food. She has to find out what is going on, and fast.

Presents two key writings by twentieth-century Swiss psychologist Carl Jung, in which he shares his thoughts on the relation between the individual and mass society, argues that self-awareness is the key to the survival of civilization, and describes how dreams offer insight into the unconscious.

Perhaps best remembered as the founder of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud has become respected as a great thinker and therapist.

"Follows the early career of Sigmund Freud, from his training in neurological research to his establishment of a therapeutic practice in Vienna [discussing] the psychoanalyst's earliest clinical experiences, his studies alongside Charcot at La Salp?tri?re and his interest in the work of his friend and colleague Joseph Brueuer."--Back cover.

"Roudinesco traces [Sigmund] Freud's life from his upbringing as the eldest of eight siblings in a prosperous Jewish-Austrian household to his final days in London, a refugee of the Nazis' annexation of his homeland ... Alert to his intellectual complexity--the numerous tensions in his character and thought that remained unresolved--Roudinesco ultimately views Freud less as a scientific thinker than as the master interpreter of civilization and culture"--Provided by publisher.

Features biographical overviews of some of the most thought-provoking philosophers of the last 2000 years.

Describes the main concepts of Individual Psychology, a theory of human behavior developed by psychology pioneer Alfred Adler, and applies the principles of the theory to topics such as inferiority complex, lifestyle, childhood memories, dreams, social adjustment, and intimate relationships.

An introduction to psychologist Carl Jung's life and work, discussing such aspects and concepts as his childhood and marriage, his friendship with Sigmund Freud, his alleged anti-Semitism, Jungian analysis, the collective unconscious, anima and animus, and the stages of life.