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Author:   Stephen Frosh (Birkbeck, University of London)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Edition:   2nd edition
ISBN:  

9781350534070

ISBN 10:   1350534072
Pages:   280
Publication Date:   05 February 2026
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  

Table of Contents

Preface to the Second Edition PART ONE: FREUDIAN THEORY Chapter 1: The Appeal of Psychoanalysis Chapter 2: Main Schools of Psychoanalysis Chapter 3: What Freud was Trying to Do Chapter 4: The Freudian Unconscious Chapter 5: Sex, aggression, life and death Chapter 6: Repression and Other Defences Chapter 7: The Structure of the Mind: id, ego, superego. Chapter 8: Oedipus, Masculinity, Femininity Chapter 9: Psychopathology: What Makes Us Sad (and Mad) PART TWO: DEVELOPMENTS IN PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY Chapter 10: Psychoanalysts after Freud Chapter 11: Attachment, Mentalisation and Neuropsychoanalysis Chapter 12: The Principles of Object Relations Theory Chapter 13: Mourning, Melancholia, Loss and Trauma Chapter 14: The Paranoid-Schizoid Position and Other Extremes Chapter 15: Projection and Psychosis Chapter 16: Imaginary, Symbolic and Real: Lacanian psychoanalysis PART THREE: THEORY OF THERAPY Chapter 17: Interpretation and Transference Chapter 18: Countertransference and Intersubjectivity PART FOUR: WIDER APPLICATIONS Chapter 19: Psychoanalysis, Film and Literature Chapter 20: Politics and Society Chapter 21: Class, Gender and Race Conclusion Recommended Reading

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This most impressive book should be welcomed not only by all coming new to the detailed study of psychoanalysis but also by experienced clinicians and trainees from many psychotherapeutic approaches. * Review of the first edition, Therapy Today *

Author Information

Stephen Frosh is Emeritus Professor of Psychology at Birkbeck, University of London, an Academic Associate of the British Psychoanalytical Society and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. He is the author of many books and papers on psychosocial studies and on psychoanalysis.

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