Two leading experts, one with a broad range of experience of institutional settings and cultures using psychodynamic, behavioral, and psychopharmacological modalities, the other an experienced psychoanalyst, bring together the complex history, causes, and treatments of schizophrenia in an easy-to-read and academically rigorous text.

Using the cultural medium of film to show how very differently social trauma is negotiated and narrated in different societies. A varied group of international experts offer a careful analysis of the psycho-historical roots of differently motivated losses of trust in social instances in connection with the concept of social trauma.

This book is a deep dive into sexual and erotic diversity. It includes the vast range of sexual and erotic orientations to help us challenge our preconceived ideas about sexuality and eroticism. It encourages us to think outside of the heteronormative narratives and opens our minds to the wide variety of ways people live their lives.

A stimulating account of some of the key challenges found in psychoanalysis through a discussion of the Specificity initiative, a research method that examines how analysts work, associate, and reflect together in a group. It offers both a study of the work and an inquiry into the realities of psychoanalytic collaboration.

Psychoanalysis has investigated character traits since its foundation by Freud but there are still those as yet uncovered. Eight neglected traits form the focus of this book, divided into two distinct parts: mostly public and mostly private. These are explored using philosophy, literature, psychiatry, social anthropology, and psychoanalysis.