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A collection of papers which spans work with autistic children and autistic features in adults. It presents the links between the two groups and explains the widespread interest in the enigma of autism.

This book illustrates the distinctive psychoanalytic contribution to mental health services for children, young people, and adults, with detailed case vignettes illustrating therapeutic treatment and the ways in which staff are supported to do work that is frequently difficult and disturbing.

Presents the proceedings of the of the conference on the Psychoanalytic Therapy of Severe Disturbance held in Belfast in June 2008. This book is of interest to mental health professionals - psychiatrists, psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, psychologists, social workers and nurses who have an interest in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy.

This book is about how we can deepen our understanding of subjectivity through the use of the concept of triangulation. Fundamentally, this book seeks to address the question of how we can be objective about subjectivity. If psychology, as a scientific discipline, is concerned with the study of human experience.

Because psychoanalysis is a science of subjectivity, it is no surprise that symbolism has been of central interest from its inception and early development. This book is assembled in such a way that the reader can trace the development of the understanding of symbols and their formation and use in its historical context.

An overview of work with adolescents, covering a wide spectrum of subjects, including working with violent, depressed and suicidal adolescents, and those suffering from addictions.

Based on the 2nd International Psychoanalytic Conference: 'Aggression: From Fantasy to Action', held in May 2010, this title contains papers that were delivered at the conference, together with edited summaries of discussions from the floor that followed each paper.

The concern with time permeates Freud's work, from "Studies on Hysteria" to "Analysis Terminable and Interminable", which point out to a network of concepts that indicate Freud's complex theories on temporality. This volume brings together some of the important papers written on the topic by members of the British Psychoanalytic Society.