As a physician you have a responsible job with a high workload. You are deeply committed and work hard to provide good care. But how well do you take care of yourself? How do you keep yourself from burning out?

This book shows why doctors struggle and what the consequences are, both for the doctor and the patient. It shows, underpinned by scientific research, why self-compassion is the perfect antidote to the stress that doctors experience every day. And it teaches you to work with self-compa...

Provides an introduction to the field of psychology, from its origins to the present, and shows the contribution of psychology to understanding human behaviour and experience. This book introduces students to the five core conceptual frameworks (or approaches) to psychology: biological; behaviourist; cognitive; psychodynamic; and humanistic.

If you don't know your incest taboo from your Oedipal complex, and you want to understand more about the culture we're living in, then Totem and Taboo is the book to read.

C. G. Jung saw that people all over the world believe in UFOs, and want them to be real. This fact constitutes the starting point of a fascinating exploration of the phenomena.

Hugely controversial on publication, this is an insightful and characteristically entertaining survey of animal behaviour and the evolution of aggression throughout the animal world.

The Ethics of Psychoanalysis remains a powerful and controversial work that is still argued over today by the likes of Judith Butler and Slavoj Zizek.

Therapeutic Work for Children with Complex Trauma offers a contemporary three-track psychodynamic treatment model to mental health professionals working with traumatised children and their caregivers. The authors bring out the specific dynamics of the psychotherapeutic work through four composite cases woven through the book.

In this book, Frank Yeomans, Diana Diamond and Eve Caligor provide a systemic review of Otto Kernberg’s multiple contributions to psychoanalysis, psychiatry, psychology and our understanding of the mind and group behaviour.