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Sigmund Freud

The Freud Reader
Sigmund Freud, Peter Gay (Editor)

Freudian thought permeates many aspects of 20th-century life, and to understand Freud is to explore not only his scientific papers but also his writings on art, literature, politics, religion and culture. Containing 51 texts which span Freud's entire career, from early case histories, through his work on dreams and essays on sexuality, and on to his late writings (including "Civilisation and Its Discontents"), this book brings together his ideas as a scientist, humanist, doctor and philosopher. Introductions to the texts are provided by Peter Gay, who has also written a general introduction which places the man and his work in the context of his time and culture.

Sigmund Freud (Key Figures in Counselling & Psychotherapy S.)
Michael Jacobs

In refreshing contrast to most other books on Sigmund Freud, this is a highly accessible account of his life and ideas, which focuses on the relevance of Freud's work for contemporary approaches to counselling and psychotherapy. The book provides an overview which is based firmly on Freud's own writings, but which goes far beyond a recapitulation of the existing literature, to offer fresh insights and some surprises, about both Freud the man and his theories. Written by best selling author, Michael Jacobs and now fully updated for its Second Edition, Sigmund Freud presents and responds to the criticisms that Freud's work attracted and charts his continuing influence in the twenty-first century. This is highly recommended reading for those training in counselling and psychotherapy as well as those studying Freud in other contexts.

Freud: a Life for Our Time
Peter Gay

Probes the professional and personal life of one of this century's most influential thinkers, analysing Freud's disputes with his students, his life in relation to the troubles of his native Austria, and his controversial love life.

Basic Freud
Michael Kahn

Freud's theories demonstrates why they are still indispensable to understanding ourselves and the way we behave.. In Basic Freud, noted psychologist Michael Kahn shows that even in the age of psychopharmaceuticals and cognitive therapy, Freud's major insights into the unconscious remain unsurpassed tools for understanding our behaviors, motivations, and emotions. Kahn presents key ideas such as the Oedipus complex, the repetition compulsion, guilt, anxiety, and defense mechanisms, along with recent research that has supported or expanded Freud's findings. Kahn also presents real case studies from his own work as a psychotherapist to show how Freudian thought has been instrumental in helping his clients discover who they are and escape from destructive patterns. Lay readers and professional psychotherapists alike will benefit from Kahn's fresh, informed, and unpretentious approach.

Dr. Freud: A Life
Paul Ferris

Dr Sigmund Freud, his work and his world, emerge in fine detail from this biography. Stoical, humorous, devious, magnificently self-aware, he tried to explain us in terms of our memories and our past.

Freud (Beginner's Guides)
Ruth Berry

This beginner's guide provides readers with the essential facts and concepts behind the "father of psychoanalysis" and his work. It examines Freud's life and times, the development of psychoanalysis and his key concepts and ideas using jargon-free language and highlighting key concepts.

Letters of Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud, Ernst L. Freud (Designer)

Over 300 of Freud's letters encompassing a period of 66 years. Among the correspondents are Albert Einstein, Havelock Ellis, H.G.Wells, and Otto Rank. More than a third of them are written to Martha Bernays during the period of their engagement, and reveal Freud as an ardent lover as well as a man of grandiose ambition.

Freud and Man's Soul
Bruno Bettelheim

Has Sigmund Freud been seriously misunderstood? Do standard translations serve only to distort his thought and conceal a profound humanism? Bettelheim cuts through the myths to reveal a greater, more passionate and also far more disturbing figure than he is usually portrayed.

Introducing Freud (Introducing... S.)
Richard Appignanesi, Oscar Zarate (Illustrator)

Aiming to demystify the facts of Freud, this text tells the story of Freud's life and ideas from his upbringing in 19th-century Vienna, his early medical career and his encounter with cocaine to the gradual evolution of his theories of the unconscious, dreams and sexuality.

Basic Writings of Sigmund Freud (Modern Library)
Sigmund Freud, A.A. Brill

Presents a selection of the important writings of the nineteenth-century psychiatrist, including "Psychopathology of Everyday Life," "The Interpretation of Dreams," and "Totem and Taboo.".

Introducing Freud
Richard Appignanesi, Oscar Zarate (Illustrator)

How to Read Freud
Josh Cohen

Granta's new How to Read series is based on a very simple, but novel, idea. Most beginners' guides to great thinkers and writers offer either potted biographies or condensed summaries of their major works. How to Read, by contrast, brings the reader face to face with the writing itself in the company of an expert guide. In this engaging introduction, Josh Cohen argues that Freud shows above all that any thought, word or action, however apparently trivial, can invite close reading. Indeed, it may be just this insight that makes psychoanalysis so many opponents. By reading - closely - short extracts from across Freud's work addressing the neuroses, the unconscious, words, death and (of course) sex, How to Read Freud brings out the paradoxical core of psychoanalytic thinking: our innermost truths only ever manifest themselves as distortions. Read attentively, our dreams, errors, jokes, symptoms, in short, our everyday lives, reveal us as masters of disguise, as unrecognisable to ourselves as to others.

Freud: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introduction S.)
Anthony Storr

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) revolutionized the way in which we think about ourselves. From its beginnings as a theory of neurosis, Freud developed psycho-analysis into a general psychology which became widely accepted as the predominant mode of discussing personality and interpersonal relationships.

Volume 1
Sigmund Freud, James Strachey (Editor), Anna Freud (Editor)

Volume 2
Sigmund Freud, Josef Breuer, James Strachey (Editor), Anna Freud (Editor)

Volume 3
Sigmund Freud, James Strachey (Editor), Anna Freud (Editor)

Volume 4: The Interpretaion of Dreams, Pt.1
Sigmund Freud, James Strachey (Editor)

Volume 5: The Interpretation of Dreams, Pt.2 and On Dreams
Sigmund Freud, James Strachey (Editor)

Volume 6: The Psychopathology of Everyday Life
Sigmund Freud, James Strachey (Editor)

Volume 7: A Case of Hysteria, Three Essays on Sexuality, and Other Works
Sigmund Freud, James Strachey (Editor)

Volume 8: Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious
Sigmund Freud, James Strachey (Editor)

Volume 9: Jensen's Gradiva and Other Works
Sigmund Freud, James Strachey (Editor)

Volume 10: Two Case Histories
(Little Hans and The Rat Man)
Sigmund Freud

Volume 11
Sigmund Freud, James Strachey (Editor)

Volume 12: The Case of Schreber, Papers on Technique, and Other Works
Sigmund Freud, James Strachey (Editor)

Volume 13: Totem and Taboo and Other Works
Sigmund Freud, James Strachey (Editor)

Volume 14: On the History of the Post Psychoanalytic Movement, Papers on Metapsychology, and Other Works
Sigmund Freud, James Strachey (Editor)

Volume 15: Introductory Letters on Psycho-analysis (Parts 1 and II)
Sigmund Freud, James Strachey (Editor)

Volume 16: Introductory Letters on Psycho-analysis, Part 3
Sigmund Freud, James Strachey (Editor)

Volume 17: An Infantile Neurosis and Other Works
Sigmund Freud, James Strachey (Editor)

Volume 18: Beyond the Pleasure Principle, Group Psychology, and Other Works
Sigmund Freud, James Strachey (Editor)

Volume 19: The Ego and the Id, and Other Works
Sigmund Freud, James Strachey (Editor)

Volume 20: An Autobiographical Study, Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety, Lay Analysis, and Other Works
Sigmund Freud, James Strachey (Editor)

Volume 21: The Future of an Illusion, Civilization and Its Discontents, and Other Works
Sigmund Freud, James Strachey (Editor)

Volume 22: New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-analysis, and Other Works
Sigmund Freud, James Strachey (Editor)

Volume 23: Moses and Monotheism, An Outline of Psycho-analysis, and Other Works
Sigmund Freud, James Strachey (Editor)

Volume 24: Indexes and Bibliographies
Sigmund Freud, James Strachey (Editor)

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