18 books like Psychanalysis, its theories and practical application

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Dream Psychology Sigmund Freud · 2017 · ★ 3.4 · 255p · ≈ 8h · Moderate The Interpretation of Dreams is a book by Sigmund Freud. The first edition was first published in German in November 1899 as Die Traumdeutung (though post-dated as 1900 by the publisher). The publication inaugurated the theory of Freudian dream analysis, which activity Freud famously described as "the royal road to the understanding of unconscious mental processes". Shares: Dream interpretation, Dreams, Psychoanalysis, Psychology

Die Traumdeutung Sigmund Freud · 1899 · ★ 3.8 · 692p · ≈ 23h · Demanding Die Werke von Sigmund Freud sorgsam zusammengetragen und gesammelt in E-Book-Ausgabe. Diese umfangreiche Sammlung der Werke des weltweit bekannten und berühmten österreichischen Neurologen, Tiefenpsychologen, Kulturtheoretikers, Religionskritikers und Begründers der Psychoanalyse enthält u. a.: Das Ich und das Es Über Psychoanalyse Totem und Tabu Die Traumdeutung Massenpsychologie und… Shares: Dream interpretation, Dreams, Psychoanalysis, Psychology

The Forgotten Language; An Introduction to the Understanding of Dreams, Fairy Tales, and Myths Erich Fromm · 1951 · 263p · ≈ 8h · Moderate In this book, the author presents a challenging discussion of the nature of the dream experience. Dr. Fromm offers his own concepts in dream interpretation, supported by numerous case histories. He presents a comprehensive study of the Oedipus myth, among other myths and fairy tales; outlines the differing approaches of Freud and Jung in relation to his own; and relates his perspectives on modern… Shares: Dream interpretation, Dreams, Psychoanalysis

Totem und Tabu Sigmund Freud · 1913 · ★ 3.7 · 186p · ≈ 6h · Challenging Freud investigates the function and structure of totemic systems among primitive peoples and presents a psychoanalytical study of modern taboos. Shares: Neuroses, Psychoanalysis, Psychology

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat Oliver Sacks · 1980 · ★ 4.0 · 317p · ≈ 10h · Moderate In his most extraordinary book, “one of the great clinical writers of the twentieth century” (The New York Times) recounts the case histories of patients lost in the bizarre, apparently inescapable world of neurological disorders. Oliver Sacks’s The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat tells the stories of individuals afflicted with fantastic perceptual and intellectual aberrations: patients who… Shares: Pathological Psychology, Psychoanalysis, Psychology

Psychology and morals J. A. Hadfield · 1923 · 219p · ≈ 7h · Challenging Originally published in 1923, this book had enjoyed constant and wide success, being reprinted fourteen times. In this new and thoroughly revised edition, published in 1964, the author has reconsidered his conclusions in the light of modern psychology of the time, and includes many case histories from his long experience as a psychiatrist. The book was important for its insistence that there is… Shares: Pathological Psychology, Psychoanalysis, Psychology

Serial Killers Peter Vronsky · 2004 · ★ 4.0 · 422p · ≈ 14h · Moderate A comprehensive examination into the frightening true crime history of serial homicide—including information on America’s most prolific serial killers such as:Jeffrey Dahmer • Ted Bundy • “Co-ed Killer” Ed Kemper • The BTK Killer • “Highway Stalker” Henry Lee Lucas • Monte Ralph Rissell • “Shoe Fetish Slayer” Jerry Brudos • “Night Stalker” Richard Ramirez • “Unabomber”… Shares: Pathological Psychology, Psychology

Psychic self-defence Violet M. Firth (Dion Fortune) · 1930 · ★ 3.6 · 225p · ≈ 7h · Challenging Shares: Pathological Psychology, Psychology

Mythus von der Geburt des Helden Otto Rank · 1914 · 100p · ≈ 3h · Challenging Originally published in German in 1909, Otto Rank's The Myth of the Birth of the Hero offered psychoanalytical interpretations of mythological stories as a means of understanding the human psyche. Like his mentor Freud, Rank compared the myths of such figures as Oedipus, Moses, and Sargon with common dreams, seeing in both a symbolic fulfillment of repressed desire. Thirteen years later, Rank… Shares: Pathological Psychology, Psychoanalysis, Psychology

Zur psychopathologie des alltagslebens (The psychopathology of everyday life) Sigmund Freud · 1904 · ★ 3.4 · 318p · ≈ 10h · Challenging One of Freud's key works which, along with 'Introduction to Psychoanalysis' and 'The Ego and the Id' laid the basic framework for his theories of psychoanalysis. Shares: Pathological Psychology, Psychology

Critique of psychoanalysis Carl Gustav Jung · 1956 · ★ 4.2 · 266p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Extracted from Volumes 1, 8, and 18. Includes Jung's Foreword to Phenomènes Occultes (1939), "On the Psychology and Pathology of So-called Occult Phenomena," "The Psychological Foundations of Belief in Spirits," "The Soul and Death," "Psychology and Spiritualism," "On Spooks: Heresy or Truth?" and Foreword to Jaffé: Apparitions and Precognition. Shares: Dreams, Psychoanalysis, Psychology

Jenseits des Lustprinzips Sigmund Freud · 1920 · ★ 3.0 · 81p · ≈ 2h · Challenging p. 64 missing Shares: Psychoanalysis, Psychology

Ecrits Jacques Lacan · 1966 · ★ 4.2 · 352p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Presents an English translation of Jacques Lacan's most famous work, with translations of all the papers featured in the original French edition. Shares: Psychoanalysis, Psychology

Abriss der Psychoanalyse Sigmund Freud · 1949 · ★ 4.3 · 75p · ≈ 2h · Challenging One of fifteen volumes in the new Freud series commissioned for Penguin by series editor Adam Phillips. Part of a plan to generate a new, non-specialist Freud for a wide readership, which goes way beyond the institutional/clinical market and presents material to the reader in a new way. This volume will contain NEW INTRODUCTORY LECTURES IN PSYCHOANALYSIS and AN OUTLINE OF PSYCHOANALYSIS. Shares: Psychoanalysis, Psychology

The science of living Alfred Adler · 1929 · ★ 3.9 · 264p · ≈ 8h · Challenging The Science of Living (Published in 1930) looks at Individual Psychology as a science. Adler discusses the various elements of Individual Psychology and its application to everyday life. This book includes sections on the inferiority complex, the superiority complex, and other related aspects like love, marriage, sex and sexuality, and the education of children. Concrete, particular, unique… Shares: Psychoanalysis, Psychology

Fantasia of the unconscious D. H. Lawrence · 1922 · 175p · ≈ 5h · Challenging This is novel book. Let us start by making a little apology to Psychoanalysis. It wasn't fair to jeer at the psychoanalytic unconscious; or perhaps it was fair to jeer at the psychoanalytic unconscious, which is truly a negative quantity and an unpleasant menagerie. What was really not fair was to jeer at Psychoanalysis as if Freud had invented and described nothing but an unconscious, in all his… Shares: Psychoanalysis, Psychology

Medea Esa Roos · 2015 · 208p · ≈ 6h · Moderate This book takes Euripides tragedy of Medea as its starting point. Our unconscious fantasies can be embedded in age-old myths, and many modern works about Medea reflect our ever-present interest in such myths. The Danish film director T.H. Dreyer had plans to produce a film about the story of Medea, while his countryman Lars von Trier did in fact make his own version of Medea, based on Dreyers… Shares: Psychoanalysis, Psychology

Advances in Psychology Research Alexandra M. Columbus · 2008 · 199p · ≈ 6h · Moderate "Advances in Psychology Research" presents original research results on the leading edge of psychology research. Each article has been carefully selected in an attempt to present substantial psychology advances across a broad spectrum. Shares: Psychology

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