This volume, evolving from a series of lectures, attempts to answer the question: why does conversation have the power to heal? Combining his own substantial experience of psychoanalysis with rigorous academic research, respected psychoanalyst and...

The papers in this book have been written over a period of fifteen years, and focus in the similarity between psychoanalysis and religion. Symington argues that psychoanalysis can be seen as a scientific religion with Freud as the leader of the mo...

This new title, from a distinguished psychoanalyst, will inspire both those in the psychoanalytic field, and the general reader.'In this book I attempt to sketch out a "psychology of the person". The definition of "person" implies that no two peop...