Lacan on Depression and Melancholia considers how clinical, cultural, and personal understandings of depression can be broken down and revisited to properly facilitate psychoanalytical clinical practice. The contributors to this book highlight the role of neurotic conflicts underlying depressive affects, the distinction between neurotic and psychotic structure, the nature of me...(展开全部)

In Black Sun, Julia Kristeva addresses the subject of melancholia, examining this phenomenon in the context of art, literature, philosophy, the history of religion and culture, as well as psychoanalysis. She describes the depressive as one who perceives the sense of self as a crucial pursuit and a nearly unattainable goal and explains how the love of a lost identity of attachme...(展开全部)

In Black Sun, Julia Kristeva addresses the subject of melancholia, examining this phenomenon in the context of art, literature, philosophy, the history of religion and culture, as well as psychoanalysis. She describes the depressive as one who perceives the sense of self as a crucial pursuit and a nearly unattainable goal and explains how the love of a lost identity of attachme...(展开全部)

What happens when we lose someone we love? A death, a separation or the break-up of a relationship are some of the hardest times we have to live through. We may fall into a nightmare of depression, lose the will to live and see no hope for the future. What matters at this crucial point is whether or not we are able to mourn. In this important and groundbreaking book, acclaimed ...(展开全部)

Depression is an experience known to millions. But arguments rage on aspects of its definition and its impact on societies present and past: do drugs work, or are they merely placebos? Is the depression we have today merely a construct of the pharmaceutical industry? Is depression under- or over-diagnosed? Should we be paying for expensive 'talking cure' treatments like psychoa...(展开全部)

Derrida and Lacan: Another Writing argues that Jacques Derrida's philosophical understanding of language should be supplemented by Jacques Lacan's psychoanalytic approach to the symbolic order. Lacan adopts a non-philosophical, genetic or developmental approach to the question of language and in doing so isolates a dimension that Derrida cannot properly envisage: the imaginary....(展开全部)

Synopsis The current volume represents an exciting collection of essays critically examining the relation between modern science and Lacanian psychoanalysis in approaching the question of mental suffering. Lacan & Science tackles more widely the role and logic of scientific practice in general, taking as its focus psychic processes. Constituting an invaluable addition to existi...(展开全部)

Few periods in history compare to the Great Depression. Stock market crashes, bread lines, bank runs, and wild currency speculation were worldwide phenomena - all occurring with war looming in the background. This period has provided economists with a marvelous laboratory for studying the links between economic policies and institutions and economic performance. Here, Ben Berna...(展开全部)

Few periods in history compare to the Great Depression. Stock market crashes, bread lines, bank runs, and wild currency speculation were worldwide phenomena - all occurring with war looming in the background. This period has provided economists with a marvelous laboratory for studying the links between economic policies and institutions and economic performance. Here, Ben Berna...(展开全部)

阿伦•贝克 （Aaron T. Beck） 著名的心理学家，宾夕法尼亚大学精神病学名誉教授，认知治疗学派的创立者，被誉为“美国有史以来最具影响力的五位心理治疗师之一”。贝克观察到抑郁的人具有错误或扭曲的思维模式，由此开创了区别于弗洛伊德精神分析法的认知疗法，用纠正“认知信念歪曲”的方法治疗抑郁症，获得了广泛的认同及应用。他还创办了贝克认知治疗与研究学院，将认知疗法广泛应用于抑郁、焦虑、药物滥用等临床治疗中，并开发了包括“贝克抑郁量表”在内的多种应用广泛的心理测量量表。贝克教授获得的奖项和荣誉众多，包括素有“美国的诺贝尔奖”之称的基础医学研究“亚伯雷斯克奖”（Albert Lasker Award），著述了17本书和500多种其他出版物。 布拉德•奥尔福德 （Brad A. Alford） 斯克兰顿大学心理学教授，与阿伦•贝克合著多篇关于抑郁症和认知疗...(展开全部)