This book examines the anorectic's struggle. It provides the background for the case studies and vignettes, and suggests a new treatment protocol for anorexia. The book also provides an explanation for the increase of anorexia, and eating problems of all kinds, in women.

This book provides provocative evidence for a different way of conceptualizing sexuality and the erotic for women today. It conveys the challenges met with patients-on-the-page, explaining show what might go on in the mind of a psychotherapist while she works with a patient.

This book focuses on the features of the "Group-Analytic Situation" in psychotherapy and the role of the Conductor, or Leader, in creating this situation. It shows what the Conductor has to do in order to make all the members of his group active participants in the solution of their problems.

Social dreaming gives and opportunity to share a dream with others and the dream is then further developed by free association and discussion. The focus is on the dream and the social context of the dreamers, rather than the individual dreamers.

Provides a review of the different perspectives and applications of 'narcissism' as a psychoanalytic concept that has been extremely influential in the fields of psychotherapy, social science, arts and humanities. This book is useful for students and experts who look for a deeper understanding of the notion of 'narcissism' and its applications.

Social Dreaming is the name given to a method of working with dreams that are shared and associated within a gathering of people, coming together for this purpose. In the first chapter, W. Gordon Lawrence outlines some ideas on this phenomenon.