{"product_id":"secondhand-psychology-psychoanalysis-bargain-book-box-sp2870","title":"Secondhand Psychology \u0026 Psychoanalysis Bargain Book Box SP2870","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSecondhand Psychology \u0026amp; Psychoanalysis Bargain Book Box SP2870\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eNineteen books from the disputed borders of the human mind — where Freud meets his sharpest critics, where R.D. Laing challenges the entire psychiatric project, and where Oliver Sacks finds his most extraordinary patients. Psychology as literature, and it reads like it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col dir=\"ltr\" class=\"[li_\u0026amp;]:mb-0 [li_\u0026amp;]:mt-1 [li_\u0026amp;]:gap-1 [\u0026amp;:not(:last-child)_ul]:pb-1 [\u0026amp;:not(:last-child)_ol]:pb-1 list-decimal flex flex-col gap-1 pl-8 mb-3 print:block print:space-y-1\"\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003ePlaying and Reality — D.W. Winnicott (Pelican) — one of the most influential books in psychoanalytic thought: Winnicott's argument that play is not recreation but the foundation of all creative and cultural life.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat — Oliver Sacks (Picador) — the neurologist's landmark collection of clinical tales, which proved that medicine could be literature of the highest order.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe Integrity of the Personality — Anthony Storr (Pelican) — Storr's influential account of what a mature, integrated personality looks like and how psychotherapy might help achieve it.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eSexual Deviation — Anthony Storr (Pelican) — a calm, humane, and clinically authoritative examination of sexual behaviour outside the norm, remarkable for its lack of moralising.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eSanity, Madness and the Family — R.D. Laing and A. Esterson (Pelican) — the landmark study of eleven families of schizophrenic women, arguing that madness is a rational response to an impossible situation.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eLaing and Anti-Psychiatry — edited by Robert Boyers and Robert Orrill (Penguin) — a collection of essays engaging with Laing's radical critique of psychiatry, including responses from both defenders and critics.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eA Good Enough Parent — Bruno Bettelheim (Pan) — the definitive work on the crucial issues we all face in bringing up children, from the author of The Uses of Enchantment.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe Piggle: An Account of the Psychoanalytic Treatment of a Little Girl — D.W. Winnicott (Pelican) — Winnicott's detailed case study of a two-year-old child in analysis, a masterpiece of clinical writing and one of his most moving books.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eWhy Freud Was Wrong: Sin, Science and Psychoanalysis — Richard Webster — the most comprehensive and sustained critique of Freudian theory, arguing that psychoanalysis is not a science but a secular religion.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe Psychoanalytic Movement (Paladin Movements and Ideas) — Ernest Gellner (Paladin) — the philosopher's wickedly sharp examination of how psychoanalysis became a self-confirming intellectual movement immune to refutation.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThinking About Thinking: Or, Do I Sincerely Want to Be Right? — Antony Flew — the philosopher of logic on self-deception, motivated reasoning, and the defences the mind constructs against uncomfortable truths.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe Strange, Familiar and Forgotten: An Anatomy of Consciousness — Israel Rosenfield (Picador) — a neuroscientist argues that memory, perception, and consciousness are inseparable, drawing on Freud, Edelman, and clinical case studies.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe Politics of the Family and Other Essays — R.D. Laing (Pelican) — Laing's account of how the family structure itself creates the psychological disturbance it claims to protect against.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eFreud and Man's Soul — Bruno Bettelheim (Pelican) — the argument that Freud's translators systematically mistranslated his work into clinical jargon, losing the humanistic and literary dimensions of the original.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eFreud for Beginners — Richard Appignanesi and Oscar Zarate — the classic illustrated introduction to Freudian thought, which has introduced more readers to the subject than almost any other book.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe Psychobiology of Mind-Body Healing: New Concepts of Therapeutic Hypnosis — Ernest Lawrence Rossi — a scientific account of how hypnosis and suggestion actually work at the level of biology, drawing on state-of-the-art neuroscience.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eMetaphors of Mind: Conceptions of the Nature of Intelligence — Robert J. Sternberg — the cognitive psychologist's landmark analysis of the different theories of intelligence and the hidden metaphors that shape each one.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe Minimal Self: Psychic Survival in Troubled Times — Christopher Lasch (Picador) — the author of The Culture of Narcissism on the psychology of survival in an age of uncertainty, and what it costs the self to adapt.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49056539246811,"sku":"SP2870","price":120.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/sp2870.jpg?v=1785666100","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/secondhand-psychology-psychoanalysis-bargain-book-box-sp2870","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}