Are You Considering Psychotherapy? is a guidebook for people who are thinking about going into therapy but aren't quite sure where to start.

Anouchka Grose looks at the various aspects of choosing a therapist, from sorting through the numerous types of treatment on offer, to deciding whether an individual practitioner is someone you might want to work with. In addition to explaining the differences between a psychiatrist, a psychotherapist and a psychologist, Grose also gives you some sense of what might happen in a session--as well as looking at the many and varied notions...

Hysteria, one of the most diagnosed conditions in human history, is also one of the most problematic. Can it even be said to exist at all? Since the earliest medical texts people have had something to say about -feminine complaints-. Over the centuries, theorizations of the root causes have lurched from the physiological to the psychological to the socio-political. Thanks to its dual association with femininity and with fakery, the notion of hysteria inevitably provokes questions about women, men, sex, bodies, minds, culture, happiness and unhappiness.

To some, it may seem...

Notes on Psychoanalysis is a collection of twenty essays on psychoanalytic themes. Written in an accessible style, it is readable by a total newcomer to the subject while also being relevant to clinicians, trainees, patients and students from different disciplines. While many of the essays focus on clinical questions, they also speak about art, comedy, fashion, fame and fiction. Freud and Lacan are central points of reference, but the book as a whole is far from doctrinaire, with all areas of psychoanalytic theory being up for discussion.

Clinical topics include acting out,...