Title Tag: Psychology: Professional & General

This book illuminates the individual and social nightmare world of phobic phenomena. Jargon-free and wriiten by an expert in the field, it unravels the recognisable but enigmatic language of psychoanalysis.

Traces the manifestation of this universal psychological phenomenon from Ted Hughes' OVID to Freud. Jagon-free and written by a leading figure in the field, it unravels the recognisable but enigmatic language of psychoanalysis.

Affect refers to the strange emotions we often centre on external objects, and the corresponding system of values we create by these attachments. Through consideration of the media spectacle and mass emotion of events like Princess Diana's death, Affect challenges the view that emotion is a private affair, distinct from our public personas.

Icon's intriguing series of small books on the key ideas of psychoanalysis grows apace with three brand new titles, all by hugely respected authors. David Bell traces the history of understanding paranoia from Freud to the practise of analysis today. Broaching such topics as racism and religion, he explains that paranoia is not simply an individualised neurosis but a social phenomenon that touches us all.

From fashion to football, in our dreams and epiphanies, through jealous rages and moments of genius, the effects of castration anxiety, so claims Ivan Ward, are ever-present. Freud's famous 'castration complex' is met with continually in analytic experience. Yet it seems an unbelievable idea. Taking his evidence from myth, clinical practice and the sexual theories of children, Freud established the castration complex as one of the determining factors of human sexual desire and personality development. Ideas in Psychoanalysis continues to go where no other books dare Expertly written by the series editor, Ivan Ward Ask your Faber rep about extra discounts for bulk buys with Ideas series