In Unnatural Things Harry Williams takes you on a journey through the shadows of the human mind and the monsters that dwell there. From unsettling encounters and twisted desires to blood-soaked revenge and impossible transformations, these original tales explore the many faces of fear both supernatural and all too real.Each story is crafted to unnerve, disturb and linger long after the final page is turned. Whether it's the creeping dread of something watching from the dark, the brutal sat...

In this intelligent and insightful work, Meg Harris Williams presents a clear and readable introduction to the works of influential psychoanalyst Donald Meltzer. The book covers Meltzer’s ideas on key themes including sexuality, dreams, psychosis, perversion and aesthetics, and his work with both children and adults.This book focuses especially on Meltzer’s views on the nature of psychoanalysis itself, as an investigative method conducted by the cooperation between two people. His ...

He was one of the most extraordinary figures in American political history.Huey Long was a great natural politician who looked, and often seemed to behave, like a caricature of the redneck Southern politico and yet, at the time of his assassination, had become a serious rival to Franklin D. Roosevelt for the presidency.In this “masterpiece of American biography” (New York Times), Huey Long stands wholly revealed, analyzed, and understood.

Martha Harris (1919–1987) was one of the most influential and also one of the most loved psychoanalysts of the generation that trained with Melanie Klein. She also worked with Wilfred Bion, and wrote many books and papers on psychoanalytic training and child development. Her colleague James Gammill cites Mrs Klein as saying: "She is one of the best people I have ever known for the psychoanalysis of children … and she has a mind of her own." Harris was responsible for the child psychotherap...

The Art of Personality is a diverse selection of talks and papers on psychoanalysis and literature given by the author over the past ten years. They elaborate on the goal expressed by Milton as 'becoming a true poem': that is, seeing parallels between the gradual construction of the personality and the construction of a work of art, following an internal evolution on the lines of Bion's description of an 'endoskeletonous personality'. The works discussed range from classic Greek drama to D...

Perhaps one of the most memorable sights in the Second World War was the arrival in Scapa Flow of the Home Fleet after the successful sinking of Scharnhorst in the last week of 1943. Harry Semark was one of the few civilians privileged to witness it. This and other of his eye witness accounts, remembered with such clarity down the years, add value to the record of what was a monumentous six years in the history of not only these isles but most of the world. This book describes with complete a...

The schizophrenic is in fact completely alien to the surroundings and the personal and interpersonal events outside, retreating into his own world and reacting to stimuli in an incoherent and incomprehensible. So Schizophrenia makes progressively fragmented personality and methods of interpersonal exchange, thus involving not only the social sphere, but also the family. The first signs of schizophrenia usually occur during adolescence and early adulthood. Often the effects of the disease a...

In this impressive synthesis, William Harris narrates the history of the sectarian communities of Mount Lebanon and its vicinity. He offers a fresh perspective on the antecedents of modern multi-communal Lebanon, tracing the consolidation of Lebanon's Christian, Muslim, and Islamic derived sects from their origins between the sixth and eleventh centuries. The identities of Maronite Christians, Twelver Shia Muslims, and Druze, the mountain communities, developed alongside assertions of loca...

25 things to do before you die is a book that talks about the life achievement you need to achieve before you die, things that would give you joy before leaving this world,the book is loaded and rich to read.

For years, Jim Maxwell wanted a winning racehorse. His close friend, a thoroughbred veterinarian had an idea how to create a champion. Their experiment would be costly, and in the end confirm their convictions winners are born and not made. Motivated by his desire and conviction, Maxwell agrees with Bellman to proceed with the endeavor. However, before the initial test of their experiment, Bellman is shot to death under mysterious circumstances. Now, more then ever, Jim must prove to himse...

Quicksilver War is a panoramic political history of the wars that coursed through Syria and Iraq in the wake of the 'Arab Spring' and eventually merged to become a regional catastrophe: a kaleidoscopic and constantly shifting conflict involving many different parties and phases. William Harris distils the highly complex dynamics behind the conflict, starting with the brutalizing Baathist regimes in Damascus and Baghdad. He charts the malignant consequences of incompetent US occupa...

An introduction to the psychoanalytic writings of Donald Meltzer on clinical work, the family, and philosophy of symbol formation. The book represents a sampling of most of Meltzer's books and each chapter is introduced by a different practitioner. Some topics included are: psychoanalysis as a human activity, dream life as the generative theatre of meaning, the delusion of clarity of insight, dimensionality, aesthetic conflict, symbol formation, and the influence of Bion's ideas.