Top 10 Titles
1. Axioms of Mind and Lived Experience: On Character and the Assumed
Christopher Bollas presents an elusive and puzzling form of unconscious life that has hitherto eluded psychoanalytic theory. “The assumed” identifies select unconscious processes that are a crucial... (more)
2. Raising Confident Teenagers: The Take 3 Approach to Parenting Calmly in a Stressful World
An easily accessible and invaluable resource for parents of teenagers who want to improve the parent–teen relationship, and for professionals working with young people and their families. Packed with... (more)
3. Explorations of Mourning in Psychoanalysis and Literature: Turning Ghosts into Ancestors
This book explores the conflict between holding on to and letting go of loss, paying homage to Freud’s classic ‘Mourning and Melancholia’ and building on its foundation with contemporary... (more)
4. Bion and Psychosis: A Long Road to Clinical Discovery
This comprehensive work systematically describes Wilfred Bion’s work on psychosis and critically develops his contribution in order to arrive at an appropriate and modern understanding of the... (more)
5. Psychotechnical Becomings: Psychoanalysis, Identity, Desire, and Mourning in the Age of AI and Digital Mediation
Psychotechnical Becomings draws on contemporary philosophy and media theory to offer a groundbreaking reimagining of psychoanalysis for the digital age, showing how technology shapes human... (more)
6. The Joy of Torment: Understanding and Managing Sadomasochism
A search for answers on the subject of sadomasochism: its origins, forms and functions, nature, and societal status. An international group of distinguished psychiatrists, psychologists, and... (more)
7. Streams of Consciousness: Notebooks 1991–2024
Never originally intended for publication, Streams of Consciousness represent the private stream of ongoing thinking that has accompanied Christopher Bollas’ clinical practice and extensive published... (more)
8. In Short: Private Notes of a Psychoanalyst
In Short: Private Notes of a Psychoanalyst is wise, uplifting and inspiring. Salman Akhtar brings his talent for poetic literature to gift us 111 pithy ‘proto essays’ on a wide range of subjects. His... (more)
9. Freud in Istanbul: Turkish Contributions to Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis
A vital book that seeks to place Turkish contributions to psychoanalytic theory and practice on the international stage from which, until now, it has been curiously absent. It includes chapters from... (more)
10. Navigating Racial Landscapes: Wholeness and Wounds
In Navigating Racial Landscapes: Wholeness and Wounds, the therapy room becomes a microcosm of the world’s racial tensions, where the work involves both exploring the inner topography of the self and... (more)