Top 10 Titles
1. Bluebird: The Place of Death and Fear of Dying in My Long, Good Life
This uplifting memoir is a meditation on mortality and the art of living. Exploring death, dying and the impact of life-threatening illness, it raises profound questions that provoke the reader to... (more)
2. Perversions: A Contemporary Introduction
Perversions: A Contemporary Introduction offers a comprehensive exploration of psychoanalytic theories of perversion, tracing their evolution from Freud through contemporary practice with particular... (more)
3. Anxiety: Clarification, Critique and Update
A much-needed exploration of anxiety from a variety of outlooks: conceptual, developmental, cultural, and clinical – from both the patient and the analyst’s viewpoint. Ten original papers from ten... (more)
4. Our Eternal Home: Bion’s Idea of the Self
In this fascinating volume, Meg Harris Williams explores Wilfred Bion’s autobiographical works, analysing their theoretical importance and continued relevance to the personal experience of others.... (more)
5. Fragments from an Extraordinary Life: Thriving on Adversity
Profesora Estela Welldon has lived a life anything but ordinary. A life filled from her earliest years with adventure, passion, hard work, despair, success, failure, love, and loss. Her story is... (more)
6. Embodied Psychoanalysis: Body, Mind and Relationships
A practical and reflective guide for analysts seeking to deepen their understanding of the interrelation between body, mind, and the intersubjective relationship. Weaving together theory and clinical... (more)
7. Knowledge and Its Pretenders: Perspectives on Klein
In this book, David Bell examines Melanie Klein's central contributions and their later evolution, contextualising them within a broader cultural and intellectual framework.
Klein, building on... (more)
8. 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)
9. Through the Dark Clearly: The Art of Seeing What Others Miss
Manfred Kets de Vries invites us to pause, to think, to laugh, and to recalibrate. His reflections are shaped by decades of work as a psychoanalyst, professor, leadership scholar, executive coach,... (more)
10. One Hundred Years of Psychoanalysis: A Timeline: 1900-2000
A comprehensive timeline of psychoanalysis depicting the major thinkers, theories, publications and events in the history of psychoanalysis throughout the 20th Century, placing them within the wider... (more)