Forthcoming Books
The Hardest Passage: A Psychoanalyst Accompanies Her Patient’s Journey into Dementia
A fascinating narrative of a psychoanalyst’s experience of working with a patient with dementia. It is interspersed with current theory from the literature on attachment, object relations, and... (more)
Sitting on a Suitcase: Psychoanalytic Stories
A powerful, multifaceted collection of accounts of what it means to be Jewish; to live under the shadow of anti-Semitism and unspoken threat of emigration. This diverse, minority community is marked... (more)
A Guilty Victim: Recovering Creativity after Trauma and Abuse
A Guilty Victim tells the true story of one man’s recovery from childhood trauma, grooming, and sexual abuse at a Catholic boarding school. This contemporary account of psychotherapy with an adult... (more)
Bion’s Vertices: On Truth and Lies
What is the place of truth and lies in psychoanalytic discourse? What are the consequences in terms of collusion and communication? How can a ‘lie’ carry a meaning? These questions, and many more,... (more)
Hatred and Forgiveness
Julia Kristeva refracts the impulse to hate (and our attempts to subvert, sublimate, and otherwise process it) through psychoanalysis and text, exploring worlds, women, religion, portraits, and the... (more)
The Somato-Psychic Realm: Analytic Receptivity and Resonance
Influenced by the groundbreaking work of Wilfred Bion, The Somato-Psychic Realm: Analytic Receptivity and Resonance sees 10 internationally acclaimed psychoanalysts explore the complex... (more)
Learning and Unlearning through the Clinical Encounter: Becoming a Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist
This book examines the learning process of becoming a psychoanalytic practitioner and presents training experiences at the Tavistock Clinic through the lens of both teachers and trainees.
The... (more)
The Dread of Falling: Reflections on Primitive Mental States
The Dread of Falling: Reflections on Primitive Mental States offers a comprehensive and original view of primitive mental states from a psychoanalytic perspective, allowing the reader to understand... (more)
A Psychoanalytic Childhood: A Memoir of Growing up in Mid-Twentieth-Century New York
Writer Caroline Zilboorg tells the fascinating story of growing up in New York City in the 1950s as the daughter of the Russian-American psychoanalyst and medical historian Gregory Zilboorg, a... (more)
Explorations in Fatherland: Psychotherapeutic Reflections on Fathers and Fatherhood
This book explores the role of fathers from a broadly psychoanalytic lens, looking at fatherhood from the evolving perspective of fathers, the rest of the family, and society as a whole.
Edwards... (more)
The Mind Movement: Integrating Body, Breath and Movement
The Mind Movement consists of two main areas of social change: 1) a social movement for individuals to talk about and learn to take accountability for their mental health, and 2) motivating people to... (more)
Therapeutic Love and Heartfullness: Meanderings Through Group Analysis, Group Analytic Art Therapy and Individual Therapy
This book introduces the concepts of “therapeutic love” and “heartfullness,” combining models of group analysis, art therapy, and individual psychotherapy to present a new psychotherapeutic framework... (more)
Decolonising Counselling and Psychotherapy: Depoliticised Pathways Towards Intersectional Practice
Decolonisation is a term which has become a modern day buzzword as we look to understand the influences of the systemic structures of oppression which have molded all of our identities, yet, in the... (more)
An Introduction to Fairbairn’s Psychology of Dynamic Structure: The Analysis of Cultural Objects
This work introduces Fairbairn’s original object relations theory (his psychology of dynamic structure) and applies it to a number of cultural objects. Namely, a perplexing mannerist painting by... (more)
The Psychodynamics of Trauma and Modern Horror Cinema: I Am What Haunts Me
In this illuminating volume, Carlos Pitillas and Ismael Martínez-Biurrun provide in-depth analysis of contemporary horror films from a psychoanalytic perspective.
Drawing on Freudian... (more)
Freud's Ghost in Africa: Migrants and Madness
Much has been written about migration from a historic, economic and social perspective, but little has been written about it from a psychiatric or psychoanalytic point of view. Through the work of... (more)
The Severed Head: Capital Visions
Informed by a provocative exhibition at the Louvre curated by the author, The Severed Head unpacks artistic representations of severed heads from the Paleolithic period to the present. Surveying... (more)
This Incredible Need to Believe
"Unlike Freud, I do not claim that religion is just an illusion and a source of neurosis. The time has come to recognize, without being afraid of 'frightening' either the faithful or the agnostics,... (more)
The Old Man and the Wolves: A Novel
Part detective story, part fable, this novel, narrated by a French journalist, takes the reader to a mythical postindustrial city where the boundaries between East and West, civilization and... (more)
Possessions: A Novel
This sequel to Julia Kristeva’s celebrated allegory The Old Man and the Wolves returns to the corrupt seaside resort of a mythical town, where the boundaries between East and West, civilization and... (more)
Tales of Love
Julia Kristeva pursues her exploration of the core emotions of the human psyche through a series of philosophical and literary texts. She focuses on the role of narcissism and idealization in the... (more)
The Ideological Brain: A Radical Science of Susceptible Minds
Why do some people become radicalized? Who is most susceptible to ideological thinking? Can we unchain our minds from toxic dogmas?
Drawing on her groundbreaking research, Dr Leor Zmigrod... (more)
What We Truly Need: Experiences of a Psychoanalyst
Finding happiness and contentment: What makes us truly content and what lures us down the wrong path.
How to live more authentically: Draw courage from the experiences of a psychoanalyst to fight... (more)
The Samurai: A Novel
Julia Kristeva’s dazzling fictional debut is an intellectual adventure, full of vitality, sensuousness, and sustained lyricism. Reminiscent of The Mandarins, Simone de Beauvoir’s 1954 masterpiece,... (more)
Proust and the Sense of Time
Julia Kristeva presents a thoroughly original and compelling reading of Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past, first delivered at the 1992 T.S. Eliot Memorial Lectures at Canterbury. Kristeva's first... (more)
Passions of Our Time
Julia Kristeva is a true polymath, an intellectual of astonishingly wide range whose erudition and insight have been brought to bear on psychoanalysis, literary criticism, gender and sex, and... (more)
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)
Fanon, Psychoanalysis and Critical Decolonial Psychology: The Mind of Apartheid
This groundbreaking book examines the psychological dimension of decolonial thought in reference to foundational texts. Previously published as A Critical Psychology of the Postcolonial, this new... (more)
Psychoanalytic Group Psychotherapy: A Contemporary Introduction
In this comprehensive volume, Richard M. Billow provides a thorough introduction to group psychotherapy from a psychoanalytic perspective.
Billow integrates contemporary psychoanalytic... (more)
Existential Psychoanalysis: A Contemporary Introduction
A fascinating introductory volume, Existential Psychoanalysis: A Contemporary Introduction integrates existential philosophy with psychoanalysis, drawing on key theorists from both areas and expertly... (more)