Psychoanalysis Books
Strangers to Ourselves
Explores the notion of the 'stranger' - the foreigner, outsider, or alien in a country and society not their own - as well as the notion of strangeness within the self.
An Introduction to Psychoanalysis: Contemporary theory and practice
A guide to the main principles and practice of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Designed as an introductory text suitable for a wide range of courses, this account presents the core... (more)
Insight and Responsibility: Lectures on the ethical implications of psychoanalytical insight
This text examines the ethical implications of psychoanalytical insight and the origins of ethics. Topics covered include: how clinical evidence is made up of a mixture of subjective and objective;... (more)
Characterological Transformation
Johnson uses an active treatment approach that draws upon all major schools of psychotherapeutic thought, choosing techniques that serve specific purposes and outlining changes in behavioral,... (more)
Black Sun: Depression and Melancholia
Addresses the subject of melancholia in the context of art, literature, philosophy, the history of religion and culture, as well as psychoanalysis. (more)
How Freud worked: First-hand accounts of patients
An examination of the work that Freud did with his patients. This work presents analyses of interviews with ten of Freud's patients, in an attempt to find some answer to the controversy surrounding... (more)
The Freudian Mystique: Freud, Women, and Feminism
An examination of Freud's life and work, which argues that his vision was limited both by the social climate in which he worked, and by personal experiences which he preferred not to deal with. (more)
The Freud Reader
Freudian thought permeates many aspects of 20th-Century life. To understand Freud entails exploration not only of Freud's scientific and psychological papers, but also his writings on art,... (more)
Freud and his mother
This text aims to increase understanding of how Freud's relationship to his mother affected his life and work. It explores pre-oedipal aspects of Freud's personality previously ignored by Freud and... (more)
Freud and Forbidden Knowledge
A collection of essays that all use psychoanalysis to uncover the theme of forbidden knowledge in canonical works of the western tradition, from the Bible to Hamlet.
Reshaping the Psychoanalytic Domain: The Work of Melanie Klein, W.R.D. Fairbairn and D.W. Winnicott
Tracing the line of succession from Sigmund Freud, through Melanie Klein to Fairbairn and Winnicott, Judith Hughes demonstrates the internal development of the British school of psychoanalysis and... (more)
Gender and Psychoanalytic Treatment
This collection of essays explores the significance of gender in contemporary psychoanalytic theory and practice. Areas covered include Freud's formulations on women in the light of object relations... (more)
D.W. Winnicott
Presents the life, theoretical contributions, and legacy of Donald Winnicott who, as well as a psychoanalyst, was also a child psychologist and paediatrician. The book explains in detail the... (more)
Psychodynamics and Cognition
Outlines ways that methods and ideas from cognitive and information science can be used to reformulate psychoanalytic concepts and to test them outside the psychoanalytic situation. Based on a 1984... (more)
A Critical Dictionary of Psychoanalysis: New Edition
This dictionary provides helpful and incisive definitions which, read together, comprise a sustained commentary on psychoanalysis. The text has been thoroughly revised with an extended introduction,... (more)
Psychoanalysis: Toward the Second Century
Discusses how recent advances in infant research, ethology, cognitive psychology, narrative studies, and neurobiology are generating far-reaching changes in theory and technique. Divided into... (more)
Nuances of Technique in Dynamic Psychotherapy
This book aims to be a synthesis of an object relations psychoanalytic point of view with both classical psychodynamics and theory from cognitive psychology. Integration of the various psychotherapy... (more)
Cracking Up: Unconscious Work in Self Experience
In this book Bollas examines how people educate one another in the idioms of their unconscious lives, and considers also the nature and consequences of the traumas which prevent us from doing... (more)
Complete Correspondence of Sigmund Freud and Ernest Jones: 1908-1939
Charts the progress of a friendship and the psychoanalytic movement, while also touching upon contemporary historical events. Soon after their first meeting in 1908, Freud's future biographer, Ernest... (more)
Clinical and social realities
An examination of the clinical psychoanalytic situation and social reality. This volume discusses clinical issues ranging from shyness and writing-inhibitions, to transference-love and... (more)
Character & self-experience: Working with obsessive-compulsive, depressive-masochistic, narcissistic and others
Incorporating various approaches from Freud to Klein to Kohut, this text is a guide to understanding human character in terms of self-organisation. Distinctive anti-social character portraitures and... (more)
Freud, Adler and Jung: Discovering the Mind: Volume 3
Walter Kaufmann completed this, the third and final volume of his landmark trilogy, shortly before his death in 1980. The trilogy is the crowning achievement of a lifetime of study, writing, and... (more)
