Psychoanalysis Books
The Art of Loving
A look at the theory and practice of love. The author discusses romantic love, the love of parents for children, brotherly love, erotic love, self love and love of God.
The Psychoanalysis of Sexual Functions of Women
This is the second work of Helene Deutsch's study into female psychology and sexuality. The first volume of her influential work, The Psychology of Women, appeared in 1944, to be followed by the... (more)
If Someone Speaks, It Gets Lighter: Dreams and the Reconstruction of Infant Trama
By integrating psychoanalysis and ideas from a range of other disciplines, the author describes the capacity of dreams to act as a living archive of traumas, dating from the earliest periods of life.... (more)
Psychoanalysis in Transition: A Personal View
Examines the nature of psychological therapy informed by psychoanalytical concepts. The book is laced with clinical examples and informed by classical psychoanalysis, object-relations and self... (more)
The Work of Hans Loewald: An Introduction and Commentary
A careful review and introdution to Loewald's work, based around three of his classic papers, with comments and assessments by Arnold Cooper, Roy Schafer and Lawrence Friedman. (more)
The Suppressed Madness of Sane Men: Forty-Four Years of Exploring Psychoanalysis
Marion Milner introduces this edited collection of her papers from 1942 to 1977 with a fascinating biographical account of her development in psychoanalysis. The collection includes her classic... (more)
A Way of Looking at Things: Selected Papers 1930 to 1980
This gathering of Erikson's previously uncollected writings reflects the evolution of his ideas over the course of fifty years. They cover a wide range of topics, from children's play and child... (more)
The Gender Conundrum: Contemporary Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Femininity and Masculinity
A collection of papers from British, French and American perspectives, examining the interplay of body and psyche in analysis.
In Dora's Case: Freud-Hysteria-Feminism
'These new writings - feminist, deconstructive, and Lacanian, for the most part - have a wild playfulness and a sort of sexual sparkle that...give them an extraordinary verve... The sex-playful... (more)
On Private Madness
André Green occupies a unique position in psychoanalysis today, and his work represents a synthesis of the traditions of Lacan, Winnicott and Bion. This volume collects fourteen of his papers... (more)
Soul of Wit: Joke Theory from Grimm to Freud
Wit first became a burning issue for German intellectuals after 1671 when le Pere Dominique Bonhours in his Entretiens d'Artiste et d'Eugene informed them that they didn't have any. According to... (more)
Multiple Selves, Multiple Voices: Working with Trauma, Violation and Dissociation
This volume describes ways of understanding the large group of patients who suffer from trauma-based dissociative disorders. The author explores the implications of working with personalities whose... (more)
Centres and Peripheries of Psychoanalysis: An Introduction to Psychoanalytic Studies
This book is designed to meet the needs of students who seek,
Vision and Separation: Between Mother and Baby
Using not only the ideas of Winnicott and Bowlby, but also drawing on the phenomenological tradition of Cassirer and Susanne Langer, this book examines childhood experience and the nature of therapy.... (more)
The Relational Self: Theoretical Convergences in Psychoanalysis and Social Psychology
The book is divided into four sections. The first two examine current perspectives from psychoanalytic self psychology and social psychology, and the latter two present an integration of... (more)
Thresholds Between Philosophy and Psychoanalysis: Papers from the Philadelphia Association
This interesting selection of papers illuminates the contribution of the Philadelphia Associations to philisophical criticism of psychoanalytic concepts. (more)
The Origins of Love and Hate
One of the most passionate arguments for a therapeutic practice based on the physician's love for the deeply deprived patient. It also advocates a view of human nature congruent with the findings of... (more)
Human Nature
This is Donald Winnicott's only attempt to write an overview of his ideas. It remained unfinished at his death in 1971. It is an ambitious work. The chapters offer his perspective on most of the main... (more)
Reproduction of Mothering
New edition (1999). An examination of the formation of gender, from a feminist perspective.The reproduction of mothering is seen from an intrapsychic and intersubjective sense. It investigates the... (more)
Beyond the Symbiotic Orbit: Advances in Separation-Individuation
In this tribute to Selma Kramer, eminent child analyst and colleague and close friend of the late Margaret Mahler, senior analysts explore the continuing relevance of Mahler's... (more)
Human Feelings: Explorations in Affect Development and Meaning
Human Feelings provides a comprehensive overview of the role of emotions in human life. Growing out of the research and writing of members of the Harvard Affect Study Group, the volume brings to bear... (more)
Female Sexuality: New Psychoanalytic Views
Female Sexuality represents a distinct contribution to the psychoanalytic study of feminine psychology and sexual identity. First published in France as Recherches psychanalytiques nouvelles sur la... (more)
Holding and Interpretation: Fragment of an Analysis
In his illuminating introduction, Masud Khan, to whom Dr Winnicott's case notes were entrusted, relates this definite text of Holding and Interpretation: Fragment of an Analysis to an earlier phase... (more)
Clinical Perspectives on the Supervision of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy
A collection of papers on the actual practice of analytic supervision.
The Analytic Attitude
'It is my aim in this book, writes Dr Schafer, 'to clarify the intellectual and emotional attitude adopted by the analyst at work.'
"The analytic attitude" ranks as one of Freud's greatest... (more)
Sexual Excitement: Dynamics of Erotic Life
'This is a study of sexual excitement. It is the fifth book - perhaps more accurately, the fifth chapter in one work - on masculinity and femininity (gender identity), carrying forward ideas examined... (more)