Psychoanalysis Books

If Someone Speaks, It Gets Lighter: Dreams and the Reconstruction of Infant Trama

by Lynda Share

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

by Merton M. Gill

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

Edited by Gerald I. Fogel

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

by Marion Milner

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

by Erik H. Erikson

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)

Identity and the Life Cycle

by Erik H. Erikson

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The Gender Conundrum: Contemporary Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Femininity and Masculinity

Edited by Dana Birksted-Breen

A collection of papers from British, French and American perspectives, examining the interplay of body and psyche in analysis. (more)

From Klein to Kristeva: Psychoanalytic Feminism and the Search for the 'Good Enough Mother'

by Janice Doane

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In Dora's Case: Freud-Hysteria-Feminism

Edited by Charles Bernheimer

'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)

Soul of Wit: Joke Theory from Grimm to Freud

by Carl Hill

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

by Phil Mollon

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

Edited by Richard Ekins, Ruth Freeman

This book is designed to meet the needs of students who seek, in one volume, a text which places emphasis upon core concepts and clinical material,but which at the same time reflects the... (more)

Vision and Separation: Between Mother and Baby

by Kenneth Wright

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

by Rebecca C. Curtis

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

Edited by Robin Cooper

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

by Ian Suttie

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)

Reproduction of Mothering

by Nancy Chodorow

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)

A Critique of Psychoanalytic Reason: Hypnosis from Lavoisier to Lacan

by Leon Chertok

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Beyond the Symbiotic Orbit: Advances in Separation-Individuation

Edited by Salman Akhtar, Henri Parens

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

Edited by Steven L. Ablon, Daniel Brown

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)

Holding and Interpretation: Fragment of an Analysis

by Donald W. Winnicott

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)

Klein

by Hanna Segal

Melanie Klein (1882-1960) was a pioneer of child analysis whose work with children enabled her to gain insight on the deepest states of the mind and thus to make a fundamental contribution to... (more)

Clinical Perspectives on the Supervision of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy

Edited by Leopold Caligor, Philip M. Bromberg

A collection of papers on the actual practice of analytic supervision. (more)

Sexual Excitement: Dynamics of Erotic Life

by Robert J. Stoller

'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)

Sex and Gender: The Development of Masculinity and Femininity

by Robert J. Stoller

In this book, Dr Stoller describes patients with marked abberrations in their masculinity and feminity--primarily transsexuals, transvestites and patients with marked biological abnormalities of... (more)

Shame and the Self

by Francis J. Broucek

Explores the affect and function of shame, and its relationship to sexuality, self and others. The book breaks new ground in establishing a perspective on narcissism that differs markedly from... (more)

Marriage and Its Discontents: Variations, Vexations, and Violations

Edited by Salman Akhtar, Ann Eichen

With contributions from Anne Adelman, Salman Akhtar, Shawn Blue, Ann Eichen, Arpana G. Inman, Sameer Khan, Olga Santa Maria, Andrew Smolar, and Pratyusha Tummala-Narra.

This is a book about... (more)

Specificities of Psychoanalytic Treatment: Birth of a Method

Edited by Yvette Dorey, Serge Frisch

A stimulating account of some of the key challenges found in psychoanalysis through a discussion of the Specificity initiative, a research method that examines how analysts work, associate, and... (more)

Anti-Semitism at the Limit: Critical Theory and Psychoanalysis

by Benjamin B. Strosberg

In this book, Benjamin Strosberg explores difficulties and anxieties inherent in studying, defining, and defending against anti-Semitism by tracing a concurrent difficulty in thinking about... (more)

D. W. Winnicott and Political Theory: Recentering the Subject

by Matthew H. Bowker

In this volume, the work of British psychoanalyst D.W. Winnicott is set in conversation with some of today’s most talented psychodynamically-sensitive political thinkers. The editors and contributors... (more)