Psychoanalysis Books
Circumcision on the Couch: The Cultural, Psychological, and Gendered Dimensions of the World's Oldest Surgery
An Independent Book of the Month Penises, and the things people do with them, have been subjects of controversy for a long time. This book examines how one thing that some people do to... (more)
The Performance Therapist and Authentic Therapeutic Identity: Coming into Being
Exploring what it means to be an authentic therapist in the present day, Sara London playfully melds together the tenets of performance art and psychoanalytic theory to advance the hopeful new notion... (more)
Currere and Psychoanalytic Guided Regression: Revisiting the Kent State Shootings
This book revisits the 1970 Kent State shootings, also known as the May 4 massacre and the Kent State massacre, using a new approach of currere and psychoanalytic guided regression. Drawing on a... (more)
The Routledge International Handbook of Psychoanalysis, Subjectivity, and Technology
The Routledge International Handbook of Psychoanalysis, Subjectivity, and Technology uniquely provides a comprehensive overview of human subjectivity in the technological age and how psychoanalysis... (more)
What Is Sexual Difference?: Thinking with Irigaray
Luce Irigaray has written that sexual difference is one of the major philosophical issues, if not the issue, of our age. Spanning metaphysics, phenomenology, and psychoanalysis, her work examines how... (more)
The End of Analysis: The Dialectics of Symbolic and Real
This book interrogates the end of analysis in psychoanalytic thought from Freud to Lacan. It demonstrates that the notions of mourning, renunciation, liquidation of transference, and traversal of... (more)
Maternal Subjectivity: A Dissociated Self-State
In this book, Ellen Toronto reveals the dissociation of maternal subjectivity from human experience and provides a psychoanalytic exploration of the (non-)history of motherhood to make possible an... (more)
Eros and Civilization: A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud
Hailed as the 'Guru of the New Left' and a leading figure of 1960s counterculture and liberation movements, the philosopher Herbert Marcuse is amongst the most renowned and controversial thinkers of... (more)
A Political Psychoanalysis for the Anthropocene Age: The Fierce Urgency of Now
A Political Psychoanalysis for the Anthropocene Age presents an evaluation of the politics of climate change and considers how psychoanalysis can contribute to this discourse.
Presented in two... (more)
Theories and Practices of Psychoanalysis in Central Europe: Narrative Assemblages of Self Analysis, Life Writing, and Fiction
Theories and Practices of Psychoanalysis in Central Europe explores the close relationship between psychoanalysis, psycho-medical discourses, literature, and the visual arts of the late 1800s and... (more)
Freud, the Contemporary Super-ego, and Western Morality: An Essay on Psychopolitics
Freud, the Contemporary Super-ego, and Western Morality traces the origins of the relationship between the morality of the super-ego and the destructive impulse of the death drive in the liberal... (more)
Freud's Thinking: An Introduction
In this brief but comprehensive introduction to Freud's theories, Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen provides a step-by-step overview of his ideas regarding the unconscious, the cure, sexuality, drives, and... (more)
Testimony and Witnessing in Psychoanalysis: A Literary and Philosophical Perspective
In this fascinating volume, Zipi Rosenberg Schipper approaches the fundamental topic of testimony, seeking to recognize its value as a distinct and vital function in psychoanalytic work, separate... (more)
How to Be Intimate with 15,000,000 Strangers: Musings on Media Psychoanalysis
An investigation into how the fields of mental health and media can work together more collaboratively. Brett Kahr is well-known and was previously Resident Psychotherapist at the B.B.C. Explores... (more)
Psychoanalysis for Intersectional Humanity: Sade Reloaded
Psychoanalysis for Intersectional Humanity considers both the vast realm of sexual diversities emerging under capitalism and outlines what a psychoanalytic clinic that considers these diversities... (more)
Psychoanalysis and the Small Screen: The Year the Cinemas Closed
Psychoanalysis and the Small Screen examines the impact of cinema closures and the shift to small-screen consumption on our aesthetic and subjective desires during the Covid-19 pandemic from a... (more)
Schizostructuralism: Divisions in Structure, Surface, Temporality, Class
Each chapter represents the workings of a theory or concept. Relates system to class and key psychanalytic concepts. Contains diagrams to illustrate systems described. (more)
Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in China: Volume 5 Number 2
This peer-reviewed journal proposes to explore the introduction of psychoanalysis, psychoanalytic therapy, and the wider application of psychoanalytic ideas into China. It aims to have articles... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in China: Volume 5 Number 1
This peer-reviewed journal proposes to explore the introduction of psychoanalysis, psychoanalytic therapy, and the wider application of psychoanalytic ideas into China. It aims to have articles... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in China: Volume 4 Number 2
This peer-reviewed journal proposes to explore the introduction of psychoanalysis, psychoanalytic therapy, and the wider application of psychoanalytic ideas into China. It aims to have articles... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in China: Volume 4 Number 1
This peer-reviewed journal proposes to explore the introduction of psychoanalysis, psychoanalytic therapy, and the wider application of psychoanalytic ideas into China. It aims to have articles... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in China: Volume 3 Number 2
This peer-reviewed journal proposes to explore the introduction of psychoanalysis, psychoanalytic therapy, and the wider application of psychoanalytic ideas into China. It aims to have articles... (more)
Sigmund Freud and Oskar Pfister on Religion: The Beginning of an Endless Dialogue
Sigmund Freud and Oskar Pfister on Religion examines the dialogue between psychoanalysis and religion through the encounters of two men: the "unfaithful Jew" who founded psychoanalysis, and a pastor... (more)
A Psychoanalytic Exploration of the Contemporary Search for Pleasure: The Turning of the Screw
This interdisciplinary collection of essays explores the malaise of the contemporary individual by returning the economic point of view of Freudian thinking, the concept of satisfaction, libido, and... (more)
The Clinical Comprehension of Meaning: The Bion/Meltzer Vertex
In The Clinical Comprehension of Meaning, Carlos Tabbia addresses fundamental questions of psychoanalytic theory and technique, unfolding them for the reader in an elegant, passionate, and poetic... (more)
The Ego and the Id: 100 Years Later
The Ego and the Id: 100 Years Later revisits Freud’s classic 1923 essay, which developed key psychoanalytic concepts and presented a radical revision of his earlier theory.
International... (more)
Who's to Blame? Collective Guilt on Trial
Who’s to Blame? Collective Guilt on Trial presents a psychoanalytic exploration of blame and collective guilt in the aftermath of large-scale atrocities that cause widespread trauma and... (more)
Psychoanalytic and Phenomenological Reflections on Masculinity
In this highly original volume, Gunnar Karlsson offers new answers to the question concerning the relationship between belonging to a specific sex as a male and striving for a masculine... (more)
The Émigré Analysts and American Psychoanalysis: History and Contemporary Relevance
This book explores the impact of migration, including its causes, upon the key ideas and directions of psychoanalytic theory and practice from the twentieth century until today.
Having... (more)
Psychoanalysis, COVID and Mass Trauma: The Trauma of Reality
In this book, constructed as a psychoanalytic diary, the authors reflect on clinical observations from their work with patients during the COVID-19 pandemic, tracking these singular experiences to... (more)